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Definite Proof (as using actual in text statements and feats) Darth Plagueis is NOT tier 5B (likely much higher)

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Darth Plagueis DEFINETELY isn't in tier 5b and likely much higher

Let's get on to the feats which comfirm this

"A standard month after the events on Coruscant, Plagueis summoned Sidious to Muunilinst. Sidious had visited the High Port skyhook but had never been invited downside, and now he found himself soaring over one of the planet's unspoiled blue oceans in a stylish airspeeder piloted by two Sun Guards. As the speeder approached Aborah, he settled deeply into the Force and was rewarded with a vision of the mountain island as a transcendent vortex of dark energy unlike anything he had ever experienced. It was something he would have expected to encounter only on Korriban or some other Sith world."

Then, As explained by palpatine

"Seen through the Force, he was a nuclear oval of mottled light, a rotating orb of terrifying energy. If the Maladian attack had weakened him physically, it had also helped to shape his etheric body into a vessel sufficiently strong to contain the full power of the dark side."

Which implies YES plagueis can use these overpowered nexus's of energy he can create

This implies he can harness the combined power more powerful than korriban which is influenced by multiple dead sith lords energies... Specifically the energies of Lord Khreusis, Ajunta Pall, Darth Krayt, Ludo Kressh, Marka Ragnos, Naga Sadown, Tulak Hord, Darth Bane, and XoXaan, all combined.....

Also consider this plaguies ISN'T planetary when trying... In the book he essentially was destroying the planet JUST BY BEING ON IT not even trying (and also melts shit near him like snow)

AND it is referred as a planetary force nexus, sooo NO this ain't no ordinary planet and can't just be lowballed to planet surface level, do to the preasence of this nexus which was effected by his preasence

"Later it would be said by Naboo and Gungan alike that they couldn't recall a colder winter than the one that followed Hego Damask's autumnal visit to their world. The rivers and even the falls below Theed froze; the rolling plains and tall forests were blanketed three meters deep with snow; plasmic quakes rocked the Gallo Mountains and the Lake Country, the Holy Places and the undersea city of Otoh Gunga; and many of the egresses of the underwaterways that hollowed the planet were blocked by ice floes."

"On my first visit to your homeworld I recognized it as a nexus in the Force. And I remember thinking how appropriate it was that the dark side should be hiding on such a beautiful planet."


"The obedient orphan stood shivering in swirling snow. Around him rose ice pinnacles shaped like jagged teeth; a glacial wind howled through them. Plagueis stood nearby, flakes of snow and ice gyrating around him but never lighting on him, melting before they reached him."

Heck the literal force RAN AWAY FROM HIM do to his power LMFAO... There never has been someone powerful enough to do that in the past, YES there was people who were RIPS in the force, but the litteral force didn't fear anyone (including beings like darth nihilus) till plagueis came into being

it says

"And so he had stretched out—indeed, as if invisible, transubstantiated—to inform every being of his existence, and impact all of them: Muunoid or insectoid, secure or dispossessed, free or enslaved. A warrior waving a banner in triumph on a battlefield. A ghost infiltrating a dream.

But ultimately to no end. The Force grew silent, as if in flight from him, and many of the animals in his laboratory succumbed to horrifying diseases."


Heck considering darth plaguies is stemmed off from the darth bane lineage who well knows about past sith lords https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/u...36-022 013 humans & aliens - 1000bby bne3.jpg and did collect sith holocrons

heck considering in obi wans first battle against darth maul consume essence was used against obi wan, AND considering palpatine also has always known force drain implies YES it is VERY VERY likely plaguies has knowledge of previous sith lords especially darth nihilus (also most of palpatines dark side holocrons came from his master so at this point it is common logic that plaguies likely knew of previous sith lords)

Plagueis himself also claims that with enough effort he can gain ANY force ability, and even claims he is more powerful then any other previous sith that has been shown in holocrons including the likes of nihilus and etc.... "But Plagueis now understood that Tenebrous had been wrong about sorcery, as he had been wrong about so many things. Yes, the gift was strongest in those who, with scant effort, could allow themselves to be subsumed by the currents of the Force and become conduits for the powers of the dark side. But there was an alternative path to those abilities, and it led from a place where the circle closed on itself and sheer will substituted for selflessness. Plagueis understood, too, that there were no powers beyond his reach; none he couldn't master through an effort of will. If a Sith of equal power had preceded him, then that one had taken his or her secrets to the grave, or had locked them away in holocrons that had been destroyed or had yet to surface."

