Originally posted by TheNuisanceBird
I agree that Kenobi's not gonna make him expend all of his energy the way Anakin did, but it's going to take a lot from Dooku to go on the offense that would even challenge Kenobi. While I don't question Dooku's stamina I would still place my bets on Kenobi in the long run.
Well, to be honest, I consider Dooku as a bit better duelist then Kenobi. Both have very different styles, whit different advantages and disadvantages. And both of them, were able to somehow compensate their weaknesess.
Makashi lacs kinetic power, yet dooku was able to compensates this, with his superior command of the Force - in that way I mean his Force valor skills. He was able to temporary generate enough power, to block both, Anakin and Obi-Wan at the same time in saberlock. Twice in their final fight, and one of it was won by him, as he opwerpowred them both, thronw them off-balance, managed to kick away Skywalker and Force choke Kenobi. He was able to hold his own against Yoda as well.
Second thing is, Makashi's weaknes to multiple opponents - due to his mastery and experience, Dooku had no problem at dealing with multiple opponents at all.
Obi-Wan lacks a firepower, and yet, he was able to cut off Savage's arm, Anakin's arm and legs, cut Maul in half, kill Maul, cut off two of Grievous hands. His counterattacks are his weapon. But I would risk an opinion, that his counter-attcaks works mostly against an opponents that are highly focused on dominating him, put all of their efforts in the offense and underestimating him.
Dooku is no that kind of enemy. He holds Kenobi in quite high regard. More then that, Dooku's Makashi is not that kind of a style; its not like Anakin's version of Djem So (which is much more focused on offense then others people Djem So) or Maul's Juyo (or his other agressive forms/styles). Makashi is a form for dueling, and - which is very often underrated - has a great deffensive capabilities (as Dooku has shown against Yoda on Geonosis or against Anakin and Obi-Wan on IH). More then that, Dooku is a bit faster and clearly more agile then Obi-Wan. And he's really, really great in evading his opponents strikes (as he has shown in his duel with Anakin and Obi-Wan in last season of TCW).
As the battle proceeds, OBI-WAN and COUNT DOOKU are tired.
It was suppose to be that way in ROTS, if Anakin and Obi-wan would decide to faking Dooku. Indeed, that could be more tiring to pretend to be weaker. But it would be even more tiring for Dooku at the end, it was their goal and their strategy. That only shows, that dealing with Dooku was very hard and tiring for Obi-Wan.
Just like in their last fight in TCW: Obi-Wan could be more tired then normaly, since he was forced to attacking Dooku, which wasn't his favouirte way of fighting. But do dont forget, that it would be more tiring then usulally for Dooku as well; he had to deal with two Makashi's disadvantages - fighting multiple opponents and dealing with strong, kinetic style.
Another is, that Dooku might has superior stamina in some circumstances. Normaly, he has superior Force reserves nad his style is fery economic and enable him to save a lot of enrgy. His obvious weakness is to deal against kinetic style, which exhaust his Force reseves quite fast.
Kenobi is clearly superior to Dooku in terms of physical stamina and his Soresu doesn't share Makashi's weakness against kinetic styles; it doesn't require as much reserves as Makashi in that way.
But it doeasn't matter at all, since there is no a strong, kinetic style in that battle. And one last thing; despite all of technical abilites, Force powers and other things, Kenobi - in his heart - is a very peaceful man. Unlike Dooku, who in his heart and mind is a fencer.