All elements are lethal. Air bending, create a vacuum or a vortex around the assailant or just force it out the person's lungs. Fire and rock are far more direct. Rock, create a pit below the person, then instantly seal it! Water, blood bend, or pressure wash them or create a bubble over their head to dry drown them. It is lucky that it was a mainly kids show so they didn't show the TRUE ramifications of each element. They get around it by saying certain techniques were banned but they didn't want to show how messed up the war actually would be!
@vismaykedilaya13187 ай бұрын
Yea, sozin in the netflix show literally vaporized some people. That's definitely not a kids show
@kohakusora74747 ай бұрын
don't forget that 1. earth is metalbending too so just imagine that and 2. any rock can be broken down to super small pieces to be shot like sharp as fuck bullets. Aang did that second one multiple times.
@hdWWtchR7 ай бұрын
@@kohakusora7474Aang: Haha, 5.56mm NATO rocks go brrrrrrr
@davisdf30647 ай бұрын
Also, Fire being capable of using explosions and lighting, wich travels at 61kms/s (and yes, it can be redirected, but you gotta be really skilled and ready to do it, otherwise, you'll get smoked)
@dilen7547 ай бұрын
Imagination is a weapon. Those who lack it are the first to die. (c) No matter the element they use.
@ceejaygibson31157 ай бұрын
i feel that censoring the "fire-dispenser" makes it look SO MUCH worse then it actually is🤣🤣🤣
@ForestRaptor7 ай бұрын
😂🤣😂
@andrasbiro30077 ай бұрын
First I thought someone is peeing on the fire.
@nicholauscrawford79037 ай бұрын
I feel like the idea that you have to censor stuff like that is pushed by the powers that be to make the population easier to control more than it is to keep people safe.
@douglaskurtz83576 ай бұрын
looks like pissin' flames!!!
@LegorocketsAnimation3 ай бұрын
@@andrasbiro3007me too
@RachDarastrix27 ай бұрын
I'm glad we have some experts who are able to test real magic for all of us adventurers to know which spell to cast when we are in a pinch.
@Lazar-TS5 ай бұрын
If magic were real, people would definitely be making videos like this 😂
@gadman857 ай бұрын
From a lore perspective and the powers shown in Avatar, the Earth Kingdoms were at full on war with the Fire Nation throughout pretty much the entirety of the 100 year war. The Fire Nation was also taking them seriously the whole time and constantly improving their war technology at full speed. The Northern Water Tribe didn't do anything until the war was at their doorstep and it took an angered god using the Avatar to push back the Fire Nation. Even before the "kill the moon spirit" cheat, most water benders were having trouble even with the full moon on their side. Katara was powerful, but she was exceptional even before she got proper training in water bending. The Southern Water Tribe lost pretty much all of their benders and were only able to minimize losses to a couple of Fire Nation ships during the raids. I know they mention blood bending but until the mess that was Korra, bloodbending could only be done by the most powerful of waterbenders under the Full Moon. That being said. Sozin did specifically target the Air Nomads by surprise and with the power of the comet to ensure they were fully dealt with. You could argue he did this because he knew the Avatar was an Airbender. However, when they go to the Southern Air Temple the place is a massive battlefield graveyard with plenty of fire bender bodies as well.
@Merilirem7 ай бұрын
Earth fortifies really well is the issue. Water can't do that. Ice melts outside of specific places which limits the population and cities they can build. Earth is the best for building an empire in fertile lands to support a nation. Air was a good target because they wouldn't be able to resist a siege like the other two and it kills possible messengers.
@greedier-76617 ай бұрын
... water tribe was masacrating fire nation when it was a night. Water tribes only had problem with fire nation because their amount of people is extremely limited, because of their locations. Main benefit of fire bending is that it is extremely easy to use, so generating army is the easiest, while water bending while being the strongest and most diverse, is the hardest to master or even use. Air benders where powerful nation because all their peoples where great benders, trained from the childhood. Over all fire nation should not be able to win against them if they attacked their temples as air benders could easily kill thousand by simply throwing them into the air and letting them fall to their deaths at the bottom of the mountains. They probably lost only because of their limited numbers and pacifist mindset. Earth benders problem is that they manipulate the least amount of their element, so fire nation tanks where good enough to block most earth nation attacks. But when those tanks meet any good bender from fire nation they become close to useless.
@gwahli96207 ай бұрын
In the blood bending episode I thought that's spooky stuff, but what the old women did with the flowers would be instant, effective and not needing a full moon. Using that on your opponents would be nasty.
@Aufsammelkabbler7 ай бұрын
@@Merilirem It still eludes me how anyone would be able to siege the air temples if the hadn't the most powerful element on their side - the element of suprise. Those airbenders could hafe simply fled the encounter
@endlessnoodle30567 ай бұрын
It's actually pretty balanced that water bending in base form is the weakest element, but blood bending is easily stronger than everything else combined. No other element has a literal insta-kill button
@greatestcait7 ай бұрын
I'd honestly go for Airbending. Air is literally everywhere, and you don't have to be a 1 in a billion talent to go full darkside with it, nor do you need to wait for a full moon. Besides, Airbending gives you easily the greatest mobility of all four elements, and who wouldn't want to fly or ride around on the little air ball?
@kpny84847 ай бұрын
Plus, tornados. And, what happens when it goes over water, a hurricane. Then, what makes a fire worse? Wind.
@riku8617 ай бұрын
and arguably you can use airbending to manipulate fire, water and earth. So it can do them all, but it can't fully master the other 3
@huldu7 ай бұрын
I've never seen the anime but all the powers seem very strong if used by someone who can wield them as a weapon. You could do some crazy things with air alone.
@davidwhidden93377 ай бұрын
Korra made water bending beyond busted with blood bending at will. Only the Avatar was able to overcome it. Korra lost and the plot had her "learn to air bend".
@jocosesonata7 ай бұрын
@@kpny8484 Jet engines, which exclusively use the power of air... Have you ever seen videos of people behind or in front of them? It is horrifying how quick and easy it is to throw a human around.
