Who is the best fictional swordsman of all time?
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I would say it is between Geralt of Rivia, Jaime Lannister, Barristan Selmy, and Aragorn. All four are pretty much at the apex of their skills. Even though Selmy is in his 60's in the books he can still take out younger duelists with ease. Just based on skill and finesse I would have to give it to Geralt. Being over 100 means he has had time to hone his skills to a fine point and he can also use magic too to turn the tide if he is losing.
Hard for me to go with any one, so I'll just go with the most recent I've dealt with, Saber from Fate/Stay Night. One of my favorite fights is in the Fate route where she has a duel with Rider while running up a skyscraper. I really hope ufotable gets around to animating that route eventually.
In Necropolis, towards the very end, Gaunt is fighting some chaos thingy, and thinks that this is harder than when he'd fought marines.inu-kun said:
looks like a hammer handle.jhoroz said:That's Guts from Berserk and it's pretty obvious his holding the hilt of a great sword...Sleekit said:i dunno who that is and i'm not seeing a sword...jhoroz said:I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this guy yet...
Talwin hawkins aka taln of the silver hawk. Raymond e feist riftwar cycle.
Champion of the masters court greatest swordsman in the world
Champion of the masters court greatest swordsman in the world
Given that I'm halfway through reading Game of Thrones I'm inclined to say Syrio Forel. Thoros of Myr does have a flaming fucking sword though, so he might win purely out of rule of cool, although Syrio is pretty damn cool all by himself.
Boy, girl, You are a sword, that is all
Boy, girl, You are a sword, that is all
That'd be wrist in the singular, actually. He hacked off his other arm with the broken shard of a sword. I'm not sure whether I should deduct points for that or add them.Sleekit said:that's what i thought...but i see the blade now...Hoplon said:looks like a hammer handle.jhoroz said:That's Guts from Berserk and it's pretty obvious his holding the hilt of a great sword...Sleekit said:i dunno who that is and i'm not seeing a sword...jhoroz said:I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this guy yet...
he must have some wrists...
I'd say either Lucius the Eternal, simply by virtue of being in the WH40k universe and being technically immortal or Vergil from DMC because of his Iaijutsu-style dimension-slashing awesomeness.
Here's a better picture:Hoplon said:looks like a hammer handle.jhoroz said:That's Guts from Berserk and it's pretty obvious his holding the hilt of a great sword...Sleekit said:i dunno who that is and i'm not seeing a sword...jhoroz said:I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this guy yet...
The fact he handles this monstrosity with only one hand puts him ahead of most examples in this thread for me.