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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[@MidoriDad]

The fact that they never utilized pulling water out of thin air again in either series was truly a waste.

[@petertracycarroll]

I always had the idea that a water bender could rip the water from a cloud and turn it into a massive wave

[@snithnorddarthbathrobe6928]

but in the desert episode aang gets water from a cloud and there is one scene where hama gets water from the air

[@MidoriDad]

@@snithnorddarthbathrobe6928 that's a literal cloud, not thin air. And when Hama did it in the 3rd season, that was the introduction to the idea that it could be done. But it was never done again after that one episode.

[@Andrew-wl3hn]

I think about this ALL the time. Truly a waste.

[@Casper-Ghost]

Eh realistically it wouldn't work everywhere but I agree with you. I live in Louisiana so down here you could easily drown someone with the water in the air around them. Hell down here if you used heat bending to pull the heat from around someone you'd leave them encased in ice. lol Most people don't live somewhere that's consistently that humid though so it would only be possible when the weather allows for it.

[@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

[@justin_g6187]

Spin off: Bolin - The last Lavabender

[@hiimlea1]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Ichigo90]

The Last Airbender: Lightning bending is very rare, and requires a great deal of practice to perfect The Legend of Korra: We use Lightning benders to power our cities

[@bitchpudding2945]

Another KZbinr did a good explanation of this: basically, during Aang’s time the Fire Nation Royal Family kept the secret within the family, so only they could use it. The technique must have spread everywhere once Zuko ascended the throne and opened up the Fire Nation, making more firebenders have access to the technique

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

@@bitchpudding2945 Yeah, that’s probably what happened.

[@user-xx6fv4tu2q]

@@bitchpudding2945 do you have the link ? 🙂

[@magostrate5253]

@@bitchpudding2945 it probably spread bc of azula

[@bitchpudding2945]

@@magostrate5253 Wgat do you mean?

[@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

[@localbrit2993]

“There’s only 4 lava benders” *in the same discussion* Proceeds to show the Clip of Roku Lava Bending

[@PxndaCakes]

He was in the Avatar state, he doesn't count...

[@ZaBalance123]

6 Szeto, kyoshi, roku, Sozin, ghazan and bolin

[@ZaBalance123]

@@PxndaCakes szeto was in the avatar state when he was lava bending

[@jaeda6th]

@@ZaBalance123 Sozin can't lavabend, he's a firebender. The only interaction with lava we saw on screen was him cooling the lava by extracting compressed steam and smoke out of it.

[@MorganSaph]

@@jaeda6th Slightly wrong. He extracted the heat from it. That's all. Steam is waterbending and smoke is earthbending.

[@findmasradi]

"Southern Water Temple"

[@victoralejandrogregorymato1014]

Right? Lol

[@israelcuevas6745]

Got me so mad

[@Beyondthe5thPanel]

Rahadian Arief just.....ugh

[@alphajay1k]

Lol I was like wth is he saying😭

[@tylermech66]

Instantly came down to the comments to see if anyone else noticed, good people.

[@emmettkyle70]

CBR: air bending only has two secondary bending styles. Me: what about Meelo he created fart bending

[@PxndaCakes]

It's Air Redirection!

[@quima5844]

@@PxndaCakes no its called humor and being meelo

[@rashadel2005]

can earthbenders bend gravity

[@rashadel2005]

can avatar give non bending bending power with energybending

[@rashadel2005]

can airbenders bend gravity

[@oppagangnampsy]

12:30 You mean, "Sparky Sparky Boom-Man?"

[@Defjulianimations]

no

[@tenkosubarashi1337]

Ye we need justice dor sparky sparky boom man

[@maxsupersammie6697]

Yeah thanks I was wondering why he said a random name when showing “sparky sparky boom-man

[@nathanginnard6304]

Airbending- Flight, Spirit Projection Waterbending- Ice, Mist, Snow, Healing, Plant, Blood Earthbending- Sand, Mud, Metal, Lava, Glass Firebending- Smoke, Lightning, Combustion

[@MorganSaph]

Smoke is a particle of carbon, not a form of energy. So it'd belong to Earthbending. It'd basically be the Earthbending equivalent to Water's Mistbending

[@borislovothered8124]

u miss chalk too

[@fatalerrorsans2008]

​@@MorganSaph maybe he ment the heat bending that Sozin demonstrated during volcano eruption...

