@@anthonypazoz4323 It probably boils down to the story. The Manga Guard fight in EP 3 was clearly not meant to be a sword fight; it was a horde of NPC villains, but Ahsoka vs the Magistrate, Mando vs Gustavo, and the sequel trilogy duels have much more characterization and affects the plot. Edit: thinking about it that way, he should add in Finn vs Phasma since it was the closet thing to an actual lightsaber battle in Last Jedi
I just realized that in the duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul, there's no music playing until Kenobi is pushed into the pit. The fight is so intense, it needs no score underneath it
@@hokutoshinken-chrisarmstro131 well...maybe just when you see they try to hit the blade of the saber not the opponent , i mean qui gon have a lot of occasion to cut darth maul lightsaber but he dont , darth maul dont react to the jump of obiwan and they dont even try to hit themselve, they are too far away !!!
Top 3 in my opinion: 1) Duel of the Fates - best choreography imo 2) Anakin vs Obi-Wan - most emotional + good choreography 3) Luke vs Vader final fight - just a classic + emotional
@@alecyerikian8073”Duel of the fates” isn’t a made up name for the fight (it sounds like you think it is) it was given to the fight since the that is the name of the song (or the other way around) also I wouldn’t call Anakin a hero considering he got Mace killed and also killed many kids.
@@pikachubutnotpikachu3476 He stopped mace from striking down a defenseless old man by chopping his arm off and saved the younglings from the clones by killing them himself.
It’s crazy how skilled yoda is. When he isn’t using the force he has to walk with a cane shit he probably can’t even walk without it. So all his movement in a fight is force enhanced. Dude uses it like it’s a third limb. He is truly one of the greatest Jedi in history.
@@mreggs3731 the buttons are illuminated and because of this its hard to see they're buttons at all. Luke most likely thought that it was just lights displaying something on his chest
Fact: Ewan and Ray (actors for both) were so fast in the duel that Lucasfilm had to slow down the footage so that audiences could still comprehend what was happening.
@@jiajinkhoo3469 man. Usually people speed up a fighting coreography to be "cool looking", but Lucasfilm had to SLOW DOWN because Ewan and Ray Park trained so hard they became monsters in swordsmanship.. All of it, because of a movie Nah, not any movie, it's Star Wars
You can always tell in the fifth movie, first fight of luke vs vader, that Anakin is trying so hard NOT to kill him, but once he gets the cut on the shoulder he gets angry.
It’s progressive which is what I love First he’s casually testing him, until luke knocks him off. Then he shows him a taste of the force Then he shows him why he should be feared with the third part but is still not going all out…until Luke gets a hit in
He tries to literally kill him after he walked into the corridor and Vader tries to strike him from surprise then those ferocious strikes in the corridor while Luke was cowering away
The thing I like most about the prequel duels, other then the fact that they are quick as hell, is that they go all over the place. The Duel On Mustafar started on the Landing Pad and ended on the River. The Duel Of The Fates started in the Hangar and ended in that hole area. I love it when the duels do that. But the fact that Empire Strikes Back had this aswell despite being so long ago and with little tech, is impressive.
Fun fact: in 29:06 behind the mask of FN-2199 is Liang Yang, a expert in Chinese martial arts. He is the fake John Lark in Mission Impossible Fallout toilet scene and worked as Emily Blunt stun double in the movie Edge of Tomorrow
Dooku turned to the dark side because he saw how bad the Jedi were becoming, not because he was evil, which is why he spared Anakin and Obi Wan while also escaping from Yoda.
@Azuri e Duel with Yoda and sorta a draw and lose to Anakin, not a lot can claim they can keep up with Yoda and for Anakin he's stronger and more powerful than most you've seen here. Yeah no shit he's weaker than people who are far more powerful than everyone else.
Crazy that we question Dooku strength. Canonically he is one of the best duelist one on one and kinda bested the best Jedi Master on chess match by using the “pawns” (obi and ani) to distract and escape for another day of fighting. A master swordsman and genius behind some of the separatists movements. Speaking of which can we talk about how the Separatists embargo on Naboo wasn’t wrong and definitely setup up by Palptine as a tempt to start galactic conflict…?
@spongebobsquarepants2981 it has some of the best technique displayed, plus the two went so fast that they had to slow down the fight in post I'm pretty sure. Definitely one of, if not the BEST fight in the franchise
In the prequels, people swing the light sabres around effortlessly, which makes sense. In the sequels, it's as if light sabres suddenly became very heavy, or like you need to put in a lot of force for it to do any damage.
In the expanded media it is explained that lightsabers are actually hard to control. In the prequels there's a Jedi Order, training, in the sequels there's what Luke? Luke wasn't really ever that good with a Lightsaber in the original trilogy and since Disney doesn't like the Legends Canon he's not a God tier entity like he becomes in that media. So really just a lack of quality training leads to Jedi swinging big baseball bats made of light, much like a novice in actual HEMA would swing a sword like a bat. It's not really comparable. One time period has people with training and one time period there isn't really anyone around to do the teaching.
Also, Kylo Ren's lightsaber and spinning just seems like a good way to stab your own forearm on the crossguard. It seems like the crossguard is to make up for his own lack of ability to use it on the level of a great Jedi
@@justacommenterLittle nerding out here, but Kylo’s lightsaber has those cross guards as a safety measure. His kyber crystal is cracked and the cross guards act as vents to allow the excess energy to leave the lightsaber safely. Without it, the crystal could overload, badly injuring him in the process
@sorrenblitz805 you make a great point which I agree with, I've also found put recently that sabers aren't a solid beam like I always thought, the blade is much like a sword in that one side is sharp and the other is not and those properly trained know which is which, which is also why we see obi wan in the kenobi show battering people with his Saber like it's a bat and then turning around and slicing straight through others, so it's entirely possible that they are using the wrong side in the sequels cause they are not properly trained
@@sorrenblitz805 To me that just sounds like filling in details trying to fix plot holes after the fact of terrible writing and directing that are the sequel movies.
@@samuraunt and out of nowhere,a random person tries to offend another person who was trying to do a joke,you might be a really Nice person in reality,dude
Top three for me were: Obi-Wan vs Anakin and Yoda vs Darth Sidious (ROTS) Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader: Round 2 (Obi-Wan Kenobi) Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader (ROTJ)
I love it where Palpatine before he becomes the Senator he says "I AM the Senate" and windu says "not yet" then Palpatine rises, ignites his lightsaber and says calmly as ever "It is treason then" and then starts the fight, such a badass beginning to a fight 👍
That’s one of the best parts of lightsabers: the fact they can be turned on and off can create the most dramatic fight openings (Maul appearing in the corridor and turning on his double lightsaber on Naboo is another great example)
What’s funny to me is that while it’s much less flashy than pretty much every other duel, the battle between Obi-Wan and Vader on the Death Star is probably the most like an actual sword fight in the whole series.
Err kind of. The reason they're flashier in the prequels is because it's supposed to be duels at their prime, compared to the original where you have an old guy, a man who's part machine, and a guy still learning
Man it's so cool to see the Force being used for more than just a push or trying to get an item dropped on someone in a lightsaber duel. The Obi Wan and Vader fight is one of my favorites
@@brucesnow7125 Mainly because they portrayed lightsabers as weightless, thus the fast movements. But as a consequence of getting rid of that concept for lightsabers, we have people swinging it like a baseball bat (Looks at sequal trilogy)
@@brucesnow7125 I dunno, disney sequel fights feel more like aimless flailing around with baseball bats. The choreography also leaves a lot to be desired.
