SPECULATION Obi-Wan an underrated Swordsman

He was more of a thinker and anakin pretty much did things before thinking.

 

Force sprint is used many times during The Clone Wars, but you are technically correct if we only count the films.

 

I always thought it was a let down that we see Obi Wan and Qui Gon force sprinting in the first 15 minutes of TPM, then we never see another force wielder use it for the rest of the PT,OT and film one of the ST. I would very much like to see more force abilities displayed. Especially by Luke! Nothing over the top, or "videogame-ish". Just some cool moves yet to be seen in a saga film!

 

Well, some of the video

Well, some video-game moves have made their way into the films and TV shows, but they have always been nerfed or the weaker ones. Force repulse is an example of this. Savage uses it a couple of times, but only under extreme stress and it's nowhere near as powerful as in TFU series.

 

You know, the more I think about it the more I've actually come to realize that I WANT TO SEE LUKE HANDING OUT MAJOR FORCE A** WIPPINGS!! Videogame-ish or not....let 'er rip!!

 

the majority of the action would be in-character and not something insane (unless that's how the character is) and obi-wan is way more subdued.

 

I agree that Obi Wan was much more calculated in his actions, whether dueling with his saber or speaking to the Jedi counsel.

 

I was pretty shocked that he was on the jedi council at such a young age until anakin came along and that proves how respected he was but, at the same time, was it literally only because he killed Maul or was it for hoe great he was
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Good question. Because technically he faced and defeated a Sith before anyone else on the council.Yoda told Luke that he was 900 years old when he died. The Sith had been extinct for a millennium at the time of TPM. So Yodas first fight against a Sith was his battle with Count Dooku. Yoda never killed a Sith. Obi Wan killed Maul and thought he killed Anakin on Mustafar.

 

Well to be fair he thought he let Shakir die instead of killing him.

 

He's a very skilled wielder of the lightsaber, one of the best.

 

In Revenge of Sith, OB1 ask Yoda to go after Darth Sidious rather than Anakin because Anakin is like his brother. Yet Master Yoda says you are not strong enough Ob1.... Anywho, OB1 is not an underrated swordsman in my book. The prequels and the Clone Wars prove this. Even in his elder years, he took out a crazy thug in a seedy tavern swiftly.

 

He didn't really kill him. In the clone wars which are canon maul returns

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Obi wan defeated maul more than once he also deffeated Jango Fett ( Jango had to escape). He also defeated General Grievous and Anakin. So yes he is a powerful swordsman. Sadly people that hate the prequels don't see him that way.

 

Obi-Wan was a skilled swordsman. But he wasn't the best. And not all of his advice or decisions were wise. He was a first-rate Jedi, but he had his flaws. I have never considered him or any other Jedi to be "ideal".

I don't regard Obi-Wan's defeat of Grievous to be all that impressive. He was very lucky with Anakin, who was in a very emotional state at the time. I was impressed by how he took advantage of both Anakin's lack of emotional control and Maul's cockiness to defeat them. Yet, his own cockiness led to his defeat at Tyranus' hand at least twice . . . especially in "Revenge of the Sith".

 

While it is true that Obi-Wan fared poorly against Dooku, in both cases he gets sidelined for much of the fight, and also in both cases, Anakin's actions influence the outcome much more than Obi-Wan's. This is why I didn't include it in my "record" - Obi-Wan sort of just gets pushed out of the fight rather than winning or losing.

If you did want to count those as losses, that would mean Obi-Wan has 2 wins and 3 losses - I'm not sure if that's still better than "one draw and one loss."

 

He was an extremely skilled swordsman, but I don't know if we can say he was underrated. I never got the impression that, apart from the outer rim, he was anything close to anonymous.

 

'Swordsman' has another meaning in the UK.