The STRONGEST Bender of Each Style EXPLAINED 

Mine's always been that she never used it because she couldn't see it. She said that her vision was fuzzy while in sand, which is still earth, just small. Now make that a liquid. Probably harder to see with seismic sense. Though she could bend mud, so maybe I'm wrong.

She tried learning it but was never able to. There is a comic where she meets a lava bender

​@@jacobcrumpton4643 she could learn it if she observed Bolin. Her seismic sense allows her to exactly sense what happens to the earth. Plus, Toph at her old age is more like Iroh, where she's more dangerous than in her prime.

@@Hargazer she would need a parent with fire bending and another parent with earth bending since that’s the ONLY cases we ever see lava bending (in bolin and in Sun, a kid from the comics). Ghazan’s parents are unknown but it’s safe to say it’s the same case as the other two unless he’s Sun’s son which I wholeheartedly believe lol but yeah nah Toph can’t lava bend unless her mum or dad was secretly fire nation 😅

​@@rubenatherton5864 This. Outside of Avatars, only fire earth mixed benders can bend lava.

Toph was just HER man

all it took was for her to bang her hands in her metal cage to invent metalbending lmao

100% agreed. He also left out how she literally bent space rock lol. It could have completely different earth elements since it’s from space but that’s a rabbit role

Honestly her attention to details is so stunning, sure she can bend like absolutely no one's business, but she can also sense heartbeats and who remembers what else enough to tell when someone's lying Crazy stuff

@@joshfriend2627 the space metal is actually easier to bend then regular metal

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Sand bending:

That must be why she was able to make a perfect replica of ba sing se including the earth king and Basco

@@ATLA99 That's exactly why she's able to do that. When Toph first described to Aang how she "sees" things she perfectly points out an ant colony in her garden. That's a level of sensitivity that can only be matched by the real-life LIGO instruments (look it up it makes sense).

@@voidmystic00also I think that in one episode of Korra she tells her daughter that she can "see" her from the swamp all the way back to republic city, that the is pretty sure she can see better than anyone else. Which honestly makes Azula's ability to lie even more impressive as Toph could'nt sense even the slightest change within Azula

cuz she learned from the original ones, being the base of true earthbending, she has a headstart on anything earthbending realated

She unfroze herself so she wasn't necessarily moving in ice, but the fact the she was able to do that while frozen is just as impressive

Facts and honestly I do believe she blood ben without a full moon as well cause I believe while she was looking for her mother's killer she did it without a full moon but I could be wrong

​​​@@honchochaposrt7919The Southern Raiders. And yes, as far as I'm aware, that episode did not take place during a full moon, in universe.

@@honchochaposrt7919 When she stopped the rain best moment

It was a full moon in the episode, they had a big shot of the moon while Zuko and Katara were on their murder mission

Can we get some respect on Monk Gyatsu’s name, bro took down like 30-40 sozin enchanced fire benders before he bit the bullet. Bro was waiting for the opps to pull up, that pacifism was a front

@@JDWalker495 pops?

@@WhiteNoBeard471 means dad fool 🤦🏽‍♂️

He got a point

@@JDWalker495 gyatso was a chad

we can only wish. It could be the same level as blood bending where the lavabending style simply wasnt for her.

Lavabending requires a hybrid of benders fire and earth to transmute the earth into lava

I read it the opposite way. Toph is not easily impressed, so for her to remark that he might have some talent indicated, to me, that he could do something even she couldnt do. However, as a Toph fan myself, i will join your head cannon that Toph can lavabend because i like it

I think you get either Metal or Lava, it would make no sense for Bolin to be able to lava which is harder and not be able to metal bend.

@@ATLA99Could be that she’s impressed and COULD use it as well but she just doesn’t personally like it over Metal and Earth bending. Kind of like how Airbenders don’t like taking lives and wouldn’t just sap someone’s breathe away she might not prefer using it herself since it’s more prone on destruction and such. Could be part of that head canon, who knows.

