He knew how to be creative, surely he did, for he knew how to come up with different ways in which to do aerial attacks and how to execute them.

He only really knew how to fight well with them. Or using the gold and silver claw sheaths and look as stately as he could, as was the Chinese way for Celestials.

"It is only that I find it odd to do so, Mushu. All I've known in life is that I must fight the enemy and come up with different strategies in which to so. However in China I was told that as a Celestial, I should simply stay at court and study so as to be a scholar."

More slicing and dicing with his claws. Yeah, halfway through it all and he thinks it's bite-sized for Toph.