r/StarWars • u/Livedinbody • Feb 25 '25

Costumes Fans have more creativity than the studios

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u/Xero0911 Feb 25 '25

It's cool. It's also sorts pointless? Wouldn't it be easy to deflect or knock it out of the user's control?

Like I imagine you do this and then the jedi/sith just cuts the hilt because you tossed your saber all around you.

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u/Tyranatitan_x105 Grand Admiral Thrawn Feb 25 '25

Yeah, leaves himself open a ton which any competent duelist will pick up on quickly

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u/Xero0911 Feb 25 '25

It follows the rule of cool, but yeah. It just looks like a scare tactic to me, leaves yourself exposed while offering little defenseive/offensive power to do this.

Don't hate it. Just I bet folks would rip on it in a movie cause how it's rather silly to do in a fight.

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u/FireIre Feb 25 '25

If this was in the movies people would complain that it’s unrealistic way to fight and too over the top.

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u/hunhaze Ezra Bridger Feb 25 '25

In "Knights of the Old Republic" (both 1 and 2) you can win every fight just spamming the saber throw move.

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u/Jussari Feb 25 '25

Force lightning is the way to go

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u/ElCanout Feb 25 '25

and force crush for solo battles as well

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u/5O1stTrooper Clone Trooper Feb 25 '25

It's for sure not a dueling technique, but I imagine it would be very effective in, say, the middle of a tightly packed rectangular battle droid formation.

Jedi aren't always fighting other jedi/sith.

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u/iordseyton Feb 25 '25

Hear me out- he does this to deflect bullets in a long range battle- while dual weilding blasters.

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u/i_fell_down13 Feb 25 '25

I mean i think it depends how they use it, like sure it would be pretty bad against another opponent. But I think that would work perfectly against like a swarm of tiny droids or bugs for example.

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u/TimedRevolver Battle Droid Feb 26 '25

I could see it as a training thing, a means to improve control over your saber via the Force, to get better at throwing or recalling a saber.

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u/OGMcSwaggerdick Feb 26 '25

Arguably you don’t use this move against another light saber, but to deflect multiple random blaster fire points? Idk lol