Talk:Iroh/@comment-3529581-20110604121854/@comment-92.45.154.195-20121206234951

You are right in my opinion, saying that Iroh is the most powerfull firebender, but NOT for the reasons you state. 1) Learning from the dragons reveals the true nature of fire and its bending philosopy, so it empowers and guides firebending in good ways, agreed on that but breathing fire is also something Ozai too is capable of. Remember this quote from Ozai before his fight with Aang: "I have all the power in the world". After it Ozai breath-fires.2)Ozai can do it too, just watch the last 2 episodes of the last season.3)Cleverness does not have to do with firebending capability, that can not be a reason to powerfull firebending.4) For OWL Iroh is mentioned as 'a grand lotus', not 'the grand lotus', implying that there are more grandlotuses out there although we dont know who they are. Other grandlotuses can do it too, to call members for war. However that is about the structure of OWL which we dont know. How is this possibly related to firebending power?5) You are absolutely correct with it.6)Besides from the points you stated, I would add one more, according to firebending feets characters have shown along the series: Iroh's blast of fire onto the wall of BaSingSe is the most powerfull firebending we have seen, considering its range and power. And it surely had its charge-up time with proper breath control. Considering some other posts people have made before mine, I can say that it took Jeong Jeong some time to create some firewalls and control them perfectly and they were not as powerfull as Iroh's, considering their range and effects on impacts. Also, in Ozai vs Aang fight it took much more time for Ozai to get through the spherical earth shell Aang created which isn't as thick and dense as the wall of BaSingSe. Besides as all three masters were free from distractions(Jeong Jeong was also free of distraction to charge his attacks after succesfully defending himself from oncoming attacks) as they launched their attacks, taking everything into account, Iroh's had the most range and most devastating effect upon impact. Thus he has shown the most powerfull firebending perk during the show.