And there are multiple other subbendings that this video skipped Air: gliding, superspeed, superagility, wind sensitivity, sound bending, vacuum bending Fire: hot breath, toxic gas bending, blue fire, rainbow fire, spiritual healing Earth: dust bending, coal bending, crystal bending, hard candy bending Water: ice bending, snow bending, cold breath, sweat bending, tear bending, humidity bending, soup bending, ink bending Mixed: cloud bending (air and water), mud bending (earth and water), pollution bending (earth and water)

@@Someone-dy5ui Not to sound like an ass but- Air: gliding (bending the air around their glider- not a sub element), superspeed (bending the air around them so they go faster- not sub bending), superagility (literally has nothing to do with bending), wind sensitivity (what exactly did you mean), sound bending (i'll give you that, I did miss this one when I was writing the video), vacuum bending (you mean airbending all of the AIR out of an area- not sub bending) Fire: hot breath (fire breathing out of their mouth - not sub bending), toxic gas bending (not mentioned in the series- therefore I didn't include it), blue fire

@@erikapayneintheass A lot of it comes to what exactly do you define as subbending. Even in this very video, do you define soul bending as a separate subbending or just a part of healing. So yeah, you don't sound like an ass, I can see all your points. As for the confusions, Agility has something to do with air bending, like when Aang used air bending to jump on trees while everyone else used Jack pulling thingies. But anyways, it's preety much the same as gliding and speed. By air sensitivity I mean that moment from avatar Korra when one of new airbenders detected a net with his bald head. Toxic gas bending was mentioned. Sozen used it on a volcano in the Roku centered episode. By dust bending I mean that iconic Toff trick she used in her intro episode and near the drill. Crystals were also used by Aang and Tai li in old Basingse. Candy was used by Bummi. You know, those gemonite ring.

@@Someone-dy5ui are you a fucking idiot? A SUBELIMENT IS A SKILL ONLY SOME BENDERS CAN DO, IF EVERY BENDER CAN DO IT, ITS NOT A FUCKING SUB ELIMENT, GET IT RIGHT

@@Someone-dy5ui for toxic gas bending, I thought it was heat redirection

I be wondering that as well and it can be used for other things like stopping bleed for a short time

If the avatar was the one who had the blood bending abilities, do you think they would be able to cauterize wounds with just bending?

@@Flamexoxo cauterizing wounds requires fire, maybe the avatar could ignite a little flame near said internal or external wound, cooking water doesnt cauterize wounds, it damages the skin differently and in a way that doesnt allow the damaged/dead tissue to be used as a kind of bandage to close said wounds

It more than likely could, the issue is, the majority who do know it have used it for such horrible things, that it is something that nobody will trust as a viable bending technique, especially for the wounded.

@@mastere6115 yeah thats unfortunate...

Then when Zuko allowed the technique to be practiced by everyone they could have developed easier methods of using it most likely just generating small charge that don't immediately kill.

We need an iroh show

@@Dodge_thisiroh spinoff needs to happen

chi block bending and oxygen bending

​@@cupidok2768 chi blocking isn't a form of bending and "oxygen bending" is just normal air bending

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@@AvatarDiscussions did you forget icebending in this?

@@leafynar3256 ice bending is too far a strench to call a sub bending, a lot of "sub bending" mentioned in this video are more like abilities, or masteries of the element, like sand bending, its just being skilled enough to control a lot of little particles of sand, its not unique, and seismic bending is an ability, ice bending is something even the most basic of waterbenders learn, freezing water to create more powerful projectiles

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Maybe because it's seen as too common or just the change of state of matter. But then lavabending would be in that category.

@@mr.boomguy exactly and so would Sand. It’s still just earth bending

S1 introduced coal bending note not rocks but coal

@@spinylightgaming that makes me think that oil bending and natural gas bending are a thing since chemically oil and gas are similar to coal same for plastic

@@IndustrialParrot2816 oil I could see but I would imagine natural gas would be an Airbender move?

