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Yoda is greater than Maul and had 800 years to hone his skills. Maul needed more time. Yoda completely failed and came to fight him. Maul was caught off guard and wasn't ready for him yet.
Maul also was a failure in that way of thinking. Defeated and humiliated by jedi padawan. He survived that, and that's his greatest feat. After that, he was able to recover only because of huge portion of NS' magic that Talzin filled him with. If not Talzin, he would be still a twisted, pathetic cave's robo-spider.
After his return, Obi-Wan humiliated him once again. Maul barely escaped, and - along with his brother - would be dead if not the Death Watch's help.
Saved once again, he created his pathetic criminal empire, and decided to challange Sidious' posiotion as Dark Lord of the Sith. Sidious found him faster then he could predict and Maul was humiliated once again. By Sidious and by himself, when he pathetically beg for his life.
Once again he survived, only because Sidious decided to use him as a bait for Talzin. That led to Talzin's death, and another Maul's failure and humiliation. Sad story. Really.
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Maul could ahve all the time in the world and would never have reached Sidious leve. Even taking TPM Sidious, maul would have never reached that level. Then you wanna say he would be able to reach Dark Empire sidious. Maul is weak, and will never ever reach that level. You've already admitted Yoda failed due to positioning so a really irrelevant point. So by that logic Sidious was also caught off guard, since Yoda came to fight him, and he wasn't "ready". Maul had the home field advantage, two vs one advantage, more blades. You can't be not ready for a fight. He sensed Sidious coming. No amount of training could have prepared him for what Sidious could do.
Well Maul clearly had great potential, which was the reason Sidious kidnapped him as a child, but yeah he doesn't seemed to have had Sidious's level. If he did Sidious wouldn't have replaced him so easily.
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He did, but never in a thousand year, not even a million would he be able to Sidious level. Well Dooku would have more potential and would be a much better apprentice. He's more skilled, more intelligent, more powerful, had much better trianing. Also their mindsets. Dooku would be the more preferred mindset. Overall Dooku would be the better apprentice, and also had the better connection which helped him during the clone wars.
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Speculation. Maul's skill wasn't ready. He was also caught off guard. Palpatine is more skilled and more powerful but Maul is still a rival per Sheev's own words.
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No it's not. It's based off evidence. Even at his current skill rate he was on Kenobi level. Kenobi has been shown to be below several people as force weilders. He will never and would never reach Sidious. A rival in what exactly?
Basing on "Legends", I wouldn't say that. Maul never meant to be a true Sith Lord. He was only a true Lords' weapon.
Dooku was on the other hand, the finest apprentice of Yoda's Order.
Dooku, Mace and perhaps even a few others, Vos for example, might all have greater potential then Maul.
But it should be noted, that Talzin's intervention could increases Maul's potential.
Registered: Feb 2015
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How does SOD prove it? If anything it proves my point. Maul went crying to his mama who still couldn't beat Sidious, even when she had the. Home field advantage. Well if he was better than why couldn't he beat Kenobi when he had a 2v1 advantage. That's A>B>C logic which doesn't work considering Anakin is canocially states to be above Kenobi as a duelist. Also going by that logic Dooku>Obi wan>Anakin> however we've seen Anakin beat Dooku, so it doesn't work that way. So you concede. A rival Sith, not in lightsaber skills, or Sith force powers.
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IIRC, the author of SOD states maul's force powers are not on the level of and I quote,"Vader's, not even Dooku's level of mastery. He stands alongside the great Sith of all time through sheer strength of will."
Still lowballing Darth Maul I see ? This is why I left this forum....
Do you believe this guy ? This guy actually says that Darth Maul is not a Sith Lord... I mean how can you lowball him more than this ?
It proves that because of Mace Windu's obviously wrong assumption on their partnership ? Lol, yes it is. Not to mention how Mace manage to discover their power level while he obviously fail to capture Maul there despite the fact Aayla Secura was helping.
Obviously Mace would think that because Dooku has more power than Maul as a leader of the CIS, while Maul has the smaller function such as Shadow Collective, how Maul can be the master in this ? Maul himself asked to Dooku that he should become his apprentice, it seems that their power isn't so far someone wise person like Maul is trying to take Dooku as a new apprentice.
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How is that hard to swallow?
He's Talzin's son, and with 22ish years(not counting the time he spent as a deranged spider) he can already at least compete with Dooku in combat.
I don't quite see how that's hard to swallow.
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