Why Count Dooku's Lightsaber is SO DEADLY - Star Wars Explained

This is Count Dooku of Serenno’s Lightsaber. Although it might not look it, this is actually one the most powerful and dangerous lightsabers ever constructed by a member of the Jedi Order. And when Dooku turned to the darkside to join the Sith, it became the perfect weapon to wreak havoc and slaughter opponents. So why was it so dangerous? Well, make sure you hit that subscribe button and lets find out!

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As Dooku was growing up on the planet Serenno, his father soon started to realize that his son was force sensitive. Deeming all force sensitves as horrible freaks of Nature, he dumped the young Dooku out in the forest with no food or protection and called the Jedi Order up to come and take him away... This impacted him and his ability to keep fighting no matter what for the rest of his life.

Once Dooku actually arrived at the Jedi temple on Coruscant and began his training, he quickly found out that he had a skill seen only very rarely in the Order. A supreme innate talent for the art of lightsaber duelling. Because the Galaxy had been at peace for hundreds of years and all of the Jedi’s enemies had been wiped out, it was almost a forgotten art. Most Jedi chose to focus their time on learning how to commune more deeply with the force, rather than improve their lightsaber fighting skills. On top of this, many of the offensive forms of Lightsaber combat like Form IV, started to go out of fashion because Jedi didn’t believe they needed to fight anyone with aggression anymore.

[StarWarsMeg]

As a kid seeing AOTC for the first time, I was blown away with how unique and awesome Dooku's saber was.

[ophidahlia]

Some real-world background here: Cristopher Lee was a champion fencer and it was partly his expert input that saw Dooku's lightstaber modeled after real-world fencing swords with curved hilts. A lot of Dooku's on-screen expertise and finesse wouldn't have been possible without Lee's professional fencing skills; sure, lightsaber choreography goes a long way and they spend a long time getting those scenes right but I doubt any other actor would have been able to really sell it like Lee was able to. Unrelated fun fact, Lee also fronted a fantasy-themed heavy metal band, he was a pretty interesting guy.

[macwelch]

I remember reading that curved-hilt lightsabers were more common when Jedi fought Sith more often

[Floydy_Jr]

Personally I love the design of Count Dooku's Lightsaber. It's by far one of the most unique and I really like that.

[CloneScavengerVulpin]

Dooku: "stop using the standard attacks use the unorthodox."

[nebcyt-notenoughbraincells]

His EA Battlefront 2 ability with the blade animation and fighting style was perfect.It highlited how good a duelist he was and he was a satisfying Villian for the game.

[leejamesmccarthy]

As a sith I'd use a curved hilt blade too, any advantage it gives is good but I'd experiment too to find my perfect style so it may not necessarily be curved but I'd make it work in some way even if it was a back up blade

[insanityblaze]

Count Dooku is one of my favorite characters from Star wars

[LaraA]

@StarForceOne Wow...I didn't know any of this, especially about Dooku's past and the design of his light saber. I would definitely prefer his design, since it can overcome the lightsaber lock! Cheers

[pullo]

Dooku's lightsaber hilt is the most unique.

[The_Lego_Dude]

Great video! This information was so interesting! Thanks for making this video!

[Crazy-vxbn]

I would love to use a curved lightsaber as the main and a smaller double sided lightsaber in the off hand

[rustyshackleford]

StarForceOne I appreciate what you do. Love all your videos man. May the Force be with you my friend

[AmbroseBoaBowie]

Curved. For its practical offense. Also I are use to one handed not two handed. I would probibly choose two with the connectors at the back, but primarily use one. The second would be in case the I need to pull out more tricks to secure a win

[NeonVictor]

Hey StarForce one the new issue for Crimson Reign drop and it's really good

[bostonrailfan]

the pistol grip hilt allows better leverage and holding at a more natural position, it’s a smart idea that few could understand because they were too busy trying to be holier-than-thou or afraid of fighting back…

[nccunningham]

I love how the picture of young Duku they just just a green line and changed his hair.you can still see the red light

[MuhammadHaidar-sh]

I have already crafted a DIY lightsaber like dooku. Although my favorite character is Darth Vader/ Anakin Skywalker, my favorite lightsaber and lightsaber form is Dooku's.

[brandonoliver]

Seeing as how form 2 come from the real world HEMA and how I have a love of HEMA and have experience in this style I would absolutely use a curve hilt but modified with a basket or shell guard made beskar.

[captaincrex]

My choice of hilt would be a disk like one from tron