Now that the dust has settled, what was the best element to have?

Now that the dust has settled, what was the best element to have?

>healing
>create solid ice constructs
>bloodbend
>plantbend
>purify evil spirits

In this day and age, metalbending would reign supreme.

water is pretty buff

I still don't like how metalbending was utilized in korra. It should require physical contact to bend just like it did in avatar.

they probably became more advanced in it and found more ways to utilize metal bending over time

Pawtucket Patriot Ale Manipulation

Fire. Free energy source.

Remember that it was not "metal" that Toph was bending in avatar. Only the remnants of earth within metal that her earth sonar could detect.

>metal bend
>always break something doing so

It just doesn't make sense to me that it is something that could be past down and taught.

water and air were probs the best

Water. A master water bender could extract moisture from the air into potable water. Do you have any idea how much energy that would require with tech?

I think we can all agree that fire is the worst element
Man... such a waste, why didn't the writers made firebenders being able to control radiation or light

Yeah, that's why only a true master can do it.

If I was the avatar, I'd disguise myself as a regular bender that uses the least conspicuous element at any given time but subtly uses the other elements.
Like disguising as an earth bender and launching myself with rocks coming from the ground but using airbending to go much higher than typical.

Air
Aang did not utilize air the way I figured everyone would. Using it to bend air from water or from peoples lungs. Create a vacuum or just in general change the air pressure around you.
If only airbenders weren’t pacifists.

Congratulations: you can write better than Bryke.

>bend air from someones lungs
huh never thought of that

It would probably require extreme circumstances. Like having direct contact.

Earth since the majority of matter on earth is earth. Also instant construction of structures.

Did you not watch korra?
Zaheer kills someone by doing that

I believe firebending is the closest thing to raw energybending. Which is why they can bend lighting.

Water got super overpowered in their desperate attempts to make it more interesting than icicles and throwing waves at people

which is weird because that's still essentially what the other elements do

Water, no question.

Way too useful for all aspects of human life. Plus most versatile physically because of ice/water state change potential.

Heart

>Did you not watch korra?
korra is not canon

thats cool i never got the chance to watch all of korra. what other interesting ways did they use bending?

It basically becomes magic in the legend of korra.

we got to see lavabending which was cool
also a lady water bender who had no arms so she constantly had water tendrils on her which were OP

Waterbenders learned how to bend pure shit both inside and outside. Instant KO.

take your retarded shit and go retard

>Now that the dust has settled
each of the four elements should have been more distinct

oh god what if inside a mist you changed from a gas to a solid while someone else was inside that part of the mist?

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>water bending can be done without the arms
It's true.

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Is it just me or did the Avatar and Korra both cater to water and air bending over the other two elements?

I understand that they're the two base elements of the their respective avatars but it made earth and firebending seem weak and lacklustser.

>lavabending

my heart

I don't know what you mean. If anything airbending as underdeveloped.

Not sure about "best" since that lacks context, but Zaheer demonstrated that conventional airbending is enough to one shot most anything.
With vacuum and flight you're near unstoppable and unlike combustion and blood bending it's not even rare, just requires mastery which the airbending nomads only lacked because they were selfmade pussies.

Once gained though you can snuff out firebending and suffocate most opponents with the vacuum, lightning is a problem but it like water, ice, earth and metal can be dodged with flight.

Zaheer only even lost because despite a valley spanning battle he still remained conveniently in range for a bunch of amateur airbenders who couldn't fly to interfere with his fight. Korra could barely touch him or counter even while she was in Avatar state. Then again Korra, being Korra, was mostly just flailing around, but still the idea Single element Bending could give the Avatar Bending problems should speak for itself. When Aang went Avatar he handled comet empowered Ozai's firebending like nothing. Plus it goes without saying that airbending is the one element that logically cannot be depleted by weather or environment.

>being a waterbender
>in an era where every firebender and his dog can shoot lightning
gg no re, eskimo

>which the airbending nomads only lacked because they were selfmade pussies.
Did you miss the room in the air temple that heavily implied one monk suffocated a shitload of fire nation soldiers to death?

sokka calls it magic in the first episode

Not every firebender has the aptitude for it.

Dunno about the best, but fire definitely seems like the worst, at least in this setting. The best it gets is lightning, which might as well have been its own thing entirely given how it doesn't really relate to fire whatsoever.

>in an era where every firebender and his dog can shoot lightning
when did that happen

see

It's not magic it's waterbending.

It was hyperbole, but lightningbending is a lot less rare than bloodbending

the lemon of Korran

legend of korra
see

Surprise

That only works when people don't know who you are which is not the case for the Avatar since they serve as a public symbol

No, I didn't. That was Gyatso, Aang's mentor. Did you miss the fact he had to solo in desperation until death to begin with because the others were ill equipped?

