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IF Im deuling an expert Djem so practicioner and we have all the same parameters(speed, hieght, agility, intellegence, force mastery etc..) whats the best style to counter his djem soi? o and im light and my opponent is dark if that helps.

Soresu for obvious reasons

I don't know if Soresu would be the best choice against Djem So. The biggest drawback of form III is that if you can't find an opening in your opponents offense, you start to get tired out. Given Form V's powerful strikes, a Soresu user would probably get tired out more quickly than dueling any other style.

Personally I think Vaapad would be good against Djem So.

Obi-Wan lasted pretty long, longer than Dooku's Makashi

Originally posted by Blue_Hefner
Obi-Wan lasted pretty long, longer than Dooku's Makashi

obi wan had better concentration that anakin
anakin had more brute force than obi wan
i said that everything was equal.

Vaapad, since you are light and your enemy is dark.

When you are light and your enemy is dark, the most effective form will always be Vaapad.

not really. look at all the vaapad useres in the pre-trilogy, how many of them ended up falling to the dark side because of it?

Originally posted by xxxpoppunker182
not really. look at all the vaapad useres in the pre-trilogy, how many of them ended up falling to the dark side because of it?

depa billaba on the dark side is kinda hot though lol jk

Originally posted by fascistcrusader
I don't know if Soresu would be the best choice against Djem So. The biggest drawback of form III is that if you can't find an opening in your opponents offense, you start to get tired out. Given Form V's powerful strikes, a Soresu user would probably get tired out more quickly than dueling any other style.

Personally I think Vaapad would be good against Djem So.


I disagree. I believe Soresu is the perfect form to counteract Shien. Soresu focuses on an impenetrable defense, and focuses on prolonging combat to either force your opponent to make a mistake or tire out. Given Shien's extremely broad and hard swings, your opponent should tire out in a relatively short time, albeit in the Mustafar Duel, this was not the case.

Originally posted by Se7in
I disagree. I believe Soresu is the perfect form to counteract Shien. Soresu focuses on an impenetrable defense, and focuses on prolonging combat to either force your opponent to make a mistake or tire out. Given Shien's extremely broad and hard swings, your opponent should tire out in a relatively short time, albeit in the Mustafar Duel, this was not the case.

my good sir. please consider that shien is for blasters but i said djem so which is for other lightsabers

I disagree. I believe Soresu is the perfect form to counteract Shien. Soresu focuses on an impenetrable defense, and focuses on prolonging combat to either force your opponent to make a mistake or tire out. Given Shien's extremely broad and hard swings, your opponent should tire out in a relatively short time, albeit in the Mustafar Duel, this was not the case.

If it wasn't for Anakin's big overconfident slip up Obi Wan would not have won that fight. He was getting very tired, and probably wouldn't have lasted much longer. I believe that is stated in the RotS novel.

But that was due to Anakin simply being a better duelist then Obi-Wan was. It was actually because of his fighting style that he survived as long as he did.

Soresu's whole point of existence is too have such a great defense and use minimal energy that your opponent will tire out before you, or make a blunder that you can key in on. Soresu is the bane to all who are overconfident and/or impatient.

hmmm, tricky one. Vaapad is an obvious first choice, it can annihilate most others, but i think ataru would be the best. Ataru's strengths are Djem So's weaknesses; speed, agility, and swiftness. I don't think it was Obi-Wan's mastery of Soresu that won him the fight aganst Anakin, i think it was more the time and place, the anger and frustration by anakin, and obi's experience. That rules that silly suggestion out

Really? Anakin seemed pretty damn fast, agile, and swift to me in ROTS

Well yeah he did, but that was because it was Anakin If both duelers are f the same skill and level, you want something to exploit Djem So's weaknesses. Vaapad has strikes just as agressive, but they are a lot faster. A master of Djem So would use the huge blows as his main strength, so if you use something which doesn't need a lot of strength, you got a winner

Darth Bane is pretty damn fast in Path of Destruction, so it's not just Anakin

ok agreed, but i was meaning that we should not be taking actual djem so practioners into account.