>game has elemental damage
>Earth is the strongest

>>716480574 (OP)
and this happens in?

Water will always be the strongest element, it literally encompasses all life.

>>716481372
Nah, fire is the strongest always.

>>716481297
pokemon

>>716481372
>it literally encompasses all life
The introduction of any kind of water manipulation to a fictional universe always has to be heavily nerfed because of that.
I remember Avatar had an episode about someone who was a bloodbender, but you could still do way more fucked up shit if you just had the general power of "can manipulate water".

>>716480574 (OP)
arent they all meant to be chinks and poopjeets
why do they all have superior blue eyes?

>>716480574 (OP)
I don't think Earth has been the strongest element in any game, ever.

>>716481609
?
Who?

>>716481995
I can think of one game.
Earth Stones are broken as fuck in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3.

>>716482140
They made a 3rd Ty? Is it the sidescroller one?

>>716482202
The sidescroller is Ty 4.
Ty 3 is like Ty 2 but they added shitty melee combat into the game. It's still alright, but it's easily the weakest of the trilogy.

>>716482313
Which was your favorite? I've always had strong nostalgia for the first one, but remember actually enjoying 2 more.

>>716481609
They're inspired by real world peoples, but not 1:1.

>>716482058
The Earth Kingdom.

>game has elemental magic
>it's just different color attacks with no actual gameplay difference
>at best, it's just rock-paper-scissors matching element to enemy type

>>716480574 (OP)
>tfw no Toph daughterwife

>>716482461
For me it's 2 > 1 > 3
I know there's a lot of people that prefer the first game since it was a more straightforward game, but I really liked the kart racing, bunyip stuff (except the helicopter), writing and maps in 2.
Plus Burramudgee is a 10/10 hub town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GPGRgiWFk

>fire
damage over time
>ice
freezes enemies
>wind
knocks enemies back
>earth
big fuck you damage
>water
???

>>716483149
Ice is water.
Also water is usually some gay healing spell.

>>716483149
water is heal also ice is water retard

what if... bone bending

>>716481297
Noita and chucking rocks

alright post the toph pics NOW

>>716483287
>bone bending
That's just PHYS bro

>>716483207
>>716483275
>ice is water
>
but I am retarded, I forgot stonechads
>stone
makes you tanky af

>>716481372
>>716481526
Sorry watercucks but fire will always be the strongest element. Fire is heat, heat is energy and life.

>>716481995
Isaac in Golden Sun.

>>716481526
What if you use air to displace the water?
Actually, what if the air bender does a rapid decompression around a person?

>>716481297
Might and Magic VI

>>716483493
bonkles taught me how glass was made

Can't wait to build a Toph commander deck in MTG

>>716483587
>Waterbenders could instantly stop your heart
>Airbenders could collapse your lungs
>Firebenders could cause spontaneous combustion

Imagine being an Earthbender and having no instakill moves.

>>716481297
Quest 64

>>716480574 (OP)
how hard is it to do one beat em up using the IP

>>716481995
Earth is the best element in Rumble.

Unfortunately, Earth is the only element in Rumble.

Still kinda funny how the one reason Earthbenders don't just open the ground so their enemies fall in then close it again and crush them is that it is considered such bad form that it is a war crime in canon.
Poor Lu Ten.

>>716484074
>causes a big hard rock to jam right up your ass as far as it will go
You'll wish you were dead.

>>716484241

>>716484241
Why does she have a peg leg

>>716484241
>Korra fucked the world so hard its a Mad Max desert wasteland of anarchy, spirit monsters and misery with billions of people and animals dead

>>716486136
Being disabled is now chic.

>>716481423
>airbends all the oxygen away from you
How will you start a fire now? Or breathe, for that matter.

>>716486395
It could have happened after Korra died

>>716484074
Didn't some earthbenders learn to bend metal?
>suddenly the iron in your blood forms sharp shards that lacerate your veins

>>716484074
>make the ground split under you and close it again

>>716484241
They're making a "AAA open world RPG" now.

>>716486524
This pic kills me everytime it's posted
The smug grin on the paraplegic rogue and the special olympics wheelchair are peak absurd comedy

>>716486136
Lost her leg in a childhood accident.

>>716484241
>earthbender
>wearing shoes
Reminder that earthbenders in the original show always fought barefoot, even the soldiers. Fucking cowards are terrified of showing bare loli feet.

