The BattleZone! Round 1 Match 16: Exar Kun vs. Darth Krayt

Alrighty, here's my 2 cents:

Krayt and Kun would first engage in lightsaber combat. This would continue for a bit because both use Niman. However, let's say Kun mixed in some Jar'kai (he did have good knowledge of it) and the battle turns to a Force-off. Krayt will use Dark Transfer, let's say Kun takes the hit and uses a quick Dark Heal to recuperate. Here's where it gets interesting. Krayt will find Kun's weaknesses via Shatterpoint, but he can't exploit it immediatley. The second Krayt takes his time to focus and find the Shatterpoint, Kun pulls up a Force blast and knocks Krayt into a wall. Krayt would find himself disoriented, and Kun would use Force flight to quickly get to Krayt and impale him. Kun Wins.

Exar Kun has absorbed sorcery techniques on four separate occasions, Dark Transfer is sorcery(Krayt learned the technique primarily from XoXaan, it is alchemy and he refined it's use due to Karness Muur and Andeddu's intervention), Kun would absorb it and given the magnitude of such power the resulting Force Blast charge would be very much on the high tier and would completely obliterate the entire area Krayt is stood in, this would result in an extremely serious injury if not death for Krayt, Krayt has no defence against this and he would be killed by such a high magnitude attack.

It being sorcery seems to conflict with the notion that it can be used by the light side of the Force... which would surely be an impossibility if it were a product of sith sorcery - i.e. the dark side of the Force.

Neither does that resolve the fact that thanks to shatterpoint the chances of Kun dodging, blocking or even anticipating such an attack are very slim. Krayt will strike when he is least able to defend himself and most exposed.

And since when is Force Blast an AOE power? A charged Force Blast wasn't even enough to kill Aleema Keto. I doubt Kun is going to be capable of some kind of Force bomb or whatever it is your suggesting. In the end as I have said again and again its highly likely that Krayt will simply dodge when Kun begins to build his energies.

Essentially I feel this is overlooking much of what I made clear (or rather repeated) in the above post.

I do however believe Exar Kun far and beyond has the better Force Barriers here, the only times his Force Barriers have been successfully surpassed were via the spirit of Freedon Nadd, a Sith spirit of great power and the other time was from Odan-Urr, who is listed as having one of the most well developed and honed connections to the Force that a Jedi has had in the Old Sith Wars, he spent a thousand years preparing to battle the Dark Side and according to Master Vandar he was one of the most powerful Jedi in the Order's history up to his time..

Dawn of the Jedi clarified that any 'healing' ability is based on Alchemy or the transfiguration of life which is Sorcery, Force Healing is not natural and is the sole Dark Side ability that Jedi are not corrupted by, the ability to use the Light Side of the Force and Dark Side of the Force to use said ability does not make it an exception to this rule, which itself is cleared up by, again, Dawn of the Jedi.

And how do we even know that Shatterpoint can be used in this way by Krayt? he certainly didn't use the ability in combat, there is a considerable leap of faith going on here that Krayt could not only use it in combat but also effectively enough to take Kun down or out, look at Traya, did we see her specifically use it in combat? nope, did she use it to predict future events, etc...? I imagine so, look at Windu, the sole time he ever had a Shatterpoint that reflected the future of the galaxy, was when he was right in the middle of what the RotS novel describes as 'the largest Shatterpoint in the history of the galaxy', beyond that he only ever managed to use it significantly in combat.

Force Blast can be used in varying degrees and we have gone over and over and over with the Aleema Keto scene, I have told you why she could just barely stop it from completely killing and we know as a matter of fact that Kun use it instantaneously that time because Aleema barely acknowledge what he was doing before he did it.

Kun's maximum impact Force Blast devastated the spirit of Freedon Nadd and almost collapsed the tomb around him, in effect it was an AoE blast that destroyed an area, not one directed beam.

Beyond this, Kun tanked a Force Push at almost point-blank from Ulic and it barely nudged him backwards.

But yes absorbing Keto's Blast was likely the quickest reaction we've seen.

I think Beni brings up a good point about Kun being able to react quick enough to defend against Krayt's attacks (Dark Transfer or otherwise). So let me pose a question to you Rayla (since you know all things Exar Kun): how quickly can Kun react and then put up a defense? I assume a good comparison would be to use Keto's Force Blast, yes?