That’s always been my thought too.

My thoughts exactly

Yea I’ve always thought that as well

@@itsme7336 Aang uses cloud bending and as far as we know he doesn't have water tribe ancestry

i personly dont think so because we saw roku doing it to sink the tempel of the fire sages

I remember seeing someone saying the Kyoshi had her friends had "flying" habilities through their bendings, where they "stepped" on their element for foothold; miststepping, jetstepping. I suppose it could be related to that.

@@sapphirII they summon pillars of their element beneath their feet and jump off them so they can 'walk' on air. u should read the books theyre super good! and theres a yangchen one now

Nah, it's not the same. They were simply using a nimbus cloud. Any air bender with some practice should be able to do it. Levitating in the air like Zaheer did means you have to literally let go of all emotion and worldly desires, which is impossible for most people. Basically you have to be depressed and dead inside in order to fly.

@@controlman7490except zaheer definitely had desires, he had the desire to change the world and to fulfill his mission, his desires were in fact so strong he was willing to kill and die for them. It is truly what tethers you to the ground in the way of being chained by connections to living beings or materialism, since zaheer sought a greater purpose in life and was willing to let everything on earth go to pursue that greater purpose it can be said that the ancient airbenders had one purpose: being as spiritual as possible and not forming emotional bonds with anything. Therefore they were able to fly. We literally see wan fly as well ONLY after being in the avatar state and all of his human friends being dead, and he fought to protect the world and let even his own body and normal life go to fuse with raava and become the avatar, he sacrificed his life and everything to make sure darkness and chaos wouldn’t spread, yet he was still able to fly. Aang for example was always in love with katara, and we saw how only after finally letting go in the crystal cave he was able to fly. I don’t think the creators necessarily planned it, but it came out perfectly for them in the end. Sorry for the long comment but i hope it makes sense. This whole topic could better be made into a 10 min video explaining everything.

@@Monyato Did you not read my comment? Those air benders and Wan were NOT flying. They were using a nimbus cloud beneath their feet. Flight is what Zaheer did. Complete levitation similar to Superman and for that the show explained that one must lack worldly desires in order to fly. You're right though that Zaheer clearly does still have desires because he wants the world to be in chaos, so that's a plot hole on the writers part, but still ancient air benders didn't fly. Neither did Wan.

Is that how they make the balls of air to zoom around on? 😂

@@balloe3466 NOOOOO- but now I can't get that vision out of my head

I think "Butt Bending" is just called Contorsionism or... Not kid friendly activities.

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Taste his fury!

Nah only the avatar can learn it because it's all the elements combined. Earth for food, fire for cooking, water for the broth, and air for carrying the flavor.

@@jimbeam7636 Earth for food? What kind of food are you eating?

@@idkwhattoputhere6321 where does food come from? Other than water? Or what state is food tends to be?

​@@lorekeeper685 should airbenders be able to bend swiss cheese? Even if food somehow originated in earth, then earthbenders would also be able to bend bodies of other humans, animals etc.

@@idkwhattoputhere6321 hmmm that might be more of a earth bending thing well, I guess it would be water since milk contains water maybe both? Air could be used to make tasty food but vegans and stuff Earth benders should be able to bend other's bodies I think it's just that they are stubborn and take a direct approach to fighting so no fancy stuff like blood bending, dodging out of the way, combusting bending ect

Wait when did Kyoshi get ice bending

@@commandercheese7408 I used a period on my sentence

Also forgot bone bending kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtl_n86gx9yvhIk.html

@@commandercheese7408 well every waterbender uses ice, also yes, she had icebending. Kyoshi is known for her ability to FREEZE PEOPLE’S HEARTS

The Kyoshi books also mention dust and paint bending.

Yeah exactly. I want an awesome RPG Action game to be made based on this. Hope Nickelodeon allows it.

There’s a tabletop role playing game like D&D called Avatar legends

I don't think they ever said explicitly in ATLA that the dragons or the badgers moles etc. gave the ability to the people, just that they were the original masters of the elements. So when the time came that people gained the ability to bend from the Lion Turtles they ended up going to the "masters" to get the skills.

