@i_like_swords: Sorry for the late reply.
I'm saying they aren't mutually exclusive. The website advertising a team fight to people as "team up and go kill Malgus" is not the same as saying "Malgus can only be killed by this team" - it is clearly supported in the story that any 1 of the 8 classes can defeat him alone, the same way you can take any combination of light and dark side paths and them all be valid outcomes for the story.
It's not an advertisement for people to go and fight Malgus. It doesn't say "now, you must team up to overthrow him" or whatever, it literally states that "the Empire calls on its most powerful champions" to combat him. It's a descriptor of an event. You're right in that it doesn't say "Malgus can only be killed by this team", but it makes no difference if canon dictates he never fought anyone else.
It'd be kinda stupid if Malgus were capable of:
a) contending with but losing to the Smuggler in a one-on-one
b) contending with but losing to the Smuggler and three others who are more powerful than the Smuggler
at the same time.
There's evidence upfront of Malgus being blatantly superior to the four-man team he was supposed to face (choking three of them at once while battling the remaining one, bringing them to their knees with lightning, breaking through their defences with a single push, etc.) so I find it implausible that a quarter of this same team - and a non-force sensitive one, no less - would be able to best him in a legitimate one-on-one.
Originally, his opponent(s) won by simply cheapshotting him off a reactor shaft ledge with a Rakatan grenade. This could be a way to reconcile the two instances, but I'm not sure you'd buy into it given that it was removed in a later update. Personally, I just think that it was a purely game-related change to make the fight easier by removing a mechanic (which is supported by the game since you still get the message saying he's vulnerable to the grenade even after the patch) but make of it what you will.
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