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In AOTC, Kenobi easily blocks Dooku's lightening using a blue lightsabre. In ROTS, Mace deflects Sidious's lightening with his purple lightsabre. However Yoda's weapon gets blasted out of his hand.

Are green lightsabres less effective at blocking lightening than blue or purple blades?

Palpatine/Sidious has a much higher force level, which probably makes the blasts more powerful. Also, Dooku didn't seem to put that much effort into shooting out the lightning, while Sidious looked like he was trying to poop with a cork up his butt

yeah also the fact that mace holds his saber contantly in the, " high gard" stance and never drops it.
Also i herd it said that a duelest with his power uses the force to reinforce his grip on the saber therfore giving him more defenceive, and sway power Note: this is probably false.

yeah probably

Lightsabers are all the same except for colour, sorry to break the bubble.

There is no difference in color. Blue, green, red, it's all the same. It is the jedi with the lightsaber that has the power. Palapatine/Sidious used all of his power against Yoda that is why they both flew back. During Palps and Mace's fight Palps was purposely losing so it would look like he was being assasinated, and he had not fought at all. Dooku is not as powerful as Sidious, and his the level of intensity was much less in Attack of the Clones.

Lightning strikes during a lightsaber fight are so cheap.

Originally posted by Council#13
Palpatine/Sidious has a much higher force level, which probably makes the blasts more powerful. Also, Dooku didn't seem to put that much effort into shooting out the lightning, while Sidious looked like he was trying to poop with a cork up his butt

Originally posted by Council#13
poop with a cork up his butt

Palps is just alot stronger, you could see Mace was struggling with the lightning.

Mace was able to deflect the lightning from Palpatine because he was a master of "Form VII" aka (Vapaad). He was able to draw upon Palpatine's attacks and use it against him, thats why as good as Yoda is as a saberist, Palpatine could match his "Form IV" fighting style .....but Mace owned Palpatine in their saber duel.

oh, and Dooku had newbie lightning

The stronger and faster the lightning, the harder to block. Lightsaber colour has no effect whatsoever.

No, see Obi-Wan's saber has a 'Sith Lightning Resistance' of 54 because he uses a crystal from the Hydronoid system... Mace's saber is SLR387 because of the gayness exhasperated due to the colour of the saber. But Yoda has a 'Force Level' of 927, and due to the fact that he is the mightyest Jedi that ever lived his SLR is 927. But, see, because Yoda's SLR and FL are the same they cancel eachother out meaning he's pretty screwed. Don't you see? This is why he lost to Sidious! Nothing else would make sense!

it WAS a pretty useless question - no offense CM

Sidious was like a few inches from Yoda and using full force. Dooku didn't look like he was even trying to use lighting against Obi and he was across a room. And Sidious was trying to look weak for Anakin to turn.

Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
No, see Obi-Wan's saber has a 'Sith Lightning Resistance' of 54 because he uses a crystal from the Hydronoid system... Mace's saber is SLR387 because of the gayness exhasperated due to the colour of the saber. But Yoda has a 'Force Level' of 927, and due to the fact that he is the mightyest Jedi that ever lived his SLR is 927. But, see, because Yoda's SLR and FL are the same they cancel eachother out meaning he's pretty screwed. Don't you see? This is why he lost to Sidious! Nothing else would make sense!



Originally posted by Lightning_Count
Mace was able to deflect the lightning from Palpatine because he was a master of "Form VII" aka (Vapaad). He was able to draw upon Palpatine's attacks and use it against him, thats why as good as Yoda is as a saberist, Palpatine could match his "Form IV" fighting style .....but Mace owned Palpatine in their saber duel.

EU buddy, and so take it to the EU forum, this is the REAL MOVIE area.


Anyways, I think this question has a pretty damn obvious answer and its that Palpatine is far more powerful then Dooku.

how anyone can think that a certain colour is stronger than another is just dam right bizarre

agreed

all the crystals are the same. none of them are stronger than the others

even an electrostaff can stop it

Originally posted by Lightning_Count
Mace was able to deflect the lightning from Palpatine because he was a master of "Form VII" aka (Vapaad). He was able to draw upon Palpatine's attacks and use it against him, thats why as good as Yoda is as a saberist, Palpatine could match his "Form IV" fighting style .....but Mace owned Palpatine in their saber duel.

Um, no?

Lightsaber style counts for squat.

Yoda simply wasn't expecting the attack. Rather than trying to cook Yoda or Yoda having his lightsaber up for a guard, Yoda had his arm out cause he had just landed from his jump, and Palpatine did the lightning with full intention of blowing the lightsaber away. And it worked.

http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=380928&highlight=physiological

Wanna know why fire engines are red? Because red resists fire.

C'mon, sabers are all the freakin' same. Stop looking for some shitty explanation.

Originally posted by Red Superfly
Wanna know why fire engines are red? Because red resists fire.

C'mon, sabers are all the freakin' same. Stop looking for some shitty explanation. laugh

and i like your sig and avy

Yes I too enjoy divulging into the finer aspects of Fire Engines.

Originally posted by ((The_Anomaly))

EU buddy, and so take it to the EU forum, this is the REAL MOVIE area.



^^Actually that stuff about Mace's Fighting Style and how he was able to overcome Palpatine's attacks including deflecting the lightning is described in detail in the official Novel.

And btw, all the lightsaber combat styles are force related not just simply a bunch of different moves.

True, the fighting styles were in the novel. I think Sideous also caught Yoda when he was more focused on catching onto one of the pods to keep himself from falling and thus was not on guard.

Originally posted by overlord
Lightsabers are all the same except for colour, sorry to break the bubble. Well there are also the crystals inside the lightsaber(but thats EU so I'll just stop there) Also on Anakin's lightsaber he has some gadgets that make it look different and probably effect its power and dooku's lightsaber has that curve which gives him a completely different way to handle the lightsaber

Originally posted by Lightning_Count
^^Actually that stuff about Mace's Fighting Style and how he was able to overcome Palpatine's attacks including deflecting the lightning is described in detail in the official Novel.



And the official novel goes in the Literature and EU section bangin

Originally posted by DucLangur
There is no difference in color. Blue, green, red, it's all the same. It is the jedi with the lightsaber that has the power. Palapatine/Sidious used all of his power against Yoda that is why they both flew back. During Palps and Mace's fight Palps was purposely losing so it would look like he was being assasinated, and he had not fought at all. Dooku is not as powerful as Sidious, and his the level of intensity was much less in Attack of the Clones.


Fanboys are still saying this crap? Wow, it's just not true. Watch the damn movie, because in the ROTS that I watched, Sidious' face melted. According to you, he had it melt on purpose. Right. No, the reason that Mace was able to block the lightning so effectively and yoda could not was A) Mace was prepared for the attack, and thus able to block it with his saber rather than his hands (which I doubt he--or anyone other than Yoda--could have done), and B) Mace is a better duelist than Yoda. Less powerful in the force, more powerful with the saber. Anakin says as much in Episode 2.

Originally posted by darth vraya
And the official novel goes in the Literature and EU section bangin

Nope. Movies, official novels, and radio dramas are all cannon (in that order, when contradiction comes into play, IIRC). Cannon<>EU. You would obviously be right in saying that it's literature, but at the same time it warrants discussion in the context in the movie since, lets face it, movies are a pretty limited genre in their ability to convey the non-visual. You need the novels to fully understand the movies.

Mtryder is right there...

And Yoda was a better duelist than Mace, as has been argued so many times that it is ridiculous. Dooku can beat Mace, Yoda can beat or at least stalemate Dooku. Move on...

dooku sucked with the lightning, and palps rocked......

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