@@dukes1993724 I was getting at more so the fact they he might’ve been told the whole plan by Sidious, in that taking out the future master of Anikan, damaging him and him being left with a brother figure rather than a father figure, slowly breaking him down to the dark side. You gotta bare in mind, Sidious knows how to play the long game
@@jo_sh6798 I don’t think even Sidious knew about Anakin being his future apprentice at this point in the timeline. Plus, why would he tell Maul the real reason to target Anakin’s father-figure? At this point in the game, Sidious would want Maul to be thinking he’s the only option as his apprentice, not teasing that Maul is just a placeholder to him.
Fun fact: At 2:45, the fighting sequence between Ewan and Ray had to be slowed down by the camera crew because of how fast both actors were moving with their strikes and parry’s
@@bean2705 play back 1.25x is too fast. If I had to guess, I’d say try picturing the sequence at like 1.1x-1.15x and that’s probably about how fast they were moving real time
I love that lucasfilm actually took time and care into these fights,and the choreography, like yoda vs sidious is kinda more skillful, slow, and masterful, while anakin vs obi-wan because of annakins anger it is more fast paced, while obi-wan also has to move fast to defend the attacks.
I remember when phantom menace first came out and Maul pulled out his double saber everyone in the theater was screaming. I loved the music that went with that fight…it matched it perfectly.
@azoouh7950 I don't. I watch them because of the story and because I love all of star wars. But Episodes 1 and 2 did not have good writing and dialogue. It's only saving grace was the action and the actors which were good but the script they were given wasn't.
Or how Obi wan is Anakins/Vader's Achilles heel. He only realistically loses his composure and towering fear to him, because of his immense hatred for him.
That is like the most plot armor thing to happen in Star wars. Vader just has to be stronger considering they were evenly matched when anakin was 22 (not even close to his prime) and out of his mind... Idk about that show it destroyed power scaling even more in the franchise and I really want to ignore it.
I think your all forgetting that vaders suit is limiting his movement and force power and this was intentional on sidious’ part he wanted to be sure that Vader would never turn against him. So believe me if Vader wasn’t stuck in that suit he wouldn’t have lost against obi. Also anakin has every right to have immense hatred towards obi, HE CUT HIM IN HALF AND LEFT HIM TO DIE, I’d say that’s plenty of reason to hate him so much.
That's what form 2 was good for, it was good for defending from opponents with lightsabers but was more poor for defending against an enemy with a blaster
I love how in the first Vader fight from obi-wan kenobi Vader is fighting with one hand, showing his confidence in and how he doesnt see his old master as threat, but in the second fight he switches to a two handed grip showing him realizing obi-wan is a threat
All of Anakin/Darth Vaders vs Obiwan Kenobis fights are by far my favorite out of the bunch. The ferocity there between them both is not because of two opposing sides, but of the bond they once shared as brothers not just in arms but in life, and the weight of it is very noticeable. 03:5210:18 & 14:00
I think we finally got to see a live action fight where Vader had to put in maximum effort in Kenobi. His first fight with Luke, he was toying with him, and in Return of the Jedi he was essentially past his prime and in a state of decay. With the scene 38 Reimagined video we sort of get something we'd expect to be a bit more realistic to the characters, but it is always possible that age and living on a desert planet really had caught up to Obi-Wan in the following 10 years, either way, as awesome of an edit it is, it isn't official. Then of course we have the fights between Vader and Ahsoka in Rebels, or with Starkiller in Force Unleashed back when that was a thing, but that last fight in Kenobi, THAT was Vader at his best! And we finally got to see it not in CGI!
@@KyleWallPuncher True, but that's not because he needed to do it in order to win. He did it to show Luke just how powerless he really was against him.
Man watching the original trilogy’s fights was so nostalgic and it’s amazing to see how far we’ve come since then. The Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Vader especially as the first to the modern eras last
Notice in the training fight between Anakin and Obi Wan, Anakin uses the same method at pushing Obi Wan down as Luke does when he fights Vader on the second Death Star.
My personal top 5 lightsabers duels: ( based on the choregraphy, environnement, emotions...) 1- Darth Vader Vs Obi-wan on mustafar 2- Darth Vader Vs Obi-wan ( kenobi final episode) 3- Luke skywalker Vs Darth Vader ROTJ 4- Luke Skywalker Vs Darth Vader ESB 5- Darth maul Vs Obi-wan / qui gon on Naboo
Yeah Vader is in most fights He was involved in the Battle of Naboo while Darth Maul was fighting Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan He duelled Count Dooku with Obi-Wan He was the antagonist of the Duel on Mustafar He again duelled Obi-Wan *twice* after the Duel on Mustafar, the second time being the victor He duelled Luke on Bespin and again during the Battle of Endor before redeeming himself
Vader and kenobi’s second duel from the show is probably one of my favorite duels in the entire franchise. I mean Vader looked so epic in this scene, props to the costume department for this show. The choreography for this scene was impressive, not as crazy as their revenge of the sith duel, but still powerful. To see Obi wan so determined to take Vader down was very enjoyable to watch. He then kicks Vaders ass and we get to see Hayden’s face under the mask as Anakin was chilling. Very well done
@@noahdavidson8733 Sidious: "Look what the the Jedi have done. They have scarred me for life!' The Senate: 'Well Palpitine, we just looked at the CCTV footage. Care to explain how you threw platforms at Yoda and could defeat a Jedi master as a politician?'
The duel between obi wan and vader is one of the best it uses the choreograph of the prequels while also utilizing the story tension and force capability of the original trilogy.
No duel in Star Wars history has still come close to topping Obi Wan and Qui Gon vs Maul. One of the things that makes it especially intense is Obi Wan vs Maul. You see the intensity not just in Obi Wan's face, but his combat. He's emotional, he's angry. He jumps into the fight throwing away caution entirely; all he wants to do is take this guy's head off. I rarely ever see that in duels these days. Most of the time it's just a nostalgia trip. Everyone's cool and collected, and I think it ruins that human element that brings you into the scene. I miss the intensity of emotions expressed in the combat that you see in the Obi Wan vs Maul fight.
Now we know why Vader vs. Obi-wan in A New Hope was so conservative. Obi-wan was genuinely old and Vader was genuinely cautious (because of his beating in the Kenobi show).
I just realized the importance of the high ground. Darth Maul had the high ground and lost and im sure Obi-Wan told Anakin this so in ROTS Anakin tried to show is power despite Obi-Wan having the high ground. Trying to show he can overcome not having it just like Obi-Wan did vs maul. Interesting
Gotta be honest, the Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader in the Obi-Wan series wasn’t half bad compared to Disney’s past battles. I actually did feel some emotion which is COMPLETELY different from what I felt in the sequel trilogy.
At least in disney séries and movie they try to hit the opponent and dont almost give the win to the opponent (like maul who let obi want jump above him and look Him do without trying anything , and anakin when he...open his two arms to make à hug at dooku and get his arms cut off.....)
It's almost foreshadowing, Vader is definitely not fighting as aggressively as he does even in training and could've stopped the fight anytime he wanted but didn't
@@zthebig6753 He's definitely a good character he just isn't given as much to do as he should have had, there's plenty of room for them to bring him back down the line
@@samsny21 he was a wasted character.....i liked him in Force Awakens he was a slave basically to the First Order and goes awol to help out against them has not one but two badass scenes involving swinging around a saber and they could've done better with him.
It’s actually I think from the comics. Something called the Sith’s Screech or Scream It basically disorients opponents and makes them easy targets hence why those two died so quickly.
