Athos vs. Astrid
Evil.
Right, right, the twins spar all the time and nobody important dies in those, it’s fine. Physically and maybe even magically I think Athos is stronger; throughout the books he consistently uses magic much more obviously and comfortably than Astrid does. The thing is though, Astrid wins both her on-screen fights much more quickly. She knows how to leverage her talents.
When Athos goes toe to toe with an Antari he meets him in the open and plays around with him, lets himself get nettled and waste energy. When Astrid fights an Antari, she ends the fight before he even knows she’s there.
So the twins are pretty evenly matched over all, but Astrid has the slightest edge when it comes to winning.
(For a fight to the death situation... also Astrid. I’m assuming this is a scenario where the ‘winner’ will be also executed by enemies forcing them to fight, because I can’t imagine any other way they’d fight. In that situation, Astrid has the ruthlessness and self-sacrifice to give her twin a clean death, even at the expense of her own heart. Athos, I think, does not.)
