Darth Bane vs Lord Hoth

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Why would you even bother? :lmao

Its hardly structured or run in a way conducive to actual constructive debate

Someone was wrong about Bane and the HoT.

I d-I don't understand the question. I have to destroy them. We must cull the weak from the herd! We must remove the Impure. AND LEAVE. ONLY THOSE. IN THE CRUCIBLE. WITH THE MIGHT. TO EXPAND. ACROSS. THE UN-I-VERSE. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EX-TERM-I-NAAAATE!!!

Let them be wrong, the World and your understanding of it doesn't have to change and end :maybe

There is no satisfaction or fun to be found in "destroying" a target more akin to a brick wall than an actual person

You're not winning, you're wasting time better spent doing anything else, like, say, maybe breathing?

At the end of the day, they're not interested in changing their minds or objectively debating jackshit and all :maybe

Just checked out the video. As usual EvanNova95 (and Reti4) made a truly compelling case. I don't see how anyone could argue with the verdict, save of course for the whiny Bane/Sith fanboys.

Hoth is just way more experienced, versatile and a far better tactician. Ret4's chess metaphor sums it up perfectly.

Why don't you like my videos? Reti sucks ass.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Kaan's feat of mentally subjugating the Sith leadership is a greater feat of power than anything Hoth's done.

So what? Power isn't everything. Plus that's just one aspect of Force ability.

Originally posted by Nephthys
I'm giving them the business atm but it feels like I'm wasting my time on these youtube arguments. I'm leery about getting fully into it with random dudes on youtube.

Yeah, you're wasting your time. ✅

Originally posted by chilled monkey
So what? Power isn't everything. Plus that's just one aspect of Force ability.

It kind of is

Skill?

Fails to matter once the gap in power/durability/speed becomes super disparate

You might be the best swordsman to ever live, but have fun trying to take down that rhino with your metal toothpick :maybe

Tactical ingenious?

Same follows if you're outgunned.

Batman's not winning against Superman without severe prep and requires the prep being initiated before Supes even gets to think

Raw stats are pretty much the only real consistent factor that matters

Not necessarily the issue here, but Hoth is too unknown an entity to really draw any meaningful conclusions about anyway

Really, looking at them side-to-side, I'd really say Hoth was more like the anti-Bane, at least as of PoD. I'd honestly be surprised if he couldn't give Bane a fight, though giving him the win with no feats is silly.

Originally posted by ChaosTheory123
It kind of is

Skill?

Fails to matter once the gap in power/durability/speed becomes super disparate

Good thing that's not the case here then.

Originally posted by ChaosTheory123
Tactical ingenious?

Same follows if you're outgunned.

Again, not the case here.

Originally posted by ChaosTheory123
Batman's not winning against Superman without severe prep and requires the prep being initiated before Supes even gets to think

True. Heck, even with prep Batman has been defeated by Superman.

Originally posted by ChaosTheory123
Raw stats are pretty much the only real consistent factor that matters

Nope. That's a very small-minded and unimaginative view.

Originally posted by ChaosTheory123
Not necessarily the issue here, but Hoth is too unknown an entity to really draw any meaningful conclusions about anyway

Nope. EvanNova95 just did exactly that. Jensaarai1 has done the same. Hondo Moonrazer is even better. All of them have done superb work creating vs. vids with less well-known characters. That's why they are geniuses.

Originally posted by NewGuy01
I'd honestly be surprised if he couldn't give Bane a fight, though giving him the win with no feats is silly.

Hoth has feats. Off the top of my head:

He defeated dozens, maybe hundreds of Sith in numerous battlefield engagements. Contrast that with Bane's handful of fights.

Put a flunky in stasis without even looking at them while in the middle of a heated battle in which his best friend had just been struck down.

Besides, you shouldn't rely purely on feats.

Neither of those feats indicate Hoth is a legitimate challenge for Bane. I'm simply baffled by how EvanNova can so casually declare that Hoth is Bane's absolute equal in power based on one middling feat, not to mention all the times he claims that Hoth is "well-versed" in mixing his saber skills with his force powers based on completely nothing or something equally without evidence.

Originally posted by chilled monkey
Good thing that's not the case here then.

Again, not the case here.

Don't recall saying it was :hmm

I'm shooting the shit while talking hypothetical semantics for fun

True. Heck, even with prep Batman has been defeated by Superman.

It confuses me how you can actually grasp this and call me small minded in the next sentence

Nope. That's a very small-minded and unimaginative view.

A "Nope" is hardly compelling chuckles :maybe

Sure, my view is boring, but its just how it works

At the end of the day, you can be the most skilled human ever (who may or may not be able to generate lower order kilojoules with physical strikes), but if you lack the stats or equipment to harm the brick that flies through buildings for a hobby with bullet timing reactions and speed (something that requires gigajoules to destroy and survive conventionally typically if you're out right destroying them)?

You will lose every time

Not my problem if shitty writing has deluded you into thinking otherwise :maybe

Did you perhaps misunderstand when I said "Raw stats are pretty much the only real consistent factor that matters"?

Because I pretty much meant that as in... Skill and tactics stop mattering once stats become disparate as hell

Evan must have uploaded this video a month early. That's the only reasonable explanation.

Emperordmb I saw that comment and yeahhhhh HOTH really won that? ok!!!!! YEAHHHHH HOTH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TYAAAAHHHH WOMBO COMBOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no he looses Hoth is way to unknown for that kind of match.

Originally posted by Nephthys
Neither of those feats indicate Hoth is a legitimate challenge for Bane. I'm simply baffled by how EvanNova can so casually declare that Hoth is Bane's absolute equal in power based on one middling feat, not to mention all the times he claims that Hoth is "well-versed" in mixing his saber skills with his force powers based on completely nothing or something equally without evidence.
I agree that made me loose more respect for Evan as a you tube SW vs guy man. Thats just sad. Emperors comment just wiped that vid out.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
Can I get a source from anyone that Hoth mastered all seven lightsaber forms, LOL?

I want that source to ant.

"Battlemaster's train Initiates and Padawans in the use of Forms I through VI combat moves and cadences, and impart knowledge about Form VII to those who have earned that trust." - The Jedi Path, page 118.

Not exactly solid in my opinion. It's not like Hoth was even training padawans, he was a wartime general.

Hey Neph after the flame died down I find myself liking Hoth after another debate...........yeah Hoth does have WAR experience, feats may not be their but when it comes to experience in the FRONT LINES.....Malgus territory I see why Hoth would be enough to face Bane in a good fight.

Originally posted by Nephthys
It's not like Hoth was even training padawans, he was a wartime general.

He became the Battlemaster in his midtwenties and trained the padawans, prior to the formation of the Army of the Light