Making this about full power is probably why Patchy was using Fire to defend against Water (see the elemental interplay) in the first place. That's what you get for trying to show off!
The effective play would be to defend with Wood and counter with Earth, but this was just a test of power after all.
If things were perfect...
If you could use your full power...Thanks...? Patchouli.
You came out of the library just to help me with testing.COUGH!COUGH!Oh? Asthma acting up?What a pity.If it weren't for that, you could've used your full power too, right?But that's sort of a compliment, isn't it?You probably wouldn't have lost.You were going to waterlog all my books if I didn't, weren't you?
Not to mention my good friend, the mistress, isn't good with running water.Who knows, you might've even beaten this girl here....Oh, I see. An ironic reversal of what I said the other day...
Khh...