Avatar's Secondary Bending Explained

Why Secondary Bending Skills in Avatar are OP
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Avatar the Last Airbender pushes the creative limits of its magic system. To incorporate martial arts with the elements was a stroke of genius and its something we have not seen since. Each element is represented by an entire culture and nation. Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire and will and the energy and drive to achieve what they want. Earth is the element of substance. The people of the Earth Kingdom are diverse and strong. They are persistent and enduring. Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly concerns and found peace and freedom. Also, they apparently had pretty good senses of humor. Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribes are capable of adapting to many things. They have a sense of community and love that holds them together through anything. These mantras help make the world of Avatar feel lived in and real to the viewer. But what makes this world truly special is the ability to still create new things in an already rich world. Each element has within it its own sub elements of bending. Lavabending, Lightning, Bloodbending, all of these were new ways to bend created by special characters within the world of Avatar, and today we are gonna take a deep dive and explain each one.
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[@guardiantree8879]

Sub bending honorable mentions: Plant/swamp bending, sand bending, mud bending, ice/snow bending (the first water benders only worked with water, they must have learned how to bend ice later.) and spiritual tracking might be a sub of energy bending (what aang did in the swamp to find Appa & Momo, Guru also used it to help Appa find Aang.). There’s probably a few more I’m forgetting.

[@ZaBalance123]

Cloud and kyoshi’s glass bending

[@MrGearhead308]

CBR: every water bender is a healer Joeng Joeng: r u sure about that

[@_baguette_3769]

I’m pretty sure all water benders can heal, but they need to learn how to

[@grassfedbeef]

Joeng Joeng is a fire bender

[@rencelen5186]

@@grassfedbeefJeong jeong learned water tribe culture because he said fire can burn everything it touches and you can see his fire bending is verry fluid and he even said Katara is a healer

[@hazyanimal9816]

He meant that every waterbender has the potential to heal, not that they all do

[@justin_g6187]

Spin off: Bolin - The last Lavabender

[@henrybieker341]

Omg haha yess

[@elxja_5399]

Now that is something I’d pay to see

[@ponkgers1185]

well tehre are multiple earthbenders so that wouldnt be a good show

[@thestrategistguy7083]

Lol

[@Hyperscale_Gaming]

Spin off Zold - The last Lightningbender

[@Seetiyan]

Two things forgotten: Earth: sand bending and Fire: energy reading. They can actually do some (spiritual) healing with it too, according to the Kyoshi books. I'd love to see in a future generation more airbenders learning to spiritually project. Freedom even from their body. And if an airbender could pull someone else's spirit out of their body? That would be SO cool.

[@davidcornell390]

sand is just small rock so it doesn't count

[@anyarzubinahmadanyarzubina3112]

That is pretty dark

[@ricericebaby7021]

There is also crystal bending

[@King_Tenacious_]

@@davidcornell390 no it counts.

[@BrandonsAscension]

Thought sand bending was said to be drawn from airbending ... or maybe just in similar technique

[@NicholasJScott]

Sand Bending could be considered a deadly sub element! Like in a Desert a sand bender could literally bury you in the Desert. Imagine a Lava bender and Sand Bender combo where you turn the ground into sand bury someone then heat up the sand into glass, Kiyoshi did show glass bending in a novel but removing glass from her skin

[@Whensheopenupthatwindow]

Don’t you mean Gaara?

[@Shiki265]

@@Whensheopenupthatwindow bruh

[@Hydrastic-bz5qm]

earthbenders can bury people in normal earth. they don't need to sandbend.

[@bluebloxbang6105]

They forgot plant bending

[@sofian8571]

@@bluebloxbang6105 And ice bending

[@petergohan]

i always thought that the sub bending had something to do with two elements, like Lava being Fire + Earth, or Combustion being Air + Fire, and so on.

[@marethyu_77gamer93]

I mean lavabending can probably be achieved by an Avatar even without using the subbending, by straight up using two bendings at once

[@coyotestylepro1150]

Logically you are correct. Makes no sense that Lava bending is strictly an Earth style. Should be Fire + Earth. Good point about combustion as well.