@danieltilson40537 ай бұрын
Waterbender: Hydraulic pressure piercing flesh is a major problem. Ice blades held together by the Bender's will can slice through you, spikes, bloodbending, etc. Earth: Blunt force trauma, spikes of all kinds, sand blasting, lava, swords. Fire: Burns, lightning, scorched lungs from breathing super heated air. Air: In terms of oxygen, you have no oxygen.
@scott84486 ай бұрын
Lava was part of fire bending but if I remember he was half fire half earth. Earth could likely survive most things thrown at them when they use metal bending to make themselves knights and protect against conventional bending or teleport (dig holes) to a different location to avoid blood bending/suffocating.
@danieltilson40536 ай бұрын
@@scott8448 Lava bending is only Earth.
@luangu6 ай бұрын
Water bender could separate oxygen and hydrogen. Two explosive elements. Could be compressed into a neutron star since water isn’t compressible but atoms are. Also could pull all the water out of your body.
@danieltilson40536 ай бұрын
@@luanguThat's not how that works. They're not controlling elements, like periodic table elements. They're controlling Elements, as in, the four Elements described in certain philosophies.
@sakura3686 ай бұрын
earth also has metal-bending
@taravati1817 ай бұрын
They are all deadly and it's the user that determines which is actually the deadliest
@leafy_cynical67327 ай бұрын
No wind nullifies all of them with the ability to create a vacuum. Water needs air pressure to stay a liquid, earth would be shredded by sheer negative pressure, fire and lightning needs oxygen or even a medium to even form.
@ABaumstumpf7 ай бұрын
@@leafy_cynical6732 "Water needs air pressure to stay a liquid" Or water-pressure. And you'd need a giant vacuum just to very slowly vaporise a small amount of water. "earth would be shredded by sheer negative pressure" Absolutely nothing would happend to the stones they are throwing "fire and lightning needs oxygen or even a medium to even form." No? Fire is just the heat generated and as it is shooting outward without any fuel it is safe to assume it needs no oxydizer either. And lightning... ever heard of a vacuum-tube? (And notice something about the name?)
@bolbyballinger7 ай бұрын
@@leafy_cynical6732 There are ways around that. For instance surround an air bender in earth and they've lost access to the air and are gonna suffocate. Hell, make a dome of earth around yourself and the air bender loses access to your air (though this does blind you as well). Water benders can do basically the same thing and their defensive dome doesn't inherently blind them. Then, since the water bender doesn't have to touch water to bend it, you just do your blood bending.
@gustavogarcia87837 ай бұрын
@@leafy_cynical6732 "shredded by sheer negative pressure" you know there are rocks in space, right? And even if the rocks were reduced to dust, earthbenders can still bend dust (with some training)
@nicholastormey59467 ай бұрын
agreed
@drunkfarmer51067 ай бұрын
Legend of Korra actually showed us how lethal Air was if the user wasn't a pacifist; you can't get more powerful than literally sucking the air our of people's lungs and making wind blades at incredible speeds. Plus, there isn't a way to deprive someone from using this bending.
@lightningpenguin89377 ай бұрын
Well... technically if you give a bender a gun. Then it's still probably air bending. Cause Arial assult.
@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght54477 ай бұрын
zaheer was just a rampaging plot device and WAY more powerful and skilled than he had any right to be. that stuff was just bs. to be clear: it *is* possible if you're a very powerful and skilled airbender, but i think you'd have to be on at least aang's level
@Raptor0912887 ай бұрын
Bloodbending is arguably even worse. Basically gain complete control over your target and you can just kill them instantly at any point. Imagine if Katara and Azula swapped places and Azula had blood bending.
@DeusExNihilo7 ай бұрын
Also it's the best element for stealth. Not only can you be completely silent by preventing sound waves from propagating, but theoretically you could bend the air around you to create a mirage, rendering yourself invisible.
@silent90777 ай бұрын
@@DeusExNihilo Bending the air around you would absolutely not make you invisible. Best case scenario, it would slightly obscure your location in a similar way being under water does.
@jg31677 ай бұрын
From a place that has hurricanes and tornadoes, I can say it's not "that" the wind is blowing, but "what" the wind is blowing. Like trees, traffic signs, mail boxes, chunks of buildings, and whole vehicles. Smashing into other things and creating more debris for the wind to blow around, and start fires. And will blow the ocean inland as storm surge. Air is the element that can do it all.
@angbandsbane6 ай бұрын
I believe it. The thing that always comes to mind for me is that Kurt Russel movie, "Soldier" (specifically the one scene where wind hits the graveyard and at least a few of the attacking soldiers are impaled with scrap metal crosses)
@magne77717 ай бұрын
Meanwhile I'm over here thinking, "How do earthbenders even LOSE a fight?" I mean, literally ALL you gotta do when someone squares up, is clap them between two giant slabs of earth- probably from right beneath their feet. Like slamming a book shut. Except with blood and viscera.
@Speedy5007 ай бұрын
Yeah, I mean earth benders have been shown to do that, and they can summon armor out of nowhere
@ZttackFrmBhind7 ай бұрын
Or just send 2 spikes of earth straight up through their ankles to their hips, can't bend if you can't bend your knees
@Merilirem7 ай бұрын
It takes some skill to do but yeah it's the easiest kill you can get. Avatar people were way more durable is why it didn't just work like that.
@el527 ай бұрын
In terms of the ATLA show, Ty Lee, despite not being a bender took down a platoon of Earth Bender soldiers, using acrobatics, being on quick on her toes, plus chi blocking. It takes a lot of skill for a REGULAR earth bender to lift rocks and heaps of earth, more so in molding such dense materials to be weapons (or just hurling them against an enemy). Quick stepping opponents have decent chances in dodging such atracks. Of course, it depends on the skill of the Earthbender and his/her opponent's combat capability. Exceptions also could be considered, like metal bending and sand bending (which, for Earthbending sub techniques are quite swift), but in most cases REGULAR Earth Benders (EB) rely on powerful movements and strikes, which could be devastating when they connect, but a bit slow and could be inflexible, which could run the risk of a swift (even punishing) counter if a EB overcommits.
@magne77717 ай бұрын
@@el52 To be honest, we're not talking about a particularly intricate move here. Take your hands, and hold them flat, together, at the wrist. Now clap your hands together. Now imagine those are two giant rectangular rocks, from beneath someone elses' feet. One quick CLAP, and you've got instant bender soup.
