Let's see if he gets any slower or not ;
First of all, Shadow Conspiracy novel confirms that Maul has become more powerful in every department, that includes ''speed'' as well ;
Maul had grown more powerful since the last time he’d been in Sidious’s presence, before the Neimoidian invasion of Naboo had turned disastrous and Obi-Wan had bested him inside the Theed power core.
--- Shadow Conspiracy
Author of the book confirms that power-up includes speed as well ;
Question : There is a passage says that ''Maul had grown more powerful'', is this a specific power ? Such as the Force ? Or in all categories such as speed, skill, strength etc. ?
Jason Fry : No, just in general.
--- theforce.net
Maul is confirmed to be faster than his TPM version, despite having cybernetic legs.
When you examine his agility and mobility, Maul didn't even slow down a bit.
--- The Clone Wars : Season 5 Episode 1 - Revival - Timeline : 20 BBY
Comes from behind catches a moving Obi-Wan's blade (who had a heightened level of concentration due to Adi Gallia's death and he is very close to the RotS timeline) without any difficulty.
Maul dodges from an explosion with using his agility, that explosion was powerful enough to take down even someone like Mace Windu.
--- Son of Dathomir #03 - Timeline : 19 BBY
Another demonstration of his agility ;
--- The Clone Wars : Season 5 Episode 14 - Eminence - Timeline : 19 BBY
Jumps on and easily deals with Adi Gallia & Obi-Wan at the same time ;
--- The Clone Wars : Season 5 Episode 1 - Revival - Timeline : 20 BBY
Easily deals with Savage's double bladed lightsaber that gave hard time to the likes of Ventress, or even Dooku.
--- The Clone Wars : Season 5 Episode 1 - Revival - Timeline : 20 BBY
Another demonstration of his mobility and agility against Darth Sidious ;
--- The Clone Wars : Season 5 Episode 16 - Lawless - Timeline : 19 BBY
And in the Ahsoka novel, it has been stated that Maul didn't even slow down a bit because of his prosthetics.
If she hadn't known that his legs were artificial, she never would have guessed they weren't the limbs he'd been born with. The prosthetics didn't slow him down at all.
--- Ahsoka (Novel) - Timeline : 19 BBY
Even after 16 years, Maul is still fast enough to dodge multiple blindside attacks from three Inquisitors with using superior his agility.
--- The Rebels : Season 2 Episode 20 - Twilight of the Apprentice - Timeline : 3 BBY
He controls the fight against Ahsoka, someone fast enough to give a hard time to Darth Vader, and turns his back to her in mid-duel.
--- The Rebels : Season 2 Episode 20 - Twilight of the Apprentice - Timeline : 3 BBY
Maul easily outpaces SWR-3 Ezra Bridger (who can effectively use TK and TP at this point), and encourages him to run faster.
Maul : ''Faster! We must reach the cave entrance.''
--- The Rebels : Season 3 Episode 9 - Visions and Voices - Timeline : 2 BBY
In an interview, Voice actor of Darth Maul, Sam Witwer states that SWR Maul is still athletic and fast as the prequel era fighters was, which was the prime of the Jedi and Sith.
Sam Witwer : ''When you see the original trilogy, people are not doing the flips and the athletic movements. No one else does that, except Maul. Ahsoka did, but now she's gone. Maul is the only game in the town when it comes to an extraordinarily dangerous Force-trained combatant,''
--- Star Wars Insider 168 (2016)
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