Earth bending spirituality is often overlooked. It's not just about neutral Jing, but connectedness. When we see Toph in the swamp in Korra she can commune with the earth itself by touching a banyan tree which let's her see what's going on at any location of the earth. Even though she's living as a hermit she's still connected to everyone and everything important to her. This is also a nice inversion from airbending which focuses on detachment from the world, which is why their sub bending of astral projection let's them detach themselves from their bodies.
1. Raava didn't teach Wan to bend all four elements, she enabled him to, holding the energy from the bending arts so that it wouldn't kill Wan. 2. waterbending is not based on judo, it is based on Tai Chi
Ice is actually less dense than water, which is why ice floats on top of water. It also explains why water expands in when frozen, which is why pipes burst in the winter.
Yeah, he was close but its actually pressure that forms ice. Basically if you try to compress water too much it solidifies into ice (since water is technically incompressible)
I feel like if air bending wasn't used by a peaceful group of people like the air nomads, we would see a lot more aggressive combat capabilities. Like creating vacuums removing air from opponents lungs and stuff like that.
Ehhh the air vacuum thing would take too long to use on an actual powerful bender unless they're totally immobilized. Buuuut yeah I agree otherwise. Air has so much destructive potential. Maybe like wind style in naruto or something lol
Exactly, Aang used it effectively against all the other benders and won for the most part. Plus the speed they have is ridiculous. Idk why they do not utilize their speed more.
That’s not how Zahir learned to fly. He was only able to fly after his lover Pli, died in combat. After her death all his ties to the world were severed and he gained the ability to fly.
Dude I could totally see you as an Airbender. Being the most versatile of all the elements, air literally being everywhere, can fly, great fighting distance, and has good offense and defense capabilities
@@theshimmereffect3506 yes by redirecting other elements thrown at you. It was also great offensive capability. Force the air inside the lungs of your enemy and it will burst their Lung Air Sacs which in turn make them unavable to breath. No healing water can fix that at a short span of time
@@theshimmereffect3506 yes the whole style is based of evasive following movement were u not paying attention? When aang fought Ozai u seem him neutralize his fire attacks with air ..air bending is the counter to all the other elements …
Energy bending can theoretically be linked to all the bending styles via their sub techniques like healing, Astral projection, seismic sense and lighting bending (which is creating by manipulating yin and yang chi). I think it would be cool if eventually there was a character who became a bender by mastering their own energy and emboding the elemental princeiples rather than the usual way of just manipulating physical elements.
@@deltaprobably yes and no because it was only really mentioned when they were explaining lightning bending and that only really happened once and no because it was mention here and there just not by name in most of the other explanation actually I think it was mentioned in water bending too
@@deionlowe1066 it's kinda similar to aether in the beginning after the end you can't manipulate aether same way you do mana and the other elements, and now that everyone's on kinda on the same page in regards to how chi is used in avatar you now theoretically categorize bending using the principles of yin and yang, yang deals with the physical side of bending while yin deals with the spiritual side of it and their connections
Please keep making avatar content! Especially a video on the white lotus! I think a you know nothing about Iro would be really inspiring too! We definitely need more examples like him in our lives.
21:32 Mercury bending would be a subset of earthbending, the metal poison the red lotus used on Korra might very well be mercury. There is also a scene in the season 4 finale where Kuvira is bending liquid metal inside the mech
@@vitorhugobacicpessoavidal325 no platinum was the purest metal that couldn't be bent even by Toph So her being poisoned by something Toph could "cure" wouldn't make sense if it was platinum Also liquid platinum is insanely hot and would kill anyone upon touch pretty much since it's only liquid when superheated
Bumi wasn't just Aang's son. He was the king of Omashu, one of the guy he fought during his travel and his friend before the 100 year war. Aang named his son on remembering Bumi.
Obviously, He just didn't mention KING Bumi Cause the Bumi he mentioned is NOT a bender (before getting his Air bending unlocked by Harmonic Convergence 2) that's what this was on at that point KING Bumi was an Earth Bender
I love your videos! Here is something I noticed that you and a lot of other people do when explaining the 4 bending styles and all of the specialized offshoot bending styles, so often you all forget to incorporate and expound upon the wisdom of Uncle Iroh himself about the very nature of the 4 elements. While teaching Zuko how to redirect lightning, Iroh draws the symbols of the 4 great nations into the sand and he explains the very nature of each element. Air is the element of freedom, Water is the element of change, Earth is the element of substance, and Fire is the element of power. So when describing airbending, you should keep in mind the element of freedom. Everyone talks about how defensive airbending is and how its mostly used for evasion, and you yourself said that it makes sense because its mostly used by monks who are peaceful by nature. Air is the element of freedom though, so it only makes sense that users of airbending have a defensive and deflective nature rather than an offensive nature to them so that they can protect themselves and their own freedoms while also trying their best to not impose themselves onto other people. The idea of freedom is also represented by the sub-bending styles of air: Levitation, and Astral Projection. Levitation allows you to fly freely and basically ignore gravity, which is one of the truest expressions of freedom I've ever heard of. Astral Projection allows you to leave your own body in spirit and go wherever you want to, another expression of the freedom that airbending represents. Water is the element of change, its sub-bending styles are ice and healing. Changing water into ice and also changing it back into water matches the theme of change pretty well. Healing can be construed as changing damaged/injured body parts into more whole and uninjured body parts. Earth is the element of substance. Iroh says the the people of the earth kingdom are diverse and strong, and that they are persistent and enduring. Out of all the elements, earth is the only solid one. The others are all gases or liquids, which are ever changing, flowing, and never resting. Earth is solid though. You stand on it, you can pick it up, you can feel its weight, you can feel how hard it is, and it never moves. Earth has weight to it. And the sub-styles of bending for earth are metal-bending and lava-bending. Metal is even heavier than earth/dirt, so its more "substantial" and stubborn. Lava-bending is essentially harnessing the essence of substance and stubbornness to pressurize the earth so much that it volcanizes and turns the earth itself into a slow moving liquid known as lava. And then we have Fire which is the element of power. Fire burns all that it touches but it also provides warmth. All beings generate heat and it is the source of our actions. Fire-bending is often shown as being very offensive, fire-benders will often punch and kick a bunch of quick blasts of fire just to light a small village on fire. Jeong Jeong taught us that fire is a force of destruction, that it cannot be so easily controlled, ...... (taking a nap now)))
@@dekeking9416 *SPOILERS* its already pretty dark. blood bending is potrayed to be very unpleasant/traumatic to use. hama, yakone, and noatak basically went insane to use it efficiently. katara and tarrlok feared it so much that they almost never use it. tarrlok even killed himself to rid the world of blood bending. i think dark enough.
