User blog comment:Sppople/Sauron vs. Darth Vader/@comment-4484220-20140308022759

I am of the opinion that Sauron takes this, and with hardly a sweat broken.

Darth Vader inhabits a mortal human body, whereas Sauron is practically an immortal spirit. His armor is literally part of his body. It's a reasonable assumption to believe that Vader's lightsaber would cut through Sauron's armor (given that a sword was able to do so when swung the right way), although whether or not stabbing him would kill him is questionable. Either way, I do not forsee Vader getting any hits on Sauron with his lightsaber. As soon as Vader gets close to Sauron, the latter can just smack the former with his mace and instantly end the fight. Not only does that mace have more range than Vader's lightsaber, but it has been known to do away with entire battallions of soldiers in one hit. When he swings his mace, he delivers pure, overwhelming force, a force that Vader would be a fool to think he could counter with his lightsaber.

Even if this battle goes to long range, the dark lord of Mordor still takes this. Trying to force-choke Sauron won't work, because if my info is correct he's basically a spirit existing inside a suit of armor that acts as his body; he doesn't exactly breath like other human beings. Trying to force-snap his neck won't work either, because you can't cause internal damage to his body like you can to a human's. Pretty much any debris the sith lord would try to hurl at Sauron either wouldn't hurt him much, or could easily be deflected with his mace. While the extent, nature, and specifics of Sauron's power are largely left to the imagination, we do know a little bit about it. We know that his power is both incredible and overwhelming. By nature he has a connection to the fires of the earth. It was believed that he could caus meteors to rain from the sky, and that he could make volcanoes erupt. He was also able to unleash a barrage of dark spiritual energy. It's powers like these that I believe Sauron would be able to use to end the fight very quickly at long range, and that Darth Vader can only feebly try to counter.

Overall, Sauron takes this due to dominance in both close range and long range, as well as Darth Vader's inability to do any real damage to Sauron or counter anything his opponent unleashes on him.

The only other thing I'll comment on is the fact that I think it's kind of silly to include five orcs and stormtroopers, because neither warrior's infantry soldiers will be able to do much to their primary opponent. Sauron could kill the storm troopers so easily and quickly and Darth Vader could kill the orcs to quickly that there's hardly a point in even having them. That's just me, though.