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[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 33 points 10 months ago

It’s like how people thought Air Bending was the weakest bending in Avatar, and then we watched a man suck the air out of someone’s lungs.

Do not mistake the act of reservation as weakness.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Every flamethrower motherfucker is a badass until they are on the floor, gasping and convulsing for air.

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Plus, fire requires oxygen. Their flames are useless if an airbender can just remove the oxygen from the air or suffocate the fire entirely.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Air bending weak? Bro it's the one bending style that doesn't have an ingrained weakness.

No water? Fucked.

No Earth? Fucked.

Too cold/eclipse? Fucked.

No air? Well you're already fucked for different reasons, so unless they develop space travel air benders will never lose their element.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

But, it gets no boosts, like the moon or the sun being stronger. Earth also gets no boosts, but it's balanced by offensive power, whereas Air is a defensive element.

As far as space travel goes, if any benders were involved at all, they'd have to be a team in close concert, because any one of them holds the power to kill everyone on the ship.

But, if they decide to continue the story in that way, I would be 100% down to watch that.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Earth is balanced by having two advanced forms, fire and water only have lightning and blood bending respectively. Earth has metal and lava both, though even if a bender is capable of either they only get one.

I always felt that air kind of got ripped off by not having any kind of advanced form but occasionally they just learned to fly so I guess that's pretty unique and powerful.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Water has healing (and ice, technically). Fire has combustion and also has lava. Also, blood bending is OP

I headcannon combustion bending as a mix of air and fire

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I always forget about combustion bending because of how rare it was.

Ice is just frozen water so idk if it should really count. Healing is a nice benefit but water is also the least likely element to be around unless you live near a major body of it.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Katara healed Aang while riding on Appa. I think they can manage.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Weirdly defensive lol

Water bending is objectively the scarcest element and specifically why they settle at the poles where construction with ice is simple. That's why they have so many benefits like healing and being overpowered with blood bending.

Air and fire are at will, and earth exists wherever humans live since we aren't aquatic. Water definitely has to plan for not being near water, no one else really has to do that kind of a thing.

[-] swab148@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

It's been a minute, but I seem to remember Katara carrying a vial of water with her, maybe that's standard practice among water benders.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm sure it was, but like I said no one else has to do that. Water is the hardest to come by but that's why it's the most utilitarian.

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