@lordofthelight said:
Probably Plagueis. Mace is his rival in terms of sheer power, and his probable superior in lightsaber skill. But Plagueis has access to arcane techniques, and power which I don't believe Mace has a defense for. He wins a minority though.
Wouldn't Vapaad's loop hinder or negate his use of such techniques?
I don't see any evidence for it.
Actually, I am reconsidering it, if we can accept certain assumptions. I am not sure how much sorcery will affect Mace. You require two things for nullifying sorcery, one of them is just sheer willpower, which Mace has in abundance. But willpower goes only to some extent. It is useful for negating illusions, projections etc. Not effects of sorcery that are tangible, and manifest as various kinds of dark power. The other is force light. Now I am very well aware that Mace hasn't displayed force light, but on the other hand, Obi Wan has. And has used it to a tremendous effect too, repelling the power of a Banite nexus.
Here is the thing. If we are to assume that Mace too has knowledge of force light, that if we assume that his knowledge transcends that of Obi Wan's( which in my opinion is a reasonable assumption, given the holistic portrayal of Mace relative to Obi Wan), he can negate Plagueis's sorcery well enough( since his power in force light will obviously be greater than that of Obi Wan's, assuming he has it).
It is a big assumption though, but not an unreasonable one.
Another thing is, people give hype to Bane and other Sith Lords for obtaining holocrons, and knowledge about the dark side of the force from ancient texts, and maintaining an archive of such knowledge, but what about the Jedi in the PT era?
By this time, the Jedi Order's knowledge base would be the highest it ever was. The Jedi Order's library was the single biggest information bank in the entire galaxy, the Jedi vaults had troves and troves of holocrons ransacked across millennia from various Sith sites accumulated, the Jedi would have holocrons of their own ancient Masters( like Arca Jeth, Thon, Vodo Siosk Baas, Ood Bnar, Odan Urr) etc. not to mention, holocrons of Masters like Yoda himself. The collective knowledge of the entire order's 25 millennia of history would be available to the Jedi Masters in the PT era, particularly to masters like Mace and Obi Wan( the latter of whom has studied devastating techniques like force light before even being appointed to the Council). Which really leads me to believe that the knowledge available to Mace and what he would have studied would be sufficient enough to counter most arcane techniques.
This is another assumption, but as I said before, not an unreasonable one.
So currently I am on the fence about this. It is a toss up between what we know as fact, and what should be true, by basic common sense.
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