[@davidcastro5307]

@@coyotestylepro1150 lava bending is strictly an Earth style because it's just heating earth. Like ice bending or steam bending are only Water styles.

[@coyotestylepro1150]

@@davidcastro5307 Those styles you mentioned should also be hybrids because an earth or water bender shouldnt be able to add heat to anything. Itd be like fire bender being able to bend steam bend or something XD

[@davidcastro5307]

@@coyotestylepro1150 sorry but what sense does that make? When Katara turns water into ice what two elements is she using?? She's just using water in solid form. Just like Bolin uses earth in liquid form when he lava bends

[@murks9142]

Can we talk about how he said only 4 confirmed lava benders. But we see Roku do it twice. Plus they are showing clips of roku lava bending

[@Url1a1]

Abd kyoshi

[@jaydenparrott3055]

I think he meant to say the only known 4 were Bolin, ROKU, Kyoshi, and Ghazan, not Sato.

[@AKAL-th6dl]

I think because avatars can fire bend and therefore control energy and heat, turning earth to lava isn’t as difficult as relying on the strength of your earth bending alone (Gazan and Bolin). It’s similar how fire benders can boil tea

[@uhhimforcetosubimabotindee9781]

@Kirsten Lamb they don’t

[@uhhimforcetosubimabotindee9781]

@@AKAL-th6dl that’s not true because that would mean it would of been child play to angg for bend earth

[@ynoelielbasco8768]

This the one of the children's cartoon that anime lovers love, The plot, The characters, The powers and The universe it is so well thought!!! We need more sequel, not just the comics but a real series

[@rollerbladingbuddies8829]

Him: there are only 4 lavebenders *also shows Roku Lavabending

[@ygotsvlog3762]

Yeah

[@PerryTheSadapus]

Fac

[@zahiemvg3607]

Was thinking the same thing

[@condenabo]

I presume that he's channeling his past lives' ability to lavabend through the avatar state, and might not be able to do it outside of that, but boh

[@andrediyoka9422]

@@condenabo this was most likely the case since he did so with such ease and didn’t even think twice about lava. Just instinctively bent it

[@kaitlynboss3497]

I want to write an AU where Hama didn't get revenge on the firebenders and instead fled back to the Northern Water Tribe and was Katara's waterbending teacher. I think it'd be really interesting to explore how the story would change.

[@Sthuthukile]

I don't mean this in a bad way, but you should watch the show just a few more times. If you have, I apologize. But I don't consider the first run enough to truly capture the meaning of the show, you'll find there's a lot of things you overlooked or misinterpreted and you'll change your stance on certain conflicts and issues... I welcome new fans but I always encourage to rewatch at least once.

[@wisdomdibia1811]

They honestly don't care they just want to make money this guy just reads the script and they can't even search about what's in the script

[@galactic3296]

"She live in the southern water TEMPLE"

[@philderp3326]

Smh

[@rigorrigor304]

Yeah there are a lot of mistakes in this vid. Not much research was done in making it, SMH indeed

[@fredrickthugless5434]

So many mistakes 😱😱

[@Flufux]

That gives me Ocarina of Time flashbacks.

[@connorsinclair7021]

but earth has rock, lava, metal, sand and crystals including DIMONDS so kinda inpenitrible armor

[@xiondavis969]

Sand isn't a sub element

[@connorsinclair7021]

@@xiondavis969 ya its a bendible element by earth benders

[@nashondonik]

Water bending also has ice bending!

[@citron4389]

@@xiondavis969 no

[@herobrineisamyth9409]

If you hit diamond armor like you suggest with a sledgehammer, it will shatter

[@jonathanhunter8076]

I hate that in these videos no one comments on sandbending, steambending, glassbending and all the other sub elements and mixed bending styles such as the fact that mudbending can be done by earth and water benders

[@lycturnal9546]

Pretty sure glassbending isnt canon so that’s why it isnt talked about. Sand and steambending are lesser talked about due to how few appearances they had in ATLA and LOK. Mudbending is also rarely showed.

[@jonathanhunter8076]

@@lycturnal9546 they still exist and deserve to be spoke about and glassbending features on the wiki so it most be canon 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@agbaya5314]

@@jonathanhunter8076 heck is glass bending? Glass isn’t earth.