@@quibble9003 bro I'm not talking about that I already know that, I talking about it's application as a whole could've gruesome asf and anime doesn't hold back much in that department even for a kids show and remember water can exist in 3 states imagine someone doing that to your blood, remember thermal expansion in regards to frozen water in a confined space
@@dekeking9416 so you meant gory instead of dark. idk abt anime doing scientific concept right but yeaa sure it'd probably be more graphic in that sense.
Nice video, but you made one small mistake. 19:02, you said that Bumi, Aang and Kataras oldest son said that there are 85 different types of Jing. The Bumi who said that was the King of Omashu, whom Aang and Kataras son was named after.
I am really glad that you are in fact talking about the show ATLA is one of the greatest animated TV shows I have ever seen in my life and I know I'm not the only one to agree to that literally I grew up watching the show and ever since it was put back on Netflix the show just exploded more and more. Waiting with much anticipation for the live action remake which it desperately needs. Great video as always great contact! I just wanna say I think that I would love to either be a water bender or an air bender, I also think that Nick would be a Airbender.
What i like about Earth benders is by how down to earth they generally are. This also goes into how powerful they are as benders. Toph was the daughter of a nobleman and the richest family in the world yet at the end of the series, she saw Aang and the rest of the gang as equals. At that point she was arguably the strongest Earth bender in history outside of Kioshi.
Toph was the inventor of metal bending and used earth bending as a bypass to her handicap Kioshi was an amazing earth bender, extending her life by many, many decades and being able to run on sand. But an Avatar can only be so good at one element while balancing the other 3 It’s almost like a forced multiclass on D&D
@@fanamatakecick97 an Avatar with enough time can be a master at all the elements and be proficient in all 4 equally. Then again, there will of course be an element that they use more than all the others.
@Fanamatakecick I'm pretty sure that they are masters of the elements otherwise how would they do some of the insane things they can do? Let alone the fact that all airbending avatars have master tattoos. Hell, even Roku states that all avatars have mastered all of the elements.
@@valkeitos The avatar state is how they do the insane things they do. Not to mention, it’s one thing to be adept at something. Adepts certainly know more than the common man
The sub elements of earth bending are 1. Metal bending 2. Sand bending 3. Lava bending 4. Cesmic sense 5. Mud bending which is seen in toph in l.o.k. in the swamp. The sub elements of water bending are healing, blood bending l, ice projections or freezing water and spirit bending which is seen in unaloq who purifies dark spirits or when korra purified vaatu as water is the element of change
The best bender hands down is Toph. Not only did she take her bending to the next evolution METAL bending. She learned it on her own. Katara had to be told about blood bending and then forced to step up in doing it. Toph, trapped in her cage used her own brain to take that next step. And to put that in context. Umi the best earth bender ever never even thought to do that to escape when the fire nation invaded.
and I believe that was solely because she was blind. she used her earth bending in the way badger moles did so she had a better understanding because she was blind.
Air benders can control the temperature of the air around them. That's why Aang didn't need winter clothes in the artic whilst the native residents of the artic absolutely did. Also, it takes a metric butt-ton of pressure to freeze water at room temperature. Water benders can control water temperature.
not true, its because aang is a monk. says he has breathing technique, no, they can bend water. They can compress it and manipulate shape. No water bender on screen has had water and turned it to Boiling water, though they can bend it, when its already in the shape or they create a circumstance which they can do it. Benders also enhance their fighting by adding other styles of bending to their own. zuko vs azula, zuko does both water and air fighting technique. katara makes a water wall against hama, an earth bending style.
My head cannon isn't control of air temp. But preventing the air close to ones body from mixing with air further away. That also later of air is heated by the Benders body giving a nice insulating layer.
All benders with training can control the temperature of their element. The element, temperature, density,... are different & separate components. All benders with training can heal also. Which is another example of another separate component. Same with spirituality, a separate component. It's just Airbenders use it together with their element bending because it's how they based their culture.
What’s interesting is that it’s also not entirely genetics. If you remember in the “Fortune Teller” episode, there were identical twins. And identical twins supposedly share the same exact genetic material. However, only one twin was an earth bender
It wasn’t Aang and Kataras son that mentioned the different jing types, it was Aangs old friend the earth kind of omashu who he later names his son after
Your knowledge of anime & manga lore and magic systems never ceases to amaze me🤩Also, how you use your knowledge of Science to explain these systems such as bending is truly amazing🥰 I think you would be a Fire Bender lol
16:22 water is actually more dense ,but it's actually understandable for the mistake to happen cause most of the time the solid is more dense and I Think you wanna be an Earth Bender it is in my opinion the most practical
Growing up my friends and I chose our bending styles. I was an Earth bender but more specifically a lava bander. That being said we all agreed that if we weren't benders we'd fight with Aman to get rid of all of them lol
*WATERBENDING IS AN EXTENSION OF THE KUNG FU STYLE OF TAI CHI. *EARTHBENDING - HUNG GAR *AIRBENDING - BA GUA *FIREBENDING - NORTHERN SHAOLIN *METALBENDING - CHU KA(OF SOUTHERN PRAYING MANTIS)
Hello Mr. Nick I am one of the biggest fans out there and I love your content more than anything on TH-cam. I find my self refreshing your page everyday to see if a new vireo came out, I was wondering if you can make a video ranking the Gotei 13 captains as the TYBW arc is out and I think it will fit perfectly. Huge love and gratitude. Genuinely the best youtuber out there
Well, I mean technically speaking Firebenders can likely also use external sources of fuel to substitute pure hatred and aggression. For example, the air around them. Oxygen IS a big part of the Triangle after all. Also, I would argue that 'Light' Firebending isn't necessarily love for dragons. I doubt Zuko had any love for dragons after his face got fucked up by a guy who loved the dragon aesthetic. Instead, perhaps a better term for 'good' Firebending would be 'Passion', or, as cheesy as it sounds 'Love'. Zuko, despite looking and acting like a two-bit depressed edge lord for most of the series, cares quite a bit about his friends. So much so that he is willing to face down his family to help them out, and thus he doesn't lose his ability to bend when he lets go of his hatred.
