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Originally Posted by DionTheDman
I buy this... to an extent. He might have the raw ability, but he got a fraction of the training a typical Jedi would receive. And he frankly left before he was ready. He bailed from Dagobah with Yoda telling him not to go, that his training wasn't done. And he never received any more, since Yoda died the next time they met.
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Presumably since ROTJ and the Mandalorian, Luke has been focusing on his training, reviewing the old Jedi texts, restoring the order, etc...
I also don't think it's fair to just state Mando was on the level with Ahsoka, and Mando had trouble with one trooper, so one trooper = Ahsoka. Mando was in a closed and confined space when battling the Dark Trooper, who was overwhelming him with pure brute force. If Mando had the room to evade, it would have been a different fight. As others mentioned, the Dark Troopers also lack human intelligence. So a Jedi, who is able to logically predict the Dark Troopers' moves is going to be at a huge advantage. I thought they did a pretty great job of portraying that in the fight. Luke is able to use objects in the environment to delay the Dark Troopers enough to take them out one by one. The Dark Troopers, as droids, lack the ability to use any kind of cunning or improvisation. They basically just walk directly at Luke and try to overwhelm him, which isn't going to work.
Mando also needed some time to find the Dark Trooper's weak points, whereas, this was clearly intuitive to Luke. Also, having a light sabre than can cut through the Dark Troopers was clearly a pretty huge advantage, vs. a blaster that just bounced off. At the end of the day, that may have been the difference maker. Just having a better weapon for the job. If Mando's blaster had cut through the Dark Troopers, the way Luke's lightsabre did, it wouldn't have been a very close fight....or a very entertaining episode for that matter. The Dark Troopers strategy of running into foes and overwhelming them with brute strength is pretty weak, when your opponent has a sabre that cuts through you like butter.