I feel like Fire and Air bending just never evolved much. During the 100 year war Water and Earth evolved mostly because of desperation during the war and the need to become stronger to fight off the Fire nation. The Fire nation had no need to find new techniques because they thought they were the strongest, while air benders didn’t exist. If there was another season, Fire and Air could potentially have many strong techniques. Zahir was doing well to prove that, but he was stopped too early.
Other then lightning I cant think of anything more fire could get though, maybe smoke and ash? That'd be neat. Air tho I cant think of jack, flying ability is locked down to like 2 people so even if they focused on it I dont think many would get it.
I think it makes sense fire bending went through a cultural upheaval as many countries do under the rule of a violent dictator. In a way historically nerding over it it oddly gives me WWII vibes. Nazi-Germany had hitler fire nation had Ozai, and they're first major conquest was the immediate genocide of the Jewish (airbenders). It kinda sucks we didn't get to see more but I get it since two of the 4 nations cultural identity was almost destroyed or subverted.
as well as, take moisture out of air, or out of a person (dehydration) If the user has knowledge of vital areas, they can shove an ice spike directly into them (mmm ice deadly)
I feel like airbending has the potential to be the most OP. Almost everything is surrounded by air. Seems like airbenders can control air pressure and force. By that sense they can use air to morph any element really however they want. I assume they can control things like air density and lack of air too, which means ideally they can create vacuums, and even compress mass in order to affect spacetime. Of course, this with the assumption that a bender can possibly have a very high strength and force cap.
I was thinking of airbenders floating around like Zaheer or simply creating a mini tornado around the victim and then asphyxiate them. Or as we saw in Korra, an earthbender heats up dirt and turns it in lava; well and airbender technically could firebend the same way firebenders (firebenders use no fuel, just oxygen, meaning they bend heat)
Airbending really does have the potential to be the most powerful. A key example is the non-canonical fan made bending technique of soundbending. It would be an airbending sub bending technique, where the user would vibrate the air in a certain area, creating sound waves. If I remember correctly, at around 200 Decibels, a human could be easily incapacited. 300 and I'm pretty sure you'd be dead. A lot of people don't seem to realize, Air is a pretty general term, typically refering to simply just Gas. in an episode of the legend of korra, I'm pretty sure in season three, airbenders are shown to be bending smoke, so we can kinda assume that airbenders can just bend gasses in general, not just oxygen. so maybe airbenders could couse you to burst by trapping the methane gas in your body? it would take a while though.
@@azekia Actually, an airbender likely couldn't firebend. the reason firebenders can bend lightning is also why they can bend fire. they don't bend heat, they bend plasma. Fire is plasma. lightning is also plasma.
@@Mushroompancake yes but if airbenders can vibrate the air so much that it heats up, it'll basically be firebending, since they can also amplify it by adding more oxygen to it, they would be very powerful. In a sense they could also waterbend or 'liquidbend' if they increased the density of any gas to a certain point. Imagine getting attacked with liquid nitrogen which is so abundant in the air as a gas
@SliceofOtaku Water bending is only over powered because the writers of the show nerf Earth bending. Just use Earth bending to take the ground from underneath your opponents and that stops them. It would work against that giant mech and it would have stopped that drilling machine in Ba-sing-say (however it is spelled).
As a weakness you forgot to mention that the terrain itself when being helpful (with a lot of water) can be bad for you if you're facing someone that can create lightning [Mako vs. Ming Hua]
Water has healing, and it's relatively easy to learn. If you think about that in a war setting, it means that over a long drawn out conflict, armies of water benders are stronger than armies of other benders. Because they can heal each other after each battle. And it also means if you get to pick an element in the avatar world, choosing anything but water is selfish.
"And it also means if you get to pick an element in the avatar world choosing anything but water is selfish" Well idk if you know this BUT WE DONT WANT TO HAVE EASY FIGHTS WATER BENDING IS OVERPOWERED also i would pick fire bending i dont want to beat my oponnent in 2 seconds
@@anissans-zo1bc Fire Benders are most suitable to end fights in 2 secs if it is straight up 1v1. But Water Bending is too OP under certain conditions.
Patch 1.45.72 - For the love of god Waterbenders, STOP BREAKING THE GAME. Nerfed Waterbending as a whole, removed Blood Bending (AGAIN), buffed Lightning cast time, added Air Cars (Apparantly the scooters aren't fast enough so screw it), replaced 3/4ths of the Ocean with Wastelands and Deserts. Maybe now you'll call this game balanced.
I completely disagree with your point on Korra’s wave. No, not “any water bender” can pull that off. Korra could do it because she is a very powerful water bender and arguably the best in either show. Average water benders have shown to struggle with a lot less. Further, we’ve seen benders from other elements pull of powerful feats like this one with their own elements. Bumi bent Ozai’s statue and was chucking houses around like they beach balls. Aang air bent an entire stream of lava away in the “fortuneteller” episodes in what was an incredibly powerful display of air bending. Toph earth bent an entire library and kept it from falling
@@frimi8593 I agree, and disagree. I think that Earth benders are, defensively, the strongest benders, and they pack one hell of a good offensive defense. But I think Waterbenders have far more versatility and flexibility. What makes an Earth Bender stronger is their rigidity; they don't bend or break, but it's also their weakness. Waterbenders are known for being adaptable, and using their enemies own power against them. A Waterbenders can match an Earbender for brute Force, using ice, but they can also go around that force with liquid, or gas. Create an incredibly thick cloud of mist then immediately condense it on the target. Or turn it into razor sharp icicles and make them a pin cushion. Or make the most so dense they drown as they breathe. Water is just too versatile of an element that is always has an answer for any other matchup.
I think some people forget that these skills are hard to learn. Even in Korra's time, plenty of capable earthbenders couldn't bend metal. Zuko couldn't learn lightning and I am sure even less people know combustion. In the for most of the first season of ATLA, Katara was pathetic at waterbending to the point where it was a source of comedy.
@@frimi8593 Few comments on your ideas. 1. You're correct. Seismic sense appears to be able to be learned by any bender, just like bloodbending - rare, but only because people don't know about it. This means that Earthbenders and Waterbenders could both equally perform Tarlock's simultaneous attack and defence, with Earth probably winning due to being heavier and stronger than water. However, you need to be an incredibly specialised earthbender to learn seismic sense - we have only ever seen an Avatar, a blind person who uses it to see, or the daughters of said blind person use it. While Lin and Suyin both show that is is possible for non-Avatar and non-blind earthbenders to use it, the skillcap required is much, much higher than a waterbender's skillcap for simply raising a water barrier in front of themselves. In summary: Majority of waterbenders v majority of earthbenders, both attempting simultaneous offence and defence - waterbender wins. Top-tier Waterbender v top tier Earthbender - Earthbender wins. 2. The water canister v metal canister thing - in terms of element availability, Earth and Water are matched.. There are two, possible environments that are without water - a fully earth environment (desert / rock) or a fully metal environment (battleship, tall building, oil rig). Both of these environments contain an abundance of earth and sand / brick and metal, so both would far favour an Earthbender. But equally, for Waterbenders, there is the ocean, lakes and seas- an environment that fully favours a waterbender. Even with the invention of boats, all a waterbender would need to do is surf over to it, punch a hole it it with ice, and then move back and wait for the boat to sink. Waterbenders could (as seen with Ghazan's prison) construct a permanent settlement on water with absolutely no metal or earth nearby, and live there indefinitely, surviving only off fish and aquatic plants, and purifying the water by burning wood or bending out the salt. The same cannot be said for an all earth environment - human beings need to drink, so no matter what happens, there will always be water present in some form - this means waterbenders will have some sort of weapon available. And even in that environment, a Waterbender can bloodbend, as we saw when Hama learned the technique in an all metal prison. Placing both elements in as favourable an environment as possible - Water wins. 3. Bloodbending. First off - Psychic bloodbending does not necessarily imply psychic bending in general (apart from the Avatar). Only Yakone and Amon had this ability - it appears to be tied to Yakone's genetics, meaning that no psychic firebender or airbender is going to pop up any time soon. Secondly, only waterbenders and avatars (who are also waterbenders) have the ability to resist bloodbending in any capable capacity. Mako did do it, but the only thing he could to was sort of bend lightning in one direction - it was Amon releasing his grip that let him escape. If Amon had simply bloodbend Mako's arms to his sides, Mako would have been powerless. Compare this to Korra, who could move freely but with difficulty when she airbending kicked Amon, Aang, who became completely immune while in the Avatar state, and Katara, who was 100% immune to the technique BEFORE she bloodbent for the first time. Unless you are an Avatar, another Waterbender, or you are a lightning bender that gets extremely lucky, bloodbending is not defendable in any way. Water wins. To add, all waterbenders, even Swampbenders that don't live near ice, can phase-change water. This is an ability that Earthbenders cannot parallel unless they are a lavabender - once again like Yakone's psychic bloodbending, shown to be a skill inherent to specific individuals. Even the, Earthbenders can only change between solid and liquid, not gas - wheras waterbenders can do all three. Of course, lava is more destructive than water or ice - but a waterbender could easily fight a lavabender just by bending water at the lava and freezing it. Additionally, lavabending offers no non-lethal options, compared to waterbending - can't use it if you're in a non-lethal duel or if you're attempting to apprehend but not kill. Much like my first point - majority of waterbenders v majority of earthbenders - water wins. Top tier v top tier - a tie. (also, with the mech fight and the vast quantity of water used then - Korra is the avatar. Her non-avatar state bending is still superior to the vast majority of regular benders, and she may have even flashed her Avatar State eyes off camera before she used the move)
Since water benders can bloodbend and also turn liquid water to ice does that mean they could crystallise someone’s blood killing them instantly Also if they were proficient in healing and blood bending They could probably extend their life by quite a bit by just healing themselves constantly
Tbh I feel like water is only OP because more of the writers' creativity went toward developing it compared to the other elements. A strong enough airbender or avatar could conjure up storms just by moving enough air around and changing the air pressure and temperature. They could also crush your lungs by just compressing all the air inside. Now that I think about it, it may even be possible for them to manipulate you like with bloodbending because oxygen is such a common element in the body. A strong enough earthbender could probably manipulate all the minerals in your body that come from the earth.
The oxygen in the blood is bound, so it's a bit controversial to say they could bend the entire human body. And considering oxygen is found in our body only in minimal concentration does not help
@@XavierZara We don't know that for sure. Fire can go to other form of plasma. Earth to metal. Water to ice. Metalbending used to be thought as impossible. Bloodbending was too. Maybe Hemoglobin-bending is just a super hard and forbidden form that disappeared along with the air nomads? .....also, hope it would be call something more appealing if it did exist.... lol.
You've got it backwards mate. They actually nerfed waterbending a great deal as well as under-utilizing/developing/explaining it's more intrinsic mechanics and limits compared to other elements for the sake of balance. There's multiple aspects and elements that point to this. First of, out of all elements, water benders struggle the most with how much water is available, or the very least, where and how Water can be drawn from. This is pretty ridiculous or questionable for the following reasons. Water is present just about everywhere. Maybe not as much as Earth and Air, but still not quite as scarce and hard to come by or tucked/hidden away as the series would make you believe. There's Water in just about any soil, plant and organism in nature, and in modern city settings like Republic city, the drainage, sewers or just plain'ol regular Water pipes are so abudant that you would rarely require to carry Water on your person, if at all!(I still would for the sake of defense, but you get the point) That's not even taking into account the huge amount of water vapor present in most conditions, safe arid/desert like climates. Now you're probably thinking; "but all those examples are not pure water and hardly anyone seems to make use of them." That only strenghtens my point though. The thing is, we don't really know how difficult it is to draw/control water from organisms or the atmosphere, we do know however, thanks to Hama, that it is very much possible. Now imagine the following; Earth benders had to induvidually study and practise each and every composition of earth, soil or mineral before they could control it. Air benders could only bend if there was any noticable air currents/wind present (which would explain why the prefer high mountain tops oddly enough aside from isolation), and fire benders would need at the very least to create a spark to accomplish any fire bending. Not as useful as they were before, ain't it? Yet that's sort of the card most Water benders seem to be dealt in the series. Furthermore, waterbenders have quite honestly the largest pool of options and useful techniques than any other bender period. While quite a few of these were adressed in this video, there's so many instances in the series of Water benders underperforming and losing in situations, they really shouldn't have. There are also quite a lot of potent applications of bending that have been brought up once and never again, or some which are briefly touched but not fully realised. Say I was a waterbender and was really capable, but didn't have access to the most obv op ability, this is what I would do to differentiate myself from my fellow underachievers. First of ofc, make sure to make use of all water present, no matter how invisible or sealed away it might seem. Next, be apparently the first bender to make proper use of the seemingly obv 3rd component of the 3 states of matter equation that makes water bending so useful, in the first place, WATER VAPOR! It's outright criminal that the creators couldn't think of a single offensive bending technique involving Steam, like are you kidding me? Does anybody remember what kind of force said gas can accomlpish in steam engines? Heck, Isacc the ICE ALCHEMIST is a more terrifying yet effective Waterbender in this regard, just watch the first episode of Full metal Alchemist Brotherhood to know what I mean. On the topic of gas, let me continue with mentionning something I have wondered ever since the first book. Considering Katara at one point could create mist and shifted clouds, how come there was never any effort to concentrate their efforts on controlling the weather? At the very least one could make thunderclouds with significant time and effort, like imagine multiple benders brewing up a storm and raining hail and proper lightning on their foes! Yes, I said it. Lightning should (and most likekly was at one point) a water ability, not fire. But even if that wasn't possible for whatever reason, there's still plenty of broken options, you could make use of. If I had enough water available, my preffered strat would be creating a dense mist, while I used thermovision, followed by covering the ground/surface with slippery ice, which would make all those fancy acrobatics and dodges you see from most benders on defense pretty much obsolete. Even if you had a solid rock hard defense, if you're constantly surrounded by your Enemies element, while having next to no idea where he/I was at at any moment and also being heavily compromised in your movement options, what could you possibly do? Finally something less theoretical but confirmed, the aspect of bending Energy, to shut off bending in other people is confirmed to be a more advanced version of Water bending/healing. The general concept behind healing is clearing/restoring the flow of energy between the chakra in the body. So this is just the inverse of this technique. That is why Amon was capable of this and why Unalaq is one of the only people to ensnare Spirits. The reason this wasn't clearly spelt out, is that the creators felt that this made water look like the most powerful/advanced, which it still is, despite all the nerfs/restrictions they tried to put on it.
