I'm aware that there are other respect threads for Ahsoka, but since she is a character I appreciated in TCW, my intention was to make the most comprehensive one to date, hopefully including all, or at least most of her feats and accolades. For now, this thread is not complete yet, because I'm still searching through source material, but I still felt like adding whatever I have gathered up until now. This blog will also contain Canon only feats and accolades, which will be marked as (Canon).
Having said that, respect Ahsoka Tano:
For the best possible experience, I'd recommend viewing this thread in blog format.
Power/Potential
(Canon) Ahsoka was a notable Force user during the Clone Wars:
Time and again she battled notable Force-wielders including Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, proving to be adept at lightsaber combat and utterly ruthless.
-- http://www.starwars.com/databank/asajj-ventress
(Canon) Ahsoka is a gifted Force user:
While Ahsoka is gifted with raw Force talent, her tendency to follow her heart challenges her path to knighthood.
Credit to |King Joker| from Kmc
-- Ultimate Star Wars
When the Jedi Council assigns Ahsoka to train beside Anakin, they believe that rule-following, optimistic new Padawan will be a good influence on her high-strung Master. They also hope that mentoring the talented young Jedi will help Anakin let go of his attachments.
Credit to |King Joker| from Kmc
-- Ultimate Star Wars
(Canon) Even as a Padawan, she possessed exceptional Jedi skills:
Ahsoka's exceptional Jedi skills lead to missions away from her Master early in her apprenticeship.
Credit to |King Joker| from Kmc
-- Ultimate Star Wars
(Canon) As a child, her potential was great enough to impress Plo Koon:
Plo Koon senses the Force in a Togruta girl while visiting her planet. Impressed by her potential, he brings young Ahsoka Tano to the Jedi Temple for training.
Credit to |King Joker| from Kmc
-- Ultimate Star Wars
(Canon) During the time of Star Wars Rebels, she is stated by Dave Filoni to be very powerful:
"You know, when you get to Ahsoka, she's very powerful, because of her relationship to Anakin Skywalker."
-- The Padawan Lives: The Return of Ahsoka Tano | Star Wars Rebels
(Canon) Even as a Padawan, Ahsoka was a Jedi Legend:
The Clone Wars make headstrong Ahsoka Tano a Jedi Legend - until she realises her destiny may not lie with the Jedi at all.
Credit to Beniboybling
-- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need To Know
(Canon) She possesses many great skills:
Much like her master, she has many great skills, but is reckless and overconfident in battle, while stubbornly focusing on single aspects of a mission rather than seeing the bigger picture.
-- Star Wars Card Trader
Ahsoka's master, Anakin Skywalker, regards her abilities as advanced, to the point of forgetting how young she was:
"Because of Ahsoka's advanced abilities, I forgot how young she is."
-- The Clone Wars Season 2: Holocon Heist
Ahsoka has grown strong in the ways of the Force since her battle with Aurra Sing on Florrum:
Criminals captured! Jedi Master Plo Koon and Padawan Ahsoka Tano successfully thwarted an attempt on Mace Windu's life, killing bounty hunter Aurra Sing in the process. Since that time, young Ahsoka has grown strong in the ways of the Force.
-- The Clone Wars Season 3: Assassin
Obi-Wan Kenobi claims that Ahsoka's potential is great:
“Yes, you can,” he insisted. “You’ve great potential, Ahsoka. Master Yoda has high hopes for you, as does Anakin. Control yourself.”
“Yes—yes—” said Ahsoka, and opened her eyes. In her face a new and formidable determination. “You’re right, Master Kenobi. I can!”
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
“She shows great promise, Anakin,” said Obi-Wan, glancing at him. “The small, scrappy ones often turn out the best, you know.”
-- The Clone Wars: Wild Space
Another Jedi Master regards her potential as enormous:
But at his door she hesitated, then turned. “You might as well know that Ahsoka’s felt trouble, too. She’s got enormous potential, Master. If her precious Skyguy’s not back soon, Padawan or not, she’s going to kick up a fuss.”
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Siege
Anakin regards Ahsoka as a capable and well trained Jedi:
"I know you're well trained and capable, but part of being a master is making sure one's Padawan has enough experience to handle any situation.