Lava is just hot earth just like ice is just frozen water.

Rocku lava bend

Yeah, avatars and people who have both.

what about sun and ghazan @@locrianphantom3547

I want this series rather than a Futuristic new avatar

They dont need to make a whole show iroh can just tell his story in the spirit world

I didn't think he think he actually traveled, I thought he said he studied the other elements, as in reading in a library. I mean their were no airbenders to visit, the south pole had no benders, and the north pole was on paranoid lock-down, all earth benders in occupied territory were sent to labor camps and he got caught by Jet in less then a month of hiding in the Earth Kingdom, Jet's not going to be the only paranoid person in the Earth Kingdom and Iroh is just not cautious enough to get by for long periods of time as called out by Zuko. All the while he was the older brother, war hero, and former crown prince and Ozai just took the throne, I imagine Ozai wanted him close to home to keep an eye on him so he didn't potentially start plotting a coup. Not to mention the tight timeline with only a couple of years between Iroh's son dying, Zuko being around 10, and starting his spiritual awaking and Zuko being banished at 13. 3 years isn't alot of time to travel the world without a coal powered ship, flying bison, or that coal powered train thing that Azula used. And unless I miss remember didn't he just run a tea shop after the war, so no travel? I think a show focused on him being a relentless conquer taking over the Earth Kingdom 1 town at a time, strolling though destroyed homes, dismissing casualty reports as acceptable losses, and rounding up civilians to send to labor camps for the glory of the fire nation as he sought to be the first ever to take Ba Sing Se by force would be a better way of showing Iroh's growth from affably evil to truly redeemed.

​@@bunch1he traveled.

@@ThatsKami16 When? Where?

Or just going full Naruto and slicing you apart with invisible blades

I give you, ZAHEER!

Avatar Yangchen developed a technique involving airbending reinforcing a scream to such a degree it could instantly kill someone in front of her

@@olorin7611 Even then I think zaheer had very little time to master it and he was still that dangerous.

@@nathangaspacio6128 Agreed. Not a match for Tenzin, but amazing progress none the less. Could have become much more powerful, not just with flight.

Yun, kyoshi are better than her but he doesn't read novels

​@@KaiserReb they may win in a fight but in terms of earthbending skill, toph is unrivaled.

@@KaiserReb she would metal bend Kyoshi’s fans and use them against her. I reckon

@@hzlkelly kyoshi wouldn’t use the fans????

@@KaiserReb Kuroshio wouldn’t be able to metal bend the fans even if she used them. The only disadvantage Toph has is Air. If Kyoshi is only using air bending then yeah. And probably fire bending too as she can’t tell the attack is coming towards her. But with water and earth she would be able to counter attack. It wouldn’t be a fair fight if Kyoshi is using all four to fight Toph so going on earth bending alone, Toph is still the greatest earth bender of all time.

Yeah and also roku was weakened since he was breathing the gas while that guy was far from it and in his avatar state, roku in avatar state would’ve done same but its easier to explode volcano than stopping it

I am unsure if that was Roku bending the lava directly, not saying he is not. I think he may have been channeling a different avatar to lava bend, because he was only able to bend lava after entering the avatar state.

@@davidkeller7031it’s not that he’s channeling a new avatar, it’s just that you can only bend more than one element at a time by using the avatar state. He had to use fire and earth in order to do it.

@@Protogv 1. No, there's no evidence to show the avatar state is needed to bend multiple elements at once-easy example is snow using water and wind to put out the fire from the meteor that was used in sokka's sword 2. Fire has nothing to do with lavabending, it's an earthbending technique

avatar kyoshi was a lavabender- she bended an island away from the mainland earth kingdom.

