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CMV: Uncle Iroh from ATLA is the strongest firebender in the series, not Ozai.

It is stated on the show that Ozai is the most powerful firebender in the world. I've always thought this was total bullshit given the evidence we see in the show. 

- Iroh invented the lightning redirection technique which is a HUGE GAME CHANGER against other firebenders. It's not just the invention of this technique that made him stronger. He then teaches it to Zuko who manages to one-up his much more powerful father in a 1v1 fight and escape. While Zuko doesn't outright win the fight, he clearly had the advantage when he redirected the lightning and made his escape. It's even possible Zuko could have killed Ozai then and there using ONLY IROH'S TECHNIQUE. So obviously, Iroh could kill Ozai in a 1v1 if his much weaker and less experienced student could have done it.

- A similar argument can be me made with Aang. But we can even take it a step further because of Combustion Man. Team Avatar is constantly on the run from CM in season 3. He quickly and easily pins down the world's strongest Airbender, one of the 2 strongest earthbenders in the world, and the granddaughter of the most powerful non-bloodbending water bender in the world. He does this regardless of whether it's day (when he's stronger) or night (when he's weaker). Let's compare that to Aang's fight with Ozai. During Sozin's Comet, which gives Ozai 10X HIS NATURAL POWER, Aang is able to quickly and fairly easily defeat Ozai using little more than dodging and Iroh's redirection technique but refuses to win by killing him. LITERALLY 10 OZAIS IS LESS OF A CHALLENGE FOR AANG TO HANDLE ALONE THAN 1 COMBUSTION MAN IS FOR HIM TO HANDLE WITH TEAM AVATAR TO HELP. This alone proves that CM was MORE THAN 10X more powerful than Ozai. As a side note, I'm aware Aang's firebending was also made 10X stronger, but Aang was still a novice firebender (intermediate at best) when this happened, so it's not like Aang became 10X stronger as a bender because of the comet.

As a secondary CMV, I'd say Combustion Man was the second strongest firebender in ATLA. Ozai can have third.
gpt
* Does one technique make someone "stronger"? What if Ozai learns the lightning redirection technique? Or what if Ozai doesn't use lightning because he knows Iroh can redirect it? You could argue that Iroh is a "better" bender, but that doesn't necessarily mean Iroh is stronger than Ozai.
* As for Combustion Man, he has a power that none of team avatar had seen before and is easily the most accurate long distance technique we see in the series. Air or Water bending over that distance would be almost useless. He is like a sniper on a hill aiming at people with swords. It doesn't matter how good you are with a sword in that situation. Then in the end he is taken out by a boomerang, not even a bender.

Edit: Names are hard.