Avatar Kyoshi was also shown bending glass in one of the books, a skill she picked up in order to remove shards from her skin, it was implied that she wasn't the first glass bender, but that it was a lost art being rediscovered
@@Astral_Incarnate well actually the thing is all bending are interrelated as seen in lava bending only avatars and people who are borned of eath and fire benders can do it which is like they have earth and fire mix chi which unlock duo potential also when it come to liqify the earth it most probably be of earth and air parents mand many deep bending are there that are so rare we might see in 3rd avatar series.
@@dirtyph0nics hmmm.... there hasn't been any clues as to say that you can only bend lava when you have a fore and earth citizen as parents.... toph bended metal because there are rocks in it, since lava is just melted rocks then it's not really about having mixed bloods. As water bender can turn their water to ice... They manipulate water from air, plants, water (obv), blood as long as it is water, they can manipulate, shape and control it. Earth bender can also do this, they can manipulate earth to be lava or just to liquify it, changing its composition in anyway... I dont understand it, but this is how my head cannon says it is
Iroh demonstrated the most powerful bending technique where he can force tears from one’s eyes through the musical performance known as Leaves from the Vine.
Most other benders usually know ONE specialized bending technique other than their standard element bending. But Toph learned TWO specialized bending techniques, Metalbending AND Sandbending on top of Earthbending. And one of which, Toph discovered herself. So, just imagine, how skilled and powerful Toph really is.
Katara too, she had healing, blood bending, and ice manipulation. Ice is common but it still takes a certain amount of skill to do, no water bender as far as I know has been able to ice bend right off the bat
@@Astral_Incarnate don't forget the fact that katara is not disabled meaning that none of her senses are better than normal people, but I do believe toph is more revolutionary and her blindness is a part of why she is that great, I mean katara just learn old arts toph created one
Yeah, cool, cool-cool-cool but why he didn't use his earth power (is he even earth bender? I don't remember already). I see a lot of earth here you know 5:50 (again idr maybe this is iave rocks or other bs) Like you so brave so dramatic but just build a wall or pit idk :D
I honestly think waterbending has the most sub genre of bending. I.e. bloodbending, healing, ice bending, spirit bending, cloud bending, etc, etc. water has many forms. Even plant bending was a thing.
@@MrVisualHigh iirc one's bending capabilities depends on their environment ie. If a water bender is borned in an environment filled with plant they can bend plants but if they are born in an environment filled with ice they can bend ice I think a water bender who never seen an ice or ice bending probably don't know that such thing is possible.
I liked how Toph was completely unimpressed with Bolin, until she learns he can lavabend and all of the sudden she's like: yeah, now you an date my granddaughter.
@@PresbianTier She faced the Avatar after no one has seen him for a 100 years and in reaction to his airbending, an art she never faced before, she called him "Twinkle toes". Pretty sure that by age 115 or however old she was her bar for being impressed is so high you need to at least be capable to split the moon or something
Imagine if princess Yue was still alive and was actually skilled in waterbending, she would literally be the most powerful waterbender since she literally is apart of the moon itself.
They actually can! In the Kyoshi novels (Shadow of Kyoshi in particular), a master healer mentioned that she can lower the temperature of someone but if she goes too far the person's blood will freeze and their organs will explode, killing them 🥰
Honestly, I'm in love with how specialized bending techniques are accessible to fewer people in the ATLA universe and feel way harder and crankier. Take Metal/Blood bending for example. If you watch all the scenes with it, you may notice how it feels like benders are going thru much greater efforts to bend.
It shifted in Korra with the idea that some people are just innately skilled in a particular technique for no obvious reason, compared to other techniques that were simply harder to learn than the standard. Blood bending without the Full Moon and Blast bending are the former, while Lightning Casting and Metal bending are the latter. Similar to how some people are just innately good at playing instruments and gain above average proficiency rather quickly, while other people can study and practice their whole lives and just be competent.
I feel like a big thing here should be the amount of available education for everyone, I always imagined the in korrambending wasnt easier, but that more individuals that might not have gotten the oppertunity to learn bending during angsntime got proper education during korras time
@@PhailRaptor in my head canon, Industrialization age can mass produce specialized bending at lower proficiency. Take lightning generation for example, sure they can produce group of lightning worker who can generate lightning of 10 W/person/each 5 hour which is still painfull, but not deadly and they can never achive the powerfull potential such like Azula or Ozai lightning that can obliterated any non fire benders, breaking mountains (from what i've seen, lightning bender in LoK never seem to damage the environment to such degree like in the original Avatar). So instead of calling the bender in LoK "Lightning bender" i just think of them as "electricity guys", "living battery" Other things like metal or blood, i do think it just the matter of techniques
that was something I greatly appreciated. When Toph first invents metalbending she's clearly just forcing the metal to do what she wants-literally pushing, pulling, and tearing it apart. However by season 3 we see she is capable of some amount of metalbending without contact, like when they take control of the airship. Finally by the time of Korra metalbending becomes a form like any other and can be used as such. It feels like a really natural evolution.
Jahaira Covarrubias Ice bending is just considered a part of regular water bending, and he mentioned energy bending for fire The rest are valid though Also I’d just like to mention that I hate the fact that “fart bending” is a thing
Jonathon Covarrubias Orozco The difference is the difficulty the styles come with Literally every water bender is capable of at least basic ice bending; if you can bend water, you can bend ice, no exceptions Lava bending, however, has only been shown by a select few benders, most of whom were avatars. The difference between the two is the learning curve that comes with them, that’s the reason that lava bending is a “specialized technique” and ice bending is just bending
I kinda agree with Sergio because lava bending is a hard technique to learn and ice bending is easy but I still think it should still be considered a sub skill
@Jonathon Covarrubias Orozco icebending should be a separate sub-discipline of waterbending. The basic waterbending is bending liquid water, not solid/frozen water. Icebending comes easy to most waterbenders because almost all of them are born and live in the north or south pole, which are surrounded by ice. But if someone was born in the Foggy Swamp Tribe, i don’t think icebending would come easy to them. Or if a waterbender was born and lived in the Earth Kingdom, liquid waterbending would be the basic bending to learn. The structure of water is different from ice. So there has to be somehow a separate teaching technique to bend ice. Lava is liquid earth. In a way, ice is the opposite of lava. Ice is solid water. If it takes a different approach to bend lava, then it’s the same with ice. They’re conceptually opposites. Therefore, icebending should be a sub-discipline of waterbending, just as much as lavabending is to earthbending.
Ironically, Katara's attempts to make it illegal probably directly resulted in it's adoption by Yakone. By all accounts, the art would have died with her since she and her immediate associates were the only ones to be aware of the technique. Making it illegal would have just drawn attention to it. Or was it explained that Hama had taught more people?
The main issue is, it would eventually resurface, though it is the main question as to whether or not it would end up with a person of bad intention is up to luck and fate. But with how it was discovered in the first place, it is far more likely that blood bending would go into the hands harboring horrid methods in acts of desperation. Would it have been better to teach it at an academy and regulate it for medical use? Yes, it would have... but bad experience with it already affected the judgment of its illegality. That and no one can think of everything in their entire lives, much less a few hours. Very much the same as seeing fire bending being seen as unable to heal. Or earth bending for that matter, seismic sense would be able to detect abnormalities as well.
Hama learned that on her own by realising that living beings consist in part of water. I dont think she was the only one who ever couldve come Up with this idea
maybe she invented it unaware of its existion i mean like it was before but she didnt hear about it so she thought she invented it or maybe hama and yakone are related i mean only knowing bloodbending exists doesnt make you a master so if hama invented it she should have taughrt yakone or have a pupil who taught yakone
I believe it will resurface on it's own at one point in the future. Someone will rediscover it by himself/herself and reinvient the technic. I guess that making it illigal while only one person knew this technic even exists is to prevent panics in the future. Imagin someone rediscovers bloodbending without the laws related to it, the technic and knowladge died with the last person aware of it's existance. Someone starts controlling people, how the surroundings react? What do they do? How do you sentence this guy and on what crimes? The bloodbender can lie on how he's doing it and most chances the judge and law inforcements will believe it as there are no recordings of controlling person's body. Banning the practice of bloodbending prevents confusion and rediscovering of it in the future. Better write it all down while someone knows how it's done, what it takes to achieve it, knowing side effects for both the user and the victim and what to do in case it ever happens again. Most importently, having a potential to discover new good uses for the practice, like in the medical field.
True, it would have come back eventually anyway. Still, announcing it's illegality would have definitely raised its general awareness in the population, meaning it's resurgence would be faster.
you forgot healing when it comes to fire and also forgot that airbenders can bend sound creating wawes of it and they can also bend clouds as well as waterbenders
Now that I think about it, it probably is less so that only the royal family was strong enough to lightning bend, and more so that they simply kept the technique secret so it couldn't be used against them.
@@rizizum I get your point but it deflated uncle irohs teachings about respecting nature and being at peace with yourself to guide the flow , Everyone you channel it could be your last : Now 50 people on first shift shoot it 8-12’hours a day NP it’s like seeing plastic Buddhist totems on a hipsters desk , cool to see it but do you understand the weight of those things lol
A bending type I’ve always wondered why they haven’t figured out, would be boil bending, like if water benders can create ice and clouds why can’t they boil you alive like a lobster?
good idea but for that they would have to study the way fire benders use their bend, and let's face it during the war it wouldn't happen, by the way when they use ice they use their breath to cool the water which for me is already a fire bending remnant
Yeah, the potential is there, it just requires study of firebending heat generation forms like Iroh studied water bending redirection techniques to create lightning redirection. The bending forms are actually really malleable and have immense potential just needing intense study and knowledge of basic forms from all elements. It's what makes the Avatar so OP, they don't even have to try really, especially in the Avatar state. The drawback to that with it being so easy for the Avatar is that it doesn't push them to discover what more their bending could be since their's no real struggle to learn.
