@@toadtin7013Nah, Aang would have learn how to airbend and maybe even the other elements on his own, but earthbending is the opposite to his nature and his natural element, Tolph was perfect at her craft and taught him better in her element than any other teacher.
To give credit to Zuko once he sorted his own shit out, the amount that he was able to teach and have Aang actually understand and do was pretty impressive.
To be also fair, he is the only one with a formal and most likely comprehensive education. Toph learned by the prime example, and while she is part of the aristocracy, her education was very simple due to her blindness. Katara had no one to teach her and her brief tutelage with Master Pakku was just that, brief. All of them learned through feeling and understanding their element. But not through the more symbolic and more knowledge based education that Zuko probably had
@ryan.c.s You do riles that Zuko was self tort. Everything that he does with fire bending was self tort. The only bending technique he was mentored on was redirecting lightning.
@nathanielrohde5293 He was helping him train it but was not teaching it the only things that Iroh tort Zuko when it came to fire bending was the fire breth thing to keel yourself warm and redirecting lighting.
@@CameronBrown-cl1io Wrong. Zuko was very much learning from Iroh that’s why he says Zuko “isn’t ready to move on to the advanced set” i.e he hasn’t learned enough. Azula mentioned their school in “The Avatar and the Firelord” episode.
@@edvino1230 Yes, he was answering a question, but he was also comparing characters to each other. If the purpose of this video was to determine who was superior, then this comment makes a lot of sense.
Toph she taught him seismic sense, earth is the opposite so it’s the hardest to learn, and he utilizes earth bending a lot in his battles. Her teaching methods were rough in the brining but that’s what he needed and she never resorted to being soft and neglecting her ways.
@@windygrass9807the toughening was important though because aang was afraid of hurting himself, it was a combination of toughening and praising that made aang better
@@windygrass9807 Her words yes, but the actual things she taught him with what she taught him at what times, no. Her issue was some communication, but not the actual knowledge itself. Edit: Her issue wasn't imparting the wisdom to him, but the way to achieve getting his motivation to align with his effort.
Katara was actually a pretty good teacher after she trained with master Pakku. With proper teaching she became very good at it quickly, while Aang lacked the focus to do so. She taught him well after they left the Northern water tribe and she was more experienced.
I think out of Zuko and Toph , Katara was the best teacher for Aang. She was very patient and had a good teaching style. The fact that she gave Toph advice on how to teach Aang also speaks volumes. Ofc tho, Aang’s best teacher was Gyatso.
@@C_In_Outlaw3817fr, also she related to aang more when it comes to close deaths and relationships. Toph was way to rough with him, zuko was way to inpatient, katara had 0 problems with aang (besides the water bending scroll but it was more of jealousy for less than a day)
He became an airbending master by inventing the air scooter technique, the main way to get your tats as a air bender is to invent a move or master many others
Considering that these were teenagers teaching each other techniques that usually take years, if not decades, to master, they did exceptionally well in teaching him. Putting their ages aside, they were also seasoned in combat, often against much older and more experienced opponents. They also spent all their time with Aang and learned from each other to learn how to tailor the lessons so that Aang in particular could learn. These are techniques that real teachers use, even though they did not know that. Yes, Toph is brutal, Zuko had a lot on his plate, and Katara was more of a self-taught, intermediate tutor than a teacher, but they all overcame those shortcomings and still managed to get Aang skilled and strong enough to take on the Firelord on his own.
Okay, but to be fair that was more of a "Here is knowledge of one thing at one time so you don't have to compromise your morals!" not a sustained amount of lessons making up teaching.
It had to been toph and aang agreed she was a good teacher he was just caught up in his air bending ways/lifestyle even he said that the opposite of air is earth he was to fragile and scared to move the rock but he had to be strong and bold to move it
Also backing this up is that he picked up on "seeing" with earth bending not too long after book 3 began thanks to Toph, and that skill can't be easy to teach since she learned it from the earthbending moles
Yes. Toph's teaching method may not have accomodated to Aang, but that's the point. Aang needed to learn how to be headstrong and stubborn to earthbend. She was so good, at the finale Aang used earthbending almost as much as air
Gyatso was probably the best but I think Zuko was actually a close second after the dragons. He was a mixture between firm and soft and understood struggling with fire where Katara was way too soft in her teaching and Toph didnt seem to understand how Aang could struggle with the element
katara coddles aang too much (another reason why i don't like them together they have a more mother-son/ big sister-younger brother vibe) and toph is an insensitive person with opposite personality to aang. zuko on the other hand is better than both because once sorted his issues he made aang very good at fire bending and even though was a strict teacher he also was through, with just one explanation he taught aang lightning redirection just like how iroh did with him.