Heck considering darth plagueis was drugged, and sleeping, when mostly killed by palpatine (via destroying his breathing device early) and let his death happen willingly to experiment on himself

"Crackling from his fingertips, a web of blue lightning ground itself on the Muun's breathing device. Plagueis's eyes snapped open, the Force gathering in him like a storm, but he stopped short of defending himself. This being who had survived assassinations and killed countless opponents merely gazed at Sidious, until it struck him that Plagueis was challenging him! Confident that he couldn't be killed, and in denial that he was slowly suffocating, he might have been simply experimenting with himself, actually courting death to put it in its place. Momentarily taken aback, Sidious stood absolutely still. Was Plagueis so self-deluded as to believe that he had achieved immortality? The question lingered for only a moment, then Sidious unleashed another tangle of lightning, drawing more deeply on the dark side than he ever had."

Tells us that NO palpatine didn't properly kill his master for rule of 2

And if you like "well plagueis didn't either" well.... The problem here is that plaguies himself knew most of tenobrous's teaching and even knew MORE THEN TENEBROUS according to text since he was allowed to witness the maxi chlorians in action and understand them unlike his master who tried that his WHOLE life and also admitted to plaguises power after death

"Looking at the Bith through the Force, he perceived that the midi-chlorians were already beginning to die out, as were the neurons that made up Tenebrous's lofty brain and the muscle cells that powered his once-able heart."

"The dispersal of midi-chlorians at the moment of physical death was, for lack of a better term, inexorable. Analogous to his fated confrontation with the Woebegone crew, the moment of death appeared to be somehow fixed in space and time. According to his Sith education, since Captain Lah and the others had been in some sense dead from the moment Plagueis's gaze had alighted on the freighter, it followed that the midi-chlorians that resided in alleged symbiosis with them must have been preparing to be subsumed into the reservoir of life energy that was the Force long before Plagueis had stowed away. His attempts to save them—to prolong that state of symbiosis—were comparable to using a sponge to dam a raging river."


NOW I definetely ain't saying plagueis was more powerful then his master before death and at death in fact it says tenobrous is more powerful right at the moment tenobrous died as said here

"This was Plagueis' customary technique: a close examination, through the Force, of the midi-chlorian decay that accompanied the physical death of his victims. Tenebrous was by far the most powerful Force-user whose death Plagueis had the opportunity to observe, and he had known all along that his apprentice would apply all his physical, mental, and Force capabilities-pitiful as they might be- to witness each slightest detail."

BUT considering tenobrous didn't realize how powerful darth plaguies was

"Driven by the dark side-powered will of the Sith Master, the retrovirus propagated with incredible speed. As it carried his consciousness throughout his apprentice's body, Tenebrous found himself becoming pleasurably aware the he was gaining access to Plagueis' sensorium. He could literally feel what Plagueis felt, both the coldly clinical satisfaction at having successfully engineered Tenebrous' murder.... and the Force-perception that let Plagueis monitor the last vanishing remnants of Tenebrous' uninfected midi-chlorians.

Full access to his apprentice's Force-perceptions! Delightful. Better than Tenebrous had allowed himself to hope."

And considering plaguies learned more then his master even knew after words technically implies not much longer after plagueis WOULD be more powerful via gaining VERY VERY useful knowledge, sooo he still walked out in his masters death following rule of 2 motto for "apperentice becoming more powerful after masters death" and "more powerful then master to ensure sith power and survival" type mentality, even though it was more just by sheer luck of being able to see midichlorions and maxi chlorians in the first place rather then the formal, and power boost as gain in knowledge instead since his master shot himself out of plagueis after death (sooo coinsidentally even though he depised the rule of 2 he just followed the main base idea of it LOLOLOLOL)....

Soooo, Pls don't take that wrong LMFAO... I hate it when people bend my words agains me so i just decided to potential complainers with the facts.