She did that with the help of the Swamp's vines

with the help of vines that where connected to the planet not her actual prowess. seismic sense isn;t impressive

I still feel bumi beats toph. Causing a minor earthquake would be like a flashbang to toph. So then she would be completely blind. And when bumi took back his city, he was tossing buildings from their build point at mach speed without using much effort. Plus he is a mad genius so he could fight around tophs strengths

Yeah, aang learned it from her but of course she is better

​@Tharles Chornburg im sorry what? Each and every earth bending move creates a small earthquake.... why would you think that would flashbang toph instead of giving her 4k vision? Also, toph moved the entire staircase of the royale bah sing se palace, wich is multiple buildings worth of earth. Let alone toph HOLDING UP THE ENTIRE WAN SHI TONG LIBRARY FILLING WITH SAND... Wich would be like holding up almost the entirety of omashu

P'li extinguished makos fire when they were in zaio fu

@@HighVonte I wouldn't consider that extinguishing. She redirects it and it fades away. Iroh caught the foot middle of the blast and put it out immediately.

@@DrDipsh1t true

I know a lot of people say that Ozai is the strongest firebender and that the creators confirmed him to be the strongest, but I think in reality the strongest in atla is Iroh. I mean he has feats he’s done before we really see how strong he is in later seasons. I simply think he doesn’t have that urge to destroy and rage to fuel his firebending, so he many not come off as strong.

@@G3NTOK1 I agree, tbf we only really see Ozai fight during the comet and Iroh very rarely goes all out. In fact he never really did the entire series so it's hard to say who is for sure more powerful. But imo if they were to fight, Iroh would clear, Aang could have straight up killed Ozai with redirecting lightnight but chose not to, Iroh would call out Ozai for not mastering the basics xD.

she can't lol i love Toph but no she cannot metal bend and also she was using fire not lava

@@egi3590she can't metal bend? the inventor of metalbending cannot metalbend?

@@Soul.Resonant he's smoking something

Lol omg same.

Very painful

I almost threw my phone away.

Zuko did it in the last episode of book 1

Technically Iroh did use heat bending when he got tea in the faces of pursuers when he was with Zuko in the Tea house in Ba Sing Se

Wtf would Cell bending be a sub-category of though? This is the four elements and their sub-categories, I’m genuinely curious what Cell bending would be…

@@Artryom most likely a hybrid of water, earth, and energy bending. After all, these would include anything a cell would require to survive. I however don't think she prevented her cells from dieing. I think she just enhanced cell regeneration/duplication speed, to get around the aging of certain cells.

​@Wortigon2000 the guy who she learned it from was an earthbender nicknamed "The immortal" it didn't take water, earth, and energy bending. It was simply earthbending.

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Amazing ik!

most would argue that they aren't really bending lightning, just electricity, since the two forms are so hugely different

How often does a lightning bender come a cross a bloodbender? I highly doubt that Ozai couldn't blitz Amon

In legend of Korra no one literally uses any form

i won't agree because in atla lightning bending was kept a royal family secret hence no one other than azula, ozai and iroh ever used it in day to day life. in lok most lightningbending takes a very short time to recharge but the impact is also pretty harmless. like when mako strikes lightning at amon when he was about to take away bolin's bending it surely made an explosion hitting the lights and wires on the stage but literally no one got hurt from it not a little bit. the same kinda goes for every time we see someone in lok use lightningbending. it's more widespread, but it's weaker. while ozai, iroh and azula's lightning does take longer to recharge it's way more dangerous and deadly. azula was able to kill aang and nearly kill zuko and iroh with her lightning, while zuko barely kept his ground redirecting ozai's. so yeah i'd say lightning is easier to learn and faster to generate in korra but it's way more powerful in atla

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I believe it is mentioned that lava bending needs both earth and fire bending ability, thus Toph (with only earth bending lineage) can never do it but Bolin (whose father is earth bender, and mother is a fire bender) can.

Toph is interested in lava bending. In the comics Toph actively seeks out Lava bending when she first felt it from afar and even took the lavabender under her wing. But yeah, I don't think she could have bent lava because of the lack of innate ability.