I think the thing is: Waterbending mastery is probably the hardest to do. Even the most insanely accomplished masters in the show rarely accomplish more than 2 or 3 aspects of the mentioned powers. If it was easy to learn and that powerful, waterbenders would rule the world. Instead it's the fire nation, probably for ease of learning and the insane industrialization capabilities that result from it. It's like the difference between a musket and a bow. For centuries after developing the musket, the bow was arguably the way better weapon. Better accuracy, more firepower and insanely faster reload speed. But the musket pulled ahead just because it is so easy to use.
@@dontneedtoknow9629 Yes really, only the extras, wich is what makes water stronger, won't be available while learning. The part that ties with the other styles is as easy, or hard, as the respective oposite.
@@ramz7187 You've got 1 shot with a musket and a pretty big reload time. With the bow, you've got all the arrows you carry and a reload speed of notching and firing. In terms of lethal blows per second, the bow has it.
@Axroy Roblox Look at how quickly Aang can make his air ball. It's less than half a second and he created so much pressure that he could stand on it. I imagine he could explode your lungs in a fraction of a second.
You really aren't being very imaginative about this whole thought exercise. Best instant kill: Water bender freezing all the blood and body-fluid of an opponent.
@@R0230R Bloodbending is merely a lost art. As Otaku even says; any waterbender can learn it. Remember in the Aang era, Lightning-Bending was extremely rare and it was thought that it took masters to do it? Well by the time the Korra era rolls around they were able to teach any factory worker or confused teenager like Mako to do it.
You said that Korra was able to do this without the Avatar State, but..... ( 2:43 ) it's worth noting that water is her base element and avatars are a lot stronger than other benders. A lot of the stuff Aang did with Air, Tenzin and Meelo can't do (use a staff to cut a giant rock). I'm not sure it has to do with it being their base element, but surely it's a point worth keeping in mind.
Btw Amon, Tarlokk, and Yakone were in a special bloodline. Intense training isn't what gave them extra bloodbending capabilities, genetics is. Also..I subscribed cause you said you love us :D
@@themonsterwithin4000 It does mention Yakone being "special", and how his children directly inherited that ability, Which leads to the special bloodline
Bloodbending is powerful but also comes by sacrificing something very important: your sanity. All those who used bloodbending had no regards to the pain they inflicted, except for Katara but that was because she was in a rage and managed to snap out of it. What you might forget is that a building isn't just a pile of stone, it is far more a complex structure than just a wave of water. And when poisoned, Kora needed earthbending because of the metal property of the poison. In the end, yes. Some elements are more powerful than others but they all are tools with ups and downs. All depends how to use it.
The original bloodblender was already going insane, biding her time until the full moon had happened. Once she was broken out and on the run, she was already too far gone. The other bloodbenders were people that were in a position of political power, so they go insane from that along with the power of bloodbending. Katara never really went insane because when she used it, it wasnt out of a need to be in a place of power or as a backed into a corner animal. It was out of self defense. I dont think bloodbending has a real weakness because all these benders were insane far before bloodbending came into the picture
@@sorafowler4497 Neither Amon or Tarrlok were insane before blood bending as they were kids living a normal life until Yakone started their training. Katara also never went insane since she rarely used it. The reason Katara had it banned was because it drove people insane.
I’ve always thought water bending was the most powerful. It balances well, in the sense that water is the most “rare” of the elements, with firebenders being able to create fire, air being everywhere, & earth also being almost everywhere. Being the strongest element, it makes sense that the element itself isn’t as abundant as the others. Also, I feel like water bending has the most sub skills. You can change the state of water, making it ice or steam. Healing, plant bending, bloodbending, etc. not to mention, like you said, that they get a “power up” during night, & even more so on a full moon. Bloodbending itself is also just very overpowered. I don’t think the full moon was necessary, but since water benders get such a big boost during the full moon, a lot of water benders probably aren’t able to bend without it. But it’s been showed that with practice, it can be done at any time. Also, I can imagine that waterbenders can literally kill other humans in less then a second, if they wanted to. They can drain all the liquid out of someone’s body, like how Hama did with the flowers, just leaving a dry dead corpse. The can also probably adjust the blood flow in order to kill you as well. Bloodbending could have been really good if used for healing purposes instead of just offensive, I wish they would have showed something like that.
Because the writers said they want to move on and feel like they already discovered the avatar world enough and wanted work on other projects and cartoons.
Imagine a fire bender, that uses it in a defensive way. Completely anihilating anything coming at him/her with just simply heating up his surrounding to a breaking point of each element while maybe even becoming heat-proof themselves.
lets be honest waterbending is like three diffrent types bending you can bend ice, water, and blood which is the most overpowered i mean u can control someones blood amon could take away peoples bending
You could also kill anyone instantly by freezing the water (or even just some part if it) in their cells. Or by earthbending all the minerals and restricting the blood flow in the vessels.. or just combusting the opponent. Every element is quite deadly if you think of it.
@@noutsakh.2135 true, but i think changing the temperature of an element is complete bullshit honestly. Its 'bending' the element, not completely controlling every aspect of it.
@@sulaimans I understand where you're coming from but think of it this way: what is temperature? It's the way molecules are aligned in the structure right? When something is hot it means its molecules are moving faster and when something is cold it means they are either still or moving very veeery slowly. That means you are bending the element's molecules - you make them stand still when you wanna freeze the water or you let them move when you want to turn it into the water again. (I hope it's understandable, English is not my first language)
@@noutsakh.2135 Temperature is actually the measurement of the amount of heat, or thermal energy, something possesses, not the way molecules are aligned.
Like what uncle iroh said. They do not control the lighting element, they just have to guide it or direct it. Unlike other elements they can control it whenever they want. But lightning, nahh.
Every ATLA Fan in the beginning: Firebending is the most overpowered element! nothing can beat lightning! Every ATLA Fan after The Puppet Master: ...waterbending is... cool too....
I think they're all balanced, honestly. Earth is strength: a bending with impenetrable defense, yet an overwhelming but vulnerable offense. Water is versatility: a style of bending that is adaptable and versatile with no real weaknesses other than lack of accessibility on most human civilizations. Fire is power: a style of bending with an insurmountable offense, which makes up for the lack of defense. Air is free: a style of bending that is equally balanced on offense and defense due to its invisible nature and accessibility of the element itself.
Well, the "lack of accesibility" is not a problem, because the most powerful ones can take the water from the flowers, trees, sweat, clouds, haze, and even more. And there is still blood bending. So, they couldn't use (most of) their power if they are in desert (but even there, there is cactus), or in a empty building that wouldn't be too hot or cold (because waterbender can bend almost any types of liquid, so if there is books, they could maybe use the anchor to bend). Yeah boy, water is really powerful.
@@ibabul7865 Yeah that's still just proving my point all of that is a bit inferior to actual large bodies of water, you also can't just expect to see cactuses roamin' around in deserts because those aren't aplenty. Likewise, a true bender has plenty of appreciation for nature and to drain a source of life from the soil for the sole purpose of violence is against the cause. Blood-bending is aforementioned, but still not attainable: 1. Almost nobody can do it, lol. 2. Those who can wait for the full moon. 3. The two people who could do it without a full moon are DEAD. *That being said, I already think that waterbending is by far the most overpowered bending skill, and there is nothing to prove to me.* And only an idiot water bender is walkin' around without a source of water on them for self-defense, so these are measures taken due to *lack of accessibility.* This is one of the biggest reasons that the water tribe essentially built defenses and is unable to go around invading other nations: they are significantly weaker outside of their home court.
Thank god the “purging soul” and “blood bending” are extremely rare. Well, blood bending with a full-moon is possible, but still. Rare. Really happy that the “purging soul” thing is EXTREMELY rare.
@@g8tr80 I have to agree with you, I can get behind water being used for purification because that's one of the things that water has always been connected to literally cleansing of the soul and body of impurities and such . . . but the whole purge the soul thing is both unexpected and doesn't really fit with what water is connected too.
@@sootierpluto but in avatar, due to the series, as we can see that Water seems really overpowered, i mean... first at all, they can bloodbending, next is control the spirit anger like that unalaq did.. and you can see that water can turn into an ice in a second. imho..
Air and Oxygen are pretty different, While Oxygen is a big part of our Air, Air is a Mixture of Different gasses (Nitrogen, Argon and some others I think), so I don't think Airbending is the manipulation of O2 Molecules or O atoms, more like the manipulation of this mixture of gasses
@@LuminousWhispers11 bones are made of calcium, in theory, calcium is a mineral that is bendable like a rock, plus, there is a canon theory of a boy that killed his bullies with bone bending but it was literally buried by the earth kingdom.
Being able to do that is literally distorting molecular structure. Pretty much no one could be that precise. Bloodbending for example, uses the many water molecules inside a blood cell, so they don't have to be nearly as precise as taking atoms from a molecule. Sorry if this is lengthy but it is what it is.
it is heavy implied that water benders have to train super diligently just to bend well, healing for instance is meant to be rare and unless your highly skilled or trained by a master a normal water bender would required most of a lifetime to accomplish both. its also heavily implied that water benders have limited abilities to control large volumes of water, yes making walls of water is possible because your just pushing it around but to actually mold and shape that water is again a master level ability. tho its not shown very well in the show changing water to ice and back again is meant to have a something of a time delay to the untrained, the fast forming and changing of water is another skill like a muscle. without continues training of years to get sharp ice (for example) that's not highly brittle or to heavy to move in a timely manner. yes skills like blood bending (that only highly sensitive benders can deduce its use) is OP but again unless you have years of training (and be in a full moon) the average bender can only really blood bend a few people at a time + apparently causes damage to ones mentality so if used too much you basically become paranoid and go crazy. its a dangerous ability that's a double edge sword to the user not something that you would want to use a lot. the fact that even highly trained masters experiences against other benders for your training is highly important as its a counter bending style meaning the lack of knowledge of all other bending styles makes you 1/4 as good as the other elements as you dont know what you could do in many battle situation. for all the bending elements its probably the worst, unless your unnaturally gifted with both disciplines>>> mentally and physically adept>>>be trained by a master>>>then be blessed with tones of experience of how to counter other benders from your master, then you would be sub par at best until nearing the end of your life when you start to actually master the skills. when you look at katara before the water scroll and her training, she struggled moving small amounts of water, couldn't create or manipulate the flow of water very well at all and seemed to only be able to use large sweeping motions to attack. water-bending requires extreme discipline and control that the average person wouldn't be able to achieve, unlike the other elements that nearly all have natural ways of mastering with much less control (step for swamp style of course) required.
