@darthant66:
Sigh, why do you debate a character you don't really know much about?
Implying I don't know Dooku is like saying you don't know Revan. And that never says Obi moved faster than Dooku, it just said he deflected his assault only once did it mention he did it easily(when he leaped over one of Dooku's attacks). However, the RotS novel itself showed Dooku moving faster than Obi, and other sources stated it, as well:
Dooku was in motion, landing a spinning side-stamp that folded Skywalker in half; he used his last burst of dark power to continue his spin into a blindingly fast wheel-kick that brought his heel against the point of Kenobi's chin with a crack like the report of a huge-bore slugthrower, knocking the Jedi Master back down the stairs. Sounded like he'd broken his neck.
Source: Revenge of the Sith novel
Count Dooku half-turned and raised a hand. A rush of dark power lifted Obi-Wan off his feet and choked the air from his lungs. He reached for the Force to counter Dooku, but the attack had been too sudden. He saw Dooku twist, kicking out at Anakin with all his weight behind it. Anakin fell backward, and Dooku hurled Obi-Wan over the edge of the balcony.
Source: Revenge of the Sith Junior Novelization
The two droids fired at Obi-Wan, but he batted their fired energy bolts back at them and cut them down as he moved fast for Dooku. Unfortunately, Dooku moved faster,
Source: The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
Whereas all Dooku need do was to slip from one side to another-and occasionally flip over a head here and there-so that he could fight each of them in turn, rather than both of them at the same time. He supposed that in their own milieu, they might actually prove reasonably effective; it was clear that their style had been developed by fighting as a team against large numbers of opponents. They were not prepared to fight together against a single Force-user, certainly not one of Dooku's power; he, on the other hand, had always fought alone. It was laughably easy to keep the Jedi tripping and stumbling and getting in each other's way.
Source: Revenge of the Sith novel
Then it goes on to say Dooku dominated the early stages of combat:
They didn't even comprehend how utterly he dominated the combat. Because they fought as they had been trained, by releasing all desire and allowing the Force to flow through them, they had no hope of countering Dooku's mastery of Sith techniques They had learned nothing since he had bested them on Geonosis.
Source: Revenge of the Sith novel
Then you consider Dooku, while drugged, kept up with both Asajj and two other Nightsisters. Asajj is generally Obi's speedclass. And Grievous, a person whom Dooku outfenced, has pressured Obi-Wan's defenses in the same novel.
No, he was terrified because he realized he could lose - and that he might die. You should read the novel, it's pretty great.
Read it, loved it. And Dooku realized he could lose and die, but that's after he was taken back by Skywalker and Kenobi pressing their offense and changing up their forms. And even then, Dooku managed to adjust and counter:
It was time to alter his own tactics. He dropped low and spun into another reverse anklesweep - the weakness of Djem So was it's lack of mobility - that slapped Skywalker's boot sharply enough to throw the young Jedi off balance,
Source: Revenge of the Sith novel
Dooku got tired because of Anakin Skywalker beating him down, lawl.
So Dooku wasn't tired from a 2v1 fight against two enemies of similar skill pressuring him? Rather weak logic.
And no, this was before Skywalker had his "oh I get it now" moment. The text even notes how Skywalker was holding back his fury.
The text you provided doesn't even note that. And the novel later notes that all of Anakin's fury had been unleashed:
And all for nothing, because a nuclear flame has consumed Anakin Skywalker's Jedi restraint, and fear becomes fury without effort, and fury is a blade that makes his lightsaber into a toy.
The play goes on, but the suspense is over. It has become mere pantomime, as intricate and as meaningless as the space-time curves that guide galactic clusters through a measureless cosmos.
Dooku's decades of combat experience are irrelevant. His mastery of swordplay is useless. His vast wealth, his political influence, impeccable breeding, immaculate manners, exquisite taste-the pursuits and points of pride to which he has devoted so much of his time and attention over the long, long years of his life-are now chains hung upon his spirit, bending his neck before the ax.
