2014-08-20, 12:37 PM
iVege Wrote:Has he actually defeated anyone significant with his own strength before?
Depends what you mean by significant i suppose. He obviously killed the earth queen, and those white lotus guards, but neither of those are significant for bending power which is what i'm sure you mean.
His accomplishments are purely due to the support/existence of his OP bending squad and nothing more.
Worthyness Wrote:I think the only reason Zaheer is considered competent is because literally no one except the avatar and their close friends have really "fought" against air bending before. So if you're fighting some completely new style that no one has ANY widespread information on, of course it's going to be difficult to fight against. Tenzin clearly had the upper hand until Cyclops lady went all campy sniper on him.
Why has zaheer and his squad not "won" until now then? They're using some bending powers that literally the entire avatar universe has never seen before. Zaheer can travel to the spirit world, and he's clearly a master of tactics and a smooth talker. All of those reasons should be enough to consider them competent both in battle and in strategy, yet they've failed to capture the avatar in 100% of their tries, losing to the various "weaker" benders during the metal city's events, as well as strategically losing to the f'ucking earth queen of all people.
I've never thought zaheer and his men to be competent. They're badass as hell, but not very competent.