The technique was taught by the natural world, but the actual ability came from lion turtles.

@@ixisten5455 I disagree, they mentioned it explicitly in ATLA. You might want to re-watch some of the episodes to understand what I am trying to say. For an example, it was said in Season 1 that water benders came from the first people who watched the moon push and pull the sea, becoming the first water benders. It was also in Season 1 when they told the story of Oma and Shu (The first earth benders according to ATLA), that they learned the ability of earth bending from badger moles, they were all not benders before but became one after learning from the OG benders.

Correction it’s not said that they taught it. It was said that they were the first users of said bending before humans

@@avauntehamilton6100 not exactly "taught" but certainly "shown", as with the dragons deliberately showing the method to firebending.

Really important surgery coming up? Naah, we need to wait for the next full moon, so our bloodbender is all powered up :D

@@miem9775 Well, it's funny but most of bloodbenders can use it during day.

It'd be an interesting surgery. Healing is very nurturing and compassionate, while blood bending is dark and surgical at best. Finding the proper movements and spiritual state to combine them would be difficult. You'd practically need the spiritual education of a doctor.

Bonebending can also problably be used to heal bone injuries

@@RyzhaZhaba what do you mean? only 3 known bloodbenders could use it without a full moon?

no one remembers how aang never froze in the north and southern poles? or even sweated messing with lava?

monks learn how to maintain a certain temperature for/through meditation as well as going long periods of time without food and water

Temperature manipulation is OP. It could be used to freeze opponents and as a rudimentary firebending.

@@valtersplume3726 They regulate their own temperature, not the one in the ambient

Also, they can fart bend, like meelo or whatever that little brats name was

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY

That's literally what I thought/hoped Korra would be. Instead it was all teen angst

In my headcannon once they started using electricity firebenders would have more awareness to lightning compare to previous Era with methods involving batteries and wires for practice. Also they seem to be able to generate more manageable level compare to the insta-kill that the Royal family use.

@@blackpowderkun Well, the thing with the Royal family is that, as far as I remember, whenever they used lightining, it was always to go for a kill and since they were all extremely talented, I don't think that they did not have control to use lightning in a "weaker" state, they probably just did not care enough about their opponents to tone it down.

@@tezminator Iroh seems to be the type to use that and in the comics Azula used a zapping version on Sokkah.

Now that I think about it you're right

I thought it became more common because in my headcanon at least, lightning was restricted to the royal family. After zuko took the throne, he released it, and the more creative minded of the fire nation crafted a much easier, much less powerful version of the original technique. Of course you also could be correct too. 😅😂

probably the next avatar

Good lord they would be a god Imagine a blood, metal,lava,lightning,energy, bone,glass,steam,ice and combustion bending plus flight and healing. S tier god status

Quite true, especially as Korra learned Metal Bending. And with their inherent connection to all the elements, they wouldn't need any genetic links if that is what some of them might need.

Probably... But who has got the time for that. I mean they'd probably be able to get the best teachers but mastering the elements is one thing people struggle to do in their lifetime. Let alone becoming good enough to master one subbending thing

not flying though

Could you argue that Monk Gyatso figured this out first; since we saw that his body was killed in the Fire Nation attack during Sozin's Comet, but only after killing numerous Fire Nation soldiers; and, seeing as how we didn't actually see how Gyatso did it; I would like to believe he physically bended the air out of their systems, effectively suffocating them

Poisonous gas bending

How would void work? And what is void? What are you on?

yoo you'd be OP, I mean just knowing how to blood bend is already op and dangerous enough let alone be a master of sub bend

And if you toss in mud bending, you can have a bootleg avatar

I mean that's just Toph. She mastered all of them except Lava bending (she showed that she perfected Sand bending by making that Ba Sing Se replica out of sand) and I guess she only couldn't get to Lava bending because she didn't know it was possible or she was just too old by the time she learned it could be done (and maybe didn't care).