I mean, technically water benders can just instantly freeze all the blood in your body, instant kill. And Air benders can force all the air out of your lungs or create a vaccumm with no air around you, also an instant kill
It theoretically should be way easier to do than lava bending too because the boiling point of water is obviously a lot lower than the melting point of most rocks
9:12 Zuko also notes that "Combustion Man" is not really his name. No one actually knows his name cause he never told anyone his name. In fact, he doesn't speak or say anything at all.
Pretty sure the spirit bending worked on the spirit vines. Those vines came back, because the normal villagers emitted negative energy by asking Korra their press-related questions. This is hinted by Iroh as well, who talks about how ones energy affects spirits and can change their behavior. If it wasnt for that, the vines wouldve stayed calm, but Korra realised as the city was so full of the humans negative energy, bending the spirit vines would always be a temporary fix only.
a couple of bending techniques not mentioned in the video Sand bending (used by natives of the Si Wong Desert, has a few interesting similarities style-wise to air/water bending and is used to propel themselves across the desert on wooden sailers) Plant bending (used by Huu to bend the water inside of seaweed in order to ensnare people, or even form the seaweed into a controllable humanoid mass around himself.) Ice bending (while being relatively commonplace in water bending, I still think it was deserving of a mention here since Katara used it in a few unique ways, such as slicing an ice pillar to launch discs of it at Pakku. Tonraq uses a couple of ice bending techniques that are very reminiscent of earth bending as well, such as riding a wave of ice pillars rising from the ground)
My favorite part of Korra was how creatively they used used metalbending. Nothing got me more hype than seeing Earthbenders whip out their metal cables like ghost rider and just annihilate everyone.
She can see them when they move she is like a bat with they sonic sence they screech and the waves travel back to them and map out they surroundings. Even though they are blind they aren't blind they can see very well it's just not with what we call vision. The way they sound works is through vibrations and sounds that map out they surroundings. Thing with toph is she does nto have to screech she feels the vibrations through her feet and body. So if anything moves in her souroundings aslong as it touches something that is in contact with the ground or anything rooted to the ground even walls she can sense it through the vibration.
She used against the person who she thought killed her mother and then never used it again (I know this because I’ve watched this episode 3 times and I remember her doing it all of those times)
Okay, but Pl’i had the most brutal death I remember seeing on Avatar. Usually the ‘end’ is left vague so you just assume they died. But not Paulee. Lady literally got her bell rung.
@@billydasquid1201 More terrifying tho. Potato salad head was instant, likely she didnt know what happened. The earth queen had the air sucked from her lungs while she was completely aware and totally helpless to do anything about it.
I'm still impressed by katara learning the technique in a minute. The first bender to deflect a monster power of blood bending. She is truly a powerful warrior.
A lot of these go: "This is a technique used by very few, due to its complexity and requirements. Here's these Legend of Korra main characters who instantaneously learned it."
In many cases the technique was suppressed or only just recently discovered in AtLA. It makes sense a less fascist fire nation would stop restricting lightning bending to the royal family.
True Doggo they do, every choice has multiple directions the path could go, some people choose to be considerate when they are young and it reinforces the idea of consideration in a positive or negative way.
Imagine a avatar only use specially bending like Earth: metal, lava sand mug Water: heal blood Fire: Lighting Air: Flight I like to see that a new avatar series
I agree with all the other replies here. According to what avatar yangchen told aang , an avataar can never truely detach themselves from all earthly connections because their duty is to the people,for the people.
@Platinum Mew Actually Yang Chen said the Avatar can never disconnect from the world. Flight requires the bender to let go of their earthly desires not connections We actually saw Aang use unrestricted flight in the s2 finale when he tried to open his last chakra but was unable to do it again because of Azula
@@deadlysilence7474 I think the aerodynamics are different. Zaheer was truly WEIGHTLESS. But Aang was being raised by a column of air or a ball of air. It doesn't really give a "like the wind" vibe more than a propulsion via air vibe
Something interesting about Lava Bending is that it’s more common in Earth-benders with Fire Nation ancestors, while Metal Bending seems easier for those of almost purely earth-bender/kingdom ancestry.
Ever since i was young ive always thought the avatars weren't actually lava bending but was actually combining fire and earth bending due to them being the avatar.
Aang only bend the inner energy of a being, Korra actually went ahead and tried it on Raw Energy, Granted she had no idea what she was doing and was working on pure Instinct.
@@ryanwest4088 Yes but Lavabending is a technique that has existed for many centuries, Energy bending and on a scale that Korra showcased is something very new(much akin to how Toph developed Metal bending)
Water benders: we can control your blood Earth benders: we can can control metal Fire benders: we can basically shoot Lazers Air benders: you no more breath
Zuko used combustion bending when attempting lightning bending, although he used his hands instead of the third eye so it blew up in his face.. I think Combustion bending might be directing energy down to a singular point causing an explosion, with the mastered version being a third eye where you visualize channeling you energy to a specific point prior to detonation
Who else noticed that ozai lightning bending is not circular its deadly and precise he lets it go with both fingers while azula, iroh and mako realeas with only one the other hand is in the opposite direction.
@@illuminate6574 nah even on the scene were Zuko redirected Ozai's lightning, Ozai's lightning bend was fast as hell compared to Azula and Iroh, He did it by using his both hands simultaneously.
Blood bending can be used as a type of surgery, bending lost blood back into a bleeding person or forcing open wounds to close. It can also be used to reattach removed fingers/limbs by water-bending the muscles and skin to reconnect which then can also be used with regular water-healing, to seal the flesh back together.
@@Pyrodorah But imagine the psychological damage you would do to that army. You would be violating one of their few true rights, the control over their own body. If you take that away, it can be really bad psychologically. The soldiers might just want to fight for a cause they believe in, not expecting actual torture to be a possibility. There is a reason the Geneva Conventions exist. The medical applications might be useful, but with that many people knowing it, it would easily spread into the wrong hands.
important to note that after appa was taken because toph couldn’t sand bend, she mastered it afterward and demonstrated her ability by making a sand sculpture of ba sing se
I always thought the reason the vines weren’t affected by Korra was there was simply nothing “wrong” with them for her to fix. They just existed in a state that was disruptive to how the city worked before, but they weren’t corrupted
@@524coconut Aang beat everybody because none of them were familiar with airbending due to reasons you should know. The increased agility and other techniques for airbending that he had mastered mad him a tricky opponent to go against. The same is seen in the case of Zaheer. He studied the Guru Latima(not sure if that's how it's spelt) which gave him knowledge of great airbending techniques that he used to easily overpower the guards of his specialized prison. Going to your point of Korra, spirit bending wasn't something all that familiar either, and she was only aware of it in the context of controling rogue spirits, so she didn't look to see if it would be applicable to the vines even though they weren't doing anything harmful.
I once heard about another, lesser known specialized form of earthbending that dealt with the body somehow. It was first introduced in the Platinum Games Legend of Korra video game from 2014. The user was the game's main villain, Hundun. I don't know much about it all, but apparently, it granted Hundun long life, or possibly, some form of immortality.
Yes, Kyoshi did it as well, she learned to stop cellular decay by earthbending his body. A less impressive example of this is how Bumi probably did it as well, at least with his spine
The human body is carbon based. That technique seems it would involve placing minerals in the right organs and bloodstream to enhance longevity. PS With this technique you could possibly deform people or make monsters. Your bones calcium why not reinforce your kicking and punching, bone claws, elbow spikes. Bonebending!
@@xavierbrown7503 not really if avatar wasnt family friendly here are the things you can do with bloodbending Destroy cell fuction Bend blood out of the body Boil it Freeze it Disrupt regular blood flow Rupture veins and major blood vessels
Did hama create blood bending, cause if I remember correctly Amon's dad said that he comes from a long line of powerful blood benders implying that blood bending was a thing before hama.
@@kehindehopkins6933 Still his family had one insane amount of Bloodbending proficiency, I mean TarLok who is a failure to the family name in Yakone's eyes can still Bloodbend During the Daytime.
maybe she invented it unaware of its existion i mean like it was before but she didnt hear about it so she thought she invented it or maybe hama and yakone are related i mean only knowing bloodbending exists doesnt make you a master so if hama invented it she should have taughrt yakone or have a pupil who taught yakone
@@andrianmalic4581 i'm sure there were other people in this big-ass world who discovered it. Narratively, we were introduced to Hama. That doesn't mean she's the only one
I hope not. Redirecting lightning used to be something really cool, and a good way to combat against lightning benders. (Zuko and Azula for example.) But now its a run of the mill kind of thing, and those who have only watched Korra just accept it as apart of lightningbending.
I just thought of a crazy idea for a fire bending technique. You know how fire benders can remove and transfer the temperature of, say lava? And even redirect lightning? What if a fire bender was able to remove ALL the warmth from the human body? Forcing the target into hypothermia, or maybe even freezing them, making people believe it was a new power from a crazy water bender.
I feel like it would take a while, and the person would have to not be moving. Like Sozin was directing the heat from stationary lava, I feel like a person has enough sense to move around during a fight.