[@jonathanhunter8076]

@@agbaya5314 glass is made from sand, sand is earth and is able to be manipulated by sand Enders, have a look on the wiki

[@jonathanhunter8076]

Before anyone else comments about glassbending - it was confirmed in shadows of Kyoshi that earthbenders can control glass

[@MegaMrASD]

I'm still kind of on the fence about bloodbending. Sure taking control of the water in one's blood makes sense, but lifting up Katara by her blood? I'm pretty sure that much force would just straight up rip the blood out of her veins or even completely out of her body (not to mention something as huge and heavy as a Bison in Legend of Korra). And even if your veins could stand up to the pressure of your blood being moved about and your body being levitated mid-air, I'm 99% sure that that would also mean you stop the person's blood circulation which would just outright kill them.

[@lizanya6433]

i think it works the same way regular water bending works. if a waterbender bent the water in a balloon to lift it, the balloon wouldn’t pop. they’re lifting the water the same way they would lift any other water, so the person’s weight wouldn’t cause them to stay grounded, which would result in them exploding and dying. their body moves with the water, not the other way around.

[@MorganSaph]

your body is made up of 60% water. Bloodbending controls over half the body, meaning that only 40% of the bodies weight would be acting against that 60%. no way her blood would get ripped out. Plus, with your blood system being a (hopefully) closed system, the only way to stop circulation would be to stop the heart. Remember that a bloodbender is picking you up by your veins and they run through pretty much every milimeter of your body.

[@andylozano17]

There are two key differences between Sparky-sparky Boom Man's combustion bending and P'Li's. Sparky-sparky Boom Man's Combustion bending takes a lot of time to reload. In addition, its trajectory is excusively straight; he cannot make it follow a curved path. P'Li has a better control of it as she can change the direction of her combustion bending trajectory at will. In addition to that, we see from episode 3x12 that she reloads a lot, lot faster than Sparky-sparky Boom Man does, so fast that she manages to keep the metalbenders at bay despite being completely surrounded.

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Can you airbend the Oxygen out of someone's lungs?

[@trevon5653]

Yes

[@Gashnaw]

Yes, they did in the show.

[@dr.c6260]

Indubitably

[@niceasf7038]

Yes

[@bettyblue1465]

Yepp, Zaheer air bended the oxygen out of the Earth Queen

[@Kate-mi2kv]

i KNOW i just did not hear him call princess yue princess you 🤦‍♀️

[@cmassarini3308]

I thought Amon bended himself so he could move toward Tarlok

[@xiondavis969]

Don't listen to them 😑

[@a.jthomas6132]

I feel bad for Azula for being use a prodigy instead being the daughter to Firelord Ozai. If her mother Ursa raised well and given her love, her life would of been different. This Fire Princess deserve to have her Redemption Arc.

[@praisengbede4306]

😂😂😂 It like saying the Joker should have a redemption arc

[@nawfal3928]

There would of been in season 4 but they couldn’t do s4

[@stefanocremonini2656]

NO NO NO. Azula MUST be evil,corrupted and crazy.

[@Motercycelgy222]

Yea she was abused

[@nawfal3928]

@@stefanocremonini2656 but...WHY

[@tgwdjaa5936]

I've always thought Lavabending was a rare form of firebendin.

[@iGottakissU]

Lava is in a way really hot liquid dirt as for fire is really hot anything else except dirt. Like you cannot put a brick on fire.

[@lolitagregorio130]

Heat bending is also a sub skill of firebending, Sozin used it to fight the volcano

[@elijahzsori7935]

Roku fought the volcano and he used lava bending which is a type of earth bending

[@wyattscott4208]

Yeah also when Zuko melted the surface ice in Siege of the North and when Iron heated his tea.

[@deanmark3636]

@@elijahzsori7935 he was a avatar?

[@christianearlsabijon3430]

I think people forget that Ice bending is kinda also a second form of bending.