You know what I've realized after watching this? Lightsabers from the Prequels and Original Trilogy don't glow like they do now. I mean, sure, they have color, and are described as the bright swords that can cut through anything, but they didn't quite glow like they with the Sequels and more modern shows. They didn't bloom out onto the environment and actors, and they didn't light up a whole room. Working with LED and maybe even NEO sabers really do change up how the lightsaber works, it seems.
The prequels showed much of the lightsaber duels be more quicker and badass with the style of sword styles of samurai and kendo. 5:44- 8:02 Badass moments of Anakin using double lightsabers in episode 2 and 3 6:27 Yoda Giving the most badass way to start a lightsaber duel 6:35-9:52 Prequels given the best things of Yoda kicking more ass with his lightsaber 10:20-12:02 A big fact that Hayden and Ewan Prepped for this duel has made this sequence even the most best one
I know I shouldn’t judge the ‘a new hope’ lightsaber duel between Obiwan and Vader too harshly, but seeing it right after the last fight in the obiwan show is tough 😂
what I love about the scene in 6:19, Anakins choreography looks like he opens up just to be cut like that. even before the counts hits him. he just opens up before by a lot like Jesus on the cross lol
I know dooku and sidious aren't usually touted for their lightsaber defense but I think it's underrated how they both can fight yoda to proficiency because his style is so different. You have to have absolute focus to be able to see that shit coming
I like how the third time Obi-Wan fights Vader, there are rougher versions of the same combos they once trained together with, only with more aggression and less formality, showing the effects of years away from the Order, simultaneous with the "like it was yesterday" feelings of disappointment they both have in each other as "failed master" and "failed apprentice".
I can't believe how Anakin basically lost every of his major Lightsaber duels except for one. Vader also lost a lot or times. In total 5 losses and 4 wins.
Obi-Wan going god mode and pelting Vader with rocks before going Ashoka on him and cutting his mask open was the highlight of their final fight in my opinion
Had the same thought. Also, I didn’t see your observation mentioned in any of the several comments I read, until I got to yours. Personally, and having just watched the whole video, the Ahsoka duel has my favorite sound effects out of all of them. The sound effects crew really had fun with that one. They gave her white-bladed lightsabers a really unique sound, and punched it up with how that duel sounded, when they clashed against Magistrate’s metal (beskar?) staff. Was listening with earbuds, and those crazy noises swirled all around, coming from all different directions in the left & right channels. That gets an A+ from me, for their creative work. Cool stuff, that keeps getting better.
I've just realised how much Obi vs Vader ustilies the force and I love it. It makes so much sense to use it in battle to give an advantage. Also I loved how Vader just touched the ground and it crumbled.
This is also because in ep 1 his lightsaber form was form 4 (Ataru) (same as Qui-Gon), very aggressive and with fast movements (drawback: quicker loss of stamina). Then after Qui-Gon's death he decided to switch to form 3 (Soresu), much more defensive. So that's also part of the reason why his moves are not as quick in ep 2-3 duels
0:00 Qui Gon vs Maul 0:38 Obi Wan and Qui Gon vs Maul 3:52 Anakin vs Obi Wan (Training)* 5:10 Anakin, Obi Wan, Yoda vs Dooku 7:20 Anakin and Obi Wan vs Dooku 8:08 Obi Wan vs Grievous 8:48 The Council vs The Senate 9:44 Yoda vs Sidious 10:18 Anakin vs Obi Wan 12:26 Obi Wan vs Vader (1st)* 13:22 Reva vs Vader* 14:00 Obi Wan vs Vader (2nd)* 17:46 Obi Wan vs Vader (3rd) 19:22 Luke vs Vader (Cave)* 19:54 Luke vs Vader (1st) 23:32 Luke vs Vader (2nd) 25:08 Luke vs Leia 25:36 Ahsoka vs Magistrate 27:04 Mando vs Gideon 27:50 Mando vs Paz Vizla* 29:06 Finn vs FN-2199 29:36 Finn and Rey vs Kylo 30:52 Rey and Kylo vs Praetorians 31:52 Luke vs Kylo 32:40 Rey vs Kylo (1st) 33:26 Rey vs Dark Rey* 33:54 Rey vs Kylo (2nd) 35:58 Ben Solo vs KoR
@@reap06 nah tf I know the sequels aren’t the best but it doesn’t mean their fight choreography is bad. Of course it’s not as flashy or fast paced as the prequels but it’s more realistic
@@reap06 it's bad and I know but you do recognize that Rey didn't have a proper lesson about lightsaber and everything related to it when she was training with Luke
It's so weird seeing Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader the second fight where they're throwing rocks jumping and then watching and then watching the Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader on the death Star and they're like man Star wars has came a long way since then
Vader's first duel with Luke went in three phases, almost like he was putting Luke through the Trials. First phase: Skills with a Lightsaber. Second Phase: Knowledge of the Force. Third Phase: Will, Strength, and Resolve against the Dark Side.
Lightsaber fights are always best part of the movie/show for me, despite the sequels not being the best there fights were pretty good Top 5 would be 1 anakin vs obi wan (rots) 2 obi wan vs vader (kenobi) 3 luke vs vader (rotj) 4 obi wan and qui gon vs maul 5 yoda vs palpatine
The duel of mustafar has something that i just love, and is the fact that portraits the saber style of both, Anakin using one of the most agressive styles, and obi wan using the most defensive style.
The graphics woulda been better, yes, but the choreography used in the Prequel Trilogy compared to now is so different that I don’t think the choreography would be the same if that scene had been filmed in 2022
playing the duels from all the prequel films (obviously not including the force awakens, the last jedi and the rise of skywalker) is a true masterpiece
Also the final dual in the Obi wan tv show if u notice there are some similar moves that they use in their training session. Amazing attention to detail
Anyone notice that the Jedis' and Siths' lightsabers consistently make a different sound when turned on? Jedis' are an ascending, igniting sound, where Siths' are more of a descending hiss.
im surprised no one has said this yet but the two Luke v. Vader fights are so alike. 1. in the middle of each battle one is searching for the other. 2. they each overpower the other at the end of both. 3. and the shots of one of them being driven back on to a bridge is a lot alike. 3. and of course losing the same hand.
Vader tried to claim the high ground today but it failed miserably lol. On a more serious note, Kenobi really have a bad habit of leaving Sith alive after fights huh?
15:39 "that is why you will always LOSE!" Pretty sure this was Kenobi's second win over Skywalker, and then in their third fight Skywalker gets his only win because Kenobi LETS HIM.
I still think yodas first duel was hands down one of the most epic moments in the saga. Like we never saw this before and watch him jump around and fuck shit up was a very nice treat for us fans.
Hearing him shout like that breaks my heart because not only is he desperate to be victorious, but he’s frustrated that he still cannot best his old master, regardless of his feelings for him.
This will continue to be updated each time there is a new live action duel in canon
Let’s goooooooooooooooooooooooo
This is good, but if you have Rey & Kylo vs Praetorians and Finn vs FN-2199, why not put Obiwan & Anakin vs Magna Guards on the Invisible Hand (ROTS)?
@@anthonypazoz4323 plus mando vs ahsoka and the armorer
U need the light saber duels from clone wars, rebels and jedi fallen order since they are canon. Disappointing... Smh
@@anthonypazoz4323 It probably boils down to the story. The Manga Guard fight in EP 3 was clearly not meant to be a sword fight; it was a horde of NPC villains, but Ahsoka vs the Magistrate, Mando vs Gustavo, and the sequel trilogy duels have much more characterization and affects the plot.
