Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-173.9.222.134-20120814175429/@comment-75.118.145.191-20121006041729

^Bulls%!t. You mean to tell me that not once in 100 years that the FN army didn't battle against not one but several waterbending masters or as you call Sokka a 'genius'? I find that hard to believe. And Sokka didn't invent airships, he only helped the Mechanist solve his problem with it. The ship was already built. And the group usually either beat the soldiers before leaving or just left right away. Yes it depends on the skill and not the element which is why it made hardly any sense that someone who barely had any skill (Katara) managed to beat FN soldiers. Even worse someone like Sokka (who couldn't even beat Season 1 Zuko the first time they met) managed to beat two members of the Rough Rhinos. And I wouldn't call him a genius, he just started to actually use his head instead of being the idiot he was when we first saw him. Aang I can sort of understood how hard it would be to fight but after seeing how effective tying him up is, that really should've been their plan to fight him every time he showed up.

Your last paragraph may be true it still doesn't account for the fact that the FN's soldiers fought like they were new recruits instead of the battle trained soldiers they should've been.