@@sahansensu6108 Yaaa. I never really liked Katara and Aang together either--felt forced. But also, just a character thing for Toph, I think it's less a lack of caring to be sensitive as much as it is she's been hurt so much by her parents and had zero practice in socializing with kids her own age--so she doesn't know how to interact, and combined that with her need for freedom and to just BE, and you got a recipe for someone who cares but doesn't know how to show it or learn how to without being given kindness from others first.
The white lotus member he met that was willing to teach him fire bending but when Aang rushed it too much and ended up burning Katara. He refused to teach Aang knowing the dangers. He was the wisest teacher if not the best
@@mello.art0 Jeong Jeong was too conflicted as a Firebender, he hated himself for being a Firebender & would have rather been born a healing Waterbender!
First of all, Katara was more skilled in waterbending than aang in the end. Second of all, you arent counting the dragons, Jeong Jeong or Pakku as teachers?
Yes she had such a growth in her water bending and she kinda already surpassed him in the first season when she became a waterbending master while aang was still learning
Yes, Aang had more natural talent in waterbending than Katara, but Katara quickly surpassed him through hard work once she found a master to teach her. Aang was just goofing off with waterbending half the time, so he didn’t learn the best techniques for waterbending and had to learn them from Katara.
Apart from the monk it's Seriously katara she really helped aang alot. If it wasn't for her aang would've died at the end of season 2. I will recommend that you should rewatch the series😊
Ive read through quite a few comments only spotting a couple mentioning the lion turtle. The Ancient One was definitely the best teacher, showing aang he could end the war and stay true to his air nomad morals.
I agree about Gyatso but Aang only surpassed Katara momentarily then she excelled more than him while training with Master Pakku in the Northern Water tribe. Katara was so much better that she could have defeated Azula early if Zuko hadn’t decided to fight alongside Azula in the episode where Ba Sing Se was being taken over. Meanwhile Aang that episode was thinking he needed to use the Avatar state to take her down (before the dai li got involved with the fight and he was forced to use it)
Just because she had the upperhand does not mean she was going to win indefinitely. Azula was one lighting shot away from hurting her badly. The notion that any team Avatar member is stronger than Aang is ridiculous.
I would like to point out that Katara taught him water bending after the North Pole (when she became a master), we saw while she’s training that he had no attention skills and didn’t try very hard, but she got him where he needed to be in water bending quickly while on the run from the fire nation, she’s actually a really good teacher and gives tips to Toph. I’m not hating on Gyatso but he had 12 years to teach and air bending in an environment completely designed for air bending.
Zuko best teacher ! He is angry, impatient, authoritarian, very hot-blooded and has very poor mental control. But yet, he is so sensitive and open-minded.
Bumi taught Aang how to think outside the box. If it wasn't for that, Aang wouldn't discover that he could take away Ozai's bending and would end up killing him instead, further escalating the problem.
It was the dragons. They were SO good at teaching, all they had to do was one single dance with them! After that, they both were practically master lvl fire benders
Monk Gyatso definitely taught Aang beautifully. From the beginning of the series, there were Airbending moves that shone both his experience and time with Gyatso
Honestly, it’s Zuko. - He had very little time to teach him anything and had to relearn how to do it in the first place - He helped Aang overcome his fear of fire bending and understanding all aspects of it (very dangerous, energy, light, comes from the breath, etc…) - Aang shows how adept he is at it in the final showdown - Zuko also taught him to redirect lightning, which honestly saved his life even though he couldn’t strike back at Ozai - He knew about the sun warriors in the first place which made then go there - Finally, Zuko’s transformation taught Aang the importance of forgiveness and redemption (I know I’m grasping at straws here, but trust me)
Gyatso was basically aang's version of uncle iroh. He basically raised aang and was friends with roku as well. He even argued against sending aang away when the other old monks were complaining that he was holding aang back out of sentimentality. He just wanted aang to be allowed to be a kid. It was the idea of being separated that caused aang to run away, ultimately leading to him ending up in the iceberg, escaping the airbender genocide, and meeting everyone else. That's a hard standard to beat.
All were pretty good teacheras but the one con Katar,toph and zuko had in common is that their relationship with Aan was of mutual friendship, at the end of the day they were all kids while monk gyatso practicly raised Ang
Out of use of the bending styles, I think Toph was the best teacher. After he learned to earth bend, although opposite of his personality, it became his second most used bending outside of air.
Toph taught Aang the lesson that you can’t always win your battles with kindness and words that you have to fight sometimes, yes he was a pacifist at heart but as the Avatar he needed to be able to use aggression when the situation called for it. So my answer is Toph
worst part of atla, is that he almost never uses the other elements, because he is a monk, he does not live a life of harm, and the other elements are damaging to the opponent
