Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Ahsoka episodes 1 & 2
Star Wars’ new Ahsoka show features a dynamic collection of exciting lightsaber duels. Thanks to Ahsoka’s impressive cast of lightsaber-wielding characters with heroes such as the titular Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and her apprentice Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), there are plenty of clashing lightsabers throughout. Likewise, the show features a strong trio of dark-side villains armed with lightsabers such as Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson), Shin Hati (Ivanna Sakhno), as well as the mysterious and helmeted Inquisitor known as Marrok.
Ahsoka takes place during the New Republic era. This means that the forces of light and dark are not Jedi nor Sith in the conventional sense (despite the presence of lightsabers). Although Ahsoka is a former Jedi, she’s still training Sabine to become a Jedi who herself is a Mandalorian who seemingly can’t wield the Force. Likewise, Baylan and Shin have been designated as Dark Jedi rather than Sith, and Marrok was once an Imperial Inquisitor. While he served the Sith during the days of the Empire, he’s not a Sith himself. Nevertheless, they all wield Star Wars’ most recognizable weapons so here’s all of Ahsoka’s lightsaber fights ranked.
3 Sabine vs Shin Hati on Lothal
Featured at the end of Ahsoka episode 1, Sabine defied Ahsoka’s wishes and took the star map back to her home at one of Lothal’s communications towers. Shortly after successfully unlocking the map and the location of the former Imperial leader Grand Admiral Thrawn, Sabine was attacked by HK assassin droids in the service of Lady Morgan Elsbeth, a Nightsister and ally of Thrawn’s seeking to bring him back to the known galaxy. Retrieving the lightsaber that once belonged to Jedi Ezra Bridger (who’s also missing), Sabine soon came face to face with Shin Hati, Baylan’s dark apprentice.
Although the two apprentices did indeed duel, their encounter was rather short. Sabine was still rusty due to her years out of practice wielding her lightsaber after Ahsoka ended her training. As a result, Shin was able to run her own lightsaber through Wren’s side after only a handful of strikes and parries, dominating the duel with an impressive amount of control before she left to deliver the star map to her master and Elsbeth. Sabine was hardly a challenge for her.
2 Ahsoka vs. HK Assassin Droids
Serving as Ahsoka’s first scene in her new Star Wars show, the former Jedi faces five of Morgan Elsbeth’s assassin droids at once at the Nightsisters’ stronghold on Arcana. Using the underground chamber below to her advantage, Tano cut the ground from beneath three of the droids before expertly handling the other two wielding their electro-staffs, using both her long and short-bladed lightsabers in tandem. Although the droids initiated a self-destruct after the first two’s defeat, Ahsoka likely would have been able to take them all down with her Jedi skills and years of experience.
1 Ahsoka’s First Duel With Marrok, The Imperial Inquisitor
Ahsoka’s first duel with Marrok takes place on the world of Corellia. Aided by another assassin droid, the HK is easily cut to pieces by Ahsoka despite being engaged with Marrok, using both her white-bladed lightsabers to clash with his crimson blade. Even after the dark side foe ignited the second blade from his classic Inquisitors’ hilt, Ahsoka was clearly his equal, backflipping over the lightsaber as it was thrown and sensing its return as Marrok made his escape, moving just enough to dodge it. Never looking back, Tano proved her lack of fear in the second episode of Ahsoka (providing very high levels of “cool” factor).
Ahsoka releases new episodes Tuesdays at 6pm PT / 9pm ET on Disney+.
