Why Darth Vader Was WAY More Powerful Than Other Sith

Darth Vader was more powerful than the Sith who came before him and it had almost nothing to do with raw strength. The Sith spent five thousand years writing down rules for becoming powerful and then lost every single time they followed them. Vader broke that cycle. He broke it without Korriban, without holocrons, without sorcery. This video covers both Canon and Legends to show why the standard used to judge Vader was built by an order that never once delivered the outcome it existed for. We go all the way back to Darth Bane and the Brotherhood of Darkness to trace how the Sith kept destroying themselves from the inside, what the Rule of Two actually cost the people living under it, and why Palpatine quietly rewrote the system before Vader was even born. From there we look at what the suit really solved, why five thousand years of credentials never mattered, and what made Vader's grief a permanent power source when the Sith code said it should have been a death sentence. His loss record tells a different story than most people think, and the two continuities cannot even agree on what "powerful" means. Sources Used in this Video: Canon Sources: Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith (2005) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Rogue One A Star Wars Story (2016) Darth Vader Dark Lord of the Sith Vol. 1 Imperial Machine by Charles Soule (Marvel Comics 2017) Legends Sources: Darth Bane Path of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn (Del Rey 2006) Darth Bane Rule of Two by Drew Karpyshyn (Del Rey 2007) Darth Bane Dynasty of Evil by Drew Karpyshyn (Del Rey 2009) Revenge of the Sith novelization by Patricia C. Wrede (Scholastic 2005) Book of Sith Secrets from the Dark Side by Daniel Wallace (Chronicle Books 2012) Star Wars The Visual Dictionary by David West Reynolds (DK 1998)