Originally posted by Nephthys
Except the Hero had already beaten Vitiate in an all-out duel by that point. Vitiate is on his knees at the start of the cutscene for a reason. 😬
And the all-out duel consisted of, what, slashing down some illusions equipped with sabers? Considering that Vitiate as shown nothing to indicate he could even handle a saber properly, there's nothing to indicate his illusions are anything but fodder. It all came down to Vitiate spamming lightning until he ran into HoT's saber.
Meanwhile, Yoda went toe to toe with a sith lord--who can blitz top jedi in the prime of the jedi order in seconds. Yoda matched Sidious in speed and skill (most likely even above Sidious in skill). In sheer power, Yoda is a near equal to Sidious who can do this to other powerful force users:
...Sidious has consistently dominated powerful force users with TK alone (and has even dominated both Maul and Savage at the same time despite their efforts to break free from his TK hold, and has easily force pulled both of them off a balcony as he was falling), yet even Yoda managed to hurl Sidious across his office with enough power to cause Sidious to rethink doing battle with him, something Sidious has claimed on waiting a long time for. In fact Yoda's TK was strong enough to destroy entire separatist landing craft that were over 300 meters in width. Not to mention Yoda successfully absorbed a very prolong lightning attack from Sidious, and redirected it in a ball of energy.
But, yeah, HoT rivals Yoda in terms of combat because he defeated Vitiate in an "all-out" duel.