-- The Clone Wars: Shipyards Of Doom
Ahsoka's potential was great enough to be recognised by Yoda, and she was made a Padawan earlier than normal because of her talent:
Jedi Master Yoda had taught Ahsoka during her time at the Jedi temple on Coruscant, and he recognised her potential and the challenges she was likely to face.
--
As she was a talented student, Yoda had made Tano a Padawan earlier than normal.
-- Star Wars Fact File 18
While still a rookie Padawan, and before receiving any training from Anakin, Ahsoka possessed uncommon telekinetic abilities:
Ahsoka possessed the spatial awareness common to Togrutas, and her early Jedi training had granted her some rather uncommon telekinetic abilities.
-- Star Wars Fact File 18
Speed/Agility
Ahsoka's agility is stated to be exceptional:
TALENTS: Shien style of lightsabre combat; Force sensitivity; exceptional agility-
-- The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia
Ahsoka jumps out of a groundcar:
“Ahsoka!” said Taria, with one single, burning look. “Alive, remember? Stick to the plan! Mata, stay where you are. Don’t you dare move. Ahsoka?”
In perfect harmony they Force-jumped out of the groundcar, lightsabers igniting as they speared through the air. Smoke and flames and screaming and klaxons, horns blasting, feet running. Chaos and madness.
Plunged into the harsh otherworld of combat, Ahsoka was dimly aware of Taria fighting beside her, a brilliant tawny gold flame in the Force.
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
A few examples of Ahsoka swinging her lightsaber as a blur:
Cunning as Onderonian blood-beasts, the remote droids seemed to sense their advantage. So many swarmed him now he couldn’t cleanly deflect every laser bolt. Fire seared his left thigh and he staggered sideways. His foot skidded on a piece of broken battle droid and he dropped hard to one knee.
A speeding STAP plunged through the smashed skylight, careering between Obi-Wan and the mass of remote droids. He brought up his lightsaber, ready to destroy it—then realized who was controlling the machine.
Ahsoka.
She rode the STAP like a circus performer, swooping and sliding, her lightsaber a green blur. Such a little thing she was, scarcely more than a child. But a lethal child … droids were flying to pieces all around her.
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
A burst of elation gave her a fresh punch of strength. Her lightsaber a green blur in front of her, she leapt to meet the droid on its STAP and slashed both machines in half with a single swiping blow. Her Force-enhanced jump carried her up and over the spinning debris, up and over three charred clone troopers she couldn’t save, a blood-soaked clot of civilians she couldn’t save, and into the path of four shielded droidekas.
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
She deflects a volley of blaster fire:
The clone whose name she didn’t know couldn’t hear her. He was going to die. Locked in her own life-or-death struggle, deflecting a volley of blaster bolts from an oncoming droid on a STAP, nicked and singed and scorched in half a dozen places, Ahsoka reached through the chaos, reached for the Force, and pushed the clone sideways as a stream of plasma sizzled the air where he was standing.
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
This is not a combat speed feat actually, but here, she manages to count Anakin and Obi-Wan's individual moves:
Though it scarcely seemed possible, they were fighting so swiftly already, Master Kenobi and Master Anakin increased their speed. The training lightsabers moved in a blur too fast to see with ordinary eyes. She could still count the individual moves; her Togrutan heritage has gifted her with senses more acute than those of a human, and many other species besides. Holding her breath, amazed and humbled, she watched two of the Temple's finest Jedi put on a display of unmatched skill.
Strike--block--parry--evade--bind--counterbind--countermeasure--broken time--body-to-body and double release--Force push--Force pull--feint--backflip--recover . . . and start again.
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-- The Clone Wars: Wild Space
A Trandoshan hunter states that Ahsoka is faster than most Padawans he and his group had previously encountered:
"This one was faster than most."
