Dooku > Mace post from Just-Attorney-1902

https://www.reddit.com/r/PetranakiArena/s/0KJ0VDMM3J

Keep in mind this post was mostly from an EU perspective. Many people didn’t emphasize with my claim of Dooku = Yoda > Mace >= office sidious. Here are some proofs

AoTC Dooku = Yoda. Yoda obviously holds narrative over mace of being the strongest Jedi in the order

AoTC Dooku = Yoda:

“So I decided to go back to the Empire Strikes Back of throwing things at each other, even though I knew they were equal to each other so it was a hopeless gesture and they would have figured that out in two seconds."

Source: George Lucas, AoTC commentary

Dooku only fled from Yoda to protect the Death Star plans, not because he was outmatched:

Yoda probably believed that he had defeated Dooku on Geonosis. But in fact, Dooku had only fled the fight to safeguard the plans he had been carrying - - the technical readouts to what would one day become the Ultimate Weapon...

Source: Labyrinth of evil

19BBY. The below statement implies Yoda is already = to Dooku on neutral ground. And if anyone thinks this means mace = Dooku, the wording was “perhaps”

The Count's blade was quick as a viper striking. Among the other Jedi, perhaps only Mace Windu would have been his equal on neutral ground: but here on Vjun, steeped in the dark side, his bladework was malice made visible-wickedness cut in red light.

Yoda Dark Rendezvous

As a Jedi, Dooku's skills were regarded by other Jedi to be only be matched by Masters Yoda and Mace Windu. And obviously Sith Dooku > Jedi Dooku

Source: Insider #109```

```Only Mace himself ever mastered it, and it was reckoned that only Master Yoda and Dooku were ever able to match Windu with a lightsaber.

Source: The Official Starships & Vehicles Collection #25```

```Dooku had been reckoned one of the foremost duellists in the Jedi Order, second only to Master Yoda.

Source: The Official Star Wars Fact File #60```

Moreover, Dooku was said to be one of the only Jedi capable of defeating Mace Windu in a duel:

```His skills with his purple-bladed lightsaber were the stuff of legend, and it was said that he could be defeated in combat only by Master Yoda and the great swordsman Count Dooku.

Source: The Official Figurine Collection #33```

```It is said that only his one-time friend Dooku and the venerable Grand Master Yoda could outspar Mace Windu.

Source: The Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels Prima Official Game Guide```