User blog comment:MilitaryBrat/Firelord Ozai vs Emperor Palpatine/@comment-4098900-20121006011416

This is a fairly easy win for Palpatine. Ozai's firebending can be easily countered with the force, Sidious can pretty much bend every element. He can't bend the elements to the extent any master bender can...but he can certainly do so. He can pretty easily just close the distance and the fire in his way with the force then just cut Ozai into pieces. Without even going over x-factors and just how skilled and intelligent Sidious is I think that's enough said. I also disagree heavily with the x-factor of technique. So what if firebending is based off of a real martial art? (Northern Shaolin to be exact) That really doesn't mean anything. Sidious is arguably the greatest lightsaber user ever. He's mastered literally every style of lightsaber combat and has even added some of his own moves and techniques to the styles (not to them in the books but just that he uses in those styles of course), he easily struck down 3 Jedi masters who were considered to be some of the finnest the Jedi had to offer. He struck them all down with ZERO effort in just around 3 seconds!