Even his knowledge of the Force has become a joke.
It is this knowledge that shows him his death, makes him handle it, turn it this way and that in his mind, examine it in detail like a black gemstone so cold it burns. Dooku's elegant farce has degenerated into bathetic melodrama, and not one shed tear will mark the passing of its hero.
But for Anakin, in the fight there is only terror, and rage.
Only he stands between death and the two men he loves best in all the world, and he can no longer afford to hold anything back. That imaginary dead-star dragon tries its best to freeze away his strength, to whisper him that Dooku has beaten him before, that Dooku has all the power of the darkness, to remind him how Dooku took his hand, how Dooku could strike down even Obi-Wan himself seemingly without effort and now Anakin is all alone and he will never be a match for any Lord of the Sith-But Palpatine's words rage is your weapon have given Anakin permission to unseal the shielding around his furnace heart, and all his fears and all his doubts shrivel in its flame.
When Count Dooku flies at him, blade flashing, Watto's fist cracks out from Anakin's childhood to knock the Sith Lord tumbling back.
When with all the power that the dark side can draw from throughout the universe, Dooku hurls a jagged fragment of the durasteel table, Shmi Skywalker's gentle murmur I knew you would come for me, Anakin smashes it aside.
His head has been filled with the smoke from his smothered heart for far too long; it has been the thunder that darkens his mind. On Aargonar, on Jabiim, in the Tusken camp on Tatooine, that smoke had clouded his mind, had blinded him and left him flailing in the dark, a mindless machine of slaughter; but here now, within this ship, this microscopic cell of life in the infinite sterile desert of space, his firewalls have opened so that the terror and the rage are out there, in the fight instead of in his head, and Anakin's mind is clear as a crystal bell.
In that pristine clarity, there is only one thing he must do.
Decide.
So he does.
He decides to win.
He decides that Dooku should lose the same hand he took. Decision is reality, here: his blade moves simultaneously with his will and blue fire vaporizes black Corellian nanosilk and disintegrates flesh and shears bone, and away falls a Sith Lord's lightsaber hand, trailing smoke that tastes of charred meat and burned hair. The hand falls with a bar of scarlet blaze still extending from its spastic death grip, and Anakin's heart sings for the fall of that red blade.
He reaches out and the Force catches it for him.
And then Anakin takes Dooku's other hand as well.
Dooku crumples to his knees, face blank, mouth slack, and his weapon whirs through the air to the victor's hand, and Anakin finds his vision of the future happening before his eyes: two blades at Count Dooku's throat.
Source: Revenge of the Sith novel
The first line itself said that Anakin's fury consumed his Jedi restraints and he unleashed it with his lightsaber, so yeah.
First off, I hate when people say "strawman." It's pretty laughable as a rebuttal. You did say it, even if you didn't write it. Your argument is clearly that Dooku can handle Revan's telekinesis well enough for it to be a "great fight" despite Revan instantly overwhelming the barriers of that combined strike team.
First of all, Revan was amped, he gathered energy to break their Force defenses. Malgus also broke the defense of Darth Nox, Wrath, THoT, Barsen, etc. But they still beat him, nonetheless. And Yoda couldn't just overwhelm Dooku, either(albeit he was holding back):
The two engaged in a titanic struggle of Force powers, neither besting the other.
Source: The complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Therefore, it's obvious you think Dooku can hold out better than them, hence "Dooku > That team." If your line of reasoning is different then this, then you are probably wrong on something else, which I will correct you on, and you'll then fall back to this point. It's inevitable and the only argument you can make for Dooku to possibly hope to win.
I don't think he can hold better than them, I just don't think Revan could unleash such a wave that could throw the Count back while he's engaged with a duelist of similar, or superior skill. And then you consider that nobody in the strike team is even that impressive a Force user. Satele and Marr don't have any TK feats comparable to Dooku, Lana is pretty much featless and the rest are non-Force sensitives, bearing the player character who Revan couldn't just ragdoll.
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