The comparison for Katara is weak. You have to remember without having a trainer for anything is already hard enough. That's like trying to teach yourself how to play an instrument or cook something you have never done before with no trainers. Of course she's going to become better as soon as she is trained by someone more experienced. Same way with rock bending or air bending or fire bending. This just sounds like, "Uhh acktually, water bending is really weak", like no dude, it's not. Shit can cut through pretty much anything such as rock or steel. It can give you movement like Air bending, of course, being limited to how much water you have. Just face the facts, water bending is unmatched. You can make the argument that every element is broken depending on who the user is, but broadly, water bending takes the cake.
you have a point but i mean still the fact that all these things COULD be achieved is just op even its the minority that posses such skills and the talent to execute these things
lets remember that katara single handedly saved the avatar himself from death after getting zapped with lightning, all at the age of 14.... if a a4 year old can be this disciplined, so can any other bender, they must have the determination to learn. Yes she also learned from scrolls and master pack, but any other bender like Azula, a prodigy in her own right, and one of the best fire benders of her time, took time to learn. Remember the flashback of her performing in front of fire lord ozai. Her fire was red. She was 14 by the end of LOA being one of the greatest firebenders, like katana is at water bending, even rivalling masters who have a lifetime of training
water covered by video: +defensive and offensive +ice transformation +power buffs +healing +bloodbending water potential yet undiscovered: +steam bending (allows use of steam-powered trains) (or maybe fire benders can do that, as they did in their industrial age) +wombo combo power with lightning (maybe Avatar or duo+ team can execute this combo) (only possible if mixed with conductible minerals) +controlling the clouds and the weather (convenience or/and has other battle uses like putting out fire) +surgical use (repositioning of the organs and limbs while keeping the blood flowing through them) +weed control, lol. take water from them and they die. perfect garden achieved.
actually , you are wrong. Korra's eyes went blank before freezing that robot, which means that she does need avatar state to bend that much water. otherwise you'll need 5 or 6 guys to bend that much water to freeze a ship like we've seen in last airbender book 1
I think all the elements are equally strong. The "strength" of the elements might depend on the "creativity" of the user on how to utilize his/her own element. But none the less, WATER is still my favorite. If we humans are given the chance to choose our element I will definitely choose water over other elements. Hahaha
They are clearly not equally strong (as shown by this video). Sure, you can kill people easily with any element BUT water is still the most versatile while being the strongest in direct combat. You can heal people, you can control blood (making any opponent powerless, only the fucking avatar can break free), you can freeze things, you can swim in a air pocket, you are the best counter to fire, you can break stone... No amount of creativity can change the fact that a waterbender can just control all liquid in your body and 1 shot your brain. Water permits more creativity. Firebenders must launch fire at you, earthbenders must do movements to control rocks, airbenders too... water? 1 hand wave and your blood is frozen in your veins.
But doesn't waterbending have a major weakness? Like for example, when Ming Hua was fighting Mako, she was clearly winning but then Mako strikes the water with lighting, electrocuting her and killing her.
But not many people know how to bend lightning. Plus there is a huge chance that the firebender is covered in water, so the lightning could kill him as well
@@shahdalali7999 true, but if you remember in Korra lightning bending becomes much much more common, it's even used in engineering jobs, and whatnot. The only reason lightning wasn't common before was that it was contained within the royal family, but in Korra the practice becomes more widely spread out for anyone who wants to learn. Also, in battle, all the fire bender would have to do was get away for one second (fire blast or something lol) and then bam, the waterbender is electrocuted.
Ming Hua died because she used water as her arms. The water was connected to her body and thus the electricity conducted accordingly. A similar technique used against, say, Katara (assuming her octopus form from the crystal catacombs battle) would just electrify the water so that when she blasts it back at you, you’ll get bludgeoned by the water pressure *and* electrocuted at the same time.
Jianing Lin a water bender could just change state to ice. Or gas and direct it to the lightning bender. As long as the bender is not touching the water they’ll be fine and can even redirect it
You can’t really say that one type of bending is stronger than the other. Every kind of bending has its pros and cons, but every bending can be overpowered if your a pro
you know, considering bloodbending is possible, it would be possible to bend the very BRAIN of someone due to waterbending. of course, thats a little dark for a kids show, but still.
Yeah the thing is it's not only water bending in the form of liquid, but they can transform the state of H2O as well. Which means they can somehow alter temperatures.
Has there been an instance where they caused water to boil? I think they’re only capable of losing heat because adding heat is a trait possessed by only the fire benders right?
@@jav1122 katara once freezed steam but i think writers said ''not THAT op'' and left the idea. (I can only say fortunately) I dont think they can boil the water tho.
@@turkepic3637 I think they did show them turning water to steam.... during the day of the Black Sun katara and the swamp water benders created a steam cover before the attack!
If you decrease the pressure around someone enough you could boil the water out of their body, so boiling could be done with air, water, and fire bending hypothetically
@@eternal_trickster1541 dumbass and you literally need air to live. And you literally need earth to stand on and get vitamins and minerals from. So where is your logic taking you?
No, metal bending only works because of impurities in the metal - that's why people started making use of incredibly refined metals in the Korra era to prevent bending. Not to mention that the iron in your hemoglobin is very different from elemental iron.
Also, being able to control the solvent is VERY different from being able to control the solute (even though your body has a very high concentration of various ions overall)
Hats the main issue is that earth bending is so ill-defined. What are they actually bending? Different kinds of rocks vary widely in composition but can still be bent. And if you're referring to the calcium in bones, it is again very different than elemental calcium - and bones are mostly collagen which earth benders have no reason to be able to manipulate.
Bending has only begun to be explored by the civilizations in Avatar. Imagine bending someone's brain with electrical bending. Or shocking a heart to beat again. Imagine a fire bender playing music with continuous lightning. Plasma bending. Light/radiation bending. Miniature combustion bending. etc. Bone bending. Magnet bending. Lava bending (Imagine a group of benders sinking your city by melting the earth beneath, building by building.) Clay bending. Sand Bending (Imagine changing any earth to sand and back to earth again.). Glass bending? Vacuum bending. Sound bending (rip eardrums). Weather bending.
people say airbending is op because air is everywhere, but so it water molecules and water vapor. Waterbenders can get water from anywhere, whether it's condensing rain from clouds, condensing water vapor/molecules from the air, or getting water from plants (we see most of this from Hama) then waterbenders don't particularly need a water source. However, they would be severely weakened in deserts.
i don't think that any bending is superior to each other. Personally I believe that it has more to do with the creativity of the bender. At the beginning of season 2 an earth bender completely immobilized Katara by "drowning" her in earth. She could not breath or move similar to your example for ice. All bending forms have subcategories or more advanced bending. Fire: lighting and combustion. Earth: lava and metal (although in the last airbender a fire-nation avatar was lava bending from volcanoes which kinda implied that it would be a subset of fire bending but w/e). Water: blood bending and healing. Air only seems to have flying as a new sub category but its just to cool (and useful) to think less of air-bending. However, water and earth can have potential disadvantages based on location where as fire and air can be done anywhere. But, as mentioned previously and referenced in the show a creative enough bender can find solutions. When kama shows katara how to blood bend she pulls water out of the air and when katara and toph are caged in a wooden box katara sweats. Creativity is key. When amon is blood bending mako he was still able to use lighting bending on him. Just something to think about. also this was a kids show. lets not analyze all the ways to kill people with bending. :P
@@wt9636 I mean, Zaheer was using that on a defenseless, non-bender and it took a decent amount of time, if he tried that on an experienced bender like Bumi or any master, they could probably smack him away before he could finish them.
I think you are partially right. As the video mentioned, water bending can literally purge your soul. There's nothing even close to that, like, that's the single most OP move ever in pretty much everywhere
@@onewa712 the soul purge thing only worked when they're spirits were in the spirit world. in the canon you can now physically travel there and that spirit purge thing wont work in the real world.
Honestly, I think Earth Bending is more overpowered. It controls all Earth particles, that would include plants too. Especially if you can bend Lava. I mean look at the amount of things they can bend. Dust, Sand, Plants, Blood (could possibly because of minerals in the blood, maybe) Metal, Lava (which literally burns people without even touching them (depending on the heat)), sand, THE FRWAKING EARTH, and Toph can bend Meteroites so Extraterrestrial planes can be bent. If one wanted to eradicate and fully weaken a Proficienct Earth Bender. Also the Seismic sight is another boost.
Earth benders can't bend plants and blood in atla though. Water benders can. Also to my understanding, lava bending is a mixture of earth and fire bending in lok.
I so wanted to se a earth bender taking water bender classes to better control there lava bending. But a lass it never showed in the show. At least a bender incorporated chi blocking in there bending cause ... That shits useful for any bender to have really.
I know right? If they really tried I think they could manipulate blood too. Magneto once pulled the iron in someone's blood out of their body. That is scary.
@@DrFausttt And air benders can suck the life out of someone.. Firebenders can burn you to a crisp where you stand... so all elements have a killer move
more like overloaded in my opinion. remember the time when ghazan destroyed the whole air temple with just 3 moves of lava bending? think about how destructive it would be to cast lightning over a city that is almost metal in entirety? and with zaheer we learned that you can get the air out of peoples lungs and its just a simple ball of air that needs zero to no focus to keep it up. you could have done the same thing as yakon, but even more effectively.
According to the Chinese calendar, I’m a Water Rooster (born in 1993). Explains why I’m comfortable with both water and wind. And the idea of reincarnating and being able to bend either or both (may not be the Avatar but I don’t care) appeals to me much more than bending Earth and/or Fire.
@@sladevalentine1765 I suggest you to watch Avatar The Last Airbender again...The reason why Waterbending is the most overpowered is because water is everywhere. That includes with life. Taking the plants life, controlling someone's movement, and if you think about it. A waterbender can make spikes from your body in seconds.
I agree. Bloodbending tru the mind is stupid and shows lack of creativity in creating antagonists. It's as if they just wanted to create op enemies the protagonist needs to defeat and leaves it at that... no further background to give foundation on their skill sets origin. Just boom As for the combustion bending, I still shrug this one as a wtf bending since what's the basis of that... maybe they just wanted to do water version of that hence bloodbending tru your mind. It got derailed from the beauty of bending tbh... they just wanted the antagonist to stare at you them boom lol boring hahahha
If I can control the water in and around me, because I am the water in me (so my brain the controlling consciousness of the body), then I can BB mentally. This can be based on 3 characteristics, i. E. My mind connects strongly to water, can control it well and have the heritage. As a result, I can bend the water within them, because they are not the water in them (so they can't wb psychically and do not have as a strong connection and may do not have the heritage for BB). This can be done despite the presence of a full moon, as a BB can lack or have the extent of skill in one of the aforementioned characteristics for non-full moon BB. I guess that's why amon could outblood bend his brother? But other than that I'm not sure, hope that makes sense.
@@ruinsofxerxes768 , but motionless? Air benders seem to be able to call up wind without a lot of movement, but water benders have been shown to mimic the movement of water, even when blood bending.
I feel like if fire benders learn how to control and guide lightning and electricity inside other people, then they would be the most over powered. instantly kill everyone
I'm pretty sure none of us could do this if we were airbenders. There would be no one to teach us, so we would only maybe hardly blow or something. Air and water are very interesting, but would be useless for us. Earth and fire are kinda boring for me, but way easier to perform and more useful to me.
Also fun fact when a highly skilled waterbender is outside they can cloud bend and make it fully rain at will giving them the advantage in any environment that’s not indoors so if there in a desert and there are clouds all they have to do is make a rain cloud and BOOM they have the upper hand☺️
Make a video abou the unexplored potential of earth bending I feel like there is soooo much you could explore with it like jewel/crystal bending, more powerful metal bending( imagine metal bending like how they bended the meteorite like shifting its shape and stuff), metal benders make someone’s blood boil by bending the iron in there blood, bending trees and plants, sand benders being about to bend sand into glass in a instant i feel like there is soo much you can do with earth bending that just wasn’t done!!!!
Whoah easy there with the iron-bloodbending, do you know how little iron in blood there actually is? You'd be better off with learning coal bending and then bending the carbon molecules inside of our body, which there is SO MUCH MORE of. Seriously, iron is only present as a single atom inside of a protein named hemoglobin, which is made of hundreds of amino acids which all have carbon atoms in them. Of course coal is not the same as other carbon based substances in living things, but the pure chemical view stands true, which is kinda funny.
People keep saying this, but I feel like the ability to move substance/control it is a bell curve based on its quantity An incredibly low amount of something taking almost as much effort and concentration as moving an incredibly large amount. Additionally, I think the purity of substances also has an effect on how easy it is to effect, with water and earth being inversely related to substance purity.
If you think about it, a crazy and powerful fire bender could bend the molten lava within the core of the earth and destroy everything. Also, if close enough, a powerful air bender can technically bend the atmosphere around different planets.
2:48 I can't quite agree with that because avatars are just naturally stronger benders, they can move a lot more of the elements in terms of mass than a normal bender.
@xenon473 so you're telling me that when kyoshi (in base form) severed kyoshi island from the mainland, that any earthbender could do that. When you compare that to korra's water feat it makes it look like there was a common factor.
@@mrnarason Yes but Iroh was able to do it as despite the difficulty not to mention water is more conductive than the human body so utilizing water as a shield could potentially negate any electrical attacks.