Now one more thing i should also mention is palpatine is still unsure of wether he surpassed plaguies's still

When he was in training he said

"Palpatine hadn't been attempting to flatter Plagueis when he had called him wise-not entirely, at any rate. The Muun was powerful beyond Palpatine's present understanding."

and even after plagueis's death it says

"Sidious knew that his own powers had increased tenfold over the decades, but he couldn't be certain he had learned all of Plagueis's secrets—"his sorcerer's ways," as the Sun Guards referred to them—including the ability to prevent beings from dying. He sometimes wondered: Was he a level behind? Two levels behind? Such questions were precisely what had driven generations of Sith apprentices ultimately to challenge their Masters. The uncertainty about who was the more powerful."

Soooo, Considering palpatine couldn't comrehend his masters power and still can't implies we know for sure palpatine is an unreliable source

and before anyone mentions gearge lucas stating palpatine is the most powerful sith of all time keep this in mind.... Darth plagueis was created after the star wars series was created, and considering plagueis isn't lucas's creation, it makes sense... It is a classic "my guy is more powerful then yours" situation especially considering now that gearge lucas's statements isn't canon anymore since his whole franchise and ideas were bought out by disney....

Sooo, Considering all the MOST POWERFUL SITH LORD statements by gearge lucas, and now do to his creations non canonality implies this statement https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11117/111179633/5752393-6495534056-A05Ab.jpg and gearge lucas's technically implies this scenario of "my guy is more powerful then yours", sooooo that technically is also not a viable source ANYMORE at least....

Back then YEAAAH it was true due to him being essentially the canonality of the series, but considering that isn't the case anymore + the logic of the situation + the unreliability of said said statements from palpatines mouth makes it, so that.... Technically, if your actually being logical you wouldn't say non of them is more powerful then the other and only rely on feats rather then unsupported and unreliable statements (if you find a disney director or lead writer saying sooo then hmu and let me know, but for now it is 100% unknown, AAAND gaining a force boost after a sith kills his master isn't comfirmed 100% access to masters power only some, if palpatine really did gain his masters power he would be able to manipulate midi chlorians which clearly isn't the case sooo we can't pretend this is a 100% power gain when in many many wasy IT IS NOT)....

NOW Let's get back to feats now shall we

Darth plaguies is the only sith master that completely was able to disrupt others perception of the future

sooo he isn't just masking his energy and location he is masking time perception in general

"Yoda and the rest of the Council members will double their meditation sessions in an effort to peer into the future, only to discover it clouded and unknowable. Only to discover that complacency has opened the door to catastrophe."

AND THIS WAS IN A PROTECTIVE FORCE BUBBLE where is says about the bubble

"Where an extremely low midi-chlorian count might have bolstered the odds of survival, nature had instead made the ysalimir species strong in the Force. So strong, in fact, that several of the creatures acting in concert could create a Force bubble encompassing kilometers rather than meters. In a sense, the Jedi Order had done the same on a galactic scale, Plagueis believed, by bathing the galaxy in the energy of the light side of the Force; or more accurately by fashioning a Force bubble that had prevented infiltration by the dark side"

Which implies plagueis was soooooo powerful not even the future is determined even

aaaand in the journal of the whills it indicates a universe where the future is pretty much already determined

As it says in aftermath empires end in the journal of the wills

"The truth in our soul, is that nothing is true. The question of life is what then do we do? The burden is ours to penance we hew. The force binds us all from a certain point of view."

heck george lucas says "Originally, I was trying to have the story be told by somebody else (an immortal being known as a Whill); there was somebody watching this whole story and recording it, somebody probably wiser than the mortal players in the actual events. I eventually dropped this idea, and the concepts behind the Whills turned into the Force. But the Whills became part of this massive amount of notes, quotes, background information that I used for the scripts; the stories were actually taken from the Journal of the Whills."

soooo technically whills really just, spectate, and enforce the deterministic future via through the force

Which means YES this is cannon and DARTH PLAGUIS essentially obscured if not momentarily destroyed this deterministic nature of the universe

Which means YES, i guess we can speculate he used maxi chlorions since after all as i indicated earlier he almost had more knowledge over them then his master.... But, That is only speculation.... NOW I ain't gonna consider it absolute fact he used it through sheer power still though it is high likelyhood through the fact that even the force was running from him, so this level of a feat is kind of not suprising

Those 2 feats is a likely indication Darth Plagueis overpowered the force to such extreme extents (to destroying determinism)....

