Luke Skywalker is a legendary figure in the Star Wars universe, often hailed as the most powerful Jedi ever, and a key player in rekindling hope for the galaxy. This article takes an in-depth look at Luke's manifestation of being the most powerful Jedi, exploring together how Luke Skywalker rose to power and embodied the true power of the Jedi.
Luke on talent
Luke Skywalker is almost the powerful Jedi that Anakin Skywalker should theoretically become. It can be said that Luke is a representative who has completely inherited the potential of the Chosen One. In Shadows of the Empire, Luke's talent may surpass Anakin Skywalker, who is the Force-sensitive with the highest midi-chlorian content in history.
Luke has better power than Darth Sidious. Sidious is afraid of Luke's ability. He believes that he and Vader need to work together to pull Luke into the dark side. Darth Vader commented that Luke Skywalker is the most powerful of all Jedi Knights. He and Luke can overthrow the emperor together.
By Dark Empire, Luke has mastered all the main powers and experiences of the Jedi, including sensing the Force of others and disturbances in the Force, performing amazing stunts, moving large and heavy objects, and enduring great pain. He is also familiar with Force healing and can heal himself or others, etc.
Luke's connection to the Force is surprisingly strong. Kronar said that Luke's destructive power even humbled the Death Star. When facing the Emperor and Vader on the Death Star II, Luke did not use his greatest strength.
Jaina Solo believes that Luke Skywalker's usual strength may be less than 1/4 of his own. The novel "Return of the Jedi" shows that Vader already knows that Luke has the strength to defeat him, and in the comic "Return of the Jedi", it is shown that Luke's strength is at an upper hand in the battle with Darth Vader at his peak. Even Vader clearly used the Kahn Amulet to cheat in "Prince of the Jedi", but was still defeated by Luke.
Luke's learning talent is also very strong, but he will not become proud because of this. Instead, he knows that he has more things to explore. No matter how difficult the Force skills are, he can learn them in a very short time, so Luke has also learned a lot of rare Force skills.
Luke Skywalker is not a master of both light and dark in the broad sense, but he tries his best to reject the dark side. Luke also avoids using powerful force skills, so he will not show the ability to destroy planets. Luke avoids using powerful force skills, such as force storms, because using powerful destructive skills can easily lead to the dark side. Luke was in a difficult battle with the Destroyer robot, and did not directly use the force to destroy the Destroyer but destroyed it with a lightsaber trap. In the novel "Hand of Thrawn", Luke knew that he could destroy the enemy's spacecraft and control the enemy's mind only through the force, but he also felt that his pursuit of power would lead him to the dark side, so Luke himself "made the decision to stop using the force too much".
Luke on his lightsaber tech
Luke was born with a strong talent for lightsabers. Under the guidance of Ben Kenobi, he quickly practiced lightsabers. After "A New Hope", Luke has been honing his lightsaber skills to make himself stronger.
Before The Empire Strikes Back, Luke met Keris, who Anakin Skywalker promised to take as his apprentice after the war during the Clone Wars. In the Empire era, Darth Vader fulfilled his promise and took her as his apprentice. Keris was good at the seven-style swordsmanship of air combat variants and the use of ancient Sith magic to summon the invulnerable dark side smoke demon. Luke mounted a glider to fight her and won.
Shortly after A New Hope, Darth Vader used the Force to connect to Luke and created a Force illusion to fight Luke. Luke suppressed Vader's illusion with the help of the dark side.
In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke trained under Yoda for several weeks, and his Force and swordsmanship improved. His swordsmanship skills almost made Yoda unable to resist. Later, in the battle with Vader on Bespin, although Luke eventually lost, Vader thought that Luke had improved rapidly, even better than Obi-Wan's duel on the Death Star.
After Luke fought Vader on Bespin, he learned Vader's Variant 5 swordplay and further adapted it to create his own lightsaber skills to fight back against Vader in the next battle.
During the battle against Jabba's men on Tatooine, one of the Gamorrean guards, Thok, was dark side Force-sensitive. He had participated in the kidnapping of the Emperor with Arden Lin and succeeded. In the end, the Emperor was rescued by Vader and Thrawn, and Thok returned to Jabba. Luke easily killed him.
Luke was only briefly trained by Obi-Wan and Yoda for a period of time, and his swordsmanship and Force skills were able to fight against Darth Vader at his peak. In this battle, Luke was initially reserved, and Vader pressed forward without giving in. Luke was still on the advantage, and Luke even kicked Vader down the stairs. Finally, when Vader mentioned Leia, Luke's dark side briefly broke out and knocked Vader down.