Well, what I meant was, the reason uncle iroh taught zuko how to redirect lightning was because iroh didn't have a lot of time to train zuko more till he could master the hottest flame; blue flame (which azula has) as the war was coming soon. So he taught zuko instead to redirect the lightning azula will definitely cast on him. During the agni kai, he had katara's help. By that default, zuko focused more on not hurting his sister as much but get her.. _Chained up_ as a way to defeat her. But imagine if katara was not there. Zuko would eventually need to defeat azula the traditional way which is take them down. So what if due to that, he aquires blue flame. And since he can redirect azula's flames, he has the upper hand of hitting azula with his flame that would lead to her defeat.
I won't argue that waterbending is pretty op, but I wouldn't say it's the strongest. I honestly don't believe there's a "strongest element" because it was already proven countless times throughout both stories that everything is PURELY up to the mastery of the fighter. The element doesn't make the fighter. Best example being Toph: She was just a child and upon DEBUT she soloed an entire arena of pro earthbenders. In fact, she went on to become one of the greatest benders to have ever existed and created a new type of bending on her own, and she's not even an avatar! Then there's the case with usage of lightning (which is totally broken because there's kinda nothing that can stop that unless you can redirect it, but count the number of people who can actually do that lol). So again the element doesn't make the fighter, it's all up to the mastery of the fight (along with a couple other factors). But there really is no "strongest element".
if a lightning bender was up against a water bender couldn't the water bender absorb the lightning using the water and redirect it back at the user to electrocute them?
Metalbenders can probably withstand it. You know those metal suits to protect people from electricity? Same concept here. Other earthbenders can probably create a suit of armor similar to what Aang often did.
Yup this lays out why i like water the most. It's the most versatile and powerful element. And slice said elements donnot have balance, water is over powered but didn't mention that it's the most balanced element out there. It can hurt and heal. It has the most evil ends and most noble forms. (Blood bending and freeing spirit).
Actually, earthbending has healing abilities too, in the collectable cards of atla there is an earthbender who uses amber to heal. Sadly, they didn't include that technique in the series.
People keep telling me that EARTHbenders are the best I come at them with amon and his power to TAKE AWAY BENDING FROM PEOPLE like boi if thats not powerful then I dont know what is u,u
Well, Fire bending in ATLA comes from within yourself, you can essentially use it whenever you want. Unlike Earth and Water. But yes, I still agree that Water bending is the most over-powered.
Vanessa Westbrook Well, you might be in a climate with a very low amount of water in the atmosphere, and in an area with a low amount of plants. But I still agree with you, Water is the most overpowered.
Gordon Ramsay's Chin sure it makes sense. How does it not? Without water no living thing or nation would exist. You can’t just say it doesn’t make sense and not give an example as to why it doesn’t. She can’t help Ravas spirit was ripped from her. How did she ruin water bending?
What about sand bending? as a kind-of-a-fluid you could make most of waterbending movements by making tiny´pieces to get sand or compact it all to get rocks.
@@Fabs77Z And what about lavabending? I mean it's literally liquid they could totally use waterbending moves to control it and turn earth into a super versatile element
Hello, In book two Hama says "Did you know water benders can bend water out of air." This shows that water can also be used anywhere, also the term of Blood Bending can also be used anywhere only if you are in a battle and by another Human, anima ect.
Literally you could crash people with earth, burn them with fire, drown them with water, or even stab them with ice, I'm still curious if air benders could take the air out of your lungs.
When ATLA came out all my friends wanna be a fire bender because its "cool", I was made fun off when I said I wanna be a waterbender. When the episode about blood bending came out, the reactions on their faces were priceless.
Frazier Haley so are you literally sweating buckets like there are buckets coming out of your body Or are you sweating sweat that can fill up buckets :think:
@@manolgeorgiev9664 100%. The only other contender is maybe air, with the ability to astral project, fly, and bend the air out of someone's lungs - but as far as we can see that is limited to one target at a time. that being said, Monk Gyatso's corpse was surrounded by several Fire nation soliders- i wonder if he choked them all to death simultaneously, being a master airbender and (presumably) a far greater Airbender than Zaheer who only had airbending for a few weeks at most.
Air bending is the most unexplored skill.Atmosphere is the most abundant and easily available everywhere. air nomads did not use it aggressively. You can see how zaheer used airbending aggressively against earth queen.
@@ChefAndyLunique but the thing is it'll only take practice think about it the body is 80 percent water it won't be hard for a water bender to learn it at all
This is why life don't allow us to have this kind of ability because humans are creative af.
RIGGHTT
you mean the lion turtles
Definitely true!
I'd argue we already do bend the elements to our wills and that we continue to find more niche ways to do so.
Fr tho
I feel like Fire and Air bending just never evolved much. During the 100 year war Water and Earth evolved mostly because of desperation during the war and the need to become stronger to fight off the Fire nation.
The Fire nation had no need to find new techniques because they thought they were the strongest, while air benders didn’t exist. If there was another season, Fire and Air could potentially have many strong techniques. Zahir was doing well to prove that, but he was stopped too early.
Other then lightning I cant think of anything more fire could get though, maybe smoke and ash? That'd be neat.
Air tho I cant think of jack, flying ability is locked down to like 2 people so even if they focused on it I dont think many would get it.
I think it makes sense fire bending went through a cultural upheaval as many countries do under the rule of a violent dictator. In a way historically nerding over it it oddly gives me WWII vibes. Nazi-Germany had hitler fire nation had Ozai, and they're first major conquest was the immediate genocide of the Jewish (airbenders). It kinda sucks we didn't get to see more but I get it since two of the 4 nations cultural identity was almost destroyed or subverted.
@@mirror2922 Every industrialized city in TLOK was influenced by Fire nation Colonization, so we technically see the fire nation just not directly,
@@preator_vallum6377 a sort of sonic boom bending simillar to combustion bending but for airbenders
@@preator_vallum6377 I mean, they can do smoke. They just need their fire to burn something and get some smoke or steam to burn the enemy
Couldn’t water benders just turn the spit in someone’s mouth and throat into ice
GG
Turn their sweat into microspikes
I don't think you can freeze things that aren't fully water. Even then, I'm quite sure the user would happily eat the ice.
Mr. Anonymous how unfortunate
@@blankname6657 mucus is also made of water!
@@blankname6657 but god waterbenders can bend blood which isnt entirely water
If you master waterbending you could:
-freeze enemies
-heal damage
-create tsunamis
-breathe underwater
-slice metal
-revive the dead(with spirit water)
-paralyse enemy(bloodbending)
-reanimate enemy(bloodbending
-snap neck(bloodbending)
Yeah you could do all that
I dont need water bending to snap a neck
@@sven1641 Well with the waterbending you can snap necks from a safe distance
Don’t forget the ability to completely remove a person’s bending
as well as, take moisture out of air, or out of a person (dehydration)
If the user has knowledge of vital areas, they can shove an ice spike directly into them (mmm ice deadly)
I feel like airbending has the potential to be the most OP. Almost everything is surrounded by air. Seems like airbenders can control air pressure and force. By that sense they can use air to morph any element really however they want. I assume they can control things like air density and lack of air too, which means ideally they can create vacuums, and even compress mass in order to affect spacetime. Of course, this with the assumption that a bender can possibly have a very high strength and force cap.
I was thinking of airbenders floating around like Zaheer or simply creating a mini tornado around the victim and then asphyxiate them. Or as we saw in Korra, an earthbender heats up dirt and turns it in lava; well and airbender technically could firebend the same way firebenders (firebenders use no fuel, just oxygen, meaning they bend heat)
They can probably suck out the air in the lungs too
Airbending really does have the potential to be the most powerful. A key example is the non-canonical fan made bending technique of soundbending. It would be an airbending sub bending technique, where the user would vibrate the air in a certain area, creating sound waves. If I remember correctly, at around 200 Decibels, a human could be easily incapacited. 300 and I'm pretty sure you'd be dead. A lot of people don't seem to realize, Air is a pretty general term, typically refering to simply just Gas. in an episode of the legend of korra, I'm pretty sure in season three, airbenders are shown to be bending smoke, so we can kinda assume that airbenders can just bend gasses in general, not just oxygen. so maybe airbenders could couse you to burst by trapping the methane gas in your body? it would take a while though.
@@azekia Actually, an airbender likely couldn't firebend. the reason firebenders can bend lightning is also why they can bend fire. they don't bend heat, they bend plasma. Fire is plasma. lightning is also plasma.
@@Mushroompancake yes but if airbenders can vibrate the air so much that it heats up, it'll basically be firebending, since they can also amplify it by adding more oxygen to it, they would be very powerful. In a sense they could also waterbend or 'liquidbend' if they increased the density of any gas to a certain point. Imagine getting attacked with liquid nitrogen which is so abundant in the air as a gas
Imagine a waterbender was bullied and someone tried to spit at them.
Then they turned it into ice and socked them in the mouth with it
Uno reverse
@@kristofframos3 Lmao
Water bender gets bullied
Water bender: call an ambulance
Bully: spits at him
Spit freezes
Water bender: but not for me.
@@Ejaz100 There was a attempt
@@dunntyfuck4715 of 8 months
And my friends would tease me for being a waterbender when we played avatar
I also play the water bender, but I don't feel so bad now.
Clayton Griffith Is that your way of saying you didn’t own a high powered hose?
When I was little I had the need to be the water bender. I of course enjoyed my role as the puppet master 💖
@SliceofOtaku
Water bending is only over powered because the writers of the show nerf Earth bending. Just use Earth bending to take the ground from underneath your opponents and that stops them.
It would work against that giant mech and it would have stopped that drilling machine in Ba-sing-say (however it is spelled).
SAME omg. Thought I was the only one
As a weakness you forgot to mention that the terrain itself when being helpful (with a lot of water) can be bad for you if you're facing someone that can create lightning [Mako vs. Ming Hua]
Ice
I think that’s only dangerous if the water is connected to the bender... also, ice counters that as well. I think.
Blood
Distillate water, totaly not an electricity conductor, and they can crate it just by letting the impurity fall of
rip ming hua
This guy talking about the benefits of water bending
Me wanting to be an air bender:air goes bbrrrr
I would rather be an airbender :>
Same cause air bend storm and wind although they can’t bend lightning generally they can do it by bending a storm
Same.
I think airbenders are so underrated but I think they are powerful
@@davigurgel2040 you can also change pressure and that could devastate the opponent, or fill them with air and they would pass out and other things 😂
That blood bending episode was really disturbing......I still love avatar the last airbender 😂😂
yea it was creepy as heck
For some reason, I fucking loved it
shianne lee which episode is it
I liked it
@@amalia1_ I though it was weird but cool
When its breezy outside
Airbenders:I feel a great power
7:28 "being a criminal against the law"
Every sixty seconds in a Africa, a minute passes
Being a crimminal is legal.
Becoming one is not
@@panthor109thabest7 outstanding move
Lol I’m ded 😂😂😂
@@panthor109thabest7 You can speak the language of gods
PANTHOR109 Tha best woah there pal, you’re speaking some next level moon runes there.
Slice’s first avatar video! My prayers have been answered!
Me too.
Water has healing, and it's relatively easy to learn. If you think about that in a war setting, it means that over a long drawn out conflict, armies of water benders are stronger than armies of other benders. Because they can heal each other after each battle.
And it also means if you get to pick an element in the avatar world, choosing anything but water is selfish.
you hve to be born with healing and you can only learn it i u are
@@darcyvanvugt7120 no you can learn it
"And it also means if you get to pick an element in the avatar world choosing anything but water is selfish"
Well idk if you know this BUT WE DONT WANT TO HAVE EASY FIGHTS
WATER BENDING IS OVERPOWERED also i would pick fire bending i dont want to beat my oponnent in 2 seconds
@@anissans-zo1bc Fire Benders are most suitable to end fights in 2 secs if it is straight up 1v1. But Water Bending is too OP under certain conditions.
@@karmaisntreal Nah, Firebenders are the weakest
If some company were to create a MMORPG in the Avatar universe, I bet they would have to make weekly patches nerfing waterbending.
Patch 1.45.72 - For the love of god Waterbenders, STOP BREAKING THE GAME. Nerfed Waterbending as a whole, removed Blood Bending (AGAIN), buffed Lightning cast time, added Air Cars (Apparantly the scooters aren't fast enough so screw it), replaced 3/4ths of the Ocean with Wastelands and Deserts. Maybe now you'll call this game balanced.
I'd love that game lol
Yeah lol
nah, just make it slower than the other bendings... sure it's stronger than anything else but if you make it slower, there's your balance.
Spellbreak, mate. Comes pretty close to elemental combat as far as avatar is concerned.
