KMC Forums - Breakdown of Palpatine vs the B-Team

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Palpatine leaps in front of them. Of them all, it honestly seems like Kit Fisto reacts the fastest.

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Palpatine actually pulls a feint here. Palpatine acts like he is about to gut Mace Windu, but then abruptly slides into the left and impales Agen Kolar. This feint is likely the reason why Kolar looks so blatantly unprepared, but it should be noted that Kolar is indeed moving to intercept, just far too slow. Saesee Tiin moves his blade actually rather close to Palpatine, but is unprepared to bring it lower to intercept Palpatine's low-slash. The panel of Tiin crying in pain is misleading since the camera angle shifts. If it was maintained, you would really just be seeing the side of Tiin's head since he was already almost fully turned to fight Palpatine.

Something to note is that Mace Windu and Kit Fisto don't come over to help them. Instead they fully cement themselves to the other side of the room, essentially leaving these two Jedi for dead since they have no clue how to remotely attack such a force like Palpatine. Perhaps if they just outright charged Palpatine as he was striking Kolar, they could have overwhelmed him.

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It's immediately evident about how cautious Mace Windu and Kit Fisto initially are. The first to attack is actually Fisto, who lightly probes Palpatine's defenses at the bottom. Then Palpatine puts his lightsaber out in a wide arc, provoking Windu to strike it away. Palpatine does a twirl, causing Windu to move backward although there's no actual threat. Fisto moves in the way as Palpatine finishes the twirl, but Palpatine throws his lightsaber in Fisto's face, and then using some unnatural strength, pushes the blade away, causing Fisto to stumble backward. Palpatine again provokes Windu to strike, moving his lightsaber low. Windu goes to intercept it, although there's no immediate threat to him.

Overall, it's amusing to see the caliber at which Fisto is outclassed here. Simply watching him trying to fight makes it seem like he's going "****, ****, ****, ****!"

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Mace Windu goes to outflank Palpatine, hoping to trap him between himself and Kit Fisto. As he does this, Palpatine turns around, focusing his attention on him. It looks like Fisto tries to attack his back, but Palpatine puts up his hands from behind and deflects it. Once Windu is all the way around he goes in for the strike, but Palpatine moves backward and Fisto messes up, striking at the same angle Windu does rather then again at Palpatine's back, which was what Windu was expecting. As a result, Palpatine deflects them and pushes them aside. Fisto spins away to readjust.

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Mace Windu continues the assault from his current position, striking down on Palpatine. Palpatine deflects it and then spins around, since Kit Fisto, finally recovered from his spin, goes to strike. Palpatine moves in faster and strikes him down before Windu has a chance to attack.

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I might continue this with the Palpatine vs Mace Windu fight.

I made this thread since I thought a lot of the fight was being overlooked. There's a lot that actually goes on: Agen Kolar was completely unprepared. Saesee Tiin almost had him, but was open and Palpatine took the advantage. Kit Fisto performed terribly and cost Mace Windu a potential short victory, although he did display greater considerable speed. Mace Windu was overly cautious and deflected everything and anything, although most of Palpatine's attacks were simple probes.

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