Is Dooku > Vader?

Originally posted by Zenwolf
Well the only contradiction I've seen, is that in the ROTJ one. Boba has a fight with Luke, which is when watching the movie, is clearly an impossibility. Don't got the scans on hand though.

I know that one. Don't understand how it non-canonizes the whole manga, though. It's just that one fight.

The thing is with the movie version, is the entire fight isn't shown on screen. If you watch ESB, the scene goes back-and-forth from Luke's fight with Vader to adventures with Leia and Chewie, meaning chunks of the fight are left out or are simply left "un-told" the Force push from Vader could have easily happened in one of these intervals, meaning it's canonicity as with everything else in Expanded Universe is "C-level" which is just as legitimate a Galen Marek existing or Boba Fett still being alive.

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You could make the argument Dooku is a better swordsman than Vader, and up to ANH I wouldn't disgree. Around ESB it becomes a bit more ambiguous since Vader is stated to have improved vastly. However, in Force power, Vader takes the cake decisively.

Yeah, I realize this was a while ago, but from the OP, ANH Vader's abilities really aren't relevant. Vader is confirmed to have grown "far more formidable" from ANH to ESB alone, and then he grew more powerful from ESB to ROTJ. We should also consider just how fast Vader grows.

In TFU, he was =/<Galen Marek, a couple of years later, he was >= a more powerful version of Galen Marek. And keep in mind, that was before growing "far more formidable."

Yes. A million times Yes.

Palpatine ****ed up losing Maul, but REALLY ****ed setting Dooku up.

Vader may have been weakened but he still lost to a sub-Kenobi 'frigate buster.'

Didn't the ROTS novel say Dooku had to spend lavishly of his Force reserves to TK Kenobi?

Nope, that was to fend off Anakin. He TKed Kenobi with a -- wait for it -- whipcrack of power.

Originally posted by MythLord
whipcrack of power

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