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Iroh and Azula are two highly intuitive and strategic firebenders. The magic of pairing either of them with anyone else is that they’re most likely capable of figuring out how to work around their partner to exploit the full potential of the power of both members of the team.

Which results in the obvious question: what if you team up these two instead of teaming them up with someone else? :’D and while we did get a small glimpse of what these two could do together, back in the Pairs Tournament arc, an actual situation where they join forces could be really interesting to witness.

As for their personal strengths in Gladiator’s setting, they’re really similar yet still slightly different: as much as they’re both strategic benders, they both excel at different kinds of firebending. Azula has become the absolutely most epic firebender of all time, discovering new possibilities and specializations of her bending art that no one else had ever explored (gold fire (which is extra strong when condensed), multi-color fire, indirect bending...). Meanwhile, an important pillar in Iroh’s strength as a bender is that he didn’t focus solely on his bending art: he learned from other benders and adapted their skills into his own firebending. This is what leads him to develop waterbending-based lightning-redirection, a skill that, to this day, hasn’t even crossed Azula’s mind.

So, mix them both and you’d likely get a pretty great combination of highly intelligent and efficient firebending!