The STRONGEST Bender of Each Style EXPLAINED

It is 100% my headcannon that the only reason we dont see Toph learn/use lava bending is because A) she never needed to learn it, and B) volcanoes are too afraid of her to erupt while she's nearby

I think people forget how immediately Toph picked up on anything. She learns Sandbending within about an hour of being in the desert. Like, what, three months later, she's making detailed recreations of the upper ring of Ba Sing Se. Bumi may have had more raw power, but Toph was so instantly-versatile.

“Toph had the ability to bend any metal that she could see” - sad Toph face 😞

I think Toph's mastery of "seismic sense" may be the reason she's able to master and/or develop all the other forms of earth bending because it allowed her to "feel" the earth better and allowed for greater levels of control over earth.

8:05 Aang may be the best airbender and Jinora may have attained her tattoos younger than him, but only Meelo has ever shown the ability to bend farts

I think a feat not talk about in katara is that SHE CAN MOVE IN ICE. She froze herself and azula in their final battle and chained her to the ground that impressive.

Do you guys remember when Bolin was talking to Toph about the fact that he could lava bend and she told him that he was pretty talented because not every earth bender could use lava bending. I think the way she said it was basically telling us she had the ability as well. Maybe I'm to much of a Toph fan and its getting to my head but I do believe that Toph can lava bend as well...

Toph - Greatest of all time in basic Earthbending; entirely mastered 2 sub-styles of Earthbending within a short time of even learning they existed; invented a whole new sub-style of Earthbending on her own and was never surpassed in it. Toph is the GOAT, no question

Him talking about Iroh and his travels makes me think about how much we NEED that as a show. Iroh is easily one of the most pivotal and beloved characters of the ATLA universe and I think his story is one that needs to be told on screen.

It'd probably be good to mention that kyoshi lived for over 200+ years due to a technique where she stopped her cells from dying.

What I really loved about Toph inventing metalbending is that when we see it the show uses a similar visual to her seismic sense, implying that she found the impurities through it. This just adds on to her disability being her strength. She's the one who invented it because she was the only one who could've found the impurities.

I think Lavabending is a Genetic Ability only possible with children born of the union of Firebender and Earthbender Bloodlines. Given the hundred year war, those unions became rare.

I've always wondered just how lethal airbenders could be if they hadn't chosen the path of pacifism. If the style had been cultivated differently I feel like the airbenders would be an absolute force to be reckoned with. It's hard to defend against someone ripping the breath out of your lungs or creating a vacuum over your head, combined with their speed and agility

Toph is no surprise. It feels like her scenes are her reminding everyone that she's the best Earthbender of all time, then proving anyone who doubts her very wrong. The other half is the cast realising how useful Toph is and being thankful that she's on their side.

4000 years ago, Air benders were actually able to fly like Zaheer as we saw in the Beginnings eps in Legend of Korra book 2... However, lore states that many generations after, these Air Bending Monks grew exceptionally close to Air Bisons (nothing wrong in that)... But in order to fly freely one must severe it's connections to its Earthly tethers...which Air benders couldn't get rid of due to their close bonds with these Bisons...

i like that as the bending masters get older, their way of bending also changes. They go from doing hard throws and movements to having more fluidity and finesse. They are actually bending their element.

Keep in mind that when it comes to Toph's seismic sense, it's said that by the time of Legend of Korra, she can simply stand on the ground and tell you where anyone is at any time so long as she knows who you're talking about. In other words, Toph as an old lady can see an entire planet just by planting her feet on it. Although we can't forget that that not only did Toph and the Badger Moles have seismic sense, so did Aang.

Small correction. Roku could and did bend the lava coming out of one volcano. It was when the second volcano started erupting that he started to struggle.

I’d argue that for lightning bending alone, Mako is better than Ozai. He uses lightning for his job regularly, and also the fact that Mako was able to do it while he was being bloodbent by Amon. Most other lightning benders we’ve seen always needed some sort of wind-up in the form of stances to prep the lightning, even Ozai, but Mako didn’t.

I think for best water bender in TLOK is actually Ming Hua. Similar to Toph being blind, Ming Hua not having arms means she had to adapt in a way to use her element without that aspect to it that which is really important to bending itself, weve only seen a handful of others bend without their arms. Ming Hua also tends to use water from other water benders to her advantage, making her literally impossible to deal with from a water bending standpoint, and earth and fire benders have a rough time with her as well because her water bending is so versatile. The only way they were able to beat her was with lightning bending, but i think without that she beats everyone from TLOK