>>716483149
All I'm seeing here is just gimmicks vs big damage.
Why would you do any gimmicks to your enemies when you could just kill them

>>716486582
Only masters can do something like that. Gyatso is the only confirmed person to kill Firebenders and himself this way and he was both Roku and Aangs airbending teacher. It also punches a huge hole in Aangs rhetoric of “airbenders dont kill” when someone much more enlightened and peaceful than he was killed to defend his culture, home and entire race.

>>716485609
That's not an instakill, that's just how I spend my Friday nights with my Earthbender wife.

>>716486582
>>716486934
I feel depressurization is the logical conclusion to Airbending.

>>716484241
So did the world regress technologically? They go from having mecha tanks to using peg legs?

>>716483149
water should be the one with knock back(waves pushing others back) and wet statuts effect making the enemies slow.
wind should be a chance based element, with chance for double hits and dodges.

>>716484241
>It's real
I don't know why exactly, but this artstyle looks gay af. It got some real tumblr OC vibes.

>>716480574 (OP)
>bleedman

>>716489251
>chance based element
Nobody would use that shit

>>716481297
Golden Sun

Sex with the Avatar girls....

>>716489354
Looks like every other generic Netflix show with that fake anime style.

>>716480574 (OP)
anal sex

>>716489354
it's the same artstyle of that Voltron animation, everyone is using it

>>716480574 (OP)
Elemental damage doesn't make any sense. Both lightning and fire burn, and earth would just bonk you nuff say.

>game has elemental damage
>earth is the weakest

My wife Katara...!

>>716486136
she's a pirate

*stab’s you’re*

>>716486680
It's been done before.

>>716481297
Rumble

>>716483149
Earth sometimes is can stun more and when it's that form it sucks ass

>>716484074
They do have an insta-kill forbidden technique. It's called 'open the earth with a quake and bury them ALIVE' which is about as bad as the Firebender death

>>716483149
>earth
unavoidable unless you're airborne
>water
big fuck you damage

>>716484074
Earthbending does the most raw damage, it'd be the strongest if the show didn't have cartoon physics
You can literally just impale someone if you bent a sharp rock and threw it at them

>>716481297
Quest 64

>>716486710
>>716492186
>*flies*
gg no re
forbidden tech is kinda mid bruh

Canonically strongest elements:
Air > Earth >= Water > Fire

Videogame strongest elements:
Fire > Air > Earth >= Water

Fire is generally associated with offense and burning, which is almost always best, air with speed/cutting. Earth is defense up and water is healing.

>>716492261
It was less cartoon physics and more that people were raised and trained to not perform lethal techniques. If not for that kind of culture of restraint, well, benders would end the world with billions dead!

>>716481526
What even counts as "Water"? Is it the actual H2O molecule? Because by that logic you could even manipulate air (Water Vapor) and solids (Ice).

Is it even the specific combination of Hydrogen and Oxygen? Or can you manipulate Hydrogen, Oxygen, Both?

>>716481609
We don't talk about M Jeet Shyamalan's abomination here

>>716492960
It's called WATER bending, they only bend h2o in liquid state.

>>716494291
blood witch pulls water out of the air

>>716494860
She also pulls water out of plants

>>716480574 (OP)
I don't think I've ever known earth to be the strongest of any elemental gameplay mechanics
earth is usually utility

>>716486934
this show was so fucking good

>>716492960
>>716494291
Katara bends steam and ice.

>>716481372
so you're telling me she can semen bend my balls empty and keep me erect?

>>716480574 (OP)
>hand to hand is just as viable

I'd fuck most of the main cast of the series desu

>>716486395
and there still people hard coping saying korra was a good avatar

>>716488181
It's literally post-apocalypse after the Korra era culminated in total collapse and destruction lmao.

>>716502938
We need a strong fire nation avatar to set this shit right.

>>716503631
Like the last one did..? Well, at least he gave good advice as a force ghost.

>>716484074
>can bend the minerals in your bones and crush your entire skeleton from the inside like an eggshell

>>716486395
>>716502938
>>716503631
The world was heading towards globohomo. Korra did something good by preventing that and making people return to tribe and nature.

>>716483587
Well very advanced airbenders can apparently just remove the air around your head and leave you to suffocate, I wouldn't be surprised if some can do even more fucked up shit than bloodbenders but being a monk people they rarely take that path

Should Meteor be fire or earth element?

>>716494291
They turn water into ice and vice versa all the damn time in atla.