@@shravyaboggarapu5877 omg I really wanna read and own the comics so badly can’t get enough!

Alsooooo the acupuncture we see in the metal city!!! It was able to heal mental state in a way that is inhuman so it must go past just normal acupuncture and is technically a healing sub bending

Yea

I am so glad I'm not alone in this!! I have been saying this for years every time someone does a bending ranking or evaluation video!!!!!

Kyoshi also used Earthbending to slow down her aging so she was able to live 230 years which is in itself a kind of healing. So really just airbenders are left out

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Zaheir was able to create a vacuum around someone's head

I don't think the vaccum move is as imoressive Aang can probably use that too, he just won't cause of his pacifist nature

@@King_TurtleII nope its an advanced technique aang never would have learned. the vacuum move can kill anybody within 9 seconds, completely nullifies fire and combustion bending, etc. its quite impressive tbh

@@gregorymandel979 ye that's a bit different to yangchen's technique, which literally removed all air from the surroundings as opposed to just deoxygenating a specific individual.

Huhhh. Where'd they say his

@@awesomeone1784 in legend of korra

I guess it's more like spiritual thing, not earthbending, but i could be wrong

haha toph tap into that the giant tree's rootnet in the swamps

Eh, it was kinda more her tapping into the spiritual energy of the vines.

That's a very good point. Being the Avatar honeslty limits how far Aang could go with airbending. Aang would never be able to fly because as YangChen says he cannot sever his worldly ties as his duty as the avatar is to the world.

@@DillyHDTechnically... He can. His duties as the avatar are to the spirit world. The avatars can forget about their physical responsibilities if they want to. Like Avatar Kuruk who is considered the worst Avatar because he did nothing to help other nations but spend all his time killing spirits(Personally I think he might have been the most powerful avatar yet).

I agree, and to piggyback off this point, we saw Aang spirit project the other avatar spirits when he was on the Lion Turtle.

also Aang was the one that gave korra her powers back, he wasn´t taking the body of the avatar of the moment, he was interacting with it as a spirit, something that we never saw again from another avatar

I don't think she can I'm pretty sure lava bending is only possible for fire and earth benders (avatars) or the child/descendant of an earth and fire bender ie Bolin (only one whose parents are known) I believe they're earth slash fire bending which is what lava bending is

@@raven1436 you’re right about the lava benders having fire and earth bender parents, in the comics toph meets the first lava bender we ever see a kid named sun, whose parents were fire and earth benders. I also have a suspicion he’s gazhan’s (lava bender in the red lotus) dad since the ages would add up and he could’ve inherited lava bending directly

Yeah, another thing of Aang doing cool stuff is when him and Katara were saving the village from the factory by destroying it he metal bent the floor up and down to destroy some of the machines

day of black sun, ozai was a kilometer underground and still popped one instantly. if he saw or thought of ejecting compressed lightning, he'd absolutely be able to right away

@@nirgunawish But does he? Or is he ever shown to? No. Lol that's not how feats work buddy. You can imagine whatever you please, but until it's shown he doesn't have the skill, period.

All facts

will point out that her lightning ALSO becomes laughable weak in those same comics. People get hit with it at point black range and are back on their feet in a couple minutes. Not that she isn't an incredible lightning bender, she is the only person we ever see who CAN do this, but it isn't as impressive as you're making it sound.

