Talk:Iroh/@comment-3529581-20110604121854/@comment-3292305-20110606002636

~Feels the need to correct you~ Um, he may be powerful, but some of your reasons are false. 1) Iroh got the name, 'Dragon of the West' because he 'killed' the last living dragons. When in reality, he did not.  He just said he did to save them, so no....that's no reason for him to be a powerful fire bender. 2) He may not have learned to fire bend from a dragon. He could have been like Zuko and just found the true meaning from the dragons. And bid whoop! The Sun Warriors learned from the dragons, so that's nothing big. 3) Ozai can generate lightning too. He has done so once or twice in the series.  This does make him a powerful bender, but....He's not the only one.  Now the fact that he (Iroh) has learned to redirect lightning from watching water benders doesn't make him powerful, it makes him smart (if this is what you were meaning instead of redirecting lightning....But it never shows if Ozai can redirect lightning or not, nor does it show if Azula can or can't, so we can't really say if can or can't.) 4) He alone doesn't make The Order of the White Lotus powerful. It takes all the Grand Masters of it to do so. If he was the only one in the group he wouldn't have been able to claim Ba Sing Se by himself. Then again, he could of, but it would have been really risky to try. So he is a big factor in their power, but he is not the only power that makes it up. 5) What do you mean by this? Most fire benders can do any type of fire bending (except lighting, only some can do this).  Though he is not the only one to be able to do things with lightning.  Azula, Ozai, and Zuko can too (Again, we don't know if Ozai and Azula can redirect lightning or not, but that can still generate it. And Zuko can't generate it, but can redirect it.)

I'm not saying he isn't powerful, by all means he is, but you need to make a stronger point than just listening those, so I ripped it apart in hopes of starting a conversation. So, try to make a stronger case. :3