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Aren't what elementals you can wield determined by genetics?
I've never read or heard of it but I would like to say that whether or not your powers are determined at birth shouldn't be a point of discussion. Rather, we should look at the quality disparity of the powers themselves, i.e. whether two people of equal skill but who were born with different powers still have an equal chance of winning against the other*.

*obviously It's a little more complicated than that but it's a good jumping off point.