Bane has has decades of experience over Ven and his relative accomplishments are superior.
Bane has better force feats. While Plagueis after his defeat of Ten should have been more powerful then DoE Bane we know Venamis was not as powerful as Plagu-chan. Only powerful enough to not be dominated by Plagu-chan in the Force. I'd still give it to Bane if only by a slight margin.
All out should go to Bane for the above reasons.
Originally posted by Syndicate
And what are Plagueis's dueling feats by that point?
This. Using circular logic like, "Plagueis is good because he beat Venamis, Venamis is good because he hung with Plagueis." doesn't exactly make for a sturdy argument.
Venamis is a failed, half-trained apprentice who was implied to be in a fairly early stage of his training. He could probably hold his own, but he's not proven himself to really be a match for Bane at all.
Originally posted by carthage
He's still substantially faster and more powerful in the force as per Banes design in the Rule of Two. Seeing as Bane is the weakest of his Order and Venamis was specifically trained by Tenebrous to combat him, Bane really has nothing in his feats that compare to pressuring Plagueis in a duel.
Granted Venamis should be faster but I doubt Venamis has superior combative applications of the force.