I dunno about saying she isn't a Jedi. Ahsoka is clearly the 'Jolee Bindo' of the series, in that she's a grey Jedi, but in all actuality seems more Jedi than anything. And like Jolee, she's not gonna strike down an unarmed person. Also folks seem to forget Ahsoka is what, 3 years Kanan's senior as well? She should be above him even if they were the same age.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
"...maybe less flashy, but certainly more impactful."infinite keks @ people not watching their own episodes.
Anyway, Dave's claim doesn't contradict mine that she performed terribly in comparison to the type of combatant you need to be to challenge peak-performance Vader.
Sure it does. If Ahsoka was never in any danger then it isn't a close fight. It was an ass whooping.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
Ahsoka could never be in danger due to her vastly superior connection to the Force. 😬
What?
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
That doesn't change the fact the fight itself was close.
Not at all. If the fight is close then she is in danger.
Not to mention at the end, she puts away her lightsabers and proceeds to pretty much curbstomp 7sis.
It's not really that hard:
In a strict lightsaber duel plus augmentatives, the fight was close, undeniably.
She was never in any real threat due to her command of the Force though.
If she was on the losing end of the battle / near defeat, she could use her Telekinesis to win the day.
I find this interpretation of Dave's word a lot more plausible than that her and the 7sis is a "complete mismatch".
Uh, it's very deniable...
Just look at that final clash of sabers or how it ended. I see nothing to suggest it was close, especially considering 7sis never once touched her wheras Ahsoka hit her several times.
And no, if the saber duel is close she is in danger as all it would take is one hit to badly wound her.
The 7th Sister is clearly Ezra's opponent (and hopefully his love interest just for kicks! 😛). Logically, Ezra is gonna have to be up to the 7th sister's level either by the end of this season or the next. Thus, the idea that Ahsoka and the 7th Sister are equals would suggest that Ezra and Ahsoka will be equals by the end of this season or the next. Which is just pretty silly.
Bottomline, I'd say it's pretty clear that Ahsoka is well above the 7th sister both in saber and force aptitude.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66Nah, seems to me that Ahsoka was augmenting her strength over her speed, and the 7th Sister was exploiting that fact by putting all her energy into evasion (a stalling tactic tbh.)
The fact majority of all of Tano's attacks were simply dodged by the Seventh Sister is a complete disgrace. I revoke my stance
that Tano's fast. She clearly isn't that much. She seemed to have won through physical superiority.In a strict contest of technical mastery, the Sister appeared to have Tano completely matched, if not beat (as suggested by how
the fight began with the Sister pushing an offensive Tano back). Half of Tano's attacks just pass through air. 😉EDIT 11:52PM ET: Fixed up calcs.
However the fact that the 7th Sister was no match for Ahsoka's strength proves that if Ahsoka instead put an emphasis on speed, she'd be no match for that either, and if the 7th attempted to use her apparent speed advantage to defeat Ahsoka, Ahsoka would simply retool and pwn her.
That said? The fact that once the Brother is down Ahsoka destroys her in 5-6 seconds in an offense that 7th largely fails to evade, suggests that she was holding back until that point. Likely exercising caution to ensure that the 5th Brother wouldn't catch her unawares while going all out.
As far as Ahsoka retreating at the beginning is the concerned, you're making the assumption that this was because the 7th sister was pushing her back, despite her failing to do so at all in the ensuing engagement. Far more likely that it was a tactical retreat, a smart move when up against two opponents, which for the record, is one of Ataru's primary weaknesses.
So yeah, I agree with Joker, in a 1 v 1 Ahsoka would have likely ended her that quickly.