@isometimestrytodothings23757 ай бұрын
i have never seen such epic music played over people spraying meat with a pressure washer
@simondeep7 ай бұрын
I still daresay the fifth element. She can multipass all others
@alpha49357 ай бұрын
I understood that reference
@Velacroix7 ай бұрын
Still the best alien opera to date.
@domoniquebrooks8167 ай бұрын
Leeloo Dallas Multipass.
@AllanTidgwell7 ай бұрын
"How do you kill someone with love?" **STIs have entered the arena**
@Phantom_Aspekt7 ай бұрын
Hahaha good one 👌
@corymoon24397 ай бұрын
Easily Earth. Every battle just became a siege. City walls built in an afternoon, every bender is a trebuchet yeeting big rocks as needed. Trap and snap your enemies ankles if you don't want to entrap them with new walls and roofs. Oh and also for your societies sake you have no excuse to have homeless people. Rock solid apartment complexes built in a day make housing cheap. The only reason that the Earth Kingdom wasn't a powerhouse was due to 1. An innefective government and 2. Earth benders being fairly rare.
@endlessnoodle30567 ай бұрын
Earth Kingdom was very much a powerhouse. If not for the second comet, Fire Nation couldn't really defeat Earth Kingdom for a 100 years. Ultimately the whole war was only between them, cause Air Nomads died instantly and Water knobs were aggressively useless.
@corymoon24397 ай бұрын
@@endlessnoodle3056 Fire was only winning due to industrialization and the comet. They had to industrialize because fire is a relatively weak fighting element, but it is useful once you introduce steam power.
@thewanderingronin54337 ай бұрын
Especially when one factors in metal bending
@endlessnoodle30567 ай бұрын
@@thewanderingronin5433 can't really. It wasn't a thing until the very end of the war. Firebending, however, gives mad access to metalworks
@corymoon24397 ай бұрын
@@thewanderingronin5433 I'm only thinking of standard bending. In which case the fire benders will be better at working metal, exactly as they did in the show. Before the invention of steam power,fire is kind of weak compared to the other elements. Once steam power is invented, fire becomes a power force. It allows for a rapid industrialization since you don't really need a lot of coal mining in comparison to real societies. Your fire is perfectly controlled at all times, making it significantly safer.
@ShadowsK.Y7 ай бұрын
Something i think is important to rule out is sub-bending, at least the highly rare ones such as blood, lava, flight, combustion. Most masters of elements never even master a sub element in Aang's era, and in Korra's era something like bloodbending is still rare (partly because of laws) AND is still exclusive to the full moon (not every waterbender will be Yakone or Amon guys), therefore not reliable as most claim it is. When we're talking about which element is the best, it should be factored in terms of amateur to expert levels and kept close to base elements. Its very easy to get out of hand otherwise and go full X-men with "an earthbender can pull the iron out of someones body!"
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
Bonebending is also a thing! and it's canon
@ShadowsK.Y7 ай бұрын
@@mateopadron5533 sure, but rare techniques like that shouldn't be factored in too much, it doesn't play that big of a role in the grand scheme of bending. if you or I were in avatar, it's unlikely we'd ever be some main antagonist who's the exception to the status quo, let's be honest
@Merilirem7 ай бұрын
@@ShadowsK.Y It depends what the goal is. If you are just talking most deadly, it doesn't matter how rare it is. Defining an overall best would be trickier. Its water BTW. Water is the best. Its specials are too good, aka healing and blood bending. Also while blood bending isn't always doable water out of air or plants absolutely is if you are taught. Overall it has the most coverage.
@SgtSupaman7 ай бұрын
@@Merilirem , I like how you mention water in air and plants as if that isn't just necessary for water benders to even try to keep up with the other benders (and certainly isn't an argument for them being better). Earth and air are always available in massive amounts and fire is generated from the bender. Water benders typically have to find better sources than humidity and plants to actually do anything of significance (like how Katara used a canteen all through the series).
@owenwoolley33947 ай бұрын
@@Meriliremfire is superior. What is a water bender going to do when a firebender zaps them with a blast of lightning? Even without lightning bending, a fire blast still beats a waterblast in a head to head contest.
@activeentropy7 ай бұрын
All elements can be equally powerful when mastered to the extreme. A combination of the types is going to beat any single element.
@nickbob20037 ай бұрын
Yes but I would argue air is the most versatile and they cannot realistically be deprived of their element. One thing most people get wrong is that firebenders can make fire from nothing when they actually need a flame to start out with that they can then grow. Though obviously earth is also pretty hard to be deprived of but not impossible like shown in the anime. Even if they are a metal bender thick enough wood would do the trick. There’s also a strong case for is being almost impossible to not get water as you have saliva and sweat though obviously that’s a limited resource and an air bender will almost never have a limited supply
@joshuawells74157 ай бұрын
@@nickbob2003the only time fire benders needed to have a flame to manipulate before bending was in the shitty live action movie that nerfed every element to absurdity.
@AllanTidgwell7 ай бұрын
@nickbob2003 canonically the fire of firebenders comes from the energy of the chi. They don't need a preexisting flame. They produce it in the same why your body produces heat
@purplepineapple78937 ай бұрын
@@nickbob2003 All elements are everywhere. There's even water in the air that can be extracted. The Fire (heat) from the body, the air and other source. Soil is literally everywhere. And there are places with less "air".
@madislegames17437 ай бұрын
As someone who recently burned themselves pretty badly with 400° oil I can attest that fire is not an instant show stopper because afterwards I continued to finish the remaining 6 hours of my shift
@grapfen5877 ай бұрын
For the dedicated slingshot video I would suggest you move the wooden poles a lot closer to each other. This will not only make it shoot more accurate (since there is less horizontal variability along the acceleration path) but it will also result in more power because the overall draw length will be longer thus accelerating the projectile for longer when firing. Additionally, having the poles closer to one another will make it so the force vectors (I may have made that word up but I hope it's clear what I mean by this) of the rubbers contracting more closely align with the direction in which you want to accelerate the projectile which will lead to a lot more of the energy actually being imparted onto the projectile.
