The unique (and copyrighted) breathing sound of one fictional history's most infamous character always foreshadowed a s🍎cene where power was expressed to its fullest. Darth Vader was a master duelist, a tyrant, and an expert in the F🐎orce. He's fluent in both ways of the Force, and under the puppetry of his master, Darth Sidious, he became an incredibly powerful figure. As far as most people seemed to understand, Darth Vader to them was a god.
For quite some time, Darth Vader was seen as the most powerful figure in the Star Wars universe. He was used as an intimidation tactic by Darth Sidious when things went really south, as we saw so well in the final scene of Rogue One. He grew a♉ reputation among both his enemies and his fellow soldiers as a fearless overlord who used his god-like powers to win the upper hand or have t﷽he last word in most situations.
Only but a handful of canonical characters were able to defeat the all-powerful Darth Vader. When people began to contribute to the universe with spin-offs and further additions via what is now Star Wars Legends, contributors have been able to create and broaden characters now more powerful than the original Dark Lord. Combined with their sheer lightsaber skills or affinity for their deep connection with the Force, there exist entities stronger than Darth Vader himself. With that being said, we have compiled a list of 25 Star Wars characters, both canon and Legends that are more powerful than Darth Vader.
25 Darth Sidious: The Puppet Master 💜
Although it was Vader who ended him, Darth Sidious held the strings that controlled the 🎀puppet that was Vader for well over 23 years. Iꦰt was he that created Darth Vader in the first place.
Darth Sidious won over Anakin Skywalker to the Dark Side after manipulating him for well over 20 years.
He designed Vader's suit to have it so, if Vader ever misbehaved, he could end him in an instant by using Force Lightning, which would short-circuit Vader's suit and therefore end him within moments [see my other article]🍒.
24 Yoda: The Wise 𝓀
Yoda handled his own in a battle 𝕴against Sidious, which means he could surely take on Darth Vader no problem. He often guided him as a mentor ✤in the darkest of his days when Vader was previously Anakin Skywalker.
Master Yoda foresaw Anakin's future problems, he knew very well Anakin's weakness♔es and how to handle him. If ever Vader found his way to Dagobah system to end his old maste✤r, Yoda could easily defeat him using the swampy lands with the force to paralyze Vader.
23 🦂 Luke Skywalker: The Son ꧅
Luke Skywalker was no stranger to the Dark Side. Even though Vader played with him towards the end of the Empire Strikes Back, Luke was able to hold his own. In Return of the Jedi he was able🧸 to do what countless of Je🏅di had failed to do.
Luke was the only Jedi to have converted Darth Vader back to the Light Side of the Force.
Luke, being the son of the Chosen One was able to defeat Vader, going at him until dismembering his cyberne♔tic hand from the rest of his robotic body. By tuning into the Dark Side of the Force, Luke found within him the strength to end his father's tyrannical reign.
22 Abeloth: Force G🐠oddess
She's known as the Bringer of Chaos for a reason. It is believed that Abeloth is the most powerful Force user to have ever existed within the Star Wars universe, being far stronger than Darth Vader, even before his fate on M๊ustafar.
Abeloth was considered by many to be reckless, dangerous and incredibly powerful.
Abeloth could be seen as a "Goddess of the Force." She could transmit he🐷r entity by teleporting herself to various places and fight many people at once. It took both Luke Skywalker and Darth Krayt in a different realm to finally vanquish her... not even end her.
21 ꦑ 🙈 Satele Shan: Seeing The Future
Not many Jedi or Sith had the ability to block a lightsaber with their bare hands, h🐼owever Satele Shan could. Vader could as well, but it was the armor of his gauntlets that allowed him to do so.
Satele Shan even took down a mountain in the midst of her fight with the Sith Lord, Darth Malgus. She was also able to foresee the future, a Force tactic that Vader had difficulty with. She eventuaꦬlly became a Jedi Grand Master, putting her on par with Yoda in both status and skill.
20 🎃 ꦰ Revan: The Undecided
He cou༒ld be seen as rather undecided. Revan has flipped between both the Dark Side and the Light making him very knowledgeable and experienced in both practices.
Revan was quite a shield per se. He could read and probe the minds of many virtually anywhere across the galaxy. His telekinetic abilities were🐭 seen as superior compared to other Force Users and was able to perform incredibly accurate and lengthy Force visions of the future.
19 ܫ Meetra Surik: Unique Force
Jedi Master Meetra Surik was among other Jedi, quite talented. It was her with𒅌 her abilities that was able to finally take down the al🐼l-powerful Darth Nihilus.
Meetra Surik was a woman of wisdom, who invented new Force Tricks to use at her disposal.
She developed a variety of Force techniques like controlling her breath, so she could survive in areas where there was a lack of oxygen. Additionally, she developed a technique called beast tricks thaꦰt allowed her to control animals and creatures with the Force.
18 🐬 Darth Nihilus: Using The Mask 🔥
It's🌱 in the name. Darth Nihilus was an evil, yet all-mighty Sith Lord. With just his doing, Nihilus could create "wounds" in the Force. This could be done by sucking the entire life force out of planet ꦇto fuel his power, causing nearby Force users to feel the suffering of others.
Additionally, Darth Nihilus was powerful enough to control an entire warship and its crew up and ready with the Force. Like Skyrim's Dragon Priests, Nihilus got most of his power from hi𓆏s mask; i♑t was said that anyone who wore it would achieve the same power of a Sith apprentice.
17 Exar Kun: M🌄astering The Double Blade
According to his Jedi Master, Vodo-Siosk Baas, Exar Kun was by far the most "formidable student he had ever trained." Ku♈n would later fall to the Dark Side, which in turn made him stronger. He stu🦩died ancient Sith alchemy.
Kun professed in creating apparitions of Dark Side creatures. He even 🦹used his Force abilities to mind control the entirety of the Galactic Senate as well as its Supreme Chancellor. He was also an expert swordsman; capable of defeating his master as an apprentice and mastering the double-bladed lightsaber style.
16 Bastila Shan: Not꧟꧙ To Be Underestimated
Bastila Shan was a Jedi Knight who fought 🍎with the Light Side during the Jedi Civil War, siding with the council. Shan was incredibly in-tune with the Force and could alter the outcome of a battle with just her mind alone.
Bastila Shan was a master of using the Force to improve her intellectual abilities, being predict the far future.
She could even use Jedi Mind Tricks on creatures and people we never saw work on such as the Hutts... something t🍃hat Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Luke could nꩲever do. According to her own perception, the only person stronger than her was virtually Revan.