Rockydonovang
freedom fighter
savage could have killed kenobi
You mean when he ambushed him?
Yes ok cool I dig and know what you mean when you stated obi could have killed maul in the links you posted true that I guess ,but also the same could be said in favour of maul as well
There's one, when kenobi is crumpled in the corner. When kenobi's 'knocked out' the first time he's still looking at maul and holding his lightsaber. After oppress saves his ass three times, Maul does have the advantage against Kenobi who at this point is angrily charging Maul like a lunatic. It is worth asking, why Kenobi is angrily charging here when Maul taunting Kenobi is unable to evoke anger elsewhere....
Just generally I think Obi has a slight advantage over maul initially because remember maul was cut in half he was sort of incapacitated and inactive for a couple years or so hence his skills were atrophied to a certain extent I guess hence Kenobi has more fighting experience
Maul is rusty, true. Thankfully, Maul was kind enough to even the odds for us:
.https://youtu.be/KaqUVn1az4w?t=145
Thor ignored this for some reason, but I'd say it gives us a good reason for why Maul was able to taunt Kenobi into running like a lunatic. Also, lets be clear here, it wasn't a 'slight edge', it was a decisive one. And we can talk about what maul does when Kenobi's uncharacteristically tapping into his darkside, but none of that really comes into play without Oppress and Ventress. Fights are about taking out your opponent --first--.
Maul also has a better damage soak ie survived being cut in half don’t think Kenobi could have done that plus maul used his dark force powers and will to survive.
A beat up and tortured Kenobi was able to get right up after getting kicked twice in the head, and once in the chest. Highly doubt maul's "damage soak" is going to do anything here when Maul generally gets hurt more by Kenobi's hits than vice versa.
Maul landed more hits
Sure, but Kenobi had maul at his mercy more. And its important to track the content surrounding the duel. Does Kenobi ever fight like he does in the last 30 seconds of the duel? Have we ever seen Kenobi lose his cool like that without torture? After their fight in revenge, Maul is never able to land a hit on Kenobi again, and before Kenobi screams "aaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!" Maul gets decisively beat.
FYI, this isn't just speculation, Filoni confirms Kenobi is mentally out of sorts while he fights Maul. And filoni specifcally cites Kenobi's "state of mind" as why Kenobi loses.
It's like Maul's "overconfidence" except, unlike Maul, it only happens under the worst of circumstances. Hence why in season 5, Kenobi maintains the advantage via the blade we see him establish in the first part of their revenge duel.
The Fights with privisla above : the maul one was more better or impressive/because obviously it was longer
Huh? Why does it being longer make it more impressive? Kenobi was able to beat visla three times in less than a minuite. Kenobi's performance is way better than Maul's.
haken
Actually shaken can mean many things depending on the context.
So lets see what the context here is:
"Kenobi ignites his lightsaber blade but is "too shaken from the crash". Maul snatches Kenobi in a telekentic grip and disarms him."
Irrelevant of what you think shaken means, it's clear it was "from the clash" and the "too" in context would indicate being shaken prevented him from a successful defense. Regardless of how you interpret 'shaken', it's only because of the crash, that makes Maul's "win" here something that could have only happened because Kenobi crashed.
Maul's force blast on florrum is somewhat applicable(tho its similar to other emotion-reliant showings like ventress choking anakin and kenobi), but even then, it's not at all clear Maul would have gotten to Kenobi in time to finish the job.