I think you can't ignore how powerfull ozai is at lightning bend just because he didn't learn to redirect it, that's not how an analysis work, azula's instant lightning also barely causes damage in the comics, while ozai's were redirected by zuko purposedly at his feet so it wouldn't kill him. We see in korra that while that fire beding gangster was losing his bending because of amon, the lightning turned to flames, which got smaller and then desappered, wich shows lightning bending works as concentrated fire, so ozai doing it as the sun appears is really impressive, I think korra contradicts the original series with how bending works, just ike the comics, but it is also canonical. The novelization of the final fight (canonical by the way) also shows that ozai's lightnings are really concentrated, so they are more powerfull than they size appears

But you have to remember Amon can bloodbend someones bending away

tbf, there isn’t really much to imply there is a way to resist blood bending/react to it so you can avoid/resist it that I can remember being mentioned. At most maybe the avatar state can resist it but there’s nothing to suggest blood bending Aang would be any harder than anyone else. Especially depending on what he did to all those people(for example, it’s easier to incapacitate through making the blood rush to certain parts of the body than physically control them)

@@hephsforge9236 if your waterbending is stronger than the blood bender you're immune. that's why katara resisted hama, its how amon resisted his brother and its how avatar state aang resisted Yakone. im not sure if there's a way for a non water bender to resist though, unless they can fight back without their limbs like toph, bumi, combustion benders ect

Yea but we don't see yakone other bending skills and he seem to look at amon as if he surpassed him as a kid

I’m pretty sure katara wasn’t there though. By that time katara and aang had kids so I’m fairly certain she was back home with the kids.

i also think shes one of,if not the best ice benders. what makes her really noteworthy as a bender is because,not only the close dependant relationship she has with water,but the fact that shes badically doing it all with her mind....with her thoughts she creates arms,and manipulates them to mimic the hand gestures...not to mention she can cantrol as many as 8 appendages simultaniously with no effort...that much dexterity with limbs whtat arent even hers must require rediculess concentration.

I will say that with naruto he is a pri, but with ATLA and LOK sometime he isn't as strong. Ming hau definitely should have had an honorable mention, and he forgot ice completely.

He also forgot about the fire benders in LOK who were using fire to find disturbances in K9rras spirit

Not really. Kya wasn't specially trained in combat and was still landing hits. Katara's a beast and Ming Hua would get dogwalked like Tenzin did Zaheer.

@@sednanamaka341 She was Katara's daughter and used a lot of high level water techniques. I think it's safe to assume she received water bending training from Katara and the White Lotus. The difference between Tenzin and Zaheer is apt, but I think it'd be the other way around. Ming Hau and Tenzin both had a stronger connection to their respective element, the former because it helped her get around and the latter because he carried his father's legacy. Besides both Katara and Tenzin have been hit and lost fights as well, even against inferior benders.

she's just different from Aang. Willing to bet that passing down an entire culture to the next generation from memory is extremely hard. Both got the requirements for the tattoos but Jinora got the slightly watered down version that was likely recalled mostly from memory and recorded remnants from the other temples. But for Aang, he had almost everything, all the information and various teachers, structured learning, peer reviews and the greatest Airbender in the world as his mentor. The training and curriculars were probably easier to come by but harder on him. Tensin even mentioned how Jinora wasn't ready for her tattoos but she did technically fulfil the requirements of her time period. Its like our current schooling system, plenty of people passed the highschool exam but if you looked at some of the tests from years ago some of the requirements were harder back the. Like a math test someone showed seemed harder than it is now. Its like they had to lower the grade level

Technically Aang never actually finished all the stages of air bending mastery iirc. One the the ways to become a master is to create a new bending technique which both jinora and aang did.

@@jameswillemsen2609 who did not complete their training? because you said Aang but said he and Jinora completed their training. DO you mean someone else? Also, I may have to look up what Tenzen invented.

Jinora completed her training and was qualified to be a master. Tenzin actually didn't want to make her one initially because he was worried for her, even though he knew she was ready. He had to come around to it and accept she was more grown up and mature than he was ready for. They had a whole father daughter heart to heart moment where he says all this.

She also knew everything that she possibly could under tenzin

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agreed. I would but keslang above aang as well.

So could Gyatso probably

@@Flipitmixitgyatso definitely did that too. It’s pretty much implied in the show

Aang could spirit project too. He does it on the Lionturtle's back to talk to his past selves.

