A jedi flying around the room high on Ataru is gonna be hard to keep an aim on at all. The form's extreme wide attacks also can probably reap opponents without lightsaber defenses like they're wheat, which is a highly normal, sane, and light-sided thought to have!To be frank my bigger problems with those two forms are their lackluster performance against blasters.
While all of that is true if we're fighting a gang of pirates or chopping our way through some warlord's personal guard,A jedi flying around the room high on Ataru is gonna be hard to keep an aim on at all. The form's extreme wide attacks also can probably reap opponents without lightsaber defenses like they're wheat, which is a highly normal, sane, and light-sided thought to have!
Note also that as Obi-Wan's example shows, studying a form as a Padawan doesn't mean you're locked into using that style and only that style forever.
Sure, I can approval vote for that. Shii-Cho/Ataru honestly strikes me as a great mix.Kirook's post is why I think we should focus on really locking down Shii-Cho. Almost no one in the Jedi Order has truly mastered Form I because they all went off to explore more specialized ("better") styles as soon as possible. We can achieve an uncommonly comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals and it'll make us a much better swordsman when we do decide to specialize later. This is my serious pitch.
Keeping it real: Form 5 is an extremely boring and conventional pick to me. I would rather pick literally any other form including illegally (?) studying Juyo.While all of that is true if we're fighting a gang of pirates or chopping our way through some warlord's personal guard,Especially the thing about sanityIf we're in an actual pitched battle we're going to get tired, now, it's not like this is a death sentence, we've got force power for days but it's definitely an issue and it's one that Form 5 doesn't have.
You'll have to train a lot more before that's on the table, but yes, mixing lightsaber forms is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. Darra and Serra are actually already doing it to some extent (although it's pretty limited because they're both still Initiates).Does that mean that, theoretically if we learn Soresu later, we can combine both (Soresu and Djem So) concepts to create a contradictive form of Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Unpredictability?
Something to consider (and that you are not mentioning here) is that canonically, Djem So is a form derived from Soresu, so despite its forceful nature is also the second strongest form in terms of pure defense.Form V, Djem So—also known as the Perseverance Form or the Way of the Krayt—is the most direct and (lowercase-f) forceful of the forms, focused on breaking through the enemy's defenses to quickly end a fight. Obviously, Anakin's natural inclination is to study this form; he won't learn many broader lessons from it that he doesn't already know, but conversely it will be the easiest for him to pick up out of all of the forms, giving him more time for additional training or working on the Kalee relief plan. Not surprisingly, this is the form Anakin mastered in canon (and also taught to Ahsoka, although she technically uses a variant called Shien that's more calibrated for a battlefield than a duel).
Soresu and Djem So are not contradictory at all... Djem So is actually a form derived from Soresu that maintains a solid defense while proactively seeking for opportunities to break the opponents guard, instead of waiting for a mistake of the opponentsDoes that mean that, theoretically if we learn Soresu later, we can combine both (Soresu and Djem So) concepts to create a contradictive form of Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Unpredictability?
Kirook's post is why I think we should focus on really locking down Shii-Cho. Almost no one in the Jedi Order has truly mastered Form I because they all went off to explore more specialized ("better") styles as soon as possible. We can achieve an uncommonly comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals and it'll make us a much better swordsman when we do decide to specialize later. This is my serious pitch.
Completely fair, I was just curious about the dueling thing.Keeping it real: Form 5 is an extremely boring and conventional pick to me. I would rather pick literally any other form including illegally (?) studying Juyo.