Originally posted by NewGuy01
To be fair, that would be assuming that Marek knew Nihilus' weakness, which he doesn't.
Who says Marek hasn't studied the exploits of Nihilus under Vader's tutelage? Even if not, and if we base the fight on what they might do given character traits and patterns, rather than what they can do with their skillset, Marek still wins because Nihilus will stand there, totally oblivious to the threat, and eat frigate-vaporizing-TK. 👆
Marek doesn't lose this.
True @Tempest. I mean, the Stun effect on the party wore off just before Nihilus Drained her, which probably meant that he couldn't sustain both at once - ergo, his Drain probably required some buildup/gathering of power, and that's also whilst he was amped by his connection to the Ravager per the Prima Guide. All of his Drain feats are suspect and against helpless enemies - Traya was incapacitated and Sion was there as well, the Jedi on Katarr were hit by something prior to the Drain, and so on.
Originally posted by SunRazer
True @Tempest. I mean, the Stun effect on the party wore off just before Nihilus Drained her, which probably meant that he couldn't sustain both at once - ergo, his Drain probably required some buildup/gathering of power, and that's also whilst he was amped by his connection to the Ravager per the Prima Guide. All of his Drain feats are suspect and against helpless enemies - Traya was incapacitated and Sion was there as well, the Jedi on Katarr were hit by something prior to the Drain, and so on.
Zez-Kai Ell or whomever even lampshades that even Nihilus strikes from the shadows.
I would interpret Nihilus' Ravager feat as the gravity well was too powerful for him to just turn on the controls and leave, so he used his TK to lift the ship out of the planet and only then could the engines and controls work so that it could start by itself.
But the fact that the Ebon Hawk managed to start up and fly without TK aid after the crash makes me question this.
Galen was Oneness amped tho.
"Driven by concern for his friends rather than himself, he embraced the Force completely, utterly, and was rewarded with a strength that made his efforts with the dark side look like those of a child."
Apart from that, a toying Sidious one-shotted Galen with Lightning, and shrugged off his Lightning. And in the DS scenario, which happens minutes after the canonical ending and thus there is no reason for abilities to change, Galen is curbstomped. Then again, Nihilus would be stomped by Sidious. But the same applies to Galen.