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halfhyperion642 on tumblr explore communities change palette sign up log in unbetitelt halfhyperion642 ask me anything follow posts likes following halfhyperion642 reblogged surgepricing follow i think about azula shooters often and their common refrain of if azula hadn t had a mental breakdown she would ve won and i m here to tell you that no she wouldn t have there is no universe in which azula was winning that fight with zuko or katara for that matter azula spent so much of book 2 being built up as this deadly terrifying force against whom the heroes are badly outmatched that it can be difficult to catch exactly how quickly zuko is advancing back up a bit to book one for the fearsome exiled crown prince of the fire nation zuko s not that impressive a firebender he s not bad by any stretch and he s able to lay the untrained sokka and katara flat pretty easily then he gets in the ring with aang who is an airbending master and the difference between a regular bender and a master becomes apparent when aang literally puts his ass to bed people have attributed this to the fact that no one s fought an airbender in 100 years but i think it s also worth noting that aang a 12 year old from a pacifist nation has probably never fought anyone before like ever and yet the second aang thinks okay i ll attack back the fight s over zuko s got the same genetic predisposition for firebending talent that azula does yet it never seems to manifest because of his mental blocks at the beginning of the series he s already so beat down that all he really has is conviction pride and anger so even with training from iroh the firebending master thank you very much he struggles yet throughout book 2 when he has no time to train because he s on the run he actually seems to advance faster the fact that his bending is literally tied to his character arc as his morals become tangled and he has to fight off aforementioned mental blocks is pretty brilliant like by the time of the crossroads of destiny zuko getting his ass handed to him by aang is a pretty consistent feature of the show he just can t match wits with him hell at the beginning of the series he and iroh again the actual firebending master launch a combined power surface to air attack which aang casually swats away into a nearby ice wall come the crossroads of destiny however and zuko by himself launches this bigass fireball that blows through aang s defenses zuko advances so quickly that it s scary that prodigious talent is in him even if it doesn t come through as cleanly as with azula who by the way was busy about to get flattened by katara some few dozen feet away until zuko took over and then effectively stalemated her himself all of this in retrospect makes it abundantly clear why zuko s firebending seemed to skyrocket so much when he learned true firebending from the sun warriors it was really the only thing left he s hard a hard road learning how to fight waterbenders earthbenders and airbenders and even if unconsciously he s applying the philosophy iroh taught him about augmenting his bending style with aspects of other styles see also the waterbending like fire whips he uses in the above gif once he actually understands fire and how it works he s got it mastered hence why any gap between him and azula effectively disappears as soon as their next fight before her friends have betrayed her and her stability goes out the window there s no real sense of urgency to their fight at the boiling rock prison true sokka s presence with the sword helps but zuko doesn t look remotely worried and he counters azula s every attack perfectly all her life azula only ever learned fire she was taught by the best people the fire nation can employ so she knows all the cool tricks but she s still poisoned by the corrupted firebending practiced in the modern atla timeline unlike zuko who managed to get the basics if nothing else from iroh fire comes from the breath and can be used to survive as much as to kill azula has always used fire as a weapon and a means to hurt others she has no true knowledge of the craft meaning she s got the same weaknesses as zhao she s just better disciplined to the point she can make up for it zuko s victory was a given considering azula s complete loss of control by the time of sozin s comet but even had she been in a perfect mental state she d have lost because in many ways zuko is simply the better firebender gif by detectivejustin and that s the truth of it 87 15 545 19 934 you are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended please make sure you re using the latest version of chrome firefox safari or edge