@straighttalkwithkyle79477 ай бұрын
You beat me to it. I had a three person slingshot for water balloons when I was younger. It would go straight and accurate the closer together we held the supports. Fun times were had. Phone calls were made, I got grounded a few times. It was all part of growing up.
@markfergerson21457 ай бұрын
Yep. Joerg Sprave has done the groundwork that proves this.
@andrzejsamorzewski1467 ай бұрын
Water - blood bending Rock - bone crushing Air - breath taking Fire -burning desire for EXLOSION!!!
@owenwoolley33947 ай бұрын
Or brain bending. Block the electrical signals in someone’s brain using lightning bending.
@farikkun18417 ай бұрын
All of them could instantly destroy brain then
@MistbornTaylor7 ай бұрын
The most deadly element will be the Netflix show. It's already killing my enjoyment.
@ForestRaptor7 ай бұрын
oh no :(
@matityaloran91577 ай бұрын
The most deadly element is Shyamalan’s movie
@timmygilbert41027 ай бұрын
It has full people charring down into cinder, it's basically avatar for adult ish, it's not on par with the tv series because it's not a kid show anymore
@MistbornTaylor7 ай бұрын
@@timmygilbert4102 it’s avatar but shit
@timmygilbert41027 ай бұрын
@@MistbornTaylor it's just you
@gustavogarcia87837 ай бұрын
I see many people talking about Bloodbending and bending the air in your lungs, but they have their weaknesses and the 4 elements are well balanced by the strenght of their users. Combustion, Lightning benders and earth benders in general can hit people from farther away than we've ever seen someone bloodbend, and even Mako, a FIRE BENDER, was able to resist bloodbending enouth for a counter attack. And being able to bloodbend outside of a full moon is an exception, there are "one in a lifetime" benders of every type. And with the entire "bending air out of the lungs" thing, do you see how long it took Zaheer to do it? If the queen was a bender, she would have been able to counter attack. There is a reason why he never does it outside of this "ceremonial execution"
@als30227 ай бұрын
Takes time and concentration to pull off to.
@Merilirem7 ай бұрын
I will say that intent is important. Bloodbending has never really been used lethally even when clearly possible, bloodbending seems to give such power that its users get sloppy and revel in the absolute control they have. Its the strongest against humans and could even augment Ines own movements to insane degree's but its so rarely used no one ever truly masters it. Even the family was only one family. They couldn't master its potential especially given how messed up the dynamic was.
@BGSenTineL7 ай бұрын
We as people sometimes have bad days ... I'm about to go to bed and with joy I saw that Shadiversity has a new video. This brings a smile to my face, because I so much enjoy watching goofy and nerdy stuff (you know what I mean) that takes you away for a moment from reality.
@kd5nrh7 ай бұрын
Disappointed that they passed up the opportunity to break out some slings, staff slings, trebuchets, and catapults for earthbending. The damage from a simple sling with a chicken egg sized rock can be pretty impressive.
@Ghalaghor_McAllistor7 ай бұрын
Depends on the location as well as how good you are at bending the elements. Remember the scene where a group of earthbenders fought back against firebenders by using a small rock? Or Zuko using firebending to melt ice by generating enough heat while he was submerged under water?
@MorgottofLeyendell7 ай бұрын
You have to take into account that in Avatar firebending has force to it, most likely from the burning gasses, so it's not liquid fire, it gaseous blasts of fire, so I think the power level was a mite diminished in this test.
@greedier-76617 ай бұрын
They had many problems... -their fire hat low heat and fire benders create sort of explosions of fire, fire blast and not just fires. -in water bending they forgot ice bending completely -in earth they forgot that earth best benefit is trapping people with stone -in air bending they forgot that gravity exists and air bender could easily throw people into the air and then slam them into the ground with air blast. They also forgot that each bending style has different level of difficulty and amount of bending that they can do.( fire the easiest, then air, earth and lastly water is the most difficult) (air benders manipulate the biggest volume of their element, then it is fire benders, water benders and earth benders control very small amount of earth) + -water bender can easily fill person throat wit water and freeze it -same with fire bending but not freezing but it would kill -air bending could simply change pressure to blow the lungs of the person and all of their attacks are invisible
@steel_axe59597 ай бұрын
The problem with the way you did fire, technically you just bent a liquid that's flammable. A water bender with extra steps
@Jackson-sc8jp7 ай бұрын
Using just the elements themselves, i think its worth noting that waterbenders could also bend ice in the show, or freeze water, which would be like throwing razor blades even without the intense pressure of something like modern water jets. For morr large scale maneuvers though, Earth is really slept on. Ya gotta realize every Earth Bender is essentially a walking trebuchet, that shits dangerous. What I find really interesting though is the idea of augmenting martial abilities with bending. The first place my mind goes to is an archer who's also an airbender, with a glider they could move around a battlefield quickly, and with the bending itself they could accelerate an arrow to ridiculous speeds, stabilize it's flight path, or maybe even just guide it to exactly where the archer is aiming. Archery + Wind powers seems like an absolutely lethal combination that I've not really seem explored before, and I'm sure theres plenty of others I'm not thinking of right now
@DarkZodiacZZ7 ай бұрын
Can firebenders deal with relative absence of heat?
@linkolek7 ай бұрын
In the show airbenders can do superspeed too. It's rarely used and seems to lack reflexes or reaction time that are normally included, but who needs to trow stuff when you can run fast enough to kill opponent with a dagger before they can even finish their first move.
@Merilirem7 ай бұрын
@@DarkZodiacZZ Remember the cooler from the burning rock?
@Jackson-sc8jp7 ай бұрын
@@linkolek I think a big part of that is that they still have relatively normal reflexes and reaction speeds so they're literally just using air to move really fast, but it would be like driving really fast for you or me. Everyone probably has a limit to how fast they could effectively go and still react to the world around them. That's why I like the archery idea, you're just pushing the arrow really fast or using the air to guide it
@Gyovali6 ай бұрын
@@linkolekSuper risky to go in for a dagger attack at high speeds especially if it's an earth bender. one rock between you and them and they might not even need to make a proper attack.
@gorrammudder16007 ай бұрын
Water, without a doubt, cut steel, bloodbend, freeze and smash. Hands down, Water.