I always thought later generations learned bending from the animals. It's stated a lot throughout the show that the air bison, moon, moles, and dragons were the original benders of each element.
these animals/the moon existed way before the time humans got bending from the lion turtles. When Wan closed the spirit portals the Lion Turtles stopped giving the bending ability to humans but those who already had it kept it for themselves, which later passed the ability down to others. fast forward a few centuries or milenias, this part of history was forgotten and only existed in legends and archives that very few even know exist, like those on the spirit library. those that have bending inherently by those long past ancestors learned how to use their tecnique observing the animals that could also bend. but these animals CANT give the bending ability. THIS is the main thing people misinterpret when this story is told in Korra and think it recons Tophs story with the badger-moles and others, it does not. Toph was always an earthbender, the badger-moles taught her how to use it and their method worked specially well for her because like them she was blind. the story of Oma and Shu was similar, they were both born earthbenders but only discovered/only really learned anything other than super basic things with the badger-moles, and likely there were other benders but they were likely mostly just like the explorers we saw in Wans story when they just got the bending from the turtles, they had nearly to no tecnique with their bending, they couldnt do much besides just launching their element forward.
The thing with firebenders being able to fly. We’ve only ever seen firebenders do that during Sozin’s Comet when their abilities are amplified 100 fold. That or Korra using using the Avatar State, which is essentially the same idea. It’s an artificial power up.
Maybe the reason bending got spread around could be that once your given bending it’s permanently have the ability deep in your DNA and it could be passed down
I still hate how they destroyed the connection with the past avatars when Ravi after being killed had all her memorys in tact like Id be able to tolerate it if this divine spirit was revived as a new spirit entirely... Let me know if I'm mis-remembering stuff
Thanks for making this! I'll be showing this to my grandma because I explaining the Avatar cycle to her and she got really interested! She used to watch ATLA with me a bit when I was younger. A lot people in older generations always assume animated=for kids. Which is fair since most animated cartoons in their generation was only for kids. But I always explain that there's so many amazing animated series that can appeal towards adults. ATLA and TOK is one of those series. Whether you watched it as a kid or watched for the first time as an adult, it's amazing! It's such an incredibly detailed world and videos like this show it. The only older children's serial animated series that comes near to the ATLA series is The Owl House. It gave me the same emotional roller coaster, depth, and details that I love in ATLA. My best friend is an ATLA lover too and even she was skeptical of watching The Owl House. But I had to remind her that ATLA is a children's cartoon too. But now she absolutely loves it and understands why I put TOH under ATLA and TOK.
So this is probably been said before, and spoilers for the end of the last airbender. But in the final Agni Kai When Azula shoots lightning at katarra zuko successfully manages to redirect it. But IRO says that you need to be grounded when you redirect lightning. When zuko jumped in front of Katarra He could only bring the lightning into himself until he hit the ground. From that point you can see a lightning bolt shoot off in a different direction. Just a cool little detail about that scene, and how zuko managed to live.
I always wondered if the other elements could have a technique like sizmic sense. Like water bending having sonar, air bending with echolocation and fire bending with heat vision.
Well air bending does have something like that. They feel the shift in air pressure and are able to react before an attack. That is why air benders shave their heads, to better feel the air currents
That's an awesome idea, you need to be the next avatar but you just lock yourself away on an island and experiment on how far bending can be taken. I'm sure there are combination bending feats that weren't explored.
Avatar is such a beautifully constructed universe and there is always more to discover or even just theorize about. More content on it would be awesome!
I like how you broke down Fire Bending. Reminds me so much of the Red Lantern Corps. They thrive on hatred to fuel there rings. I can remember an episode of the Green Lantern series on Cartoon Network where Razor refused to get angry and his ring didn’t work anymore. He had to learn how to balance his anger in order to utilize his ring. In the latest Young Justice installation: Phantoms he duel wields a blue and red ring, talk about Harmonic Convergence!!! Loving all your channels keep up the awesome work👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
I always laughed at how complicated bending was made out to be. Surprisingly anyone could become a bender and could choose the element they wanted. It was all about training in a specific form of martial arts. While genetics plays a mild part in proficiency, it comes down to personality. Boomie doesn’t have the personality to want to bend. Yet when the Airbenders re-emerge most had “airy” personalities. This is why getting students proved difficult. Like the wind these people were swept up to listen and then casually lost interest. Only a few were initially willing. Technically anyone could become a bender. The reason why some are stronger when it comes to bloodlines comes down to family disposition. Businessmen have kids who go into business. Laborers have kids who follow that. Tradesmen often pass their skill to their children. It comes to the personality of a child to be successful or not. A perfect case is the difference between The Trump children and Hunter Biden. Political bias aside one group runs successful businesses (despite your personal opinion). The other; not so much, if allegations are true. Airbender grow up and are born around bending. It is a part of their daily lives. They are much like birds. If you ask a bird “Why do you fly?”; it responds with “Because I do”. Airbenders bend like they breathe or their hearts beat.
Make a fire cube around you.. there’s how you use fire bending defensively. The narrative of the show is that fire bending has been changed into a more aggressive and offensive style. When zuko relearns firebending from the dragons, he learns all new skills of firebending that resembles the balance and defensive arts of water bending
I've been the biggest avatar nerd since I was a little kid and I consider myself very well versed in the workings of the world, and Nick always manages to teach me something new.
Thanks for the video man, I never watched avatar before but always wondered how they managed to control elements. Your video was very entertaining and your explanations are on point. Great stuff :)
I think that neither water benders nor earth benders should be able to bend mercury if we are talking about pure element. Earth benders are able to metal bend because it contains trace amounts of earth, so if mercury is pure, they wouldn't be able to control it. I don't see a reason for water benders to have control over it, I mean just because it's liquid? It doesn't make sense to me. Also, when we are talking about fire benders ability to create their own fire for bending, they would be limited as much as air benders, because fire needs oxygen that supports burning
19:00 Boomi was Aang's close friend from the arth nation. He explaiend to Aang that there are 85 jing, and he jeeded to find someone who had mastered neutral jing. Aang named his son after this close friend.
7:20 Seeing how the Harmonic Convergence in Korra's time gave non-benders the power to bend air, it is possible that Wan's Harmonic Convergence gave the people of his time bending abilites, too. Perhaps that's also the direct reason the Lion Turtles stopped protecting humans.
I’m too hyped for this video. Please bring me more of these. Also I think you’d be an air bender just cause when I imagine monks I imagine them as very knowledgeable
Heck yeah, I'd love to hear more about ATLA! I love all of your other videos and channels and this was a big part of my childhood, so seeing you cover it put a huge smile on my face.
