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Originally posted by Placidity
Is this true?
In the 1st movie, Barbossa was immortal(as well as his entire crew) because they'd stolen the cursed treasure. Once they gave it back, they were mortal again.
Davy Jones is the Captain of the Flying Dutchman and the ferryman of the dead though, so he's immortal period.
He showed he could teleport when Jack was looking at him from the Black Pearl, while Davy was on the Dutchman. And by the time Jack went to lower his spyglass, Jones was literally a foot away from him. And when they dueled on the mast, Jack stabbed Davy Jones, and he just smiled at him.
Originally posted by juggerman
Hector is the best swordsman imo but Jones has too many advantages to lose here.
That would go to Jones. As he's been around and fighting for Centuries which right then gives him more combat experience, and he completely dominated Jack, something no one else has ever done.
He has not been around fighting that long. He he is constantly shown to send his minons to do his dirty work so there is no reason to believe it has ever been different. While Barbossa tends to handle more situations personally than Jones did. Plus fighting while you can't be killed doesn't mean your skill will improve since you really don't need to defend or parry at all.
Plus in CotBP Barbossa's crew gets pissed at him and looks like they are about to attack him in the cave until Barbossa pulls a sword and challenges EVERYBODY. Now you have atleast 20 totally immortal, immune to pain guys vs one. None tried to take him. That alone shows his ridiculous skill.
I agree Jones dominated Sparrow but again that is more of testament to his advantages(strength, claw, teleporting, immortality, phasing, ect) than his actual skill. Iirc Sparrow only challenged an immortal Barbossa once he was immortal himself. He hadn't the same luxury with Jones.
Originally posted by quanchi112He was sort of crippled at the time.
He poisoned his own sword against Blackbeard which implies he wasn't even confident in his own abilities that he could win a sword fight against him. saying he is the best is absurd.
Jones is the best swordsman though. He is to date the only character to have beaten Will Turner in a battle of blades.