Zuko vs. Mako

he successfully dealt with lightning once. Ozai was just getting his fire back. and even if zuko bounces back, mako can do that too. It will basically turn into lightning tennis. Mako will win lightning tennis.

i liken it unto toph and bumi. bumi is alot more powerful but toph is able to keep up because of her extra abilities.

Zuko doesn't need to redirect the lightning at Mako. Once it becomes apparent that Mako possess both the ability to produce lightning and the ability to redirect it the lightning battle will effectively be finished. Lightning is an edge but Zuko has sufficient defense to nullify that edge and turn it into a fire fight. And in a fire fight Zuko will win lol.

Once from the most powerful fire bender.. almost twice from another A-lister if not for stumbling. Whats so impressive about Mako to put him above them? Or one gets smart and fires it somewhere else..

The only way she'd match up to Bumi, like in the comics, is with raw esrthbending skills. Metal won't help and seismic will go so far with such a master.

You have a minor, manageable edge for Mako agains the many edges Zuko has.

zuko is without a doubt the superior bender, but lightning was his kryptonite for the longest time. I just think mako's lightning isn't to terribly below azula's

It is below Azula's during the Comet lol.

The only kryptonite has been being able to generate it in his turmoiled heart up to Book 2, but never had the issue with redirecting. That was the whole reason he was taught that.

fair enough. zuko wins. just thought i'd try to make things interesting.

Thoughts?

awweee I thought it was Mako when I clicked it from klk and I was wondering why such a weird choice 🙁 I am sad. /back to not caring

Uh...

Mako wins, the first series power is vastly overrated.

If your talking about Mako's Gary Stu status being reactivated during Season 3's finale, I don't think that really counts. Mako was a pretty average firebender throughout the season.

Mako does have better showings now.

He is still below Zuko though. Zuko's fire was able to block a ship exploding and Combustion Man's attacks.

This would probably be a good fight as of Mako's current showings. Zuko should still win more times than not though. He's still probably the better firebender and can redirect Mako's biggest advantage, and in close quarters combat he's far more dominant.

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
If your talking about Mako's Gary Stu status being reactivated during Season 3's finale, I don't think that really counts. Mako was a pretty average firebender throughout the season.

In terms of firebending feats Mako didn't do anything spectacular this season, or season 2 for that matter, until the finale. Though he did get some good combat feats in the finale regardless of how I felt towards them.

Zuko still wins though.

A professional at pro bending, where you can only use small fireballs.

Still beats series one stationary bending, its literally stated by Korra that pro bending >>> older styles of bending.

How?

It's only better actually in pro-bending, since theres limited space and amount you're allowed to bend and there's 3 opponents to worry about at all times. So you need to be constantly moving and throwing out quick, light jabs. But someone like Zuko could probably just power through such small strikes and overwhelm an opponent.