I think a more realistic firebending ability would be manipulating the electrical signals in someone's brain. With enough proficiency you can stop someone's brain from functioning at all or send signals to the brain producing illusions.
@@stormshadowoffire that seems a bit too advanced for the current avatar timeline. They’d have to be completely aware of the brain’s electrical impulses and how to manipulate it properly. We can’t even do that properly in this time As for hypnosis, that may be possible. The fire sages did something similar
but they’d have to be balanced. they’re an expert at all the sub skills, even invented a new one, but they don’t care that much about heroism. they think the world can do just fine without them. so they keep breaking world records and going further beyond with bending, until one day the world is in a crisis. question is, do they keep trying to do cooler and cooler tricks, or do they get involved for once?
@@zimbim7562 once? You could say that from the last water tribe Avatar, but not all of them, specially when they are constantly forging the world's future, sometimes even in a bad way. (Thanks Kyoshi, we appreciate your Dai Li gift)
I am glad I watched this to the end, It covered stuff I already knew for the most part but the calm music with the narrators voice was quite pleasant and so I gave it a fair and honest watch and I got to say I am pleased with the out come. :)
for combustionbending when Zuko tried learning lightningbending he accidentally blew the earth in front of him so he can be marked as a third one... I suppose.
@@PaPaFiggy69 air benders and water benders are the most dangerous imo u can literally take the air out of someone or control the water inside of them air and water is everywhere too
Depends on the strength of the bender. I feel like toph is able to 1v1 literally anyone if she has rocks near her, as she said in the swamp, she is far more seeing than most people that can actually see, and she has an unmatched strength (besides avatars but obviously that does not count).
technically he was, just... not in the same way, considering he said how, it just kept blowing up in his face like everything does... i would like to rename the technique he discovered, DEPRESSION BENDING!
@@bustergundo516 observing doesn't necessarily mean seeing. Usually observation involves the use of multiple senses to perceive something, in this case it would be a sense of touch and hearing
A bit late here, but there are other forms of bending. Plant bending where you bend the water in plants. This was demonstrated by Yu in the Foggy Swamp and Hama. Sand bending is actually a somewhat complicated form of Earth bending. It takes a lot of practice to be able to bend hundreds of thousands of grains of sand. It's a common technique amongst the desert tribes and Toph even did it in the finale, albeit only briefly. There was also Heat bending, although the only time in Avatar it was shown was in the episode "The Avatar and the Fire Lord", and it was used by Sozin to cool the lava. Lastly, there is Energy bending, where the user bends the energy within themselves and others. This was used by Aang when he took Ozai's bending away, and I believe Korra used it when she gave people their bending back.
@@Apaep12 I considered it subbending since energy isn't an element itself. It doesn't fit into any of the other bending elements and is much more of a wild card. Plus the only times where it's used is when the Avatar takes away someone's bending, or restores it. It just doesn't really fit to call it it's own thing, when it's not bending an element.
@@Apaep12 Uh, ok? Well, blood bending is one of the most dangerous types of betting. The ability to control people and animals is a powerful ability. Unfortunately, it is rare for anyone to be able to preform the technique, and it can only be done under the full moon, when a Water Bender's power is at it's peak. The only people who could do it without the need of the moon are Yakon, Amon, and Tarlaaq, and that was a hereditary trait. I would say the most powerful is Metal Bending.
ryan dika Well in Buddhism there’s the heavenly realms and you have the hell realms. In which are of course impermanent, perhaps there’s an avatar equivalent
My friend was watching TLA for the first time and when we got to the finale of Book two and Katara used the special healing water on Aang, my friend went “why didn’t you use this on Jet?” And I died of laughter
The ice block caused his weight to be unbalanced, like when ice makes the wings of a plane heavy by weighing it down. Aside from Korra, Zaheer wasn't unbalanced by much else until the force of the typhoon dragged him down. Hope it helps! ^^
that was amazing. usually youtubers would ramble and clickbait but i found this video to be informative and i actually learned a few new things i didn’t notice like roku lava bending
Water Bending: Blood, Healing, Spirit Earth Bending: Metal, Lava, Seismic sense. Fire Bending: Lightning, Combustion Air Bending: Flight, Spiritual projection. Air bender is the hardest bender to achive these special and rarest techniques.
Personally I love the concept of blood-bending, it can stop an attacker and with enough practice a whole army. Imagine Ozai helpless against this power. Firepower means nothing if you stop from even moving.
Kyoshi was able to defeat Yun by lowering his body's temperature till freezing point, a technique she learnt from the Best Healer from the Northern Water Tribe. Somehow, they didn't know that they were actually BLOODBENDING! Bloodbending is very scary. It wasn't explored fully in the Avatar films. You could boil or freeze a person, extract the blood somehow 🤷🏾♂️ and even locate organisms or stuff in a person's body by feeling the vibrations in the individual's blood. A bloodbender should know if someone is lying too because they should be able to feel the blood around the heart or the heart's beat itself. Also the subskill of using SONAR (similar to Earthbending's Seismic skill) was never explored in any of the films, neither was echolocation and heating water. If one could freeze water, heating water should be child's play. 😁 And subskills like swampbending and sandbending were not included in this video. Sandbending is very powerful. Yun became almost unbeatable because he could mould earth or sand to a fluid-like state or even use it as explosives.
Ever since I was a kid I always had this idea of an air bender that always carries flowers with him and smells really nice and nobody considers him deadly but turns out those nice smelling flowers are in fact lavander petals which makes him a dangerous opponent against fire benders since if they use fire and burn the petals they are handing him a poisonous cloud he can freely manipulate, watching thumbnail reminded me of that
Here are all the sub bendings I found. Bendings Water Mud Plant Ice Fog Blood Healing Earth Mud Metal Lava Sand Crystal Bone Seismic Sense Fire Lightning Combustion Light Neuron Smoke Ray Temperature Control Air Sand Mist Fog Smoke Gas Sound Breath Flying
My thoughts on potential sub bendings Light bending (electromagnetic wave bending)- Can manipulate brightness of surroundings. A very very advance form of fire bending. Anyone cant get it just by natural talent alone. Talent plus rigorous studying and understanding of electromagnetic waves are the two factors for anyone to learn light bending. The most advance form would be able to create illusions. But this is super rare only achieved by the most exceptional. Sound bending- An advance form of air bending. One can manipulate air to produce sounds. But only the talented ones can be able to mimic other sounds, even human ones. Heat bending- can control temperature of the environment or an object. A subset of maybe achieved only by the avatar. Controlling the vibration of molecules of any thing
Video idea : Avatar Animal Companion Their Importance to Avatar Journey Because I think that maybe every avatar had one (Sorry for my english.still learning)
I have a theory that like how Iroh applied water bending aspects to fire bending that combustion bending is the application of air bending techniques to fire bending
Avatar will always go down as one of the most brutal western animes ever! They just straight up merked people with no remorse and never shied away from showing skeletons.
Zaheer: To fly one must become empty and enter the void. Weightlessness can only be achieved with great spiritual enlightenment. Korra: FIRE COMES OUT OF MY FEET
Firebenders use the heat around them, like willing the air to combust while using their own chi as a fuel source. Lava is the purest form of earth, so a small group of Earthbenders could wield it too.
Both water benders and earth benders can manipulate mud, since it is made of both mediums. Water benders and air benders can manipulate cloud, since it is made of both mediums. Ergo, lava is both a fire and an earth element, making it bendable by both groups. Although in the case of lava, it's being bent in different methods; an earth bender would be manipulating the lava itself, being liquid rock, but the fire bender would manipulate the heat/combustive energy contained within it. On that note, a sufficiently powerful fire bender should be able to create a *_nuclear reaction, by fire bending atoms into splitting, creating entire stars and atomic bombs._*
Something I want to point out is that I think the creators of Avatar briefly mention that they considered using the Chinese five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water). We never see anything like wood, unless you count plant bending, but I really like that of the four conventional elements we eventually see all of them featured in the show.
Yeah the fact wood has never been manipulated is kind of unusual to me. I think this may have been a purposeful choice to stay away from any comparison to Naruto given how wood jutsu is literally the most powerful form of kekei genkai. I do think that wood bending is a perfect spiritual art form of earth bending where it csn only be done by manipulating the resonant spirit inside of inanimate objects and what's grown naturally by mother earth. In the shkwz earth bending is never shown to really have any spiritual side as a foil to air bending but I don't think that's fair to the art as well. Hopefully we see this with the next avatar show where an earth bending avatar learns this
Me: nahh, water is the safest element *sees too many water based disasters* Me:... At Atavar? *sees the deadlieas sub element of water* Me:... Yeah I give up
@@thedude8457 it just depends, the real deadly element is... Light, now i know yall think it's bs, but hear me out, light is kina like fire, but only more stable, but it can cause more harm than the other elements
Some cool sub-bendings could be: Magnet bending for fire benders since they can already control charges or earth benders that use earth’s magnetic field Mind control/induced seizures for fire benders by controlling our electrical neural pathways Gravity bending for earth benders by creating an extremely dense area of rock Nuclear bending by earth benders that can earth bend radioactive elements or even create atomic fusion
I have a theory that since Fire benders can bend lightning (well some can) and that lightning is made mostly of electrons...which might mean fire benders mint be able to control electrons themselves (which to an extent can even control atoms) thus making Atom-Bending
And thus allowing them to bend all materials. We could also think about them refining electricity into an even more refined form of energy and think about kinetic bending, which is another way they could bend everything
Firebenders could control electrical impulses in the brain to influence and even control mind. And they could suck energy from the power grid to fuel their bending. Cool stuff.