[@charliehallden5940]

But it’s kinda not tho

[@marethyu_77gamer93]

Well in a way yes, it's just that it seemingly is shared between all water benders, thus considered as a part of waterbending rather than a sub bending style

[@MorganSaph]

@@charliehallden5940 Icebending is to Waterbending what Lavabending is to Earthbending. It's a sub-bending discovered by controlling molecules

[@lordvenjix3757]

Azula deserved a redemption arc in Avatar The Last Airbender

[@percent1303]

Yes

[@breadburner7276]

yes

[@kabob8922]

No that was zukos role

[@sarthakgupta1853]

She is getting it in the comics

[@elihawkins5686]

No she didn't. She was the perfect villain.

[@RE-THiNk.]

Him: "also they apparently had pretty good senses of humor" Me: "i see what you did there you slick bastard"

[@PerryTheSadapus]

Remember when zuko tried lightning bending I thing combustion bending is a thing most people can learn

[@leoflames2732]

bruh only thers only 2 combustion benders in all theres sparky boom boom man and P,li

[@d.d717]

Spreading lies

[@DERTHIX]

I'm just gonna say that Toph could probably lavabend... She's a damn legend

[@Lumintorious]

I really wanted Sound-Bending (or Wave-Bending) to be a subset of airbending so bad in LoK.

[@Acesoap]

if it ever got continued i wouldn't be surprised. Air Bending lost so much momentum due to the fire nation, with more time to grow more subsets would emerge

[@GHanBax]

Hello, I would like to share my elemental analysis from both shows. These specific aspects make the show more interesting to me since they’re digging more on the depth and science of the elements, which is the show’s key feature, and how even the character of benders could affect (or improve) their bending. Each element on how it was used, how it was controlled, and how it was understood, was based on the essence of the element. Like how earth benders are more stiff, water benders more fluid, air benders more free, and fire benders more aggressive. Anyway, check out more below to see my extractions and observations on each element. Special Bending: Water - Blood (Element of Change - The challenge is adapting to density - improve the capability of the element) Earth - Metal (Element of Substance - The challenge is sensing scattered earth -connect with the element) Fire - Lightning (Element of Power - The challenge is controlling concentrated energy - increase the intensity of the element) Air - Flight (Element of Freedom - The challenge is independence from attachments - become the element) Sub Bending Skills: Through Change of forms and phases; Isolation of expression; Extraction; Molecular movement and manipulation Water - Ice, Mist, Plants Earth - Crystals, Sand, Lava Fire - Combustion, Heat Air - Pressure, Sound (More under complementary and intermediate elements) Spiritual Bending Specific Skills: Achievable through the bender’s - Character, Personality, Meditation, Practice and Training Water - Healing [including to the spirits] (You are able to change the quality and state of the object) Earth - Seismic Sense (You are able to connect and feel what it's like to be the element) Fire - Energy Reading (You are able to detect energy and chi connections) Air - Astral Projection (You become free in space as your form doesn't hinder you) Complementary and Intermediate Elements: (In Favor = More Dominant in Control) Complementary - Fire and Water - Steam (In favor of Water; Water benders could bend the water molecules while Fire benders could take control of the heat of the molecules.) Earth and Air - Sand (In favor of Earth; It is a light element that can have space between earth molecules for air molecules to occupy, giving air benders a little bit of control. So both elements can, at least for air, move sand) Intermediates - Fire and Air - Gas (In favor of Fire; Air benders can control the air molecules while Fire benders can control the kinetic energy of the molecules) Earth and Fire - Lava (In favor of Earth; Originally before LOK they're a shared element the avatar could control through earth and fire. Earth can move the substance while fire is responsible for the heating of the earth.) Water and Earth - Mud (In favor of Water; Since they are heterogenous, the earth in mud moves the water, while moving the water also moves the earth) Water and Air - Vapor (In Favor of Air; Water benders can bend the water molecules in vapor state while Air benders could bend the air molecules around the water to move the water molecules, or the gaseous state of water itself.)

[@JD-oc5wk]

You can think of this in two ways “The last breathing bender”

[@RJ_Ehlert]

It was said by Bolin that only 1 in 100 Earthbenders were able to learn Metalbending. I would call the "Flight" Voidbending. I believe that Zaheer demonstrated that he had begun to use Voidbending when he removed the air from a location to suffocate people.

