Tier Ranking the Avatars Worst to Best

How would you rank the Avatars?! Where do you think I'm wrong? ~ Tim

In addition to cleaning up Yangchen's huge mess, Kuruk did it while refusing to expose her. He sacrificed his own reputation, personal happpiness, and life to preserve Yangchen's saint status. She's the Avatar people needed, but he's the Avatar the people deserved.

"Don't be corrupt or I'll corrupt your face with my fist" is such a good line

“In the beginning, the universe was created. This was widely regarded as a bad move and made many people very angry”

Kuruk being the lowest rated avatar is absolutely on brand for Kuruk

I really want them to make an anthology series focusing on a different Avatar in history every episode.

Kinda sad how Kuruk sacrificed or lost pretty much everything he loved, cleaning up Yangchens messes, and that gets him a place in D-tier while she gets a place in S-tier

If scoring Asami counts as an accomplishment for Korra then scoring Rangi should count for Kyoshi.

I think Kyoshi's being judged a bit too harshly and Roku a bit too leniently. In Kyoshi's era, the EK is so ridiculously corrupt and chaotic that a big stick is pretty necessary. Roku on the other hand is born to a much more ideal society and messes up on the obvious solution to the pressing issue.

Wan's real achievement was not merging with Raava and beating Vaatu, fixing the problem he created. His REAL achievment was getting the people to leave the lionturtle cities and settle the land. He was THE driving force of progress.

I would have accepted Aang in A Tier, but I fully respect putting him in S. I think one point in his favor that isn't considered as highly for the other Avatars is the allies/friends he surrounded himself with. For the faults that Aang had, one of his friends was able to pick up the slack, to see solutions that he might not. That willingness to work with others, to come around and see solutions that he might balk at at first, /I/ think is further evidence for making him S Tier.

I love how Silai got S tier simply because we didn't know much about them.

I would agree with almost everything said here except for a few points. I think you overvalued Roku. I think Roku's biggest mistake wasn't sparing Sozin, it was failing to build up a safety net for after his death. We see that his confrontational with Sozin is decades before his death, and by his own admission he didn't speak to Sozin at all during that time. We know that the colonies weren't disbanded as Roku told Sozin to do. This means Roku either never checked to see if Sozin left or never followed up with Sozin. More than that we don't see any evidence that he built up or warned the earth kingdom of further invasion plans or warned the air nomads to be more cautious in the time between his death and the next avatar's training. We know he was personal friends with Gyatso and yet Gyatso seemed to have no suspicions of an oncoming war. It is not clear whether Roku could have prevented the war, but he certainly could have lessened the impact it would have had or work on minimizing the initial surprise. With all this I would put him in D tier with Kuruk.

the kyoshi books really helped me like her a lot more. I get she's flawed as an avatar, but her character seemed sorta one dimensional in the show and she had a very interesting story in the books, rising from famine and a tough political landscape. An avatar that grew up without the "avatar resources" much like aang in a way, but even worse as she didnt have any formal mentorship and education her way of being an avatar was sorta to be what she didnt have growing up, a parental figure, stable and trying to be fair even if she was unsophisticated at it

I find it so ironic that avatars have access to their past lives, but yet don't use it enough, especially when one avatar has the perfect knowledge to assist in a difficult scenario. The best avatar's are probably the ones who accept their limitations, whilst also unwaveringly sticking to their core beliefs.

I think Kuruk had an unfair score. The man had to fight demons that ended up tearing apart his psyche. The dark spirits came because the agreements arranged with the previous Avatar were not set up to be enforced and the humans took advantage. He fought dark spirits. He did more for the world than being a pencil-pushing bureaucrat for the Fire Nation. Yes, the socio-economic advancement was great for the Fire Nation, but it's not the Avatar's duty to make ONE Nation economically efficient.

In Defense of Aang, we never really see him as an adult. In the anime and comics he's a kid and a teenager. So him not being able to think critically and solve complex geopolitical and socioeconomic issues as a young teenager is understandable. 38:00

''Lastly, of course, she scored Asami.'' Brother I burst out laughing

I feel like a lot of Kuruk's "mistakes" are the direct result of Yangchen's actions. He spent his entire life cleaning up after her mistakes so that she would seem better than she was at the expense of himself. I don't know if that makes him a good Avatar, but I feel like calling them his own problems and mistakes and giving him the lowest tier for that is rather unfair..

I understand not wanting to put Kyoshi in S tier but B tier was so dramatic especially putting her next to Roku 😭 She has a 2 century legacy and a lot of her choices are influenced by the fact the world didn’t know she was the avatar until she was already all grown up, and she also didn’t have the luxury of being diplomatically trained like Yun was which is a whole plot point in her story which included her trying her best to follow fire kingdom diplomacy customs but ultimately failing because it was too much to learn.