Originally posted by Great Vengeance
Overrated-revan-His powers are not nearly as good as everyone says..I mean he would died to that starship blast if not for the mercy of the jedi.Overrated-NJO luke-He is defeated by a dathromir witch, almost killed by shimmra if not for jacens healing, his spirit torn from his body by the spirit of exar kun, completely knocked out by sekot, and lost in a sparring match with leia and intellectually owned by vergere. He is not as great as everyoen thinks.
Overrated-Marka ragnos- He reigned for 200 years..impressive but he had no one of significance to challenge him and when he came back and possessed that sith master in jedi acedemy he was defeated by jaden korr..
Overrated-Yoda-People make excuses for him but the fact is he lost to sidious and would probably lose to vader as well thats why he didnt kill him himself.
Underrated-Vader-He lost some of his that he had as anakin but makes up for it with experience and dark side power, he is stronger as vader than anakin and could only lose at that time to luke or palpatine.
underrated-Palpatine-He did nto lsoe to mace, he is a master manipulator and simply manipulated mace to benefit him in turning anakin, once that was done he easily tossed mace out the window. And he did defeat yoda, yoda himself says"failed I have" it doesnt get any clearer than that.
underrated-dooku-He did not lose to anakin, he was manipulated by palpatine to "lose" to anakin and if anakin tried to kill dooku he would step in ofcourse he did not. dooku was almsot as strong as sidious himself as he has already defeated mace before and held off yoda.
Shimera is really powerful. Imagine the Dark Lord of the Sith of another species. He is overratd though, just not as much as you say.
She was a member of a Cult. They werent powerful force users because Jaden, a padawon was able to kill hundreds of them. They were basiclly soilders with Lightsabers. Wikipedia also says that Ragnos' spirit was so powerful that is destroyed her body to a large degree before they even fought. He also wasn't even CHALLENGED by Naga Sadow on his DEATHBED. I could kill anyone on their deathbed pretty much, but a guy who can destroy stars, which didnt even take him along time to do or any help from others, was afraid to fight him on his DEATHBED.
The OT Vader is underrated, the PT one isnt.
Your overrating Palpatine. He wouldnt put himself in that kind of a situation to get a new apprentice. He lost to Yoda. He kept running away. He was clearly beaten in force skills. Yoda was more powerful, he just lost his lightsaber, had a lot of clones coming, and wasn't trying to kill him. I dont think he wanted another Civil War, the death of Palpatine at that time would have destroyed the Republic, a war worse than the Clone Wars would have ensued, plus, Palpatine was keeping the clones in line. He fought horribly in ep3. Yoda just wanted to give Obi-wan time to kill Anakin. He failed because he was unable to delay Sidious from getting to Anakin untill Anakin died if Obi-wan was unable to finish him.
Imagine the clones doing as they pleased. Imagine A civil war in the Republic with clones doing as they please. This is what would have happened if Yoda had killed Sidious. Yoda doesnt want this. He knows Anakin could become more powerful than him, so he tries to have Obi-wan kill him. Yoda was the council head and look at how easily Mace beat Sidious. Yes, he beat him. Sidious wouldnt go into that position for Anakin to join him. He had the clones. He was leader of the Republic. There was plenty of time to get a new apprentice with the Jedi out of the way. He was living large at that point.
I agree with you on Dooku. He was just pretending to loose. Look at the way he fights from ep2 to ep3. It greatly declines in ep3. When Sidious tell Anakin to kill him, he thinks to himself in the book, "Treachery is the way of the Sith". He could have beaten Anakin.