You covered the entirety of naruto and boruto. Now on to ATLA. Although there will be considerably less to cover. A testament to the master class that is naruto
When you add energy to a solid, it becomes liquid. If you continue to add energy, it becomes gas. If you continue to add energy to the gas, it will form a plasma (a soup of ions and electrons). Fire is plasma, and so is lightning. Since fire benders usually use the fuel (air, fat, food) in their bodies to generate energy to add into a system to create a plasma that can take the form of fire or lightning. Fire bending is technically plasma bending.
Jing was first explained by OG Bumi in ATLA before Aang and Kataras son... also why is redirecting lightning a subsection for Fire bending rather than lightning itself?
I like how Wan "stealing" firebending from the Fire Turtle and using it for the good of humanity is basically a recreation of the Prometheus myth where he steals fire from the Gods and gives it to man.
Honestly, just keep making videos that you want to make. This is Weeb Commander, where all topics of anime/anime-ish topics can be explored. It's the perfect place for things like this, plus pretty sure everybody here will love it regardless. I know I do.
Mucrury is a Liquid Metal, ergo it would be a metal bender exclusive though they have to be very much a master of metal bending and might need to look at water bending teachings to work it, like lightning redirecting
21:30 metal benders can control mercury. In the legend of Korra, metalbending is used to remove a liquid metal poison from Korra's body (this poison is implied to be mercury)
I love this magic system and the balance of the elements. Water balances fire in flow vs direction, within vs without, canceling out with equal force (incapacitate) vs stamping out with overwhelming force (kill). Air balances Earth space vs matter, growing vs gaining, idea vs reality, restraint vs control. Also Air - Wit Water - Empathy Earth - Detrmination Fire - Drive I would guess that youd be... An airbender. Or a firebender. As a first time watcher so maybe i need more data to accurately guess.
I think u mistakenly linked the eclipse to water bending. An eclipse actually affects firebenders by preventing them from fire bending. While a full moon gives a water bender heightened bending abilities as the same as how the sozen’s comet do for firebenders. To think of it, it’s kinda weird that the eclipse actually mutes a firebender. Which makes u think, are firebenders weaker at night?
Definitely cover more avatar and possibly more content on the less popular shows like the Wiseman's grandson or something of that nature. I'll definitely be looking forward to more of your "what if" stories. keep up the great work bro
Waterbending's style was based on tai chi. Aang and Katara's son is not the bumi who told aang about jing, it was aang's childhood friend who they named their oldest child after. Firebenders can't really fly, the most skilled can propel themselves through the air for a short time. Only during sozin's comet was firelord ozai able to propel himself so well it was practically flying.
the bumi thing is really interesting because i feel like he was quite in touch with his spiritual side but only after air bending had been awakened in him.
While firebending flying relies on thrust, air bending flying could probably be commonly achieved through fashionable balloon-like clothing they bend into
The series actually kind of explains where bending came from, it explains that people actually learnt how to bend on their own by learning from either animals and entities like the moon so that's probably where people for bendings from
In the Legend of Korra, we learn that mercury is bent by highly skilled metal benders. The Red Lotus poisons Korra with mercury and in order to save her, Toph's daughter, Suyin bends most of the Mercury out of her.
Earth bending spirituality is often overlooked. It's not just about neutral Jing, but connectedness. When we see Toph in the swamp in Korra she can commune with the earth itself by touching a banyan tree which let's her see what's going on at any location of the earth. Even though she's living as a hermit she's still connected to everyone and everything important to her. This is also a nice inversion from airbending which focuses on detachment from the world, which is why their sub bending of astral projection let's them detach themselves from their bodies.
it's the difference of unity and freedom. might explain their nomadic and monarchal cultures.
Wow I never put that together until now
1. Raava didn't teach Wan to bend all four elements, she enabled him to, holding the energy from the bending arts so that it wouldn't kill Wan.
2. waterbending is not based on judo, it is based on Tai Chi
Juan also did not actually go out but just said he would.
It's wan not juan
Also King Bumi talked about Jing, not Aang's son
Ice is actually less dense than water, which is why ice floats on top of water. It also explains why water expands in when frozen, which is why pipes burst in the winter.
Cannot believe I forgot that
Yeah, he was close but its actually pressure that forms ice. Basically if you try to compress water too much it solidifies into ice (since water is technically incompressible)
@@NCHammer23 c’mon man you’re making engineers look bad
@@EvySpaghetti scientists
@@enriquefermina8171 Dudes in lab coats and protective equipment
I feel like if air bending wasn't used by a peaceful group of people like the air nomads, we would see a lot more aggressive combat capabilities. Like creating vacuums removing air from opponents lungs and stuff like that.
Ehhh the air vacuum thing would take too long to use on an actual powerful bender unless they're totally immobilized.
Buuuut yeah I agree otherwise. Air has so much destructive potential. Maybe like wind style in naruto or something lol
Just look at Zaaheer he was a beast
That and with true mastery they can basically make two other forms of bending not work.
Exactly, Aang used it effectively against all the other benders and won for the most part. Plus the speed they have is ridiculous. Idk why they do not utilize their speed more.
They actually do this Vacuum bending the legend of Korra. An air bending villan does it.
That’s not how Zahir learned to fly. He was only able to fly after his lover Pli, died in combat. After her death all his ties to the world were severed and he gained the ability to fly.
when she died he had no more connections to the earth
He lost his breezy, so he became breezy
He said what you said without telling exactly what made him lose his Earthly ties. He wasn’t wrong.
I think he was avoiding spoilers while explaining it is all
He kinda said that. The "releasing the ties to the earth." Plus, that's the requirement. Not really the how.
Dude I could totally see you as an Airbender. Being the most versatile of all the elements, air literally being everywhere, can fly, great fighting distance, and has good offense and defense capabilities
Would see him more as a earth bender but air is good too.
Defense capabilities?
@@theshimmereffect3506 yes by redirecting other elements thrown at you.
It was also great offensive capability. Force the air inside the lungs of your enemy and it will burst their Lung Air Sacs which in turn make them unavable to breath. No healing water can fix that at a short span of time
@@theshimmereffect3506 yes the whole style is based of evasive following movement were u not paying attention? When aang fought Ozai u seem him neutralize his fire attacks with air ..air bending is the counter to all the other elements …
Energy bending can theoretically be linked to all the bending styles via their sub techniques like healing, Astral projection, seismic sense and lighting bending (which is creating by manipulating yin and yang chi). I think it would be cool if eventually there was a character who became a bender by mastering their own energy and emboding the elemental princeiples rather than the usual way of just manipulating physical elements.