[@MorganSaph]

Considering that the Void is literally nothing, it can't be bent. Flight would be a mix of Spiritbending and Airbending. Also, he used Airbending to remove the air from peoples lungs and created an empty air shield around people's heads to prevent them from breathing

[@RJ_Ehlert]

@@MorganSaph ​ 1) This is a make-believe show about magic. So saying Void couldn't be bent because it's not an element isn't a valid argument. -Fire is not a thing; it's stored chemical energy released from material in thermal runaway. Earth is not a thing. They bend anything from silicon, carbon, and iron to complex solid materials containing bound gas elements. 2) Void = Vaccum, and removing air entirely from an area is something we've only seen Zaheer do. If vacuum is a normal part of Airbending, it would automatically prevent all Firebending.

[@oteragard8077]

You forgot spiritual healing for firebending as explored in Legend of Korra ;) but still an enjoyable video

[@thebeatleshelp5834]

Combustion bending could be like a mixture between fire and air, it could be that they send an air stream then ignite it maybe somehow from a distance.

[@hectorhernandezaleman3836]

That would made them benders of two different elements, which is impossible for anyone who isn't the avatar.

[@MorganSaph]

@@hectorhernandezaleman3836 Transbenders are possible. But Sparky-Sparky Boom Man proves Combustion is Firebending only.

[@landonletterman831]

I truly believe (and think that it would make a great villain in either a 3rd season of Avatar, or the latter years of Korra) that every bender can absorb a teaching from the other elements that they can use. Lava bending could be done either by a Fire Bender (better at making it than flinging it around) or an Earthbender (better at flinging it around than making it). A water bender can use tenants of fire bending to boil water. A fire bender can bend water, but only while it's boiling (they are controlling the heat energy, not the water) or learning how to turn water into hot steam and using it like an air bender. The whole story is an "anti-avatar" is created during "Harmonic Convergence," thanks in part to Unnalok (sp?) who can bend in the spirit world but not in the real world. He still knows bending, and uses benders (students of his) in the physical world as his protection. He's rebuilding the Air Nation, but he's doing it militaristically, trying to assert himself as the world's new Avatar as he forces them into peace (his goals are all worthwhile, he's just doing them wrong) Edit: I'm also not 100% that a combustion bender isn't a fire bender that's learned some air bending techniques (another of the stories ideas)

[@djburgess3145]

My Favorite Avatar: The Last Airbender Sub-Element is Lightningbending / Lightning Generation

[@cptsparklfingerz9210]

Jet propulsion is also another fire bending technique. Also, theres shared bending techniques; Air Benders and Water Benders can bend clouds, earth and water benders can bend plants, fire and earth benders can manipulate volcanism. Not lava bend,but a fire bender can manipulate the energy given off by lava. I believe theres more as well but those are some examples.

[@LobbyOBungle]

Atomic Bending, Void/Space Bending, Gravity Bending, Light/Shadow Bending and Energy Bending are some really cool Bending possibilities that I wish could be expanded upon. But If I had to choose out of all of the available bending in accepted lore then just Air Bending/Spiritual Bending.

[@MorganSaph]

Of everything you mention only Airbending and Spiritbending are actual Bending Elements. Atomic is literally what they already do, just 1 level bigger, Void doesn't exist, literally, Space is impossible since it's not an element, Gravity seems to be part of Air or Spirit bending, Light and Dark Bending are the same thing and would fall under Firebending and Energy Bending is just an alternate name for Spirit Bending.

[@godfraydionzon9539]

Are we just going to ignore how beautiful toph is when they became adults?

[@javamitsiky9608]

I'd almost categorize these forms of bending as tertiary rather than secondary. Obviously the four primary elements are earth, water, fire, and air, but there's subvariants of those like sandbending, mudbending, "plantbending" or whatever you'd call what the swamp guys were doing, and manipulation of ice and steam. There's also hypothetical forms of bending, like if an earthbender can manipulate sand, and both earthbenders and waterbenders can manipulate mud, you'd expect someone to be able to do the same for clay, since it contains both earth and water.

