Okay I know it's a cartoon and certain things wouldn't

>>88681616
shoot them with a gun

>>88681633
Metal is earth. Therefore guns are earthbending.

>>88681616
Which is why the Earth Nation put up a hell of a fight, but were losing a war of attrition due to the fact they were hopelessly outmatched because the Fire Nation had a much better navy.

>>88681788
This isn't implied

yeah, earth bending may be the most overpowered in reality.

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>>88681616
Okay I know it's a cartoon and certain things wouldn't be interesting to watch and violence ratings etc, but wouldn't Air bending actually be near unbeatable in real life ?

>Flight and deflection negates attacks
>Compressed air to burst opponents eardrums/eyes/lungs


Literally op

>>88682282
It makes sense though.

Out in the open ocean Earth bending soldiers have very little to work with. And metal bending wasn't discovered yet.

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>>88681616
Okay I know it's a cartoon and certain things wouldn't be interesting to watch and violence ratings etc, but wouldn't water bending actually be near unbeatable in real life ?

>mist to blind enemy
>freeze opponent's lungs

Literally op

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>>88681616
Okay I know it's a cartoon and certain things wouldn't be interesting to watch and violence ratings etc, but wouldn't fire bending actually be near unbeatable in real life ?

>blind with light/smoke or stun with electricity
>burn them to death, along with everyone within 20ft of them

Literally op

>>88682396
there's a reason monk gyatso was found surrounded by dead (comet-enhanced) firebenders

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Okay I know it's a cartoon and certain things wouldn't be interesting to watch and violence ratings etc, but wouldn't LIGHT bending actually be near unbeatable in real life ?

>blinding
>lasers
>UV-induced cancer
>universally considered "good", thus causing psychological horror on your enemies

It does bug me that out of all the people in either Avatar series, only that one Earth Kingdom general in the season 2 premier thought of sinking someone's feet into the ground, instantly incapacitating them. If they had ever tried that again, any of the villains could be instantly stopped.

>>88684792

Beyond OP.

Makes it clear why literally no western cartoons have characters making use of physical light as a power

>>88684809
I'm relatively sure that The Boulder also won one of his fights like that.

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>>88681616
Did someone say BENDING???

>>88681616
..Two things:

First, earthbending in the show is different from simply moving rocks. It looks like the rocks they earthbend are 'put together', which makes them more breakable. It's noticeable that every time people are hit with earthbending, the rock breaks. People have survived stuff that would cause very serious injuries like that. It's like they are simply putting earth together with their energy, but as soon as it hits, it breaks (like waterbending, actually. When people hit the water and break the connection, the 'power' stops and it becomes regular water)

Second, never consider that power is absolute. Tecnically a waterbender could turn you inside out. They don't do it simply because they don't have the power to do so. So you're saying an earthbender could just impale people with spikes, but we don't see them doing it simply because they can't, or because it would take too much time and energy.

That said, there are war crimes in ATLA that are not mentioned in the show, that could be it.

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>>88681616
>sink opponent's foot into ground
>>impale them with spike from ground


According to Bryke, this - and things like Zarheer taking the air of people's lungs -is against the "rules of war", its like using weapons banned by ONU or attacking medics in war. Its a sign of dishonor and might cause problems to you.

Iroh, according to Bryke and some drawings that they made, had this on Iron backstory. He manages to get one of the Walls of Ba Sing Se, until a capitain of earth kingdom panicks, and get a lot of people to violate the rules of war: making a huge hole with an earthquake and closing it, destroying Iroh's entire squad, as well as killing his son.

This was all draw by Bryke, I wish I had the pages here.

>>88682427
If every water bender learned Moonless Blood Bending the Fire Nation would have been fucked hard.

>>88685076
Man an actual war during Korra's time would have been a bloodbath. People would give less than a shit about the rules of war

>>88681661
>>88681661
Underrated

>>88682396
but not everyone can fly

>>88682444
also, there's fire everywhere

>>88685185
>rules of war

When the rules of war are not respected, you get Dresden, Auschwitz, The Rape Of Nanjing, The Killing Fields, Daesh, Wounded Knee...

>>88681616
That's assuming they have the skill for it but you forget it demands a stance/dance and focus.
>>88681661
I doubt most could handle something that travels that fast let alone if it was a barrage of bullets.
>>88682282
Iroh said as much.
>>88682396
Water bending could lead to suffocation or force dehydration of a foe, in theory you could make a person's brain to halt function
Fire being tied to electricity means you could challenge both energies and force someone to suffer spontaneously combustion from a distance.

All 4 elements are broken as fuck and all are readily available to a true master of the art.
That said air and fire bending have a nearly infinite offering to any skill level where earth and water elements are both more limited as easily seen.

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>>88685076
>According to Bryke
>This was all draw by Bryke
1. Bryke is two people anon.
2. Considering I really don't care what those two fags did with the series I'm not one to take their word as law on the subject. But I don't think what you are saying is truth anyway.
> I wish I had the pages here.
I'm sure you do.

>>88682396
Remember when zahir pulled the air out of some bitchs lungs and killed her?

>>88685841
It's true and is in one of the art books.

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>>88681661
>guns are earthbending

>>88681661
Plastic bullets.

>>88687333
Get over it Magneto

>>88685790

Rules of war are a formality. They are very rarely followed in actual practice.

>>88687333
>non-lethal bullets
great job anon

>>88687463
>Rules of war are a formality.
Nah, not even that, they don't technically have ever historically existed. The geneva convention will go out the window the moment a serious war between superpowers will break out. Rules of war are just propaganda that the winner accuses the loser of violating therefore giving them the divine right to win.

>>88681616
>sink the ground at the same time that you firebending opponent fires at you
>fire gets to you and you get torched before you can collapse the walls of the hole over the opponent
>opponent walks out safely

All forms of bending can have pretty effective attacks. The hard part is hitting/grabbing the target in time, especially if they are moving.

The better bender wins in the end.

>>88687537
Actually Plastic bullets can lethal if made right. also they can really fuck up your insides. They are against the geneva convention

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>All those [Element] is OP posts, no one fucks about air tho

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>>88681616
They can literally power tanks 10X bigger than the fire nation's.
pretty OP imo

>>88689603
on earth they are. That's why fire nation have a large navy.

>>88681616
I don't know I think water bending would be more op
>deadass drown them
>fuck up their blood

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>>88689991
>deadass

Stop pretending to be black on the internet

>>88684836
>who is steven universe

>>88681616

>Airbend the breath out of someone's lungs
>Airbend all the air away from somebody creating a vacuum that crushes them

>>88691524
>being in a vacuum crushes you.
Not quite. They'd still just suffocate while their eardrums blow out and lungs collapse.

Still not pretty.

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>>88681616
>Literally op
Check out my secret earthbending technique!

>>88681661
In the episode where Katara frees the imprisioned earthbenders, Aang does a little hand held tornado thing and I think Sokka drops some rocks in it and it shoots like a gun.

>>88687333

>coal is earth
>other fossil fuels are earth
>plastic is just fossil fuels refined and changed chemically
>plastic is subject to earth bending as a specialisation