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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 1348 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 421 Views
+1 *NM* Skeeve the Great - 08/02/2010 02:55:27 PM 302 Views
The line can be blurry between Rand and LTT (most skilled channeler evaaaah) BlackAdder - 08/02/2010 05:52:06 PM 626 Views
Yeah, Ryan kicked Luke's ass AgentOrange - 09/02/2010 04:23:43 PM 643 Views
Who's Ryan, and who's Luke??? Ryne and Lan? *NM* Lord Haart - 09/02/2010 06:18:03 PM 270 Views
Rand is very skilled thanks to LTT darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:37:42 PM 552 Views
Re: Strength versus Skill in battle ... Skill wins. fairfax - 08/02/2010 05:09:27 AM 704 Views
Re: Strength versus Skill in battle ... Skill wins. darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:32:05 PM 563 Views
IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP Lord Haart - 08/02/2010 06:20:09 AM 717 Views
Re: IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP Watcher - 08/02/2010 12:22:05 PM 625 Views
Re: IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP Lord Haart - 08/02/2010 07:22:56 PM 616 Views
Re: IMO, that had nothing to do with skill in the OP darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:33:24 PM 563 Views
all of which comes down to skill beating strength darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:32:42 PM 557 Views
Well, Alivia could just have shielded Cyndane, no sweat, just like Rand shielding Verin... Shannow - 08/02/2010 02:28:49 PM 2720 Views
Ehhh, I don't think so. Heiko - 08/02/2010 11:00:45 PM 666 Views
I agree darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:39:02 PM 668 Views
I genereally agree Yondaime - 08/02/2010 05:32:24 PM 761 Views
This is too cut and dried... Narg - 08/02/2010 07:43:56 PM 651 Views
I like "Alivia is essentially an incredibly strong retard" Skeeve the Great - 08/02/2010 07:57:32 PM 802 Views
My intent was to show that skill makes up for strength differentials darius_sedai - 13/02/2010 05:27:50 PM 531 Views
Also, we don't know how badly damaged Cyndane was, right? Lord Haart - 08/02/2010 07:44:04 PM 616 Views
sure we do darius_sedai - 14/02/2010 12:45:12 AM 561 Views
You are forgetting... Heiko - 09/02/2010 01:05:52 AM 673 Views
Good point. Gher - 09/02/2010 04:15:26 AM 655 Views
exactly darius_sedai - 14/02/2010 12:47:14 AM 553 Views
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