The Four Obi Wans run a Gauntlet

Started by Jinsoku Takai2 pages

Re: Re: The Four Obi Wans run a Gauntlet

Originally posted by One Free Man
not a good order of difficulty. I fixed it. TPM dies at The general or ki adi. AOTC dies at 10, may make it past general. ROTS beats all the way to cound dooku then fails. ANH beats all the way up to yoda.

...Although I appreciate the reordering of the list. However, I disagree with is Yoda/Sidious. Although I'm sure I'm in the minority, I see Yoda as being 15 while Sids is 14.

Re: Re: Re: The Four Obi Wans run a Gauntlet

Originally posted by Jinsoku Takai
...Although I appreciate the reordering of the list. However, I disagree with is Yoda/Sidious. Although I'm sure I'm in the minority, I see Yoda as being 15 while Sids is 14.
Sidious won, but it doesn't really matter as they are considered equal, at least by non-noobs on this forum.

Re: Re: Re: The Four Obi Wans run a Gauntlet

Originally posted by Jinsoku Takai
Defeating Mace?
I see it happening, actually. Obi wan has had years to train, more life experiences than rots, etc. If he beats mace, he does it just barely.

Mace's "special tools" are barely useful in this area.

Shatterpoint; I doubt he'd be able to strike through obi-wans soresu with this.

Vapaad; Obi-wan doesn't channel darkside energy therefor there is nothing to reflect back. Obi wan is also one of the rare people who would have encountered form VII

Obi wan has also trained under his "old master" since then.

If you want to go by the feats they had when they filmed and the lightsabers were 40 pounds and they had no fight coreographer, go ahead, but I'm going with documented feats.

...huh?

nah

Gestalt BaneMace solos.

Originally posted by One Free Man
I see it happening, actually. Obi wan has had years to train, more life experiences than rots, etc. If he beats mace, he does it just barely.

Mace's "special tools" are barely useful in this area.

Shatterpoint; I doubt he'd be able to strike through obi-wans soresu with this.

Vapaad; Obi-wan doesn't channel darkside energy therefor there is nothing to reflect back. Obi wan is also one of the rare people who would have encountered form VII

Obi wan has also trained under his "old master" since then.

If you want to go by the feats they had when they filmed and the lightsabers were 40 pounds and they had no fight coreographer, go ahead, but I'm going with documented feats.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: The Four Obi Wans run a Gauntlet

Originally posted by One Free Man
I see it happening, actually. Obi wan has had years to train, more life experiences than rots, etc. If he beats mace, he does it just barely.

Mace's "special tools" are barely useful in this area.

Shatterpoint; I doubt he'd be able to strike through obi-wans soresu with this.

Vapaad; Obi-wan doesn't channel darkside energy therefor there is nothing to reflect back. Obi wan is also one of the rare people who would have encountered form VII

Obi wan has also trained under his "old master" since then.

If you want to go by the feats they had when they filmed and the lightsabers were 40 pounds and they had no fight coreographer, go ahead, but I'm going with documented feats.

1. Shatterpoint doesn't require the need to break through Kenobi's saber defense.

2. Vaapad is deadly regardless of whether one is fighting a darksider or not. I believe Red (I hope it's Red, if not , my bad) has the rundown on that.

3. And what evidence is there of Obi-Wan sparring with, or dueling a Form VII (more specifically, Vaapad) practitioner?

Maul's Juyo.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Maul's Juyo.

...more specifically, Vaapad.

None. But Maul's Juyo would give him a good idea.

2. Vaapad is deadly regardless of whether one is fighting a darksider or not. I believe Red (I hope it's Red, if not , my bad) has the rundown on that.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The Four Obi Wans run a Gauntlet

Originally posted by Jinsoku Takai
1. [b]Shatterpoint doesn't require the need to break through Kenobi's saber defense.

Explain. From what I understand, mace could shatter a diamond by tapping it in the right spot (The physics of this are pure shit, btw), using shatterpoint. I suppose this is a gift enabling him to see the weakness in any form; but If kenobi, mace's "Greatest Jedi alive" has no weakness in his soresu, then there is no applicability for shatterpoint.

I suppose also that this is emotional/force shatterpoint, though.


2. Vaapad is deadly regardless of whether one is fighting a darksider or not. I believe Red (I hope it's Red, if not , my bad) has the rundown on that.

I never said it wasn't deadly. I just said that the main feature that separates it from juyo would be useless against obi-wan, especially since kenobi's style involves defense until opportunity for a perfect strike. Form VII, (you can say vapaad is not juyo, but vapaad is based off juyo) is a style of powerful, accurate strokes with little concern for defense.

3. And what evidence is there of Obi-Wan sparring with, or dueling a Form VII (more specifically, Vaapad) practitioner? [/B]
well, there's maul, vader(some) and if you take away vapaad's reflectiveness it becames juyo.
This is interesting as well:
While fighting the cyborg General Grievous on Coruscant, Windu again displayed his mastery of Vaapad. Grievous responded by mimicking Windu's style, which resulted in what Windu considered a passable imitation of the form. Grievous had instructed his personal IG-100 MagnaGuard droids in all seven forms of lightsaber combat, including Form VII.[27] As with Juyo, knowledge of Form VII was recovered from the Great Holocron by the New Jedi Order, who preserved the information into the Sith-Imperial War.[8]
so... yea.... Obi wan has covered some ground.

I never said it wasn't deadly. I just said that the main feature that separates it from juyo would be useless against obi-wan, especially since kenobi's style involves defense until opportunity for a perfect strike. Form VII, (you can say vapaad is not juyo, but vapaad is based off juyo) is a style of powerful, accurate strokes with little concern for defense.

By "main feature" you mean "some metaphysical ramifications" instead of "entirely different sequence of strokes, combos, and tactics, not to mention an inherently different philosophy?" That seems foolish.

Originally posted by Red Nemesis
By "main feature" you mean "some metaphysical ramifications" instead of "entirely different sequence of strokes, combos, and tactics, not to mention an inherently different philosophy?" That seems foolish.
I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. Just because I love you. 😉