Thread preface: This is Legends only i.e. no material that comes after April 2014. The Obi-Wan databank from the old Star Wars website that was included in Leland Chee's holocron, states the following about Grievous:
This quote dates all the way back to 2005. It says that Grievous lacks the finesses of a master swordsman, but relies on his extremely unconventional fighting style and constantly spam it at Kenobi i,e. "brute and whirlwind tactics" rather than pure lightsaber skills, simply because he isn't a master swordsman at all, but a pressure fighter. Obi-Wan was able to anticipate Grievous's attacks through precognition and counter them with his own. This is also evidence of the saying "styles make fights," because although Grievous isn't a master swordsman, he makes up for that with his brute strength and whirlwind tactics, which are clearly really unconventional and randomized, given that he has been able to challenge many great Jedi of his era.
He didn't actually adapt Vaapad, but something resembling the fighting style of Vaapad that was "close enough":
In fact this passage attributes Grievous's mimicry of Windu's fighting style to his super computers, rather than pre-existing finesse, by alerting Grievous how to "alter his stance and posture" alongside "the angle of his parries, ripostes, and thrusts" and I think that is reconcilable with what the databank says about his prowess with a blade.
May 19th, 2020 01:03 PM
