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People compare this to Barriss’ fight with Anakin, but in this case, Barriss is outright stated to be holding back for most of the scene. Even when she isn’t fully cutting loose she still manages to land a blow on The Inquisitor’s shoulder which would’ve injured him had he not had that shoulder pad. He even notes that Barriss’ restraint is what makes her predictable to him which is why he’s easily able to anticipate her attacks and counter them. It’s a whole lot easier to toy with an opponent if you know how they’ll behave. When Barriss was fighting Anakin, she was going all out, not holding back.

When Barriss finally gives into her rage she’s able to return the favour and force the grand inquisitor back hard enough for him to start showing eternal bleeding. She was never shown be able to make Anakin bleed like that during their struggle. Also the reason why Barriss was such a challenge for Anakin, was because he was trying his best not to kill her. Once Anakin started cutting loose he was able to swiftly dominate her with little difficulty.

It’s like Mace’s fight with Prosset Dibs who was another Inquisitor. Dibs for a time is able to keep up with a Windu who was just trying to talk him down and once Mace gave up, he was able swiftly dominate him.

I don’t think Barriss is stronger than the Grand Inquisitor, but I don’t think the gap between them is a stomp under different circumstances.

I don’t think this scene makes the Grand Inquisitor stronger than season 5 Anakin.

Basically kinda like Ben Kenobi who stated as not being as great a duelist as he once was, but was still grew stronger connection to the force.

Who wins and by what difficulty?

Who wins and by what difficulty?

Did Vader just assume “if he really is a Skywalker then he’ll be able to defend himself and if he doesn’t then I guess wrong about him being my son”

In ROTS it’s implied that Dooku’s extensive knowledge in the other classical forms gave him an advantage against Anakin and Obi Wan. Where he was able to rely on pattern recognition in order to to exploit weaknesses in their forms. This is said to even be the reason why Dooku beat Kenobi again.

Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker faced Count Dooku again, this time aboard a separatist flagship. Familiar with Obi Wan’s style, the dark lord once again got the better of him.

\\\\\\\\-Star Wars: Lightsabers: A Guide to Weapons of the Force (Updated 2018 Edition)

Dooku was aware that Kenobi’s style relied almost entirely on defence and therefore chose to attack Kenobi when Kenobi was going on the offence during his and Anakin’s attempt to flank Dooku from both sides

“He can't fight in two directions at once, Obi-Wan thought as he came up behind the Count. If we can-

Count Dooku half-turned and raised a hand. A rush of dark power lifted Obi-Wan off his feet and choked the air from his lungs.”

\\\\\\\\-Revenge of The Sith Junior novelization

It’s also possible that he purposely used this exact type of tactic when he fought both Anakin and Obi Wan the last time they fought at the pikes. Cause you can see Dooku putting Anakin on the defence meanwhile putting Kenobi on the offence. Cause of that he was dominating most of that duel

He also uses his knowledge on Djem So to off balance Anakin, knowing full well that the forms weakness was it’s lack of mobility which we see in the film, where Dooku’s able to kick Anakin back and send him spiralling.

Despite Its effectiveness, Dooku’s approach to fighting isn’t without its flaws. What happens when your opponent doesn’t follow a predictable or conventional form of dueling?

In attack of the clones, Anakin is able to briefly drive Dooku back because his use of two blades being unexpected way of fighting

“But Dooku is right, Obi-Wan thought through the haze of pain and exhaustion. Anakin is no match for him... Unless Anakin does something unexpected.

Anakin caught the weapon in his free hand and attacked again.”

\\\\\\\\-Attack of The Clones Junior novelization

Even though Dooku was able to quickly come back because of his far superior skill, it still shows that he could be left somewhat vulnerable to unconventional or unpredictable methods of fighting. So it could be problematic for him to fight an unpredictable opponent who’s already near him in skill/power or atleast in the same ballpark. We see this when he fights Quinlan Vos and is ultimately overcome by both Vos’ power and most notably the Jedi’s described unpredictably

“Both Jedi watching were prepared to act if need be. Indeed, Anakin was more than eager to do so. But, truth be told, Vos seemed to be holding his own against Dooku. He leapt, sprang, ducked, and tumbled. Dooku might have been a master of technique, but Vos's characteristic unpredictability-quite possibly even to himself-often gave him the edge.

As it did now. Vos all but danced around Dooku, forcing the older man to whirl, strike, and block from every side. And then-there it was. Dooku overextended-only a trifle-and the next thing Kenobi knew the count's lightsaber was across the room and the count himself was on his back.

Vos smiled down at the defeated Sith. The tip of his lightsaber was a centimeter away from Dooku's throat.”

\\\\\\\\-Dark Disciple

Anakin does better without Kenobi because with his master not around, Anakin is able to get more aggressive and chaotic which ends up becoming too much for Dooku to easily handle anymore. We even see Anakin win by catching Dooku off guard through tricking him into doing in over the head strike while Anakin’s back was turned, which leads to Dooku over extending and Anakin managing to off-balance the count. This results in Dooku getting his hands cut off.

To be fair though, Vos and Anakin are 1/10 of opponents who actually fit this criteria with both of them also heavily leaning on the darkside to make them even more chaotic

The only other way you can ever hope to beat Dooku is if your abilities somehow far eclipse his own. Such as when Yoda managed to dominate him on Geonosis because of his noticeable superiority over the Count.

‘Star Wars audio adventures; An Obi Wan & Anakin Adventure’ confirms that Temple Guards WERE in fact held in very high regard within the order when it came to their combat capabilities. This also supported by how Palpatine had the Grand Inquisitor deal with most of the Temple Guard before Anakin’s attack on the temple, as if they could actually turn to tide in the Jedi’s favour if they were all around the help. Of course one could argue that the Grand Inquisitor killing most of them could be considered an anti feat, however we don’t actually know how the Grand Inquisitor killed them. He could’ve very well have simply killed them in their sleep or another time when they would be defenceless and or off guard.

They aren’t just gonna let your typical Jedi enlist for their ranks unless that got the skill that follows the esteemed reputation of the Temple Guards.

Considering Snoke himself was a strandcast is it too far fetch to think his own personal guards could’ve also originated from the Sith Eternal’s genetic experiments? Their helmets look a little bit similar.

Even in the Mandalorian, Praetorian guards are mentioned as being one of the imperial remnants current projects alongside project necromancer. So the two projects could be connected.

If they are connected to the Praetorian Guard, it’s possibly Palpatine wanted to use them to test Kylo Ren the same way he used the Tankers to test Vader

Considering Snoke himself was a strandcast is it too far fetch to think his own personal guards could’ve also originated from the Sith Eternal’s genetic experiments? Their helmets look a little bit similar.

Even in the Mandalorian, Praetorian guards are mentioned as being one of the imperial remnants current projects alongside project necromancer. So the two projects could be connected.

Like emotions such as pride, resentment, jealousy, sadness, desperation, fear, and anger are her bread and butter because she’s be dealing with people like that her entire life. It’s basically why she’s happy to watch humanity crumble because she already lost faith in it, where’s she’s basically a nihilist. When’s the last time she’s ever had to predict someone with more positive emotions, that don’t revolve around desiring to get anything out of their actions? Her sense of emotional empathy seems to more-so apply to people with personal desires.

I know people talk about Sonic’s iron will and mental endurance so I think some fans and or powerscalers would be best to know even Sonic can’t be hypnotized. Of course you could assume Sonic’s mind was left vulnerable, with him being caught off guard by seeing supposedly a dead man under the mask. Though I still think some people might not accept it as enough for Starline’s hypnosis to work on Sonic. What do you think?