Monthly reminder that Azula only lost to Katara because of plot armor
This Katara libel on my dash?
the entire gaang jumped azula and she was fine and she damn near killed aang while he was in the avatar state AND even iroh didn’t wanna go against her….do you legitimately think azula couldn’t take on katara 1v1 and most likely kill her if it wasn’t for her lil plot forwarding breakdown….
Azula was always unstable and didnt like loss. We see that through her entire character arc where anything less than perfection isn’t good enough, to the point where perfection didn’t even satisfy her. The bitch was strong but she was crazy, and let her guard down.
It’s hubris sis, they’ve been doing this since ancient Greece dont act high and mighty because you dont understand Hamartia.
Also let’s not forget that Katara is an insanely powerful waterbender. Like her skill is unique at her age. She stops rain out to like 20 feet away from her and mastered blood ending after only working with internal water for about a day. We see Zuko even be scared of her power and impressed by her restraint.
There is only one bitch who matched Azula’s raw bending power and her name is Katara so gtfo.
Also in that scene where Azula got a (lucky) shot at Aang in his avatar state, someone was kind enough to bring up that Katara was going to to toe with Azula and nearly ran her into the ground until Zuko came to help her ass. So no, if anyone could beat Azula it was Katara
In this house we stan Katara
Let’s not forget that sus katara learned blood bending in seconds. Meanwhile it took that old thot yrs to perfect.
Katara was by and large more talented, more powerful, and more prodigious than Azula. There, I said it.
Azula had a unique fighting style, but she wasn’t better than Katara, Aang, or Toph.
Not to mention that Zuko was the one throwing out the offense, using techniques that Iroh and Aang had taught him (like breathing, spinning, etc.).
He’s the one who physically weakened Azula, not enough to completely take her down, but enough to notice that she was weakened:
I don’t think Katara got a single offensive shot in. It’s not like she sent wave after wave down on this poor mentally unstable girl. Katara’s part in the fight was amazing but entirely defensive. So while Azula had been going through a mental breakdown for episodes, it wasn’t her mental instability or even Katara’s power that brought her down. It was the fact that Katara did what waterbenders do best: she turned her defense to offense.
See, to me, that was Azula’s main problem One that paralleled Zuko because everything usually does. Azula never thought things through. Probably because she was the equivalent of a mentally unstable ninth grader who got charged with the task of hunting down a god. Iroh gives Zuko this whole passionate speech about how it’s important to step back and think things through but Azula never got an Iroh (sadly) so she never got a speech and therefore never got that lesson. This is admittedly worsened by her breakdown but let’s face it, whether she was stable or not, she would have still been so focused on killing Katara that she wouldn’t have ever noticed that water.
Avatar was never a show about power. Avatar was a show about strategy and how good strategy (and admittedly good deus ex machinas) can take down even the most powerful beings. (On that note, I still think Sokka should have been the one to take down Azula but that’s just me.)
