Talk:Azula/@comment-70.31.156.109-20130203024847/@comment-130.18.104.253-20130319022343

I would guess that it's a matter of conviction. In the series whenever Azula or Ozai used lightning, there was no question in their mind that they were GOING to kill what they were aiming at. We never saw the impact of Iroh generated lightning, only time we saw Iroh lightning impact was the one time he redirected from Azula into that cliff. All other times Iroh shot into space.

But in the Search, Azula only used the lightning the way we would a flick of the wrist to swat away a housefly. She wasn't trying to hurt anybody, just get the boomerang out of her face.

And in LOK, weak lightning generation is what those guys do for a living, its routine button pushing for them, not a form of attack or self defense. It's still powerful when its used as an attack. See Zolt and Iroh II.