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It's a lone example contested by many other examples Sidious Send a noteboard - 07/02/2010 09:53:51 AM

Nynaeve and Rand aren't very informed or skilled channelers. They generally learn a few essential weaves and throw everything they have at their enemies. It usually works too.

Moghedien could barely hold back Nynaeve's attacks. Egwene would be smothered. If she wanted to win she'd need to attack first and get Nynaeve on the back foot and rapidly overwhelm her. Once the tables turned, it would be over quickly.


If it was that easy there would be no weak channelers left at all ... and we've already seen Nynaeve have trouble shielding Elayne when she's not full paying attention.


Even if you just look at the cleansing, then Cyndane is an isolated example. Demandred, Aran'gar and Graendal were overwhelmed by circles of lesser skill and similar force.

Battle and dueling are areas where finesse with the Power counts the least. It's mostly about beating up your opponent as quickly as possible.

Egwene's ability to split her flows 14 ways is possibly the most irrelevant thing you could mention regarding her ability to fight Nynaeve. Almost without exception, channelers place their whole potential into a single flow when they're fighting one another. Cyndane even sees how Alivia put her whole strength into a flow which she managed to slice. Do you really think Egwene would start with fancy weaving if Nynaeve sent this sort of assault after her. It was the same with Graendal's attack at the cleansing, and Flinn's.

Even more poignantly, Rand says that he can split his flows a dozen ways or more, but against Lanfear's attacks he needs to put all his power into a single weave strong enough to defend himself.

You can say what you like, but almost without exception, dueling in the series has demonstrated that channelers prefer to crush one another quickly with power. Skill is valuable in any field, but Nynaeve and Rand have managed to overwhelm huge skill by placing their opponents on their back feet and arm wrestling them. Essentially this is all dueling with the Power is in most cases. If a channeler has multiple flows toying around with complex weaves, she's about to lose or is dueling a much weaker opponent where she has that luxury. Winning duelists throw their might at their opponents, try to finish it quickly and don't mess around with complexities - the series has shown that all too well. Even the Forsaken with all their skill and knowledge reduce their dueling to weaves that Aes Sedai and Ash'aman could duplicate i.e. fireballs, shielding, lightning.

