Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33719810-20171122020843/@comment-26122855-20171123164137

Vader is one of the most powerful sigh lords to ever live, he has immense skill in the force and with a lightsaber. Only a few kinds of metal can withstand being hit with lightsabers, and we already know what Sauron’s mace is made out of, Vader can just slice through it. And if we want to say he can’t, then Vader could use the force to overwhelm Sauron, Sauron is a skilled manipulator and has lotr magic, but the force has physical applications, Vader will take some hard hits but each one will only increase his fury, thereby making him more powerful (because the dark side is fueled by pain and anger). And if people want to say “well Sauron has armies”, kids, Vader has armies large enough to take over middle earth in a day, not to mention lasers. Laser > arrows. As for his “spirit being crushed by the ring” uhhh, this isn’t a meager man or padawan, this is Darth Vader, lord of the sith, one of his favorite pastimes is crushing the will to live in Jedi and making them beg for death, this is the guy who fell into a river of lava and lived, a fancy ring isn’t going to sway him.

Sauron will use the ring to attempt to sway Vader, he may feel fear, but it will not overwhelm him. Let’s keep in mind Sauron was defeated by a mere mortal, Vader is the damned chosen one, the only sith more powerful than he was Palpatine himself. Sauron would have an advantage in size, but Vader has fought foes such as this before, he would slice through saurons defenses with his lightsaber, if that didn’t work and he started taking too many hits, his rage would only fuel his power in the dark side, using force augmentation would he gain manuferability, he likely wouldn’t be able to simply pick Sauron up but he would at least sling objects the size of boulders at him. That being said, Sauron is not a user of the force, force users use the force to make “defenses” against other force users, which is why we don’t see Jedi or with taking each other’s lightsabers unless one extremely outclasses another. Vader can simply rip Sauron’s mace from his grasp, then send him flying with the force, leaping up and driving his saber into his chest.

Darth Vader has wiped out entire armies single handedly, and taken on dozens of Jedi at once, a medieval sorcerer with a fancy ring would not triumph in this conflict.