The BattleZone! Round 1 Match 04: Shaak Ti vs. Luminara Unduli

Look again: it says she's considered one of the finest duelists in the Order. I even bolded it.

Yes I know....being a fine duelist, doesn't make her an expert. Just that she has great skill with a blade, its stated as such that she is just well versed in saber combat, that isn't where her strength lies so it doesn't really matter that she needs to be an expert duelist.

Yes I know....being a fine duelist, doesn't make her an expert. Just that she has great skill with a blade, its stated as such that she is just well versed in saber combat.

I will accept that, but if you're falling on the old Tartakovsky interpretation of Luminara's skills, you must look at the Tartakovsky depiction of Shaak Ti, as well. She singlehandedly took on a team of MagnaGuards using her own lightsaber and, later, one of their own electrostaffs, even using both the staff and saber in tandem. While this show does exaggerate skill, I think the relative abilities remain the same. Sure, Shaak Ti didn't hold out long against Grievous in the show...but would Luminara have?

I wasn't using Tartakovsky depictions at all. But no she wouldn't, Grevious was so stupidly OP in that show.

Well, what are you going by then? She only fought in one episode of TCW and very few of the comics (and in the comics she fought only a few droids and mercenaries). Shaak Ti in TCW, on the other hand, only fought two droids. Total. That's not a fair judge of power. If Shaak Ti fought Ventress she'd ROFL-stomp her, IMO, based on her skill in the TFU novel. And IMO, Luminara can't adapt. She's dogmatic, as evidenced when she treated Ahsoka as more a Temple-grade youngling than a somewhat battle-experienced Padawan. Ahsoka even fought Ventress before and gave Luminara advice, yet Luminara ignored her and went in as if she knew best. Whereas Shaak Ti was known to be intelligent and adaptable. (Also, and this is just speculation, but if Luminara hadn't been in ROTS and the show hadn't been so kid-friendly in Season 1, I think Ventress would have killed Luminara–again, assuming Luminara wasn't in ROTS–just to show Ventress as a threat). So in a drawn-out fight, Luminara would likely continue dogmatically on doing the same thing, while Shaak Ti would adapt to Luminara's strategy and take her down.

As said in my 1st post, not having well knowledge on either of these characters so am just going by what is posted on the wiki. Never even said who I thought would win.

By wookieepedia and their reputation, the two are even, so we have to see what they done in battle.

Luminara was nearly killed by Asajj Ventress, a skilled Jar'Kai fighter, a powerful opponent no doubt.

Shaak Ti was nearly killed by Grievous, ok, but we know that his uncommon style gave trouble to almost all Jedi, including Kit Fisto, Ki-Adi-Mundi, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, all among the greates of the order at the time. And year later, obviously stronger and with a battleground that favored her greatly, needed to be pointed out. But his opponent was Galen Marek, the man who defeated Rahm Kota, Darth Vader and Darth Sidious, perhaps the most powerful Force-user of all times. That's just definitive for me to give the victory to the Togruta master.

HELL NO. Galen never beat Sidious, and he certainly isn't the most powerful or even one of the most powerful force users at all. His actual canon self, is really just a good force user nothing really poor but nothing really special either.