Egwene is not superior to Nynaeve in the way that Cyndane was superior to Alivia. Nynaeve may be less skilled than Egwene, but she still has a deadly arsenal at her disposal, is a veteran duelist, and is rabid in her desire to defeat someone once she considers them to be an enemy. To say that Egwene would 'wipe the floor' with Nynaeve is kind of funny. At best it would be an equal fight, and Egwene would have to be very skilled indeed.
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Who would win in a fight? (yes, you read that right! ) - 04/02/2010 10:38:01 PM 2979 Views
Gawyn. *chokes back the vomit that rushes up his throat* - 04/02/2010 10:53:37 PM 1711 Views
There there - 04/02/2010 11:15:00 PM 1647 Views
Huh? He was even WORSE in TGS. - 05/02/2010 05:14:16 AM 1502 Views
I dunno. He actaully DID stuff this time - 05/02/2010 05:24:48 AM 1623 Views
I agree he was much better than before - 05/02/2010 04:39:33 PM 1461 Views
It pains me to say it, but Gawyn would win. - 04/02/2010 11:15:19 PM 1686 Views
Re: It pains me to say it, but Gawyn would win. - 05/02/2010 01:13:52 AM 1581 Views
Gawyn is incredibly irritating - 05/02/2010 01:55:40 AM 1569 Views
No matter how many times people say it, this is still not true. - 05/02/2010 10:21:45 PM 1514 Views
Re: No matter how many times people say it, this is still not true. - 05/02/2010 10:44:47 PM 1515 Views
Re: No matter how many times people say it, this is still not true. - 05/02/2010 11:53:18 PM 1616 Views
Perhaps the key is that Gawyn is an even more simplistic thinker than Galad. - 06/02/2010 06:20:06 AM 1507 Views
Again, what? When? - 06/02/2010 08:08:47 AM 1493 Views
Well, the fact that he's had access to one of the best educations in Randland - 06/02/2010 09:22:28 AM 1455 Views
Completely different subjects, and pretty insignificant, really. *NM* - 06/02/2010 06:44:35 PM 993 Views
the person to beat Gawyn is Mat - 06/02/2010 06:36:03 AM 1723 Views
Perrin would beat Lan?! *NM* - 06/02/2010 05:52:47 PM 1416 Views
Sure, Gawyn is better - 05/02/2010 02:26:45 AM 1508 Views
Re: Who would win in a fight? (yes, you read that right! ) - 05/02/2010 04:27:16 AM 1670 Views
- 05/02/2010 04:47:17 AM 1358 Views
Add Nynaeve and Egwene to the fight, that's something worth seeing then. - 05/02/2010 05:20:53 AM 1623 Views
Egwene would hand Nynaeve her ass - 05/02/2010 04:55:51 PM 1590 Views
I agree. - 05/02/2010 05:10:34 PM 1540 Views
Re: I agree. - 05/02/2010 05:25:52 PM 1771 Views
You're forgeting Nynaeve's fight vs Trollocs in KoD. - 05/02/2010 07:41:28 PM 1622 Views
Re: You're forgeting Nynaeve's fight vs Trollocs in KoD. - 05/02/2010 09:42:32 PM 1597 Views
I just mentioned it since you said Egwene had more combat experience. - 06/02/2010 06:21:38 AM 1510 Views
I think you are missunderstanding me - 07/02/2010 02:04:13 AM 1568 Views
Re: Egwene would hand Nynaeve her ass - 05/02/2010 07:49:27 PM 2136 Views
Totally agree. *NM* - 05/02/2010 07:52:48 PM 1509 Views
yet RJ has told us that Nynaeve would barely pass the AS test - 05/02/2010 09:41:09 PM 1525 Views
Re: yet RJ has told us that Nynaeve would barely pass the AS test - 05/02/2010 10:00:11 PM 1446 Views
Nynaeve might have trouble... - 05/02/2010 10:24:56 PM 1540 Views
That's not what RJ said. He said Nynaeve would be a little hard pressed - 05/02/2010 10:18:42 PM 1328 Views
she might be a little hard pressed to pass a test she should pass without thought! - 06/02/2010 05:56:38 PM 1239 Views
Moiraine was hard pressed to pass, and she practiced for ages and is the #1 Battle AS. - 06/02/2010 08:27:26 PM 1451 Views
she passed pretty easily IMO - 06/02/2010 09:12:13 PM 1563 Views
The test for the Shawl has little to nothing to do with channeling, you know this right? *NM* - 05/02/2010 10:23:16 PM 908 Views
Are you being serious? *NM* - 06/02/2010 08:57:33 AM 936 Views
of course it does - 06/02/2010 05:48:41 PM 1520 Views
That's not how it happens in New Spring. - 06/02/2010 07:00:52 PM 1392 Views
that's because Moiraine trained and is relatively skilled (for AS) - 06/02/2010 07:34:05 PM 1541 Views
That's nonsensical. - 06/02/2010 09:02:13 PM 1543 Views
It's what RJ said ... "too much specialization" - 06/02/2010 09:14:38 PM 1413 Views
Well, if RJ said it, I guess it must be true. - 06/02/2010 11:17:19 PM 1509 Views
*shrugs* - 07/02/2010 12:59:00 AM 1418 Views
Towers of Midnight spoilers: - 09/11/2010 05:29:05 AM 1455 Views
Re: That's not how it happens in New Spring. - 06/02/2010 08:28:52 PM 1430 Views
Right... - 06/02/2010 08:58:04 PM 1340 Views
About splitting weaves 14 ways - 05/02/2010 10:55:28 PM 1512 Views
Re: About splitting weaves 14 ways - 05/02/2010 11:08:50 PM 1382 Views
Can you provide that quote? - 06/02/2010 07:34:49 PM 1469 Views
Re: Can you provide that quote? - 06/02/2010 08:19:08 PM 1508 Views
there is nothing to say that multiple weaves are involved. - 06/02/2010 09:16:29 PM 1406 Views
