Greatest fictional swordsman?

If we take all swordsmen/women, make all swords unbreakable, equalise stats, remove all other esoteric powers and remove other weapons, so that it's based purely on their skill with a sword - who would come out on top? Does a Jedi come out on top? A pirate? A bronze age hero? A Game of Thrones character? One from Lord of the Rings?

Limiting it to comics, live-action movies and live-action tv.

Tolkien didn't care about fights much. Now Jackson did and Aragorn obviously kicked ass in the films.

GoT characters don't have haxx skill, they're pretty realistic.

Jedi rely on the Force a whole f*cking lot, so we can't assess their skill level properly.

Wolverine has many sword feats. Silver Samurai and Black Knight come to mind, too.

The best would probably be some anime characters.

Few characters come to mind
Swordsman (obviously)
Zoro
Conan
Red Sonja
Warlord
Silver Sable
Silver Samurai
Samurai
Dr Mcninja (if web comics count as comics)
Black knight
Wolverine
Green Arrow
Ras Al Ghul

Elric

You mean........ZORRO ZORRO ZORRRRROOOOOOOOO

Think beat meant Zoro from One Piece.

ZORRO is still the greatest

Just wanna point out Ras is pretty shit at swordfighting......All that experience, and Bats stalemates him.

It'll probably be someone from Bleach or something.

If you remove super-strength, as the OP does, a large portion of video game/manga/anime characters straight up lose the ability to use their swords.

Originally posted by lawest9
ZORRO is still the greatest

lancelot du lac, fionavar tapestry. if you've never read it, i envy you. ohhh i envy you....

Conan.

Equalized stats?

Felix Jaeger, Ciaphas Cain, and Lucius the Eternal are some top contenders.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Conan.

Is Conan truly that great? As for the thread Connor MacCleod

Atomic Samurai from One Punch Man. 😛

^But this seemingly Limiting it to comics, live-action movies and live-action tv.anime and manga should not including
Anyway I personally think is Dante from Devil may Cry

Manga has better swordsmen than Comics. Samurai trumps all

Inigo Montoya.

Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Inigo Montoya.

Doubtful. He's a great character, but in the film he was thoroughly trumped by Wesley, and while the novel does differ in it's portrayal of the fight, he still concedes that Wesley is his outright superior when it comes to fighting on flat terrain.

wesley def > montoya