Originally posted by Nephthys
And Zannah was doing the latter, love:"Bane circled wide trying to come in on her left flank. Zannah simply altered the angle of her retreat, taking several more steps backward to keep him at a safe distance as she swatted away a few token slashes and strikes."
While only dealing with some token attacks Zannah takes a few steps back to "keep him at a safe distance"
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
That was until she released what Bane was doing. Until such realization, she was being driven into a retreat. Then right after that, Zannah fell on a grave and Bane beat the shit out of her.
Suggesting Zannah would have won without tendrils when previously being beaten in lightsabers and was already injured is... impossible. I don't see how Bane's superiority can even be denied here.
Wait, what? What are you even saying? That doesn't contradict my point, which is that Zannah was giving ground for defensive reasons, not because he was beating her defense.
Bane wasn't overpowering her defense, he was simply disrupting the battle and causing her to give ground. Her totally wasn't threatening her at all. Remember that before he tried that tactic this happened:
"The next exchange had a more familiar feel. Bane pressed the action with a devastating, complex combination of attacks, but Zannah was able to intercept, parry, or deflect each one. Her defensive style was simple, but performed correctly it was nearly impenetrable."
Bane goes in hard and Zannah is able to block everything without issue. He was only making her retreat by being really annoying and making tons of feints and being unpredictable.
And no, without the tentacles she probably would have lost after getting injured. Before getting injured though she was seconds from victory:
"She had to give him the illusion he was controlling the action, when in fact she was only a few seconds away from unleashing a burst of dark side sorcery that would rip his mind apart."