Edit: thinking about it that way, he should add in Finn vs Phasma since it was the closet thing to an actual lightsaber battle in Last Jedi
The fact that you named Mace Windu's duel with Sidius: "The Council vs. the Senate" is wonderful.
The council vs not the senate yet
@@karvafala7057 it's treason then
It’s like Aizen vs everyone
@@jonfin1017 ikr is like all the others died in the first few seconds of the fight
@@karvafala7057 I AM THE SENATE!
I just realized that in the duel between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul, there's no music playing until Kenobi is pushed into the pit. The fight is so intense, it needs no score underneath it
Nor is there any music until Qui-Gon is stabbed
YES
Nothing could top Duel of the Fates anyway.
@@hokutoshinken-chrisarmstro131 well...maybe just when you see they try to hit the blade of the saber not the opponent , i mean qui gon have a lot of occasion to cut darth maul lightsaber but he dont , darth maul dont react to the jump of obiwan and they dont even try to hit themselve, they are too far away !!!
Maybe they just forgot to put the music in .
Top 3 in my opinion:
1) Duel of the Fates - best choreography imo
2) Anakin vs Obi-Wan - most emotional + good choreography
3) Luke vs Vader final fight - just a classic + emotional
What is duel of the fates
@@Z4K_m0nt57 maul vs kenobi and qui-gon
@@spikedtoaster9582 so you should rename Anakin vs Obi-Wan as Battle of the Heroes
@@alecyerikian8073”Duel of the fates” isn’t a made up name for the fight (it sounds like you think it is) it was given to the fight since the that is the name of the song (or the other way around) also I wouldn’t call Anakin a hero considering he got Mace killed and also killed many kids.
@@pikachubutnotpikachu3476 He stopped mace from striking down a defenseless old man by chopping his arm off and saved the younglings from the clones by killing them himself.
It’s crazy how skilled yoda is. When he isn’t using the force he has to walk with a cane shit he probably can’t even walk without it. So all his movement in a fight is force enhanced. Dude uses it like it’s a third limb. He is truly one of the greatest Jedi in history.
Yoda the goattt
Yoda in his prime would have wiped the floor with Palpatine
Yoda didn't needed the cane until the original trilogy, before he was using it like a method of deceive
@@IsoSubject5 facts
The cane actually works as a drug to keep him calm think of it as Weed
Obi Wan is the only person to ever target Vader’s life support chest plate, keep that in mind.
Others who tried fighting him are blinded by fear
Luke never tried doing it because he knew he couldn't kill his father
@@strongest_eggg what about before he knew that Vader was his father?
@@mreggs3731 did he even know it was a life support unit? Lukes only a kid really
@@mreggs3731 the buttons are illuminated and because of this its hard to see they're buttons at all. Luke most likely thought that it was just lights displaying something on his chest
A Jedi in the expanded Universe did slash his chest plate.
But he just shruggred it off and killed her anyways.
The fact that all the attacks and strikes between Obi-Wan and Maul are that fast is just amazing. It's brilliant to watch.
Fact: Ewan and Ray (actors for both) were so fast in the duel that Lucasfilm had to slow down the footage so that audiences could still comprehend what was happening.
@@jiajinkhoo3469 man. Usually people speed up a fighting coreography to be "cool looking", but Lucasfilm had to SLOW DOWN because Ewan and Ray Park trained so hard they became monsters in swordsmanship..
All of it, because of a movie
Nah, not any movie, it's Star Wars
@@katsukibakugou7878that's just a myth. That makes no sense for "slowing" down footage. It would just look off.
@@TheACTIONZit wouldn’t look off if done to the right amount.
A duel of two padwans should be kinda chaotic
Can we just appreciate the fact that Revenge Of The Sith had 5 lightsaber duels?
Actually six
@@andranararaka3639 how ?
too many for one movie, imo
Revenge of the sith is my favorite star wars movie
@@jake9667 No its fine. ROTS is the climax so it makes sense there would be more fights.
Man, that second Obi Wan vs Vader fight really feels like two epic titans going at each other. Love the creative use of force too.
You mean third
@@chewy99. that's right
@@chewy99. no the second
@@ultradeathboy Obi Wan was no titan in the 2nd.
Obiwan is not strong enough to be like a titan and darth vader is not fast enough to be like a titan so shut up child
Yoda’s yell before he goes into battle is always amazing
You can always tell in the fifth movie, first fight of luke vs vader, that Anakin is trying so hard NOT to kill him, but once he gets the cut on the shoulder he gets angry.
It’s progressive which is what I love
First he’s casually testing him, until luke knocks him off.
Then he shows him a taste of the force
Then he shows him why he should be feared with the third part but is still not going all out…until Luke gets a hit in
He tries to literally kill him after he walked into the corridor and Vader tries to strike him from surprise then those ferocious strikes in the corridor while Luke was cowering away
This is literally how every 5 year old fight starts
At first he’s such a proud Dad the he’s like you little shit
@@starhunter2770a momentary lapse in judgement
The thing I like most about the prequel duels, other then the fact that they are quick as hell, is that they go all over the place. The Duel On Mustafar started on the Landing Pad and ended on the River. The Duel Of The Fates started in the Hangar and ended in that hole area. I love it when the duels do that. But the fact that Empire Strikes Back had this aswell despite being so long ago and with little tech, is impressive.
Most impressive
@@tracymclean12 Indeed
It's like poetry. It rhymes
Yeah like they really started in this carbon chamber, then ending near trash chutes and Luke stuck on an antennae on a gas giant
@@Smerfcettilike 666
Fun fact: in 29:06 behind the mask of FN-2199 is Liang Yang, a expert in Chinese martial arts. He is the fake John Lark in Mission Impossible Fallout toilet scene and worked as Emily Blunt stun double in the movie Edge of Tomorrow
No wonder Finn couldn’t beat that low level stormtrooper grunt. 😂
@@christscrackers647 Finn is not Jedi knight, he has not the Force. 😅
@@saranghe2901 Uhm… I never said he was or did have the force?
He technically does have the force
I love how dooku saluts his sabre to Yoda. What a true gentleman duelist, could tell he was enjoying his duel with anakin before dismembering him
Dooku turned to the dark side because he saw how bad the Jedi were becoming, not because he was evil, which is why he spared Anakin and Obi Wan while also escaping from Yoda.
@@theghostreckon316 funnily enough he told obi wan about Palpatine being evil
@Azuri e Dooku and weak? Are you serious?
@Azuri e Duel with Yoda and sorta a draw and lose to Anakin, not a lot can claim they can keep up with Yoda and for Anakin he's stronger and more powerful than most you've seen here.
Yeah no shit he's weaker than people who are far more powerful than everyone else.
Crazy that we question Dooku strength. Canonically he is one of the best duelist one on one and kinda bested the best Jedi Master on chess match by using the “pawns” (obi and ani) to distract and escape for another day of fighting. A master swordsman and genius behind some of the separatists movements. Speaking of which can we talk about how the Separatists embargo on Naboo wasn’t wrong and definitely setup up by Palptine as a tempt to start galactic conflict…?
Obi Wan & Darth Maul individually fighting each other has always been highly UNDERRATED
That's legit the best fight in the franchisee.
@@Darth_Xionnthat's legit debatable.
Always loved obi wan’s quick lightsaber to the back and to the front flick move… you know what I’m talking about
Underrated is overrated
@spongebobsquarepants2981 it has some of the best technique displayed, plus the two went so fast that they had to slow down the fight in post I'm pretty sure. Definitely one of, if not the BEST fight in the franchise
In the prequels, people swing the light sabres around effortlessly, which makes sense. In the sequels, it's as if light sabres suddenly became very heavy, or like you need to put in a lot of force for it to do any damage.