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-- The Clone Wars Season 3: "Wookiee Hunt"
A few examples of Ahsoka's leaping prowess:
She dodges blaster fire from Kul Teska:
Some examples of Ahsoka's agility:
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She dodges a volley of blaster fire:
Creating afterimages of her body while avoiding blaster fire:
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Ahsoka blitzes four Death Watch Mandalorians, decapitating them:
She cuts down several droids while appearing to be in several places at once:
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She shows the speed to react to General Grievous' spinning blades:
Tano dodges blaster fire at very close range:
Ahsoka displays enough speed and agility to both dodge and deflect a large number of stun blasts from many clone troopers:
(Canon) While in bladelock, Ahsoka avoids a lightsaber attack from the Fifth Brother by leaping:
(Canon) She grabs the Seventh Sister's lightsaber before the Inquisitor could strike her down:
(Canon) Avoiding the Fifth Brother's lightsaber throw:
Strenght
Ahsoka demonstrates the physical strenght to push back and temporarily stagger Grievous while in a bladelock, albeit with strain. Noting that Grievous, even in canon, was strong enough to physically stomp Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as to crush Mandalorian armors, which have tanked blaster bolts:
(credit to |King Joker| from Kmc)
(Canon) She easily hurls the Fifth Brother, in spite of him being taller and much more muscular than her:
Durability
Ahsoka tanks an explosion at very close range:
(Canon) Ahsoka appears to tank Palpatine's lightning, though it is unknown for how long and to what effect:
"This was a moment where Ahsoka was actually protecting the Holocron Vault by impaling her lightsaber into this doorway to melt it shut, and Sidious was actually on the other side of this big door sending Force lightning up her lightsaber blade and out the other side to attack her."
-- Ahsoka's Untold Tales
(Credit to Beniboybling)
Force Barrier/Tutaminis/Force Deflection
This section will cover Force powers related to the absorption or deflection of incoming attacks.
Ahsoka shields herself from a number of glass shards:
(credit to |King Joker| from Kmc)
Telekinesis
Telekinesis is a Force power enabling a Force user to manipulate his or her surroundings.
While still a rookie Padawan, Ahsoka calls down a large wall:
It wasn’t until she reached out her hand and he felt what she was doing that his stomach lurched.
She was Force-pulling the wall down on top of him.
“Don’t move, Skyguy …”
“Don’t!”
“Trust me. Don’t move a muscle.”
“No! No!”
He was plunged into rumbling shadow. His instinct made him duck and cover his head, still clutching his lightsaber. A whump like an explosion hit him and he couldn’t breathe; he was sucking in choking dust. Something hit him in the leg. Grit peppered his face. He spat and coughed, trying to gulp in clean air, but there wasn’t any. The sun had vanished. He struggled in a gray, smothering fog.
I’m dead, I’m dead, what a stupid way to go—
It took him a few moments to realize that the wall hadn’t crushed him. He found himself squatting in a well of clear ground a little wider than his shoulders, surrounded by rubble and metal. A droid’s arm was flailing, making a repetitive urr-urr-urr noise as its servos struggled. He spat and gasped. He felt as if he’d inhaled every scrap of pulverized permacrete on the planet.
“Are you okay, Master? Come on, we can’t hang around.”
-- The Clone Wars Movie Novelization
She uses TK to slow her fall from a great height:
Force pushing Asajj Ventress:
Ahsoka and Anakin support tons of rubble from a massive wall:
Tano slices the supports of a stage with a Saber Throw:
She blasts away two guards:
Flooring over a dozen droids:
She blasts away several droids:
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Knocking out a group of four pirates by blasting them against a wall:
Pulling Aurra Sing from a vent:
Ahsoka brings down half of a high stone wall, a feat she accomplished while tired.
She reached for the Force again—and suddenly that was harder: she was getting tired—and desperately pulled half a high stone wall down on the machines. Not even their enhanced shields could save them. Flattened, they sparked and spat and died.
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
She blasts away some rubble that was blocking a door:
Force pushing a Trandoshan through two blast doors:
(Canon) Blasting DarthMaulaway:
"There would have been a full on confrontation [between Ahsoka & Maul], which is why when the face each other in Rebels Maul absolutely knows who Ahsoka is.
[...]
We consider it to have happened so that's how we inform the writing in Rebels because that's the history that these characters carry [...]"
-- Ahsoka's Untold Tales
(credit to Beniboybling)
(Canon) Temporarily incapacitating the Fifth Brother with a Force push. Noting that the Fifth Brother had previously telekinetically dominated Kanan Jarrus, a Jedi strong enough to stop a cave in and support a giant catwalk, suggesting that Ahsoka is far more powerful than either of them:
(Canon) She hurls the Seveth Sister against a pillar:
(Canon) Ahsoka Force pushes Darth Vader:
Force Sense/Telepathy
Force Sense is a power enabling a Force user to perceive his or her surroundings and detect life. Telepathy allows to read and manipulate other beings' minds, and communicate with them.
