Inconclusive.
Magnaguards are able to take on Kenobi and Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith and provide moderate difficulty; yet a squad of them were unable to defeat neophyte Ahsoka Tano in single combat, despite the fact that they outnumbered her three-to-one and she had to expend her energy to safeguard the child of Rotta the Hutt while simultaneously fending them off.
Meanwhile, an Emperor's Shadow Guard apparently gave the prodigious Galen Marek a great deal of trouble if you believe the novelization and comic book.
The problem is that there are vast inconsistencies for both Magnaguards and Shadow Guards. And according to LFL official Chris Cerasi, published EU works are mere windows into the galaxy itself, and some windows are foggier than others.
We have no way to make heads or tails of what is and what is not canon.
So it's best that you just don't come here for a while. We need to get this sort out.
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But according to Chris the window could be foggy... We can't be sure they can truly use lightning.
Foggy doesn't mean 'seeing something that completely isn't there'. The fact that Marek's and a shadow guards lightning collided and for several paragraphs they attempted to push the others back in incontestable. Whether it was as difficult for Galen to win as it was portrayed is not. Things can be blurred, or warped by a foggy window, but you won't see a shadow cross the pane without something to cast it.
Originally posted by Incanus
But Magnaguards( IG 100 series, grey colored) were able to hold their own against a jedi master and jedi knight, before being slaughtered. They were able to at least hold them for a few minutes, which i would consider impressive for droids.
Maybe. hey could be IG 99 or a different color..... In Lair of Grevious there were grey colored, but they were fought by a knight (who just became one) that could have already fallen to the dark side(doubted but words suggested it to me) nad a jedi master, Kit Fisto, a very good swordsman. (He was with the ones who tried to arrest Palpatine, right? the green guy with tentacle on his head, green saber that works underwater......)