In the expanded media it is explained that lightsabers are actually hard to control. In the prequels there's a Jedi Order, training, in the sequels there's what Luke? Luke wasn't really ever that good with a Lightsaber in the original trilogy and since Disney doesn't like the Legends Canon he's not a God tier entity like he becomes in that media. So really just a lack of quality training leads to Jedi swinging big baseball bats made of light, much like a novice in actual HEMA would swing a sword like a bat.
It's not really comparable. One time period has people with training and one time period there isn't really anyone around to do the teaching.
Also, Kylo Ren's lightsaber and spinning just seems like a good way to stab your own forearm on the crossguard. It seems like the crossguard is to make up for his own lack of ability to use it on the level of a great Jedi
@@justacommenterLittle nerding out here, but Kylo’s lightsaber has those cross guards as a safety measure. His kyber crystal is cracked and the cross guards act as vents to allow the excess energy to leave the lightsaber safely. Without it, the crystal could overload, badly injuring him in the process
@sorrenblitz805 you make a great point which I agree with, I've also found put recently that sabers aren't a solid beam like I always thought, the blade is much like a sword in that one side is sharp and the other is not and those properly trained know which is which, which is also why we see obi wan in the kenobi show battering people with his Saber like it's a bat and then turning around and slicing straight through others, so it's entirely possible that they are using the wrong side in the sequels cause they are not properly trained
@@sorrenblitz805 To me that just sounds like filling in details trying to fix plot holes after the fact of terrible writing and directing that are the sequel movies.
"Anakin's gone. I am what remains ..." heart breaking af.
168 likes and 0 comments?Let's fix that
@@miguelmachado6988 let's fix you'r life
@@samuraunt and out of nowhere,a random person tries to offend another person who was trying to do a joke,you might be a really Nice person in reality,dude
@@miguelmachado6988 sorry that i hurt you'r feelings 😔
@@samuraunt bruh u attack him out of nowhere 💀
Just a personal top three for me:
1) Anakin vs Obi-Wan (ROTS)
2) Luke vs Vader (ROTJ)
3) Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs Maul (TPM)
It seems we have something in common
Top three for me were:
Obi-Wan vs Anakin and Yoda vs Darth Sidious (ROTS)
Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader: Round 2 (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Luke Skywalker vs Darth Vader (ROTJ)
Also liked Obi-Wan vs General Grievous, Mace Windu vs Darth Sidious and Anakin vs Count Dooku: Round 2 but no where near as much as those 3
@@hiveemperor54 Obi Wan and Anakin vs Dooku in ROTS is a close fourth for me, mace vs palp is cool, but obi wan vs grievous never did much for me
@@hiveemperor54 oi that's cheating lol
I love it where Palpatine before he becomes the Senator he says "I AM the Senate" and windu says "not yet" then Palpatine rises, ignites his lightsaber and says calmly as ever "It is treason then" and then starts the fight, such a badass beginning to a fight 👍
@charlie1486 I remember when I watched it in the cinema and was completely thrown off by how QUICK Sidious was when he leaped off his chair.
Then proceeded to do a 920 degree spin like a freaking drill.
That’s one of the best parts of lightsabers: the fact they can be turned on and off can create the most dramatic fight openings (Maul appearing in the corridor and turning on his double lightsaber on Naboo is another great example)
What’s funny to me is that while it’s much less flashy than pretty much every other duel, the battle between Obi-Wan and Vader on the Death Star is probably the most like an actual sword fight in the whole series.
Obiwan vs maul in rebels is the only legit duel in the franchise.
YES
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Err kind of. The reason they're flashier in the prequels is because it's supposed to be duels at their prime, compared to the original where you have an old guy, a man who's part machine, and a guy still learning
@@erikstensaas1202 this
@@Mr.KittensAndGibberish this what?
Man it's so cool to see the Force being used for more than just a push or trying to get an item dropped on someone in a lightsaber duel. The Obi Wan and Vader fight is one of my favorites
I also love that swings and attacks feel visceral and powerful. I love fights in Prequels, but they often lack that grit.
@@brucesnow7125 Mainly because they portrayed lightsabers as weightless, thus the fast movements. But as a consequence of getting rid of that concept for lightsabers, we have people swinging it like a baseball bat (Looks at sequal trilogy)
@@brucesnow7125 I dunno, disney sequel fights feel more like aimless flailing around with baseball bats. The choreography also leaves a lot to be desired.
The Sequels trilogy fights have weight to them which I love. People complain about it but I think it makes them far more grounded.
@@tsurugi5 why tf are you guys talking about sequels? I literally said nothing about sequels lol.
One thing that I noticed in TPM in the final duel is that Maul seems to be mainly going for Qui Gon, it seems like Obi Wan is an afterthought
Maul is arrogant. Why would he care about a lowly Padawan Learner when the Master is right there.
Obi-wan was a Padawan. The real threat was the actual Jedi Knight (according to Maul and Sidious’s arrogance)
@@dukes1993724 I was getting at more so the fact they he might’ve been told the whole plan by Sidious, in that taking out the future master of Anikan, damaging him and him being left with a brother figure rather than a father figure, slowly breaking him down to the dark side. You gotta bare in mind, Sidious knows how to play the long game
@@jo_sh6798 I don’t think even Sidious knew about Anakin being his future apprentice at this point in the timeline. Plus, why would he tell Maul the real reason to target Anakin’s father-figure? At this point in the game, Sidious would want Maul to be thinking he’s the only option as his apprentice, not teasing that Maul is just a placeholder to him.
@dukes1993724 Qui-Gon was a master by the time he trained Obi-wan. Maul would have beat Obi-wan too if he didn't let his arrogance consume him.
Fun fact: At 2:45, the fighting sequence between Ewan and Ray had to be slowed down by the camera crew because of how fast both actors were moving with their strikes and parry’s
I really want to see the original of what it really looked like it must have been insane
@@bean2705 play back 1.25x is too fast. If I had to guess, I’d say try picturing the sequence at like 1.1x-1.15x and that’s probably about how fast they were moving real time
@@jeremymartin4755 looks really cool at 1.25
@@MrMooMoo89 I won’t deny that it does
Play the Anakin vs Obi Wan at 1.25 😮
Third episode was a masterpiece of lightsaber fightings
Because of me
@@rock-mc3fp no, because of Obi Wan
@@DeutscherPatrick oh really ... LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHlT IF YOU EVER SAY THAT AGAIN I'LL SPIN MY FOUR LIGHTSABERS AT YOU
@@DeutscherPatrick Because of what you’ve done, what you plan to do. Stop, stop now, come back
It's the best one in the entire franchise.
I love that lucasfilm actually took time and care into these fights,and the choreography, like yoda vs sidious is kinda more skillful, slow, and masterful, while anakin vs obi-wan because of annakins anger it is more fast paced, while obi-wan also has to move fast to defend the attacks.
Yep.. true Disney ignores the power of the lightsaber and everything looks rushed
Obi-wan: “A Jedi’s goal is to defend life not take it.”
Obi-wan 2 seconds ago:*tries to decapitate Anakin with a lightsaber
Why do the Jedi serve the Senate since it is corrupt and obi wan said without it palpatine will not rule the galaxy
I remember when phantom menace first came out and Maul pulled out his double saber everyone in the theater was screaming. I loved the music that went with that fight…it matched it perfectly.
That fight was one of the only good things in that movie. Frickin awesome fight though.