The lightning in LoK still bothers me. In TLA lightning was treated as exceedingly dangerous and essentially an instant kill effect, while in LoK its used as menial labor or as just a pretty decent attack with no real lasting threat.
@@anarchomando7707 Still doesn't change the fact that that's not what it was in the original. It's an interesting world-building idea to have the benders use their abilities to facilitate more modern technology but the way they didn't doesn't fit in the avatar universe from the first show
@@shanedancer3895 In my opinion, the lightnings we saw in LoK were really weak in comparison to the ones used by Azula or Ozai, you could see that Azula had to charge it, for some seconds to be able to release it, and she was a genius, Mako in the other hand, seems to be able to throw them easily, in part because the Firebending itself evolved in those years, but his ligthnings weren't as strong as the ones that Ozai or Azula used, we never saw the use of a lightning in LoK, with the pure purpose of killing, while in ATLA we did.
I was gonna say Combustion Bending is too op when the bender can 'redirect' and curve the energy. But then went 'Nah' when i found out it comes with huge consequences by the smallest mishap.
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What franchises should we cover next? (Don’t worry we aren’t done with Avatar)
AIR TEMPLES!!!!
Avengers
Harry Potter, Marvel, Lord Of The Rings, and any other animes
More ATLA
Maybe bonetale
The most important bending of all: Sokka's boomerang trajectory bending
Jerkbending actually
And his character bends me over
@@voldymoldy1119 m
@@justnyanko7168 he’s like a 14 year old m8
@@deckem287 bends me over laughing. Get your mind out of the gutter
Avatar Kyoshi was also shown bending glass in one of the books, a skill she picked up in order to remove shards from her skin, it was implied that she wasn't the first glass bender, but that it was a lost art being rediscovered
Yeah he didn’t include Yan using liquefying earth
That's kinda crazy cause that's like a subsect of a subsect of earth bending
@@Astral_Incarnate well actually the thing is all bending are interrelated as seen in lava bending only avatars and people who are borned of eath and fire benders can do it which is like they have earth and fire mix chi which unlock duo potential also when it come to liqify the earth it most probably be of earth and air parents mand many deep bending are there that are so rare we might see in 3rd avatar series.
And saying interrelated is basic 4 bending and mix of this in many manners.
@@dirtyph0nics hmmm.... there hasn't been any clues as to say that you can only bend lava when you have a fore and earth citizen as parents.... toph bended metal because there are rocks in it, since lava is just melted rocks then it's not really about having mixed bloods.
As water bender can turn their water to ice... They manipulate water from air, plants, water (obv), blood as long as it is water, they can manipulate, shape and control it.
Earth bender can also do this, they can manipulate earth to be lava or just to liquify it, changing its composition in anyway...
I dont understand it, but this is how my head cannon says it is
Iroh demonstrated the most powerful bending technique where he can force tears from one’s eyes through the musical performance known as Leaves from the Vine.
Without even being a waterbender
Without even being a waterbender AND across time and space and multiverses into our universe where water bending doesn’t exist
The one and only Tearbender
That song he made about girls in Bah Sing Sei also went pretty hard
Most other benders usually know ONE specialized bending technique other than their standard element bending.
But Toph learned TWO specialized bending techniques, Metalbending AND Sandbending on top of Earthbending. And one of which, Toph discovered herself.
So, just imagine, how skilled and powerful Toph really is.
Katara too, she had healing, blood bending, and ice manipulation. Ice is common but it still takes a certain amount of skill to do, no water bender as far as I know has been able to ice bend right off the bat
@@Astral_Incarnate don't forget the fact that katara is not disabled meaning that none of her senses are better than normal people, but I do believe toph is more revolutionary and her blindness is a part of why she is that great, I mean katara just learn old arts toph created one
Don’t forget her seismic sense
Take a look at white lotus. You will find one other able to icebender
@@Astral_Incarnate also sweat bending
Lightening bending: requires you to have peace of mind
Azula going through a mental breakdown: I’m gonna ignore that
It was more like she has pieces of her mind
Azula was most probably bipolar.. That's why it was too easy for her
id say she is also very skilled in firebending, she might actually be able to "ignore" the need to be composed
It was during sozins comet when she lightning bended in her mental breakdown-state, that's why it was possible even though her mind wasn't clear
She was a complete sociopath. No feelings, no internal conflict
The fact that Brolin went head first to the lava even without knowing he could lava bend is just admirable ....he was willing to sacrifice himself
Bolin
And its probably the exact reason it worked, he faced it head on, the basis of earth bending
His death would not even slow the lava a tiny bit it would just be sewer slide
@@hadifelani Bro-lin
Yeah, cool, cool-cool-cool but why he didn't use his earth power (is he even earth bender? I don't remember already).
I see a lot of earth here you know 5:50 (again idr maybe this is iave rocks or other bs)
Like you so brave so dramatic but just build a wall or pit idk :D
The most impressive is Sokka’s mastery of back bending.
Yes
Does this have anything to do with sukki by any chance
You win hahaha
@@gloomy_nightflower7007 bruh
The Quenchiest.
I honestly think waterbending has the most sub genre of bending. I.e. bloodbending, healing, ice bending, spirit bending, cloud bending, etc, etc. water has many forms. Even plant bending was a thing.
When the world is 70% water and literally almost everything needs water to function that kind of stuff happends to appear.
Does ice bending really count? It kinda just feels like something water benders can do. Katara was doing it accidentally in the first few episodes.
@@MrVisualHigh iirc one's bending capabilities depends on their environment
ie. If a water bender is borned in an environment filled with plant they can bend plants but if they are born in an environment filled with ice they can bend ice
I think a water bender who never seen an ice or ice bending probably don't know that such thing is possible.
@@InternetAddict069 Maybe, but is there any evidence of this? I can't think of a single water bender who we don't see bend ice.
@@MrVisualHigh aren’t the water nations in the poles?
I liked how Toph was completely unimpressed with Bolin, until she learns he can lavabend and all of the sudden she's like: yeah, now you an date my granddaughter.
He can melt through any chastity belt now!
I wonder why Bolin didn't lava bend in front of Toph to prove his power.
@@PresbianTier She faced the Avatar after no one has seen him for a 100 years and in reaction to his airbending, an art she never faced before, she called him "Twinkle toes". Pretty sure that by age 115 or however old she was her bar for being impressed is so high you need to at least be capable to split the moon or something
@@jojokob5182 she was 86 I think.
@@PresbianTier if he says he can do it she knows he isn’t lying. No need to prove it
Imagine if princess Yue was still alive and was actually skilled in waterbending, she would literally be the most powerful waterbender since she literally is apart of the moon itself.
I didnt notice that
No avatar
Thats the thing. The moon spirit gave her life not power so I'm not sure.
@@Cyprian_Malicki yea but it also gave a bit of itself I’m pretty sure
@@Cyprian_Malicki yeah good point
If water benders can freeze water then can bloodbenders freeze blood in another persons body
I’m pretty sure they can, but the pg rated show makes them not able to do that
Let's not
Eee Eee yes
Not blood but you can freez someone
They actually can! In the Kyoshi novels (Shadow of Kyoshi in particular), a master healer mentioned that she can lower the temperature of someone but if she goes too far the person's blood will freeze and their organs will explode, killing them 🥰
Honestly, I'm in love with how specialized bending techniques are accessible to fewer people in the ATLA universe and feel way harder and crankier. Take Metal/Blood bending for example. If you watch all the scenes with it, you may notice how it feels like benders are going thru much greater efforts to bend.
It shifted in Korra with the idea that some people are just innately skilled in a particular technique for no obvious reason, compared to other techniques that were simply harder to learn than the standard. Blood bending without the Full Moon and Blast bending are the former, while Lightning Casting and Metal bending are the latter.
Similar to how some people are just innately good at playing instruments and gain above average proficiency rather quickly, while other people can study and practice their whole lives and just be competent.
I feel like a big thing here should be the amount of available education for everyone, I always imagined the in korrambending wasnt easier, but that more individuals that might not have gotten the oppertunity to learn bending during angsntime got proper education during korras time
@@PhailRaptor in my head canon, Industrialization age can mass produce specialized bending at lower proficiency. Take lightning generation for example, sure they can produce group of lightning worker who can generate lightning of 10 W/person/each 5 hour which is still painfull, but not deadly and they can never achive the powerfull potential such like Azula or Ozai lightning that can obliterated any non fire benders, breaking mountains (from what i've seen, lightning bender in LoK never seem to damage the environment to such degree like in the original Avatar). So instead of calling the bender in LoK "Lightning bender" i just think of them as "electricity guys", "living battery"
Other things like metal or blood, i do think it just the matter of techniques
that was something I greatly appreciated. When Toph first invents metalbending she's clearly just forcing the metal to do what she wants-literally pushing, pulling, and tearing it apart. However by season 3 we see she is capable of some amount of metalbending without contact, like when they take control of the airship. Finally by the time of Korra metalbending becomes a form like any other and can be used as such. It feels like a really natural evolution.
Heres a few you forgot
Water: Plant bending & Ice bending
Earth: Sand bending & Crystal bending
Fire: Energy reading & Jet propulsion
Air: Hyper sensitivity & Fart bending
Extra: Mud Bending (Water & Earth) Cloud Bending (Water & Air)
Jahaira Covarrubias
Ice bending is just considered a part of regular water bending, and he mentioned energy bending for fire
The rest are valid though
Also I’d just like to mention that I hate the fact that “fart bending” is a thing
Jonathon Covarrubias Orozco
The difference is the difficulty the styles come with
Literally every water bender is capable of at least basic ice bending; if you can bend water, you can bend ice, no exceptions
Lava bending, however, has only been shown by a select few benders, most of whom were avatars.
