Imperial I-class Star Destroyer vs Venator-class Star Destroyer (Republic Cruiser)

The Imperials made Destroyers. The Republic made strategic Carriers.

Sorry I made a small mistake. The crew of the Venator-Class Star Destroyer is actually 7,400 not 2,000 I've added an annotation in the video correcting this mistake.

Ironically I think the Venator's would have been better to combat the rebellion than the ISD was.

The shields on the republic cruisers were made entirely of pure plot armor

In a real world comparision, the Venator Class sounds like t's more like an aircraft carrier, while the I-Class sounds more like a heavy cruiser or Battlecruiser.

Design wise, which ship do you like better?

In a direct shooting battle the Imperial 1 wins, no doubt about that, but carriers are superior to battleships in tactical engagements. The Imperial 1 Star Destroyers were built to annihilate capital ships, but they were entirely dependent on their TIE fighters for point defense. In a fight where the Venator can can avoid ever directly exchanging fire with the Imperial I think it would win pretty easily. The Imperial 1 Star Destroyers don't have any weapons facing backwards, so if their fighter picket was destroyed they would become easy targets for even small fleets of bombers.

I prefer the look of the venator class destroyer

Class 1 Imperial costs 150mil roughly per ship, each of the Venators cost 59mil, to do a fair comparison it would have to be 1 Imperial class 1 compared to 2-4 Venators probably 3. Especially since the crew size load for the Imperial was truly staggering compared to a Venator (I thought I heard 37,000) compared to just 2,000 for each Venator. This seems more like the question WWII ran into with comparing American tanks against German tanks, the German tanks were stronger, better crafted but produced very slowly, however, the American tanks could be replaced quickly and efficiently. You even provided the answer for why the Venators would win and be better, kamikaze them, 59mil takes out a 150mil ship, along with killing 37,000 compared to 2,000. That's a deal any commanding officer would take all day long, especially since ships can be made into kamikaze vehicles with skeleton staff and having all vehicles taking off before hand. In this comparison I believe that the Venator wins, by economics. This is not adding in any other additional troops or equipment that could be at hand, but if you had 2-3 Venators, you would have roughly 920-1,380 starships compared to 114 starships. 4000-6000 troops against 9,700, the 4,000-6,000 though while outnumbered would still be able to board and attack the Class 1's the 9,700 however would be stuck on defense and no recourse due to being heavily outnumbered in starships. The more star destroyers in the area for each side, the more absolutely hammered the Class 1 Imperial ships are by starships even if they are all fighters, which they are not. I feel that these factors were not properly included within this video even though the numbers were produced and that the Venator deserves a second analysis. Such as how you did Storm Trooper vs Rebel Soldier.

Anyone notice Lego?

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to compare Venator to Victory-class Star Destroyer?

The problem with your conclusion is that these are two different classes of ships in the same design familiy, lighter ships usualy have the mobility and manuverablity advantage over heavier ships. In real warfare heavy ships are used to provide fire support for the smaller more agile ships. And a ship of any size, especially a heavy ship, would rarely operate alone aside from special missions (like Vader's in A New Hope). The Republic Cruiser costs almost a third of the cost of 1-class Star Destroyer, so it would almost certainly be traveling with another cruiser and/or a pair of frigates if it was expected to face a Star Destoryer. Each Republic cruiser also carried an obscene number of starfighters compared to the Star Destroyer, so the Republic fighters would do much more than distract the Imperial fighters. Each TIE fighter was roughly equal to the Republic Interceptors they were developed from, while being far inferior to the other Republic fighters (which is why the Rebel fighters developed from these models were often seen dominating the aerospace during the Galactic Civil War) . And the ARC-170 is a Strike-Fighter (or Fighter-Bomber depending on the Squadron) meaning it was Multi-role like the Cruiser itself. Once the first wave of Republic fighters cut a path through the TIE fighters/bombers/interceptors the ARC-170s and any other strike capable ships could focus on taking out the Destroyer's shields, weapons, and other critical systems ahead of any serious exchange between the Capital ships. It would be unlikely that a Single Star Destroyer would survive against two Republic Cruisers.

I think that you're SEVERLY underestimating the carrier advantage of the Venator. The ARC is an amazing fighter and a decent bomber. Both V-Wings and V19s have missile launchers that can damage capital ships. The Y-wings would only need a few hits to totally disable the ISD. The ISD could be damn near dead before the Venator even had to get in range.

You should do the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer vs The Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship.

I remember reading a book a long time ago, one of the dozens of really shit to meh expanded universe ones that had a single Venator class ship being manned by a crew in nowhere space after the fall of the empire. It was buggy old husk that was in needed of constant repairs and was never decommissioned due to it's patrol being in nowhere space around un-developed worlds. Years passed with the commander of the ship listening to reports of the Empire tearing itself apart. His ship was never ordered to do anything but occasionally send food transports from a few local farm worlds. Soon, those shipments stopped and the ship was effectively alone. It was eventually found by a rebel controlled Imperial 2 star destroyer. The rebels commanded the ship to surrender, noting that the empire was no more and that their old husk of a ship stood no chance of winning any engagement. The commander stood there, options going on in his head. Half the ships weapons were non-functional due to age, the fighter compliment was of old pre clone wars ships with only a dozen modified transport ships as makeshift bombers. Even the ships power core was running at less than half capacity due to age; many sections of the ship had frequent brownouts. He agreed to surrender to the rebels for clemency for him and his men. The rebels agreed and moved in on the old ship, some of them astonished that such and old vessel was still in service. That's when the commander struck, he in intentionally blew out two of his engines, sending the ship in a ramming course with the imperial star destroyer. It crashed into the size and grinded up against the ship, blocking all the fighter bays on the left side. He then ordered all the fighters they could get out into kamikaze ramming attacks on he ship, dealing heavy damage to the star destroyer. Both of them being triangles neither of them could get very effective fire on each other (Most of the guns being on the top and bottom of the ship and not the side where he rammed). His last communication to the rebels was something along the lines of "Long live the empire, die rebel filth!" He pressed a button and the ship self destructed, taking half the star destroyer with it. In he days following most of the crew compliment on the star destroyer died from lack of life support systems, mostly due to the few shuttle bombers that made it out the bays of the venator class destroyer blowing up large sections of what remained of the hull. They did manage to finally get some systems on line with emergency power, shooting down the harassing bombers. But out of the entire crew compliment barely 700 survived. They were eventually rescued by a Mon-calimari cruiser patolling a nearby system. Moral of the story; never under estimate an enemy, no matter the size. Especially when hes forgotten more about the ship you are using than you will ever know.

I think the design of the republic ships look better

The Republic ship was more of an aircraft carrier type than a battleship.

1:44 is actually a Victory-class Star Destroyer, not an Imp Star I.....

Imperial Star destroyers are equal to Tiger tanks, and republic cruisers are like M4 shermans

you forgot to mention that the venators have a shield disabling beam that could cause major damage to the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer's