Let me also contribute on the strength thing.
When Vodo fought Exar with his walking stick, Exar had two lightsabers. Exar also has TREMENDOUS strength. I believe that the ground shuck as he walked. That is powerful.
P.S. That may just be someone's fanboyism. I don't personaly recall Exar making the ground shake, but I have been told it did.
still, he could put that power behind each strike when attacking Vodo. Hoth is no pushover(I had a major role in getting to where he is on most people's power scale's), but Vodo is a lightsaber GRANDMASTER. There had to be a reason he was called that. But I still am not sure. Hoth was able to make a difference in a war that no in a thousand years before him could.
For Info on Lord Hoth, this is the same thing I have posted many times.
Lord Hoth was a famous Jedi Master who led the Army of Light against Lord Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness during the New Sith Wars, until a final confrontation with the forces of darkness at the Battle of Ruusan.
It is likely that his name is connected with that of the planet Hoth, but it is not known if the planet is named for him or the other way around. The Jedi Master did fight a furious battle with Kaan on the planet, but the details of this encounter are unknown.
Regardless, Hoth was one of the foremost Jedi of his era. He clashed continually with his contemporary Lord Farfalla, whose foppish nature was a directly opposed to Hoth’s pragmatism.
Unlike the charismatic Farfalla, Hoth had little time for diplomacy, nor the delicate etiquette his rank sometimes required. Where he did excel was warfare—he was a superb tactician and, even in his advanced age, a warrior without peer.
Naturally, with war against the Sith, it was Hoth who was chosen to led the forces of the Jedi and the Republic. In his youth, Hoth believed he had the power to end the Sith threat singlehandedly, but the war ground on for decades with no end in sight.
The conflict hardened Hoth against the galaxy, and, by the time of the final battle of Ruusan, the once idealistic youth had become a bitter, cynical and haggard veteran. His closest friend and main advisor was fellow veteran Pernicar, while the Jedi that served under him included notables such as General Kiel Charny
Lord Hoth perished when Lord Kaan detonated the thought bomb.
After his death, Hoth's former Padawan, Johun Othone, petitioned the Republic to construct a memorial to the Army of Light on the planet of Ruusan.
Originally posted by Lord Simus
True but Yoda has never fought anyone as physically strong as Hoth.
What does physcial strength matter when someone is fighting Yoda? Forgive me if this seems to be a stupid question, but since Yoda always seems leap around when he fights would great strength really do any good? I would think that superb reflexes and good dexterity would be more important in this issue, but then again this is only my opinon.
Originally posted by Lord Simus
True but Yoda has never fought anyone as physically strong as Hoth.
That's a silly idea; in all the Order, from the rough Anakin Skywalker to the imposing Mace Windu, all the way through perhaps thousands of other jedi Yoda has trained and possibly sparred with, he hasn't fought and overcome someone with that kind of physical strength? If raw power was all that was needed to defeat Yoda, Mace would have done it long ago, or anakin even.
I think that Hoth wins. First of all, Vodo never beat Kun, the first time they foght he put Kun on the ground but then Kun got back up and beat him. This passage from Path of Destruction gives us an idea of how strong Hoth is:
"Lord Hoth stood in the thickest of the fighting, hewing down foes foolish enough to come in range of his fierce weapon. His nostrils were fileld with the greasy-sweet stench of charred flesh, and a wall of bodies was mounting around him. And still they kept coming, swarming over him like carrion beetles on a fresh kill, seeking to drag him down by sheer numbers.
Pernicar vanished beneath the sea of enemies, and Hoth redoubled his efforts to reach his fallen friend. He was unstoppable in his fury, like the devastating storms of the Maw itself. "
Could Vodo do that? I somehow doubt it. And with Hoth's great size he could probably cut through Vodo's walking stick like it's nothing.
Originally posted by Count Makashi
Hoth wins here, Vodo in combat isn't anything special, while Hoth was very good.But, dartsith, those foes were nothing special either.