The difference between the two is the learning curve that comes with them, that’s the reason that lava bending is a “specialized technique” and ice bending is just bending
I kinda agree with Sergio because lava bending is a hard technique to learn and ice bending is easy but I still think it should still be considered a sub skill
Jahaira Covarrubias
Yeah probably, but considering how easy ice bending is, it wouldn’t be included in this video either way
@Jonathon Covarrubias Orozco icebending should be a separate sub-discipline of waterbending. The basic waterbending is bending liquid water, not solid/frozen water. Icebending comes easy to most waterbenders because almost all of them are born and live in the north or south pole, which are surrounded by ice. But if someone was born in the Foggy Swamp Tribe, i don’t think icebending would come easy to them. Or if a waterbender was born and lived in the Earth Kingdom, liquid waterbending would be the basic bending to learn. The structure of water is different from ice. So there has to be somehow a separate teaching technique to bend ice.
Lava is liquid earth. In a way, ice is the opposite of lava. Ice is solid water. If it takes a different approach to bend lava, then it’s the same with ice. They’re conceptually opposites. Therefore, icebending should be a sub-discipline of waterbending, just as much as lavabending is to earthbending.
Ironically, Katara's attempts to make it illegal probably directly resulted in it's adoption by Yakone. By all accounts, the art would have died with her since she and her immediate associates were the only ones to be aware of the technique. Making it illegal would have just drawn attention to it. Or was it explained that Hama had taught more people?
The main issue is, it would eventually resurface, though it is the main question as to whether or not it would end up with a person of bad intention is up to luck and fate. But with how it was discovered in the first place, it is far more likely that blood bending would go into the hands harboring horrid methods in acts of desperation. Would it have been better to teach it at an academy and regulate it for medical use? Yes, it would have... but bad experience with it already affected the judgment of its illegality. That and no one can think of everything in their entire lives, much less a few hours. Very much the same as seeing fire bending being seen as unable to heal. Or earth bending for that matter, seismic sense would be able to detect abnormalities as well.
Hama learned that on her own by realising that living beings consist in part of water. I dont think she was the only one who ever couldve come Up with this idea
maybe she invented it unaware of its existion i mean like it was before but she didnt hear about it so she thought she invented it or maybe hama and yakone are related i mean only knowing bloodbending exists doesnt make you a master so if hama invented it she should have taughrt yakone or have a pupil who taught yakone
I believe it will resurface on it's own at one point in the future. Someone will rediscover it by himself/herself and reinvient the technic. I guess that making it illigal while only one person knew this technic even exists is to prevent panics in the future. Imagin someone rediscovers bloodbending without the laws related to it, the technic and knowladge died with the last person aware of it's existance. Someone starts controlling people, how the surroundings react? What do they do? How do you sentence this guy and on what crimes? The bloodbender can lie on how he's doing it and most chances the judge and law inforcements will believe it as there are no recordings of controlling person's body.
Banning the practice of bloodbending prevents confusion and rediscovering of it in the future. Better write it all down while someone knows how it's done, what it takes to achieve it, knowing side effects for both the user and the victim and what to do in case it ever happens again. Most importently, having a potential to discover new good uses for the practice, like in the medical field.
True, it would have come back eventually anyway. Still, announcing it's illegality would have definitely raised its general awareness in the population, meaning it's resurgence would be faster.
Water - blood, healing, plant, spirit, ice, cloud
Earth - metal, sand, lava, seismic sense, crystal, glass
Fire - lightning, combustion, lightning redirection, energy reading, heat, jet propulsion
Air- flight, spiritual projection, hyper sensitivity, sound, agility, body temperature
Nah air also has void bending
@@emmac3519 I'm sorry what
Didn't the fire bender elder who helped Korra when she lost her memory have a special type of fire bending?
@Roberto Sevilla What
you forgot healing when it comes to fire and also forgot that airbenders can bend sound creating wawes of it and they can also bend clouds as well as waterbenders
I just remembered how frigging awesome Toph is...I like how she's disabled yet so much more able then most of us. It really is inspiring.
This technique was only known to a handful of people. Until like 50 years later when half the city can use something epic.
I attribute it the the fire nation controlling the distribution of fire bending techniques and keeping them within the royal family.
nah he talking before the war
Turns out if you teach people how to do something hard they can learn how to do the hard thing
Now that I think about it, it probably is less so that only the royal family was strong enough to lightning bend, and more so that they simply kept the technique secret so it couldn't be used against them.
@@rizizum I get your point but it deflated uncle irohs teachings about respecting nature and being at peace with yourself to guide the flow ,
Everyone you channel it could be your last :
Now 50 people on first shift shoot it 8-12’hours a day NP
it’s like seeing plastic Buddhist totems on a hipsters desk , cool to see it but do you understand the weight of those things lol
WHY IS AVATAR STILLLLL SOOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Because it is
yes
Plantbending is so underrated
Huu is an underated character
Who?
@@grayfullbuster2308 The enlightened plantbender in the book 2 episode "The swamp"
Pants are an illusion, and so is death.
When the vines appeared in republic city my first thought was "oh, cool! They will make korra plantbend" and honestly I'm sad it didn't happen
A bending type I’ve always wondered why they haven’t figured out, would be boil bending, like if water benders can create ice and clouds why can’t they boil you alive like a lobster?
good idea but for that they would have to study the way fire benders use their bend, and let's face it during the war it wouldn't happen, by the way when they use ice they use their breath to cool the water which for me is already a fire bending remnant
Yeah, the potential is there, it just requires study of firebending heat generation forms like Iroh studied water bending redirection techniques to create lightning redirection. The bending forms are actually really malleable and have immense potential just needing intense study and knowledge of basic forms from all elements. It's what makes the Avatar so OP, they don't even have to try really, especially in the Avatar state. The drawback to that with it being so easy for the Avatar is that it doesn't push them to discover what more their bending could be since their's no real struggle to learn.
I mean, technically water benders can just instantly freeze all the blood in your body, instant kill. And Air benders can force all the air out of your lungs or create a vaccumm with no air around you, also an instant kill
It theoretically should be way easier to do than lava bending too because the boiling point of water is obviously a lot lower than the melting point of most rocks
im pretty sure to produce steam they would boil the surface of the water
Aang: ITS SPARKY SPARKY BOOM MAN
30 years later
Zuko: ITS SPARKY SPARKY BOOM WOMEN
72 years*
Ok
@@smiley3750 back to skill bending
Ok
I literally thought that when I watched the Legend of Korra
9:12 Zuko also notes that "Combustion Man" is not really his name. No one actually knows his name cause he never told anyone his name. In fact, he doesn't speak or say anything at all.
A fake mute
He die didn't he?
@@DariGrin Yes, he's been dead after his last encounter with the Aang at the Western Air Temple.
@@vonrtebates58732 yeah i figured. Did die because his third eye was kinda bonked right?
@@DariGrin Yeah, his 3rd eye got busted after it got hit with Sokka's Trusty Boomerang causing it to backfire and you know the rest.
Pretty sure the spirit bending worked on the spirit vines. Those vines came back, because the normal villagers emitted negative energy by asking Korra their press-related questions. This is hinted by Iroh as well, who talks about how ones energy affects spirits and can change their behavior. If it wasnt for that, the vines wouldve stayed calm, but Korra realised as the city was so full of the humans negative energy, bending the spirit vines would always be a temporary fix only.
also just a small part of the whole plant was surrounded by korras spirit bending.
a couple of bending techniques not mentioned in the video
Sand bending (used by natives of the Si Wong Desert, has a few interesting similarities style-wise to air/water bending and is used to propel themselves across the desert on wooden sailers)
Plant bending (used by Huu to bend the water inside of seaweed in order to ensnare people, or even form the seaweed into a controllable humanoid mass around himself.)
Ice bending (while being relatively commonplace in water bending, I still think it was deserving of a mention here since Katara used it in a few unique ways, such as slicing an ice pillar to launch discs of it at Pakku. Tonraq uses a couple of ice bending techniques that are very reminiscent of earth bending as well, such as riding a wave of ice pillars rising from the ground)
My favorite part of Korra was how creatively they used used metalbending. Nothing got me more hype than seeing Earthbenders whip out their metal cables like ghost rider and just annihilate everyone.
The lava shuriken is basically lava style rasen-shuriken
For a second I thought that said raisin Bending
@@thomasvalenti3414 imagine raisin bending it has the big into with earth fire water air and RAISIN
rasin bending, sadly, is not possible... grape bending is tho. Dionysus, the great Grape bender. its just a form of plant bending.. bouta wine bend.
When I first saw that I thought he was a fire bender, since it involved heat and heat correlates with fire.
The Amagi: Combustion man
Me: SpArKy spARkY bOOM BoOM MaN
An intellectual is among us
IM tired of those comments
@@AMTAKEOVER well too bad
@@drivergreatness6706 yep pretty much
Why does that sound like Bakugou-
“Toph OBSERVED the badgermoles in the mountain”
Me: Wait SHE OBSERVED
More like sensed
Never made sense to me. But whatever.
She can see them when they move she is like a bat with they sonic sence they screech and the waves travel back to them and map out they surroundings. Even though they are blind they aren't blind they can see very well it's just not with what we call vision. The way they sound works is through vibrations and sounds that map out they surroundings. Thing with toph is she does nto have to screech she feels the vibrations through her feet and body. So if anything moves in her souroundings aslong as it touches something that is in contact with the ground or anything rooted to the ground even walls she can sense it through the vibration.