[@crow-8745]

I feel like CBR hasn't even watched the show, the amount of mispronunciations is astronomical. "Yoo" "Lageema" 🙄

[@xiondavis969]

Well I think he did great

[@popeslothy5908]

Im pretty sure someone else wrote his script lol

[@aseukaryotic9982]

The way he said Ghazan is weird too

[@elig6791]

@@xiondavis969 to people who have the show close to their heart this is almost the same as the movie we don’t talk about

[@hannahgrace7820]

In the comic book “Toph Beifongs Metalbending Academy” they introduced a new lava bender who’s name is Sun. Toph tracks him down and invites him to stay at the academy with her and her other students.

[@hannahgrace7820]

so technically you could say there are 5 confirmed lava benders. a second that may still be alive in the Korra series besides Bolton

[@hannahgrace7820]

Bolin*

[@doin6]

6 because Avatar Roku can lavabend.

[@johnathank440]

Breath bending, sand bending and cloud bending all forgotten

[@unavailableisnotavailable]

11:00 Avatar Roku did in “The Avatar and the Firelord” when a volcano erupted at his hometown

[@TheDwarvenGameing]

I feel like bloodbenders would be surgeons in the future, which is when it would be de-stigmatized. They could pull the water out of a tumor and then use that water as a scalpal to cut it out, all while preventing any bloodloss. If a persons heart stopped they could just keep the blood flowing.

[@andrewgeyer2602]

could you bend glass, wood, or like plastic...... or with those being said could you use two benders to create something that we would need both sides to truly create

[@MorganSaph]

glass is earth bending, wood is plantbending and plastic is no. It's a synthetic material, not a mineral, so nothing bends it. but using 2 different benders to create something that needs multiple elements is clever. I dub it Fusionbending.

[@Gashnaw]

"... Or is it because drinkable water is a sign of civilization" I don't think you are allowed to say that. Most parts of Africa, some parts in Europe, some parts of Asia and even some place in the Americas do not have access to drinkable water.

[@LadimusPrime]

"or because drinkable water is one of the signs of civilization" ONE OF THE SIGNS!

[@LadimusPrime]

@Drex Your Ex What are you trying to argue here? The narrator of the vid said "one of the signs of civilsation". Why is that an arguement?

[@LadimusPrime]

@Drex Your Ex Fair enough then

[@PerfectAlibi1]

Before human pollution, there were lots of natural drinkable sources of water...

[@Gashnaw]

@@PerfectAlibi1 true,. It they basically said that Africa is uncivilized.

[@alexdiaz795]

This thumbnail is almost perfect. Only one strand out of place

[@gyrox0031]

15:24 Guru WHO?? 🤣🤣😭 my guy was closer to saying ligma than Laghima

[@TMX635]

What about plant bending, lightining redirecrion, sand bending and that techniqe that toph was using to see

[@charming8817]

CBR: types of bending Blood Healing Spirit Swamp benders: BRUH

[@ryanhernandez5632]

You know I believe air bending cold in theory create storms if they can cycle enough warm and cold air together. For fire bending we know of lightning, spiritual divination and combustion. But they may be able to create lazers/plasma blasts if they consintrate enough fire in very narrow/tight release. Also there a chance if they can add spiritual power into the mix they could use fire to heal Earth bending has metal and magma, but there also the metabolic control from the books that can extend the life/youth of a earth bender. But there also rumors of bone bending aswell in the lore

[@caul4484]

I never see this talked about but Ozai used fire bending to fly too, during his fight with Aang. So flight could be considered a fire sub bending too. Pretty sure we havent seen anyone else doing it tho

[@blu3be4ry]

Pretty good. Although there's also smoke bending. In the animated series, one of the past avatars used it with his old friend (I forget their names). As well as smoke bending being hinted/brought up in comics

[@babydominus410]

Did anyone notice that for the elements he stated the beginning he copies Iroh when he explains the elements to Zuko?

[@Lord_Ivoundy_Creood]

"Princess Yu's" it's YUWEY, but I think it's spelled Yue

[@xiondavis969]

You and the whole of the comments section of this video is angry about that for literally no other reason but to be smart and point out what they did

[@avatarfan6583]

You quoted Iroh, yes!