That he possibly to be and likely to be a Whills level being, and the whills is pretty much the force gods. Sooooooo.... I don't where only flippen planetary is derived from feats like this smh (also note he could forcibly RIP the midi chlorians out of any being according to text, soooo yeeeeah)....

These feats 100% comfirm that darth plaguies is NOT just tier 5b

He is at least 4c, and at most 4a, but considering the power behind his feats i would solidly make him 4b.... Soooo, Bassicaly what i'm saying is this power level is NEEDED to be changed BADLY from 5b, to a more realistic 4c - 4b

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Plagueis
 
1. I have no idea what you're even talking about.

2. 5-B scaling from Yarael Poof's feat is likely going to be removed very soon.
 
LMFAO Yeah....

Bassically.... Darth plagueis has multiple feats proving he is more powerful then many many of the ancient and some of the most powerful sith lords combined, acting as a crazy dark side energy nexus.... Being, Referred to have scaled vastly beyond any previous sith lords INCLUDING powerful sith lords like nihilus, vitiate and etc.... Who are already 5b comfirming above 5b levels...

Heck considering plagueis DESTROYED PLANETS by simply being on them, without exerting himself.... This makes the likelyhood of him being 5b 100% unlikely.... For example is like me giving definitive proof hulk can destroy planets in marvel, just to say his mere act of walking around destroying the crust limits his max power to continental levels only LOLOLOL that's how severe this downplay truly is....

Darth plagueis is also the only being in star wars existence that is soooo powerful, the literal force was running away from him trying to escape....

His power is soooo great the star wars universe which is mainly described as a determistic reality (aka: Already pre planned future, lack of free will, which is why seeing in the future and predicting it with accuracy is possible) started to have it's deterministic nature collapse with jedi like yoda and the sith council who were acrossed the galaxy to not even being able to see into the future passed the blur storm darth plaguies's energy created....

The thing though is this deterministic reality is guarded and enforced by the force itself, structured as being who are the literal will of the force, called the whills (LMFAO Someone was lazy for naming), who were essentially safe guards to destiny, and the closest thing to gods in star wars, and plagueis did something that defies the will of these gods who are supposed to be all powerful SOMEHOW...

Conclusion: This post is not just to crap on how innacurate the 5b scaling is. But, Also is here to make the point that he was also the only sith to be indicated as powerful if not more powerful then litteral gods in star wars causing a momentarily disorted future, do to his power overriding the deterministic nature of the star wars and reality and essentially overriding THE CONCEPT OF DESTINY ITSELF, which is essentially bending time to the extent indirectly (note this was when plagueis was just around there never has been evidence of him actually trying in this feat) to be a comfirmed low tier 2c feat... aaaaaand despite all of this evidence in everyones face of him litterally being accidentally 5b by merely walking on a planet, AAAAND being the only sith to bend reality to a low tier 2c extent through there disruption in the force, is still called planetary... https://pics.me.me/wheeze-45335616.png
 
I just stated it in the, in text format of how they said it in the text of the books.... Soooo, If anyone ever wants to update it's innacuracies, and actually provide in text statement they can have an easier time citing sources for feats... Instead of forcing them to search hundreds of pages i purposely said the exact word by word soooo if any one want to cite it to an online versions direct location of statement for validity... They instead can just ctrl alt f that crud LMFAO....
 
Not imlying he 100% made a low tier 2c feat.... But, Considering i can't find any loopholes that is stated in text explaining a short cut on how it hapenned instead of brute forcing into low 2c category, that's why i mentioned it LOL.

Sooooo, I will be on that case to make sure a ? or maybe is at the end of the feat if it is also updated into feats category LOLOLOLOL.
 
Try to limit your responses to one comment. Multiple posting just clogs discussion up. Sarcastic responses and dismissal of the opposition also isn't the best tactic.
 
