Originally posted by chingchangwalla
Well more overall physical prowess. Vader is stronger unarmed but his relative lack of movement means he can't jump up and strike down as hard as Anakin can
Vader has demonstrated plenty of mobility given his restrictions. Dooku himself noted in his fight with Anakin that Djem So's weakness was its lack of mobility and Vader compensated for this by blending multiple forms in his fighting style as is described in TFU and DL. Anakin on the other hand only employed Djem So as his main offensive fighting style. It's not as if we ever see Anakin in the shows or movies leaping into the air and coming down on his foes to generate a greater amount of kinetic force. So yes while I agree that Anakin has greater mobility/agility I don't see how this will help his physical blows have more kinetic force behind them.
Skywalker was all over him. The shining blue lightsaber whirled and spat and every overhand chop crashed against Dooku's defense with the unstoppable power of a meteor strike; the Sith Lord spent lavishly of his reserve of the Force merely to meet these attacks without being cut in half, and Skywalker—Skywalker was getting stronger.
-_Revenge of the Sith
You killed her.You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself…
It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith—
Because now your self is all you will ever have.
And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow.
In the end, you do not even want to.
In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself—
And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker. Forever …
- Revenge of the Sith
Yeh, yeh, Vader gets far more powerful and all that jazz, but he was never, ever the Anakin we saw in Revenge of the Sith.