Observing involves the use of multiple senses, not just sight
@@infinitefannyml610 This was before she learned seismic sense though… actually, this is how she learned it, from somehow observing the Badgermoles.
Is it just me or does anyone wish katara used bloodbending more...?
I agree
She should have but she let her morals get in the way.
@@GatoSanDad yep if she uses it on the right people i dont see why not
She used against the person who she thought killed her mother and then never used it again (I know this because I’ve watched this episode 3 times and I remember her doing it all of those times)
Sajid and Rona Hasan yep
Okay, but Pl’i had the most brutal death I remember seeing on Avatar. Usually the ‘end’ is left vague so you just assume they died. But not Paulee. Lady literally got her bell rung.
Ming-Hua was literally electrocuted in a lake, it was far more brutal since she screamed and fell unconscious
Fr both p'li AND Ming hua had scary deaths af, like literally it was disturbing
What about the Earth Queen though?
@@footlong7980 she suffocated. It’s crazy but it’s not brutal like getting your brains mushed around like a potato salad. My opinion tho
@@billydasquid1201 More terrifying tho. Potato salad head was instant, likely she didnt know what happened. The earth queen had the air sucked from her lungs while she was completely aware and totally helpless to do anything about it.
I'm still impressed by katara learning the technique in a minute. The first bender to deflect a monster power of blood bending. She is truly a powerful warrior.
Can we talk about how incredible Avatar's power system is for how relatively simple it is?
No.
12:00 Nah man, he was just in creative mode.
@DemonHunter120 true
mako: the first sexuality bender
Flying way up high
i would like to like your comment and i did for a split second but i didnt wanna destroy the 69
Correction: Sexuality redirector
A bf so bad he turned both his exes gay
🤣that’s hilarious
Sand-Plant-Crystal-Glass?
Glass has never been shown
TheCringeKid 1 it was forgotten it’s existence is proved by the kyoshi novels
@@thecringekid1929 It was shown in the Lok comics by kuvira.
What about why airbenders shave their heads - to sense air vibrations
@@evanbulltrue9602 oh yeah that's a good one and what about airbenders regulates body temperature
A lot of these go: "This is a technique used by very few, due to its complexity and requirements. Here's these Legend of Korra main characters who instantaneously learned it."
In many cases the technique was suppressed or only just recently discovered in AtLA. It makes sense a less fascist fire nation would stop restricting lightning bending to the royal family.
Like how katara and toph immediately learned bloodbending and metalbending respectively, right? 😏
Is it also possible for master earthbenders to manipulate and break the minerals making up bones? *Bonebending* would be so OP.
Undertale
isnt that what one of the avatars did? (i'm almost entirely sure that someone had rebuilt their body as they aged in order to have a long life)
@@syren1140 kyoshi did it
@@eesaubaydullah4231 oh, thank you!!! that's been plaguing my mind for awhile. ^^;;
Kimmimaro
Hey you, yes you,
Keep in mind you are a great person and
the best version of yourself.
That is just plain wrong, there is a alternate universe where I am a better person morally
IF alternate universes exist with differentiated personalities
True Doggo they do, every choice has multiple directions the path could go, some people choose to be considerate when they are young and it reinforces the idea of consideration in a positive or negative way.
Hell no theirs always more room for improvement, theirs no telling how amazing a person can become in the future
@@DianneAlexander4858 There's no proof of the existence of alternate universes.
Imagine a avatar only use specially bending like
Earth: metal, lava sand mug
Water: heal blood
Fire: Lighting
Air: Flight
I like to see that a new avatar series
Platinum Mew also we saw roku use it to in the backstory episode
I agree with all the other replies here. According to what avatar yangchen told aang , an avataar can never truely detach themselves from all earthly connections because their duty is to the people,for the people.
@Platinum Mew Actually Yang Chen said the Avatar can never disconnect from the world.
Flight requires the bender to let go of their earthly desires not connections
We actually saw Aang use unrestricted flight in the s2 finale when he tried to open his last chakra but was unable to do it again because of Azula
@@deadlysilence7474 I think the aerodynamics are different.
Zaheer was truly WEIGHTLESS. But Aang was being raised by a column of air or a ball of air.
It doesn't really give a "like the wind" vibe more than a propulsion via air vibe
@@dontworry4945 That was light not air, we know what columns of air look like in the series and that was not it. That was a pillar of light
Something interesting about Lava Bending is that it’s more common in Earth-benders with Fire Nation ancestors, while Metal Bending seems easier for those of almost purely earth-bender/kingdom ancestry.
Ever since i was young ive always thought the avatars weren't actually lava bending but was actually combining fire and earth bending due to them being the avatar.
Yo u forgot energy bending only shown by aang and korra
Aang only bend the inner energy of a being, Korra actually went ahead and tried it on Raw Energy, Granted she had no idea what she was doing and was working on pure Instinct.
@@omegadeadpool4987 she maybe can energy bend just like what happened to Bolin to a Lava!
@@ryanwest4088
Yes but Lavabending is a technique that has existed for many centuries, Energy bending and on a scale that Korra showcased is something very new(much akin to how Toph developed Metal bending)
Energy bending is considered a bending seperate from the 4 elements. It's not a subskill.
thats an avatar exclusive bending.
Water benders: we can control your blood
Earth benders: we can can control metal
Fire benders: we can basically shoot Lazers
Air benders: you no more breath
Theoretically, an airbender could force air outward from the lungs, creating a pressure wave that destroys all the vital organs.
That's how gyatso killed the Sozin Comet Firebenders
Technically speaking earthbender could bend bones since King Bumi did it
@@mfirdanhb that's fan fiction
@@gyomeihimejima2829 uhh no King Bumi LITERALLY did it before fighting Aang
Zuko used combustion bending when attempting lightning bending, although he used his hands instead of the third eye so it blew up in his face.. I think Combustion bending might be directing energy down to a singular point causing an explosion, with the mastered version being a third eye where you visualize channeling you energy to a specific point prior to detonation
Who else noticed that ozai lightning bending is not circular its deadly and precise he lets it go with both fingers while azula, iroh and mako realeas with only one the other hand is in the opposite direction.
Because of the comet..
@@illuminate6574 nah even on the scene were Zuko redirected Ozai's lightning, Ozai's lightning bend was fast as hell compared to Azula and Iroh, He did it by using his both hands simultaneously.
Hes the fire lord, not to mention a megalomaniatic psycopath. Hes supposed to be a badass boss level villain
“After toph *observed* the badger moles
Yeah sure
What's a banger mole? I think you meant badger mole
BANGER MOLES
Badger moles*
Banger mole😏
Why do they even have eyes? Shouldn’t w mutation have removed them by that era?
I get how dangerous Blood Bending is, but inagine how useful it could be in the right hands.
Thank you good sir! I agree whole-heatedly! Bloodbending - Bending itself - is just a tool. ^^
Blood bending can be used as a type of surgery, bending lost blood back into a bleeding person or forcing open wounds to close.
It can also be used to reattach removed fingers/limbs by water-bending the muscles and skin to reconnect which then can also be used with regular water-healing, to seal the flesh back together.
you could remove blood clots too
And stop a terrible army from attacking.
@@Pyrodorah But imagine the psychological damage you would do to that army. You would be violating one of their few true rights, the control over their own body. If you take that away, it can be really bad psychologically. The soldiers might just want to fight for a cause they believe in, not expecting actual torture to be a possibility. There is a reason the Geneva Conventions exist. The medical applications might be useful, but with that many people knowing it, it would easily spread into the wrong hands.
important to note that after appa was taken because toph couldn’t sand bend, she mastered it afterward and demonstrated her ability by making a sand sculpture of ba sing se
I always thought the reason the vines weren’t affected by Korra was there was simply nothing “wrong” with them for her to fix. They just existed in a state that was disruptive to how the city worked before, but they weren’t corrupted
Something Korra never understood. Worst avatar ever
@@524coconut she unlocked more bending skill than any other avatar or atleast aang
@@wMidnight. and did what exactly with it? Aang beat everybody with mostly airbending who cares what bending she unlocked
@@524coconut Aang beat everybody because none of them were familiar with airbending due to reasons you should know. The increased agility and other techniques for airbending that he had mastered mad him a tricky opponent to go against. The same is seen in the case of Zaheer. He studied the Guru Latima(not sure if that's how it's spelt) which gave him knowledge of great airbending techniques that he used to easily overpower the guards of his specialized prison. Going to your point of Korra, spirit bending wasn't something all that familiar either, and she was only aware of it in the context of controling rogue spirits, so she didn't look to see if it would be applicable to the vines even though they weren't doing anything harmful.
@@524coconut This is not a contest
This show needs to be an open world rpg lol
We need nore Avatar games. They put Korra, Azula and Aang in SMITE.
I would play tf out of thaaaaaat!!
@@MrJflomario I just wish that it gave me Aang when I redeemed my rewards like it said it was gonna 🥲
@@sebastionherring4196 You on PlayStation?
@@MrJflomario Xbox, we had it for a little while ages ago
I once heard about another, lesser known specialized form of earthbending that dealt with the body somehow. It was first introduced in the Platinum Games Legend of Korra video game from 2014. The user was the game's main villain, Hundun. I don't know much about it all, but apparently, it granted Hundun long life, or possibly, some form of immortality.