That's the nature on the weaving. - 06/02/2010 09:24:39 PM 1479 Views
Not really - 06/02/2010 10:46:52 PM 1500 Views
Yes, really - 06/02/2010 10:55:22 PM 1487 Views
Re: Yes, really - 06/02/2010 11:29:17 PM 1455 Views
Re: Yes, really - 06/02/2010 11:48:14 PM 1388 Views
Re: Yes, really - 07/02/2010 12:18:12 AM 1472 Views
Oh! Forgot another analogy - 07/02/2010 01:13:27 AM 1406 Views
Re: Yes, really - 07/02/2010 01:46:14 AM 1429 Views
Re: Yes, really - 07/02/2010 01:59:44 AM 1353 Views
Re: Yes, really - 07/02/2010 06:36:48 PM 1434 Views
IMO fighting with the Power has little to do with skill - 06/02/2010 09:01:23 AM 1451 Views
Re: IMO fighting with the Power has little to do with skill - 06/02/2010 09:29:06 AM 1570 Views
I agree ... it's much like Rand's approach to Graendal - 06/02/2010 05:51:17 PM 1459 Views
so you've learned nothing from Cyndane v. Alivia. - 06/02/2010 05:45:19 PM 1400 Views
Cyndane v. Alivia are probably of similar strength. - 06/02/2010 08:33:08 PM 1545 Views
Re: Cyndane v. Alivia are probably of similar strength. - 06/02/2010 09:17:40 PM 1492 Views
It's a lone example contested by many other examples - 07/02/2010 09:53:51 AM 1467 Views
the only dueling where a channeler tries to overpower is Nynaeve v. Moghedien - 07/02/2010 01:57:43 PM 1530 Views
Re: the only dueling where a channeler tries to overpower is Nynaeve v. Moghedien - 07/02/2010 04:25:57 PM 1460 Views
from RJs lips to your ears ... - 07/02/2010 06:55:27 PM 1488 Views
Re: from RJs lips to your ears ... - 07/02/2010 08:04:57 PM 1364 Views
Re: from RJs lips to your ears ... - 07/02/2010 08:20:31 PM 1337 Views
... but I can't let this one go... - 07/02/2010 11:09:04 PM 1593 Views
Thank you Robert, Sidious, Jordan - 07/02/2010 11:16:30 PM 1598 Views
Re: Thank you Robert, Sidious, Jordan - 08/02/2010 09:43:15 AM 1432 Views
Hmm... - 07/02/2010 11:05:00 PM 1435 Views
I disagree - 06/02/2010 05:30:40 AM 1391 Views
Egwene never even got into that fight and we are talking about Lanfear - 06/02/2010 05:46:27 PM 1448 Views
Re: Egwene never even got into that fight and we are talking about Lanfear - 06/02/2010 08:23:20 PM 1438 Views
she got hit with a pain weave before she did a damn thing - 06/02/2010 09:21:11 PM 1425 Views
lol - 07/02/2010 01:55:18 AM 1433 Views
Go look below at some of the quotes I've provided - 07/02/2010 01:59:51 AM 1513 Views
If the Power was used, I would agree - 06/02/2010 05:59:14 PM 1441 Views
On the whole Egwene vs. Nynaeve thing... - 06/02/2010 10:43:43 PM 1373 Views
Exactly my point - 06/02/2010 10:49:49 PM 1399 Views
Re: On the whole Egwene vs. Nynaeve thing... - 06/02/2010 11:12:27 PM 2779 Views
plenty of evidence that Nynaeve is unskilled outside of Healing - 07/02/2010 01:21:20 AM 1528 Views
Re: On the whole Egwene vs. Nynaeve thing... - 07/02/2010 08:02:40 AM 1451 Views
There was one other very skilled Healer in the series... - 07/02/2010 06:44:41 PM 1403 Views
I'm sure she could if she bothered to train - 07/02/2010 06:57:17 PM 1282 Views
Re: On the whole Egwene vs. Nynaeve thing... - 06/02/2010 11:15:59 PM 1449 Views
Nope - 07/02/2010 01:26:19 AM 1521 Views
Re: On the whole Egwene vs. Nynaeve thing... - 07/02/2010 08:21:19 AM 1655 Views
Egwene and Nynaeve had already confront each other - 07/02/2010 08:45:23 AM 1579 Views
but whoever wins - 05/02/2010 04:54:52 AM 1502 Views
*nods* That's cuz ... - 05/02/2010 05:26:57 AM 1563 Views
I actually think Lan would win - 05/02/2010 04:57:24 PM 1492 Views
Agreed - 05/02/2010 08:22:26 PM 1444 Views
I think Lan, hands down. - 05/02/2010 03:30:20 PM 1338 Views
THANK you. - 05/02/2010 11:41:43 PM 9992 Views
Re: THANK you. - 06/02/2010 06:26:04 AM 1427 Views
Gawyn and Galad have become tough - 06/02/2010 09:04:25 AM 1620 Views
Re: Gawyn and Galad have become tough - 06/02/2010 09:31:51 AM 1322 Views
Gawyn is destined to protect the Great Mother ( Egwene ) - 05/02/2010 04:11:51 PM 1524 Views
Hopper!!!!! *NM* - 06/02/2010 12:21:25 AM 892 Views
Hasn't Hopper already lost in a fight? *NM* - 06/02/2010 01:48:19 AM 850 Views
According to the Theoryland database RJ apparently said once... - 06/02/2010 08:55:50 AM 1518 Views
That can't be right, can it? - 06/02/2010 05:51:04 PM 1500 Views
Even in NS only Ryne is known to be better than Lan - 07/02/2010 01:57:29 AM 1550 Views
Huh .... - 06/02/2010 06:23:10 PM 1489 Views
I don't recall Rand loosing to Riatin. - 06/02/2010 06:39:31 PM 1466 Views
Well, to be fair, the text doesn't mention much - 07/02/2010 12:48:59 AM 1448 Views
Re: According to the Theoryland database RJ apparently said once... - 06/02/2010 06:28:15 PM 1436 Views
"Gawhine"... I like it. *NM* - 06/02/2010 08:40:32 PM 877 Views
If Gawyn is the best because he defeated two Warders, what about Rand? - 06/02/2010 09:15:34 PM 1443 Views
These are pointless. - 09/02/2010 12:52:21 AM 1500 Views
These are scalar comparatives - 24/02/2010 09:45:11 PM 1452 Views

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