Albus Dumbledore VS. Master Yoda

Jedi in general win for several reasons.

1) The nature of force attacks vs. the nature of spells. Spells require a conscious incantation of some kind (spoken or unspoken) and have travel time. They are dodge-able by 12 year-olds. Force attacks are near instantaneous (force lightning for example is literally lightning that is generated from force energy) and require the thought, not a specific pronunciation. Have you ever asked someone to grab you that thing on the shelf, no not that one, the one next to it, no other side, yeah that's the one? Spells suffer from that. If you say the word wrong, or think it wrong, either nothing happens or the wrong thing happens. Force powers are more idea based than incantation based.

2) Training. In general, Jedi are trained from a very, very young age until well into adult-hood, say 30+ years. They learn responsibility for their powers, craft their own weapons, and learn how to attack and defend using a variety of techniques. Jedi are the guardians and peacekeepers of their galaxy. They are warriors and bodyguards and counselors. Wizards get about 7-10 years of training then are released into the world, where a majority of them become average joes-house keepers, dock workers, pencil-pushers, stay-at-home-moms etc. Wizards get a few years of DAtDA courses whose efficiency range from practical, to absolutely worthless, to actively counter productive.

3) Power set. As I mentioned before, Jedi are warriors and peacekeepers while wizards are whatever they want to be. The magical bag of tricks is potentially much larger, but the average wizard does not have the creativity or training to effectively utilize their potential advantage. They also can't use unspoken magic very well, aren't particularly immune to mind tricks, and are reliant on their wands to do anything. Jedi have precog, innately channeled "magic", telekinesis, a standard load-out with deadly weapons as well as other useful tools, and force enhanced physical stats.

Jedi stomp 9.8/10

As for Yoda vs DD? I think it's a much closer fight and depends on how the magic and the Force interact with each other. I think that it's still Yoda's fight to lose, but comes closer to 8/10 in his favor. If they have no knowledge of the other beforehand I think Yoda has the advantage because he is more used to the opponent being incredibly dangerous even without weapons/wands/etc. With intel on the other I think DD gets a boost to his win ratio making it about 7/10 with the edge still going to Yoda.

Yoda is hundreds of years old and been practicing with the Force for all of them. He has the experience edge, he has precog, he has speed/agility, and he has increased strength. Mobility might be a wash, because combat mobility is pretty strongly in his favor, but apparition could be used to devastating effect in a battle, like the way that Goku uses IT in his battle against Perfect Cell (although it was never utilized that way in the HP books or movies). I concede that through creative and judicious use of magic-to a degree that hasn't been displayed in movies or books-DD can take a few wins, but the gap he has to overcome is pretty large.

TL;DR Average Jedi stomps the Average Wizard, Yoda takes it 8/10 without intel and 7/10 if they have some forewarning about the enemy's abilities.

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