No way Maul loses this.
O RLY?
He is faster, stronger, smarter, more skilled,
Proof?
and trained, by Sidious, to be a Jedi killer.
Which sith isn't trained to be a jedi killer? 😛
Anyways, I'm pretty sure Darth Sidious held him back if anything. He taught him like nothing of the darkside, Bastilla has extensive training both in the lightside and darkside.
Bastilla is a Padawan, she isn't great.
Excuse me? She was a force and saber prodigy, a rising star in the jedi ranks, and I'm pretty sure she was promoted to a knight just before she began her adventure with Revan. Also, need I remind you that Maul was defeated by a padawan?
Maul tooled Qui Gon, you know, Dooku's apprentice?
This is great and all, but Bastilla has faced far more and actually survived. Given how martial the KotOR time period was, how many jedi/sith action there was, and how many dark jedi Revan, Bastilla and co faced, it can be deduced that she faced many. Even canonically, given the small amount we know, she has more kills under her belt than Maul does.
Maul killed only five force users in his time, only three of which used lightsabers, before getting killed by a padawan. Hell, Kenobi was even able to outduel him once using the darkside, and Darth Maul had to use a force push to save himself from Obi-Wan's onslaught.
Said to be on par with Mace Windu as of The Phantom Menace?
Exactly, as of The Phantom Menace, years before Mace actually got relatively powerful.
The best duelist Obi Wan had ever seen?
Obi-Wan is his apprentice, he's naturally going to be a tad bit biased, and the fact is, he was only a padawan, he hadn't seen that much.
Yeah, Maul beat him down, after he had meditated, in thirty seconds flat.
That's real great and all, but you're only focusing on his good aspects. Did you forget how padawan Kenobi was able to flip over him, pull his lightsaber towards him, and slice him up before he could do jack to defend himself? Pretty sloppy reflexes, I'd say.
And need I remind you how Bastilla was shown to toy with and defeat a dark jedi in seconds (in Revan's vision, aboard his ship), and it can be assumed that this dark jedi was pretty skilled given the fact that he was accompanying Darth Revan, and Bastilla just pwned him in seconds, and this was quite a bit of time before KotOR.
Source anything that shows Bastilla is even close to Maul with the force or with a saber. I've seen a lot of claims, with no backing them up.
1. Being labelled as a force prodigy.
2. Instantly being able to stun Jolee Bindo and Juhani on the spot.
3. The extent of her battle meditation.
there's more, that's just off the top of my head
From the Ultimate Visual Guide:"...Mighella, a highly trained bodyguard, who is also a witch of Dathomir, or Nightsister. Like all Nightsisters, she is skilled in the use of the dark side of the force. Mighella attempts [and fails miserably] to use an energised sword to stop Darth Maul, then surprises him with a burst of force lightning.
The moment after Mighella realises her opponent is a Sith Lord, with far superior dark side knowledge, she is felled by a lethal slash of Maul's lightsaber."
Page 33.
Who isn't labelled as 'skilled', or 'strong in the force' in the SW universe? When it's said about a gazillion times, it's no longer considered that great in the big picture. The fact is, if she was anything special, Darth Sidious would have tried to recruit her, she wouldn't serve as a simple bodyguard, now please, Bastilla is far stronger in the force than she is, there's no reason to assume she wouldn't be able to do the same, except with more effect. Maul just can't win this.