After defeating Vader, the Emperor attacked Luke with lightning. Luke used the Force to deflect the lightning, but failed to deflect it completely. It's not that Luke didn't know that the lightsaber could resist lightning. In fact, in the novel Shadows of the Empire, when Luke first opened the green lightsaber he made, he asked R2-D2 to train him to use the lightsaber to resist lightning. After Return of the Jedi, Luke continued to strengthen his skills through training, which made him stronger than when he faced Vader.
Shortly after Return of the Jedi, Luke fought the Dark Sith Queen Lumya for the first time. Facing the light whip containing Beskar metal, Luke lost the first battle. In the second battle, Luke made a red dagger and defeated Lumya. This lightsaber was made of the Escalon people's needle blaster and its power core. From then on, Luke often trained his double sword skills and became a double sword master. He showed double sword skills in the subsequent training of other Jedi and the fight against the tyrant Simra.
In 10ABY, Luke, who became a Jedi Master in the comic Dark Empire, had stronger lightsaber skills than ever before, even rivaling the resurrected Palpatine, who was once considered the strongest Sith Lord ever, and was already the strongest swordsman in the galaxy during the Republic decades earlier, and was invincible in a battle with Yoda at the time. The resurrected Sidious was several times stronger than before, and defeated Luke once in a lightsaber battle. Later, with the help of Leia's unskilled battle meditation, Luke fought Sidious again, and their battle was so fast that Leia couldn't see it clearly. At this time, Luke's strength was considered "too strong for Sidious".
After Dark Empire, Luke set about establishing the Jedi Order. His swordsmanship was already strong enough, and he began lightsaber training for his apprentices, and his lightsaber skills continued to improve.
In the New Jedi Order series of novels, Luke showed that his lightsaber could cut Cortosis, a mineral that can short-circuit and invalidate lightsabers. During the Yuuzhan Vong War, Luke fought many Yuuzhan Vong, and his swordsmanship was said to be like fighting with a dozen lightsabers at the same time. After fighting a large group of Yuuzhan Vong and consuming his physical strength, Luke continued to fight and kill the tyrant Simra. The Yuuzhan Vong were almost immune to the Force, and Luke had almost no upper hand in the battle with the tall and strong Simra. In the end, Luke took the lightsaber that once belonged to Anakin Solo from Simra and beheaded him.
In "The Fate of the Jedi", Luke has been clearly stated in the novel that he is the most powerful swordsman in the galaxy. His reaction speed is more than nanoseconds, and his lightsaber moves so fast that even his son Ben Skywalker can't see it clearly.
Luke on the Force
When Luke was a newborn baby, Obi-Wan was attacked by two dark Jedi while escorting Luke to Tatooine. At this time, Obi-Wan had not yet recovered from the duel with Anakin. Obi-Wan allowed Luke's Force to flow into his body and used the Force illusion to defeat the dark Jedi Fumadu, but Obi-Wan found that he could not successfully defeat another dark Jedi, May. May threatened Obi-Wan with Luke's life. In a hurry, the baby Luke used the Force to open the lightsaber that once belonged to Anakin and accidentally killed her.
In "A New Hope", Luke can use the Force to control the lightsaber to fly according to his will. With the help of the inadvertent outbreak of the dark side, Luke used this trick to cause some damage.
Shortly after A New Hope, during a Jedi training session on the Millennium Falcon, Luke was unable to clear his mind to use the Force, and his attempt to focus caused him to faint, falling into deep meditation, fighting with the illusion of Vader in his mind, while his body was placed in a medical device by his friends. At this time, Simon Greyshed attacked the Millennium Falcon, and the fainted Luke was taken to the enemy's medical device and injected with special drugs to ensure that Luke would never wake up again, but Luke's body forcibly broke free from the medical device. Although he was still fighting with Vader in his mind, his body took up weapons to defeat the enemies around him. Luke did not regain consciousness until Leia arrived. Luke explained that the reason for his fainting was that he came into contact with Vader's consciousness, and told Leia that Vader was still alive.
After saving his friends from Darth Vader, Vader chased him from behind, and he connected to Luke through the Force, but Luke's anger and frustration to protect his friends hit Vader's consciousness like lightning along the wire, causing Vader to feel pain for a short time, so that Luke and others took the opportunity to escape.