That’s a pretty low bar to reach😂

It's crazy how you could've easily referenced how good the Avatar series is without shitting on something else. Could've started productive conversation, but chose to be toxic. Idk why this isn't a insecurity more people have.

Fans like u need to go bro 🎉 toxicity is getting old now grow up

Well one guy spreads boruto sucks and then the norm all Jump in the bandwagon but I will admit that I hate boruto because I heard there was misogyny despite knowing I should have watch first before making a decision but I hate long series

​@@twocents3050crazy how you wrote a phycological analysis on a dude hating on a 3/10 show

Eh, I’d say that’s a continuity error rather than an example of stronger characters. The whole point of lightning bending was that only perfect and complete balance and control could wield it, shown in cold-blooded characters like Ozai and Azula who used total control over themselves and their qi to bend it to their will and the man who found a perfect inner balance, Iroh, who could manipulate it freely with skill. I think it’s that LoK wanted to have more ‘cool bending’ and so made it more common. It could be argued that people figured out an easier way to lightning bend in an age of electricity, but even then, it still means Ozai is stronger if he was doing it by those old standards. I think it was a little underwhelming to have so many more lightning benders in LoK when it was clearly such a difficult ability which gave so much characterisation to show how skilled characters were beyond just their raw power.

@@midnight4685 I kind of disagree. I think it makes total sense for more complex bending to be studied and simplified for an industrial era. It was likely less about the writers and more about how modernization is about efficiency and convenience over things like spirituality. I can imagine safety manuals that warn people how to safely control lightning without injury. I also want to clarify that lightning redirection is about balance. Lightning generation is about implementing water bending theory into fire bending. And neither Ozai nor Azula knew about redirection. Azula certainly was out of balance and out of control when she shot lightning at Katara. Was that also a continuity error?

@@K2ParaContinuity error may not have been the right word. I meant that there was a disconnect between how TLA lightning-benders worked and how LoK lightning-benders worked. I wouldn't consider the unnamed labourers in the factories as masters, though they've probably shot more lightning than Azula has. TLA's lightning-bending clearly requires a lot of skill and mastery, LoK's doesn't. So it's not a fair comparison to consider Mako better than Azula, who trained her whole life. My point still stands, even if it was about efficiency, the older benders would still be the strongest. I already addressed that in my original reply. And I do think it was on the writers, at least in part - they were moving their world into an electrical one, it makes sense that they'd want lightning-bending, but the way they did it with no explanation or replacement still feels pretty cheap. LoK doesn't replace it with any styles to symbolise mastery of firebending (or really any bending). You're born to lavabend, to combustion bend, have a genetic advantage to bloodbend. The only one that is close is metalbending, but unlike lightning-bending, we never see how difficult it is for random people to pick up in TLA (it was just a new way to look at metal), so it's believable. I did some googling, and it is explained in an art book for Book 1 of TLA that lightning bending was artificially restricted as knowledge held only by the royal family, according to reddit. It'd be cooler if that was put in either show, but even so, there's a skill gap. Your point about lightning generation is a good one, I conflated the two, I take back what I said about balance. But I still do think it requires less skill than it does in LoK and it seems we both agree on that. That was what it was used for in TLA, and would explain why Azula could use it in a moment of desperation, because she'd had it drilled into her constantly. In TLA, lightning was to showcase mastery of firebending. It showed the audience how dangerous these characters were who had been able to not only master their own basic element but transform it into something beyond strength into cold precision, with their own total control and concentration. Some unnamed factory workers just do not have that. A random guy, never explained to be a prodigy, who learnt to firebend on a sports team doesn't match that, even if he can lightning-bend, he can't lightning-bend like Azula or Ozai. So Mako isn't fair to place above Azula, Ozai and Iroh because the different shows have what is essentially two completely different types of lightning-bending, which is why I mentioned the writers. The writers placed different levels of weight on them: one requires a huge skill level, one is easily accessible to facilitate the world. So I think in this tier list, the one that requires more skill is fair to place as the best, that being Ozai.