She senses that a Bothan was lying:
Some instances in which Ahsoka senses the emotions of people around her:
The crowded barracks mess hall erupted into muttering and exclamation. Force-sensing from habit, Ahsoka tasted the clones’ swirling emotions. A little caution. A lot of excitement. At first she’d thought the Republic’s clone soldiers welcomed battle because they had no choice—because they’d been genetically programmed to fight and not question that duty. But while that was an uncomfortable truth, one she found herself wrestling with more and more as the war dragged on, it was also true that most of the clones she knew enjoyed combat—and not because some Kaminoan scientist had tweaked a test tube and made sure they would. No. They enjoyed winning. Outsmarting the enemy. Liberating citizens who were being used as pawns by Count Dooku, and Nute Gunray, and the other shadowy leaders of the Separatist Alliance
-- The Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth
Beast Control
Beast Control is a power that allows Force users to tame animals.
Ahsoka displays knowledge of Beast Control:
Combat Skill
Accolades
Ahsoka is noted, both in Legends and Canon, as a talented and skilled duelist:
Able to wield a lightsaber and pilot a spacecraft with great talent, Ahsoka promises to become a worthy Jedi.
-- Padawan Ahsoka Joins the Star Wars Cast
A devoted student of the Jedi ways, Ahsoka was a talented swordsman, a budding tactician, and a critical thinker.
-- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Under Anakin Skywalker's instruction, she becomes a skilled duelist...
-- Ultimate Star Wars
Tano's skill was good enough to surprise her master:
Although Tano showed little tactical awareness, her combat skills with a lightsaber surprised Anakin in a good way.
-- Star Wars Fact File 18
She has impressive skill with a lightsaber:
Although Tano showed little tactical awareness beyond the immediate demands of the battle, her combat skills with a lightsaber were impressive.
-- Star Wars Fact File 18
Her early ability in lightsaber combat was stated to be considerable:
Anakin Skywalker's first, and only, Padawan demonstrated considerable early ability in lightsaber combat.
-- Star Wars Fact File 43
(Canon) While still early in her training, Ahsoka possessed exceptional Jedi skills:
Ahsoka's exceptional Jedi skills lead to missions away from her Master early in her apprenticeship.
Credit to |King Joker| from Kmc
-- Ultimate Star Wars
(Canon) As of Rebels, she is stated as extremely skilled by Henry Gilroy, co-executive producer of the show:
"She is extremely skilled, and I think over the years she's probably had the opportunity to hone her abilities, but there hasn't been much day-to-day ongoing battle in the way she was doing in The Clone Wars, so you could say, on some level, while she's become more measured, her growth is more spiritual in nature."
-- Rebels Recon #2.09: Inside "The Future of the Force" | Star Wars Rebels
As a Padawan, she was a great Jedi warrior:
Ahsoka Tano has become a great Jedi warrior during the Clone Wars.
-- The Clone Wars Uk Magazine 16
(Canon) As of Rebels, she is stated by Dave Filoni as being a great warrior:
"And in this time she's very much a great warrior."
-- The Padawan Lives: The Return of Ahsoka Tano | Star Wars Rebels
(Canon) According to Freddie Prinze Junior, Rebels Ahsoka is one of the top 3 or 4 Jedi duelists of all time:
"Don't think Ahsoka's gonna get owned. Yeah, Ahsoka's, I would say like top 3/4, as far as fighting combat skills, Jedi of all time."
-- Collider Jedi Council - Freddie Prinze Jr aka Kanan Live In Studio!!
(Canon) Ahsoka has advanced combat skills:
Ahsoka plays an important role in the rebellion, serving as an advisor to Commander Sato and the Ghost crew. Due to her senior Jedi training and advanced combat skills, she is also a mentor to both Kanan and Ezra.
-- Star Wars Rebels: Visual Guide: Epic Battles
(Canon) Ahsoka is a force to be reckoned with in combat:
... ; a force to be reckoned with, as she holds her own in combat against General Grievous.
-- Insider 160
(Canon) Her lightsaber technique is impressive:
Vader and Ahsoka continue to forcefully duel, the Togruta using acrobatics and impressive technique.
