Wolf, you're forgetting that MagnaGuards remember and adapt to past experiences - their sparring with Grievous, fights against Jedi, and so on. The more battle hardened a MagnaGuard is (usually indicated by their wear and tear, which Grievous purposely leaves them with), the more adaptable and experienced they will be. They're usually distinguishable by their colouring (blue or grey) and the one's Kenobi and Anakin fought are among the few who have a unique designation. There's also a difference between Grievous's "elite", his personal bodyguards, and a regular MagnaGuard. Not a drastic difference all around, but a noticeable one to be sure.
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Never really seen any much difference between Grevious' 'elite' ones and other Magnaguards unless there's some actual proven difference. I'll say there's a difference, but I don't think it's huge to the point where the skill difference would be that big.
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Hand-picked implies for a specific cause and reason. If he hand picks them for a task it's because they would be the best at said task. He explains in the ROTS Novel how crucial the capture of Palpatine was, they threw away thousands of ships and millions of droids to create the distraction, you think the magnaguards that were every part as important as him wouldn't be the best?
There's a huge difference between a lot of the Magnaguards, as ILS explains.
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Because the best of the best is the only chance Grievous had of getting Palpatine out on a planet filled with a thousand Jedi? He knew Shaak Ti was guarding Palpatine, he had to bring Magnaguards capable of challenging a Jedi Council Member, not a Jedi.
Yet we haven't seen other Magnaguards fight Council members?
What I'm not understanding is how one quote means that the Magnaguards Grevious picked were far and above any other Magnaguards. I can say that they may have a notable difference, but nothing drastic.
Though this is rather moot considering Ti only took out as many as she did because of a style that the Magnaguards were completely unable to defend from properly. Not to say that the feat can't be used, but don't use it as the sole reason.
Here this is just a strict saber duel against Zannah.
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We have seen other guards fight Council Members, Kenobi, Koth, Gallia all fought Magnaguards.
And I'm not sure how? Her jump attacks were kind of crazy, but she disarmed and fought off two as well. Using their own blades should actually be a style they're very much used to...
Her lightsaber fight with Galen still puts her above Zannah anyway.
Tbh, while the novel says elite...can't this just be as a general term?...The Magnaguards are already elite duelists from what the knowledge about them says and there is a quote saying..
"Gunray saw that Grevious was accompanied by 4 of his elite Magnaguards."
Then going onto say the elite were trained in the Jedi arts, making them more than a match for most.
The term elite doesn't necessarily mean that those specific guys are a cut above the rest. Otherwise then does that mean every time the word elite appears, this means that those guys are above the standard even when the term elite is thrown around to signify others of the same sort?
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Last edited by Zenwolf on Jun 10th, 2015 at 06:29 PM
You seem to be forgetting that Grievous was intially frustrated with the incompetency of the magnaguards provided him, and as a result personally trained a select few in all seven forms of lightsaber combat to meet his exacting standards:
Obviously not every Magnaguard is going to have received this elite training given their numbers and given that some didn't even serve Grievous but Dooku. And it is likely that it was these elite units that Grievous brought to Coruscant.
Though this doesn't mean every one of them was of this caliber.
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Last edited by Beniboybling on Jun 10th, 2015 at 07:09 PM
I'm not seeing where it said Grevious chose a select few and again with that quote I noted, can't elite just be used as a general term?
I mean otherwise, is every time the word elite appears gonna be because those guys are a cut above all the others when the term is thrown around so loosely?
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