Could Anakin Really Have Become the Most Powerful - Star Wars Explained

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[Dreadnaught]

Anakin turning to lord vader with no injuries but deciding to get serious about training/skill would basically be a god.

[wallywest]

Palpatine did mention to Yoda in there duel, Anakin will become more powerful than either of them.

[utuber]

Long ago, Anakin would have been the most powerful Jedi. But everything changed when Obi-Wan had the high ground.

[stormbringer]

Anakin did actually reach his full potential on Mortis when he tapped into the Force and actually brought The Son and The Daughter(the incarnations of the Dark and Light Sides of the Force)to their knees.

[benpledger]

If Anakin had fully mastered the Light Side, had complete discipline and control, then he would have been more poweeful than Yoda.

[Hecata_Harbinger]

Anakin's greatest weakness was his pride, it's what lead to his defeat on Mustafar, after his very humbling defeat, and the death of his wife, Vader lost that pride he had, what made him powerful as Darth Vader was his hatred for himself, a Sith's power comes form their passionate emotions their fear, anger, and hatred. His increase in power before and during his fight with Obi-Wan when he executed the Jedi and younglings in the Temple, and the Separatist leaders was due to his fear of loosing Padme, after his wife's death believing himself responsible that fear turned into hatred aimed at himself. In one comic Vader fights against an apparition of Darth Maul, with Maul asking what could you hate to make you this powerful, which Vader replies. "Myself.:

[MichaelHolmgaard]

The yellow eyes fitted him so well -looked badass ;)

[Layut]

Man, can you imagine the overkill and crazy power level of Pre-Vader Anakin though?! Star Wars wouldn't even be Star Wars. It'd be the Slaughter of Anakin Skywalker lol...

[Juuggy]

Fun Fact:
The two most important decisions in Anakin's life were both made while Anakin watched someone he cared about being struck by lightning. The first: Mace Windu. The second: His own son. Fortunately he made the right decision the second time around and restored balance to the force.

[Demowan]

The Anakin/ Darth Vader paradox, when Anakin with his natural abilities lacked the knowledge and wisdom, and Vader, while accomplished in terms of force knowledge and wisdom, lacked the physical fitness of his past self- is a nice metaphor to the opposition of youth versus experience.
When you're young you lack the experience to fully realize yourself because you don't know yourself so well. When you're old, you have the wisdom and so you would not lose time at the mistakes of youth, but you lack the physical abilities that could help fulfill your freedom.

[harrymarkTheChosenOne]

It's actually the Jedi's fault. Because they mistrusted Anakin led him to trust Palpatine, the only one who seemed to be there for him. The Jedi should have adapted to Anakin, instead of just keeping him away at a great distance. True, Anakin was a bit of a douche, and he's my favourite character. But the Jedi (Mace, Yoda, Council) just tried to use Anakin, always using brashness as their tones of voices, instead of just treating him like an alien. That is the genius of his story. His first family passed too quickly for him to grasp (Shmi Skywalker), his second treated him like a monster (Jedi), his third only minorly veiled the fact that he held Anakin''s life in his hands (Sidious), but his last family (Luke Skywalker) gave him with love.

And that is what makes up Anakin Skywalker, TheChosenOne (Me), perfectly.

[RuleofReview]

Awesome video. Anakin is my favorite character so it was fun to hear you explore his powers.

[TimeDarkLegend]

Obi-Wan Kenobi played rope- a -dope, and and for anybody who does not know what rope- a- dope is, it is a strategy in boxing, where you lay on the rope letting a powerful opponent punch away at you, but it's a psychological strategy, because if the strong opponent does not feel like, he is breaking through, he easily gets frustrated and tires quickly, but you can also use that as an opportunity like Obi-Wan Kenobi did to find an opening, for which is what happened. Ali orchestrated this strategy beautifully against George Foreman.

[Valentinexyz__]

I believe Anakin was more powerful as Vader. As they say, "Hard work beats talent when the talented hardly work".

[HairJordan]

We learn thru mistakes - the bigger the mistake, the more opportunity to learn.
Anakin made 2 astronomical mistakes that day loosing literally everything (Padme, and much of himself) but lived on to learn astronomically more than most ever do. These failures were key components to Darth Vader's eventual power

[Conor]

What if Obi wan killed anikan on mustafar after their duel?

[tylerw]

Do the theory of count dooku being a double agent!

[coltthomson]

definitely Vader. obi Wan proved that knowledge is power itself. having the will and discipline to push yourself to the limit makes you much more dangerous than someone who with potential, but overlooks opponents and the situation in front of them.

[carolinekristiansen]

what if anakin went back to the light side on mustafar?

[Campbell]

Anikan was mentally weak. To much emotion in a bad way. That's why obi one beat him. He is smarter then Anikan. It's like a really good sports player. But once they get rattled mentally, they start performing worse