@NotsewTheGreat7 ай бұрын
yup
@Isaac_5.56x457 ай бұрын
And the tears of SJW's could be weaponized against them!
@MauricioOsuna-et8et7 ай бұрын
MAN, something they never explored in the cartoon and never heard anyone talk about: Water EXPANDS when frozen. Waterbenders can FREEZE water at will. Waterbenders could theoretically one-shot ANYONE by freezing them from the inside. Unless I'm missing any specific... No, Katara could freeze water in a hot sunny day in the Serpent's Pass episode. This never happened in the cartoon, but instakilling people with waterbending should be entirely possible. Instakill / 10
@kylen73517 ай бұрын
Air. You can't bend the other elements if you can't breathe due to either your lungs being blown from to much air or suffocating from lack of it.
@Xinamon987 ай бұрын
You forgot heal
@MorgottofLeyendell7 ай бұрын
Tyranth is right, blowing up the lungs would be way more effective just based on the limits that most waterbenders experience when trying to waterbend. We only know of a few waterbenders who were even able to bloodbend and it is explained that most benders need a full moon to even attempt it. Meanwhile, firebendenders can just be popping people's lungs.
@Snoady97 ай бұрын
The problem is when the air pressure in your lungs is higher than the air pressure outside by a large degree it just gets sucked out of you. It's the first thing that happens to your body in a vacuum. The air in your lungs even if trying to hold your breathe just gets sucked out of you. I dont think you could explode someone's lungs unless they have a way of containing it inside you...
@Snoady97 ай бұрын
And adding to this, people have collapsed lungs all the time, it's not an instant death Causing all the water in your body to either burst out of you or instantly freeze stabbing you through your body? Including your heart? Thats instant death
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
also bone benders are also canon and don't have the whole moon restriction
@chromaticblue39767 ай бұрын
Firebenders have really only been shown being able to manipulate fire by extending it from themselves. Can't just point at someone and make their lungs explode.
@MorgottofLeyendell7 ай бұрын
@@chromaticblue3976 I agree, I think that to explode a person's lungs they would need to be touching them but I don't think that's entirely unreasonable given how close some of the combatants are in the original series.
@dasmensh7 ай бұрын
Even though water could be dangerous if the person really knows what they are doing I would place my bet on earth. If you get hit by a bolder you are just dead
@helo_people7 ай бұрын
Also applies if you get hit a a giant iceberg thrown by a water bender 😂
@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght54477 ай бұрын
@@helo_people also applies to a torrent of flames
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
dude earth benders have blood bending on crack, they have bone bending, which is effective both on yourself and others
@mobgabriel17677 ай бұрын
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 TLDR:just don't get hit
@bolbyballinger7 ай бұрын
Plus no element has better defensive capabilities. A rock gets thrown the air bender and fire bender have to dodge. The water bender has to either put up a lot of water or dodge. But the earth bender can just put up a wall.
@Morriaphant7 ай бұрын
Ive always wanted to earth bend. Im an artist so making golems out of earth and manipulating them like a mech is my dream. The magma bending and sand bending is just a bonus
@Koushakur7 ай бұрын
Shad seems to be unaware of the concept of "stop drop and roll", if you're caught on fire it's not like the fire is magically unable to be put out though a variety of means, one of which only requires yourself and the ground
@als30227 ай бұрын
Depends on what is on fire. If its your clothes then yes its easy to stop drop and roll and put it out. If it's your flesh that has actually caught fire and your fats are burning? That's much harder to put out.
@AlyssMa7rin7 ай бұрын
I mean, yes, but the Firebender will just... keep lighting you on fire while you roll on the ground.
@mrnefarious57526 ай бұрын
Can't stop drop and roll quite a few types of fire. Pretty sure magical bender burners are probably a little harder to put out than a standard fire. Plus one thing not taken into account is whether your clothes are made out of fire retardant materials or not. If they are then you are pretty safe from a gentle scorching, if not you could go up like a cheap, poorly constructed halloween outfit before you can react
@toodlepop7 ай бұрын
i remember getting 3-man water balloon launchers banned from my university. we'd have it pulled back like 12 feet at a 40 degree angle and send them out the window to rain down on people outside. the most fun.
@BiggerGringo7 ай бұрын
The censorship made this 100 times funnier, I love the fire piss
@kd5nrh7 ай бұрын
Yeah, a stream of burning liquid coming from a pixellated object at Tyranth's waist looks like a really odd Japanese porn scene.
@MerryGoldberry7 ай бұрын
“You pick it up, and then... you shoot it.” I believe that is called _throwing._
@HoosierHerpvertebrate7 ай бұрын
It's all fun and games until someone learns how to bend an actual element and bends uranium.
@thebaron22777 ай бұрын
Avatar the last nukebender
@Gyovali6 ай бұрын
Sadly with a moderate level of understanding of uranium, under most circumstances that's just earthbending again but with a heavy rock made of uranium instead of any other rocks. and it would take a lot more effort to pull uranium out of the environment on the scale required to do anything special.
@JCOwens-zq6fd7 ай бұрын
Air may be difficult to test but we know tornados wreck stuff pretty effectively.
@colonelfalcar10897 ай бұрын
I love the martial art style of firebending, but earthbending is so much fun to think about. Not only is it a weapon, its a method of control. You can shape the entire arena against your oppenent(s) (just look at bumi and aang's fight), and you have control over most buildings and structures. I love the fighting style of firebending, but earthbending just has so much application
@nicklankin31777 ай бұрын
Building off of what Nate said that "air is the medium that everything flows through", I would actually argue that air is the most powerful if you think of what the nature of a tornado is capable of. If it happens overseas and it causes a hurricane which can cause mass floods. Air has a capacity to pick up rocks and hurl them causing mass damage. Air fuels fire making it stronger and hotter. So not only is air a force of nature that can stand on its own in regards to elemental bending, it is actually the one key element that can enhance the strength of them all. Which would mean that if you had the ability to manipulate air, then you would have the ability to influence the rest with relative ease making you an overall Chad.
