I'd give it to Krayt before his rebirth but he becomes a whole new animal after his rebirth. Certainly a stomp with the force, not really sure about sabers.
He was pretty damn impressive as a sith. When he was reborn, guy could give sith the ability to sense enemies, he called every dark sider in the galaxy and what not, dark transfer, etc. Question is, what has Dooku done that would rival Krayt?
When she beat him, yeah. But before that he fought just Morne and she was holding her own quite well despite also defending herself from Maladi at the same time. Although, admittedly, Muur does say she would lose to Krayt given enough time.
Combat-wise they seem very far apart. I'm not ready to give Krayt sabers though because he seems like the only competent saber fighter in the Legacy era.
Well, he can resurrect himself from the dead, make his presence felt in the force galaxy wide, kill and resurrect a Skywalker in the same fight, is powerful enough with force illusions to beat someone who's killed Sithlords with force illusions, is known to bare-hand block force lightning (something that like, five people have ever done. The others including Yoda, Revan, and Karness Muur), he's very skilled with sabers, and he's much older and more experienced than Dooku.
Note, Krayt was trying to turn her and have her alive so he could use the Muur talisman, and in their fight she was drawing heavily on the power of the talisman. Even so, he controlled the entire fight and she never landed a single blow on him.
Against Vader, she was not drawing on the Muur talisman (and was, btw, 100 years younger), and she landed a hit on Vader before being taken down (Celeste was pretty badass).
So, both clearly had the edge against her, Vader was faster in winning but took damage, Krayt was slower but remained untouched, and the talisman difference.
And that was Krayt when he was held back by the vong symbionts that were slowly killing him and hindered his force power. He received a huge powerup when he was free of them.
Antares Draco killed 7 sith warriors at once (like, not sequentially, 7 mobbing him), after taking out two at the same time, and having killed another prior in the day.
I'd rate him a little lower than Ganner Krieg or Shado Vao or Darth Havok (who beat Draco), who are in turn a solid tier below Cade Skywalker. Darth Wyyrlok was another badass, able to hold his own with Krayt before they switched to force. Krayt's above any of them, but there's two who can hold their own and around a dozen serious badasses below them.
And of course, this isn't some peace-time era, this is an era when the Jedi and Sith and Imperial Knights have been killing each other back and forth for 7 years.
There just seems to be this odd assumption that Legacy is weak in sabers based on precisely jack squat. Pretty much any major saber user in Legacy can cut down a half-dozen normal Jedi/sith like they're nothing, and by 'major' I can still mean 'would be lucky to last five seconds against Krayt'.
So if you're not ready to give Krayt sabers, then how do you suggest he would overcome Dooku in combat, let alone "stomp" him? He doesn't have superior TK or lightning, and none of the feats you listed are usable in combat.
__________________ "The power of the dark side is an illness no true Sith would wish to be cured of" -Darth Plagueis
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