Still new to Comic Vine, and most forums in general, so i don't want to make this comment look like a mess by trying to quote some people. I'm just going to give my thoughts on this as a whole considering what some people have to say about Shaak Ti compared to the rest of the Counsel. I want to strictly focus on Legends, as Canon material shows Shaak Ti using her light-saber once for about 10~15 seconds.
Some can argue that Shaak Ti is the worst, or one of the top tiers in the Counsel, but you need to realize that, in the case of her fights against Grievous (which is the feat most attributed against her abilities), she only fought him in Legends, and was one of the only jedi who could even fend him off. We do see that she fights him on Hypori and Coruscant, as those are the only two fully explored fights she has with him. There are implications in sources like TFU comic and some novels that suggest that she has fought him more times, and is his equal. General Grievous in Legends was capable of cutting down low/mid tier Masters with relative ease. He could even defeat Counsel Masters without going all out. The only person who outright dominated Grievous in any of their fights was Mace Windu, who, in Labyrinth of Evil, was having some difficulties fending him off with the saber alone.
Shaak Ti has battled the likes of Pre-Suit Vader and while we are not given any details on how their fight went, she did survive the encounter after some time had passed. Pre-Suit Vader was top tier as a duelist at the time, and could definitely overpower the likes of Obi-Wan and others of that caliber, so for Shaak Ti to have been capable of fighting him off and escaping is impressive by itself.
Looking at feats against IG-100s from both Labyrinth of Evil and the 2003 animated Clone Wars series, Shaak Ti has both Obi-Wan and Anakin beat by performance. in the ROTS novel, it was noted that Obi-Wan could not outperform 3 IG-100s coming at him at once, and both Anakin and Obi-Wan individually had some difficulty with individual IG-100s. Shaak Ti was injured by some rocket-launchers before being engaged by an army of IG-100s during the battle of coruscant, and she managed to cut several of them down before the rest retreated. She did this while injured.
I would daresay that Shaak Ti is a superior duelist to the likes of Kit Fisto by a more-than comfortable degree. Some may argue Kit versus Grievous, but that's canon material, and Grievous in TCW series is heavily nerfed compared to his Legends showings. It's very inconsistent if you look at it that way. Otherwise, you could say Nadaar Vebb > Shaak Ti due to performance against IG-100s when that's absolutely ridiculous. The reason I believe Shaak Ti is superior to Kit Fisto is, while I believe that they are close in quality as duelists, Shaak Ti simply built herself more flexibly as a duelist. Kit Fisto is almost strictly Shi Cho with emphasis on Ataru, while Shaak Ti is a master of both Makashi and Ataru, with some skill in Shien on top of that. She has covered the weakness of both Makashi and Ataru, as made evident in her fights against IG-100s, Grievous, and Galen, while I see Kit Fisto suffering from Shi Cho's shortcomings on more than one occasion.
Now for Shaak Ti vs Galen Marek, you can look at both Novel and Comic and it's quite clear who was the superior fighter. They fought on Felucia, where both would have a force advantage (Dark Nexus for Galen, Jungle life for Ti). But here's the thing. In the Novel, Ti clearly outclasses Galen from the very start of their duel, who relies on desperate tactics to make her lose her footing in order to halt her assault. Despite this, she was still pushing him on his back foot, and almost never went onto the defensive as a result. At the end of their fight, she was noted to have practically thrown herself onto his light-saber, attempting to take him with her. By a story stand-point, this makes sense due to "If Galen dies, but Ti is left alive, Vader himself may come to Felucia with an armada as his back, and Ti's Padawan, Marriss, would be exposed." That's pure speculation, but it makes sense given the narration given during their fight. For the Comic, Ti stomps Galen with the force, and only loses due to dropping her guard completely before being struck by a Force Repulse.
No matter how you look at it, Shaak Ti losing against Galen was pure PIS, as the writers made it clear that Shaak Ti limited herself in both versions of the fight, allowing herself to be killed. While Galen was not at his prime, he was not far off, and it doesn't hurt that he was on a dark nexus.
I'd personally see Shaak Ti vs Darth Vader being an epic battle, but Vader already has marginal advantages over Ti along with very obvious advantages over her in other areas. She'd probably perform very well, but end up being outclassed.
During The Clone Wars Era, I honestly think that she is arguably 3rd to Yoda and Windu, but by a sizable margin, being relatively equal to ROTS Anakin and Obi-Wan. If Mace Windu took her instead of Kit Fisto to fight Sidious, I could see her lasting much longer in the fight (primarily because Mace Windu is there to take some of the heat as well) before being cut down similarly to Fisto. She wouldn't make much a difference in the fight.
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