Palpatine mostly killed him in the way he did because Plagueis:

  • Wasn't going to leave Coruscant


  • Lived right near the Jedi Temple
He wasn't going off world to duel Sidious and any direct fight would lead to the Jedi Order jumping on them. Killing him the way he did was basically the best and only reasonable option for him.
 
I'd still say Palpatine is superior. He's described as the strongest Sith in history tons of times (including the most powerful Banite Sith). Also, he grew in power massively after killing Plagueis.

This seems purposely cropped. Not by you, I've seen it all over the internet.
 
@Qawsedf234

I will dismiss others arugments when the thought behind it lack logic, for example most of the "palpatine is more powerful then plagueis arugments" is based on base rate fallacies, retrospective determinism, special pleading, and false attribution....

For example almost every single sith lord of his era is always called "The most powerful sith lord", from someone, soooo what makes one different then the other??? Well mosty people argue in fiction time, but considering alot of times legends material was made after the creation of star wars in real life, that arugment is rendered useless... Therefor there is nothing really differientiating one sith lords statements from the other, therefor it is safe to say that arugments based on that is basing logic on a very unreliable source.....

Like, when someone else says it, how do we know they knew all about previous sith lords power and actually experienced it to actually have say in the matter?? When it comes to palpatine statements i already explained how unreliable that arugment is...


That type of logic is a a class A example of #1 lack of info, and #2 bias.... When normal death battle rules claim for a fair and unbiased rule set.... Which also includes unbias logic, or the ruleset is just rendered useless....

If you can provide ACTUAL feats that are scaling above plagueis that's how you do it, not by using unreliable sources and headlogic.... I will make it absolutely clear, for those out there who do that type of stuff.... Soooo, Hopefully you realize, when it comes to lack of logic "dismissal of the opposition" is necissary, in order for others to realize the flaw in there arugments and change there tactics to even something as simple as mentioning banite sith lords like @byasura did
 
Hey @ByAsura did any of these banite sith lords that said that know darth plagueis in person too, to be able to accurately gage there power sets against eachother??
 
@XSOULOFCINDER Yeee darth plagueis is pretty badass.... The time plagueis had to fight back when realizing sidious was shocking him too. I find it pretty intresting how he just let it happen to experiment on himself since he was convinced he solved the problem of death (which makes sense since he had lik 5 different methods of staying alive and coming back from death which makes it a big plot hole on why he didn't...). Tbh, Considering his disruption of the spacetime continuum i'm suspecting the whills might have hopped onto the chance of being able to stop him at death from palpatine, which would explain this plot hole.
 
They're WOG sources. They know who Palpatine is and are probably directly referring to him.
 
Also @Qawsedf234 you are correct on that reasoning of plagueis, although if plagueis really didn't want to experiment on himself he still would be capable of masking his energy in fight like he did when the assasins when he was also near the temple.....

Soooo, Yeah you are mostly correct other then missing out on the fact he was tryna experiment on himself as a third reasoning

"Crackling from his fingertips, a web of blue lightning ground itself on the Muun's breathing device. Plagueis's eyes snapped open, the Force gathering in him like a storm, but he stopped short of defending himself. This being who had survived assassinations and killed countless opponents merely gazed at Sidious, until it struck him that Plagueis was challenging him! Confident that he couldn't be killed, and in denial that he was slowly suffocating, he might have been simply experimenting with himself, actually courting death to put it in its place. Momentarily taken aback, Sidious stood absolutely still. Was Plagueis so self-deluded as to believe that he had achieved immortality? The question lingered for only a moment, then Sidious unleashed another tangle of lightning, drawing more deeply on the dark side than he ever had."
 
I'll address some of this stuff tomorrow, because Palpatine actually has a ton of similar feats, surprisingly.
 
That's just a cute reference, I don't think its really usable as a feat.
 
Dacreepinshadow said:
Based on what @Matthew Schroeder....
Based on him learning everything Plagueis knew and then killing him before his big Dark Side Force Nexus Power Boost that rippled throughout the galaxy.
 
@Qawsedf234 Well.... It CAN be used do to it's cannonality, but considering the comics really ain't serious, it's more like a usable gag feat LOLOLO.
 