If there were more Zaheers and Laghima to begin with the Fire Nation would have strongly reconsidered targeting the Nomads just to get to the Avatar.

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are you talking about those 3 people and one was mako yap a lot of people you fucking idiots

It shouldn't be common enough to be industrialized, it ruins the mysticism of it.

Water turned out OP as fuck what with the bloodbending, healing, and such. But I think I'd still prefer to have Airbending if I had a choice

how

Water benders can bloodbend.
Fire benders can neuron bend.
Fire bending ftw.
When there's enough lightning benders that powering a whole city is minimum wage grunt work, yeah that makes them pretty common.

Earth if you consider metal
>liquid metal makes you waterbender-like
>Move the very foundation of things
>Dust makes you air bender-like
If not Water
>Blood
>Ice
>Shit ton of reach very fast unlike earthbenders who telegraph their movements
>Plants

Lightning was common enough that Mako wasn’t getting loads of money to be a generator and that criminals could use it, both of which were shown in the first season.

And Sokka is always right.

Healing yeah, but bloodbening apparently requires either some kind of mutated natural aptitude or the full moon to use so waterbending over all isn’t too OP but it is versatile.

By making it commonplace you make it less unique. Iroh said only a select few firebenders can do it.

Lightning was stated in the first aeries to require a perfect inner peace to use. Zuko couldn't do it because he had too much rage he couldn't let go of.

Now in Korea, every Joe schmuck firebender seems to be able to achieve perfect inner peace and lightning bend

I always wondered if inner peace just meant no emotional turmoil and a lot of calm, which other firebenders wouldn’t be able to use since their bending was all about rage until pretty recently.

no wonder you dont like the show of shit like that makes you mad do the metal benders get you dick in a twist too

I should also add that gangsters were also able to use lightingbending in the legend of korra. Not exactly people with no inner turmoil.

It actually does. Not my fault you are unaware.

hay did you ever think that zuko made lighting bending common knowledge and azula was able to use lightingbending when she went crazy but lets just foeget about that right

meant for

but zuko's inner turmoil

How would he do that when it is a rare trait the exists within the royal family?
Zuko did not bend lighting, only redirect it.

>is a rare trait the exists within the royal family
when did the show ever say that

Bryke apologists cannot even punctuate.

Who outside of the royal family could lightingbend? It's very much an elite skill.

cool a avatar thread idiots are bitching about korra again

so are you just using head canon at this point and what's stopping some master fighter bender from finding out how to lighting bend

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it wasn't his rage that made him unable to use lightning, it was his inner struggle between his want to regain his "honor" and following his destiny

I'm not saying it's impossible I'm just saying it isn't easy. A common criminal or street rat shouldn't just be able to pick it up without a master.

A fire bender with blue flame was the one with the elite skill, not the lightning bender.

Being an elite skill doesn't make it a royal exclusive one. Especially considering that as an aggressive imperialistic culture with a focus on actually winning they'd have given academy spots to even low born benders with the requisite natural talents.

The blue flame is never explained in anyway.

Why would a family who's interest is to keep power want to make lightingbending more accessible?

And if they did somehow master it, they'd be lavishly rewarded for their rare and valuable skill accordingly.

>That gangster just shot lightning!
>Well good, that cuts down the suspect list to three.

So they can finally conquer Omashu and win greater glory while doing so.

Not in. The show but the writers explained it n background material. Blue Flames are the mark of a fire bender with tremendous skill. Keep in mind when Azula was shown as a child, her fire was orange like any other firebender

We're not even talking about stuff that took place in the show anymore. I just find it odd that a skill that once only members of the royal family showed aptitude for is now commonplace in the underworld. That is all and feel that it undervalues it in a way.

The bender that's given enormous opportunity to raise his wealth and social standing through the official channels is not a security risk.
The bender that holds a grudge from being forever discriminated against, and that learns how to shoot out lightning on his own very much is.

This sounds like more of an off handed remark but I'll take it.

It still is a rare ability like metalbending, only a handful of firebenders in Republic City can use it

It absolutely does. I don't even what they were thinking. Never be so big and successful that you're above being questioned.

So then why weren't they paid more for keeping all the lights on?

>>healing
useless in a fight

>create solid ice constructs
it's just fucking ice. Literally gets destroyed by every other element.

>bloodbend
Just don't be a little bitch and you can overcome it

>plantbend
and?

>purify evil spirits
That won't help against fire to the face.

Again we go back to the fact that it now industrialized.

firebenders go on strike the power goes out