Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-101.166.145.250-20150126102331/@comment-26440657-20150608031923

It depends on your way of fighting...

Mages can also kill the ebony warrior if they have the dual casting perk Impact which would knock The Ebony Warrior in almost every hit. You don't even need followers to beat him with that tactic specially if you drink fortify destruction potions / use dragon aspect shout etc etc. to boost your powers...

Summoning Karstaag etc and using them as distrations while you blast The Ebony Warrior with arrows / spells would also be too easy. There's a lot of ways to beat him easily if you are a good tactician.

IMO people who say he is hard to kill are actual honorable warriors who use swords to kill him with no aid of followers / no magic etc. and just try to kill him the old fashioned hack and slash way...