The 25 Best Fighters on Game of Thrones, Ranked

2) JAIME LANNISTER (Previous Ranking: 4)

Category: Artist, Anti-hero

When it comes to raw skill, cockiness and pure elegance, it’s hard to beat the incredibly gifted son of Tywin Lannister. This is a tough ranking due to the fact that Jaime loses his right hand partway through the show. He diligently retrains to fight with his left hand, but he’s obviously not the swordsman he was when he was whole. We’ll look at Jaime at his peak here, as the younger man who killed his first opponent at the age of sixteen, became the youngest member ever inducted into the elite Kingsguard and terrified all those who avoided facing him.

Before he lost his sword hand, Jaime once said that there were only three men in all the world who could defeat him in a duel, but we can only guess who those people were. We’re going to figure that Jaime might be thinking of the famous Barristan Selmy in his younger days, as one possibility.