[@DBT1007]

Waterbender category for blood and plant is actually we can call it "fluidbend". Or "creature bend". It's not limited to blood and plants. But also can drain all the liquid out of any living beings. Just like draining water out of grass. For living beings, waterbender is the most OP because water is in every living beings. But for planetary issue, it's earthbender.

[@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.)

[@sphehadebe1946]

this was the best cartoon that I watched as a kid

[@kingmomolegends16]

WAS,this is the best cartoon that i watched as a kid

[@toprakaydogmus977]

Isnt it actually an anime?

[@Har0Id]

@@toprakaydogmus977 This isn't Japanese.

[@jacoryarnett7347]

I want more Avatar series after Legend of Korra.

[@johnnymcarr]

@@toprakaydogmus977 serious question but why do people think that? It was American made so we should consider it as we would spongebob or something.Is it because it has an actual story?

[@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

[@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

[@maestrulgamer9695]

Imagine if an avatar would learn ALL types of secondary bending!

[@JamesLard32]

Or a second avatar state. The first being the one we know already that allows you to use the skill and power of every Avatar before you. And a second one that unlocks all bending techniques and the skills to use them. But it doesn't allow you to tap into the overwhelming power of the first one. It only unlocks all sub bending techniques. You can't use both Avatar states at the same time.

[@MorganSaph]

@@JamesLard32 The whole point of the Avatar state is that you do have access to the total combined power of all previous Avatars, along with all their memories. So, the current Avatar can always use the bending all other Avatars mastered. Not to mention, the Avatar state pseudo-ressurrects all previous Avatars in the current Avatars body. That's why it's considered the most powerful skill of the Avatar, because they become godlike. The reason they don't use it though is because the Avatar permanently dies if killed in the Avatar State.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@jamaljohnson7313]

Why?! Why do we all forget swampbenders and them vine bending?!

[@xdsmile5359]

Ikr i think they deserved more attention

[@jacoryarnett7347]

I know right Plantbending is Badass.

[@PbG-uz1gx]

It’s really no different than blood bending as it’s just bending the water inside of something.... also I’d assume since plants in the swamp are drenched in water it would actually be a lot easier then bending the water within someone

[@alphajay1k]

Lol he forgot some subs for the elements. Like plant, snow, heat, sand, cloud and sound.

[@jamaljohnson7313]

Alpha Jay He included snow, ice, cloud, and even steam in the explanation of waterbenders. But it's very rare to hear/find anyone remember or talk about it swampbenders.

[@nategraham6946]

And then in Kyoshi's time you could use healing to kill someone by freezing them on the inside. More al of the story, never mess with the healer.

[@zacherymartin3515]

They forgot sand bending was a thing, as well as the crystal bending bumi did.

[@MrWilson812]

That's just earthbending. Any earth bender could do it given the opportunity.

[@bluebloxbang6105]

And plant bending

[@Blasttheimp]

And ice bending

[@trip478]

@@MrWilson812 not everyone can sand bend. Look at toph one of the greatest of all time. Couldn't sand bend. It is also implied that it takes forms from airbending. So not every earthbender could do it do to the forms of the opposite element.

[@localbrit2993]

Toph can sand bend though, in the finale of ATLA she sand bended a mini ba sing se before zuko attacked Aang

[@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.

[@prestonwright9697]

I’m sorry, did he just say, water TEMPLE.

[@wiztansupercell2512]

Yes!!! I just heard it!!!