I completely disagree with your point on Korra’s wave. No, not “any water bender” can pull that off. Korra could do it because she is a very powerful water bender and arguably the best in either show. Average water benders have shown to struggle with a lot less. Further, we’ve seen benders from other elements pull of powerful feats like this one with their own elements. Bumi bent Ozai’s statue and was chucking houses around like they beach balls. Aang air bent an entire stream of lava away in the “fortuneteller” episodes in what was an incredibly powerful display of air bending. Toph earth bent an entire library and kept it from falling
cough Mary Sue cough
@@frimi8593 Dynamo7
@@frimi8593 I agree, and disagree. I think that Earth benders are, defensively, the strongest benders, and they pack one hell of a good offensive defense. But I think Waterbenders have far more versatility and flexibility. What makes an Earth Bender stronger is their rigidity; they don't bend or break, but it's also their weakness. Waterbenders are known for being adaptable, and using their enemies own power against them. A Waterbenders can match an Earbender for brute Force, using ice, but they can also go around that force with liquid, or gas. Create an incredibly thick cloud of mist then immediately condense it on the target. Or turn it into razor sharp icicles and make them a pin cushion. Or make the most so dense they drown as they breathe.
Water is just too versatile of an element that is always has an answer for any other matchup.
I think some people forget that these skills are hard to learn. Even in Korra's time, plenty of capable earthbenders couldn't bend metal. Zuko couldn't learn lightning and I am sure even less people know combustion. In the for most of the first season of ATLA, Katara was pathetic at waterbending to the point where it was a source of comedy.
@@frimi8593 Few comments on your ideas.
1. You're correct. Seismic sense appears to be able to be learned by any bender, just like bloodbending - rare, but only because people don't know about it. This means that Earthbenders and Waterbenders could both equally perform Tarlock's simultaneous attack and defence, with Earth probably winning due to being heavier and stronger than water. However, you need to be an incredibly specialised earthbender to learn seismic sense - we have only ever seen an Avatar, a blind person who uses it to see, or the daughters of said blind person use it. While Lin and Suyin both show that is is possible for non-Avatar and non-blind earthbenders to use it, the skillcap required is much, much higher than a waterbender's skillcap for simply raising a water barrier in front of themselves. In summary: Majority of waterbenders v majority of earthbenders, both attempting simultaneous offence and defence - waterbender wins. Top-tier Waterbender v top tier Earthbender - Earthbender wins.
2. The water canister v metal canister thing - in terms of element availability, Earth and Water are matched.. There are two, possible environments that are without water - a fully earth environment (desert / rock) or a fully metal environment (battleship, tall building, oil rig). Both of these environments contain an abundance of earth and sand / brick and metal, so both would far favour an Earthbender. But equally, for Waterbenders, there is the ocean, lakes and seas- an environment that fully favours a waterbender. Even with the invention of boats, all a waterbender would need to do is surf over to it, punch a hole it it with ice, and then move back and wait for the boat to sink. Waterbenders could (as seen with Ghazan's prison) construct a permanent settlement on water with absolutely no metal or earth nearby, and live there indefinitely, surviving only off fish and aquatic plants, and purifying the water by burning wood or bending out the salt. The same cannot be said for an all earth environment - human beings need to drink, so no matter what happens, there will always be water present in some form - this means waterbenders will have some sort of weapon available. And even in that environment, a Waterbender can bloodbend, as we saw when Hama learned the technique in an all metal prison. Placing both elements in as favourable an environment as possible - Water wins.
3. Bloodbending. First off - Psychic bloodbending does not necessarily imply psychic bending in general (apart from the Avatar). Only Yakone and Amon had this ability - it appears to be tied to Yakone's genetics, meaning that no psychic firebender or airbender is going to pop up any time soon. Secondly, only waterbenders and avatars (who are also waterbenders) have the ability to resist bloodbending in any capable capacity. Mako did do it, but the only thing he could to was sort of bend lightning in one direction - it was Amon releasing his grip that let him escape. If Amon had simply bloodbend Mako's arms to his sides, Mako would have been powerless. Compare this to Korra, who could move freely but with difficulty when she airbending kicked Amon, Aang, who became completely immune while in the Avatar state, and Katara, who was 100% immune to the technique BEFORE she bloodbent for the first time. Unless you are an Avatar, another Waterbender, or you are a lightning bender that gets extremely lucky, bloodbending is not defendable in any way. Water wins.
To add, all waterbenders, even Swampbenders that don't live near ice, can phase-change water. This is an ability that Earthbenders cannot parallel unless they are a lavabender - once again like Yakone's psychic bloodbending, shown to be a skill inherent to specific individuals. Even the, Earthbenders can only change between solid and liquid, not gas - wheras waterbenders can do all three. Of course, lava is more destructive than water or ice - but a waterbender could easily fight a lavabender just by bending water at the lava and freezing it. Additionally, lavabending offers no non-lethal options, compared to waterbending - can't use it if you're in a non-lethal duel or if you're attempting to apprehend but not kill. Much like my first point - majority of waterbenders v majority of earthbenders - water wins. Top tier v top tier - a tie.
(also, with the mech fight and the vast quantity of water used then - Korra is the avatar. Her non-avatar state bending is still superior to the vast majority of regular benders, and she may have even flashed her Avatar State eyes off camera before she used the move)
Since water benders can bloodbend and also turn liquid water to ice does that mean they could crystallise someone’s blood killing them instantly
Also if they were proficient in healing and blood bending They could probably extend their life by quite a bit by just healing themselves constantly
If Avatar wasn’t a kids show. Yes they could
@@KumaoftheForest unfortunately the books are the best they can do ;-;
Earth benders can bone bend
Kyoshi did do that though. Both crystalizing hearts and keeping herself immortal for over 200 years
@@Iced_Milk_NNF bones aren’t rocks bro…
Tbh I feel like water is only OP because more of the writers' creativity went toward developing it compared to the other elements. A strong enough airbender or avatar could conjure up storms just by moving enough air around and changing the air pressure and temperature. They could also crush your lungs by just compressing all the air inside. Now that I think about it, it may even be possible for them to manipulate you like with bloodbending because oxygen is such a common element in the body. A strong enough earthbender could probably manipulate all the minerals in your body that come from the earth.
Well more important is that they straight up gave waterbenders with low amounts of water thick plot armor.
Oxygen in the blood is not in a gaseous state, so air bloodbending isn't possible
The oxygen in the blood is bound, so it's a bit controversial to say they could bend the entire human body. And considering oxygen is found in our body only in minimal concentration does not help
@@XavierZara We don't know that for sure. Fire can go to other form of plasma. Earth to metal. Water to ice. Metalbending used to be thought as impossible. Bloodbending was too. Maybe Hemoglobin-bending is just a super hard and forbidden form that disappeared along with the air nomads? .....also, hope it would be call something more appealing if it did exist.... lol.
You've got it backwards mate. They actually nerfed waterbending a great deal as well as under-utilizing/developing/explaining it's more intrinsic mechanics and limits compared to other elements for the sake of balance. There's multiple aspects and elements that point to this.
First of, out of all elements, water benders struggle the most with how much water is available, or the very least, where and how Water can be drawn from. This is pretty ridiculous or questionable for the following reasons. Water is present just about everywhere. Maybe not as much as Earth and Air, but still not quite as scarce and hard to come by or tucked/hidden away as the series would make you believe. There's Water in just about any soil, plant and organism in nature, and in modern city settings like Republic city, the drainage, sewers or just plain'ol regular Water pipes are so abudant that you would rarely require to carry Water on your person, if at all!(I still would for the sake of defense, but you get the point) That's not even taking into account the huge amount of water vapor present in most conditions, safe arid/desert like climates.
Now you're probably thinking; "but all those examples are not pure water and hardly anyone seems to make use of them." That only strenghtens my point though. The thing is, we don't really know how difficult it is to draw/control water from organisms or the atmosphere, we do know however,
thanks to Hama, that it is very much possible. Now imagine the following; Earth benders had to induvidually study and practise each and every composition of earth, soil or mineral before they could control it. Air benders could only bend if there was any noticable air currents/wind present (which would explain why the prefer high mountain tops oddly enough aside from isolation), and fire benders would need at the very least to create a spark to accomplish any fire bending. Not as useful as they were before, ain't it? Yet that's sort of the card most Water benders seem to be dealt in the series.
Furthermore, waterbenders have quite honestly the largest pool of options and useful techniques than any other bender period. While quite a few of these were adressed in this video, there's so many instances in the series of Water benders underperforming and losing in situations, they really shouldn't have. There are also quite a lot of potent applications of bending that have been brought up once and never again, or some which are briefly touched but not fully realised.
Say I was a waterbender and was really capable, but didn't have access to the most obv op ability, this is what I would do to differentiate myself from my fellow underachievers. First of ofc, make sure to make use of all water present, no matter how invisible or sealed away it might seem. Next, be apparently the first bender to make proper use of the seemingly obv 3rd component of the 3 states of matter equation that makes water bending so useful, in the first place, WATER VAPOR! It's outright criminal that the creators couldn't think of a single offensive bending technique involving Steam, like are you kidding me? Does anybody remember what kind of force said gas can accomlpish in steam engines? Heck, Isacc the ICE ALCHEMIST is a more terrifying yet effective Waterbender in this regard, just watch the first episode of Full metal Alchemist Brotherhood to know what I mean.
On the topic of gas, let me continue with mentionning something I have wondered ever since the first book. Considering Katara at one point could create mist and shifted clouds, how come there was never any effort to concentrate their efforts on controlling the weather? At the very least one could make thunderclouds with significant time and effort, like imagine multiple benders brewing up a storm and raining hail and proper lightning on their foes! Yes, I said it. Lightning should (and most likekly was at one point) a water ability, not fire.
But even if that wasn't possible for whatever reason, there's still plenty of broken options, you could make use of. If I had enough water available, my preffered strat would be creating a dense mist, while I used thermovision, followed by covering the ground/surface with slippery ice, which would make all those fancy acrobatics and dodges you see from most benders on defense pretty much obsolete. Even if you had a solid rock hard defense, if you're constantly surrounded by your Enemies element, while having next to no idea where he/I was at at any moment and also being heavily compromised in your movement options, what could you possibly do?
Finally something less theoretical but confirmed, the aspect of bending Energy, to shut off bending in other people is confirmed to be a more advanced version of Water bending/healing. The general concept behind healing is clearing/restoring the flow of energy between the chakra in the body. So this is just the inverse of this technique. That is why Amon was capable of this and why Unalaq is one of the only people to ensnare Spirits.
The reason this wasn't clearly spelt out, is that the creators felt that this made water look like the most powerful/advanced, which it still is, despite all the nerfs/restrictions they tried to put on it.
I think the thing is: Waterbending mastery is probably the hardest to do. Even the most insanely accomplished masters in the show rarely accomplish more than 2 or 3 aspects of the mentioned powers. If it was easy to learn and that powerful, waterbenders would rule the world. Instead it's the fire nation, probably for ease of learning and the insane industrialization capabilities that result from it.
It's like the difference between a musket and a bow. For centuries after developing the musket, the bow was arguably the way better weapon. Better accuracy, more firepower and insanely faster reload speed. But the musket pulled ahead just because it is so easy to use.
But that isn't a weakness though. It just means the other bender reach their ceiling faster, while the water bende can still get stronger.
Cassio Henrique Not really, since hard to master also means not available when ur learning it, so potential power isn't power u have atm.
The bow more firepower than a musket? Bullshit.
@@dontneedtoknow9629 Yes really, only the extras, wich is what makes water stronger, won't be available while learning.
The part that ties with the other styles is as easy, or hard, as the respective oposite.
@@ramz7187 You've got 1 shot with a musket and a pretty big reload time. With the bow, you've got all the arrows you carry and a reload speed of notching and firing. In terms of lethal blows per second, the bow has it.
Water is my favorite element because of how versatile it can be.
True but if you could airbend you could block out someone's supply to oxygen
true but if you can waterbend you can literally froze someone's blood or take out the whole water from them
Pfp checks out
If we're playing dirty as if it's not a kid's show,
an Airbender can explode someones lungs with pressure.
@Axroy Roblox Look at how quickly Aang can make his air ball. It's less than half a second and he created so much pressure that he could stand on it. I imagine he could explode your lungs in a fraction of a second.
You really aren't being very imaginative about this whole thought exercise. Best instant kill: Water bender freezing all the blood and body-fluid of an opponent.
CoffeeCaveman Yeah that’s the same thing that I was thinking but I think it would have to be a full moon for it to happen
Or just destroy a major atery in the body
I'm sure only someone as skilled on blood-bending(considering you freeze purely the blood) as Amon could pull that off.
"Water freezes, water boils. Either way you're just as dead."
@@R0230R Bloodbending is merely a lost art. As Otaku even says; any waterbender can learn it. Remember in the Aang era, Lightning-Bending was extremely rare and it was thought that it took masters to do it? Well by the time the Korra era rolls around they were able to teach any factory worker or confused teenager like Mako to do it.
aside from waterbending being totally broken, airbenders could potentially force pure oxygen into someone's lungs and kill them instantly
Tape the can control the oxygen in the blood and then make then fly lol
Bro technically airbenders could blood bend too🗿💀
But oxygen isn't air
jconjello ye it is, it's a form of air they can control it's been said in avatar
Ah yes, a story of the gay priest and pure oxygen
You said that Korra was able to do this without the Avatar State, but..... ( 2:43 ) it's worth noting that water is her base element and avatars are a lot stronger than other benders. A lot of the stuff Aang did with Air, Tenzin and Meelo can't do (use a staff to cut a giant rock). I'm not sure it has to do with it being their base element, but surely it's a point worth keeping in mind.
