How Powerful is Obi-Wan Really?

Obi-Wan Kenobi loses half the fights this question rests on, and he still decided how the galaxy ended. Dooku put him on the floor twice in three years, Vader beat him so badly on Mapuzo that two other people had to carry him off the field, and the Death Star duel ends with him dropping his guard on purpose. Counted in wins and losses, the record looks thin for a man the Order kept sending into its worst rooms. Counted by what survived those rooms, it looks like something else entirely. This breakdown measures Obi-Wan by the six encounters against Force users that actually decide the question, and none of them turn on how strong he is that day. It covers the style he rebuilt after Naboo and what it cost him in reach, the guard that wins by deleting an opponent's options instead of taking them, the ten years of Tatooine neglect that came due on Mapuzo, and the pattern of losses he chose on purpose because the objective mattered more than the duel. It also covers the floor underneath all of it, the reason he keeps producing results for thirty years, and the one fight he won cleanly that built the enemy the rest of his life was spent surviving. His ceiling was ordinary for his era. His floor is where the whole career happens. Sources Used in this Video: Canon Sources: Star Wars: Episode II, Attack of the Clones by Lucasfilm (film) Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith by Lucasfilm (film) Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope by Lucasfilm (film) Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi by Lucasfilm / Disney (TV series) Legends Sources: The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force by Daniel Wallace (LucasBooks)