[@armandotiz9737]

he said the southern water temple lol

[@dumdum8899]

yes

[@DoomBowser64]

Zelda Reference xD

[@michellecottrell3553]

Yes yes he did

[@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

[@nashmiaselim]

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

[@alexvives1335]

I'd want to see how they can adapt when they uncover all 80 some-odd natural chemical elements, such as a water bender also being able to bend air since both contain oxygen, and earth benders also being able to blood-bend due to the iron in the human blood-stream. Heck, Could an earth bender manipulate metals like uranium, or even plutonium.

[@thirdaidkit7719]

1:42 southern water temple?! 6:14 princess YOO's?! 6:24 MOON'S SPIRIT SHRINE?!

[@marijam11]

Guru Lagima also

[@-firepaw-5090]

ikr

[@hughplunkett7347]

I love how when he was giving a brief description of the different elements he used iroh s exact words ❤❤

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.)

[@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

[@petertracycarroll]

Bolin is mad underrated he learned to lava bend at 17 with no training Also lava flight and psychic blood bending are my favourite sub elements

[@MrWilson812]

Bolin was in his twenties when he learned lava bending. And given that he wasn't incredibly useful before he learned I'd say he's more overrated.

[@petertracycarroll]

@@MrWilson812 he wasn’t in his twenties he was 16 at the start of the show and then he turned 17 in between book 1 and 2 he’s twenty during book 4 because of the three year time skip

[@casperxpyt]

I think that’s kinda of the point... He def powerfull yes, but I don’t think much of him (in context of it being a show) CUZ he learned lavabending out of nowhere with nobody to teach him. Even Toph when she was figuring out metalbending had to spend a few moments searching for the earth particals and how she could move them. Bolin just stops a giant flow of lava without even thinking about it.

[@petertracycarroll]

@@casperxpyt no he thought about it he had to stop being afraid to unlock his earth checkra

[@MrWilson812]

@@petertracycarroll Fair enough, but lava bending is the only real accomplishment he made in the series. So he gets about as much respect as he deserves.

[@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?

[@AndreiGonzalesIturri]

Avatar Roku did also lavabend, there is one remarkable difference in PLi's combustion bending, she was able to curve the shoot with her mind to redirect it psychically. You forgot about Energy Bending, Korra also did Spiritual Projection, that's why she became gigant.

[@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.

[@EveryShadeofUs]

I love the Uncle Iroh joke they threw in about air lol

[@Anonymous-zf2pu]

Agreed

[@Kate-mi2kv]

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

[@RE-THiNk.]

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

[@htesofficial2329]

My favorite is lava bending. Also can we agree the greatest fight in all of the Avatar universe was Zuko and Azula's Agni Kai?

[@HGodVR]

Yeah it was amazing

[@YoavSilver]

"Guru LAGIMA could fly" "Who is Guru Lagima?" "Lagima balls"

[@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.

[@klee5213]

14:41 mako used the ships energy, not making his own cause they are 2 different things as zuko could do the same but not make lightning

[@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

[@RMKPMJ]

FINALLY I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS

[@DERTHIX]

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

[@cmassarini3308]

I thought Amon bended himself so he could move toward Tarlok

[@xiondavis969]

Don't listen to them 😑

[@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

[@thiagocavendish2928]

You forgot to add : Ice bend Plant bend Fog bend Mud bending Sand bending Lightning redirection Flight

[@JD-oc5wk]

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

[@gulnursonmez9539]

Since it is my childhood wish to levitate, any form of air bending is my favorite. Water's healing and earh's sensing the earth's vibrations are very cool also. I like the creative ways of each bending. For example, Zuko's uncle once heated water by fire bending which is very useful.

[@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

[@oteragard8077]

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

[@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.

[@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)

[@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.

[@alexdiaz795]

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

[@miguelavendano8818]

Combustion benders seem to have taller builds. They called P’Li, the giant lady, I think it was intentional.

[@appouhal]

0:31 - What about sandbending?

