Talk:Iroh/@comment-3278061-20110928165231/@comment-3278061-20111010162049

1.	Iron learned from the dragons, big deal. As far as the series shows, dragons were nothing but pets and a source for transportation. 2.	Of course Iroh is one of the best firebenders of his time. Why? Because, he only has three people (Jeong Jeong, Iroh, and Ozai) to compete with. 3.	Also zuko’s opinion doesn’t equal fact. He didn’t even know there were other old masters just as skilled as iroh who can challenge ozai. Also why trust the word of the most unstable person in the show. 4.	Ozai lacks military experience not battle experience (according to the creators ozai trained everyday) much like azula who possibly had less fighting experience than zuko before she entered the story. 5.	Just so you know the Firelord title > Dragon of the west title 9which is based on a lie). Again, why are we counting Iroh’s military accomplishment? Since he only had one to begin with. How are they relevant to him beating ozai? By the way iroh’s greatest military accomplishment was easily surpassed by his 14 year old niece who had the avatar constantly getting in her way. Had the avatar and moon spirit not intervened Zhao’s assault on the Northern Water Tribe would have been a success. 6.	Please go ahead and exactly how Iroh would defeat or stalemate Ozai. Ozai is stonger, faster, mobile, and much more durable than Iroh. Iroh had multiple opportunities to confront Ozai and never did. Ozai took his throne, abused zuko in front of him, iroh refused to speak out against the general who intended to have a whole military division sacrificed in ozai’s presence. It seems iroh wanted no parts of Ozai. 7.	Lol @ saying Ozai’s bending was unimpressive and then stating Iroh’s was. Ozai was clearly had the best firebending during the comet compared to everyone else. Also he was fighting aang and fought straight ahead because he had intent to kill. Also your wording makes it seem aang is this weakling but the truth is aang is the most powerful bender on the show and had four elements in is arsenal to Ozai’s one. And yes Ozai did lose to to aang in the avatar state but who wouldn’t since it’s the knowledge, power, and experience of every avatar. Iroh would be godstomped in seconds if he even thought about confronting aang. 8.	Jeong Jeong has a lot more power, precision, and control of his element and he holes his element. 9.	And finally the “man of great reserve” is nonsense. If Iroh was truly powerful he would he would have ended as families, were being torn apart, people were dying, and countries destroyed. Let’s not mention he had the white lotus at his command for quite some time and still couldn’t end it. Fact is Iroh seemed to care more about his tea shop than ending the war.