Col. Valerian
Republic Navy
Originally posted by Mizukage Yoda
No he's not.
1. Djem So is the perfect style to defeat Makashi. A master of Djem So will defeat a master of Makashi in pure bladework everytime.
Not true. Djem So might be suited to defeat Makashi, but the outcome of a duel between a Makashi user and a Djem So user does not solely depend on each individuals' lightsaber form. It depends on which combatant is the better swordsman. Period. If you're a Makashi user but you are the more skilled fighter in terms of bladework, then you will win against a Djem So user. You might struggle against a form that is designed to counter your own, but in the end you're going to win simply because you are superior.
It is wrong to assume that one style will always defeat the other without taking into account the individual prowess and skill of each combatant, and it is certainly false and unfair to credit Skywalker's definite victory over Dooku only to his use of Djem So. He defeated him because he had become the superior fighter, not because he utilized Djem So.
Unless I'm just misunderstanding your argument.
2. Anakin has never bypassed Dooku's force defenses, Dooku on the other hand has time and time again proved to be Dooku's superior.Dooku>Anakin in all out.
You just said that 'a master of Djem So will defeat a master of Makashi in pure bladework everytime'. Yet you say Anakin has never bypassed Dooku's defenses...
And these parts of the novelization say the opposite:
1. "The first overhand chop of Skywalker's blade slid off Dooku's instinctive guard. The second bent Dooku's wrist. The third flash of blue forced Dooku's scarlet blade so far to the inside that his own lightsaber scorched his shoulder, and Dooku was forced to give ground.
Dooku felt himself blanch. Where had this come from? Skywalker came on, mechanically inexorable, impossibly powerful, a destroyer droid with a lightsaber: each step a blow and each blow a step. Dooku backed away as fast as he dared; Skywalker stayed right on top of him. Dooku's breath went short and hard. He no longer tried to block Skywalker's strikes but only to guide them slanting away; he could not meet Skywalker strength-to-strength-not only did the boy wield tremendous reserves of Force energy, but his sheer physical power was astonishing."
2. "Skywalker was all over him.
The shining blue lightsaber whirled and spat and every overhand chop crashed against Dooku's defense with the unstoppable power of a meteor strike; the Sith Lord spent lavishly of his reserve of the Force merely to meet these attacks without being cut in half, and Skywalker-Skywalker was getting stronger.
Each parry cost Dooku more power than he'd used to throw Kenobi across the room; each block aged him a decade.
He decided he'd best revise his strategy once again.
He no longer even tried to strike back. Force exhaustion began to close down his perceptions, drawing his consciousness back down to his physical form, trapping him within his own skull until he could barely even feel the contours of the room around him; he dimly sensed stairs at his back, stairs that led up to the entrance balcony. He retreated up them, using the higher ground for leverage, but Skywalker just kept on coming, tirelessly ferocious.
That blue blade was everywhere, flashing and whirling faster and faster until Dooku saw the room through an electric haze and now Kenobi was back in the picture: with a shout of the Force, he shot like a torpedo up the stairs behind Skywalker, and Dooku decided that under these rather extreme circumstances, it was at least arguably permissible for a gentleman to cheat."
3. "And even now, he was holding himself back; even now, as he landed at Dooku's flank and rained blows upon the Sith Lord's defenses, even as he drove Dooku backward step after step, Dooku could feel how Skywalker kept his fury banked behind walls of will: walls that were hardened by some uncontrollable dread."
So yes, yes he is the superior fighter. Anakin was clearly kicking the s*** out of Dooku.