[@djburgess3145]

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

[@shinobi6497]

Plant bending: hey I exist

[@KANIKAINDAHUNCHO]

I would pick lightning, in case there’s load shedding I can just generate lighting to the main switch then wala, electricity is back

[@Casper-Ghost]

I'd go with lava bending personally, ridiculously destructive and geothermal electricity is super easy to generate so I'd still have electricity for my home and city. lol

[@thimnanxelewa]

Eii we'd need you there at eskom

[@godfraydionzon9539]

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

[@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.

[@hammah6750]

I swear to god when he called her “princess you” i was so pissed

[@rhynoklein7]

Blood bending doesn’t necessarily make you evil. You can be a bloodbender that captures bloodbenders. It’s like using snipers to counter other snipers. It’s not the method that is evil, it’s the individual yielding that skill.

[@Zinervawyrm]

You could us it medically to stop heavy or even internal bleeding.

[@marethyu_77gamer93]

@@Zinervawyrm Exactly, especially since both bloodbending and healing are water bending sub styles

[@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.

[@nourahendricks6999]

He litraly quotes iroh in every single explanation 🤣

[@BunMoony]

I know, it erks me every time.

[@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.

[@TheojoshuaBaker]

0:35 Don’t forget cloud and sound bending

[@liv9182]

6:10 Princess yoo's?

[@kingabyt2134]

Claim your “ here before 1 million views “ claim you’re ticket here

[@uncannybook581]

ill come in a century or so :)

[@SuLokify]

Kind of interesting to see how some people consider icebending a sort of secondary waterbending while some do not (and don't even think of it!)

[@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.

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

Secondary bending exists because the separation of the elements is an illusion

[@rogermrogerm]

Wow it says it was uploaded 18 mins ago and there’s almost 100 comments already bruh

[@odariel4292]

Dude, it's an Avatar video,what did you expect?

[@riicky83]

Lightning bending does have some form of water bending to it, when Iroh explained Lightning bending to Zuko, he mentioned about using something akin to water bending motion to channel the lightning safely through the body, missing the heart and then redirecting it back out the body at the designated target.

[@xiondavis969]

Yup.. yeah he mentioned that in the video

[@riicky83]

@@xiondavis969 Just rewatched the lightning bending part and there is no mention of the water bending aspect of lightning bending. All that was mentioned was generating lightning and firing it, no mention of taking it into the body from one hand, carefully directing it through the body and then firing it out from the other hand.

[@MorganSaph]

@@riicky83 What you're talking about is Lightning Redirection, a Firebending technique. It's not actual Lightningbending, since it requires your opponent to be a Lightningbender

[@mannamoth918]

Theres also iron in blood, so theoretically Earth Benders could do Blood Bending, just in a different way than Water Benders would

[@hectorhernandezaleman3836]

Know I'm late but they shouldn't be able to bloodbend, since the iron in the blood is too little and too pure to actually do anything with it. We've seen earthbenders being incapable of bending pure metal before so... I don't think they'd be able to do it.

[@mannamoth918]

@@hectorhernandezaleman3836 that's why I said theoretically able to, not that they should be able to

[@2yoyoyo1Unplugged]

There are quite a few errors here. One of which is that Roku could lavabend and that Xu Ping An was straight up killed by Kyoshi when she dropped him from a high altitude to make an example of him to his followers in their Lei Tai.

[@thetics.12345]

Sand benders, swamp benders and the sun warriors deserved more

[@joeyharry3043]

Agreed

[@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.

[@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

[@charming8817]

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

[@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

[@unavailableisnotavailable]

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

[@tylermech66]

have you.... actually watched the show? I get the feeling you haven't watched the show, and are just reading a script somebody else made.

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@johnathank440]

Breath bending, sand bending and cloud bending all forgotten

[@legujan2579]

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

[@yodaispog8369]

nobody: CBR:southern water temple

[@yeetrilljenkins3695]

11:07 wait wasn’t Roku also able to lavabend, like when he destroyed his temple?

[@chikeileeleechikei2462]

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

[@chloej1611]

That is the third eye chakra, not the crown chakra.

[@unavailableisnotavailable]

1:42 water temple? What the

[@andresangster9306]

Air is the element of freedom.