Yes, Kyoshi did it as well, she learned to stop cellular decay by earthbending his body. A less impressive example of this is how Bumi probably did it as well, at least with his spine
The human body is carbon based. That technique seems it would involve placing minerals in the right organs and bloodstream to enhance longevity. PS With this technique you could possibly deform people or make monsters. Your bones calcium why not reinforce your kicking and punching, bone claws, elbow spikes. Bonebending!
@@STANKONIA24 that’s scarier than blood bending
@@xavierbrown7503 not really if avatar wasnt family friendly here are the things you can do with bloodbending
Destroy cell fuction
Bend blood out of the body
Boil it
Freeze it
Disrupt regular blood flow
Rupture veins and major blood vessels
@@STANKONIA24 so basically the boneguy from naruto
I like how we all forget that Ice Bending is the same as Lava Bending but in reverse, it's Phase Shifting and then Controlling that material still
The combustion bending is probably the weirdest bending for me.
Yeah it seems way too out there
Yeah. It's just too out of place.
exactly. it doesnt make sense
Spirit projection has nothing to do with basic air bender so its the most out of place sub bending
true
it just creeps me out.
Did hama create blood bending, cause if I remember correctly Amon's dad said that he comes from a long line of powerful blood benders implying that blood bending was a thing before hama.
When he said that he was referring to himself
@@kehindehopkins6933 Still his family had one insane amount of Bloodbending proficiency, I mean TarLok who is a failure to the family name in Yakone's eyes can still Bloodbend During the Daytime.
I think that they’re just strong waterbenders, which evolves into blood bending without a full moon
maybe she invented it unaware of its existion i mean like it was before but she didnt hear about it so she thought she invented it or maybe hama and yakone are related i mean only knowing bloodbending exists doesnt make you a master so if hama invented it she should have taughrt yakone or have a pupil who taught yakone
@@andrianmalic4581 i'm sure there were other people in this big-ass world who discovered it. Narratively, we were introduced to Hama. That doesn't mean she's the only one
I hope that if avatar studios makes another avatar series, the "a handful of people can do this" type of techniques become more common.
And become something creatively used, like with modern metalbenders
I hope not. Redirecting lightning used to be something really cool, and a good way to combat against lightning benders.
(Zuko and Azula for example.) But now its a run of the mill kind of thing, and those who have only watched Korra just accept it as apart of lightningbending.
@@revimfadli4666 like bloodbending in surgery
The fluidity of combat in avatar is amazing
I just thought of a crazy idea for a fire bending technique.
You know how fire benders can remove and transfer the temperature of, say lava? And even redirect lightning?
What if a fire bender was able to remove ALL the warmth from the human body? Forcing the target into hypothermia, or maybe even freezing them, making people believe it was a new power from a crazy water bender.
I feel like it would take a while, and the person would have to not be moving. Like Sozin was directing the heat from stationary lava, I feel like a person has enough sense to move around during a fight.
I think a more realistic firebending ability would be manipulating the electrical signals in someone's brain. With enough proficiency you can stop someone's brain from functioning at all or send signals to the brain producing illusions.
@@CrownofMischief you may be right. Maybe weaken it to to slowly lower the warmth of a persons core temperature once there within close range?
@@stormshadowoffire that seems a bit too advanced for the current avatar timeline. They’d have to be completely aware of the brain’s electrical impulses and how to manipulate it properly. We can’t even do that properly in this time
As for hypnosis, that may be possible. The fire sages did something similar
@@blacBroly2 you could give someone a fever by directing heat into them
Imagine an avatar that could master all of the bending and subbending styles
but they’d have to be balanced. they’re an expert at all the sub skills, even invented a new one, but they don’t care that much about heroism. they think the world can do just fine without them. so they keep breaking world records and going further beyond with bending, until one day the world is in a crisis. question is, do they keep trying to do cooler and cooler tricks, or do they get involved for once?
@@zimbim7562 once? You could say that from the last water tribe Avatar, but not all of them, specially when they are constantly forging the world's future, sometimes even in a bad way. (Thanks Kyoshi, we appreciate your Dai Li gift)
@@azraus2500 what? i’m just talking about a hypothetical avatar, unlike the others.
@@zimbim7562 It's english your first language?
@@azraus2500 yes, is it yours?
Air bending has also the great ability of particles bending, since air benders can separate oxygen or other gasses from the atmospheric air
I am glad I watched this to the end, It covered stuff I already knew for the most part but the calm music with the narrators voice was quite pleasant and so I gave it a fair and honest watch and I got to say I am pleased with the out come. :)
for combustionbending when Zuko tried learning lightningbending he accidentally blew the earth in front of him so he can be marked as a third one... I suppose.
Who makes these skills
No
Great job on this video Amagi!
Blood bending is literally the most OP shit ever lmao literally no one stands a chance besides the avatar
And people like amon that just walk through it
@@mostdangeroussolo7443 amon can walk through it because he mastered bloodbending more than tarrlok
@@mostdangeroussolo7443 nah if air normads werent well peaceful they would javw the most op. In terms of oxygen or nitrogen u have none
@@PaPaFiggy69 air benders and water benders are the most dangerous imo u can literally take the air out of someone or control the water inside of them air and water is everywhere too
Depends on the strength of the bender. I feel like toph is able to 1v1 literally anyone if she has rocks near her, as she said in the swamp, she is far more seeing than most people that can actually see, and she has an unmatched strength (besides avatars but obviously that does not count).
im still convinced zuko was combustion bending when he failed to bend lightning
technically he was, just... not in the same way, considering he said how, it just kept blowing up in his face like everything does... i would like to rename the technique he discovered, DEPRESSION BENDING!
It's probably an indication that he was able to learn blast bending, at the very least.
7:28 "Was adapted by Toph After she observed..."
I don't understand your comment.
@@ashleycat4 toph is blind.
@@bustergundo516 observing doesn't necessarily mean seeing. Usually observation involves the use of multiple senses to perceive something, in this case it would be a sense of touch and hearing
@@CrownofMischief I know. But I get what you mean.
Water: healing, blood, ice, plant, spirit
Earth: metal, lava, mud, sand
Fire: lightning generation, lightning redirection, combustion
Air: spirit projection, flight, asfixiation
8:17 His name is sparky sparky boom man
Legends fo a skill
A bit late here, but there are other forms of bending.
Plant bending where you bend the water in plants. This was demonstrated by Yu in the Foggy Swamp and Hama.
Sand bending is actually a somewhat complicated form of Earth bending. It takes a lot of practice to be able to bend hundreds of thousands of grains of sand. It's a common technique amongst the desert tribes and Toph even did it in the finale, albeit only briefly.
There was also Heat bending, although the only time in Avatar it was shown was in the episode "The Avatar and the Fire Lord", and it was used by Sozin to cool the lava.
Lastly, there is Energy bending, where the user bends the energy within themselves and others. This was used by Aang when he took Ozai's bending away, and I believe Korra used it when she gave people their bending back.
This video is about subbendings energy bending isnt a subbending it is its own thing but everything else i agree with
@@Apaep12 I considered it subbending since energy isn't an element itself. It doesn't fit into any of the other bending elements and is much more of a wild card. Plus the only times where it's used is when the Avatar takes away someone's bending, or restores it. It just doesn't really fit to call it it's own thing, when it's not bending an element.
@@elitegamer9310 i think bloodbending is the strongest bending change mah mind.
@@Apaep12 Uh, ok?
Well, blood bending is one of the most dangerous types of betting. The ability to control people and animals is a powerful ability. Unfortunately, it is rare for anyone to be able to preform the technique, and it can only be done under the full moon, when a Water Bender's power is at it's peak. The only people who could do it without the need of the moon are Yakon, Amon, and Tarlaaq, and that was a hereditary trait.
I would say the most powerful is Metal Bending.
@@elitegamer9310 yeah Now tell me your favourite bending or subbemding and ill try to change UR MIND
Firebending subskills: Lighningbending, lightning redirection, breathe of fire, healing, and combustionbending
Earthbending sunskills: Metalbending, mudbending, inkbending, seismic sense, lavabending, magnetization, glassbending, crystalbending, and sandbending
Waterbending subskills: Spiritbending, bloodbending, psychic bloodbending, gluebending, and inkbending
Airbending subskills: Flight, fartbending, enhanced speed, and and enhanced agility
U forgot plant bending and sand bending
you forgot soundbending
smokebending (which is actually a canonical thing)
@@invictus_delta a subskill of airbending
question:
are heaven & hell exist in avatar universe?
is spirit world afterlife of avatar universe?
ryan dika
Well in Buddhism there’s the heavenly realms and you have the hell realms. In which are of course impermanent, perhaps there’s an avatar equivalent
Well,maybe-since Jao and Iroh ended up there after death
zen s in buddhism it’s not really a heaven or hell, just different realms that life can be reincarnated into depending on their karma.
Lasanda Dewamuni
Yes I know. But thank you for the clarification
@@maheshmestry5371 I wasn't aware of that.Thank you for correcting me.
Blood bending,snow bending,freeze bending,cloud bending,plant bending,healing bending,water bending and others are special power of water bending.
You forgot ice, mist/fog & mud.