Btw Amon, Tarlokk, and Yakone were in a special bloodline. Intense training isn't what gave them extra bloodbending capabilities, genetics is. Also..I subscribed cause you said you love us :D
@@Oluoluoluok What “special bloodline”? It never mentioned anything their line being special
@@themonsterwithin4000 It does mention Yakone being "special", and how his children directly inherited that ability, Which leads to the special bloodline
Bloodbending is powerful but also comes by sacrificing something very important: your sanity. All those who used bloodbending had no regards to the pain they inflicted, except for Katara but that was because she was in a rage and managed to snap out of it.
What you might forget is that a building isn't just a pile of stone, it is far more a complex structure than just a wave of water.
And when poisoned, Kora needed earthbending because of the metal property of the poison.
In the end, yes. Some elements are more powerful than others but they all are tools with ups and downs. All depends how to use it.
swissagent it doesn’t effect your sanity it’s just all the people who do it are insane in the show
The original bloodblender was already going insane, biding her time until the full moon had happened. Once she was broken out and on the run, she was already too far gone.
The other bloodbenders were people that were in a position of political power, so they go insane from that along with the power of bloodbending.
Katara never really went insane because when she used it, it wasnt out of a need to be in a place of power or as a backed into a corner animal. It was out of self defense. I dont think bloodbending has a real weakness because all these benders were insane far before bloodbending came into the picture
@@sorafowler4497 Neither Amon or Tarrlok were insane before blood bending as they were kids living a normal life until Yakone started their training. Katara also never went insane since she rarely used it. The reason Katara had it banned was because it drove people insane.
I’ve always thought water bending was the most powerful. It balances well, in the sense that water is the most “rare” of the elements, with firebenders being able to create fire, air being everywhere, & earth also being almost everywhere. Being the strongest element, it makes sense that the element itself isn’t as abundant as the others.
Also, I feel like water bending has the most sub skills. You can change the state of water, making it ice or steam. Healing, plant bending, bloodbending, etc. not to mention, like you said, that they get a “power up” during night, & even more so on a full moon.
Bloodbending itself is also just very overpowered. I don’t think the full moon was necessary, but since water benders get such a big boost during the full moon, a lot of water benders probably aren’t able to bend without it. But it’s been showed that with practice, it can be done at any time.
Also, I can imagine that waterbenders can literally kill other humans in less then a second, if they wanted to. They can drain all the liquid out of someone’s body, like how Hama did with the flowers, just leaving a dry dead corpse. The can also probably adjust the blood flow in order to kill you as well.
Bloodbending could have been really good if used for healing purposes instead of just offensive, I wish they would have showed something like that.
The real debate here is.... WHY IS AVATAR NOT BEING AIRED AGAIN?!?
Because the writers said they want to move on and feel like they already discovered the avatar world enough and wanted work on other projects and cartoons.
It had a good ending, I just wished they never did legend of korra.
Its because Stephen Hilenburg is ded
@@mr.kingofphenomenal4629 Lmao they never said that
@@AvatarRoku999 Yes they did. That what they said after Korra was over in 2014.
Imagine a fire bender, that uses it in a defensive way. Completely anihilating anything coming at him/her with just simply heating up his surrounding to a breaking point of each element while maybe even becoming heat-proof themselves.
lets be honest waterbending is like three diffrent types bending you can bend ice, water, and blood which is the most overpowered i mean u can control someones blood amon could take away peoples bending
Can't u technically kill someone instantly with air bending by making a big enough bubble of air in one's blood stream? That's instant death. 🤷♂️
Thank you
You could also kill anyone instantly by freezing the water (or even just some part if it) in their cells. Or by earthbending all the minerals and restricting the blood flow in the vessels.. or just combusting the opponent. Every element is quite deadly if you think of it.
@@noutsakh.2135 true, but i think changing the temperature of an element is complete bullshit honestly. Its 'bending' the element, not completely controlling every aspect of it.
@@sulaimans I understand where you're coming from but think of it this way: what is temperature? It's the way molecules are aligned in the structure right? When something is hot it means its molecules are moving faster and when something is cold it means they are either still or moving very veeery slowly. That means you are bending the element's molecules - you make them stand still when you wanna freeze the water or you let them move when you want to turn it into the water again. (I hope it's understandable, English is not my first language)
@@noutsakh.2135 Temperature is actually the measurement of the amount of heat, or thermal energy, something possesses, not the way molecules are aligned.
I just had a thought I wonder if a master lightning bender could manipulate the electrical impulses inside a human brain?
That- I- okay- I am not going to sleep tonight, that’s for sure
I've always wanted to know
me when i reach
Like what uncle iroh said. They do not control the lighting element, they just have to guide it or direct it. Unlike other elements they can control it whenever they want. But lightning, nahh.
Every ATLA Fan in the beginning: Firebending is the most overpowered element! nothing can beat lightning!
Every ATLA Fan after The Puppet Master: ...waterbending is... cool too....
well waterbending/bloodbending has range but lightning us very far
proof is the sky can shoot lighting down and the sky is high
@@blackbed5108 I had a stroke while trying to read your comment
I think they're all balanced, honestly.
Earth is strength: a bending with impenetrable defense, yet an overwhelming but vulnerable offense.
Water is versatility: a style of bending that is adaptable and versatile with no real weaknesses other than lack of accessibility on most human civilizations.
Fire is power: a style of bending with an insurmountable offense, which makes up for the lack of defense.
Air is free: a style of bending that is equally balanced on offense and defense due to its invisible nature and accessibility of the element itself.
Well, the "lack of accesibility" is not a problem, because the most powerful ones can take the water from the flowers, trees, sweat, clouds, haze, and even more. And there is still blood bending. So, they couldn't use (most of) their power if they are in desert (but even there, there is cactus), or in a empty building that wouldn't be too hot or cold (because waterbender can bend almost any types of liquid, so if there is books, they could maybe use the anchor to bend). Yeah boy, water is really powerful.
@@ibabul7865 Yeah that's still just proving my point all of that is a bit inferior to actual large bodies of water, you also can't just expect to see cactuses roamin' around in deserts because those aren't aplenty.
Likewise, a true bender has plenty of appreciation for nature and to drain a source of life from the soil for the sole purpose of violence is against the cause.
Blood-bending is aforementioned, but still not attainable:
1. Almost nobody can do it, lol.
2. Those who can wait for the full moon.
3. The two people who could do it without a full moon are DEAD.
*That being said, I already think that waterbending is by far the most overpowered bending skill, and there is nothing to prove to me.*
And only an idiot water bender is walkin' around without a source of water on them for self-defense, so these are measures taken due to *lack of accessibility.*
This is one of the biggest reasons that the water tribe essentially built defenses and is unable to go around invading other nations: they are significantly weaker outside of their home court.
Thank god the “purging soul” and “blood bending” are extremely rare. Well, blood bending with a full-moon is possible, but still. Rare. Really happy that the “purging soul” thing is EXTREMELY rare.
There’s no real evidence of it being extremely rare it’s just not taught bc it never had to be used
Isaiah Nichols You’d be surprised about how many people would want a power of purging someone’s soul.
The whole purging of soul and spiritualism around water is a bit dumb. I don't see why water can purge a soul.
@@g8tr80 I have to agree with you, I can get behind water being used for purification because that's one of the things that water has always been connected to literally cleansing of the soul and body of impurities and such . . . but the whole purge the soul thing is both unexpected and doesn't really fit with what water is connected too.
A human is made of 70% Water...
*GG*
Human being is made of 236 bones.
*Earth Benders: Allow us to introduce ourselves*
@@oliver-wb4np are u saying that bones are made out of earth or use earth bending to break bones?
well, airbenders can collapsed your lungs by their ability in a second.
@@Raihanfarrasky true and they can also put you in a ball of air and increase/decrease the air pressure inside of it
@@sootierpluto but in avatar, due to the series, as we can see that Water seems really overpowered, i mean... first at all, they can bloodbending, next is control the spirit anger like that unalaq did.. and you can see that water can turn into an ice in a second. imho..
I can waterbend *proceeds to flush the toilet*
Andromcda haha funny. gachatard
ShockK - CoD mobile haha funny person who proceeds to insult someone just for liking something 🙃
@@ezekiel11322 lmao you play CoD on mobile? what, too poor to actually buy it?
Illogical Logics kid, i used to play it on ps4. like bruh. and like its any worse than playing gacha
Illogical Logics i play codm and mc and i have netflix and also 50$ apple card and now u gonn be like that?
Couldn't air benders just like control the oxygen from water (and fire) and basically control those two elements?
Air and Oxygen are pretty different, While Oxygen is a big part of our Air, Air is a Mixture of Different gasses (Nitrogen, Argon and some others I think), so I don't think Airbending is the manipulation of O2 Molecules or O atoms, more like the manipulation of this mixture of gasses
Couldn’t Earthbenders bend people’s bones and snap their necks in a second?
@@LuminousWhispers11 bones are made of calcium, in theory, calcium is a mineral that is bendable like a rock, plus, there is a canon theory of a boy that killed his bullies with bone bending but it was literally buried by the earth kingdom.
Being able to do that is literally distorting molecular structure. Pretty much no one could be that precise. Bloodbending for example, uses the many water molecules inside a blood cell, so they don't have to be nearly as precise as taking atoms from a molecule. Sorry if this is lengthy but it is what it is.
me when im reaching
it is heavy implied that water benders have to train super diligently just to bend well, healing for instance is meant to be rare and unless your highly skilled or trained by a master a normal water bender would required most of a lifetime to accomplish both. its also heavily implied that water benders have limited abilities to control large volumes of water, yes making walls of water is possible because your just pushing it around but to actually mold and shape that water is again a master level ability. tho its not shown very well in the show changing water to ice and back again is meant to have a something of a time delay to the untrained, the fast forming and changing of water is another skill like a muscle. without continues training of years to get sharp ice (for example) that's not highly brittle or to heavy to move in a timely manner.
yes skills like blood bending (that only highly sensitive benders can deduce its use) is OP but again unless you have years of training (and be in a full moon) the average bender can only really blood bend a few people at a time + apparently causes damage to ones mentality so if used too much you basically become paranoid and go crazy. its a dangerous ability that's a double edge sword to the user not something that you would want to use a lot.
the fact that even highly trained masters experiences against other benders for your training is highly important as its a counter bending style meaning the lack of knowledge of all other bending styles makes you 1/4 as good as the other elements as you dont know what you could do in many battle situation.
for all the bending elements its probably the worst, unless your unnaturally gifted with both disciplines>>> mentally and physically adept>>>be trained by a master>>>then be blessed with tones of experience of how to counter other benders from your master, then you would be sub par at best until nearing the end of your life when you start to actually master the skills.
when you look at katara before the water scroll and her training, she struggled moving small amounts of water, couldn't create or manipulate the flow of water very well at all and seemed to only be able to use large sweeping motions to attack. water-bending requires extreme discipline and control that the average person wouldn't be able to achieve, unlike the other elements that nearly all have natural ways of mastering with much less control (step for swamp style of course) required.
The comparison for Katara is weak. You have to remember without having a trainer for anything is already hard enough. That's like trying to teach yourself how to play an instrument or cook something you have never done before with no trainers. Of course she's going to become better as soon as she is trained by someone more experienced. Same way with rock bending or air bending or fire bending. This just sounds like, "Uhh acktually, water bending is really weak", like no dude, it's not. Shit can cut through pretty much anything such as rock or steel. It can give you movement like Air bending, of course, being limited to how much water you have. Just face the facts, water bending is unmatched. You can make the argument that every element is broken depending on who the user is, but broadly, water bending takes the cake.
you have a point but i mean still the fact that all these things COULD be achieved is just op even its the minority that posses such skills and the talent to execute these things
neo warrior thx for the book
lets remember that katara single handedly saved the avatar himself from death after getting zapped with lightning, all at the age of 14.... if a a4 year old can be this disciplined, so can any other bender, they must have the determination to learn.
Yes she also learned from scrolls and master pack, but any other bender like Azula, a prodigy in her own right, and one of the best fire benders of her time, took time to learn. Remember the flashback of her performing in front of fire lord ozai. Her fire was red. She was 14 by the end of LOA being one of the greatest firebenders, like katana is at water bending, even rivalling masters who have a lifetime of training
14 yr old*
water covered by video:
+defensive and offensive
+ice transformation
+power buffs
+healing
+bloodbending
water potential yet undiscovered:
+steam bending (allows use of steam-powered trains) (or maybe fire benders can do that, as they did in their industrial age)
+wombo combo power with lightning (maybe Avatar or duo+ team can execute this combo) (only possible if mixed with conductible minerals)
+controlling the clouds and the weather (convenience or/and has other battle uses like putting out fire)
+surgical use (repositioning of the organs and limbs while keeping the blood flowing through them)
+weed control, lol. take water from them and they die. perfect garden achieved.