Wasn’t “chi” only ever mentioned once thru the entire series?
@@deltaprobably yes and no because it was only really mentioned when they were explaining lightning bending and that only really happened once and no because it was mention here and there just not by name in most of the other explanation actually I think it was mentioned in water bending too
@@was_upgaming4363 and tai-li is a chi blocker katara explained how her technique works
Energy runs thru all elements that's how they bend your theory is strong bro
@@deionlowe1066 it's kinda similar to aether in the beginning after the end you can't manipulate aether same way you do mana and the other elements, and now that everyone's on kinda on the same page in regards to how chi is used in avatar you now theoretically categorize bending using the principles of yin and yang, yang deals with the physical side of bending while yin deals with the spiritual side of it and their connections
Please keep making avatar content! Especially a video on the white lotus! I think a you know nothing about Iro would be really inspiring too! We definitely need more examples like him in our lives.
It's spelt
LOTUS not Lotis
@@shelbybayer200
Leviosaaaa Not leviOsa
21:32 Mercury bending would be a subset of earthbending, the metal poison the red lotus used on Korra might very well be mercury. There is also a scene in the season 4 finale where Kuvira is bending liquid metal inside the mech
Yeah he kinda had me confused. Like does he think waterbenders just bend liquid or did he forget that the state of matter doesn't really matter 😂
it wouldnt beuse it 100% metal so it cannot be bent
If i remember correctly, the poison that they used into Korra was named and was not mercury. I believe it was platinum
@@vitorhugobacicpessoavidal325 no platinum was the purest metal that couldn't be bent even by Toph
So her being poisoned by something Toph could "cure" wouldn't make sense if it was platinum
Also liquid platinum is insanely hot and would kill anyone upon touch pretty much since it's only liquid when superheated
@@milanhegedus3950 do quicksilver or mercury have impurities?
Bumi wasn't just Aang's son. He was the king of Omashu, one of the guy he fought during his travel and his friend before the 100 year war. Aang named his son on remembering Bumi.
Obviously, He just didn't mention KING Bumi
Cause the Bumi he mentioned is NOT a bender (before getting his Air bending unlocked by Harmonic Convergence 2) that's what this was on at that point
KING Bumi was an Earth Bender
@@shelbybayer200 he said something along the lines of “there are 85 jings according to Bumi, Aang and Katara’s son”
@@shelbybayer200 no he was on earth part about bending, had nothing to do with Aang's son Bumi
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@@djpbsingsig110 so he was wrong, idk what you're getting at
Please do more of this! Avatar is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, and it only gets better as I get older.
I love your videos!
Here is something I noticed that you and a lot of other people do when explaining the 4 bending styles and all of the specialized offshoot bending styles, so often you all forget to incorporate and expound upon the wisdom of Uncle Iroh himself about the very nature of the 4 elements. While teaching Zuko how to redirect lightning, Iroh draws the symbols of the 4 great nations into the sand and he explains the very nature of each element. Air is the element of freedom, Water is the element of change, Earth is the element of substance, and Fire is the element of power. So when describing airbending, you should keep in mind the element of freedom. Everyone talks about how defensive airbending is and how its mostly used for evasion, and you yourself said that it makes sense because its mostly used by monks who are peaceful by nature. Air is the element of freedom though, so it only makes sense that users of airbending have a defensive and deflective nature rather than an offensive nature to them so that they can protect themselves and their own freedoms while also trying their best to not impose themselves onto other people. The idea of freedom is also represented by the sub-bending styles of air: Levitation, and Astral Projection. Levitation allows you to fly freely and basically ignore gravity, which is one of the truest expressions of freedom I've ever heard of. Astral Projection allows you to leave your own body in spirit and go wherever you want to, another expression of the freedom that airbending represents.
Water is the element of change, its sub-bending styles are ice and healing. Changing water into ice and also changing it back into water matches the theme of change pretty well. Healing can be construed as changing damaged/injured body parts into more whole and uninjured body parts.
Earth is the element of substance. Iroh says the the people of the earth kingdom are diverse and strong, and that they are persistent and enduring. Out of all the elements, earth is the only solid one. The others are all gases or liquids, which are ever changing, flowing, and never resting. Earth is solid though. You stand on it, you can pick it up, you can feel its weight, you can feel how hard it is, and it never moves. Earth has weight to it. And the sub-styles of bending for earth are metal-bending and lava-bending. Metal is even heavier than earth/dirt, so its more "substantial" and stubborn. Lava-bending is essentially harnessing the essence of substance and stubbornness to pressurize the earth so much that it volcanizes and turns the earth itself into a slow moving liquid known as lava.
And then we have Fire which is the element of power. Fire burns all that it touches but it also provides warmth. All beings generate heat and it is the source of our actions. Fire-bending is often shown as being very offensive, fire-benders will often punch and kick a bunch of quick blasts of fire just to light a small village on fire. Jeong Jeong taught us that fire is a force of destruction, that it cannot be so easily controlled, ......
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I feel like they are western cartoons but with alot of anime influence. Such a good show, deep and the world feels super flushed out and large
That's the same way I feel about Taco Bell and any Mexican food in the US. Not actually real Mexican food but Mexican influenced food.
If avatar was an anime blood bending would be way darker than it's presented in the show
@@dekeking9416 *SPOILERS*
its already pretty dark. blood bending is potrayed to be very unpleasant/traumatic to use. hama, yakone, and noatak basically went insane to use it efficiently. katara and tarrlok feared it so much that they almost never use it. tarrlok even killed himself to rid the world of blood bending. i think dark enough.
@@quibble9003 bro I'm not talking about that I already know that, I talking about it's application as a whole could've gruesome asf and anime doesn't hold back much in that department even for a kids show and remember water can exist in 3 states imagine someone doing that to your blood, remember thermal expansion in regards to frozen water in a confined space
@@dekeking9416 so you meant gory instead of dark. idk abt anime doing scientific concept right but yeaa sure it'd probably be more graphic in that sense.
Nice video, but you made one small mistake. 19:02, you said that Bumi, Aang and Kataras oldest son said that there are 85 different types of Jing. The Bumi who said that was the King of Omashu, whom Aang and Kataras son was named after.
My guy bumi is aang and kataras oldest kid they named Kim after king bumi
@@Random_dancing Yeah but their son never said that quote. King Bumi did.