Soon after seeing Obi-Wan Kenobi use mind control, Luke also tried to use mind control to control the Stormtroopers, and in "Return of the Jedi", Luke became familiar with the use of mind control.
In "Shadows of the Empire", Luke showed the ability to send messages over long distances and sent a message to Leia. In the novel "Millennium Falcon", Luke can use mind reading across light years, which surprised Leia.
In "Dark Nest", Luke can use the Force to send messages to Jedi in different parts of the galaxy and let them return to the Jedi Temple. Luke can specify someone to speak in his mind, and Han Solo can also be designated as the designated object, and others cannot hear Luke speaking.
In the novel "Luke Skywalker and the Shadow of Mindor", Luke in 5ABY faced Kronar, a dark side warrior he had never seen since he was called Palpatine. Kronar used Sith alchemy to create the "Crown of Shadow", which could manipulate the consciousness of other creatures. Luke was trapped and defeated by Kronar for the first time, who used the crown to control the molten mountain from a distance. He wanted to seize Luke's body and power to control the galaxy, but Kronar was distracted and Luke broke free. In the process, Luke learned to control the molten mountain only by using the Force. Soon after, Luke connected with Kronar himself in hyperspace through the Force through Cal Vast, who was controlled by Kronar. This surprised Kronar, who believed that hyperspace could not interact with real space. Kronar opened up all his power to the dark side. He believed that Luke was insignificant compared to him at this time, and he would devour Luke's light like a black hole, but Skywalker's power was like the opposite of a black hole. Luke affected Kronar's control of the crown, causing his body to melt.
In "Proposal to Princess Leia", Luke uses the Force to track Han Solo's feelings for Leia and find Han's location. In the subsequent battles with the Songshan Clan and the Nightsisters, he also uses the Force to heal his fatal injuries in a few hours. Luke can also use the Force to safely land himself on the ground from the planet's orbit.
In "Black Fleet", Luke can control the stones and sand to rise from the surroundings and the sea according to his will, and restore Darth Vader's secluded castle on Coruscant. These stones rotate in the air and then form walls, foundations, gates and domes. Luke uses broken stones to restore the ruins of the castle according to his will. Later, Luke used the Force to directly destroy the entire castle into pieces. He then used the Force to lift many of the pieces into the air and destroy them, forming countless rotating pebbles-sized small stones, and then threw these stones into the sea.
In New Jedi Order: Dark Tide: Onslaught, Luke Skywalker moves a small black hole created by the Yuuzhan Vong's Dovin Pedestal!
In New Jedi Order: Chaos Agents II, during the first year of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Luke instructs his students to use the Force to hide the entire planet of Yavin 4 using the techniques he learned from the Faranasi Order and create an illusion of the planet. In Dark Nest, Luke Skywalker creates an illusion of the Jade Shadow to confuse the enemy's attack, but this move is very costly and Luke becomes exhausted and his skin becomes shrunken for a period of time. A year later, Luke uses this move again to create an illusion of the DR919a ship. In a year of studying with Jacen Solo, Luke has learned to reduce the side effects of high-cost skills. It still ages him several years in a few minutes, but it doesn't make him feel too exhausted.
Luke also used a variant of Force Lightning, Force Judgment, which is called the Light Side Force Lightning. Luke killed his opponent instantly when he used Force Judgment for the first time. Later, Luke also used this move to electrocute a group of Krik people.
Luke also knows Force Break Point. Jacen Solo can easily break the Beskar armor of the Mandalorian with the hilt of his lightsaber. Jaina Solo was very surprised and then asked Luke for advice. After Luke taught Jaina the Break Point, Jaina could also break the Beskar metal at will.
In "The Fate of the Jedi", Luke learned the "Lightning Rod Technique", which can resist electromagnetic radiation, interfere with electronic instruments, and prevent spacecraft or instruments from being detected. Luke can use the light side version of Force Rage, using the Force to compress air to produce explosions to attack enemies. He can also use Force Explosion to launch pure Force energy at the enemy. Luke's Force Explosion is golden. Luke also learned the ability to visualize and erase the memories of a target, and in Fate of the Jedi, Luke used a more powerful version of this ability to separate the soul of Calista Ming from the body of Abeloth. Luke also learned the ability to fold space, which he could use to move objects regardless of distance, and it could also move containers and vehicles, including the objects or people inside them. Luke also learned time walking, which allowed him to see the past and possible futures through the Force, and Jacen Solo could even use this ability to slightly change the past.
