User blog comment:El Alamein/Voldemort vs. General Grievous/@comment-5138827-20130925025722/@comment-5138827-20130925162447

Alright you brought up some good points regarding the lightsaber. I had assumed, for debate-equivalency, that it would destroy what it hit just as it does in the scenes the wiki lists. However let me assume A.K. would do as you said, and simply turn off the lightsaber for a bit. You are right in that Grevious is a smart enough guy to probably carry multiple spares and reuse the ones after a while that was turned off. However I am also assuming that Voldemort is at smart enough to employ transfiguration, which has been shown to work on solids, liquids and gas to a limited extent, so I would think it would work on plasma. Transfiguring or simply vanishing the lightsabers should be a effective strategy, however ill admit that Grevious probably would adjust to block the lightsabers less and dodge more. Transfiguring Grevious, if he can be hit with Stealth, would be a viable and hilarius way to win. Hell even transfiguring his armor would proably work given I have seen nothing that suggests he couldn't.

Sure he can compute Mace's Vapaad style however that isn't totally a proper comparison. The wide range of applications/spells of the wand and of Voldemort without his wand are gonig to be extremely difficult for him to predict until late in the game, as there are so many unknown applications of it. Some spells destroy his lightsabers, others turn the ground beneath him into quicksand, others disarm if blocked ect. How is he going to be able to calculate the unknown?

Insolence? Hmm well perhaps I was a little rude in my response to Cfp however that I feel is partially justified as he did a relatively poor job of (IMO) representing the abilities of Voldemort and wizards in general. My accusation on groupthink? Well you guys pretty much are all saying the same thing over and over again and agreeing with each other whenever you can, when making a issue of the one vote that disagrees(but thats fine since I welcome the debate). Mostly I just resented the fact that he accuses me of having no knowledge of Grevious.

Well in regards to accusations of bias I HAVE voted against Voldemort before in Aang vs. Voldemort, though that was a year ago and I did not understand as much as I do now about HP, I think I would vote for Aang again. I also edited my posts with new information when I was forced to consider it. Do I have some bias against Star Wars in general? Yes the "Cult of the Lightsaber" as I call it annoys me greatly, where users make the Lightsaber into a all penetrating, all blocking dues ex machina ignoring the fact that it cannot even perform that function 100 percent of the time in SW, much less other medias with greater examples .However doesn't change the fact that I like Grevious better as a character. View that however you want to view it, however realize that I think the same about you guys regarding bias. Apparently Voldemort is this group's personal punching bag, meaning that there is going to be some, if even unconscious, bias from you guys going into examing this, simply because he gets tossed around so much here. I suppose my group has the same problem with Kratos.

You avoided my main issue and that is apparition: How does Grevious counter it? I have watched vids of Grevious's speed, even the insanely good speeds of 2003 series, and found it wanting. If Grevious cannot counter apparition, then I can't see him winning this battle, as I am presuming Voldemort is smart enough to teleport everytime Grevious rushes at him.

Also while you are at it how does Grevious counter....

--Transfiguration/Banishing of his weapons

--Stealth apparition ( he can teleport silenty) + dissillusionment charm

--Fire Spells, particularly Fiendfyre

--Magical  and invisible binding spells I am not entirely sold he could use his lightsaber to break out of.

I don't think X-factors matter much if someone cannot counter the other's arsenal, which is the opposite of what everyone else seems to assume so far. Not everything is evenly weighted and I view them as accessories to a win, not generally victory by themselves