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Good point. Gher Send a noteboard - 09/02/2010 04:15:26 AM
... that although Alivia suffered a wound or two, she nonetheless turned Cyndane back. Remember Lan's words from NS:

"He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead."


Excellent parallel.

Regardless of skill or ability, Alivia defeated Cyndane. From Cyndane's PoV, she was quite passionate about killing Rand - we know that it takes quite the obstacle to turn Lanfear from her goals.

So really, this fight isn't the best support for the skill>strength argument.


Yes, although I do think it's a good argument, we know so little about how the fight actually went we can't really take much from it. For all we know, the Callandor-circle could have broke up the fight with their flame strikes.
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Strength versus Skill in battle ... Skill wins. darius_sedai - 07/02/2010 10:11:13 PM 1523 Views
Yes...1 OC fight trumps all the times when we have seen Rand's strength send Forsaken skill running *NM* Cannoli - 08/02/2010 04:10:28 AM 488 Views
+1 *NM* Skeeve the Great - 08/02/2010 02:55:27 PM 383 Views
The line can be blurry between Rand and LTT (most skilled channeler evaaaah) BlackAdder - 08/02/2010 05:52:06 PM 792 Views
Yeah, Ryan kicked Luke's ass AgentOrange - 09/02/2010 04:23:43 PM 841 Views
Who's Ryan, and who's Luke??? Ryne and Lan? *NM* Lord Haart - 09/02/2010 06:18:03 PM 346 Views
Rand is very skilled thanks to LTT darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:37:42 PM 722 Views
Re: Strength versus Skill in battle ... Skill wins. fairfax - 08/02/2010 05:09:27 AM 889 Views
Re: Strength versus Skill in battle ... Skill wins. darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:32:05 PM 722 Views
IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP Lord Haart - 08/02/2010 06:20:09 AM 895 Views
Re: IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP Watcher - 08/02/2010 12:22:05 PM 805 Views
Re: IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP Lord Haart - 08/02/2010 07:22:56 PM 824 Views
Re: IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:33:24 PM 711 Views
all of which comes down to skill beating strength darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:32:42 PM 725 Views
Well, Alivia could just have shielded Cyndane, no sweat, just like Rand shielding Verin... Shannow - 08/02/2010 02:28:49 PM 2916 Views
Ehhh, I don't think so. Heiko - 08/02/2010 11:00:45 PM 834 Views
I agree darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:39:02 PM 844 Views
I genereally agree Yondaime - 08/02/2010 05:32:24 PM 937 Views
This is too cut and dried... Narg - 08/02/2010 07:43:56 PM 816 Views
I like "Alivia is essentially an incredibly strong retard" Skeeve the Great - 08/02/2010 07:57:32 PM 979 Views
My intent was to show that skill makes up for strength differentials darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:27:50 PM 701 Views
Also, we don't know how badly damaged Cyndane was, right? Lord Haart - 08/02/2010 07:44:04 PM 794 Views
sure we do darius_sedai - 14/02/2010 12:45:12 AM 750 Views
You are forgetting... Heiko - 09/02/2010 01:05:52 AM 852 Views
Good point. Gher - 09/02/2010 04:15:26 AM 826 Views
exactly darius_sedai - 14/02/2010 12:47:14 AM 708 Views
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