@@movielover7565tell me you only watch star wars for the duels without telling me
@@movielover7565I loved everything about the movie. Some people are just not open to change in movies so they don’t give it a chance😢
@azoouh7950 I don't. I watch them because of the story and because I love all of star wars. But Episodes 1 and 2 did not have good writing and dialogue. It's only saving grace was the action and the actors which were good but the script they were given wasn't.
@@DanielCrossBoss I tried. It's just not as good for me.
The fact that Darth Vader lost to obi Wan twice just shows how strong obi Wan really is
Or how Obi wan is Anakins/Vader's Achilles heel. He only realistically loses his composure and towering fear to him, because of his immense hatred for him.
That is like the most plot armor thing to happen in Star wars. Vader just has to be stronger considering they were evenly matched when anakin was 22 (not even close to his prime) and out of his mind... Idk about that show it destroyed power scaling even more in the franchise and I really want to ignore it.
Nah obi wan is just the perfect counter to anakin and his style
@@bowbowbowbow6007 exactly
I think your all forgetting that vaders suit is limiting his movement and force power and this was intentional on sidious’ part he wanted to be sure that Vader would never turn against him. So believe me if Vader wasn’t stuck in that suit he wouldn’t have lost against obi. Also anakin has every right to have immense hatred towards obi, HE CUT HIM IN HALF AND LEFT HIM TO DIE, I’d say that’s plenty of reason to hate him so much.
Just realised, in majority of Dooku's shown duels he had to fight 2 and 3 v1s
Well he is probably Star Wars GOAT in pure lightsaber fencing
@@Raven-df3xx he should've called me so it would've been a 2v2
@@rock-mc3fp Yeah, but, then the jedi would’ve been *dead.*
Just goes to show how skilled dooku was, you cant send just one jedi knight to take him down.
That's what form 2 was good for, it was good for defending from opponents with lightsabers but was more poor for defending against an enemy with a blaster
The training battle actually was more intense than the first time of Obiwan fighting Vader in Series.
Well yeah because Kenobi was really weak in that third episode compared to AOTC Kenobi who was very highly skilled
Well, first fight is more of a horror scene with Kenobi being toyed with.
@@oXRaptorzXo I think you mean rusty not weak.
@@lordwellingtonthethird8486 yes rusty
@@oXRaptorzXo "well that's because" 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
I love how in the first Vader fight from obi-wan kenobi Vader is fighting with one hand, showing his confidence in and how he doesnt see his old master as threat, but in the second fight he switches to a two handed grip showing him realizing obi-wan is a threat
21:49, that “Oh” always gets me 😂😂😂
I love how they don’t consider Reva and Vader a lightsaber duel until he gives her a lightsaber but consider Luke vs Kylo a duel
I mean they Kylo and Luke both have lightsabers, so, yeah.
Luke was a projection
@@valentinolopez8528 And cave Vader was also. It doesn't matter if the person is real or not, it's about a lightsaber duel.
I honestly prefer Luke v Kylo anyway
@@madsisveryreal oh no. A Star Wars fan just expressed their positive opinion on the sequels! Please start running. They're coming.
All of Anakin/Darth Vaders vs Obiwan Kenobis fights are by far my favorite out of the bunch. The ferocity there between them both is not because of two opposing sides, but of the bond they once shared as brothers not just in arms but in life, and the weight of it is very noticeable. 03:52 10:18 & 14:00
*Obi-Wan Kenobi
@@davkul oh so helpful 😂
I can't believe you named "Jedi Masters vs Darth Sidious" to "The Council vs The Senate"...
Edit: people don't know what a joke is Jeez...
No it’s actually genius
He’s not the Senate yet.
@@multiverse_media2023 it's treason then
@@-muhsinnazif-192
RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
You are under arrest, “my lord.”
Anakin! I told you it would come to this! I was right! The Jedi are taking over!!!
I think we finally got to see a live action fight where Vader had to put in maximum effort in Kenobi. His first fight with Luke, he was toying with him, and in Return of the Jedi he was essentially past his prime and in a state of decay. With the scene 38 Reimagined video we sort of get something we'd expect to be a bit more realistic to the characters, but it is always possible that age and living on a desert planet really had caught up to Obi-Wan in the following 10 years, either way, as awesome of an edit it is, it isn't official. Then of course we have the fights between Vader and Ahsoka in Rebels, or with Starkiller in Force Unleashed back when that was a thing, but that last fight in Kenobi, THAT was Vader at his best! And we finally got to see it not in CGI!
but Vader vs Ahsoka was animated not CGI
but seriously, whats the difference?
@@mreggs3731 CGI stands for Computer Generated Imagery, shows like Rebels and Clone wars fall under that.
I’d argue at the end of Vader and Luke’s fight he stops holding back. He uses both hands and absolutely hammers down on him.
@@KyleWallPuncher True, but that's not because he needed to do it in order to win. He did it to show Luke just how powerless he really was against him.
Definitely refreshing to see a saber fight with ACTUALLY GOOD CHOREOGRAPHY the sequel fights we’re horrendous 🤢
still can't believe my boy Kit Fisto pulled an "AUUGHHH" while fighting Palpatine..
19:04 I love how the Troopers all head over to watch like it’s a school fight lol
Take your phones out and start recording 😂
Man watching the original trilogy’s fights was so nostalgic and it’s amazing to see how far we’ve come since then. The Obi-Wan Kenobi vs Darth Vader especially as the first to the modern eras last
Unfortunately, we regressed with the addition of the last 3 movies.
Notice in the training fight between Anakin and Obi Wan, Anakin uses the same method at pushing Obi Wan down as Luke does when he fights Vader on the second Death Star.
My personal top 5 lightsabers duels:
( based on the choregraphy, environnement, emotions...)
1- Darth Vader Vs Obi-wan on mustafar
2- Darth Vader Vs Obi-wan ( kenobi final episode)
3- Luke skywalker Vs Darth Vader ROTJ
4- Luke Skywalker Vs Darth Vader ESB
5- Darth maul Vs Obi-wan / qui gon on Naboo
I think I’m seeing a common character in Vader here…
Yeah Vader is in most fights
He was involved in the Battle of Naboo while Darth Maul was fighting Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan
He duelled Count Dooku with Obi-Wan
He was the antagonist of the Duel on Mustafar
He again duelled Obi-Wan *twice* after the Duel on Mustafar, the second time being the victor
He duelled Luke on Bespin and again during the Battle of Endor before redeeming himself
One of my favorites is Obi Wan vs General Grievous. Especially the beginning w the lightsaber spins.
What was good about the kenobi fight? It had horrendous choreography
@@Rounderyathecruel THE LAST ONE!? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?
Vader and kenobi’s second duel from the show is probably one of my favorite duels in the entire franchise. I mean Vader looked so epic in this scene, props to the costume department for this show. The choreography for this scene was impressive, not as crazy as their revenge of the sith duel, but still powerful. To see Obi wan so determined to take Vader down was very enjoyable to watch. He then kicks Vaders ass and we get to see Hayden’s face under the mask as Anakin was chilling. Very well done
Extremely underated fight imo
@@alexanderkarl1344 because unfortunately it came from a lackluster show that already doesn’t get that much positive attention
9:44 i love Yoda vs Sidious fight it’s one of the underrated fights
the setting the symbolism is too great
Shouldn't there be like camera's around there?
@@trueblade3636lmao that would be awesome, CCTV footage of this battle between the masters
@@noahdavidson8733
Sidious: "Look what the the Jedi have done. They have scarred me for life!'
