Most powerful to least (fighting ability holistically) :
Zonakin
ROTJ Vader (Legends)
Knightfall Vader
ANH Vader (legends)
ESB Vader (legends and canon)
ANH Vader (canon)
Rebels Vader
LOTS Vader
Mustafar Vader / ROTS Anakin (regular state of mind)
ROTS Anakin (regular state of mind) / Mustafar Vader
RotJ Vader (canon)
TCW Anakin
AOTC Anakin
Vader shortly after getting the suit
Unsure
TFU Vader
Originally posted by Kurk
Most powerful to least (fighting ability holistically) :Zonakin
ROTJ Vader (Legends)
Knightfall Vader
ANH Vader (legends)
ESB Vader (legends and canon)
ANH Vader (canon)
Rebels Vader
LOTS Vader
Mustafar Vader / ROTS Anakin (regular state of mind)
ROTS Anakin (regular state of mind) / Mustafar Vader
RotJ Vader (canon)
TCW Anakin
AOTC Anakin
Vader shortly after getting the suit[b]Unsure
TFU Vader [/B]
Originally posted by Rebel95
Why do you have ROTJ Vader so far apart in legends and canon?
Some influential SW person said that Vader is "burnt out" during the RotJ in canon.
I would consider bumping canon RotJ right below LotS but idk if RotJ Luke > RotS Anakin
Re: Re: Rank these versions of Anakin/Vader
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Zone
Knightfall
ROTS
Mustafar
TCW
Originally posted by Rebel95
Personally I'd say:1/2. Zonakin/Prime Darth Vader
3. Knightfall Vader
4. ROTS Anakin
5. Mustafar Vader
6. TCW Anakin
This seems good. Zonakin is Anakin with everything on the line determined to win, with the experience and gradual power growth accumulated from the clone wars and no emotional baggage (furnace heart too stronk). Knightfall Vader is similar, Anakin is taking out some subconscious arrogance along with the emotional hasty decision to become a sith to save Padme and Palpatine saving him from becoming too conflicted when slaughtering the jedi at the temple.
RotS Anakin is standard Anakin, better than his TCW self, but just operating on a normal level I would say he's >/= Dooku level.
Mustafar Anakin is emotionally ****ed, mind ****ed by Palpatine and the weight of his actions starting to catch up to him, making him rely on weak justifications. Feels like he's betrayed by the two people he loves most, but still too cognitively clouded to be convinced that he's wrong. Still powerful tho.
TCW Anakin is just inconsistent, at best stalemating Dooku, but at worst stalemating Hondo and a monkey-lizard. Not couonting Mortis showings ofc.
EDIT: *counting
Why Knightfall over Zone?
Originally posted by Azronger
What are people's reasons for putting Mustafar Anakin above TCW?
Mustafar Anakin was driving back Obi Wan almost the entire fight, yet Obi Wan at this point does not seem to be that far off from Dooku as a duelist.
But generally it just seems unlikely that his emotional instability would not be covered by the growth from TCW to RotS, which by all accounts appears to be enormous.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Why Knightfall over Zone?
Knightfall is more powerful than Sidious. Zone couldn't blitz Dooku.
Mustafar Anakin was driving back Obi Wan almost the entire fight, yet Obi Wan at this point does not seem to be that far off from Dooku as a duelist.But generally it just seems unlikely that his emotional instability would not be covered by the growth from TCW to RotS, which by all accounts appears to be enormous.
That was my original reason for putting Mustafar above TCW, but then I came to consider Force abilities. What do you base your claim off of? What has Mustafar Vader done that is better than dominating Asajj Ventress?
Originally posted by Azronger
Knightfall is more powerful than Sidious.
Source?
Zone couldn't blitz Dooku.
Neither could Yoda. Sidious couldn't blitz Windu in pure sabers; the gap between them before vaapad seemed at most to be the same as Zonakin's and Dooku's.
That was my original reason for putting Mustafar above TCW, but then I came to consider Force abilities.
What reason is there to think TCW Anakin is stronger in the Force?
In either case, I doubt a fight between the two would come down to telekinesis.
What do you base your claim off of? What has Mustafar Vader done that is better than dominating Asajj Ventress?
Sort of dominating Obi Wan, who at this point seems to be within the same tier as Dooku as a duelist. In either case, given that Mustafar Vader has only one fight, a lot of it is just guessing that he's probably better than an Anakin pre-big power boost.