[@NanoNano-tk7ev]

It’s interesting to note how korra could use 2 water sub elements, 2 fire sub elements, a earth sub element but no air sub elements, and she spent most time was tenzin, and he had 2 kids who knew how to use sub elements And for bolin for unlocking a 3rd sub element which was the lavabending, he was also shown to know how to sandbend, and in one time he used the seismic thing, which is sort of rulebreaking in avatar world

[@andremcdonald6120]

do you know what would be darker neuron bending, a mixture of lightning bending and blood bending giving that person complete control or iron sands bending

[@chikeileeleechikei2462]

Did anyone notice him saying "southern water temple" instead of "southern water tribe"? At 1:42

[@Genkuro]

*Captured Waterbenders could have used their sweat or piss to waterbend their way out of incarceration. Katara used her own sweat to get free when she and Tof was imprisoned.*

[@MorganSaph]

They were probably too dehydrated to think of that. Plus, what are a few drops of water gonna to in a ship full of firebenders? Maybe you can kill one guard, but without being a bloodbender, you just used the only water you had.

[@Mystery999]

Metal bending is the best because you can just attach metal on peoples arms and legs and make them float just like blood bending, but you can also use the metal to make armour and stuff and weapons which makes it the best bending

[@kylejohnson2703]

So in summary benders of certain states off matter can only have a se on dark bending that can only go up the 3 stages of matter with the exception of water bending.

[@Kevynmorgan]

Types of bending Water bending Earth bending Fire bending Air bending Sub bending: Fire: Lighting Enegry healing Combustion Earth Lava bending Metal bending Sand bending Glass bending (which certain sand benders can do) Water: Blood bending Healing Spirit healing or purification Air bending: Spirit projection Flight Spirit bending ( ability to pull someone's spirit out of his body (someday let it be a thing))

[@ariarose9797]

When he quoted iron 🥹 I know he was dead in legend of Korra but I wanted to see something in memory of him

[@BloodofBlackFire]

Forgot to mention lightning redirection though for fire bending which has to be classified as different since Zuko and Aang both could redirect lightning but not produce it while Ozai could produce lightning but not redirect it Also could be argued that we saw the fire sages performing a form of spiritual healing to Korra when they helped her connect with Wan and find Raava One of the best parts of the Kyoshi novels was we finally saw what benders could do when no children's show restriction is placed on it. From precision execution of earth bending to internally freezing the water in a body.

[@xiondavis969]

Nah he mentioned all that and also that fire stuff didn't heal Korra it only sensed the stuff that was wrong in her body

[@xiondavis969]

😋

[@blindsloth364]

you actually forgot a couple. theres also some bending forms that overlap between other elements. so cloudbending, used in the episode "The Fortuneteller", is a form of bending that both airbenders and waterbenders can use. also sandbending, both earthbenders and airbenders can bend sand in one way or the other. i would count lavabending as both earthbending and firebending, since avatar roku and the other avatar who used lavabending are firebenders. theres more but i cant be bothered to write about all of them

[@Vladimir_Putin1952]

Fire Bending has electric properties, and everyone knows that, but they can be used to transmit electric signals through neurons, allowing them to less-brutally "bloodbend" someone. Using this ability, they can also preform mind control. Although, they would need knowledge of the human brain, and I don't think dissections are existent in Avatar yet.

[@MorganSaph]

Technically, Waterbending would be closer to this, as they already manipulate the energy within the body when they heal.

[@sliver3703]

This begs the question though firebenders can do lightning redirection but so can waterbenders since most inclined in healing know about their chi paths

[@Ilikeskittles-s9j]

Sand bending dust bending (its in the blind bandit episode) ice/snow bending steam bending mud bending plant bending fire bending healing Lightning redirection heat control , (these next ones are fan made) bone bending sound bending

[@crimsonarcher213]

so what would energy bending be considered

[@jasongotcello]

Flight has to be one of the coolest sub bending

[@xiondavis969]

Yeah ikr

[@ydurgaming4487]

1:42 "Southern Water temple"

[@drewblackburn3504]

Could bloodbending be used to freeze blood like how waterbenders do with water because maybe during a full moon they can use 2 techniques at the same time

[@JeremyWS]

That was interesting.

