Stormtroopers Have Excellent Aim (No Really!) 

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Finally! Someone who recognized the capabilities of an elite class of troops.

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUU 💙 Even the people making modern Star Wars have fallen for the Stormtrooper joke. It’s too engrained in western society at this point, but videos like this will help get the truth out there!

More people need to address the gross misinformation about stormtrooper aim.

4:20 that's not bad shooting, that's suppressive fire. The point of suppressive fire isn't to hit the target, but to intimidate them in staying in cover. They had to keep the prisoners moving, and prevent Luke from reaching them. I don't even think they were "missing on purpose" there, they were just making the very valid tactical choice of pinning a target down while moving prisoners out.

These are the exact same arguments I've used in defending Stormtroopers.

Got MatPat's successor right here

In conjunction with the Battlefront 2's campaign (not to be confused with Battlefront 2 EA), I maintain the headcanon that stormtrooper quality takes a nosedive after the Battle of Yavin because of how many veteran troopers died aboard the DS1. With multiple worlds subsequently declaring open rebellion afterwards, Palpatine gets nervous and enacts mass conscription to help fill the ranks to compensate. Simply put, all the guys on Endor are just greenhorns by that point and were likely given at most a month's worth of training before being given an E11 and a set of armor.

The bad aim joke got old real quick.

I've seen some of the more recent works basically make excuses for why a Stormtrooper can't hit. In Jedi Fallen Order, for example, it's because of bad rations. In The Mandalorian, it's because of faulty equipment (the rest of the time, they're hitting a spot that would be more fatal if it weren't for a little thing called Beskar). And if course, we have Luke's comment on the helmets.

next up: red shirts in star trek aren't under a death curse. the reason why most of the casualties are red shirts is because most of the crew is red shirts and security is red shirt. the engineers also wear red shirts and have a fairly good survival rate.

We need who would win between Superman and kratos

I’d like a video on Luke Cage or John Steele from Marvel

Guy: You shoot like a stormtrooper! Germans in World War 1: Wow he's really good!😂

Its crazy how were better then shooting at storm shooters in star wars battlefront 1 and 2

Counter argument. Rex, one of the best, if not the best clone out there, says he can't see out of a stormtrooper helmet and actually hits something when he takes it off, then I'm going to go with they just can't see what there trying to hit. As for the ammo expenditure per hostile, it was calculated that only about 10% of soldiers actually try to hit the target. Now, this was after WWII, so I don't know about today, but I'd say we haven't changed much.

I missed when Stormtroopers were strong. New Hope they intentally missed. There were few issues in Empire. Return of the Jedi made them too comical. But still mostly in line compared to modern day

The force influences all things

4:43 Something needs to be clarified. The only reason stormtroopers appear to be terrible in Disney productions is because of Dave Filoni. Source books, novels and even DICE's Battlefront 2 campaign all say that stormtroopers are good troops, with Bf2 saying that they had a 77% accuracy rate. Dave Filoni continually ignores the lore and the fans let him get away with it and praise his mediocre shows. Perhaps the worst offender that has received virtually no criticism is the Bad Batch, which has utterly ruined Disney's up until now relatively decent lore for the early Imperial era (which was mostly EU copy-paste). Not only are non-clone stormtroopers shown and said to be poor, but they are appearing only a year after the Empire formed. The whole thing is utter nonsense. Stormtroopers are supposed to be an elite branch of the Imperial military, if the Empire needs large numbers of poorly trained conscripts for an unimportant battle, they'd call the actual army like in Solo. Keeping the program a secret is also impossible if there are so many stormtroopers. In reality, that show and *all* Filoni productions should be considered a lesser tier of canon.

7:44 200 bullets for 1 casualty make an accuracy of 0.5% and at 8:07 100 bullets for 1 casualty make an accuracy of 1%

Really what porff have they have good aim

This

What kinda AliExpress matpat is this

Always said this stormtroopers are phenomenal at their job that’s how the galaxy was subjugated. They just look terrible compared to the main characters

as a Star Wars fan I can't express enough how entertaining this was to watch. great work

Pov: Imagine If The Stormtroopers Had Inhibitor Chips.

You forgot to move the decimal point on your accuracy calculation, 1 in 100 is 1% accuracy, not 0.01%. But you also underestimated the storm troopers. 11 targets in 97 shots is about 1 in 9, or just over 11%, you stated that their accuracy was 1 in 11, just under 9%.

The World War Two stats supposedly includes the anti-aircraft fire.

First heard this theory from Lindybeige years ago. Fun stuff!

THANK YOU! I always said they're just trying to bait them.

This aint mat pat its mat part . Good vid though

I hate that Disney and Filoni(yes, he did it too) made the bad aim something "canon". Hell nah, man, they didn't watch Star Wars for sure

I just want Disney to actully show how good they are because they are some of the best soldiers during this time but instead Disney just makes them these half brain idiots who cant hit anything

1 in 200 shots is 0.5%, not 0.005%.

this all imperial propaganda

Storm troopers have terrible aim miss