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Advocatus Diaboli
Originally posted by quanchi112
Against skilled opponents it fails.
As much as I hate through tear to another of your so called "arguments". You are wrong.. If precognition would fail against skilled opponents, the first swing in a lightsaber duel would also be the last. Jedi and Sith can move far faster than ordinary human beings, demonstrated at the beginning of "The Phantom Menace".
Here, we are already at the point, at which Achilles get cut down by a lightsaber before he does even realize that the fight has started. The same thing would happen to Jedi and Sith, whenever they engage in a lightsaber duel, if it wasn't for their precognition.
In fact, movie canon demonstrates that precognition is efficient enough, to allow Yoda to deflect about 40 blaster bolts from 8 different directions in about 4 seconds, at the scene in "Revenge of the Sith" in which the Jedi Master and Obi-Wan fight Clone Troopers in front of the Jedi Temple. Seriously: Can Achilles even come up with anything close to that amount of attacks, not even mentioning Grievous wielding four seperate blades, which movements Kenobi was apparently able to predict and counter? I don't think so.
It failed him twice against Dooku and once against Obi an inferior opponent. All stated in the film as well.
And explained above. Those opponents can place in so many possible attacks, that, at a certain point, precognition may be "overloaded". The point is, that Achilles can't even come close to that, and hence doesn't stand a chance against Anakin.
Achilles isn't shooting blaster fire against him either and unlike Achilles who took over the beach with a much smaller force Anakin was doomed until the reinforcements of Yoda showed up.
The ration of droids and Jedi in the arena was 1000 to 1. If you show me 20.000 or 30.000 enemies, awaiting Achilles at the beach, I will gladly accept this "feat" as compareable to the Battle of Geonosis. Until then, you're argument is senseless and you may want to get some knowledge about Star Wars before discussing related topics.
He isn't faster or is he more effective. Being effective is the key word. Losing isn't really leaving the Achilles side in awe.
According to movie canon, Anakin could run circles around Achilles and cut him down, before his opponents does even notice he is in a fight. Not to mention the swings Anakin would deal out, powered by his entire mechanical arm which had enough strength to hold the weight of himself, Kenobi and Palpatine combined. Wonder if Achilles can even parry that, without suffering from broken bones....