"Based on him learning everything"

*Looks over*

"Sidious knew that his own powers had increased tenfold over the decades, but he couldn't be certain he had learned all of Plagueis's secrets—"his sorcerer's ways," as the Sun Guards referred to them—including the ability to prevent beings from dying. He sometimes wondered: Was he a level behind? Two levels behind? Such questions were precisely what had driven generations of Sith apprentices ultimately to challenge their Masters. The uncertainty about who was the more powerful."

Tell me have you seen palpatine using midi chlorian manipulation, or ripping the midi chlorians/force energies out of others forcibly causing the opponent to die, or even revive others.....
 
Matthew Schroeder said:
1. I have no idea what you're even talking about.

2. 5-B scaling from Yarael Poof's feat is likely going to be removed very soon.
I guess you could say the feat is going to...go Poof?

Ha! I crack myself up.
 
@Matthew Schroeder

LOL I hope you know that dismissing someones arugments without providing proof.... Is a huge fallacy called "Appeal to the stone".
 
I asked you to give proof, not opinion. @Matthew Schroeder

I hope you know, that ignoring people, and using fallacies as reasoning, is kinda rude LMAO...
 
Looks over at definition "Argumentum ad lapidem (English: "appeal to the stone") is a logical fallacy that consists in dismissing a statement as absurd, invalid, or incorrect, without giving proof of its absurdity.[1][2][3]

Ad lapidem statements are fallacious because they fail to address the merits of the claim in dispute. The same applies to proof by assertio, where an unproved or disproved claim is asserted as true on no ground other than that of its truth having been asserted."
 
As before Dacreep, try to limit your stuff to one response rather than several. As for scaling, I have to agree that upscaling Plagueis to Vitiate isn't the safest thing to do. Not only was Vitiate rather unknown when most of these quotes were made, Plagueis himself was so uniformed on Vitiate that he didn't even know his name. Showing the Bane Sith didn't have solid archieves on the ancient era.
 
I suppose the vortex stuff (I don't know the full context on that) and Palpatine not knowing who's stronger is fine, but I have problems with the rest. Sorry if I don't cover absolutely everything, it's just that your writing style (no offense) is quite confusing and there's a ton of information.

Force Nexus

Valley of the Jedi
Plagueis might be comparable to the Force Nexus on Korriban (known as the Valley of the Dark Lords), but that's nothing. Even Jerec couldn't surpass Palpatine by absorbing the entire Valley of the Jedi, which is known as the most powerful force nexus in the entire galaxy and could singlehandedly change the balance of power in the galaxy.

  • Morgan Katarn had discovered ancient ruins on the planet pointing the way to the Valley of the Jedi, the fabled battleground between the ancient Jedi and Sith. The Valley represented a great focal point of energy that, if exploited, could turn the tide in the perpetual battle between light and dark.
The Valley of the Jedi contains the souls and power of all the Jedi that died on Ruusan from Kaan's though bomb, of which there were a hundred.

  • The hundred Jedi-the ninety-nine chosen plus Hoth himself-stood anxiously at the entrance of the tunnels.
  • "That's what I just said," Farfalla insisted with just a hint of annoyance. Then he continued, "On the other hand, people find me witty and charming. I can be quite persuasive when necessary. Give me leave to recruit others to our cause, and I will return with a hundred-no, three hundred!-Jedi ready to join the Army of Light."
It's even stated to contain the Sith warriors that died on this planet, but Jerec didn't absorb them. Meaning he only scales to half the Valley's full power, if not a little less since there were somewhat less Jedi than Sith.

