Obi-Wan Kenobi (ROTS) vs Palpatine (ROTS)

It was a typo, don't get so serious. I meant saber combat. When have you ever seen me say "force combat" with the exception of that one time.. And Dooku feared Sidious because Sidious overall was more powerful, not to mention the strategist behind all of the events. Just because he was better than Sidious in saber combat, doesn't mean he's going to have the testicular fortitude to challenge his master who is leagues above him in force abilities.

too be honest i think destiny would play its course, because anakin was supposed to kill obiwan not sids, if you want to get technical, but since this is just a skill thread then i would have to go with obiwan, he is wise, he would know that sidiouse was better than him, but he defeated anakin by using his surroundings, such as the hill. Sidious could deal with this better but i think obiwon has enough wisdom to pull something grand if not win

Very Unlikely. Sidious would kill him with the force alone, and he was better than obiwan in saber combat. The best Obiwan could hope for is a stalemate.

Obi Wan is great with a lightsaber but not that great, Sidious killed three Masters each equal or close to Obi Wan in seconds... They didn't even have the time to realyl defend... Obi Wan might last longer then that because of his Soresu mastery, but he too would fall, before Palps would ever get serious..

Fishy has a point. Sidious did kill 3 extremly skilled jedi and one (Kit Fisto) is even better then obi-wan in lightsaber skills. I say Obi-wan gets beat bad.

I wouldn't say bad, Obiwan's defense is impenetrable and we've witnessed it. I'm sure sooner or later Sidious will penetrate it but it won't be easy by any means.

Why do people believe that Soresu masters are basically invincible? Sidious' offense would be able to match Kenobi's defence extremely easily. It's as simple as that.

Again, not easily. But yes in the long run it would because Sidious has the ability to change to any fighting style he pleases durng the fight, and I don't think Obiwan can handle all of that.

Originally posted by Fishy
Obi Wan is great with a lightsaber but not that great, Sidious killed three Masters each equal or close to Obi Wan in seconds... They didn't even have the time to realyl defend... Obi Wan might last longer then that because of his Soresu mastery, but he too would fall, before Palps would ever get serious..

Originally posted by darthsith19
Yeah, but about the killing of the three Masters, he used the Force to help him do that, without it he couldn't lunge at them like that. And none of those guys is even Close to Obi-Wan. Kit was only slightly stronger a year after AOTC but by ROTS is not even close, as for the other 2, well, the fact that they were unable to block one swing tells it all.

Darthsith you and I seem to be agreeing on a lot of things lately. Sidious was using the force, that's why he was leaping around like a crazy rabbit. Kit was strong but he got tooled in less than a second, whereas Obi Wan lasted against Anakin for quite a while. There was also some element of surprise, considering the Jedi with Windu were facing what they believed to be a feeble old man.

Originally posted by zephiel7
Darthsith you and I seem to be agreeing on a lot of things lately. Sidious was using the force, that's why he was leaping around like a crazy rabbit. Kit was strong but he got tooled in less than a second, whereas Obi Wan lasted against Anakin for quite a while. There was also some element of surprise, considering the Jedi with Windu were facing what they believed to be a feeble old man.