Talk:Firebending/@comment-76.185.6.159-20120524033305/@comment-92.45.154.195-20121206185957

Azula won most of her fights due to her cleverness and being a better strategist, but certainly not due to the fact that she was a better fighter. This proves just one thing: She is absolutely a good strategists, plans everything through etc. She would be beaten by Katara in CoD if Zuko didn't help. She mainly overpowered her oppponents with sneak attacks(to Iroh in "Chase" ,to Aang in CoD), surprising moves and cunning plans(controlling Dai Li), but not with fighting skills. Her firebending skills were constantly good, but certainly no match for masters like JeongJeong Iroh or Ozai. After Zuko has overcome his mental problems(i.e the competition of good and evil within himself) and before Azula went insane, they were matched evenly, as Team Avatar was leaving the Western Air Temple, so I see no point Azula being thought better than Zuko at firebending. Her hand-to-hand fight, certainly wasn't as good as TyLee's who was evenly matched by Suki at Boiling Rock, so she is not a hand-to-hand combat prodigy either. At this point some of you guys may argue her style in the day of invasion, but again she wasn't good. As said before, she got the surprise at her side, having known the invasion, plotted every move before it, having brought Dai Li agents with her, remaining in a throne room fooling Toph's seismic sense, emotionally deceiving them with mentioning Suki etc. And the good(Aang, Soka and Toph) guys didn't knock her out since she had the information they wanted:Fire Lords room. This proves that she is freaking cunning and clever and always finds a way to have surprise by her side, but doesn't prove anything about her combat abilities, as her so mentioned "blue fire" doesn't prove that she is better than Zuko since they were evenly matched at the WAirTemple, where both their minds were clear from confusions or insanities at the time.

Her character is good for a villain which is obvious. She is among my favorite characters though, although the highest rankings go to characters like Iroh, Aang, Guru Pathik, Gyatso etc. (I love fun-loving wisdom guys, what can I say)