Originally posted by kamikz
How can you be so sure that Maul would be better than Dooku at his prime? From what we know, Dooku could have been better than him at that age. Dooku has performed better force power (he seems to have a much higher potential than Maul will ever have) and better swordsman ship (has a better lightsaber style).
Maul was only around 25 when he died. He had many years ahead of him for training and gaining experience. When Maul died he had just before actually completely outclassed Qui Gon and Obi Won and was unlucky to lose. He had the full package. He was fast and agile, strong, proficient with many forms of the saber and for his age relatively strong in the force.
Count Dooku had clearly reached his peak by AOTC. He would have lost to Yoda if he had not ran away and Maul would have probably been able to defeat Anakin and Obi Won just like Dooku.
If Maul had reached his peak he would have had much more experience under his belt, would have mastered his lightsaber forms and therefor be a much better swordsman (he would have probably learnt more forms from Sidious as-well), would have grown extremely strong in the force (probably surpassing Sidious and not far behind Yoda) and his force lightning would have been incredibly strong aswell (as he would have started learning the ability of force lightning at a much younger age than Dooku and would have had loads of time to master it (probably stronger than Sidious'😉), he would have also become much stronger and more agile as-well. Due to the fact that Vader was destined to destroy the Sith, Maul would have been Sidious' most powerful weapon.