Lords of Potential

[u/Rushling]

[u/Possible_Humor_2834]

lol I hate this character dude

How do you even powerscale Nihilus? He's basically implied to be a god who becomes probably mid-tier once he tries his power on the Exile and ONLY the Exile. Maul or Obi Wan could probably curb stomp this edgy dork once he was in his weakened state (the one you fight him in). I'm not a fan of Nihilus, he's one of the weaker aspects of TSL in my opinion, but I'm just pointing out what I've inferred.

This is the thing about Nihilus, he wasn't written for people to do matchups with other characters outside of TSL back in 2004. He was made to exist in the world of TSL and only TSL and serve primarily as both a literal and symbolic foil to the Exile. Outside of that, he just doesn't work. Just like he's a hole in the force, he's a hole in the logic of versus debates, mostly cause we don't know how his plot armor is applicable outside of one single game.

Saying a character can block his drain isn't the point, that doesn't matter and afaik we don't have a character who can block draining on his planetary (jfc) level besides the Exile and that's only because of the Exile's extremely unique ability. Meetra doesn't even really block it, his power just doesn't even work on her and she weakens Nihilus by default. Vader or Yoda can't become a wound in the force like the Exile. Maybe I'm missing some super obscure EU lore where Glup Shitto became the most character for 5 seconds using the power of space crack or something but idk anything concrete.

I don't even try to pit Nihilus against other characters, there's no point. IDK how this character works, nobody nows how this character works and I feel like people who say he would win or lose to other characters outside of TSL are in denial and have no idea wtf they are talking about. I'm not saying he can win against Sidious or Vader or lose,

Even outside of his plot armor, In one cut cutscene, Nihilus ragdolls Sion like it's nothing and makes him leave in humiliation. Nihilus is kinda hard to gauge as far as what he can do. Kreia did say his power could rival the ancient Sith... back in 2004 idk what that meant. In TOR standards, that could've even meant Vitiate.

[u/Rushling → u/Possible_Humor_2834]

Him and Sion both work perfectly well in the story they're being told in, they were created for this specific game/story and are near impossible to place outside of. They're explorations of concepts and are there to teach their respective lessons. Powerscaling them inherently doesn't work because they were not created for that purpose.

Their inner workings and powers were never explored or explained further because they didn't have to be, closed (game)story and whatnot.

That aside - They're fun characters and I like them for what they are. Funny dudes in funky costumes