  • Several years later, the Valley of the Jedi became a focal point in the struggle between Katarn and the Dark Jedi Desann. When Katarn was led to believe that Jan Ors had died, he went to the Valley of the Jedi to restore his power in the Force. Returning to Yavin 4, he revealed the Valley's location to Luke Skywalker. Unbeknownst to Katarn, the death of Jan was a deception engineered by Desann to allow the Empire to find the location of the Valley. From the power of the Valley, Desann and Galak Fyyar created an army of Reborn dark siders used in an attempt to invade the Jedi academy.
  • Instead of dying, Jerec's spirit was drawn down into the Valley, where it was doomed to linger with the rest of the ancient Sith for millennia.
  • Thought Bomb: A volatile cauldron of seething Force energy unleashed during the Battle of Ruusan. Lord Kaan and his followers triggered the bomb against the armies of Lord Hoth, resulting in a furious explosion of energy that annihilated every last member of Hoth's Army of Light and Kaan's Brotherhood of Darkness. The vacuum at the center of the blast sucked in thousands of the disembodied spirits and trapped them in an unbreakable state of equilibrium.
  • His Yuuzhan Vong-enhanced body was failing. He began making pilgrimages to Korriban, where he hoped to consult with the spirits of the ancient Sith Lords who were buried in the Valley of the Jedi.
Dark Empire Palpatine
Palpatine, even before his first death at Endor, required clones to actually maintain a physical form because the dark side physically degrades them. At the time of his death by Darth Vader's hands, he had been consumed by dark side energy and erupted, existing as disembodied dark side energy. You actually see this happening in Return of the Jedi.

Despite the degredation, he actually grows far more powerful. At his peak, he actually became a true force nexus (not just a similarly powerful vortex)—a "darkness beyond darkness"—that bursts open the fabric of space.

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Plagueis' Death

Imbalance In The Force
Upon Plagueis' death, Palpatine's new abilities change the balance of force within the galaxy. He may not have killed Plagueis in combat like most aprentices do, but he certainly reaped the benefits.

  • A tremor took hold of the planet. Sprung from death, it unleashed itself in a powerful wave, at once burrowing deep into the world's core and radiating through its saccharine atmosphere to shake the stars themselves. At the quake's epicenter stood Sidious, one elegant hand vised on the burnished sill of an expansive translucency, a vessel filled suddenly to bursting, the Force so strong within him that he feared he might disappear into it, never to return. But the moment didn't constitute an ending so much as a true beginning, long overdue; it was less a transformation than an intensification—a gravitic shift. A welter of voices, near and far, present and from eons past, drowned his thoughts. Raised in praise, the voices proclaimed his reign and cheered the inauguration of a new order. Yellow eyes lifted to the night sky, he saw the trembling stars flare, and in the depth of his being he felt the power of the dark side anoint him. Slowly, almost reluctantly, he came back to himself, his gaze settling on his manicured hands. Returned to the present, he took note of his rapid breathing, while behind him the room labored to restore order. [...] Also sprawled there, Plagueis: his slender limbs splayed and elongated head turned to one side. Dressed in finery, as for a night on the town. And now dead. Or was he? Uncertainty rippled through Sidious, rage returning to his eyes. A tremor of his own making, or one of forewarning? Was it possible that the wily Muun had deceived him? Had Plagueis unlocked the key to immortality, and survived after all? Never mind that it would constitute a petty move for one so wise—for one who had professed to place the Grand Plan above all else. Had Plagueis become ensnared in a self-spun web of jealousy and possessiveness, victim of his own engineering, his own foibles? If he hadn't been concerned for his own safety, Sidious might have pitied him. Wary of approaching the corpse of his former Master, he called on the Force to roll the aged Muun over onto his back. [...] Sidious took care, still reaching out with the Force. On closer inspection, he saw that Plagueis's already cyanotic flesh was smoothing out, his features relaxing. [...] This was no Sith trick. Not an instance of feigning death, but one of succumbing to its cold embrace. The being who had guided him to power was gone. [...] The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. One heartbeat late and the universe would have recomposed itself, no imposition of will sufficient to forestall the currents. One could only observe and react. Surprise was the element absent from any periodic table. A keystone element; a missing ingredient. The means by which the Force amused itself. A reminder to all sentient beings that some secrets could never be unlocked. Confident that the will of the dark side had been done, he returned to the suite's window wall. Two beings in a galaxy of countless trillions, but what had transpired in the suite would affect the lives of all of them. Already the galaxy had been shaped by the birth of one, and henceforth would be reshaped by the death of the other. But had the change been felt and recognized elsewhere? Were his sworn enemies aware that the Force had shifted irrevocably? Would it be enough to rouse them from self-righteousness? [...] His eyes sought and found an ascending constellation of stars, one of power and consequence new to the sky, though soon to be overwhelmed by dawn's first light. Low in the sky over the flatlands, visible only to those who knew where and how to look, it ushered in a bold future. To some the stars and planets might seem to be moving as ever, destined to align in configurations calculated long before their fiery births. But in fact the heavens had been perturbed, tugged by dark matter into novel alignments. In his mouth, Sidious tasted the tang of blood; in his chest, he felt the monster rising, emerging from shadowy depths and contorting his aspect into something fearsome just short of revealing itself to the world. The dark side had made him its property, and now he made the dark side his. Breathless, not from exertion but from the sudden inspiration of power, he let go of the sill and allowed the monster to writhe through his body like an unbroken beast of range or prairie. Had the Force ever been so strong in anyone?
Sorry for the extremely long quote.