>>716486934
Im still not happy with how Aang handled the firelord. It felt like an asspull for a turtle to show up and give him the silver bullet he needed. Everyone else knew EXACTLY what needed to be done but lucky Aang. Also he fuckin won without needing the gimmick first. He was clearly way overpowered compared to the firelord with the avatar state why even have him take his bending? Even further what was the point of all that training when that one random earth general was right just use the avatar state to win instantly. I care to much about a kids cartoon made over a decade ago.

>>716506865
Both
Double scaling

>>716481526
They really doubled down with the power expansion in LoK. There was a guy who mastered a psychic bloodbending technique which allowed him to bloodbend without doing any of the normal martial arts moves. His kid was able to use that same technique to shut off the ability to bend elements in others by disrupting their ki flow permanently.

And then there was an airbender who killed someone by creating a sphere of no oxygen around someone, suffocating them.

>>716505931
Considering it would take less effort than removing the air around someones head to use the air pressure to instantly crush someones eyes, yeah they can do some really fucked up shit.

Babymaking sex with adult Toph

>>716507716
Or just collapsing someone's lungs by simply pulling all the air out.

>>716492713
I dunno, we've been rewatching it recently and people get thrown around in the Toph intro episode against stone bleachers and the bleachers are the ones that crumble and explode instead of breaking human spines.

>>716492713
We do see what happens when Earthbenders aren't fucking around.
Jet dies due to internal injuries.

>>716507932
>spoiler

>>716481372
God katara looked so good in that outfit. Water tribe girls were made to be fire nation sluts.

>>716481995
Homm3

>>716507597
>Lightning bending was extremely rare and required peace of mind
>LoK lightning benders are everywhere and are just casually using it for work
>Random earthbender learns lavabending

>>716486136
It's a faux disability for the sake of inclusivity.
It will at most impact a few episodes where she angsts over it and never be relevant again.

If they actually had balls they'd do something like HTTYD and mangle her halfway through.

>>716512732
>HTTYD
I heard something about a new film. Is it a remake or a sequel?

>>716512986
Almost beat for beat live action remake with worse casting.
Still made money because it didn't shit all over the source material, which goes to show just how low the bar is nowadays.

>>716491514
You have a very hot wife anon.

>>716511616
>Zuko really thought a downer like Mai was better than this perky EK girl
I would personally slap him upside the head, burn injuries or a broken bone be damned for doing that.

>>716486934
I still don't understand how the fire nation even managed to genocide the air nomads when they could fucking FLY. Didn't even have to fight just retreat until sozin's comet passed and the firebenders were weakened.

>Fire
>Electric
>Ice
The main three. You can add
>Earth
>Wind
>Ice
But some people will put Earth with water or fire, Wind with electric and Ice with water. I think you can have any element separate with its own properties with some synergy in other elements.
>Dark
>Light
>None/Void/etc.
Here's where the cutoff is. Usually Dark/Light balance each other out and None is just a stronger generic element, usually endgame stuff. I like Pokemon's way of handling elements, but to each his own.

>>716502152
It's literally the most common porn of her

>>716484241
I wonder if the next Avatar will be a black kid in a wheelchair.

I can't believe I lived long enough to prefer James Cameron Avatar.

Over a decade later, I am still mad

>>716486582
This pic must blow your mind.

>>716484074
Firebenders' fire comes from within and shoots out from thier bodys they can't cause sc. Still, fighting one means some nasty burns if they know how to fight.

>>716484074
Earthbenders can make the ground swallow you

>>716480574 (OP)
How did the firebenders conquer half the continent or whatever? In hindsight, they are the weakest benders

>>716507110
Same, it was an asspull and a half and shit on a lot of the established worldbuilding in the final episode. I wonder if Nick itself pulled rank on the 13 year old protag straight up killing the Fire Lord.
Beyond that the fight itself was garbage, good spectacle but still garbage.
>first Ozai dominates Aang again and again
>then Aang gets pegged in his spine by a random edge
>Aang dominates Ozai until the fight is over and laser shit happens

The final Agni Kai was much better in comparison.

>>716480574 (OP)
Can use all kinds of elements and combos OR just shoot a giant boulder and explode enemies with one shot. Good game.

>>716512591
>Random earthbender learns lavabending
Lol werent firebenders doing that in the original at the volcano?

>>716484074
>earthbend
>metalbend
>lavabend
these shit just need to touch you to kill you]

>>716481526
Bloodbending was the show's way of addressing all the "well actually if you control water you could do all sorts of fucked up things to people" nerds.

Basically "yes this is a thing, but waterbenders only have the power to do that when they are being powerboosted by the full moon". Kinda annoying that you still manage to get this kind of nerd comments even when the show took it into account.

