Luke survives in a dogfight, but most of those other rebel pilots you mention failed during the trench run, which he wasn't in the first two times. He also had plenty of support, got into serious trouble and needed help to deal with one TIE fighter. He also has R2 repairing the damage he takes. He makes the shot, but needed a huge amount of help and support to make it to that point, including, Han, Wedge, R2-D2, Obi-Wan's Force Ghost, and the first two trench runs to highlight the dangers (Having watched it, that first trench run guy is really selfless, using his last seconds to communicate vital info to the rest of the team.)
Rey manages to survive in a long melee engagement using a weapon she has never used before against someone that uses it as their primary weapon, when he can also use the Force to boost his abilities. I'll admit that she can fight, but if you look up lightsabres, it won't be long before you find a sentence like 'very difficult to use', 'requires skill and training' in most of the sources that talk about it. They're not treated like something you can just pick up and use effectively on instinct.
Secondary Skill Accomplishments:
• Luke fights off various Stormtroopers despite having limited combat experience.
• Rey manages to fly long enough for Finn to shoot down the TIEs despite limited flight experience.
Luke doesn't fight them off alone (not to mention they're under orders to let them escape), and flying a spacecraft is a fair bit more complicated than firing a gun. Especially an unfamiliar, very old craft in tight quarters that isn't designed to be flown by one person. She keeps flying for a long time pursued by two TIEs, where Luke needed help to get rid of one.
Both Luke and Rey learn how to pull a lightsaber to themselves without any training.
Luke takes three years. Rey takes three days, tops. Less than a week, anyway.
...But you don't get comments about him being OP, because she manages to reciprocate one of those powers of his, and best him in melee combat when he's injured, despite the fact that he Force pushed her into a tree and knocked her out less than a minute earlier.
If he used those techniques successfully against Luke, I think we'd see 'overpowered' come up.
I just think that a lot of your perceived weaknesses with the presentation also exist with the other Force-using heroes, and thus I don't see why they're an issue with Rey.
Luje has one key skill, piloting, that he uses the force to enhance in his first movie. Rey has piloting, engineering, force powers, and lightsabre combat, and less support (no Jedi ghost guide or previous instruction, no wingmen, no time with a lightsabre beforehand (even just swinging it around out of combat to get used to the weightlessness and stuff.
Sure, but if someone took a magnum and blasted a hole in the brown belts gut then that period of adjustment is gonna get a lot shorter, on account of the brown belt not being able to fight anywhere near as well as he normally would.
Our metaphor is stretching a bit, but if said brown belt ran you down in a foot chase and beat someone else while apparently going easy on them, you might be wondering how much damage that shot actually did.
Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to... Suffering."
Huh. That is interesting. I was thinking more Palpatine's monologues.
Because it's a big victory for her, it seems like a more significant loss for him, but he's still a much bigger threat than people seem to give him credit for.
The thing is, it's hard to see how that is going to be manifested. There are no other Jedi for him to demonstrate his skills on. Rey will also have levelled up by the time they meet again. And they already blew up a galaxy.