@TheScarvig7 ай бұрын
ang litterally used a micro tornado to hurl coals on the show when they were on the earthbender prison
@mrnefarious57526 ай бұрын
The dinosaurs would like a word with you, as would pompei.....And Atlantis is on line three. All depends on power output and rules/restrictions/limitations of bending
@HowltheWizard7 ай бұрын
"Air and gravity are not the same thing, but a skilled Airbender can make one imitate the other." - Flavor text on Downdraft from the AtLA tcg. Always stuck with me and made me want to be an Airbender. Hilarious video, thanks for the fantastic work guys!
@Intreductor7 ай бұрын
While the original cartoon was relesing, there were shorts called "creating the legend" where each form of bending was highlighted, as well as which Chinese martial art they were based on.
@ripperdjak62247 ай бұрын
With the Earth bending, Aang shot rocks off like bullets and that would absolutely destroy and shred anything up
@deejnutz20687 ай бұрын
If avatar wasn't a kids show any battle against earth benders would result in a battlefield where the bodies of the enemy would be unrecognizable. Fire would too, but to much less devastating effect than wide area of affect shrapnel and boulders.
@renookami46516 ай бұрын
Now update this technique to metal-bending and you have...actual bullets! Or knives if you wanna be edgy...
@thorsteinnorman71337 ай бұрын
I hope Shad knows of Goblin Slayer. In the middle of the first season he destroys a powerful monster with a teleportation scroll that he had a mage connect to the bottom of the ocean, making it into a short duration, insanely high powered water jet. Also, on the point of blood bending, in ATLA, because of contaminants in the water (aka blood cells and food, etc.) blood bending was impossible outside of periods of full moon, as the full moon supercharged water benders' powers.
@SRocinante7 ай бұрын
Goblin slayer - buys 9th level spell scroll, uses it for 6th level spell effect.
@thorsteinnorman71337 ай бұрын
@@SRocinante DnD reference?
@je28487 ай бұрын
@@SRocinante "DAMMIT I PAID GOOD MONEY FOR THAT SQUIRREL!!! *WHERE IS MY SQUIRREL!??!?!?!* "
@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets7 ай бұрын
He's already done a couple videos on GS, actually.
@thorsteinnorman71337 ай бұрын
@@jsb6975.ah.crapbaskets True. I forgot about that
@rifleman2c9977 ай бұрын
You built a slingshot and DIDN'T tell us its features.
@MauricioOsuna-et8et7 ай бұрын
"Actually, the HATE will boil the water." 😂 now we know why firebenders changed from using the Sun as their power source to using their own internal hatred. What's the Sun gonna do, slowly evaporate the water over the course of many hours?
@RachDarastrix27 ай бұрын
I thought they switched to using their anger? ... Maybe that's just the translation from Japanese to English being to blame.
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
@@RachDarastrix2 it's any feelings of passion, though those who do not connect to the sun don't have fire that's as strong, since that's the root of all life
@RachDarastrix27 ай бұрын
@@mateopadron5533 Makes sense actually, you ever see how much your health gets run down just from a lack of sunlight caused by Winter even though you are constantly going outside in an attempt to get sufficient exposure?
@saphcal7 ай бұрын
@@RachDarastrix2 what translation? airbender is an american made show, it was in english originally. it was never translated from japanese...
@RachDarastrix27 ай бұрын
@@saphcal My mistake, maybe I just didn't remember what they said.
@TheHornedKing7 ай бұрын
Fire bending also got lightning. I think that's important to remember. While fire might not kill you immediately, lightning probably will.
@MaDmanex1007 ай бұрын
It is way more rare and you should take the average right?
@TheHornedKing7 ай бұрын
@@MaDmanex100 If blood bending is gonna be mentioned, which is even rarer and can normally only be done during a full moon, I think lightning deserves to be mentioned too.
@MaDmanex1007 ай бұрын
@@TheHornedKing yes i agree with that. I think lightning is not something they had knowledge of at the time perhaps.
@LLarsYT7 ай бұрын
Water and earth benders could shield themselves. Air benders could potentially disrupt the build up before the discharge.
@linkolek7 ай бұрын
I think many people forget that airbenders are speedsters too. It doesn't matter how deadly your power is if your opponent can kill you with a simple dagger before you can move. Granted, in the show this power was rarely used so it might be very difficult. Especially considering that their superspeed seems to come without super reflexes or reaction time.
@cobinizer7 ай бұрын
Could an Earthbender pull all the minerals out of you? I don't know if that would hurt or just make a target anemic.
@Eciuj17 ай бұрын
I was thinking that 🤔
@16m49x37 ай бұрын
ask magneto
@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght54477 ай бұрын
no, you're thinking about this way too scientifically
@Uhhhi-ih8bb7 ай бұрын
they're never shown to do that so no
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
yes! If they are very skilled, bonebenders are also canon!
@je28487 ай бұрын
The obvious follow-on episode to this needs to be an analysis of Saka's meteorite sword and what kind of materials a meteorite would need to have in it to make the best sword.
@als30227 ай бұрын
OOH!!! Yes, this this, what kind of metals are in a meteorite that would be useful for this.
@AlyssMa7rin7 ай бұрын
@@als3022Carbon Fibre :P
@fow34537 ай бұрын
Historically, meteorite swords are just iron swords. Although it's an interesting question if there are any other materials a meteorite could have in it that would make a good sword.
@marcusc99317 ай бұрын
There have been stories of people doing stupid things while pressure-washing and ripping their fingers off.
@dragoonfirestorm11717 ай бұрын
Before they broke the illusion by showing the body of the flame dispenser, it was like wow one of them has an OP UTI to be peeing out flames!
@NavigTheGamer7 ай бұрын
Air, you can latterly just pull the air out of someone's lungs,or you can expand the air in the blood streams of people basically exploding their insides
@JasperLane7 ай бұрын
When I clicked on this video the first thing that came to my mind was who would be the perfect airbender. I am glad we agree
@WerW0lfx7 ай бұрын
firebender could explode the oxygen around just like a thermobaric bomb i guess
@milesmanges7 ай бұрын
That's why people get blasted back from it in the cartoon
@chris9933617 ай бұрын
Blurring the flame dispenser makes it look like you're pissing fire.