>>716513180
Thank you! My wife is very hot...

>>716481372
Carbon is in earth.
So it also encompasses all of life

>manipulating blood by yanking around the iron inside it
Not technically blood bending but just as good.

>>716481297
ALL OF THEM
>>716484074
Oh yeah? Watch this.
>Earthbender summons asbestos to give you cancer
>Earthbender summons pocket sand that never gets out of your eyes causing permanent blindness due to lacerations
>Earthbender speedily fills your lungs with fine minerals to suffocate you
>forms the minerals up into small sharp rocks and spikes
>makes them shoot out in all directions inside your lungs like a grenade perforating the tissue and making it impossible to continue living
>Earthbender sand coffins you
Heh nothing personal kid ;]

>>716486582
>ignites the oxygen in your lungs on fire before you can Airbend my lungs

>>716518083
>>forms the minerals up into small sharp rocks and spikes
You already said asbestos

>>716480574 (OP)
>Game has elemental damage
>Earth does bludgeoning
I mean, I GUESS

>>716518036
>toph the anal commander has a wiener now and is coming for me
uh oh...

>>716517935
>Earth bends all life to serve as my army
>Earth bends any creature to sculpt a lifeform i see fit to my design
>become the demiurge

>all because of one element

>>716481452
Ground is actually one of the weakest types in terms of base power now. Earthquake's paltry base 100 and Earth Power's 90 puts it well below most other types. The only types with a lower upper limit are Dark, Psychic, Ghost (on the special side), Steel, Fairy, and Poison.

Dragon, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Bug, Flying, Normal, Rock, and Fighting all hit harder.

>>716481372
Air is the strongest

>>716484241
there is one, it just got delisted
it was mid

What if you did fartbending lol.

>>716518591
the character controls nicely but it's even worse than dmc3 for punching bag-tier enemies, i think it gets unfairly called the worst in the genre a lot though when it's just mediocre and uninteresting while there are a lot that are basically unplayable

>>716518701
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efKw7yf_gb8

>>716518482
Earthquake is supposed to be perfection. A completely balanced move that lacks any riders (ok some but that's negligible). It basically says a move with 100 power and 100 accuracy should cost 15 PP. If you want more, something else needs to be reduced. Want more power? You get a stat loss. Want more riders? Reduce the accuracy. Want it just to be better? Call it a signature move and only give it to Legendaries

It amazes me how the og show is the only good thing about this ip.
The early games were just barely okay, some of the other games suck mayor ass. Korra itself was a huge mess that not only introduced awful ideas for the world and kinda fucked it in general, and the story felt like it was all over the place too. Lastly the netflix adaptation that almost rivals the shitty live action movie in quality.
I have zero faith that the adult aang movie will be half as good as the original show and I expected the new show to fuck the worldbuilding even further than Korra did. At least I can always rewatch the old show and appreciate the shit out of it for what it was even now.

>>716518343
Are you saying you can't take what you intended to give?

>>716507110
>>716515970
I'm of two minds about the asspull. On one hand, it kind of ruins the drama and dilemma to have him just randomly discover a clean way out of it. On the other hand, it fits the themes of the show and it's a good message to send to kids to do your utmost to uphold your values, stick to your convictions, defend your traditions, and respect your culture. The drama of being stuck between two different duties (as the Avatar and as the last of the Air Nomads) is cool.

They should have done a better job setting it up. Seed more hints about the lion turtle throughout the show, talk about energy bending beforehand, have it be an established thing that some spirits can fuck with somebody's bending, etc. And then don't have Aang sleepwalk to the "island" but actively choose to seek it out on a gamble (even though it's a myth). So you don't take away his agency for learning the solution and have it just fall into his lap fortuitously. It would make it feel earned and like him defeating Ozai by taking his bending is an expression of Aang's efforts and personality, and a reward for him sticking to his principles.

TL;DR: It's not that the energy bending itself is bad it was just way too lazy.

>>716480574 (OP)
Toph feeta

>>716502938
Well, technically this is the kind of balance that the Avatar was meant to uphold. I hope this nu Avatar does cool earthbending attacks with her peg leg.

>>716518181
Similar method of entry but different results and materials. One is Asbestos which is the slow death one. Shrapnel grenade lungs is the fast one and can use other minerals.

Literally unironically unfixable

Toph foot job.

