The Grand Inquisitor runs a Gauntlet

@joker say, why do u have asajj above eeth koth?

lorenzo.r.2nd wrote:@joker say, why do u have asajj above eeth koth?

Ventress defeated Grievous and her showings against Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Savage are quite impressive. I’d be surprised if she couldn’t do at least as well as Koth did against early-Vader.

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OT: Not seeing how the Grand Inquisitor gets passed Ahsoka, tbh.

Beating Jocasta comes to mind.

Beats 10, but dies at 9.

> Korriban wrote:Beating Jocasta comes to mind.

"I am all for the destruction of the Jedi, but I'd have thought we would start with a more dangerous target. Frankly, I am surprised she survived the Purge. Why, I don't think I saw her fight once, not in all the years I—" — Grand Inquisitor

"My light dims. What the Sith couldn't do, time most certainly will." — Jocasta Nu

"She is ancient. Middling in the Force, barely competent with a lightsaber." — Darth Sidious

"She is little better than a witch." — Darth Sidious

"Ah... yes. I sense your eagerness. The idea of hunting another Jedi, even one so feeble as Jocasta..." — Darth Sidious

"I used to dream of this, you know. Striking you down. I thought it would be so easy. After all, they didn't stick you in the library because of your combat skills." — Grand Inquisitor

I think a fun thought experiment would be, 'who wouldn't be able to beat Jocasta?' And it's certainly not Ahsoka!

Tch, forgot how badly they treated Jocasta in the Canon, man that dialogue really puts her in the dirt..

Nah, even with the writers emphasizing how poor of a combatant she is, they still manage to make her pretty badass.

Uh, the GI taunts her and underestimates her. Sidious saying she's shit means nothing, now remember that she was on the council and canon and come back to me

King Joker wrote:Nah, even with the writers emphasizing how poor of a combatant she is, they still manage to make her pretty badass.

But only really with that lightsaber...rifle thing. Which I still think is kinda dumb.

> Korriban wrote:Uh, the GI taunts her and underestimates her. Sidious saying she's shit means nothing, now remember that she was on the council and canon and come back to me

On what basis was the Grand Inquisitor's assessment of her combative abilities inaccurate? On what basis was Sidious's assessment inaccurate? Jocasta was an archivist—not associated with anything combat-related and primarily focused on research and collection. Several statements within just a couple comics suggest she's not combatively apt, including her own admission that she's past her prime and nearing the end of her lifespan, in addition to her assistant's observations that she was exhausting herself with her work. Jocasta being a poor fighter is completely intuitive and obvious from the comics. If the only scrap of evidence you have suggesting that she's above mediocre is "she was on the Council!" (what, decades ago? And why?), then you're going to have to do much better than that.

I think a fun thought experiment would be, 'who wouldn't be able to beat Jocasta?' 

Poor Jocasta. 

And no, @> Korriban, Jocasta was never even meant to be a good Jedi in a combative sense. Her strength was her knowledge. That's it.

Reminds me of how funny it'd be in the ROTS videogame is they used Jocasta instead of Drallig for the boss fight.