@@midnight4685 You make a lot of good points. It is definitely possible that old lightning bending could require more skill due to the principles and more traditional methods used to control it. But I think it's very similar to metal bending in that we don't see how difficult it is to learn lightning bending. Only that it is restricted to the royal family. We only see Zuko struggling to learn redirection, but he is a character who always struggles. I think your way of thinking is reasonable, but I also think we have no true way of knowing which is correct. But I choose to believe that the mass spread of bending methods and knowledge does not necessarily make the more efficient technique inferior. I look at it more like the royal family having flintlock rifles versus being able to buy a modern rifle at a local firearm shop. The weapon is more readily available now, but it has also evolved in other ways. In this way, I think it's fair to assume that other practices can be superior. Like how Korra learned the modernized boxing style of bending from Mako and Bolin. It actually improved on her fighting capabilities even though it wasn't traditional. I want to say here that I do not think Mako reaches the levels of Azula and Ozai in terms of fighting prowess. I simply think it's possible that Mako has access to more combat knowledge and that this may also apply to (possibly) having a better understanding of lightning bending. I think it's fair for Azula, Iroh, and Ozai to be considered true masters for their era, but I see limits of what it takes to be master grow even higher as time passes. I hope I'm conveying my point clearly enough. In conclusion, I don't really see any flaw in either of our ways of thinking. I'm just on the side that bending has reached a higher place of comprehension and mastery than in the past. We also don't really get to see what the modern fire bending master looks like in LoK due to fire bending taking a backseat in the series.

​@@K2Para Yeah, fair enough. I personally think that lightning on its own conveys feelings of that refinement, and my brain is telling me faintly that there were lines in TLA about the sheer power of lightning and the technique and all that. But yeah, when the differences are more symbolic than anything, it'd be tough to compare pure skill. I might not be as smart as Newton but I can do things he never knew about, and that's a fair point to make. At the same time, I would never consider myself as smart as Newton. So we'd both be 'strongest' in different ways, which I think is the conclusion we reached. As a sidenote, I was personally disappointed with LoK when I watched it, so I am a bit biased against it too, though I tried to keep the bias away.

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Wasn’t that spiritual healing?

It was also shown in season 2 of korra when she got amnesia from evil spirits those fire bending ladies helped her

Well cauterization is a kind of medical technique, so I guess we can say that fire can heal. 😂

Firebending and lightning bending are forms of energy manipulation. Just like how water bending and airbending have spiritual categories, it makes sense for fire to have one too.The reason we haven't seen this often is because most firebenders are just about throwing fireballs and some small blasts

I always thought that a Firebending healing modality would be like Reiki since it comes from their chi.

Except Kyoshi

@@maadtee6281 Kyoshi is an avatar.

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the only way you can have that ability

@@kaleknelson8429 not all avatars can lava bend

@@saraautio5693 Lava Benders that Were not Avatars, was one of the first things I said. Because here's another fun fact, all avatars after the first one to do it could Lava Bend. Through access to the avatar state, which confers the abilities of every past avatar to the one using it. Because If we're being honest even roku Used the power of the avatar state to bend the Lava in the Volcano he was battling. he just took his sweet time doing it. By the time he was done, The gasses had gotten to him. The clip of the Avatar we see lava bending in the show was also him using the Avatar state.

Because earth is low-key them ost diverse element .it can be as fluid as sand and mud, while also being as strong as metal. Earth can be precise like sand bending an entire city into the ground, or as bold as metal bending an entire fire nation war ship. As well as seismic sense giving you an almost airbending level of psychic connecting to the ground and neutral jing which is basically the main principle of manululatiig energies in water bending. Earth bending is just too diverse lol

Yes, there was a whole panel of people that likely over saw Aang's training and progress. The training Jinora got was likely slightly watered down. Using memory and what ever left over information that may still exist in text. But bias? Likely not as Tenzen did say she wasn't ready, unitl she had passed the Airbending training level of her time.

wasn't her dad more of a weakness to her getting her tattoos than a strength? Like all of season 3, Jinora was trying to prove to her dad she was an airbending master, and even mastered a skill Tenzin never was able to do when Tenzin was considered an airbending master.