>>716520198
Doesn't she get "fixed" in the comics or something

>>716484074
>he doesn't know

>>716480574 (OP)
For me, it's her yellow top

>>716484074
You know how Earthbenders throw melon-sized rocks and characters in Avatar just casually smack them aside like they're volleyballs or something? Yeah, in real life, you get ragdolled and turned inside out like a ripe tomato.

>>716520198
Because she is absolutely perfect

>>716520875
god i wish girls with flat chests were real

>earth users becomes unkillable at end-game
Kino

>>716515450
Technology. Thermal based abilities naturally lend themselves to metallurgy, engineering, and other industrial purposes.

>>716483287
>>716484074
>Earthbender bends the calcium in your bones and moves them into your kidneys
>Victim suffers from both osteoporosis and kidney stones
>>716484241
>Earthbending twins
Is it the guy in the back?

>>716483149
>water
absorbing. as in you buff the water with fire damage that scalds enemies with boiling water or lightning damage that shocks wet enemies or poison damage that soaks through the water into the enemy. also fuckloads of physical damage and knockback, can debuff through rust, instakill through drowning and absorb the force of projectiles headed your way. and of course there's blood/life/acid/ice magic, which are really just subsets of water magic. truly the GOAT element

>>716520875
I liked this.

>>716502615
she's a humanbender

>>716515970
Watergirls are so hot bros

>>716517803
It happens because people see the limitation as completely arbitrary. Even in a magical fantasy setting, the spiritual implications of trying to dominate a living body never occur to them because matter is matter, people are inherently no different to objects to the modern mind.

>>716523504
I feel like this would look great if they didn't make the makeup purposely gaudy.

>>716512732
>faux disability
Why faux? If there is one thing Avatar consistently does right, it's disability. From book 1's Mechanist's wheelchair-bound son, to Toph's blindness, to the armless waterbender girl from Korra, to Korra herself (she's mentally retarded)

>>716520685
Earth benders don't control metal, metalbending uses the imperfections within metal, hence why they can't bend platinum
Where they draw the line over which minerals are metal and which aren't? No idea
Honestly if you're picky about it, aren't bones mineral? Couldn't an earthbender bend whatever minerals count as "earth" in someone?

Question
Is shit considered earth?
Can I bend shit at my enemies?
Can I bend shit inside my enemies?

>>716524198 See >>716522824

>>716524236
Shit is organic material so no. Begs the question whether you could bend oil or coal though

>>716524318
Didn't see that, but bones are probably too obvious and creators wouldn't allow that
However there probably is still something that can be bent, not shit as the other dude said

>>716517803
And then Korra screwed it up loool

>>716524236
Shit is considered organic since diets in this world would be conisdered more natural. So no element can bend shit. The only ways I can think the elements could interact with it are as followed.
>Waterbenders bend the liquid in shit or toilet water to hurt the enemy
>Firebenders ignite the sulfur to burn anus and balls
>Airbenders bend the gasses and force farts or "ejection seat" prank :)
>Earthbenders could theoretically bend any minerals in poop and maybe pick up specks of shit with them but otherwise no.
The only way Earthbenders might be able to do something more effective with shit is if the enemy purposely eats rocks to strengthen their core or if they swallowed a ton of microscopic minerals during a previous fight.

>>716524448
>>716524236
You might be able to waterbend it, though.

>>716524448
they were flinging coal in that floating prison episode

Adult Toph was pretty cute. I wish we got to see more of her at this age. I wonder who she would even consider sleeping with to have two kids from.

So Water benders can control Steam and Sweat, probably fuck with your salivary glands too. I wonder if they can control your stomach's acid or water you just drank.
Can fire benders alter body heat? Causing someone to have a fever/heat stroke? They can also control lighting which is absurdly OP.
Can Air benders suck the air out of a room? Or bend the air in your lungs? Can they clean polluted air?
>>716524236
No, but you could probably add small stones to someone's meal and then fuck them up from the inside.

>>716480574 (OP)
>is the jobber element in 99% of media
how the fuck do we fix the presentation of fire as an element?

>>716525281
Adult Toph looks like a man

>>716525281
>the cute tomboy from your childhood grew up and sleeps around with randos
korra is a hate letter to avatar fans

>>716524236
>>716525065
>be the avatar
>become a multimillionaire by offering people instant, painless constipation treatment

>>716525068
Troublemaking waterbending kid pastime is making people poop themselves in public places :]

>>716525397
all the best women do

>>716525397
>Adult Toph looks like a man
basado

Should Ice and Water be 1 type of bending/power or not? Should Earth and Metal? Personally I like them separated.
>>716525339
Find uses that aren't combat related.

