Not seeing how. He's fought Maul before and has access to Soresu. That's a pretty big advantage over Qui-Gon - he's definitely lasting longer.
If Obi-Wan was already a near-equal to Qui-Gon in TPM, it doesn't make much sense that he wouldn't have surpassed him in AotC, given that he's at such a young age that he wouldn't be hitting random stumps or diminishing returns, and we know Obi-Wan's potential exceeds Qui-Gon's. And as much as the Clone Wars is a period of accelerated growth, it doesn't make much sense for Obi-Wan to have grown much more in 3 years than in 10.
That, and he had an arguably better performance against Dooku than Qui-Gon did against Maul, taking into account Dooku's encyclopedic form knowledge on Obi-Wan's Ataru, that Obi-Wan was fatigued (at least for the junior novel's interpretation) and the fact that Tyranus is a better swordsman than Maul.
Last edited by SunRazer on Nov 26th, 2016 at 10:45 AM
Well yeah, if we base all of our assumptions on false premises then AotC Kenobi could be better than Jinn. Issue is, there's no real evidence for it. And he wasn't quite a near equal, just close.
__________________ “The galaxy must experience the pain of death and the rapture of rebirth as I have. I will bring chaos. It is time for war.”
Yeah, that's the problem with the comparison I was hinting at earlier, although it seems to be contradicted by some sources. And it's probably made up for Obi-Wan's exhaustion, at least in the junior novel.
In any case, Jinn's performance against Maul on Tatooine doesn't set a very high benchmark.
Nov 26th, 2016 12:59 AM
