@erkan12:
Maul's Ataru knowledge can't be compared with Dooku's specific knowledge over Qui-Gon's and Obi-Wan's Ataru.
Dooku only has hands on knowledge of Qui-Gon's specific style of fighting. Kenobi's is distinct. Just like Qui-Gon's style is distinct from Dooku's, just like Dooku's style is distinct from Yoda's.
Kenobi's Master had been Qui-Gon Jinn, Dooku's own Padawan; Dooku had fenced Qui-Gon thousands of times, and he knew every weakness of the Ataru form, with its ridiculous acrobatics.
The text is referring to Ataru's weakness in a general sense, not weaknesses specific only to Jinn; Jinn doesn't even use acrobatics. Theses are weaknesses Maul who is a master of Ataru should be knowledgeable of.
Dooku has a direct knowledge about Qui-Gon's style and his padawan, while Obi-Wan didn't even know Dooku's form.
Actually Kenobi was aware of Dooku's Form:
Obi-Wan remembered Jocasta Nu telling him, With a lightsaber, in the old style of fencing, he had no match. Now he could see what she meant. Unfortunately.
Source: Attack of the Clones Junior Novelization
Maul never observed or gained any knowledge about Qui-Gon's and Obi-Wan's fighting style before the duel.
Maul did gain some knowledge of Qui-Gon's fighting style during their first duel. By you're standards this would be a useful advantage. Qui-Gon and Kenobi on the other hand didn't have any knowledge of the Double-Lightsaber. He also had loads of prep as per Endgame. I did an outline for another Viner, I'll copy and paste it here:
@kilius said:To start with Maul wants to make sure the Queen makes it too the hanger without much resistance. So the Jedi won't worry about her and focus on him.
He took his speeder bike directly too the hanger, where close to four hundred B1 battle droids were patrolling the area. That was far too many to be easily defeated by Amidala and here handful of security officers and pilots. With help from the Jedi it was possible Naboo would eventually overcome the battle droids, but wanted to ensure that Amidala's small force would be able to move on to the palace without encountering too much resistance. More important he didn't want Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan to worry too much about her safety.
He then orders OOM-9 to redeploy the troops and leave only sixty in the hanger. Insisting that he would personally make up for the reduced amount.
He anticipates the ensuing fire fight with the droids almost to the letter. He worries that the Queen might assume the entrance to the palace from the hanger is booby trapped and end up taking a longer route through the Vis District, where he would have a hard time controlling the fight.
Maul's gaze sweptthe hangars broad entrance. A tunnel linked the hangar to the Palace, but Amadala would certainly assume that it had been bobby-trapped, and would likely lead the Jedi and her infiltration team across the eastern fork of the Solleu River and through the narrow paths and across the skybridges of the Vis district. But a lightsaber duel fought along that route or in the woods that surrounded the Palace would be difficult to control. Somehow he had to waylay the Jedi before they exited the building. Again he scanned the dim interior, and his gaze fell on the tall blast doors that separated the hanger from the contiguous power generator building. On his earlier visit to the hangar he had done little more than peer into the plasma power station, but now eager to know what lay beyond the blast doors, he hurried thought them.
He then familiarizes himself with the catwalk and the surrounding interior committing it to muscle memory.
Maul paced halfway to the door, then returned to the inspection platform and paced it a second time, marking the length and calculating the distances between it and the catwalks above and below. Several times he leapt to higher or lower catwalks. Once he had committed the arrangement to both mental and muscle memory, he walked all the way to the far door and though it.
He then comes across the laser barriers and discerns a patter for their activation and uses it to his advantage.
The door opened on a soaring security hallway, interrupted at regular intervals by laser gates that sealed themselves in response to power outputs of the plasma activation process. Initially the firings seemed to occur randomly, but after he passed thorough the gates several times in both directions---cautiously at first, then as quickly as he could---Maul began to discern a subtle pattern. The pattern was by no means foolproof, and twice he came close to being fried by the firings, but in the end he had learned enough about the timing of the gates to provide himself with a slight advantage.
After coming to the plasma chamber and testing it's depth. He imagines he can direct how the lightsaber duel will unfold, with all his accumulated knowledge.
Maul paced the circular rim of the core, gazing down into blackness; then he turned from the view to imagine and to direct how the lightsaber duel would unfold. He would use the laser gates to separate the Jedi. He looked around. Yes: he would kill one of them just there. As for the other . . .
Well, he'd allow himself a surprise or two.
Maul had the advantage of prep and an unfamiliar weapon. Now to be fair I do actually think Jinn has knowledge of Juyo and Teras Kasi do to his experience in sparing with Anoon Bondara, who is a master of both, but he wouldn't know about the double-lightsaber so Maul still has the advantage as far as unfamiliar styles go. Kenobi on the other hand likely doesn't have any knowledge of Maul's style, not only that as I've said Maul still has the same knowledge as Dooku does of Ataru's weakness.
Finally you keep ignoring the crucial point in the highlighted text: "He had never before faced such power in battle before"
Kenobi isn't talking about saber styles here, he's referring to Tyranus's darkside augmented power. It matches up with another statement:
He found himself hard-pressed to hold against the dark side-augmented strength of his opponent, even though his own abilities with the Force were far from slight.
Source: The Official Star Wars Fact File #49 (Relaunched)
Kenobi was struggling with Dooku's skill and his dark side augmented strength. "Never had he faced such power in battle before"
Legends Dooku > Legends Maul in power, at least of TPM.
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