^ Bane seemed to loathe Krayt--considered him a 'pretender'... But to be fair, that was before Krayt realized his potential, so who knows if Bane's opinion would have changed.
Originally posted by Q99Dooku wins, but it's a good fight.
What if we swap this out, Dooku vs Wyyrlok, Nihl and Talon vs Maul?
As for Nihl/Talon: they could both conjure FL, iirc. That could potentially give them a big advantage against Maul.
Originally posted by Galan007
^ Bane seemed to loathe Krayt--considered him a 'pretender'... But to be fair, that was before Krayt realized his potential, so who knows if Bane's opinion would have changed.
I just wanna note, all sith smack talk all sith of all other orders, and it often didn't have to do with strength.
Andeddu called Wyyrlok a Sith Zygote, and then was killed by him in a sorcery duel. And Andeddu's a sith Dooku considered quite impressive.
Bane's holocron didn't care how strong Krayt was, only that he had an order rather than a duo.
These are Sith. When they run into another sith, there will not be backpatting, there will be assertions of superiority and how much better *their* version of the sith is ^^
The way you tell a not-real-sith is if they don't shoot back with how theirs is the better one.
As for Nihl/Talon: they could both conjure FL, iirc. That could potentially give them a big advantage against Maul.
Yes. Nihl famously zapped Kol Skywalker in the back, and Talon used it on occasion too.
It's safely inferable that Maul by the end of SoD knows how to block Force Lightning, and I don't think Nihl or Talon's individually is so strong that he couldn't fight it off if he was hit. Both catching him at the same time is another story.
I'd probably give the duo a slight majority though. If we think about Krayt during Claws of the Dragon as being about RotS Kenobi's level of skill (after having perfected his technique and killed thousands of opponents), Cade fought pretty closely with him so he isn't far off of him at that point in time.
Circa Claws Cade doesn't take too much issue in dispatching Talon but Nihl can give him a fair fight over a few pages. Talon, and presumably Nihl to an extent, would have grown in power heading into Legacy: War, so we're dealing with a Ventress and sub-Ventress duo with pretty strong Force powers? I don't think Maul can take that majority.
He's seen it blocked with a lightsaber first hand, lesser trained dark acolytes know how to block it, and there's developed-but-deleted footage of him and Savage blocking Sidious' which would suggest not only he knows how to block it, but he taught Savage.
I'm essentially saying Maul isn't stupid and he would have figured it out by now.
Oh, okay. I thought you meant that he could block/deflect it with the force, lol.
Yeah, blocking it with a saber is a lot more plausible, but like you mentioned: if both of them zap Maul simultaneously, or if one of them zap him while he is engaged in a duel with the other, there's simply not much he can do to defend.
Originally posted by ILS
Yeah, Maul's best bet would be to try and separate them and keep pressure applied with telekinesis, which I don't see as totally impossible. Say he blasted Talon into a wall and then went to town on Nihl by himself. I just don't think he'd quite pull that off for a majority, but maybe for 4/10.