Not if it's the PC version and he has the same bug my brother and I had: when fighting all 5 at once, as soon as you defeat one of them, all you stims, force powers, shields, etc, instantly disappear, no matter how much time they were supposed to have left. It made the fight againgt all 5 nearly impossible. I had to use some very cheap and weird tactics to win.
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It was hard for me because when the I finished off the first of the 5 handmaidens i selected another to attack only to see my characters automated path to the enemy take him outside of the sparring area losing me the fight by default.