Originally Posted by
Holiday
Tokiomi's death wasn't at all a case of "I have no idea how to fight"; it was a case of "I'm a terrible judge of character". His guard was down because he trusted Kirei not to backstab him and he trusted Gil to watch his back. If either of those trusts had actually been well-placed, he wouldn't have died.
Kayneth, on the other hand, absolutely is an "I'm really overpowered but have no clue how to fight" magus. You look at the mats and see all the abilities this guy has and you're like "wow he's crazy strong" but he doesn't really have any strategy other than brute force, and he loses because he blunders into a series of obvious traps set by a more experienced fighter. I think Cornelius Alba is another example of this character type; repeat magic seems terrifying on paper, but he dies like a punk because he doesn't really have a clue what to do on a battlefield compared to Touko or Araya.
Just goes to show that being overpowered doesn't protect you from being a dipshit.
See my previous point about "this is mainly a franchise about people fighting". Just because the most interesting characters (and therefore the ones who most of the stories focus on) are rogues and weirdos who live on the edge and get into dangerous fights all the time, does not mean the setting is populated entirely by rogues and weirdos who live on the edge and get into dangerous fights all the time. Most of the people in the Star Wars universe aren't Jedi or smugglers or bounty hunters, but the story isn't about them because they're not interesting.