This makes me feel proud since Water is my birth element
to be fair, water is the most OP, but earth is the coolest and you CAN'T CHANGE MY MIND
Heres my list.
1. Earth bending
2. Air bending
3. Water bending
4. Fire bending
Nah. Water is the coolest.
@@Url1a1 nah you wrong
@@konstus nah I dont
@@Url1a1 yeah you are
actually , you are wrong. Korra's eyes went blank before freezing that robot, which means that she does need avatar state to bend that much water. otherwise you'll need 5 or 6 guys to bend that much water to freeze a ship like we've seen in last airbender book 1
I think all the elements are equally strong. The "strength" of the elements might depend on the "creativity" of the user on how to utilize his/her own element.
But none the less, WATER is still my favorite. If we humans are given the chance to choose our element I will definitely choose water over other elements. Hahaha
Yeah but i will choose earth i love earthbending
They are clearly not equally strong (as shown by this video).
Sure, you can kill people easily with any element BUT water is still the most versatile while being the strongest in direct combat.
You can heal people, you can control blood (making any opponent powerless, only the fucking avatar can break free), you can freeze things, you can swim in a air pocket, you are the best counter to fire, you can break stone...
No amount of creativity can change the fact that a waterbender can just control all liquid in your body and 1 shot your brain. Water permits more creativity. Firebenders must launch fire at you, earthbenders must do movements to control rocks, airbenders too... water? 1 hand wave and your blood is frozen in your veins.
idk I think air is pretty close aswell
@@cameronmoore906 Air is great indeed, but it can't heal you from fatal wounds, so water still has the edge. Air would be second.
@@tagrerte4701 water doesn't conduct electricity, but that comment is just to get you thinking..
But doesn't waterbending have a major weakness? Like for example, when Ming Hua was fighting Mako, she was clearly winning but then Mako strikes the water with lighting, electrocuting her and killing her.
But not many people know how to bend lightning. Plus there is a huge chance that the firebender is covered in water, so the lightning could kill him as well
@@shahdalali7999 true, but if you remember in Korra lightning bending becomes much much more common, it's even used in engineering jobs, and whatnot. The only reason lightning wasn't common before was that it was contained within the royal family, but in Korra the practice becomes more widely spread out for anyone who wants to learn. Also, in battle, all the fire bender would have to do was get away for one second (fire blast or something lol) and then bam, the waterbender is electrocuted.
Jianing Lin interesting
Ming Hua died because she used water as her arms. The water was connected to her body and thus the electricity conducted accordingly. A similar technique used against, say, Katara (assuming her octopus form from the crystal catacombs battle) would just electrify the water so that when she blasts it back at you, you’ll get bludgeoned by the water pressure *and* electrocuted at the same time.
Jianing Lin a water bender could just change state to ice. Or gas and direct it to the lightning bender. As long as the bender is not touching the water they’ll be fine and can even redirect it
Be firebender
Shoot lightning into water
Electrocute an entire water bending platoon
*a blood bender splotches your brain with blood before you do that. checkmate
Air benders can bend the air right out ya lungs gg
Bac King But before he does you can force their blood into the lungs and or freeze it to cause lung punctures.
or the water benders could splash water back on them while doing the move electrocuting themselves. GG
This all de0end who dies these moves first by the way. There is no guaranteed counter cause there's always a trick.
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Die deutsche Version von dem Namen klingt um einges dreckiger angehaucht als erwartet like damn 😝
You can’t really say that one type of bending is stronger than the other.
Every kind of bending has its pros and cons, but every bending can be overpowered if your a pro
you know, considering bloodbending is possible, it would be possible to bend the very BRAIN of someone due to waterbending. of course, thats a little dark for a kids show, but still.
How about reversing blood flow? Instant death.
Btw not sure if the brain has that much water? I thought the brain was mostly fat.
@Israel Salgado oOF waterbender assassins
Boil or freez there blood from the inside or make there hart explode.
We saw someone get possessed, suffocate, and explode. I'm pretty sure that's not out of the question
Isn't there like iron in people's blood? Couldn't earth bender also blood bend
Also there's air in people's blood
Yeah the thing is it's not only water bending in the form of liquid, but they can transform the state of H2O as well. Which means they can somehow alter temperatures.
Has there been an instance where they caused water to boil? I think they’re only capable of losing heat because adding heat is a trait possessed by only the fire benders right?
@@jav1122 katara once freezed steam but i think writers said ''not THAT op'' and left the idea. (I can only say fortunately) I dont think they can boil the water tho.
@@turkepic3637 I think they did show them turning water to steam.... during the day of the Black Sun katara and the swamp water benders created a steam cover before the attack!
@Sky Dome they probably can't "bend" moisture .....but Hama did condense the water from the air
@Sky Dome Hama did take water from air... I think you missed it.... she condenses the water from the air and makes ice nails !!!
I look like a water bender the most so I’ll gladly be a water bender 😄
Same
If the avatar world is real earth benders would be the most powerful . Cause a single rock can kill you with just the right force .
A bloodbender could literally just stop your heart in an instant, bam, you're dead.
A water bender can take the water from the oxygen and stab your heart with it
Plus,freeze u and do the default dance on yo face
If you decrease the pressure around someone enough you could boil the water out of their body, so boiling could be done with air, water, and fire bending hypothetically
The funny thing is in the avatar world u can cut a stone with a sword
@@eternal_trickster1541 dumbass and you literally need air to live. And you literally need earth to stand on and get vitamins and minerals from. So where is your logic taking you?
Can't earthbender theoretically bend blood too? Because there is iron contained in blood.
No, metal bending only works because of impurities in the metal - that's why people started making use of incredibly refined metals in the Korra era to prevent bending. Not to mention that the iron in your hemoglobin is very different from elemental iron.
Also, being able to control the solvent is VERY different from being able to control the solute (even though your body has a very high concentration of various ions overall)
avtuba13 what about bones
I mean, there's a lot of more water in the body than traces of elemental earth.
Hats the main issue is that earth bending is so ill-defined. What are they actually bending? Different kinds of rocks vary widely in composition but can still be bent. And if you're referring to the calcium in bones, it is again very different than elemental calcium - and bones are mostly collagen which earth benders have no reason to be able to manipulate.
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Bending has only begun to be explored by the civilizations in Avatar.
Imagine bending someone's brain with electrical bending. Or shocking a heart to beat again. Imagine a fire bender playing music with continuous lightning. Plasma bending. Light/radiation bending. Miniature combustion bending. etc.
Bone bending. Magnet bending. Lava bending (Imagine a group of benders sinking your city by melting the earth beneath, building by building.) Clay bending. Sand Bending (Imagine changing any earth to sand and back to earth again.). Glass bending?
Vacuum bending. Sound bending (rip eardrums). Weather bending.
people say airbending is op because air is everywhere, but so it water molecules and water vapor. Waterbenders can get water from anywhere, whether it's condensing rain from clouds, condensing water vapor/molecules from the air, or getting water from plants (we see most of this from Hama) then waterbenders don't particularly need a water source. However, they would be severely weakened in deserts.
i don't think that any bending is superior to each other. Personally I believe that it has more to do with the creativity of the bender. At the beginning of season 2 an earth bender completely immobilized Katara by "drowning" her in earth. She could not breath or move similar to your example for ice. All bending forms have subcategories or more advanced bending. Fire: lighting and combustion. Earth: lava and metal (although in the last airbender a fire-nation avatar was lava bending from volcanoes which kinda implied that it would be a subset of fire bending but w/e). Water: blood bending and healing. Air only seems to have flying as a new sub category but its just to cool (and useful) to think less of air-bending. However, water and earth can have potential disadvantages based on location where as fire and air can be done anywhere. But, as mentioned previously and referenced in the show a creative enough bender can find solutions. When kama shows katara how to blood bend she pulls water out of the air and when katara and toph are caged in a wooden box katara sweats. Creativity is key. When amon is blood bending mako he was still able to use lighting bending on him. Just something to think about. also this was a kids show. lets not analyze all the ways to kill people with bending. :P
its between bloodbending, and air bending when sheer took the queens life away by taking her breath
@@wt9636 I mean, Zaheer was using that on a defenseless, non-bender and it took a decent amount of time, if he tried that on an experienced bender like Bumi or any master, they could probably smack him away before he could finish them.
I think you are partially right. As the video mentioned, water bending can literally purge your soul. There's nothing even close to that, like, that's the single most OP move ever in pretty much everywhere
Air: I will bend the air and oxygen out of your fucking lungs, bitch
@@onewa712 the soul purge thing only worked when they're spirits were in the spirit world. in the canon you can now physically travel there and that spirit purge thing wont work in the real world.
Honestly, I think Earth Bending is more overpowered. It controls all Earth particles, that would include plants too. Especially if you can bend Lava.
I mean look at the amount of things they can bend.
Dust, Sand, Plants, Blood (could possibly because of minerals in the blood, maybe) Metal, Lava (which literally burns people without even touching them (depending on the heat)), sand, THE FRWAKING EARTH, and Toph can bend Meteroites so Extraterrestrial planes can be bent. If one wanted to eradicate and fully weaken a Proficienct Earth Bender. Also the Seismic sight is another boost.
Earth benders can't bend plants and blood in atla though. Water benders can. Also to my understanding, lava bending is a mixture of earth and fire bending in lok.
Let not forget air he took the air out of the body of the earth queen u can't bend if u can't breathe
I so wanted to se a earth bender taking water bender classes to better control there lava bending. But a lass it never showed in the show.
At least a bender incorporated chi blocking in there bending cause ... That shits useful for any bender to have really.
I doubt that they would ever make it canon for Earth benders to plant or blood bend
I know right? If they really tried I think they could manipulate blood too. Magneto once pulled the iron in someone's blood out of their body. That is scary.
This is why waterbending was always my favorite. lmao
Me too
this and also it was the only one 6 year old me could pretend to bend
but with earth you could literally just make someone sink into the earth and suffocate them
If you sink them far enough in, the pressure will crush them.
But waterbenders could capture people in a water ball, therefore keeping them in long enough will drown them
@@DrFausttt And air benders can suck the life out of someone..
Firebenders can burn you to a crisp where you stand...
so all elements have a killer move
@@한서윤-v1c earth: bone snap
Scorpios cancers and pices: GGGGOOOOO OOOOOFFFFF
HBIC 😂😂
ikrrr
Period!
As a water main in any setting that involves elements, I love that this is the case
more like overloaded in my opinion. remember the time when ghazan destroyed the whole air temple with just 3 moves of lava bending? think about how destructive it would be to cast lightning over a city that is almost metal in entirety? and with zaheer we learned that you can get the air out of peoples lungs and its just a simple ball of air that needs zero to no focus to keep it up. you could have done the same thing as yakon, but even more effectively.
I always wanted to be reincarnated as a water bender on an alternate universe. Anyone else have same feeling?😅
Yup. Know it sounds weird, but i kinda feel connected and peaceful when it rains. (and it rains alot in my country)
Airbender here ^^
Dumbass
Fr fr i love water
According to the Chinese calendar, I’m a Water Rooster (born in 1993). Explains why I’m comfortable with both water and wind. And the idea of reincarnating and being able to bend either or both (may not be the Avatar but I don’t care) appeals to me much more than bending Earth and/or Fire.
Earth is the strongest
Well only if Toph is using it
I don't think so. Water can easily over power all of them. Freeze the earth, doubt the fire. Control the air.
@@googlebarbaralernerspectre2581 Air is the most OP
@@sladevalentine1765 Nah dude. Water is definitely the most overpowered element.
@@omicron5128 not really, look at Zaheer, air doesnt look OP because the airbenders are pacifists but look what Zaheer does with it
@@sladevalentine1765 I suggest you to watch Avatar The Last Airbender again...The reason why Waterbending is the most overpowered is because water is everywhere. That includes with life. Taking the plants life, controlling someone's movement, and if you think about it. A waterbender can make spikes from your body in seconds.
Mental motionless bloodbending is BS.
Change my mind.
Somehow related to combustion powers?
I agree. Bloodbending tru the mind is stupid and shows lack of creativity in creating antagonists. It's as if they just wanted to create op enemies the protagonist needs to defeat and leaves it at that... no further background to give foundation on their skill sets origin. Just boom
As for the combustion bending, I still shrug this one as a wtf bending since what's the basis of that... maybe they just wanted to do water version of that hence bloodbending tru your mind. It got derailed from the beauty of bending tbh... they just wanted the antagonist to stare at you them boom lol boring hahahha
If I can control the water in and around me, because I am the water in me (so my brain the controlling consciousness of the body), then I can BB mentally.