My friend was watching TLA for the first time and when we got to the finale of Book two and Katara used the special healing water on Aang, my friend went “why didn’t you use this on Jet?” And I died of laughter
Best subskills from benders:
Waterbenders - Bloodbending
Earthbenders - Metalbending
Firebenders - Lightning generation
Airbenders - Flight
Non benders - Tear bending
These are facts
Chi blocking
Lava bending kinda better tho
Chi blocking is not a subskill form of any elements it's a Martial arts
jomer tadena hence the “non-bender” section
I never understood how he can be weighed down by a piece of ice on his foot but pick Korra up and try to carry her off in a hurricane
The ice block caused his weight to be unbalanced, like when ice makes the wings of a plane heavy by weighing it down. Aside from Korra, Zaheer wasn't unbalanced by much else until the force of the typhoon dragged him down. Hope it helps! ^^
What about when korra loses her memory and the fire sage can use fire to see what happend to her
No they dropped her into spirit water
@@karindole5328 no the fire sage legit bends fire from her hands and moves it near korrs
@@geoo_art28 Hmm, i will have to rewatch Tlok
Those were Bhanti Tribals, not Fire Sages.
that was amazing. usually youtubers would ramble and clickbait but i found this video to be informative and i actually learned a few new things i didn’t notice like roku lava bending
Water Bending: Blood, Healing, Spirit
Earth Bending: Metal, Lava, Seismic sense.
Fire Bending: Lightning, Combustion
Air Bending: Flight, Spiritual projection.
Air bender is the hardest bender to achive these special and rarest techniques.
Yea
But it was only guru laghima and zaheer who could do it
@@Praveenabandi but in the LOK, only Jinora had mastered spiritual projection. Zaheer can't. He only mastered flight.
Toxinbending
Personally I love the concept of blood-bending, it can stop an attacker and with enough practice a whole army. Imagine Ozai helpless against this power. Firepower means nothing if you stop from even moving.
Firebenders should be able to bend the electrical signals in people's brains if bloodbending can exist as well
Kyoshi was able to defeat Yun by lowering his body's temperature till freezing point, a technique she learnt from the Best Healer from the Northern Water Tribe.
Somehow, they didn't know that they were actually BLOODBENDING!
Bloodbending is very scary. It wasn't explored fully in the Avatar films.
You could boil or freeze a person, extract the blood somehow 🤷🏾♂️ and even locate organisms or stuff in a person's body by feeling the vibrations in the individual's blood. A bloodbender should know if someone is lying too because they should be able to feel the blood around the heart or the heart's beat itself.
Also the subskill of using SONAR (similar to Earthbending's Seismic skill) was never explored in any of the films, neither was echolocation and heating water. If one could freeze water, heating water should be child's play. 😁
And subskills like swampbending and sandbending were not included in this video.
Sandbending is very powerful. Yun became almost unbeatable because he could mould earth or sand to a fluid-like state or even use it as explosives.
I really love the details of each bending style and how each can be adapted to affect one another
Ever since I was a kid I always had this idea of an air bender that always carries flowers with him and smells really nice and nobody considers him deadly but turns out those nice smelling flowers are in fact lavander petals which makes him a dangerous opponent against fire benders since if they use fire and burn the petals they are handing him a poisonous cloud he can freely manipulate, watching thumbnail reminded me of that
Here are all the sub bendings I found.
Bendings
Water
Mud
Plant
Ice
Fog
Blood
Healing
Earth
Mud
Metal
Lava
Sand
Crystal
Bone
Seismic Sense
Fire
Lightning
Combustion
Light
Neuron
Smoke
Ray
Temperature Control
Air
Sand
Mist
Fog
Smoke
Gas
Sound
Breath
Flying
You missed one
You forgot Sokka’s “Back-bending”
Let's not forget how Aang had a special form of back bending with Katara
My thoughts on potential sub bendings
Light bending (electromagnetic wave bending)-
Can manipulate brightness of surroundings. A very very advance form of fire bending. Anyone cant get it just by natural talent alone. Talent plus rigorous studying and understanding of electromagnetic waves are the two factors for anyone to learn light bending. The most advance form would be able to create illusions. But this is super rare only achieved by the most exceptional.
Sound bending- An advance form of air bending. One can manipulate air to produce sounds. But only the talented ones can be able to mimic other sounds, even human ones.
Heat bending- can control temperature of the environment or an object. A subset of maybe achieved only by the avatar. Controlling the vibration of molecules of any thing
Video idea : Avatar Animal Companion
Their Importance to Avatar Journey
Because I think that maybe every avatar had one
(Sorry for my english.still learning)
“Before the end of the 100 year war, only three firebenders could generate lightning”
Xu Pin An: “Am I a joke to you?”
Who?
@@magnus6801 A villain in the first Kyoshi novel who used lightning bending against a 16 year old Kyoshi and caused her to go into the Avatar state
I have a theory that like how Iroh applied water bending aspects to fire bending that combustion bending is the application of air bending techniques to fire bending
Avatar will always go down as one of the most brutal western animes ever! They just straight up merked people with no remorse and never shied away from showing skeletons.
10:21 Actually, Xu Ping An was the first person who could produce lightning. This was when Kyoshi was about 17 years old
Zaheer: To fly one must become empty and enter the void. Weightlessness can only be achieved with great spiritual enlightenment.
Korra: FIRE COMES OUT OF MY FEET
*fire force theme intensifies*
It’s always confused me why zuko could lava bend in that one chibi short
me to
@@andresjacob8026 find the enemy
Firebenders use the heat around them, like willing the air to combust while using their own chi as a fuel source. Lava is the purest form of earth, so a small group of Earthbenders could wield it too.
Both water benders and earth benders can manipulate mud, since it is made of both mediums.
Water benders and air benders can manipulate cloud, since it is made of both mediums.
Ergo, lava is both a fire and an earth element, making it bendable by both groups.
Although in the case of lava, it's being bent in different methods; an earth bender would be manipulating the lava itself, being liquid rock, but the fire bender would manipulate the heat/combustive energy contained within it.
On that note, a sufficiently powerful fire bender should be able to create a *_nuclear reaction, by fire bending atoms into splitting, creating entire stars and atomic bombs._*
@@wendycarter7506 bruh if bending was real who need nukes we would be nukes
I love how a lot of these things are just mastered/ad hoc levels of the base bending techniques. Nuts.
Ikr? It's like getting to the end of a skill tree branch
Something I want to point out is that I think the creators of Avatar briefly mention that they considered using the Chinese five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water). We never see anything like wood, unless you count plant bending, but I really like that of the four conventional elements we eventually see all of them featured in the show.
Yeah the fact wood has never been manipulated is kind of unusual to me. I think this may have been a purposeful choice to stay away from any comparison to Naruto given how wood jutsu is literally the most powerful form of kekei genkai. I do think that wood bending is a perfect spiritual art form of earth bending where it csn only be done by manipulating the resonant spirit inside of inanimate objects and what's grown naturally by mother earth. In the shkwz earth bending is never shown to really have any spiritual side as a foil to air bending but I don't think that's fair to the art as well. Hopefully we see this with the next avatar show where an earth bending avatar learns this
Imagine removing a person's body heat, similar in a way to how Firelord Sozin removed heat from lava.
Me: nahh, water is the safest element
*sees too many water based disasters*
Me:... At Atavar?
*sees the deadlieas sub element of water*
Me:... Yeah I give up
@Kea K wdym
@@yunarose1609 Air is the most stable... Yet we all know that's a complete lie
It is somehow deadlier than fire
@@thedude8457 it just depends, the real deadly element is...
Light, now i know yall think it's bs, but hear me out, light is kina like fire, but only more stable, but it can cause more harm than the other elements
@@bv_2028 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Some cool sub-bendings could be:
Magnet bending for fire benders since they can already control charges or earth benders that use earth’s magnetic field
Mind control/induced seizures for fire benders by controlling our electrical neural pathways
Gravity bending for earth benders by creating an extremely dense area of rock
Nuclear bending by earth benders that can earth bend radioactive elements or even create atomic fusion
I have a theory that since Fire benders can bend lightning (well some can) and that lightning is made mostly of electrons...which might mean fire benders mint be able to control electrons themselves (which to an extent can even control atoms) thus making Atom-Bending
And thus allowing them to bend all materials. We could also think about them refining electricity into an even more refined form of energy and think about kinetic bending, which is another way they could bend everything
Firebenders could control electrical impulses in the brain to influence and even control mind. And they could suck energy from the power grid to fuel their bending. Cool stuff.
Wow a video that's not disliked. There's still hope in humanity. Good video bro👍
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The lightning in LoK still bothers me. In TLA lightning was treated as exceedingly dangerous and essentially an instant kill effect, while in LoK its used as menial labor or as just a pretty decent attack with no real lasting threat.
It’s also supposed to require extreme levels of focus and control over your emotions so the fact that so many people were able to do it made no sense.
@@shanedancer3895 it's probably more likely a trade situation
Yes people can do it but you have to be trained in the art and have license d
@@anarchomando7707 Still doesn't change the fact that that's not what it was in the original. It's an interesting world-building idea to have the benders use their abilities to facilitate more modern technology but the way they didn't doesn't fit in the avatar universe from the first show
@@shanedancer3895 In my opinion, the lightnings we saw in LoK were really weak in comparison to the ones used by Azula or Ozai, you could see that Azula had to charge it, for some seconds to be able to release it, and she was a genius, Mako in the other hand, seems to be able to throw them easily, in part because the Firebending itself evolved in those years, but his ligthnings weren't as strong as the ones that Ozai or Azula used, we never saw the use of a lightning in LoK, with the pure purpose of killing, while in ATLA we did.
I was gonna say Combustion Bending is too op when the bender can 'redirect' and curve the energy. But then went 'Nah' when i found out it comes with huge consequences by the smallest mishap.
Quick question; can Combustion benders fire bend?