​@@rachelroyce278this lends credence to it. How many people were there to raise Tenzen to his position? In the time before the annihilation there were dozens if not hundreds of masters. They had councils that governed who would be selected. Tenzen simply can't match that alone. Yes his daughter may have been ready sooner but also, the requirements most definitely have changed. The air nomads were effectively reverted to a more infantile state of their former selves.

Sadly, he's biased against LoK, definitely agree with you

I think that's because you couldn't throw a continuos stream of lightning in the original series

@@Luigi-hn1hu I think there’s a possibility but it would require someone to really learn the technique and just improve on it.

I give credit where credit is due, But Mako, yes lighting cool, I don’t like Korra all that much but Bolín definitely is pretty great

She had a boost from the avatar state to perform that feat, so we assume she can't pull that off with just her regular Earth bending.

@@controlman7490 hmmmm this is a good point

@@controlman7490 Also, pretty sure she used air bending as well during that, so it isn't even a strictly earth bending feat

ex. bolin

It is likely that in order to be lava Bender your parents must be earth and fire benders maybe grandparents if you feel generous, do that's may be why lava bending is so rare

Amon is probably a great water bender, we just never got to see him use it much.

@@correlgamers7518 For sure, just mentioning that the one waterbending feat we have from him is absolutely monstrous.

His water sprout was literally taller than a portion of the pro bending arena, which was already like 15-20 stories tall, so yea, Amon's water bending is just as powerful as his blood bending.

@@controlman7490 I agree, and that movement thing is comparable to hovering on an element with the avatar state which also shows how skilled of a waterbender Amon was.

Yea it's been a while, but I don't remember anyone other than Aang water bend that much water.

Considering it's Toph, her learning how to do something basically guarantees that she's going to be great at it shortly after, as her quick mastery over Sand and Metal bending can attest to, lol

She can’t lavabend

@@jasonmoukala8909 what is bro saying

@@thearmyofiron I don’t even remember this

@@jasonmoukala8909 now you do :D

They dont read novels bro. fake fans need pictures

Aang could do that too. Easily, he just didn’t. He is a pacifist

@@paulimosh lol. That’s not how feats work.

@@KaiserRebI mean if ur goin off “feats” aang still have a lot more impressive feats than her tho so I don’t understand

@@JoshuaTomp splitting and opening dimension > whatever aang has ever done

Though her weakness is that she need to be in contact with water making her vulnerable to lightning (unless she was capable of making frozen arms)

She is for sure good. But she is not well-rounded. Her water-bending mostly swirls around using water and ice as flexible replacement for her missing hands. But she is not as good in bending water directly.

Correction thou korra never learned metal bending from toph she learned it from sue toph's youngest daughter. Also don't forget that all this happened in Zhao fu the metal city where toph created it and also had her own police force where also sue and her family lived. "Reference sn 3 korra"

Kyoshi definitely used earth bending to move Kyoshi Island. because if she only used air bending then that would be a level 1 million Tornado and Qin the conqueror would have died flying away because he and his soldiers were directly hit by the air. the air was probably just to show off and to humiliate Qin by stripping him off his clothes.

Hold the fuck on. Dust walking? So dust bending exists?

@Reginlaze Yup, and as far as we know (assuming it isn't just sand bending at a much smaller level), she is the only person who has done it.

@@demiurge2763 That's crazy. Well dust bending opens up the door for being able to bend particles of any size as long as they are related to earth, rock and minerals. Honestly I was thinking of dust bending to be either lighter or heavier than sand bending, and often thought of a dust storm as a bending move. With dust dealing death by a 1000 paper cuts type of dmg

she has the most feats in the verse lol.