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Rahm Kota vs Ancient One (MCU)


Rahm Kota, an aging Jedi Master who fought through the Clone Wars with his own squad, surviving the dreaded Order 66 and becoming the master of Galen Marek AKA Starkiller!

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The Ancient One, Earth's mightiest sorcerer and Master of the Mystic Arts, who defended Earth against numerous incomprehensible threats and mentored the Sorcere Supreme, Doctor Strange!

In this battle between sorcerous masters...

Who is deadliest?

Rahm Kota


"A boy? Months of attacking Imperial targets, and Vader sends a boy to fight me?""

- Rahm Kota

Rahm Kota is a Jedi Master who lived throughout both the Clone Wars and Rebellion era. Once a child soldier fighting a deadly war in his home planet, Rahm soon joined the ranks of the Jedi Order when Mace Windu discovered his sensitivity within the Force. Trained by Yoda in the arts of the Force, Kota joined the Clone Wars as a general who led his own group of soldiers due to his distrust of Clone Troopers. Years into the future, such act saved his life from the dreaded Order 66. Striking from the shadows, Kota soon encountered Galen marek who was tasked in killing him. While he managed to defeat him, Kota hinted that he'd be a crucial part in his future and turned out to be true. After Galen's clone, Starkiller rescued him from Cato Nemoidia, he became his master and a member of the Rebellion, seeking to defeat the Empire once and for all.

Ancient One (MCU)


"You're a man looking at the world through a keyhole. You spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole. To see more, to know more; and now, on hearing that it can be widened in ways you can't imagine... you reject the possibility."

- Ancient One

The Ancient One was the Sorcerer Supreme and leader of the Masters of the Mystic Arts. A woman of Celtic origins, the Ancient One discovered the ways of the mystic arts and vowed to use them to protect the Earth from threats invisible to human eyes and incomprehensible to ordinary minds. Soon, she began helping others and eventually trained many to become a Master of the Mystic Arts. However, not everyone agreed with her and one of her students, Kaecilius, and a few others challenged her and went rogue. As time passed by, she was then discovered by Stephen Strange who she reluctantly taught of magic. When Kaecilius and Dormammu's threat loomed, she was finally killed by her former apprentice, but not before giving an advice to Stephen in defeating Dormammu and his followers.

X-Factors
If anyone has their own opinions on the X-Factors, feel free to leave 'em in the voting comments.
 * The Ancient One barely takes the edge in experience. The Ancient One was outright stated to be centuries old in the movie and had fought threats that while we did not see on screen, could be considered somewhat more dangerous than all those battle droids and Imperial Stormtroopers Rahm fought in his lifetime. Kota's fights with the Emperor and Galen Marek were quite notable, but he's somewhat defeated by both of them. Not to say that the Ancient One's unbeatable, but age is a deciding factor here.
 * Rahm outright takes the second factor here. The Ancient One isn't a slouch in fighting as he beat dozens of her former students and their new master, Kaecilius, with relative ease through creative usage of her constructs and the Mirror Dimension. Kota however, takes combat to a whole new level with him being an outright fighter. Kota is more of a fighter than the Ancient One, with him having an agressive mastery of the fiercest form of lightsaber-fighting, Juyo (Form VII). Juyo itself almost nearly focuses entirely on offense and that makes Kota naturally a strong one-on-one combatant. Granted, Kota somewhat limits himself in the offense and relies on counters (no, this isn't Form V), but that doesn't change that Kota can suddenly turn the tide of battle by turning as fierce as hell.
 * A tie for the training factor. As how long and intense Kota's training as a Jedi was, the Ancient One's training within magic allows her to become the most powerful sorcerer on Earth. We know not of how the Ancient One was trained, but we can't underestimate her as well due to her showings (especially in the opening act). Kota's training is definitely more well-defined, but it's in a different field.
 * Oh boy, this one is hard. Another bare edge, Kota takes the advantage in this factor. Yes, the Ancient One is highly knowledgeable in magic and has information on a multitude of magical artifacts, dimensions, and all others. But do those things even come to play in this battle? This is a fight of skill, not a fight of books. Kota is a specialist in strategy as he led many successful offensives both during the Clone Wars and his fight against the Galactic Empire. In addition, his practical knowledge in the Force allows him to get an advantage over enemies even like Starkiller/Galen Marek himself. The Ancient One does know how to manipulate the Mirror Dimension and screw up people's minds by sending them on a psychedelic trip across the Multiverse, but other than that, nay.
 * Get ready to debate in this, 'cause Kota loses the edge in weapons. We're actually talking about real weapons here, not things like telekinesis, mind control, etc. The lightsaber is definitely one of fiction's most powerful hand-held weapons. Easy to use, the lightsaber is a powerful blade of plasma that can cut through virtually all materials known to common folks except things like Adamantium, Vibranium, a simple sheet of metal with Cortosis Weave, Phrik alloy, Nth metal, a bit of Promethium, and many others. Problem is, the moment it meets another weapon/tool composed of energy (or even a solid thing infused with energy such as electricity), it turns into a normal blade with no clear advantages. The Ancient One's constructs are basically made of magical energy, and anything that's energetic can stand up against a lightsaber. Add the fact that she can basically create anything (no, not on a Power Ring's scale) she wants in combat and match up to Kota's lightsaber is one thing.