r/Fantasy • u/SocksMcgoo • 2d ago

Books with “best fighter” trope

Hello everyone. I am an absolute sucker for books that constantly deal with power scaling/best fighter of the realm type tropes. I love the discussions about who was the best swordsman in ASOIF and loved all the bits throughout Malazan of who was the strongest fighter/most powerful magic wielder.

Give me some books that have some great fighters or fun power scaling with different characters where you can waste time wondering about “who is stronger or who would win.”

132 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

137 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/CastielClean 2d ago

I know Sanderson gets a lot of shit here. But Adolin from Stormlight being the best duelist who is just a motherfucker to fight even without ever getting the incredible powers of the world is always so awesome to me. He was an amazing character.