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Nope. In that fight they matched Caedus fairly well. Sure he had the upper hand but he certainly didn't "curb" them. Heck, even Mithric gave Caedus some trouble when he went nuts and started whaling on him. He had to work for that win. Plus he only beat Kyle due to manipulation of the environment (throwing a speeder at his back). Granted that is an example of superior tactical ingenuity but it still required an outside variable. He didn't win by just being a straight-up better duellis

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Katarn ignited his lightsaber as he came to a stop a few meters away.
"Care to surrender, Colonel Solo?"
Not to a traitor." Caedus looked at the other three as their Forceaugmented
sprints came to an end, leaving them in a semicircle before
him. Three Jedi Knights: the younger Horn, the Falleen Mithric, the Bothan
Hu'lya. He resisted the urge to snort. Separately or collectively, these Jedi
Knights were no match for him.

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They were chasing the Jedi escape vehicle. Caedus swung at Horn, a blow
meant not to connect but to cause the young Jedi to flinch away into the
path of the Falleen, which he did. While they were interfering with each
other, Caedus gestured at the Bothan Jedi, hurling her toward Katarn.
Katarn hurled his lightsaber off to the side and caught Hu'lya with both
hands, preventing her from falling, prepared to pull her out of harm's way if
Caedus followed through.
Caedus did not. He kept his senses on Katarn's light-saber, and, when it
vectored to fly toward him from the side, he negligently swatted it away
with his own blade.

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Now the three Jedi Knights assailed Solo all-out, a fight they were doomed
to lose. Seha could not save them. Her tasks were accomplished

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Originally posted by carthage
At one point in the fight he fights three of them at once, nearly bifurcates Katarn, sends all of them flying, holds off Valin with one hand, and the text outrights states they're no match for him:



Prior to this Solo is throwing them around with TK, nearly cuts Katarn in half, notes they're interfering with each other and before Katarn goes down:.

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Originally posted by carthage
Also Katarn had help from Qu Rahn when he beat those Jedi, and he had some degree of Swordsmanship training at the imperial academy. So he wasn't going into those duels completely blind, one of those Dark Jedi even accidentally killed themselves with his own blaster. They all also got stomped by Qu Rahn, so they're hardly prizewinning fighters. Katarn doesn't really have much in comparison to Mundi.

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Originally posted by chilled monkey
Oh and another thing; Mundi's usual foes on the battlefield were battle droids (the only war machines I know that are programmed to panic and run away or talk back to their commanders). Kyle's were the Yuuzhan Vong.

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Originally posted by ILS
That logic is completely hideous. Are you implying that fighting battle droids is within the upper limits of Mundi's combative abilities? Just because that's what he happened to be fighting a lot of the time?

But, anyway, since we're on this topic, let's make a comparison. Maul killed a Yuuzhan Vong in his first ever encounter with one, with suppressed Force augmentation, within a couple of minutes. Now Mundi is no Maul, but if Grievous couldn't stomp him with the aforementioned circumstances, Maul isn't coming close to stomping a fresh Mundi. So, having said that, you need only imagine what a fresh Maul would do to a Vong in saber combat, and by proxy what Mundi would manage. When you're done with that, it's probably not hard to imagine Mundi and some of the other better fighters from prior eras doing well against them. The main issue with Vong is their lack of connection to the Force, and physical power. Get over the former, and your skill with a blade should handle the latter just fine.