A Cloud Over The Galaxy
In canon, it's implied Yoda couldn't see the the future because of the Clone Wars and the Empire's ascension over the galaxy, but Legends implies that the balance of power in the dark side changed after Sidious became it's head (Plagueis had died shortly before the Phantom Menace). This is mentioned in the Revenge of the Sith novel.

  • Depowered lampdisks were rings of ghostly gray floating in the gloom. The shimmering jewelscape of Coruscant haloed the knife-edged shadow of the chair. This was the office of the Chancellor. Within the chair's shadow sat another shadow: deeper, darker, formless and impenetrable, an abyssal umbra so profound that it drained light from the room around it. And from the city. And the planet. And the galaxy.
  • To Mace's Force perception, the world crystallized around them, becoming a gem of reality shot through with flaws and fault lines of possibility. This was Mace's particular gift: to see how people and situations fit together in the Force, to find the shear planes that can cause them to break in useful ways, and to intuit what sort of strike would best make the cut. Though he could not consistently determine the significance of the structures he perceived—the darkening cloud upon the Force that had risen with the rebirth of the Sith made that harder and harder with each passing day—the presence of shatterpoints was always clear.
Other Stuff

  • 1. IIRC, it's stated that Palpatine has learned almost every single Force power and created new ones.
  • 2. As I explained, Palpatine did cloud the Jedi's abilities to see the future. Also, Terberous himself made Plagueis unable to see the future for a day and was implied to be the reason why he couldn't see his death.
  • 3. Palpatine has 10 times the amount of "most powerful ever" statements.
  • 4. This feat from Tag & Bink isn't canon to even the regular Legends universe according to Wookiepedia. You can also tell this is a gag feat because they imply Superman exists and say "but that's another story and an entirely different publishing house".
  • 5. Krayt's tomb was actually a false stasis chamber, not a conventional one, and his death took place well before Fate of the Jedi when he was killed by Darth Wyyrlok III 133 years after the Battle of Endor and was nowhere near as powerful as his 4-A key. Plus, he resurrected himself shortly afterwards, meaning his spirit wasn't even there, and the first time he even went on Korriban was 17 BBY, while Plagueis died before 32 BBY.
Conclusion
Palpatine is so powerful in the ways of the dark side that he's literally become pure energy that cannot maintain a permanent residence in a body without degrading it. Despite this, the degredation turns him into a literal force nexus that damages the fabric of space-time by existing.

After ascending to the position of a Sith Master, Sidious clouded the galaxy in an "abyssal umbrella" that the Jedi can't see through, and Terberous himself could render Plagueis unable to see the future to an extent.

Sidious has both learned almost every power, even the most obscure, and created new ones. He also has way more statements of being "the ultimate representation of the dark side" or the "most powerful sith" than Plagueis. Also, I doubt Plagueis' statements refer to Palpatine after became a Sith Master, as it took every Jedi in 25,000 years to defeat him permanently in Dark Empire: Empire's End.

Plagueis wasn't even alive when Krayt died or stepped foot on Korriban, and shouldn't scale at all.
 
Yeah, a key detail is that Palpatine became as powerful as he is specifically after killing Plagueis, at which point he was already more powerful than his master. The prologue to the Plagueis novel describes Sidious as a vessel being annointed by the Dark Side and filled to the point of bursting as the voices of Sith past chanted his name in unison and a literal tremor in the Force spread across the galaxy to shake the stars themselves. Which is not only the best feat ever done by a Force User that's not a ******* god in all of Legends, but also extremely clear in the idea that Sidious was empowered by the event.
 
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