Star Wars New Teaser

[Clueless Morgan]

Also the cross guard does make sense as only a lightsaber can protect your hand from another lightsaber.
But any true jedi™ can do alright with a standard lightsaber.

The way it's manufactured, the opponent's light saber would cut the cross guard off before it stopped it because the cross guard is generated independently from the main light saber out of its own section of the hilt.  The opponent's light saber would rack down the length of this light saber and slice right through the center part of the hilt that's generating the cross guard.



See what I'm talking about?

And I agree, a true Jedi wouldn't need the light saber cross guard.  Perhaps, though, this can be chalked up to this villain being a Sith and not a true Jedi.