User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/Lord Voldemort vs Darth Vader/@comment-4552610-20111219220745/@comment-181289-20111220020414

Vader uses his lightsaber becasue his opponent has a lightsaber, Vader prefer's to attack with his Lightbsaber but when his victim doesn't have a Lightsaber, Vader generally will use the Froce choke, You see this in his treatment of the officers who fail him. What more is Vader is not an idiot, he'll use what ever is most affective in combat, when his oppoenent is charging him with a lightsaber, then he will obviously use his lightsaber, but if someone is firing spells at him then he'll taken them out at a distance.

On the "EMP" spell, I'm still awaiting proof on it's exsistance but for the sake of argument, Vader definitly could use the force choke and keep his body moving at the same time, Vader is one of the most poweful force users the galaxy had ever seen, moving his own weight is pretty much a non-issue. But even if there is an "EMP spell" it proably won't even affect Vader suit. Prosthetic's in Star Wars are sheilded against EMP's. In the Legacy of the Jedi books on the Sink Hole station, Luke's prosthetic hand is is unaffected by an EMP pulse and his and Ben's Lightsabers were unaffected as well, but there Blasters were taken out of commision. So even if there is an EMP spell, it's affects on Vader will be near Zero and it would only affect the Storm troopers blasters.