The Senate: 'Well Palpitine, we just looked at the CCTV footage. Care to explain how you threw platforms at Yoda and could defeat a Jedi master as a politician?'
The duel between obi wan and vader is one of the best it uses the choreograph of the prequels while also utilizing the story tension and force capability of the original trilogy.
yes because it shows how the Prequel era ends and the OT era begins
Which one?
No duel in Star Wars history has still come close to topping Obi Wan and Qui Gon vs Maul. One of the things that makes it especially intense is Obi Wan vs Maul. You see the intensity not just in Obi Wan's face, but his combat. He's emotional, he's angry. He jumps into the fight throwing away caution entirely; all he wants to do is take this guy's head off. I rarely ever see that in duels these days. Most of the time it's just a nostalgia trip. Everyone's cool and collected, and I think it ruins that human element that brings you into the scene. I miss the intensity of emotions expressed in the combat that you see in the Obi Wan vs Maul fight.
I love yodas aggression it’s hilarious to hear him like he’s playing a back and forth volley
Now we know why Vader vs. Obi-wan in A New Hope was so conservative. Obi-wan was genuinely old and Vader was genuinely cautious (because of his beating in the Kenobi show).
Good point
What do you mean? He was cautious from the battle of mustafar
dooku was older than kenobi in ANH and did much better.
Actually it was probably just the fact that Prowse was wearing a bulky costume and Alec Guinness was up there and age. Also lack of technology
@@MrRazz523 🤯
These 36 hours and 42 minutes are 98.6 repeating the reason I love star wars.
MORE LIGHT SABER BATTLES!
I just realized the importance of the high ground. Darth Maul had the high ground and lost and im sure Obi-Wan told Anakin this so in ROTS Anakin tried to show is power despite Obi-Wan having the high ground. Trying to show he can overcome not having it just like Obi-Wan did vs maul. Interesting
Maul lost on Naboo because he didn't understand his advantage with the high ground.
"Twice the pride, double the fall" - Count Dooku to Anakin. "You underestimate my power!" - Anakin to Obi-wan.
I can believe the fight of Episode 1 with Darth Maul was amazing like that. Their movement are sonatural and impressive
Yeah it got really good after qui gon died and it was kenobi vs maul
2:47 that block was amazing
Gotta be honest, the Obi-Wan vs Darth Vader in the Obi-Wan series wasn’t half bad compared to Disney’s past battles. I actually did feel some emotion which is COMPLETELY different from what I felt in the sequel trilogy.
but why no prequels songs???
Really? No emotion when Han solo died?
@@movielover7565 no lol. His death was terrible.
@@movielover7565 That's 1 scene, name some more?
At least in disney séries and movie they try to hit the opponent and dont almost give the win to the opponent (like maul who let obi want jump above him and look Him do without trying anything , and anakin when he...open his two arms to make à hug at dooku and get his arms cut off.....)
something about that opening clash at 20:05 - 20:10 is just so good for me. it's not flashy, cool or epic like the prequels.. it's just... beautiful
It's almost foreshadowing, Vader is definitely not fighting as aggressively as he does even in training and could've stopped the fight anytime he wanted but didn't
I love how Dooku grins right before he wounds Obi Wan past 5:33
I just love how Vader always fight one handed!
I think it's a lightsabre form he uses
Until he realizes that Kenobi was a serious rival
@@grizal5669 dooku from wish
Vader style it's most one handed to compesated his lack of mobility, he uses teo hand more in close quarter to relies in His massive build
@@000mjd no he's just trying to be dooku because dooku is cool
Gotta admit I really loved how Finn still fought Ren knowing he didn’t stand a chance.
He could’ve been a good character
@@zthebig6753 He's definitely a good character he just isn't given as much to do as he should have had, there's plenty of room for them to bring him back down the line
@@samsny21 he was a wasted character.....i liked him in Force Awakens he was a slave basically to the First Order and goes awol to help out against them has not one but two badass scenes involving swinging around a saber and they could've done better with him.
I loved that. The way he just didn’t give a fuck and charged at a Skywalker with their own family lightsaber.
Finn had so much potential and actually had given Kylo Ren a much harder time in their duel. Rey just overpowered Ren out of nowhere.
3:08 - That kick is a nasty kick!
Jesus that scream is still absolutely terrifying. 8:52
AaaaaAaaaaAAAAH
It’s actually I think from the comics. Something called the Sith’s Screech or Scream
It basically disorients opponents and makes them easy targets hence why those two died so quickly.
24:13 he wasnt gonna fall for that twice
Lol
10:57 two of them are just flexing their lightsaber skills lol.
It’s so silly.
You know what I've realized after watching this? Lightsabers from the Prequels and Original Trilogy don't glow like they do now. I mean, sure, they have color, and are described as the bright swords that can cut through anything, but they didn't quite glow like they with the Sequels and more modern shows. They didn't bloom out onto the environment and actors, and they didn't light up a whole room. Working with LED and maybe even NEO sabers really do change up how the lightsaber works, it seems.
The prequels showed much of the lightsaber duels be more quicker and badass with the style of sword styles of samurai and kendo.
5:44- 8:02 Badass moments of Anakin using double lightsabers in episode 2 and 3
6:27 Yoda Giving the most badass way to start a lightsaber duel
6:35-9:52 Prequels given the best things of Yoda kicking more ass with his lightsaber
10:20-12:02 A big fact that Hayden and Ewan Prepped for this duel has made this sequence even the most best one
I know I shouldn’t judge the ‘a new hope’ lightsaber duel between Obiwan and Vader too harshly, but seeing it right after the last fight in the obiwan show is tough 😂
They just aged really poorly and have limited movement.
what I love about the scene in 6:19, Anakins choreography looks like he opens up just to be cut like that. even before the counts hits him. he just opens up before by a lot like Jesus on the cross lol
Never fail to see it lol
same with vader falling down and blocking against luke before luke has even begun a strike.
@@punkfuk true but that duel has so much going for it. Easy pass, unlike AotC
yeah its easily the weakest duel from the prequels for me, still love it though
I know dooku and sidious aren't usually touted for their lightsaber defense but I think it's underrated how they both can fight yoda to proficiency because his style is so different. You have to have absolute focus to be able to see that shit coming
I like how the third time Obi-Wan fights Vader, there are rougher versions of the same combos they once trained together with, only with more aggression and less formality, showing the effects of years away from the Order, simultaneous with the "like it was yesterday" feelings of disappointment they both have in each other as "failed master" and "failed apprentice".
I can't believe how Anakin basically lost every of his major Lightsaber duels except for one.
Vader also lost a lot or times.
In total 5 losses and 4 wins.
hey when did the Luke Vs Leila fight happen?!
@@dbdcorp666 the rise of skywalker
@@dbdcorp666 flashback
Anakins a bum 😭🚬
We’re only talking bout the movies here
Obi-Wan going god mode and pelting Vader with rocks before going Ashoka on him and cutting his mask open was the highlight of their final fight in my opinion
30:59 how the guard literally stood there and let him get yeeted🤦🏽♂️😂
10:18 this is the best duel ever
the sound of a lightsaber hitting that beskar armor is just amazing. can't wait to one day see a live action jedi vs mandalorian fight
Had the same thought. Also, I didn’t see your observation mentioned in any of the several comments I read, until I got to yours. Personally, and having just watched the whole video, the Ahsoka duel has my favorite sound effects out of all of them. The sound effects crew really had fun with that one. They gave her white-bladed lightsabers a really unique sound, and punched it up with how that duel sounded, when they clashed against Magistrate’s metal (beskar?) staff. Was listening with earbuds, and those crazy noises swirled all around, coming from all different directions in the left & right channels. That gets an A+ from me, for their creative work. Cool stuff, that keeps getting better.