I am really glad that you are in fact talking about the show ATLA is one of the greatest animated TV shows I have ever seen in my life and I know I'm not the only one to agree to that literally I grew up watching the show and ever since it was put back on Netflix the show just exploded more and more. Waiting with much anticipation for the live action remake which it desperately needs. Great video as always great contact!
I just wanna say I think that I would love to either be a water bender or an air bender, I also think that Nick would be a Airbender.
What i like about Earth benders is by how down to earth they generally are. This also goes into how powerful they are as benders. Toph was the daughter of a nobleman and the richest family in the world yet at the end of the series, she saw Aang and the rest of the gang as equals. At that point she was arguably the strongest Earth bender in history outside of Kioshi.
Toph was the inventor of metal bending and used earth bending as a bypass to her handicap
Kioshi was an amazing earth bender, extending her life by many, many decades and being able to run on sand. But an Avatar can only be so good at one element while balancing the other 3
It’s almost like a forced multiclass on D&D
@@fanamatakecick97 an Avatar with enough time can be a master at all the elements and be proficient in all 4 equally. Then again, there will of course be an element that they use more than all the others.
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A jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one
@Fanamatakecick I'm pretty sure that they are masters of the elements otherwise how would they do some of the insane things they can do? Let alone the fact that all airbending avatars have master tattoos. Hell, even Roku states that all avatars have mastered all of the elements.
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The avatar state is how they do the insane things they do. Not to mention, it’s one thing to be adept at something. Adepts certainly know more than the common man
Avatar is one of the iconic shows of my
childhood am so happy your doing these videos for people to understand anime
keep up the good work
The sub elements of earth bending are
1. Metal bending
2. Sand bending
3. Lava bending
4. Cesmic sense
5. Mud bending which is seen in toph in l.o.k. in the swamp.
The sub elements of water bending are healing, blood bending l, ice projections or freezing water and spirit bending which is seen in unaloq who purifies dark spirits or when korra purified vaatu as water is the element of change
Keep making Avatar content!! I love that you now cover my two favorite shows🔥
The best bender hands down is Toph. Not only did she take her bending to the next evolution METAL bending. She learned it on her own. Katara had to be told about blood bending and then forced to step up in doing it. Toph, trapped in her cage used her own brain to take that next step. And to put that in context. Umi the best earth bender ever never even thought to do that to escape when the fire nation invaded.
Edit: ment Bumi
Toph not only came up with metalbending but learned and eventually mastered sandbending. She's a triple threat.
and I believe that was solely because she was blind. she used her earth bending in the way badger moles did so she had a better understanding because she was blind.
As long as the Avatar Exist they weren't the best bender.
@@handey1the avatar counts separately, its easy to be the best when youre a demigod and it enables you to bend multiple elements.
Air benders can control the temperature of the air around them. That's why Aang didn't need winter clothes in the artic whilst the native residents of the artic absolutely did. Also, it takes a metric butt-ton of pressure to freeze water at room temperature. Water benders can control water temperature.
not true, its because aang is a monk. says he has breathing technique, no, they can bend water. They can compress it and manipulate shape. No water bender on screen has had water and turned it to Boiling water, though they can bend it, when its already in the shape or they create a circumstance which they can do it. Benders also enhance their fighting by adding other styles of bending to their own. zuko vs azula, zuko does both water and air fighting technique. katara makes a water wall against hama, an earth bending style.
My head cannon isn't control of air temp.
But preventing the air close to ones body from mixing with air further away. That also later of air is heated by the Benders body giving a nice insulating layer.
All benders with training can control the temperature of their element. The element, temperature, density,... are different & separate components. All benders with training can heal also. Which is another example of another separate component. Same with spirituality, a separate component. It's just Airbenders use it together with their element bending because it's how they based their culture.
@@PheonixRise666 didn't they literally show the new air nation learn how to control their body temp in Korra? So I don't think that's accurate
Tag that water definitely wasn’t at room temperature lol
What’s interesting is that it’s also not entirely genetics. If you remember in the “Fortune Teller” episode, there were identical twins. And identical twins supposedly share the same exact genetic material. However, only one twin was an earth bender
It wasn’t Aang and Kataras son that mentioned the different jing types, it was Aangs old friend the earth kind of omashu who he later names his son after
Someone I met who is a water sign in astrology told me “ water drops to the lowest level” I see water different now lol
Your knowledge of anime & manga lore and magic systems never ceases to amaze me🤩Also, how you use your knowledge of Science to explain these systems such as bending is truly amazing🥰 I think you would be a Fire Bender lol
I concur
He's a fire bender
Personally he feels earthy to me
16:22 water is actually more dense ,but it's actually understandable for the mistake to happen cause most of the time the solid is more dense
and I Think you wanna be an Earth Bender it is in my opinion the most practical
Growing up my friends and I chose our bending styles. I was an Earth bender but more specifically a lava bander. That being said we all agreed that if we weren't benders we'd fight with Aman to get rid of all of them lol
*WATERBENDING IS AN EXTENSION OF THE KUNG FU STYLE OF TAI CHI.
*EARTHBENDING - HUNG GAR
*AIRBENDING - BA GUA
*FIREBENDING - NORTHERN SHAOLIN
*METALBENDING - CHU KA(OF SOUTHERN PRAYING MANTIS)
Hello Mr. Nick I am one of the biggest fans out there and I love your content more than anything on TH-cam. I find my self refreshing your page everyday to see if a new vireo came out, I was wondering if you can make a video ranking the Gotei 13 captains as the TYBW arc is out and I think it will fit perfectly. Huge love and gratitude. Genuinely the best youtuber out there
Mercury is a metal which, at room temperature, remains in a liquid phase. It is 0% water and, as such, would be (and is) a subset of Earth bending.
Well, I mean technically speaking Firebenders can likely also use external sources of fuel to substitute pure hatred and aggression.
For example, the air around them. Oxygen IS a big part of the Triangle after all.
Also, I would argue that 'Light' Firebending isn't necessarily love for dragons. I doubt Zuko had any love for dragons after his face got fucked up by a guy who loved the dragon aesthetic.
Instead, perhaps a better term for 'good' Firebending would be 'Passion', or, as cheesy as it sounds 'Love'.
Zuko, despite looking and acting like a two-bit depressed edge lord for most of the series, cares quite a bit about his friends.
So much so that he is willing to face down his family to help them out, and thus he doesn't lose his ability to bend when he lets go of his hatred.
