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By the time of TOR Scourge would certainly have improved enough between his natural potential and his upgrades from Vitiate to make up the difference between him and Nyriss. He's infinitely more experienced, more skilled and he can fuel his strength with her hatred. He can tank her attacks and defeat her solidly.
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So you're suggesting his abilities multiplied to such a degree that he is solidly beating an opponent who he was barely capable of parrying the divided flurries and was put down by a single thrust. Even worse, in the Force he had his telekinesis completely shrugged off despite Nyriss being distracted and then got sent flying by her Force wave which sent him head over heels into a wall leaving him dazed and defeated.
Lol.
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His abilities don't need to have multiplied. He'd only need to have gotten like 20-30-40% better in order to compete. Force users scale upwards so that being a certain degree better than someone eliminates their ability to compete. Scourge got an enormous amount better, enough to make up the difference for sure imo.
Competing with someone and beating them solidly are two entirely different things. Sounds like you're shifting the goalposts. The idea that Scourge would be "competing" with Nyriss with just a 20% increase from the version that was absolutely manhandled in the novel is pretty damn laughable, too. Nyriss was destroying basically two versions of him (I'm being generous here, Surik was clearly his better) with absolute ease. A 20% increase is not making much of a change to that.
Last edited by SunRazer on Jun 26th, 2016 at 10:43 AM
Well 20% is a laughably conservative figure. I'm also considering his massive increases in skill and other combat abilities.
Scourges whole point is in keeping the Dark Council in line. I don't think its stupid to consider him having surpassed the members of his day. The dude was supremely confident he could kill Act 2 HoT, their companion, Sajar and the republic base by himself if he wanted.
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Last edited by Nephthys on Jun 26th, 2016 at 10:46 AM
You were talking about overall ability before. And even with your highest estimate of 40% - I'm not sure that's enough to allow Scourge to properly compete. Nyriss was trashing Scourge plus a superior combatant in Meetra. That's well over 200% of Scourge. A 40% increase is still pitiful by comparison - and it's pretty sad that you only grow 40% in three centuries. Scourge should logically grow a lot more, but still not enough to defeat Nyriss, let alone solidly.
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Jun 25th, 2016 09:47 PM
