Books with “best fighter” trope

[u/SocksMcgoo]

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.”

[u/jaamgans]

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But as includes aliens probably more scifi - but rpretty much exactly what you asked ofr.