When does sauron show the ability to go invisible?
Also, zedd has super vision, so i'm not sure if invisibility would work on zedd even if sauron had it
and since zedd has supervision, he could teleport onto the second small island, and look all over the main island with his super vision (which can see land at normal magnification from space). He would eventually find sauron, and then be able to teleport to him and engage him at his leisure.
also, where does it say sauron has the strength of "a thousand men"?
As far as I understood, Sauron's physical form isn't nigh-invulnerable, but being a magician of epic proportions, he would easily have a method of shrugging off continuous lightning blasts. I don't know Lord Zedd, but I would assume that if he saw his ranged attacks having no effect whatsoever, he would eventually switch to melee combat, at which point Sauron would have a chance of bashing his skull in. We don't see whether or not Sauron shrugs off physical blows, even in the movie adaptation we only see him take one "critical hit", which I'd assume was effective only because it took the ring off. I mean, he essentially waded through a battlefield, towering above everything else. The only thing he lacked was a giant neon sign saying "archers shoot here", yet he didn't seem to get hit.
All in all, I can't draw a conclusion in favor of either of the characters. I know too little of Lord Zedd, and Lord Sauron is a mysterious figure, intentionally left "broadly defined" in canon, so we don't have any concrete info on him. In this case, Sauron's abilities other than being a big guy in black armor would really decide the outcome of the fight, unlike in the previous fight.
Magic in the LOTR universe for the most part isn't attack spells, during the lord of the rings movie, not even a single elemental attack spell was show. So their is no basis for sauron being able to do anything about lightning blasts, if your saying he can deflect stuff just because he is a magician i don't see how anyone would be able to beat him.
Yeah, he was pretty much invunerable to damage, but that was a effect of his ring, and the invunerability aspect was taken out, so he would just be a dude in strong armor for physical durability
Aye, if someone would either read the links or read the books for additional Sauron powers, that'd be helpful.
Sauron's powers from the LOTR wiki:
scientific knowledge (used to make the ring and baradur)
deception and disguise (lost)
power over age (could make others immortal (probably))
immortality, once the ring was made he was immortal only while it existed
magic mace (movie only)
shapeshifting (no fair forms, so only combat forms and such), if he used this he would be unable to use armor or weapons
altering the physical substance of the world around him by mere effort of will (not sure where this was used, came from or if it was in the simillarion or lord of the rings), i don't think this is powerful enough to use in combat though
I'd say that being kind-of-a-God, Sauron would be nigh invulnerable to regular weapons.
Before he made the ring he was totally immortal (his body could be destroyed, but he could always make another), being killed would weaken him for a time i suspect but nothing more. After he made the ring he was immortal while the ring existed, but he put LOTS of energy into it (its main use was to manipulate the elf rings, but the elfs noticed it and didn't use them, so a large part of it was put to waste), when it was broken he died. However, this isn't relevant, since sauron lost his immortality for entry into this competition.
The movie isn't canon, so sauron wouldn't have his mace, while he would probably have good combat skills and is extremely powerful overall, combats not where the vast bulk of his powers are.