I always thought later generations learned bending from the animals. It's stated a lot throughout the show that the air bison, moon, moles, and dragons were the original benders of each element.
these animals/the moon existed way before the time humans got bending from the lion turtles. When Wan closed the spirit portals the Lion Turtles stopped giving the bending ability to humans but those who already had it kept it for themselves, which later passed the ability down to others.
fast forward a few centuries or milenias, this part of history was forgotten and only existed in legends and archives that very few even know exist, like those on the spirit library.
those that have bending inherently by those long past ancestors learned how to use their tecnique observing the animals that could also bend. but these animals CANT give the bending ability. THIS is the main thing people misinterpret when this story is told in Korra and think it recons Tophs story with the badger-moles and others, it does not. Toph was always an earthbender, the badger-moles taught her how to use it and their method worked specially well for her because like them she was blind. the story of Oma and Shu was similar, they were both born earthbenders but only discovered/only really learned anything other than super basic things with the badger-moles, and likely there were other benders but they were likely mostly just like the explorers we saw in Wans story when they just got the bending from the turtles, they had nearly to no tecnique with their bending, they couldnt do much besides just launching their element forward.
Korra canonically states that Earth Benders would be the ones who bend Mercury
The thing with firebenders being able to fly. We’ve only ever seen firebenders do that during Sozin’s Comet when their abilities are amplified 100 fold. That or Korra using using the Avatar State, which is essentially the same idea. It’s an artificial power up.
Maybe the reason bending got spread around could be that once your given bending it’s permanently have the ability deep in your DNA and it could be passed down
I still hate how they destroyed the connection with the past avatars when Ravi after being killed had all her memorys in tact like Id be able to tolerate it if this divine spirit was revived as a new spirit entirely...
Let me know if I'm mis-remembering stuff
08:26 High spirituality = high level beniding.
Air beniding most oiwerfull bending confirmed!
Thanks for making this! I'll be showing this to my grandma because I explaining the Avatar cycle to her and she got really interested! She used to watch ATLA with me a bit when I was younger. A lot people in older generations always assume animated=for kids. Which is fair since most animated cartoons in their generation was only for kids. But I always explain that there's so many amazing animated series that can appeal towards adults. ATLA and TOK is one of those series. Whether you watched it as a kid or watched for the first time as an adult, it's amazing! It's such an incredibly detailed world and videos like this show it.
The only older children's serial animated series that comes near to the ATLA series is The Owl House. It gave me the same emotional roller coaster, depth, and details that I love in ATLA. My best friend is an ATLA lover too and even she was skeptical of watching The Owl House. But I had to remind her that ATLA is a children's cartoon too. But now she absolutely loves it and understands why I put TOH under ATLA and TOK.
19:03 Wrong Bumi. King Bumi of Omashu is the one that revealed that fact about jing.
So this is probably been said before, and spoilers for the end of the last airbender. But in the final Agni Kai When Azula shoots lightning at katarra zuko successfully manages to redirect it. But IRO says that you need to be grounded when you redirect lightning. When zuko jumped in front of Katarra He could only bring the lightning into himself until he hit the ground. From that point you can see a lightning bolt shoot off in a different direction. Just a cool little detail about that scene, and how zuko managed to live.
Love last airbenders depiction of elemental powers through martial arts. Will always be mesmerizing
I always wondered if the other elements could have a technique like sizmic sense.
Like water bending having sonar, air bending with echolocation and fire bending with heat vision.
Well air bending does have something like that. They feel the shift in air pressure and are able to react before an attack. That is why air benders shave their heads, to better feel the air currents
@@okashi6 thanks for the info👍
That's an awesome idea, you need to be the next avatar but you just lock yourself away on an island and experiment on how far bending can be taken. I'm sure there are combination bending feats that weren't explored.
Waters technique would be along the lines of water detection; sensing all of the water within the surrounding area.
DEFINITELY. AND MORE
Avatar is such a beautifully constructed universe and there is always more to discover or even just theorize about. More content on it would be awesome!
I like how you broke down Fire Bending. Reminds me so much of the Red Lantern Corps. They thrive on hatred to fuel there rings. I can remember an episode of the Green Lantern series on Cartoon Network where Razor refused to get angry and his ring didn’t work anymore. He had to learn how to balance his anger in order to utilize his ring. In the latest Young Justice installation: Phantoms he duel wields a blue and red ring, talk about Harmonic Convergence!!! Loving all your channels keep up the awesome work👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
"With blood and rage of crimson red"
Fire is Northern Shaolin (except Azula's Chachuan)
Air is Baguazhang
Water is Tai Chi
Earth is Hung Gar (except Toph's Chu Gar Tonglong)
I always laughed at how complicated bending was made out to be.
Surprisingly anyone could become a bender and could choose the element they wanted.
It was all about training in a specific form of martial arts.
While genetics plays a mild part in proficiency, it comes down to personality.
Boomie doesn’t have the personality to want to bend.
Yet when the Airbenders re-emerge most had “airy” personalities.
This is why getting students proved difficult.
Like the wind these people were swept up to listen and then casually lost interest.
Only a few were initially willing.
Technically anyone could become a bender.
The reason why some are stronger when it comes to bloodlines comes down to family disposition.
Businessmen have kids who go into business.
Laborers have kids who follow that.
Tradesmen often pass their skill to their children.
It comes to the personality of a child to be successful or not.
A perfect case is the difference between The Trump children and Hunter Biden.
Political bias aside one group runs successful businesses (despite your personal opinion).
The other; not so much, if allegations are true.
Airbender grow up and are born around bending. It is a part of their daily lives.
They are much like birds. If you ask a bird “Why do you fly?”; it responds with “Because I do”.
Airbenders bend like they breathe or their hearts beat.
Make a fire cube around you.. there’s how you use fire bending defensively. The narrative of the show is that fire bending has been changed into a more aggressive and offensive style. When zuko relearns firebending from the dragons, he learns all new skills of firebending that resembles the balance and defensive arts of water bending
I've been the biggest avatar nerd since I was a little kid and I consider myself very well versed in the workings of the world, and Nick always manages to teach me something new.
Toph’s daughter literally did mercury bending to get the poison out of Korra
in my book, always gonna be a cartoon, cartoon content is not what i expected from nick but im here for it hell yeah
Thanks for the video man, I never watched avatar before but always wondered how they managed to control elements. Your video was very entertaining and your explanations are on point. Great stuff :)
I think that neither water benders nor earth benders should be able to bend mercury if we are talking about pure element. Earth benders are able to metal bend because it contains trace amounts of earth, so if mercury is pure, they wouldn't be able to control it. I don't see a reason for water benders to have control over it, I mean just because it's liquid? It doesn't make sense to me.