-- http://www.starwars.com/tv-shows/star-wars-rebels/twilight-of-the-apprentice-episode-gallery-2
(Canon) According to Dave Filoni, Palpatine and Vader are the only people who could match, and obviously defeat Ahsoka during the time of Star Wars Rebels, suggesting she is above the likes of Rebels Maul in dueling:
We used to have this problem in Clone Wars when we would try to put Yoda in a story and it would be like, “Yeah, if Yoda’s there, this isn’t really a problem is it?” That’s because Yoda’s going to go in there and kick everyone’s butt. We all felt that Ahsoka, the only person that could really match her in this time period, blow for blow, would be Vader or the Emperor.
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-- http://www.starwars.com/news/dave-filoni-interview-star-wars-rebels-season-two-part-1
Feats
As a rookie Padawan, she manages to hold her own in combat against Asajj Ventress for over 45 seconds before being defeated, though it should be noted that the latter was holding back:
Ahsoka scowled as if she’d been snubbed. “You’re fighting me.”
“So I am.” Ventress let Ahsoka come within striking distance, then twirled her lightsaber from the center like a baton, flicking one end over the other to catch the tip of Ahsoka’s blade. “Nothing personal.”
Ahsoka charged at her holding her blade high, then dropped to her knees and skidded under Ventress’s guard. Or so the child seemed to think, anyway. It was a simple matter for Ventress of leaping backward to avoid the sweep across her legs. Ahsoka was up on her feet again, racing wide to attack again from the rear, making Ventress pirouette to keep her in view. Blades clashed in parry and thrust while Ventress kept one eye out for Skywalker to come crashing to the rescue. But he didn’t appear.
Now, forty-five seconds into the duel—and these matters never lasted long, she found—Ventress was impatient, and had seen most of Ahsoka’s basic technique; a combination of rapid switches and feints, darting from one side of the battle ground to the other, as if she was trying to exhaust her opponent enough and dart in to deliver the fatal blow. It was very Togrutan.
Ventress countered by making Ahsoka come to her, not by evading or even pursuing her. At one point, Ventress stood still, double blade held to one side with her body exposed, to tempt the child into a fatal error. The Padawan moved in cautiously. As she lunged, Ventress decided Skywalker would not be lured into showing himself, and whipped Ahsoka’s lightsaber from her hand with a figure-eight movement before slamming her flat with a Force push and holding her there with an outstretched hand.
-- The Clone Wars Movie Novelization
Before receiving any Padawan training, Ahsoka fights three Magnaguards, which were identified by sources as tough opponents for the Jedi, defeating two of them:
These implacable droids guarded key Separatist leaders and proved tough opponents for the Jedi Knights, striking with their deadly electostaffs. MagnaGuards could keep fighting even after losing limbs or heads, and many bore the scars of previous battles.
-- http://www.starwars.com/databank/magna-guard
She manages to hold off Grievous, albeit barely:
Over the course of the Clone Wars, Ahsoka experienced many ups and downs, heartbreaks, and triumphs. She successfully fought beside Clone Captain Rex, saving him and fending off General Grievous, a notorious Jedi killer.
-- http://www.starwars.com/databank/ahsoka-tano
While still very early in her training, Ahsoka manages to hold her own against Ventress for a time:
She fights as an equal with Pre-Vizsla:
In their second encounter, Ahsoka holds her own against Grievous:
... ; a force to be reckoned with, as she holds her own in combat against General Grievous.
-- Insider 160
Ahsoka holds off both Anakinand Obi-Wan, at one point even disarming the former with a kick, though they were holding back:
She contends with a possessed Barriss Offee while holding back:
Ahsoka contends with Barriss again, losing because she was stunned by an explosion:
It should also be noted that Ahsoka only had one of her lightsabers at that time, and that she was stated to rely a lot on both weapons, suggesting she would have done better against Barriss had she wielded both her weapons:
Unfortunately, Ahsoka became perhaps too reliant on using both weapons together, to the detriment of her other techniques.
-- Star Wars Fact File 43
She proves skilled enough in unarmed combat to defeat Cad Bane, Mandalorians (while handcuffed), Clones, and even Trandoshans:
(Canon) Ahsoka defeats the Seventh Sister, one of the Empire's elite Jedi hunters, and the Fifth Brother, humbling the latter:
(Canon) Ahsoka duels as an equal with Darth Maul, one of the deadliest Sith in history:
(Canon) She holds her own against Darth Vader:
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