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If Yoda beat Dokuu..and Anakin kills Dooku..then this means..Anakin has reached tremendous levels since episode 2.... (i know this is common sence) but i just thought about it..and then there are those that don't know how they will show how much he has developed...and this establishes it pretty early on in the movie....

....yeah.....

(i think we have discovered the next Sherlock Holmes)

He's been fighting in the Clone Wars

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Batman316, I don't think that was meant as a question.

Yoda didnt exactly loose against Dooku imho. Ok, Yoda did kick his a** a bit, but did ya see how tired he looked after the duel??? i think Dooku gave him a good fight😉

But if Yoda dueled Anakin, then Yoda would surely win due to pure experience, plus the fact he is the second most powerful force user in the galaxy!

btw - wb shakl! where ya been bud?

A lot of it is just in the matchups and circumstance, I think. Count Dooku probably gave Yoda as good a fight as he was going to give anyone. He was just good enough with the lightsaber to hold Yoda at bay, and just good enough with the force to escape the encounter by forcing Yoda to save Obi-Wan and Anakin. With Anakin, however, the fight will probably be pretty fast and furious, and Dooku will probably both underestimate Anakin and want to look good in the eyes of Palpatine by destroying the touted young Jedi knight in a pure, saber to saber duel.

Put all of this together, and can you say how Anakin would fare against Yoda? Probably not, considering how different the circumstances were. But, in all honesty, I don't think you really need the results of those encounters to be able to say that Anakin would be pretty overmatched against Yoda, in most circumstances.

When he becomes Vader though, he would kick Yoda's a**, but not now😉😛

It depends. When he becomes Vader being partway through episode 3, or in episode 4? Because I think that at any point in Episode 3, Yoda would be able to handle Anakin with relative ease. I don't see how there can be too much debate in that. If Obi-Wan can take Anakin down, there's simply no way that Yoda can't. If you're talking about episode 4, then of course. Whether it's because he was played by a puppet in the OT or because he's just become a lot less spry over the course of 20 years, Yoda just doesn't seem like much of a fighter anymore by then.

and for clarification, I'm accounting for the fact that Yoda is amazingly strong in the force. I wouldn't be at all surprised if any hypothetical duel between the two of them was over before Anakin got the chance to take a swing.

Although, in a dueling situation, what kind of a force power would a Light Jedi use to incapacitate an enemy? Force push? I've always wondered that, and the best answer I've found was the Stasis ability in Knights of the Old Republic. But yeah, considering that that's never been performed in the films (unless that's what was done to Obi when he was captive in ep 2?), it doesn't carry much weight.

Obi-Wan of course defeats Anakin in Ep3, but winning one fight does not necessarily make one the best at it. -Nick Gillard

Obi-Wan manages to win because he knows Anakin on such a deep level. He knows Anakin's weaker points, and his strong points. Obi-Wan is the only person who could manage to survive that duel. Yoda is both wise and powerful, but the fact is Sidous takes down Yoda, and Anakin has to be more powerful than Sidious because that is his entire purpose, to kill Sidious. Anakin is better than Obi-Wan and I think we will see that, but Obi-Wan outsmarts him.

Anakin is more powerful than Sidious? Sorry, I don't see that. He destroys Sidious by throwing him down a shaft while his attention is diverted, and even then Sidious manages to kill him too.

And what I was saying about Obi vs. Yoda is that, while Obi knows Anakin far better than anyone else, Yoda is far more powerful than Obi. So far, it seems as though it is going to take both Sidious and Anakin to take Mace down, and if Yoda is supposedly more powerful in the force than Anakin, then even accounting for the fact that Mace is probably more powerful in combat, how can you say that Anakin alone is stronger than Yoda? I'll be the first to admit that I could be wrong, and wouldn't be even remotely surprised if I am, but the way I see it, at this point in time Yoda is simply too far above Anakin for there to be much doubt on the outcome of any hypothetical match between them.

i've been trying to keep away from episode 3 spoilers... 😕

Isn't that what this forum is? I mean, if you read it for any extended period of time, you're bound to read a sentence or two that will, at least indirectly, give something away.

ok ive devised a list of the top ten most powerful force-users in the movies, adding all there strenghs throughout the movies: here goes😉

1 Palpatine ( Darth Sidious )
2 Anakin Skywalker ( Darth Vader )
3 Yoda
4 Mace Windu
5 Count Dooku ( Darth Tyranus )
6 Luke Skywalker
7 Ben ( Obi-Wan ) Kenobi
8 General Grievous
9 Darth Maul
10 Qui - Gon Jinn

it took me ages to work out who would beat who, depending on there knowlege of the force, and there power, and i think this fits😉

well we dont know if Grievous is force sensative yet now do we??😕 ok, just by judging on his power, not his knowlege of the force😛

I don't think, despite what KOTOR tells people, that force sensitivity should be measured on a system of levels. People just are in tune with teh force. Their power and skill is luck-based, and is very subjective. That's the way I see it, anyway.

Originally posted by Stunrun
Yoda didnt exactly loose against Dooku imho. Ok, Yoda did kick his a** a bit, but did ya see how tired he looked after the duel??? i think Dooku gave him a good fight😉

But if Yoda dueled Anakin, then Yoda would surely win due to pure experience, plus the fact he is the second most powerful force user in the galaxy!

btw - wb shakl! where ya been bud?

It's "My old padawan"

Hi, I'm new here so don't flame me too much.
As Jedijunky said, there are many different styles of lighsaber fighting.
In an addition of Star Wars Insider it talks about the lightsaber fighting styles. Yoda practices a form IV which uses all kinds of fast crap and spinning as seen in the movie. Anakin Practices a form V which is all about strength. I think that Yoda could slaughter Anakin. I mean, strength is great, but in a lightsaber duel I think that if you master speed you can take almost anyone. Not that strength isn't important or anything. The reason Dooku did so great against Yoda is because he practiced form II which is all about refining your saber skill of fighting one on one with a sabers. The jedi don't use it anymore cuz of blaster rifles and stuff.

Yeah, I definitely agree with that. Pretty much what I was getting at.
As for the top 10 list, I think it's very good by and large, except that I think we'll really have to see where Mace goes out, and how he does against Yoda in order to sort out the top four.

and by "how he does against Yoda" I mean how he does against Sidious. D'oh