This can be based on 3 characteristics, i. E. My mind connects strongly to water, can control it well and have the heritage. As a result, I can bend the water within them, because they are not the water in them (so they can't wb psychically and do not have as a strong connection and may do not have the heritage for BB). This can be done despite the presence of a full moon, as a BB can lack or have the extent of skill in one of the aforementioned characteristics for non-full moon BB.
I guess that's why amon could outblood bend his brother?
But other than that I'm not sure, hope that makes sense.
@@ruinsofxerxes768 , but motionless? Air benders seem to be able to call up wind without a lot of movement, but water benders have been shown to mimic the movement of water, even when blood bending.
Combustion man used bending with only his mind. When Bumi escaped his metal coffin he used bending with only his mind, so why can't waterbenders?
I feel like if fire benders learn how to control and guide lightning and electricity inside other people, then they would be the most over powered.
instantly kill everyone
So we going to forget that air benders can literally pull the air out of your lungs at any given moment
I'm pretty sure none of us could do this if we were airbenders. There would be no one to teach us, so we would only maybe hardly blow or something. Air and water are very interesting, but would be useless for us. Earth and fire are kinda boring for me, but way easier to perform and more useful to me.
I mean, if that's not good enough for you, just imagine what an airbender could do to someone by forcing air INTO their lungs.
Why just stop one kill everyone with UR Gass.........LOL.......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Also fun fact when a highly skilled waterbender is outside they can cloud bend and make it fully rain at will giving them the advantage in any environment that’s not indoors so if there in a desert and there are clouds all they have to do is make a rain cloud and BOOM they have the upper hand☺️
Make a video abou the unexplored potential of earth bending I feel like there is soooo much you could explore with it like jewel/crystal bending, more powerful metal bending( imagine metal bending like how they bended the meteorite like shifting its shape and stuff), metal benders make someone’s blood boil by bending the iron in there blood, bending trees and plants, sand benders being about to bend sand into glass in a instant i feel like there is soo much you can do with earth bending that just wasn’t done!!!!
Whoah easy there with the iron-bloodbending, do you know how little iron in blood there actually is? You'd be better off with learning coal bending and then bending the carbon molecules inside of our body, which there is SO MUCH MORE of. Seriously, iron is only present as a single atom inside of a protein named hemoglobin, which is made of hundreds of amino acids which all have carbon atoms in them. Of course coal is not the same as other carbon based substances in living things, but the pure chemical view stands true, which is kinda funny.
People keep saying this, but I feel like the ability to move substance/control it is a bell curve based on its quantity An incredibly low amount of something taking almost as much effort and concentration as moving an incredibly large amount. Additionally, I think the purity of substances also has an effect on how easy it is to effect, with water and earth being inversely related to substance purity.
Magic Master yea lol I realized that after I commented it, it’d still be cool tho
If you think about it, a crazy and powerful fire bender could bend the molten lava within the core of the earth and destroy everything. Also, if close enough, a powerful air bender can technically bend the atmosphere around different planets.
2:48 I can't quite agree with that because avatars are just naturally stronger benders, they can move a lot more of the elements in terms of mass than a normal bender.
No, they can only do that with the avatar state, without it, they are just as powerful as any master of the element they're using
@xenon473 so you're telling me that when kyoshi (in base form) severed kyoshi island from the mainland, that any earthbender could do that.
When you compare that to korra's water feat it makes it look like there was a common factor.
All I need is one Lightning bolt and your fancy puddle is history
Except water is good enough conductor to redirect electricity which could be done without water anyways.
@@NarutoMagicCyclops A lighting bolt travels pretty fast though
@@mrnarason Yes but Iroh was able to do it as despite the difficulty not to mention water is more conductive than the human body so utilizing water as a shield could potentially negate any electrical attacks.
Iroh learned to redirect lighting from watching waterbenders. If anybody can pick up that technique quickly it would be waterbenders.
@@NarutoMagicCyclops water bending is weak and stupid
Imagine if the agni kai battle was held without katara. Zuko could probably get his blue fire to defeat azula.
What do you mean?
Zuko would have killed azula.. wym blue fire?
@@arctictrill he thinks Zuko would aquire blue fire and beat Azula with her own technique
@SleepyWolf your right that's why she shot it at Katara not him. Scared Lord Ozai so.
Well, what I meant was, the reason uncle iroh taught zuko how to redirect lightning was because iroh didn't have a lot of time to train zuko more till he could master the hottest flame; blue flame (which azula has) as the war was coming soon. So he taught zuko instead to redirect the lightning azula will definitely cast on him.
During the agni kai, he had katara's help. By that default, zuko focused more on not hurting his sister as much but get her.. _Chained up_ as a way to defeat her.
But imagine if katara was not there. Zuko would eventually need to defeat azula the traditional way which is take them down. So what if due to that, he aquires blue flame. And since he can redirect azula's flames, he has the upper hand of hitting azula with his flame that would lead to her defeat.
Also that girl in book four who basically water bended with her mind
"WATER TRIBE!"
🤙
Waterbenders: OP
Earthbenders: Makes a big hole in the ground and kills waterbender by fall damage...
Jack Nilsson Earthbenders could probably do that if they were REALLY skilled like toph.
Use water bucket(minecraft reference)
I won't argue that waterbending is pretty op, but I wouldn't say it's the strongest. I honestly don't believe there's a "strongest element" because it was already proven countless times throughout both stories that everything is PURELY up to the mastery of the fighter. The element doesn't make the fighter. Best example being Toph: She was just a child and upon DEBUT she soloed an entire arena of pro earthbenders. In fact, she went on to become one of the greatest benders to have ever existed and created a new type of bending on her own, and she's not even an avatar!
Then there's the case with usage of lightning (which is totally broken because there's kinda nothing that can stop that unless you can redirect it, but count the number of people who can actually do that lol). So again the element doesn't make the fighter, it's all up to the mastery of the fight (along with a couple other factors). But there really is no "strongest element".
if a lightning bender was up against a water bender couldn't the water bender absorb the lightning using the water and redirect it back at the user to electrocute them?
@@relentless3589 That's now how that works lol
@@relentless3589 lol
Metalbenders can probably withstand it. You know those metal suits to protect people from electricity? Same concept here. Other earthbenders can probably create a suit of armor similar to what Aang often did.
the11382 what? Metal conducts electricity
Yup this lays out why i like water the most.
It's the most versatile and powerful element. And slice said elements donnot have balance, water is over powered but didn't mention that it's the most balanced element out there. It can hurt and heal. It has the most evil ends and most noble forms. (Blood bending and freeing spirit).
Actually, earthbending has healing abilities too, in the collectable cards of atla there is an earthbender who uses amber to heal. Sadly, they didn't include that technique in the series.
I really hope Netflix reaches out to you as a consultant for their Avatar show. You'd have some great suggestions for them!
People keep telling me that EARTHbenders are the best I come at them with amon and his power to TAKE AWAY BENDING FROM PEOPLE like boi if thats not powerful then I dont know what is u,u
you mean energy bending
Well, Fire bending in ATLA comes from within yourself, you can essentially use it whenever you want. Unlike Earth and Water. But yes, I still agree that Water bending is the most over-powered.
What about taking water from the air and plants or what about the time katara uses her sweat to escape
Vanessa Westbrook Well, you might be in a climate with a very low amount of water in the atmosphere, and in an area with a low amount of plants. But I still agree with you, Water is the most overpowered.
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3:48 Katara using a small canister of water whilst a lake just chilling behind her
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Diamond same
The balance is not just in the power of the element, but also on the number of users.
Welll water is the element of life. It makes sense it’s such a versatile powerful element. Water tribe ✊🏽✊🏽
no, it doesn't. korra ruined waterbending and the entire existence of the avatar. leaving the origin to be a mystery would have been better.
Gordon Ramsay's Chin sure it makes sense. How does it not? Without water no living thing or nation would exist. You can’t just say it doesn’t make sense and not give an example as to why it doesn’t. She can’t help Ravas spirit was ripped from her. How did she ruin water bending?
Earth bending it's so underrated. They just having figured out how to use it on a more lethal way
I think an Earth Bender could fake blood bending by just bending the bones in a person's body.
@@matthewrobinson6091 that wouldn't work bro bones are made of calcium not any type of rock like material
What about sand bending? as a kind-of-a-fluid you could make most of waterbending movements by making tiny´pieces to get sand or compact it all to get rocks.
@@Fabs77Z And what about lavabending? I mean it's literally liquid they could totally use waterbending moves to control it and turn earth into a super versatile element
@@manuba_ one of their parents has to be a fire bender
70% of water is in our bodies imagine if a water bender took that away
Hello, In book two Hama says "Did you know water benders can bend water out of air." This shows that water can also be used anywhere, also the term of Blood Bending can also be used anywhere only if you are in a battle and by another Human, anima ect.
you know what- where’s raava I want to be the avatar
Remember when Katara straight up stopped Rain
Yeah that was amazing
That was dopeeee
well she didn't stop rain she created a water dome and then the rain inside that dome is what she used against that guy so yeah.
@@crake9510 no she stopped the rain in a small dome shaped area
@@luk6997 yeah basically
Remember when Katara used her sweat to get out of a wooden cage? 😂😂😂😂
I mean it would have been more efficient to just use your urin but Atla is not R Rated
@@hambu4781 Yeah lmao 😂👏
Isn’t sweat technically made out of oil though???
charlottesasaki what type of-
charlottesasaki ....
Water bending may be op... but everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
Ill just leave it at that.
Loooooooooool
This dude killed it. Lmao
lol you just defeated the pourpose of a 10 min video with one sentence
they got outnumbered maybe?
Lol Soo true
Completely wrong. Cabbage Bending is the most powerful. Bow down to our lord the Cabbage Man or face the consequences of too many vitamins!
Melon Lord disagrees
@@frimi8593 yes, but he still has infinite minions of stone at his disposal
Cabbage bending is just capitalism
Beware the dreaded cabbage slug, bane of Ba Sing Se’s ecosystem.
man, that cabbage man got his cabbage destroyed 10 times in the show
The show could have went from a kid friendly show to an american horror story type of show very quickly using bloodbending.
Literally you could crash people with earth, burn them with fire, drown them with water, or even stab them with ice, I'm still curious if air benders could take the air out of your lungs.
@@aaalol6624 Zaheer did it in book 3 with Korra
@@SirNate he did? I'm still watching atla officially since I used to watch an episode here and there of lok when I was a kid
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Nixelz ( I watch book 3)
When ATLA came out all my friends wanna be a fire bender because its "cool", I was made fun off when I said I wanna be a waterbender. When the episode about blood bending came out, the reactions on their faces were priceless.
I always ask my friends what kind of bender they would be and they always say water and I'd be a firebender bc freaking lightning redirection god damn
Once u can bend a blood no one can escape from u..
@@mrsomebody4957 but thats not an ability everyone has
@@tape2518 yeah thats why i said ONCE.the waterbender that can bend a blood are really powerfull..
I thought earthbending was the best, until I saw that episode
*starts sweating nervously*
Oh no I just created more ammunition for water benders!
*starts to sweat more nervously*
@@kevinbaculi9741 DAMN IT!
*Sweats buckets.*
well your body is made up of 60% water so that would be lenty
Frazier Haley so are you literally sweating buckets like there are buckets coming out of your body
Or are you sweating sweat that can fill up buckets
:think:
@@unluckyy8746 :O *gasp*
literally all the elements are broken if you use creativity
Water is objectively the most OP though.
@@manolgeorgiev9664 100%. The only other contender is maybe air, with the ability to astral project, fly, and bend the air out of someone's lungs - but as far as we can see that is limited to one target at a time.
that being said, Monk Gyatso's corpse was surrounded by several Fire nation soliders- i wonder if he choked them all to death simultaneously, being a master airbender and (presumably) a far greater Airbender than Zaheer who only had airbending for a few weeks at most.
Blood bending cancels other bending so thats gay af
That is true
@@lucasrobin2788 Bending the air out of lungs is called Vacuum Bending
This is not even counting the technique used by Kiyoshi, in which she literally FROZE her opponent's heart killing them instantly
where did u get that info from :O
@@sjkdsfsdf52 its in the books
She did what?!
why am I not surprised..
Kyoshi* but frrr
Air bending is the most unexplored skill.Atmosphere is the most abundant and easily available everywhere. air nomads did not use it aggressively. You can see how zaheer used airbending aggressively against earth queen.
Also, look at Monk Gyatso who took out dozens of comet-enhanced fire benders single handedly!
I feel like take the oxygen out of someone’s brains and lungs and you counter water bending.
@@Jarmone01 by the time a Airbender could do that a water bender could easily take control of them with blood bending and kill u ina heart beat
KiidPoh incorrect. Remember only skilled water benders can blood bend during a full moon. The only special folks had the ability to blood bend at will
@@ChefAndyLunique but the thing is it'll only take practice think about it the body is 80 percent water it won't be hard for a water bender to learn it at all