The 1st fight with Qui Gon and Maul is underrated.
No, it's not. That fight is terrible
The fight was amazing. Almost every comment here mentions it at its top 3.
@@azizzakkout8474 It's not "Duel of the Fates", it's the very first one in Tatooine
Would’ve been so dope if they kept in Obi-Wan kicking Maul in the face off of the ship’s ramp
I've just realised how much Obi vs Vader ustilies the force and I love it. It makes so much sense to use it in battle to give an advantage. Also I loved how Vader just touched the ground and it crumbled.
I love how the Anakin vs Obiwan Training fight (3:52) Anakin says "You are Beaten" Just like how he says it to luke in Empire Strikes Back
Thank you for uploading this! The video gets straight to the point and has all the duels in glorious HD, just like the title says!
i love how obi wan fights maul in episode one just shows how energetic and young he is compared to his other duels
This is also because in ep 1 his lightsaber form was form 4 (Ataru) (same as Qui-Gon), very aggressive and with fast movements (drawback: quicker loss of stamina). Then after Qui-Gon's death he decided to switch to form 3 (Soresu), much more defensive. So that's also part of the reason why his moves are not as quick in ep 2-3 duels
6:31 The scream, I came for.
Mulpan sound effect lol
Lol
0:00 Qui Gon vs Maul
0:38 Obi Wan and Qui Gon vs Maul
3:52 Anakin vs Obi Wan (Training)*
5:10 Anakin, Obi Wan, Yoda vs Dooku
7:20 Anakin and Obi Wan vs Dooku
8:08 Obi Wan vs Grievous
8:48 The Council vs The Senate
9:44 Yoda vs Sidious
10:18 Anakin vs Obi Wan
12:26 Obi Wan vs Vader (1st)*
13:22 Reva vs Vader*
14:00 Obi Wan vs Vader (2nd)*
17:46 Obi Wan vs Vader (3rd)
19:22 Luke vs Vader (Cave)*
19:54 Luke vs Vader (1st)
23:32 Luke vs Vader (2nd)
25:08 Luke vs Leia
25:36 Ahsoka vs Magistrate
27:04 Mando vs Gideon
27:50 Mando vs Paz Vizla*
29:06 Finn vs FN-2199
29:36 Finn and Rey vs Kylo
30:52 Rey and Kylo vs Praetorians
31:52 Luke vs Kylo
32:40 Rey vs Kylo (1st)
33:26 Rey vs Dark Rey*
33:54 Rey vs Kylo (2nd)
35:58 Ben Solo vs KoR
The visuals in the sequels look stunning.
So true man
Yeah it makes me kind of appreciate them. I think visually they are the best movies ever made. Unfortunately it’s not all about visuals.
Too bad the lightsaber fights are essentially children having a toy sword fight, best example being rey v ren in rise of skywalker
@@reap06 nah tf I know the sequels aren’t the best but it doesn’t mean their fight choreography is bad. Of course it’s not as flashy or fast paced as the prequels but it’s more realistic
@@reap06 it's bad and I know but you do recognize that Rey didn't have a proper lesson about lightsaber and everything related to it when she was training with Luke
It's so weird seeing Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader the second fight where they're throwing rocks jumping and then watching and then watching the Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader on the death Star and they're like man Star wars has came a long way since then
Vader's first duel with Luke went in three phases, almost like he was putting Luke through the Trials.
First phase: Skills with a Lightsaber.
Second Phase: Knowledge of the Force.
Third Phase: Will, Strength, and Resolve against the Dark Side.
Lightsaber fights are always best part of the movie/show for me, despite the sequels not being the best there fights were pretty good
Top 5 would be
1 anakin vs obi wan (rots)
2 obi wan vs vader (kenobi)
3 luke vs vader (rotj)
4 obi wan and qui gon vs maul
5 yoda vs palpatine
Ah yes the one time when Yoda fought the Senate one of the best fights for sure
@@hiveemperor54 still debatable between that and vader vs luke empire for me both are great
@@Obi-Wan-Kenobi_ you're always cheating in lightsaber duels
@@rock-mc3fp who's the one that always runs away again
@@Obi-Wan-Kenobi_ you
The duel of mustafar has something that i just love, and is the fact that portraits the saber style of both, Anakin using one of the most agressive styles, and obi wan using the most defensive style.
The force is strong with this one! Thank you!! I'm loving every min
8:24 omg so beautiful. There is a reason he is the master of form 3.
The one thing I like vout the newer lightsaber fights us how the lightsabers look. They are so bright and vivid.
Nothing tops obi wan vs anakin on mustafar. Just imagine what Lucas could do in 2022 with Star Wars😶 revenge of the sith came out in 2005!!
You know that Lucas didn’t choreograph…
@@plebbers8799 nick gallard did, so it would've been cool if he did again
@@Aex89 Definitely, Maul vs Obi wan and Qui gon us my favourite duel
The graphics woulda been better, yes, but the choreography used in the Prequel Trilogy compared to now is so different that I don’t think the choreography would be the same if that scene had been filmed in 2022
The lightsaber glows would be more detailed
It wasn't Darth Vaders life support that stopped him from dying, it was his determination to protect his family that kept him alive
playing the duels from all the prequel films (obviously not including the force awakens, the last jedi and the rise of skywalker) is a true masterpiece
Say what you will about about the prequel trilogy, but no you can't deny that it had the best lightsaber duels in all of Star Wars.
Nah they looked stupid.
Nah they looked stupid.
@@notnero5280 What about Anakin vs. Obi Wan on Mustafar?
Prequel fights>the others
Prequel lightsaber duels were the only redeeming quality
Also the final dual in the Obi wan tv show if u notice there are some similar moves that they use in their training session. Amazing attention to detail
Anyone notice that the Jedis' and Siths' lightsabers consistently make a different sound when turned on? Jedis' are an ascending, igniting sound, where Siths' are more of a descending hiss.
im surprised no one has said this yet but the two Luke v. Vader fights are so alike. 1. in the middle of each battle one is searching for the other. 2. they each overpower the other at the end of both. 3. and the shots of one of them being driven back on to a bridge is a lot alike. 3. and of course losing the same hand.
Vader tried to claim the high ground today but it failed miserably lol. On a more serious note, Kenobi really have a bad habit of leaving Sith alive after fights huh?
Alive and mutilated
Because the writing is terrible.
@@Сайтамен bruh its starwars
@@Сайтамен it's not. Killing him wasn't necessary for Obi.
@@lemonke1709 Star Wars used to be well written.
15:39 "that is why you will always LOSE!"
Pretty sure this was Kenobi's second win over Skywalker, and then in their third fight Skywalker gets his only win because Kenobi LETS HIM.
you are the FOREVER GOAT for this edit!!!
Damn, it's truly tragic (both emotionally and choreographically 😂) to see those last 2 Obi-Wan vs. Vader fights side-by-side...
Just remember a new hope was made in 1977
I still think yodas first duel was hands down one of the most epic moments in the saga. Like we never saw this before and watch him jump around and fuck shit up was a very nice treat for us fans.
All the live action lightsaber battles to me are amazing and are as best as they can be.
17:19 Vader had never shouted like that… full of suffering
Hearing him shout like that breaks my heart because not only is he desperate to be victorious, but he’s frustrated that he still cannot best his old master, regardless of his feelings for him.
23:48 ?????