UCanShootMyNova
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Originally posted by The Ellimist
He still didn't employ it regularly in lightsaber combat. I'm still awaiting your justification for claiming that Yoda could own Dooku with a form he never actually uses. You've asserted this, but haven't really supported it with anything...They also wanted Dooku to be shocked when they switched to their real forms and owned him. .i.e. the point was to hide their competence.
That doesn't mean he wasn't holding back. He was holding back the entire fight until the end; that was like the entire narrative point of the scene.
Why not? I'm sorry, but you keep repeating the idea that Yoda would do better, but don't really explain why.
He was still emotionally inhibited and deliberately holding back.
1. You mean one Yoda's mastered but doesn't use often?
2. This is not supported by the text which shows Anakin growing frustrated at their lack of progress meaning he wasn't expecting to have been completely outclassed like this even using another form.
Dooku gave the slightest glance of concern over his shoulder, distracted
for half an instant, Anakin just couldn't wait anymore. He sprang, lightsaber angled for the kill. Obi-Wan leapt from Dooku's far side in perfect coordination—and they met in midair, for the Sith Lord was no longer between them. Anakin looked up just in time to glimpse the bottom of Dooku's rancor-leather boot as it came down on his face and smacked him tumbling toward the floor." - Revenge of the Sith.
"Anakin launched himself at Dooku's back—and the Count half turned, gesturing casually while holding Obi-Wan at bay with an elegant one-handed bind. Chairs leapt up from the situation table and whirled toward Anakin's head. He slashed the first one in half contemptuously, but the second caught him across the knees and the third battered his shoulder and knocked him down. He snarled to himself and reached through the Force to pick up some chairs of his own— and the situation table itself slammed into him and drove him back to crush him against the wall. His lightsaber came loose from his slackening fingers and clattered across the tabletop to drop to the floor on the far side. And Dooku barely even seemed to be paying attention to him. Pinned, breathless, half stunned, Anakin thought, If this keeps up, I am going to get mad." - Revenge of the Sith.
It implies that despite the ploy Anakin is taking this fight seriously.
3. Holding back his rage. I'm just talking about holding back his skill/speed/strength in a standard state.
Because Yoda showed he was capable of killing an amped Dooku just as quickly if he's actually willing to end the Count's life. That would make him able to essentially blitz a non amped Dooku if he's willing to end his life which makes any gap in skill meaningless.
Granted he was holding back his rage but what do you mean emotionally inhibited?