Top 10 duelists from Star Wars

Okay, lets get one thing straight: I absolutely HATE this idea. 36,000 years of almost completely unexplored history and you think we can pick out the ten absolute BEST? Riiight. I am not doing that, which is basically a fools errand, especially since my opinion on this kind of thing tends to change every other week. Except for the number one spot, which has remained consistent for over a year.

Simply put, canonically, Darth Sidious is the most powerful Sith in history. Luke beat him when he was about three decades before his prime. Okay, to be fare, Luke did require his sister's mental help and this was a Sidious I believe to be slightly less skilled than his ROTS self, but this is still a almost unparalleled feat. Basically, all you need to know is that Luke mastered all seven Forms of Lightsaber combat, single handily re-shaped the Jedi Order, is the son of the Chosen One and engaged Abeloth and a dozen Sith. At once. And was WINNING. But aside from Luke, who else is commonly mentioned as being a candidate?

Juuust about everyone from the Clone Wars era. Although there is nothing inherently better about being a duelist in the Clone Wars era, there's technically nothing worse about it either. Although events such as the New Sith Wars and Galactic Wars certainly involved more Lightsaber duels, they were almost all full scale battle engagements, which would not help develop the average swordsman in one on one situations any more than the Non-Lightsaber battles faced by the Clone Wars era Jedi/sith. In short, the only reason the TCW era Jedi/Sith are on a higher standing than Jedi/Sith from other eras is because of the sheer volume of information regarding there era. Still, I supose I should go ahead and address them.

Sidious is immediately off the table, for stating Dooku to be the more refined duelist of the two, most of his victories relying (In my opinion) on tactical ingenuity not skill and losing his respective duels to Yoda, Windu and Luke. Dooku is also pretty soundly removed from the equation, losing to Yoda (Twice) as well as to Anakin on more than one occasion (Regardless of what WollfMyth claims). Windu, despite advancing martial arts possibly more than anyone else of the era (Thanks to the creation of Vappad) was much more of a warrior than a duelist. Windu was forced to rely almost entirely on his Force powers to defeat Sidious (Shatter-point and the more powerful aspects of Vappad) instead of his martial skill, unlike the other candidates. Unlike most fans, I also believe Anakin deserves to be mentioned here, having defeated the good Count more than once, killing Sidious and Windu (Albeit in an alternate Universe) and massacring the entire Jedi Temple. And the elephant in the room, Yoda, is probably the best candidate, having 900 years of experience and out-dueling both Dooku and Sidious

Believe it or not, the Clone Wars is not the only era with prospective top tiers. Lumiya, Darth Caedus, Mara Jade and Jaina Solo were all at least close to being able to stalemate Luke, although none of them stand much of a chance of beating him (To be fair, it IS Luke). The Old Republic also has it's own fair share of extremely skilled warriors, a personal favorite of mine being The Hero of Tython. In short, lets keep our minds open and not dismiss uncommon ideas or other prospective duelists just because they don't have as many feats or standings as the TCW crowd. By that logic, no one will EVER be able to even compete with the sheer amount of overexposed Clone Wars characters. Except of course Luke Skywalker. Because Luke is a badarse.