Originally posted by DarthDuelist9
I doubt that Maul would want a "likeable" or "semi-capable" character as his apprentice, especially since we know from Sam Witwer that Maul sees in Ezra the potential to become what he should have been (remember that this guy was apprenticed to the most powerful Sith ever and could supposedly carry on the RoT in canon).
Sam Witwer can say what he wants. Anyways, Ezra has a lot of potential, that's for sure, and one day he'll be something great(maybe), but as of now he's just an underdog and much like his master is semi-capable. Nothing too far above average.
Originally posted by DarthDuelist9
Give TPM Maul 50 years of Sith training and he comes damn close
Who knows. Obviously Maul must have had Great potential for Sidious to choose him as an apprentice. But then he never seemed truly satisfied with a potential apprentice until the name Skywalker came along.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
wtf is this, roflEven potential prime Maul would be destroyed by TPM Palpatine.
No he wouldn't, anybody that can be considered one of the most elite fighters in the entire mythos at the age of 22 should be able to rival palpatine after decades and decades of extra training and experience.
lmfao retard or nah
What you just said has to be the most retarded statement I have read on KMC in the past week.
There's a limit to one's capabilities. Eventually Maul's going to reach a ceiling due to his midichlorians.
Palpatine... is Palpatine. He's the most powerful Sith Lord ever by the end of TPM, and still growing stronger.
That's ****ing obvious with the Rebels TV show.
Maul's a shadow of his former self, granted, but his powers definitely seemed to have reached a peak with SoD.
If Maul's stronger than that, it's not by so much he's then going to go from being ragdolled by to then beating Palpatine.
I don't think you understand this, but Palpatine never intended Maul to be a legitimate successor.
Spoiler:
Palpatine never intended to die in the first place.
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
its this kind of shit why i dont debate anymore
It's actually a classic debate whether Maul was originally intended to be a full on successor to Palpatine or not. An argument that has a lot more merit in Canon.
Probably because Legends was just dumb.
And FYI just like Vader, Maul would have lost a lot of potential when he got cut in half. His knowledge of the Force also never came close to Palpatine's, (heck he never even learned Force Lightning). So you have absolutely nothing to gauge Maul's full and original potential.
That said, I personally still wouldn't put it on par with Palpatine's, given how excited he was at the discovery of Skywalker.
Not really. As long as we have a Palpatine that plans on becoming omnipotent and never planning to die, then he isn't planning on a legitimate successor.
And I recall people saying that "Palpatine reveals at the end of DP that Maul was a real apprentice" - I didn't see it anywhere. He confirms that all of Plagueis' ideas were actually his - which includes Plagueis telling Sidious to train him as a mere assassin, nothing more. After that, he makes some reference to him being able to use Maul to get rid of his enemies or something along those lines. Nothing about genuine succession.