Originally posted by AzrongerA few sparks? We're talking lightning leagues beyond Darth Nyriss', which can turn people into a pile of ashes. Vitiate's lightning stops Anakin just as cold in his tracks as it did Revan. And that's without him ramping it up into an even stronger burst. Bulldozing through Dooku is meaningless in comparison to that level of power.
A few sparks aren't going to stop the man who bulldozed through Dooku.
Yeah, it stopped Revan at first. After that he effortlessly batted them aside. The lightnings potency doesn't really matter as lightsabers have already proven to be an effective counter to Vitiate when two relatively fodder Jedi where walking through his storm. Revan was just an idiot to ditch his saber - a mistake Anakin won't commit.
But being serious singular bolts have been batted away in various TOR and post RotJ novels but a stream for some reason can't be redirected or shunted aside in the same way. It seems likely to me a stream of lightning requires a much greater energy output and given the ease with which Vitiate had overcome Revan and Malak before perhaps he thought a minimal use of his power would be enough to defeat him.
Originally posted by UCanShootMyNova
But being serious singular bolts have been batted away in various TOR and post RotJ novels but a stream for some reason can't be redirected or shunted aside in the same way. It seems likely to me a stream of lightning requires a much greater energy output and given the ease with which Vitiate had overcome Revan and Malak before perhaps he thought a minimal use of his power would be enough to defeat him.
Yeah, I don't think "he was deliberately using a useless technique" is the most reasonable explanation.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Yeah, I don't think it's reasonable to argue that Vitiate was going easy on Revan or something.
I'm saying that Vitiate probably didn't believe he needed to employ his full power to defeat him and thus was negligent in the face of a real threat. What's unreasonable about that?