@Madison-iw8ix7 ай бұрын
Don't worry, Shad. I won't do any of this at home. I'll go to the park and do it.
@teddyxiii48107 ай бұрын
A test with water balloons and Ice blocks from the slingshot, would have been nice. Because they never bend water in a high pressure stream. They throw 1 m^3 of water in your face. love the idea of testing bending elements😂
@MrJJandJim7 ай бұрын
They kind of did when Aang and Katarra were slicing up the metal structure of that massive drill as it was tunneling into the wall.
@meris84867 ай бұрын
I assumed fire bending was more about concussive force like an explosion than actual fire since the show constantly shows it throwing people around like a ragdoll but maybe that's just their insistence on not seeing people be burned to death in a kids show.
@KairuHakubi7 ай бұрын
wow. youtube censoring flamethrowers now why hasn't anyone DONE something about this? ideally something involving a flamethrower.
@mansfieldtime7 ай бұрын
From your tests, what was the deadliest. I mean Goliath... was killed by a young man with some string and a rock.
@James-qi8gj7 ай бұрын
None of the elements really cancel eachother out, it's not like a rock paper scissors thing, but water is definitely overpowered.
@Lexadin6 ай бұрын
I think they hit the nail on the head when talking about how airbenders control the medium in which all other elements need to move through. It allows for greater ease in avoiding and redirecting attacks. Both of which are perfectly suited for the pacifistic Airbenders.
@f4lenwarrior7 ай бұрын
you all had so much fun making this one and it shows, great job!
@NolDragon7 ай бұрын
Earth is super versatile. It can just take sooooo many forms. Just need to be imaginative.
@MrSquadallah7 ай бұрын
If a bender is creative enough, his bending skill is the most deadly.
@ordinaryknife41507 ай бұрын
Censoring the handheld fire dispenser makes it look worse than it actually is.
@saphcal7 ай бұрын
especially since it just looks like its peeing on boromir.
@MauricioOsuna-et8et7 ай бұрын
To test fire, any flamethrower would be the correct stand-in. In the cartoon, fire behaves a lot like a solid when hitting other things, which makes no sense. Water should 100% beat it as it hits through without any time to evaporate. Zero defensive power, no deflections, nothing. And realistically, if you were hit big a wall of fire you'd still have plenty of time to react as fire has zero direct damage, it is purely a DoT. Fire kinda weak. To test water, a firefighter hose would do perfectly... And we all know how those are used for crowd control. Then there's water in very high pressure cutting through METAL, and it can be used, in enough quatities, as a wall for defense. Water OP. And that is just with water as-is, not even talking about waterbenders being able to FREEZE it at will. To test earth, well... What is there to say? CATAPULT. CANNON. 100% solid projectiles. Blunt trauma. Concussions. Earthquakes to throw enemies off balance. And is the best for defense. Earth OP. Air is a much different topic as it is used more easily for evasion and tiring out the enemies. Don't need much attack power when your enemy can't attack anymore... And then they do have plenty of attack power with being able to knock things over, make enemies tumble and be vulnerable... But the cruel uses of vaccum, yeah, that's a total killer. Air OP.
@DanSutherland6 ай бұрын
Fire bending seems more like explosion bending than just moving around flame though. Azula even uses it as propulsion. Also heat can be generated, or at least manipulated, without flame. It also seems like the flames are particularly high temps in general. There's some level of combination of manipulation of thermal and kinetic forces possible around the flame and if you can imagine being able to manipulate those forces then there's a lot of force to be worked with even with relatively small flame.
@BobBob-fm6oo5 ай бұрын
If you look into the science of weather you will realize that airbending is by far the most powerful. Someone that is powerful enough with airbending could manifest any weather they want.
@KappaKiller1086 ай бұрын
One thing i always noticed in the cartoon is how sturdy the characters are, as cartoon characters. In the vase of Earthbending, even backround characters routinly get hit by rocks that eould easily weigh 50-100 pounds going at 90mph. That would pulverize a real person, but in the cartoon it seems to only do as much damage as a hard punch
@Kaeldorn7 ай бұрын
Fun video. While earth does seem like the best element to inflict direct lethal damage on a single target when aimed, I think two aspects that are worth considering that do come up often in the show are: - Usage in group vs. group scenario's - Defensive applications In groups I think that depending on the environment, fire could become a lot more impactful because it can create hazardous terrain that spreads without needing further sustenance from the bender, so they can focus on even more attacks. But it has very little defensive utility. Water would also have strong applications to control a battlefield and negate the ability of others to attack, so while it's not as immediately devastating it could overwhelm other elements given enough time. Air seems to be mostly used for defense/redirecting projectiles and enhancing mobility. It's not a very powerful element by itself offensively, but if the combatant is also a skilled martial artist or warrior then that ability is much further enhanced by air than the other elements are capable of. It's no coincidence that the air benders are portrayed as shaolin monks.
@charleyvoos60786 ай бұрын
You guys have had a lot of fun with many of your videos, but I think this is the most fun I've ever seen you have. Cheers!
@livebyhonor7 ай бұрын
I'm working on a Zelda comic and in my world they use magic. That said Wind is by far the strongest of the elements in my story. I've been trying to think outside the box as far as what each of the elements can do, and in my brainstorming Wind was by far the most versatile. Imagine a talented Wind user holding the air around you solid... you cant move. Imagine him ripping the air out of you preventing you from breathing. Imagine applying a steady air pressure on you simulating heavy gravity forces dropping you to the ground. Hitting people with high pressure concussive blasts, cutting..... list of possibilities goes quite deep.
@skoll0477 ай бұрын
air for me is good for the support ability rather than offense. while a master can be very deadly with vacuum and such, if talking about normal level stuff, things like air sensing and pushing your own body to evade attacks is what air excels at. as well as making air flows around you to move projectiles. you can do that with other elements but you wont be able to see. But personally, I'm more for earth for it's versatility. the ability do do great damage and build things and burrow into the earth to escape or hide is just so much fun.
@flyingdeathcatsgo7 ай бұрын
Earth definitely scales better for average users. You often have to train for dozens of years to get exceptionally deadly with the other elements, but even a rookie earth bender is lethal.
@deejnutz20687 ай бұрын
Literal children just have to shoot body sized rocks in a volley in the enemies general direction.
