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The Immortal Emperor
Originally posted by Rockydonovang
You first extreme.1. As you've accurately pointed out, the characters who revan dealt with were among the best of their era. However that doesn't mean all that much when we're making cross era references which feature characters and scaling in regards to the best in HISTORY. Reminder, lets assume Revan is one of the best swordsmen in history and is at the peak of lightsaber combat, that still gets him only to tier 7 with say kit fisto or arguably qui-gon. Kenobi gets scaling over tier 8's via maul. Also, lets not act like Kenobi's offense isn't incredibly high level. His ataru was suffecient to outmatch Maul, who as a tier 8, is a tier above the best in history. If Kenobi wants to wither down Revan with his offense, he can do so.
The same applies with the scaling you're trying to pull off here force wise. While Revan may be incredibly impressive for his own era, you're going to need to quantufy why that scaling means jack cross-era via feats(as tor gets nothing in scaling from the pt era). Why should I care if vitate is so powerful for scourge? What has the ooponents Revan massively outmatched individually have that makes massively outmatching them impressive?
2. We can tell Kenobi's holding them together, because they don't fall after he cracks all of them. And what you seem to have missed is that he was throwing thse chunks simultaneously, unlike revan who threw it one by one, hence why they were "striking all around" in the next instant.
On second thought, I exaggerated with "completely demolished" however afterwards people start specualting that an avalanche hit, suggetsing he wrecked the towers.
3. Then why bring it up?
1. I feel that you didn't wholly address the point I was making here, but here's the thing:
The whole "best in history" quote thing is irrelevant, because Revan doesn't have a quote like that. What is relevant in this particular discussion, however, is Revan's feats, which shit all over Qui Gon's and Kit Fisto's. The feat the Hero of Tython has at the end of Act 3:
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[*]Fighting through Kaas City to even reach the shuttle to get to Vitiate's Temple.
[*]Fighting through Vitiate's elite Temple Guards within the Dark Temple, a nexus so powerful that numerous sith lords and slave armies have been driven insane just by being in its presence.
[*]Going out of his way to fight through more temple guards save his apprentice, which gave Vitiate further time to recover. Keep in mind that even without letting Vitiate recover, he was still so powerful that Lord Scourge, the Emperor's Wrath, felt that he would be enslaved just by being in the Emperor's presence. Keep in mind that in the Revan Novel, far from his peak in SWTOR, Scourge was noted to be an expert swordsman that even Revan noted had incredible potential. By SWTOR, Scourge is causing Dark Council Members to shit their pants, and he nigh stalemated the Hero of Tython at the end of Act 2, who by that time was the most powerful member of the jedi order, above the likes of Satele Shan and the Barsen'thor.
[*]Defeating Vitiate in the heart of his power after fighting through all his numerous defenses on a powerful dark side nexus.
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So yeah, Qui Gon and Fisto get shit on by end of Act 3 Hero of Tython. The Hero also grows even more powerful from the events leading up to SOR. And the Hero still can't hope to stand up to Revan alone, receiving the help of Shan/Marr/Lana/Shae Vizla/Theron. So yeah, Kenobi's saber skills won't be the deciding factor in this fight.
As for the force scaling...I actually did give you specific evidence in terms of scaling/feats as to why Revan lolstomps Kenobi:
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[*]Revan Reborn, after waking up from a coma and being imprisoned/tortured/drugged by drugs that literally weakened his connection to the force for 3 years, was capable of "easily" catching Nyriss's charged lightning storm and reflecting it back at her. This lightning storm was so powerful that it was capable of ashing Meetra, Scourge, and Nyriss herself, even after she'd thrown up a force barrier. Kenobi under no circumstances is "easily" catching and reflecting Nyriss's charged lightning storm, much less in the horrible conditions Revan was in.
[*]Darth Nihilus, who is powerful enough to drain entire planets of life, ragdoll his capital ship, and possibly his whole fleet, from the immense gravity wells of Malachor V, isn't even as powerful as Mandalorian Wars Revan, according to Meetra. Revan has gotten "far more powerful" since the mandalorian wars by the Novel, much less SOR.
[*]Jadus, who is the greatest sith the empire has ever produced according to Valkorion, (which would include Nyriss and Malgus) held his dreadnought together from destruction, shook his dreadnought by getting angry, etc, is inferior to the sith protags at the start of KotFE, who in turn are far weaker than Revan.
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2. Why do the cracks have to be so substantial that it would cause the entire megalith to crumble, forcing Kenobi to hold them upright? That isn't even implied at all in the text. And "shearing off" the chunks isn't the same thing as Kenobi throwing the chunks, like at all. The actual definition of shear in this context is:
"break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain."
So the slabs that were falling were broken off due to the cracks Kenobi was causing in the megaliths, (again, these cracks dont have to be so substantial that it would cause the entire megaliths to collapse). And it could be likened to an avalanche because a lot of shit was falling really fast, not because all the megalith columns were decimated, lol.
Also, the whole "unafraid" thing doesn't imply Kenobi performed the feat easily at all. The quote just implies that he performed the feat:
Orrin could hear more Tusken children yowling in the maze as the debris landed. But he was more interested in Ben's reaction. The man had seemed completely unafraid of the earlier phenomenon-almost as if he'd orchestrated the whole thing. But now, one hand on the clinging Tusken youngling, Ben looked worried.
Even accounting for Kenobi's precision to not kill Orrin, (though it seems that Kenobi got damn close,) this feat still isn't better than what an immensely weakened Revan pulled mid-fight in the Foundry, much less all the other stuff I brought up.