Also, when we are talking about fire benders ability to create their own fire for bending, they would be limited as much as air benders, because fire needs oxygen that supports burning
19:00 Boomi was Aang's close friend from the arth nation. He explaiend to Aang that there are 85 jing, and he jeeded to find someone who had mastered neutral jing.
Aang named his son after this close friend.
7:20 Seeing how the Harmonic Convergence in Korra's time gave non-benders the power to bend air, it is possible that Wan's Harmonic Convergence gave the people of his time bending abilites, too. Perhaps that's also the direct reason the Lion Turtles stopped protecting humans.
I’m too hyped for this video. Please bring me more of these. Also I think you’d be an air bender just cause when I imagine monks I imagine them as very knowledgeable
Heck yeah, I'd love to hear more about ATLA! I love all of your other videos and channels and this was a big part of my childhood, so seeing you cover it put a huge smile on my face.
You covered the entirety of naruto and boruto. Now on to ATLA. Although there will be considerably less to cover. A testament to the master class that is naruto
When you add energy to a solid, it becomes liquid. If you continue to add energy, it becomes gas. If you continue to add energy to the gas, it will form a plasma (a soup of ions and electrons).
Fire is plasma, and so is lightning.
Since fire benders usually use the fuel (air, fat, food) in their bodies to generate energy to add into a system to create a plasma that can take the form of fire or lightning.
Fire bending is technically plasma bending.
"...This can kill you 😐. And that's, it 🙂!"
🤣🤣🤣 That sounds like Southern Water Tribe accidental humor all day
Super cool show today Nick!
Jing was first explained by OG Bumi in ATLA before Aang and Kataras son... also why is redirecting lightning a subsection for Fire bending rather than lightning itself?
Eath benders would control mercury. That’s what they poisoned Korra with…
Slowly becoming my favorite 'explain' youtuber Commander
RIP sparky sparky boom man 😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I like how Wan "stealing" firebending from the Fire Turtle and using it for the good of humanity is basically a recreation of the Prometheus myth where he steals fire from the Gods and gives it to man.
15:04 water bending is based off tai chi, not judo
I loved this. And I'd love more lol.
Also I feel like you'd be a fire bender.
Honestly, just keep making videos that you want to make. This is Weeb Commander, where all topics of anime/anime-ish topics can be explored. It's the perfect place for things like this, plus pretty sure everybody here will love it regardless. I know I do.
The best anime explained channel.
Mucrury is a Liquid Metal, ergo it would be a metal bender exclusive though they have to be very much a master of metal bending and might need to look at water bending teachings to work it, like lightning redirecting
21:30 metal benders can control mercury. In the legend of Korra, metalbending is used to remove a liquid metal poison from Korra's body (this poison is implied to be mercury)
I love this magic system and the balance of the elements.
Water balances fire in flow vs direction, within vs without, canceling out with equal force (incapacitate) vs stamping out with overwhelming force (kill).
Air balances Earth space vs matter, growing vs gaining, idea vs reality, restraint vs control.
Also
Air - Wit
Water - Empathy
Earth - Detrmination
Fire - Drive
I would guess that youd be... An airbender. Or a firebender. As a first time watcher so maybe i need more data to accurately guess.
I think u mistakenly linked the eclipse to water bending. An eclipse actually affects firebenders by preventing them from fire bending. While a full moon gives a water bender heightened bending abilities as the same as how the sozen’s comet do for firebenders. To think of it, it’s kinda weird that the eclipse actually mutes a firebender. Which makes u think, are firebenders weaker at night?
Definitely cover more avatar and possibly more content on the less popular shows like the Wiseman's grandson or something of that nature. I'll definitely be looking forward to more of your "what if" stories. keep up the great work bro
Nick gives off heavy EarthBender vibes, coming from an EarthBender that wish is he was air - Tell me, do you not feel the same?
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Waterbending's style was based on tai chi. Aang and Katara's son is not the bumi who told aang about jing, it was aang's childhood friend who they named their oldest child after. Firebenders can't really fly, the most skilled can propel themselves through the air for a short time. Only during sozin's comet was firelord ozai able to propel himself so well it was practically flying.
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He also forgot about sandbending. It was on the diagram and everything. Lol
We don't have enough Avatar support on TH-cam like this please keep making videos on Avatar
Your explanation made it sound like they intended to merge from the beginning when they only did it out of necessity to defeat Vaatu.
Genius!! You're a metal bender most definitely
19:01 Actually that Bumi was King Bumi. Aang's friend from before he was in the iceberg
Found you because of the MHA hero rankings video, and subbed because of this. Good stuff, sir!
Definitely do more avatar. I think you’d be a water or air bender
I think the most widely known ability in fiction is “Super Saiyan” …then bending comes 2nd
Im confused, was it the turtles or the bison and moon that gave people bending?
the bumi thing is really interesting because i feel like he was quite in touch with his spiritual side but only after air bending had been awakened in him.
While firebending flying relies on thrust, air bending flying could probably be commonly achieved through fashionable balloon-like clothing they bend into
I feel like water bending is more of tai chi than judo
22:04 "How would you use fire defensively?
Zuko: uses fire bending to defend against Sparky Sparky Boom Man
Genius video! Keep up the good work man
Love Avatar, its one of my favorite shows. I cant wait to see more content about it from the best anime encyclopedia on youtube🙏
Definetely more Avatar pleaaase
They used mercury (or heavy metal based) to poison Kora I could be mistaken but I think it was water bender that infused her with it.
Personally I see air bending as the strongest as it can counter every other element.
The series actually kind of explains where bending came from, it explains that people actually learnt how to bend on their own by learning from either animals and entities like the moon so that's probably where people for bendings from
In the Legend of Korra, we learn that mercury is bent by highly skilled metal benders. The Red Lotus poisons Korra with mercury and in order to save her, Toph's daughter, Suyin bends most of the Mercury out of her.
Fire also has a healing subsection
I want more avatar plus you'd be a great Earth Bender
Doing a drinking game to every time he said lion turtle at around 4:26 would be devastating
Aang can actually "pseudo fly" as he creates orbs of air that he can ride essentially without touching the ground
Plus the airbenders in Wan's time could ride on clouds