>>716525423
Don't forget that she became a terrible mother who refused to actually see her children for what they were, neglecting and passing blame off on the older one to make things easier. She was even a corrupt cop, allowing the younger one to get away with crimes just to not look bad herself.

It's like the Korra writers forgot how we met Toph and how she had to deal with her own family not seeing her. It was the whole allegory of Toph being blind, but could see the world around her, while it was her parents who were blind to their own daughter's strength.

>>716525712
I think water bending shouldn't bend ice, maybe freeze water, but afterwards the bender can't use it anymore
Water bending is supposed to use your body's flow, if the water is not flowing, that shouldn't work
But it would be interesting to imagine an earth bender teaching a water bender to bend ice, or an air bending teaching them to bend vapor

>>716525745
Korra didn't even try to understand the old characters, it just made them what it needed them to be for drama. Not the same writers so it's not canon.

>>716484074
>>716492472
Of course it's ultimately what the writers/designers think suits the story/gameplay.
Just think about slings and how effective even just throwing rocks can be compared to the force/pressure for water/wind to be equally damaging or how difficult it can be to actually set things on fire without heavy accelerant use.

>>716492960
Tbh you're going at it from the wrong perspective if you're thinking in terms of science and chemistry.
This is more mystical elements where there can be philosophical properties attached beyond the physical.
That's why healing is under water.
That's why, at least at first, the explanation for metal bending was toph recognizing and manipulating mineral impurities(earth) in the metal instead of just realizing metal is a kind of earth.
Heck they even gave lighting to fire bending even though arguably that's equally or moreso an air thing.

>>716501945
Yeah, when they can freely switch states of matter like that you're just gonna frustrate yourself trying apply real physics.

>>716526093
boobs WAY too big, they need to be like, 0/10ths that size

>>716525942
>maybe freeze water, but afterwards the bender can't use it anymore
But how would they freeze water without the cold? That should be something only a bender with both Water and Wind skills can do. Maybe after they learn earth bending, then with the combine ability of water and earth, they can bend ice. Lava bending should have been something only a bender skilled in both water and fire could do, while the hardened magma would require earth and fire. Someone with all four elements, like the avatar, could basically shape the world and everything in it. It's a shame Korra just killed the whole franchise moving forward, so we can't get other benders.

>>716526012
God, that series gimped the Avatar franchise's world at the end of every season. They wrote it so she could merge the spirit world with the living world (fucking why?), and a whole bunch of other nonsense, then eventually had her kill the avatar line.

>>716526198
>But how would they freeze water without the cold?
By manipulating the molecules, of course that would be too scientific, but there probably would be some explanation like tensing up your body or some shit
But after that it would be very similar earth bending, since you're dealing with a solid

>>716507110

>It felt like an asspull for a turtle to show up
It felt like a rushed as pull because it literally was.
I don't have any source saved but they originally planned a much bigger finale along with wrapping up some loose ends like the zuko mom side plot.
They ended not getting enough episodes though so they came up with the turtle as a deus ex machina fix.
>Also he fuckin won without needing the gimmick first. He was clearly way overpowered compared to the firelord with the avatar state
Well yeah, they were both firebenders empowered by the comet and even if you wanna say ozai is generally the greatest firebender in the world that's only non-avatarstate nevermind all aangs other elements.

>>716486848
Maybe she just kicked the soles out like Toph did.

>>716507597
>And then there was an airbender who killed someone by creating a sphere of no oxygen around someone, suffocating them.
There's a theory that aang's mentor used some vacuum technique with how they found his corpse surrounded by dead fire nation soldiers(damn ozai, not even a burial after all these years?)

>>716486848
She's not a fighter yet, she's just a kid.

>>716525148
I don't think there were Earthbenders in the Boiling Rock

>>716523686
That's the thing though. Even if you ignore the spiritual aspect (despite that being a massive part of how the world in the show works) there's still a physical logic to the idea that your ability to control water is dampened when the water is in an impure medium.
>>716524720
Not really. It's basically complaining that a villain had a special power.

>>716486767
>AAA open world RPG
Avatar is one of those franchises where any kind of vidya concept about it sounds like it would be cool as fuck. But 9/10 chance that game is going to turn out to be ass because Avatar seems to be cursed to never have anything good outside of the original series.

>>716527117
I mean, it had a few decent licensed GBA games.

>>716525281
God I wish I was Sokka

>>716526885
The other floating prison episode from the first book, with earthbenders.

