sidious is a mastermind. he is a politician. and a good jedi. he is only a bit older than 70-80. he is great with a lightsaber. he faught off Yoda(some believe he won) yoda has been with the force for 800 years and sidious faught him off.sidious is a genius and a good dueler. he killed saesse tin,kit fisto and that other guy in the matter of seconds.. i agree that he is indeed powerful!
He wasn't insulting your intelligence (or lack of thereof) more like saying that you simply don't know what you're talking about because you haven't reaserched it much but thats besides the point I don't need to be paraphrasing what people say for them, as for sidious being a bad duelist, no he's not but he's not a great one either he's just good, killing three talented jedi masters in a split second is pretty impresive, he's just not up to par with some of the truly great duelists.
sidiuos is a great duelest. i can't beileve that some people think he is not. yoda lost to sidiuos. i saw episode III five times i should know(bought the pirated version of movie, and once in theaters). Yoda says failed i have, go into exile i must. It is that simple.If yoda says he lost to sidiuos i am pretty sure he did. and everybody knows yoda is a excellent duelist.
Darth Sidious is a very impressive duelist but it is not at what he excels at. The Dark Lord Of The Sith excels at using force powers and manipulating the weak-minded(such as Anakin). I have done much research and my results have given me the anwsers that Darth Sidious is one of the greatest sith to ever rise. He faught Master Yoda in an amazing duel and came out "victorious", but he was throwing things at yoda, i would say that their duel was a draw, at first yoda was on the offensive but then The Emperor gained the advantage when he used force lightning, they both went flying. Yoda then knew that the troopers were coming. Soo he escaped. They had one of the greatest battles i have ever seen in my entire life, probably second best to Anakin vs. Obi-Wan, the greatest lightsabre duel ever.
May the force be with you
Originally posted by Darth_Frobo
He wasn't insulting your intelligence (or lack of thereof) more like saying that you simply don't know what you're talking about because you haven't reaserched it much but thats besides the point I don't need to be paraphrasing what people say for them, as for sidious being a bad duelist, no he's not but he's not a great one either he's just good, killing three talented jedi masters in a split second is pretty impresive, he's just not up to par with some of the truly great duelists.
Those three dident even see it coming Mace was truly focused on what Palps was going to do, and 2 of the 3 were trying to read his mind so essentially he only slayed, maybe one master... theoretically. If the rest were ready and prepared to meet any dangers. Sidious would struggle, really badly.