@Giosuke_Giogashikata7 ай бұрын
Regardless of caveats, practicality, and subclasses, I am a massive fan of just chucking rocks at people. Edit: I absolutely died when you tested airbending, good on you all. Edit 2: Airbending, canonically, is a defensive style, focusing mostly on counterattacks. Its lack of power is not surprising to me.
@daniell14837 ай бұрын
Fire. You forgot to test the LIGHTNING!
@BluegrassKnight7 ай бұрын
Call it a "Flame Projector" and be careful using a fire extinguisher on people, it can harm the lungs!
@Bonjairno7 ай бұрын
You know I've never been happier to be a supporting member lol
@SaganTheKhajiit7 ай бұрын
I love how this channel became equal parts testing interesting things, and just three guys taking the piss off of each other.
@boodstain7 ай бұрын
Yall forget about lighting, that automatically makes fire bending the most deadly because lightning is the single most powerful thing to occur in nature due to both the speed and power of so much energy hitting you all at once.
@kirbymarchbarcena7 ай бұрын
This was a very strange test - Boromir the tough
@user-qz6nk1le5n7 ай бұрын
Air... Fly up drop anything kill target, plus their steps makes as much weight as an ant and they are extremely fast. If not because they monastic way of life they are basically perfect Ninjas/assassin
@CreaturesOfTheMarsh7 ай бұрын
Tyranth: “The brick is Shad’s idea, and I don’t like it.” *hits the target with a coconut* Tyranth: “Should I try the brick again?”
@vismaykedilaya13187 ай бұрын
Tbh if I was an earthbender I'd create an army of stone/metal statues. I'm surprised kuvira didn't do that, it's extremely effective with very little cost
@alloutpotato79397 ай бұрын
Shad just needs a wind tunnel or wait for a cyclone and boom. Simulated airbending
@NidgeDFX7 ай бұрын
Default 4 Air. If you are a prodigy Water + Blood
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
consider... earth + bone! (It's canon too)
@someoneindeed7 ай бұрын
It's definitely water, water can do basically do the air attacks except they hit harder, with ice bending they can basically do all the rock attacks except they're also sharper and cause a cold effect, they cover all the weapon attacks slicing, piercing and bludgeoning, it's basically the best for both attacking and defending, not to mention the additional abilities like blood bending and healing
@dustyprops7 ай бұрын
Loving the new pauldrons Shad 😂
@Shintareth7 ай бұрын
It's a fact that each element can kill effectively given the right circumstance. The human body is just full of vulnerable, squishy, and crunchy stuff!!
@Gyovali6 ай бұрын
I reckon it's probably possible to kill someone without an element at all, just gotta hit em in the right spots with enough force, maybe something fancy, like a stick would do.
@_gold_eye_26567 ай бұрын
They’re situationally effective it’s like comparing a sword to a mace to a spear. They all have an equal ability to kill eachother it just depends on the opponent and conditions at the time.
@gmpa97476 ай бұрын
As someone who’s been a fan but hasn’t been keeping up, that intro with the 3 legends was spectacular
@xzenderx7 ай бұрын
Water bender vs Fire bender i think depends on location, heavily. I think this is why the fire nation required so much resources, tanks, and to even disable waterbending to defeat the water tribe's fortified city. If water is present they can almost certainly dismiss firebenders in most situations. Because bending is such a martial arts focused art as-well, i think you'd need to compare more than just the elements, but how to get powerful or unusual techneques. The actual motions may incur more advantages, disadvantages. Fire bending for example based on my vague recollection seems to fire off way faster than water. Whereas water bending is the natural counter to fire. They feel very balanced to me lol
@KENyakky7 ай бұрын
The joke at the beginning of the video was one of the funniest thing's I've seen all day. Well done.
@Ithenna7 ай бұрын
I would argue that if you're going to use a pressure washer as your test for water, then you should've used a blow torch for your fire test. I would also argue that water is deadly in more ways than serious pressure - it's quite overpowering when hit with an entire wave even if it's not traveling very quickly. As for air, I say you need look no further than space. The effects of a vacuum on the human body are terrifying. Or if you prefer to go the other way, tornadoes are quite devastating as well.
@stresslevel10097 ай бұрын
I like your new pauldrons Shad, I think they look great. I am patiently and excitedly waiting for another titan sword update, love the stuff you guys are doing it really is Shadiversity's best content so far.
@sloesty7 ай бұрын
Air is like water but without the requirement of needing to be near the element, you always are. But airbenders have more utility. They are lightfooted, can fly with the right equipment, are.more.in tune with the spirit, etc. Plus, airbending can create harder to dodge aoe attacks. Like, you can't dodge a powerful gust of wind, and even in nature we have winds capable of lifting you off your feet. If you get lifted high enough, its game over. Idk, i just think air is the most useful. Just the ability to fly would be nice.
@lonelystrategos7 ай бұрын
If you do a video with the giant slingshot, you must use the phrase "Let me show you its features!" at least once.
@nickanderson557 ай бұрын
So when it comes to blood, bending in the good show that happened before Kora You needed a full moon You had to be a water bender at your absolute strongest, and you had to know the technique
@DirtMufflerButt7 ай бұрын
"We cant show you on KZbin. " Doesnt upload to rumble
@silverswordsmith54247 ай бұрын
So some things I've actually thought of in regards to this. Fire bending is the only bending that does not require you to have the element present since fire is a form of energy, not a physical element, which is also why fire benders are potentially capable of lightning bending, since it's just another form of energy. Fire benders also cannot generate velocity because energy does not have mass. All forms of bending can be overpowered if you start getting into technicalities, but I generally perceive it in terms of them being a martial art. It's not a system where you can just magically control whatever element you are a bender of but one where you manipulate it through martial artistry just like you would a physical weapon, which is why skilled non-bender combatants are capable of going toe to toe with benders quite regularly.
@mateopadron55337 ай бұрын
fire needs oxygen, confirmed. A firebender is rendered useless in a vacuum, it was displayed in the show.
@zeusanton41477 ай бұрын
I have to say the " fire dispenser" is genius. I wouldn't have thought that would work. I'll just file that bit of knowledge away for later use.