[@raymondmati9192]

people always seem to forget plant bending , which I think its right after blood bending in power maybe even top it since you dont need a full moon to bend plant and technically u are bending water inside a living creature but as i said you dont need a full moon and we only saw one person bending plants and it was really useful and powerful

[@thatllifestyle7390]

Water temple?🤯 1:42

[@legujan2579]

11:00 how about avatar roku? he used lavabending on the solstice when the gaang went to his temple

[@joeethereal2968]

These Advertisers are some Strong Benders too, Damn!!!!

[@davitharutyunyan8330]

Guys I'd like to know if you know what could be the darkest side of firebending. I know water has bloodbending, air has suffocating, earth could easily have bonebending, but fire... I can't think of anything really. Only one thing is in my mind - chi bending, eh?

[@megandocchar1285]

was just thinking if you combined blood bending with healing together, could a water bender heal someone from the inside out? Also with enough focus could a water bender create lightning by quickly rubbing water particles in the air against each other and create a charge.

[@MorganSaph]

Lightning is created from a difference in electron charges. Just rubbing water particles together isn't going to be enough, you'd need to make them opposite charges. And that's for just a spark. But Waterbenders can't do this, since they don't manipulate electron charges.

[@name-uh5ee]

Aang most likely would have been able to fly if he could give up Katara while trying to master the avatar state with the Guru

[@MorganSaph]

The Avatar will never be able to achieve Flight, since it requires letting go of all earthly attachments. And last I knew, keeping the world in balance was a pretty big earthly attachment.

[@PumpkinDude314]

zuko also combustion bends atempting to lightning bend you dont need a 3rd eye its just a secret society that keeps combustion bending

[@mo_plays2567]

Wait you can use air bending if ur an air bender but you can lift up water and push with air and you can lift up a rock and push them around with air and you can change the direction of fire and it’s heat with air bending you can metalbend if you put enough pressure and force. You can redirect lightning with air and you can lift someone up and control them by pushing air which is like blood bending. So therefore air bending is the best

[@12flipoutn0w]

we should see a time and space bender that controls gravity time and can make worm hols singulaitys and blackholes

[@yoyofun1]

The forehead is ajna the third eye chakra, not the crown chakra sahasrara which is on the top of the head

[@domanicricketts4890]

I Know we haven't seen much scene with this sub-element, but what about mud bending?

[@jmmz1529]

roku is a lavabender see the episode were he took over aangs body

[@xiondavis969]

Yup he mentioned that...

[@tolvfen]

"Drain the moist" try drain the moist from a person = brutal

[@sebastianvlogs4834]

11:18 Roku was a lavabender too

[@Your-1839]

On 8:02 actually it does it requires a special boost from the Avatar Planet. 🌎 So who knows maybe it can’t be done from space. And 754th comment.

[@mariigold__]

Also, for Water Bending there is also Ice Bending, although I am not 100% sure that counts

[@thecaptain6184]

What happened to Yun liquefying earth, or mist/jet/dust stepping

[@Artfox1212]

It actually makes alot of sense that Bolin was a lava bender because it's basicly fire bending mixed with earthbending, bolin's father was an earth bender and his mother was a fire bender

[@MorganSaph]

It doesn't because Bolin isn't a transbender. He's an earthbender and lava is just hot earth. heat is just movement. He's just moving really small bits of earth really bloody fast.

[@m21092]

did he say southern water temple

[@jenniferfoster1680]

Ideas for new sub bending Water: Weather bending Earth: Gravity bending Fire: Light bending Air: Shadow bending

[@glenngilson7197]

I'd pick Blood Bending(#1) or Spirit Projection(#2). Or can I choose only one @CBR?

[@iliamazor2336]

Lee’s combustion bending can do turns and 360’s while combustion mans only went straight

[@xiondavis969]

Yeah pretty cool right!

[@andresangster9306]

Air is the element of freedom.

[@byebyeman8713]

What about sand bending and could earth bending work on the calcium in bones cus it is technically or the mineral in the blood

[@milofunnycatmoments]

There are 18 types of bending for the extras of the other bending and the elements too