We talking about the Arthas in the final map of the frozen throne.
Likewise is Anduin more powerful at his current age now than Arthas was at the same age?
BfA Sylvanas is stronger than the entire Pantheon combined.
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She beat the Lich King. Yes, she could beat a death knight.
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There isn’t a character that she can’t beat.
She beat Bolvar, who wasn’t anywhere near as powerful as Arthas was as the Lich King. Arthas, at the height of his power? Might have proven to be a serious match for Sylvanas.
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The entire reason Blizzard had Sylvanas fight Bolvar was to show “If Arthas was still around, she’d beat him, too.”
This thread isn’t asking about Lich King Arthas, it’s about DK Arthas.
I wonder if Sylvanas would’ve been afraid of facing Arthas the Lich King instead of Bolvar. In the Stormrage novel, her nightmares are of Arthas. With Bolvar, she seemed overconfident.
Then again, that fear may have changed once she encountered the Maw.
The woman broke the literal and metaphorical glass ceiling. Blizzard cannot be any clearer that they’re trying to show her empowerment.
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Death Knight Arthas? Probably, yes. Death Knight Arthas was given a solid fight by Anasterian, who was ancient, if very skilled and gifted in magic and combat.
Lich King Arthas? Nope.
It depends on just how much death magic she’s received from her new sugar-daddy. With as many souls being dumped into the Maw from all worlds right now and Sylvanas taking a portion of that power to literally one-shot anyone she wants… It would not surprise me if Sylvanas could beat anyone.
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I doubt it… Arthas at the end of WC3 beat Illidan in a 1v1 duel. This is the same Illidan who picked up Gul’dan and obliterated him like he was nothing. It is difficult to say if Illidan was more powerful at the time of Legion than he was at the time of TBC, or at the time of WC3 TFT.
So we are going to say Sylvanas can defeat Arthas, we have to also admit she can defeat Illidan, which I doubt. She defeated Bolvar, but we have no reason to believe Bolvar could hold a flame to Arthas. Bolvar doesn’t have Frostmourn, we havn’t seen him raise any zombie dragons, hell, Sylvanas seems to have more Val’kyr than he does… I am not sure why we should be at all impressed that she defeated him.
Sylvanas is powerful and always has been. She has been empowered by the Jailer, but the degree of that power is ambiguous at best. I would say now, the Alliance heavy hitters could still go toe to toe with her, if not beat her outright. And I feel the same for DK Arthas.
I’d say yes, she could beat Death Knight Arthas. Heck, TFT Sylvanas nearly did kill Arthas before Kel’thuzad intervened, and Arthas wasn’t that weakened by that point.
She fought Malfurion during the War of Thorns, and I’d say at the time Malf was probably the heaviest hitter the Alliance had. While she wasn’t winning that fight she did take a chunk of his health, that was pre-burning Sylvanas, and she’s definitely more powerful now.
Hm? Our DK can raise zombie dragons. Unless our Deathlord is more powerful than Bolvar, I have zero doubt Bolvar could.
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Warcraft 3 Sylvanas DID defeat him and was about to torture and kill him. If it wasn’t for Kel’thuzad Sylvanas would have killed him before he returned to Northrend.
Yeah a dragon would be no problem for Bolvar even though he’s probably not the best trained Death Knight.
Darion raised an army of the dead 10,000 strong complete with giants. Death Knights are one of the classes that are hard nerfed by game mechanics. If lore > game mechanics every DK would have hundreds of undead constantly following them
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He gained all of the memories of Arthas and Nerzhul when he put on the crown.