>>716527117
The comics were alright, but they should've been a movie

>>716483149
Have you ever been swimming in the ocean and then suddenly knocked back or pushed into the water by a wave? Its like that plus you get all wet and soggy.
>>716513349
They really didn't want to give up their temple.
>>716512591
Boomerbenders got powercreeped by newfag benders :(

>>716527306
>be the fun adventure guy
>forced into bureaucracy
>died like a bitch from getting stabbed by some random
>maidenless at 40+ years old

>>716480574 (OP)
Waterbending is objectively the strongest element because you get:
>Waterbending / hydrokinesis
>Icebending
>Plantbending
>Spiritbending
>Mudbending
>Mist / Steambending
>Bloodbending, which can take away other people's bending. Bloodbending is also literally unbeatable if you're not a bloodbender yourself or an avatar
Utterly insane lineup of skills.

The next strongest element is airbending
>Airbending / Aerokinesis
>Flight
>Rudementary Telekinesis since you can push and pull stuff towards you
>Astral Projections
>Rapid, high pressurized wind that can cut through wood, cars, and beasts. In the books, Yangchen apparently split a sea with this technique
>Can bend the air out of people's lungs to kill them

>>716528085
Forgot to mention that waterbending ALSO has healing and snowbending

>>716512591
It's always harder for the pioneers. Look at athletics, how moves that 30 years ago were considered impossible are now done by everyone just to not fall behind.
Also consider that it might be hard for just a random firebender you pick off the street to cast lightning, but there might be naturals that just have affinity for doing it easily- in fact, Azula might've been one, she most definitely doesn't have a peace of mind at any point in the show. Meanwhile, Aang, for example, never actually learned to cast it, only redirect.

>>716480574 (OP)
>game has elemental damage
>wind is the strongest
>the wind rep is also a cute ojou

>>716526591
It took Zaheer like a full minute or something to kill with that technique, doesn't seem very useful in a battle. The better thing to do with a vacuum is to create and release it rapidly, causing shockwaves.

>>716528318
Or just use vaccuum cavitation near opponent's ears to discombobulate them.

>>716528318
Meme. The best airbending technique is the slash.
https://youtu.be/oF-3gh4nFrM
Skip to a 2 minutes and 25 seconds in. Aang literally cuts a creature in half with a rapid slash of wind. This is by far the most deadly technique in the show, but Aang never uses it on people because he's a pacifist.
We see him use it in season 1 to shatter a boulder before he's learned earthbending. And we see him use it again in the Legend of Korra flashback when he confronts Amon's father, and uses it to destroy his car

>>716528401
you could probably give everyone in a room a concussion and blow out their eardrums by making a basketball sized vacuum and releasing it. air pressure is no joke.

>>716513349
You're starting to see the truth

>>716480574 (OP)
airchads, our response?

>>716528552
It's really no deadlier than anything else. Katara cut shit up with water, she could chop a human in half. Toph could squish you like a bug. Zuko could melt your face off. At the end of the day, you have to keep in mind it was a Nickelodeon show.

>>716528774
It's sharper though and it's basically a one hit kill move. Firebenders need multiple hits to kill someone unless they're using lightning. Waterbending doesn't seem sharp enough to cut people in half. I do agree Earthbenders though, they could shoot earth bullets at you, crush you with a bolder, or impale you with a spike

>>716513349
https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Specialized_bending_techniques#Flight
>Flight, also called weightlessness, is a complex and extremely rare skill that has only ever been demonstrated by two known airbenders, Guru Laghima and Zaheer. It is referred to as the highest level of airbending, and was such a unique ability, that it was believed to only exist in legends.
No they couldn't, if you're talking about flying bison then remember the fire nation had probably the best artillery in all four nations (something that was probably lost by LOA, or Zuko didn't have it in his ship)

>>716529029
He was probably talking about with the gliders they use to fly

>bruh why don't you just decompress your enemy's head
Because pre-Korra most benders cannot. Reminder that Toph isn't just a strong bender, she's a prodigy and one of the strongest in-universe during Aang's time, the average earth bender genuinely cannot touch her. Aang's entire team is made up of pretty fuckig powerful benders, and even Zuko who for most of the show is considered a fuckup compared to his dad or sister, is still leagues above some random mook.
Korra fucked it all up with the powerscaling but before that insane feats of bending or special bending required exceptional skill and/or specific circumstances.

