Shouldn't Jedi be better duelists than Sith?

If you consider what the Sith and Jedi rely on.

The Sith are actually permitted to use the force offensively. However the Jedi cannot use the force offensively, so how would they survive and defend the galaxy against the Sith Lords? The only real advantage I see a Jedi Knight would have against a Sith Lord would be superiour dueling skills.

They should and in general, your average Sith is weaker than your average Jedi, however, when it comes to terms as the greatest of both Sides, the Jedi are usaully overpowered in terms of lightsaber combat and force skills. Eg.

Exar Kun
Darth Revan

and so forth.

Erm, actually the Sith are focused on FIGHTING and KILLING and DOMINATING, and are aggressive and ambitious in nature. They use everything to their advantage, while the jedi are all about keeping the peace. The idea of Jedi > Sith in combat is ridiculous.

vampire I agree the jedi are more defensive than the sith who are really agressive and would attack without warning, but really it depends how the jedi knight trains himself or how the sith allows himself to be trained.

To be fair, the Jedi are alot more patient than the Sith. This patience should lead to more meditation, more practice and thus more skill.

Originally posted by Hello Friend
To be fair, the Jedi are alot more patient than the Sith. This patience should lead to more meditation, more practice and thus more skill.

Erm... is everyone here not getting it?

EVERY sith in the series is worth a dozen or more average jedi. Even the really good, old jedi can't even compare with a Sith lord. Yoda... pwned. Vodo... pwned. Odan Urr... pwned. Sith are more aggressive, have far more offensive powers, and dedicate themselves to KILLING, which the jedi don't do.

That's a moot point. A Jedi doesn't mind killing if it's necessary.

Mace Windu was stronger than Marka Ragnos.

Right. This thread is strong with the idiot side of the force. I'll go somewhere else.

The Jedi Revan is an example of a very strong Jedi (after the Star Forge)
Luke is obviously a very powerful Jedi
Kyp Durron is no pushover, but I wouldn't put him above the other two.

I suppose these are the only two Jedi who could compete with the lords of the sith.

And even then, they lack the dedication and training of true Sith.

Err... How many times must we say it?

Sith are stronger than the Jedi. The Jedi are more patient, who cares?

Let's look at this:
It usually took more than one person to kill a Sith lord. Either that or they were taken by suprise [EX: Maul and Sidious].

In simple words: Sith > Jedi.

In the end, A Jedi Knight with three years of training takes down two Sith Lords and their thousand year Empire.

Pr4w3d? I think so.

Originally posted by Lörd Sorgo
In the end, A Jedi Knight with three years of training takes down two Sith Lords and their thousand year Empire.

Pr4w3d? I think so.

What is this nonsense?

Actually...

The Jedi Knight somehow flukes one Sith Lord who turns on his master and kills the other, and then dies, so...

The Sith usually destroy themselves. It's -very- seldom that the jedi have the advantage and actually destroy a Sith lord in combat.

Yes, the Sith are supposed to be stronger then Jedi. Thats why they are always stronger then Jedi in almost every case. Qui-Gon was a seasoned Jedi master and a brilliant swordsman, he was far better then the average Jedi knight and he got pWned by Maul, who was a Sith Apprentice. Imagine what most Sith Lords, or a Sith Master would do to Qui-Gon (Palpatine for instance) then add "WTF" to Qui-Gon's "pWned" to get what a Sith master would do to regular average Jedi.

In the Movies era, half of the Sith Lords died from a Jedi.

Another thing: in the movies era, the strongest Jedi can stand against (and even defeat) the strongest Sith.

Originally posted by Hello Friend
In the Movies era, half of the Sith Lords died from a Jedi.

Another thing: in the movies era, the strongest Jedi can stand against (and even defeat) the strongest Sith.

Welcome to the EU subsection, btw.

And in the movie era, there's a whopping total of four sith.

Neither side is stronger than the other. It just so happens that many of the Sith were Jedi prodigies to begin with: Freedon Nadd, Exar Kun, Darth Revan.

The Sith believe in dominating, even against themselves. The Lightside wins because it believes in peace and balance, which is more lasting than the Sith ideals of power.