Nai Fohl
Advocatus Diaboli
Oh great. Do we have a medium size war going on in here now ? 😉
First "The Chosen One" thing. It doesn't realy matter if Anakin is the chosen one or not as well as it doesn't matter if he was conceived by the midichlorians or not. Lucas said he would have been the most powerful force user ever if he reached his full potential. Now the term "most powerful force user ever" means that he would have been more powerful than Sadow, Kun, Revan and even Ragnos.
Now use some logic in here. Luke is 80 % Anakin in raw potential and he is "full developed" in NJO times. So he is more than 80 % Ragnos at least. More than 80 % of a guy that the ancient Sith lords were afraid of even when he was only around in the form of "ionized air particles".
That leeds me to the conclusion that Luke can't be supassed in terms of raw force powers and in a duel I would only give Ragnos himself a chance to defeat NJO Luke.
@Janus:
I agree with you that Luke is pretty much overpowered as well as his opponents are. I did read some of the EU novels / comics only once because I dislike them (just in terms of how powerful people get in there) - the NJO series is a good example.
Still they are part of the EU as well as the games are and Revan actually also did things that made him seem "overpowered" as well as other characters in the games did (Nihilus draining entire planets, Sion being pretty much invincible, Kreia killing Jedi masters with a single hand movement).
But for a X vs Y debate we have to count anything given in the EU no matter how stupid, irrational and overpowered it seems as long as it doesn't contradict the films or Lucas oppinion. The NJO series doesn't do that and counting anything in there for Luke (as well as other EU stuff I didn't enjoy that much: Black Fleet trilogy, Calistra trilogy) I have to say that he would kill anyone in a duel.
For Malak vs Mace:
Well... I won't argue that Malak has advantages when it comes to range, physical strength or sheer force powers.
Still. Mace is a natural talent when it comes to lightsaber combat. Inventing your own fighting style and master another at the age of 13 is impressive stuff. Reaching council level at the age of 28 is also.
For experience: We can't tell how much practice sessions Mace had gone through (with people like Yoda, Dooku, Obi-Wan, Deepa Billaba and so on) and he had pretty much frontline experience from the clone wars. He defeated Asajj Ventress, Sidious and General Grievous (watch GG in the comics - he's a major badass there) and destroyed the seismic tank + a great amount of battle droids being unarmed. And he has his unique Shatterpoint ability that enables him to spot the weakpoints of an opponent in (from what is said in the ROTS novel and can be seen in the films) less than a minute.
And at least add some of the forum oppinions here: We have more than 600 replies in the Revan vs. Yoda thread with the "result" that Yoda might defeat Revan or Revan might win (at least it is a close fight). Revan pretty much owned Malak on the Star Forge in KOTOR I at least that was no "epic lightsaber duel". Now throw Mace in who (in terms of lightsaber combat) is very close to Yodas skill and then tell me how Malak would win that battle. I don't get it.
Keeping that in mind I still say that NJO Luke will defeat Revan and Mace will defeat Malak. Both are tough matches. I'm not questioning that but in the end the Jedi will win.