You guys ever play Soul Calibur? You know how sometimes you're whoopin on someone and then they get lucky and ring you out? That's almost unanimously regarded as a cheap move that doesn't accurately display how that battle would play out in a closed arena.
I like Lumiya. Not a top tier, but not a nobody either.
Originally posted by Gideon
Well, as cute as that is, it doesn't make a bit of difference. In fact, Lumiya is the one who has the upper hand during the initial portion of the fight,"And then [Lumiya] cracked [the lightwhip], sending forks of dark energy crackling into the ground at his feet, making him jump back before he sprand forward again and brought the lightsaber around in a right-to-left arc that she parried with the whips handle. He leapt out of range of the whirling tails again and again, then she paused and he edged closer again."
"She drew back her arm and brought the lightwhip crackling through the air, missing Luke by centimeters. He lunged at her again and again, driven back each time. She'd slow sooner or later. But so would he."
Luke attempts to attack are constantly nullified and he, in fact, loses ground.
When she tries to raise the whip again, he rushes in and denies her the chance to "get the whip traveling at its maximum lethal speed." It says he forced her back, step by step, as she tried to maintain the distance she needed [to gain that maximum lethal speed].
"One -- two -- three -- four; she blocked him, handle held this way, then that, using the whip like a short lightsaber to deflect him. But Luke didn't pause or shift direction to wrong-foot her. He drove her like a battering ram toward the edge of the mesa, pushing her within meters, then a step, of the edge.
Lumiya held the whip handle in both hands like a staff and blocked his downward sweep. For a moment they were locked in a stalemate, pushing against each other and grunting with the effort, with only sounds of exertion because they had nothing left to say to each other."
And then she lost her footing.
Sorry, TJ, that's not a dazzling display of superior technique, period. So let it go.
Maybe not but it sure as heck won the fight.
Anyway no, Luke isn't a "Gary Stu" character. He may be overly powerful but he usually holds back in battle.
Plus it isn't just a question of power. A "Gary Stu/Mary Sue" is generally defined as being perfect, infallible, is always right etc. Luke is powerful but he's not perfect and has made his share of blunders.
Originally posted by truejedi
What was there history again? There was romance there someplace, wasn't there?
Yes. Luke and Shira Brie (Lumiya's real name) were involved for a time while she was a working undercover. He was responsible for her becoming a cyborg when he shot down her fighter (he didn't know it was her).