There have been threads discussing this before. I said Starkiller, and everyone was like: "Nuh-uh! Nuh-uh! There's a guy in this one book who's ten times as powerful as Starkiller!"

Luke Skywalker, Palpatine, Darth Nihilus

" There have been threads discussing this before. I said Starkiller, and everyone was like: "Nuh-uh! Nuh-uh! There's a guy in this one book who's ten times as powerful as Starkiller!" "

" @JediXMan: You were one of them, weren't you? "

*sigh* This thread makes me sad....

Exar Kun/Naga Sadow.

Yoda is more powerful than Palpatine isn't he? In ROTS, it was pretty clear he was better with a lightsaber, and easily countered Palpatine's force lightning. 
Just out of curiosity, was Obi-Wan more powerful than Anakin at the end of ROTS, considering they were both in their prime.

" Yoda is more powerful than Palpatine isn't he? In ROTS, it was pretty clear he was better with a lightsaber, and easily countered Palpatine's force lightning. Just out of curiosity, was Obi-Wan more powerful than Anakin at the end of ROTS, considering they were both in their prime. "

" Luke Skywalker, Palpatine, and Darth Nihilus are the strongest.
 
@Jotham said:

" There have been threads discussing this before. I said Starkiller, and everyone was like: "Nuh-uh! Nuh-uh! There's a guy in this one book who's ten times as powerful as Starkiller!" "

Starkiller = weakling. "

" @geraldthesloth:   1. I don't think that was Grandmaster Luke. 2. Exar Kun is also one of the strongest in Star Wars. I forgot to mention him and Naga Sadow. Shame on me. "

" @geraldthesloth:   My mistake.  What I mentioned about Exar is still true, though. "

" @JediXMan: lol! "

" @JediXMan: Ok, are matching up all feats or just from the end of the film? I would say they were on par considering that Palpatine was surprised that Yoda was absorbing the attack and they both flew off. Kind of off-topic but who would you consider best with a lightsaber/best swordsman? "

  Jedi Exile!  Okay, I'm kidding.  Luke Skywalker is one who I'd put up as the most powerful.

George Lucas.
 
Cry because you know it to be true.

"*sigh* This thread makes me sad.... "

Luke Skywalker

Its about time to make cartoons or movies about the expanded universe...Not the fraking prequels.

" @Jotham said:

" @JediXMan: You were one of them, weren't you? "

Probably. Let's match feats:  Luke Skywalker:   Manipulated black holes Was so fast that he looked like he had 20 lightsabers Can teleport an object (called "fold space") Took a hit from an AT-AT without flinching Knocked over said AT-AT with ease. Rebuilt a fortress with only telekinesis (and later destroyed it with the same method) Palpatine:   Creating a worm hole that was capable of either transporting a single person from one planet to another or ripping an entire fleet to pieces. Transferred his soul into other bodies.  Beat Luke Skywalker in Lightsaber combat (though to be fair, Luke wasn't as good as he'd later be. He was still at the level where he took a hit from that AT-AT - yeah, that's Luke before he reached his prime) Mass Force-drain (drained the population of Byss slowly over time) Darth Nihilus:  Held together a ship through sheer willpower. Transferred his soul into objects and could posses / animate them (that was his armor, not his body, that was in KOTOR II) "Spoke" and killed every living thing on a planet (save Visas)  Starkiller:  NOT ripping down a Star Destroyer (it was already falling. He says it in the game and it's shown in the book. All he did was guide it so that it hit the cannon) NOT beating Palpatine (Palpatine let him win - again, pretty clear in the game and very clear in the book). When Palpatine was actually trying, Starkiller could barely resist the Lightning. However, it was impressive that he was able to resist it at all, and even cause it to backfire (but again: Starkiller died and Palpatine walked away without a scratch) Beating Darth Vader (kind of impressive, but Vader isn't that good) "

" @Jotham said:

" @JediXMan: You were one of them, weren't you? "

Probably. Let's match feats:  Luke Skywalker:   Manipulated black holes Was so fast that he looked like he had 20 lightsabers Can teleport an object (called "fold space") Took a hit from an AT-AT without flinching Knocked over said AT-AT with ease. Rebuilt a fortress with only telekinesis (and later destroyed it with the same method) Palpatine:   Creating a worm hole that was capable of either transporting a single person from one planet to another or ripping an entire fleet to pieces. Transferred his soul into other bodies.  Beat Luke Skywalker in Lightsaber combat (though to be fair, Luke wasn't as good as he'd later be. He was still at the level where he took a hit from that AT-AT - yeah, that's Luke before he reached his prime) Mass Force-drain (drained the population of Byss slowly over time) Darth Nihilus:  Held together a ship through sheer willpower. Transferred his soul into objects and could posses / animate them (that was his armor, not his body, that was in KOTOR II) "Spoke" and killed every living thing on a planet (save Visas)  Starkiller:  NOT ripping down a Star Destroyer (it was already falling. He says it in the game and it's shown in the book. All he did was guide it so that it hit the cannon) NOT beating Palpatine (Palpatine let him win - again, pretty clear in the game and very clear in the book). When Palpatine was actually trying, Starkiller could barely resist the Lightning. However, it was impressive that he was able to resist it at all, and even cause it to backfire (but again: Starkiller died and Palpatine walked away without a scratch) Beating Darth Vader (kind of impressive, but Vader isn't that good) "

No one can be the most powerful bc no one has mastered the force and everyones skills vary... Yoda may be better at telekinesis and lacking in force lightning while someone else would be the opposite. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and everyone will eventually meet their match

uh where's Revan on this list or is he canon?

I'd like to see Yoda in his prime

Power?
 
It has always fascinated me, throughout both trilogies, that the Sith and other  evil characters gauge each-other on the basis of 'powerful' or 'weak'.  The Jedi, by contrast, prefer to use the phrase 'strong in the Force'.  So we have a number of examples of collapsing this or destroying that.  But perhaps the greatest feats of the Force have little or nothing to do with the physical?  Perhaps they are a more invisible, cerebral effort that can't be adapted to combat.

@blackadam: luke Skywalker