Darth Traya's Drain vs Darth Thanaton's Force Storm

Which of these two Force feats is a superior display of power: Darth Traya draining the 3 members of the Jedi Council on Dantooine OR Darth Thanaton's force storm used against Darth Nox in the final fight of the Sith Inquisitor story?

Darth Traya's attack:
https://media.giphy.com/media/uQbKa1oySsw7e/giphy.gif

Darth Thanaton's attack:
https://media.giphy.com/media/aHs2fGzna7DBC/giphy.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/UTvuRxuNAaSuk/giphy.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/Od4H1r7vxFzu8/giphy.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/51H4ZVrZdBNVC/giphy.gif

I think they're about even tbh though I'd side with Traya's drain showing if push came to shove.

It's hard to tell, they both suck

Traya's by a mile.

Well, I mean, one actually did something and the other didn't.

Originally posted by NewGuy01
Well, I mean, one actually did something and the other didn't.

Couldn't that just be attributed to Nox being capable of tanking that storm while the Jedi couldn't defend from drain? I mean, the Jedi aren't exactly impressive themselves.

Has the difference between a single bolt/stream of lightning and a storm ever been discussed, or do authors just make this shit up as they go along?

Fagaton's storm looks cool and all, but it takes like a minute to conjure, and as Sidious and plenty of others have shown, a single stream is sufficient to down most opponents, or even ash them.

Originally posted by ILS
It's hard to tell, they both suck

Originally posted by ILS
Has the difference between a single bolt/stream of lightning and a storm ever been discussed, or do authors just make this shit up as they go along?

Well, it's compared in PoD when Bane puts up a Storm where the others are releasing singular bolts or streams at best, IIRC.

Other than that, not really.

Originally posted by nfactor1995
Couldn't that just be attributed to Nox being capable of tanking that storm while the Jedi couldn't defend from drain? I mean, the Jedi aren't exactly impressive themselves.

Granted, but there's not much you can do to quantify Thanatos's storm if it had little to no noticeable effect on it's target, regardless of whether or not Traya's drain would have affected that target.

Originally posted by NewGuy01
Granted, but there's not much you can do to quantify Thanatos's storm if it had little to no noticeable effect on it's target, regardless of whether or not Traya's drain would have affected that target.

Fair enough 👍

Originally posted by NewGuy01
Granted, but there's not much you can do to quantify Thanatos's storm if it had little to no noticeable effect on it's target, regardless of whether or not Traya's drain would have affected that target.

It was cracking the stone beneath Nox after hitting Nox's shield. Pretty incredible.

Cracking a stone floor isn't mentionable alongside one-shotting Jedi Masters, and I'm pretty sure Nox's shield wasn't doing much to weather that storm's effect on the floor around him.

I mean, when it's just the after effects of the lightning after hitting a shield that pretty much diminished all of its energy I'd have to disagree.

"and I'm pretty sure Nox's shield wasn't doing much to weather that storm's effect on the floor around him."

The lightning didn't hit the floor, it hit Nox. The energy that traveled from Nox to the ground had that effect of cracking stone.

What's with that skinny ass avatar, bro?

Was testing out the image system. KMC is not user friendly.

Why would it be after hitting the shield instead of at the same time?

Are you asking why the lightning wouldn't have hit Nox and the ground at the same time?

Yeah.

You're saying that it's the Lightning after it's been weakened by Nox's Force defenses. I'm asking why it wouldn't be hitting them both at once. Is it visibly arcing off Nox into the ground? Also, not sure how long Nox's defenses lasted, since there's a certain point where you can just see Nox stumbling around.

Actually you're right. I checked the gif and while most of the lightning hit Nox some of the tendrils did arc away from her.

I guess a better way to scale it then would be the gif of Thanaton's casual lightning blast causing an explosion ( like Dooku's in AotC ) against stone.

And then taking into account the storm he sent at Nox was charged up beforehand.