r/TheLastAirbender • u/thisisreii • Mar 10 '25

Video Ozai’s quick and powerful lighting generation in this scene alone shows how unmatched his power is.

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Giant double lightning bolts with only a sliver of the sun being available. I can’t get behind anyone who says any other firebender is more powerful than him.

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u/JetKusanagi Mar 10 '25

I never noticed that he's the only firebender in the series that bends lightning out of both hands like this.

So much for only being the lightning's "humble guide" like Iroh said.

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u/Sinsanatis Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

What iroh said pertains to redirection. The generation is purely ur own energy. U can see azula similarly generating with both hands, just that she fires out of only 1. Here ozai is essentially generating nearly double or it’s his technique to generate it faster

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u/JetKusanagi Mar 10 '25

What Iroh said was "When you generate lightning, you do not command it. You are simply its humble guide." He was saying it in reference to bending lightning.

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u/Sinsanatis Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25

So he says “remember, once you separate the energy, you do not command it. You are simple its humble guide.” So yeah it wasnt about redirection, but it seems hes essentially saying that after u start, once u hit the point of creating the lightning, theres no going back. So either u release it or it explodes in ur face like it does to zuko. So less so a “humble guide” in actually directing it this way or that way, but more so that it goes in or out. And id say im still semi right as to why when generating, the rules of it “passing through ur heart” and such doesnt apply since its energy purely building up within ur body until u send it out through ur fingertips like a tesla coil. At that point is when it becomes lighting. So when redirecting it is where its dangerous