>>716513349
Not everyone is a bender. And benders abandoning non-benders when they could instead protect the non-benders by tossing the non-flying invaders off the cliff would've been a bit of a dick move

>>716529226
>nothin' personnel lil niggair

>>716528774
>Zuko could melt your face off
He got his own face melted off lmao

>>716529398
Toph: Greatest Earthbender of her generation.
Katara: Greatest Waterbender of her generation
Zuko: Above Average Firebender that knows the true form of firebending because he was taught by dragons
Sokka: Brilliant strategist and an elite swordsman

Aang's team was insanely strong when you think about it.

>>716529029
Given what we see during the comet, it's not unbelievable that they just had firebenders launch long range blasts to shoot them out of the sky or they jet through the air after them. No need for bizarre claims of lost artillery technology. Still, it would be improbable to catch every last one during the time frame of the comet, even if you planned it all very well. It's too easy for a handful to escape and then flee to somewhere safe like Ba Sing Se. I think there's some comic that talks about baiting out survivors by laying ambushes at Air Nomad shrines sprinkled around (the comic is about Zhao trying to catch Aang in such a way), but that's a long shot for finishing off a systematic genocide.

>>716484074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAcs2uROaoI

Why is Firebending so inconsistent? Sometimes in the show, it burns everything it touches, and it spreads around like a real fire until it's put out. Other times, people are hit by it and they're completely unharmed. Like a firebender will shoot someone with a blast, and that person will fall or stagger back, but the fire will then be gone, and they won't be burned at all.
Other times, a firebender will shoot fire at the ground to fly or pull off an acrobatic maneuver. And the fire they shoot just...vanishes.
Why is this the case? It's like firebending is sometimes treated as a simple concussive blast with no burning or heat properities

>>716528970
>Waterbending doesn't seem sharp enough to cut people in half
Ice, nigga

>>716529817
because it's a kid's show and you can't have people getting fried left and right

>>716528653
That's insane. What next, was the war in Ba Sing Se faked too?

I stopped watching Korra after the first season because it was retarded and the villain of the season just gets blown up by some other guy. How'd Korra cause societal collapse?

>>716529782
Fair, but you gotta keep the plot going, there probably were air benders running around before Aang woke up, but the Fire Nation was an empire with influence over every nation, they probably persecuted the survivors

>>716529817
I think of it like a blowtorch, they can fire it as strong as they want, with a flame as dense as they want by customizing the focal point and power

>>716528970
Couldn't the water benders just do highly pressurized jets of water?

>>716529817
>It's like firebending is sometimes treated as a simple concussive blast with no burning or heat properities
Because...it is.
What powerscaling/featsfags want and what the writers want are two different things. Writers are trying to tell a story, and are willing to be inconsistent in their depiction of the physical rules of the world in order tell that story. If you're trying to show Fire Nation cruelty, obviously a runaway inferno engulfing a village (with no people shown being burned) is one way to do that. But you're not going to show random citizens or soldiers horribly burning to death ever, because it's too macabre and dark for a kid's show.

>>716529817
Because it's a cartoon. Same shit happens in anime. Only rarely do you get something like FMA where they take the fire guy's power seriously and he roasts people to a crisp.

>>716529817
Sometimes that is what you need. Remember when Zuko got pissed off chasing Aang, lost the little cool he had back then and burned down an entire village? Fire Nation soldiers would be taught to explicitly not do that unless absolutely necessary.

>>716530218
Wait, fuck, I misremember it. It was Zhao burning down his fleet.

>>716530054
By being a retarded karen and going into the spirit world to fuck shit up there too, because the normal world wasnt enough.

Is Aang still a naive pacifist idiot when he grows up or does he finally acknowledge that sometimes you just have to rip a dude's air out of his lungs?

>>716530745
He basically energybends crooks without authorization after going through a weird trial process.

>>716530004
It's a pretty fucking fishy story.
>First time the city was supposedly breached, the entire Fire Nation army just stopped and turned back because the general's son died in battle and he got super sad
>Second time the city was supposedly breached, it was by a fucking mile long drill made from enough steel to build an entire fucking fleet
>Third time the city was supposedly breached, it was by the Fire Nation's teenage princess and her gal pals who disguised themselves as some made-up ceremonial warriors from some fuck off nowhere island
>And then she somehow convinced the head of the secret police to overthrow the government
>And then she somehow convinced the head of the secret police to overthrow himself
>Oh and also she killed the Avatar (but he got better)
I can't believe the [[[White Lotus]]] shills writing the history books expect us to believe this shit.