Theoretically the strongest earth bender could bend bone, glass, lava, metal, and sand

@@Jakokokoroko according to theory, you need to have one parent that is an earth bender and one that is a fire bender (or just at least have fire benders in your ancestry) to be able to lava bend, so toph would have never been able to do that as we know she is a pure earth bender with no known fire bender ancestor

Fire-benders in theory could also learn to disinfect medical equipment through heat. With enough skill, maybe even create UV light and eventually x-rays...which is also terrifying.

It's not healing. The firebender just uses her bending to sense whats wrong with korra. After that they lower her to water.

They didn't heal 1. Either the water had healing properties 2. The shaman knew exactly what happened to Korra 3. The water was spritual

I think it’s spiritual healing

@@hexmech1893 I can desinfect medical equipment with heat, its called pasteurization, you don't necessarily have to be a fire bender lol

or the avatar 👀

As good as a point that is we don't know if the bad guy had a fire and earth parent or not since we only seen bolens parents

and where exactly did you get this info

ive seen two Avatars doing lava bending. And all of them were fire avatars. And fire lord sozin also kinda did lava bending even though it looked allot like heat bending.

@@fancy3774 Roku bent lava in book 1

i completely agree, although as an air bender born into the air nation, she ofc had some degree of a help in spirituality and stuff

It is indeed canon that despite not being an airbender Iroh was so spiritual and enlightened that instead of simply dying he transcended his body into the spirit world permanently as seen in Korra. And honestly, I enjoy the idea that spirits enjoy his company alot.

I mean she called it a "high level air bender move.....with a little spiritual stuff thrown in". So we kinda have to assume it's airbenders only. S3E4

@@BhlackBishopthat’s what I’m thinking too, it’s an airbending move because it involves meditating and that’s a primary airbending practice.

yeah, I firmly believe it's not an airbending skill, it's just that Jinora, who's very spiritually attuned and spiritually talented, can spirit/astral project in the material world, and just happens to be an air bender as well. I think anybody from any nation can project if they're spiritually skilled enough. Like we have Aiwei from korra who's an earth/ metal bender who can travel to the spirit world using astral projection, I don't see why someone like him couldn't have the potential for projecting in the material world.

Some one has done their homework. 10/10

Earth could probably also bonebend

I just commented up top about the heat siphoning and freezing. Everyone forgets that scene with Sozin on the volcano

Fire benders like Uncle Iroh and Zuko also have heat regulation due to Breath of Fire utilizing and magnifying their internal heat through their breath also i do agree they missed the Fire bending form of healing technically it should be possible to utilize heat to heal since Hot springs are known for their healing properties ^w^ though i guess full on healing through fire would be a sub of a person with both fire and water heritage ;p

What Abt cloud bending?

is that confirmed to be lava bending, tho? cause it might just be him heating up the volcanoes a lot, so they erupt, and in that case wouldn't that be like a water bender raising a glass of water? its water bending, not glass bending, even though it has a reaction on the glass

@@raulguimaraesreis6640 I agree you don’t need to lava bend to make a volcano erupt or to cause lava in a huge crack in the earth. These are both instances of plain earth bending where lava was already under the surface. Also all the lava bending in legend of kora is the lava bender heating up the earth on the surface and then earth bending the lava they just made. Kyoshi and Roku didn’t show the ability to make lava from plain earth.

@@Playingwithproxies I don't think lava bending is specifically being able to turn rocks into lava though. No bender but a lava bender is able to move lava in the first place. When Bolin lava bends the first time he doesn't make his own lava he is just moving the lava that was already there. Roku brings lava up to the temple in the Winter Solstice part 2, he doesn't turn anything into lava but he just moves it. I would say that is lava bending cause what other bending element would you use but lava bending to move lava. Kyoshi does the same thing where she brings the lava up from the layers of the Earth.

I dont think Energy Bending would count as a sub-bending type, its more the parent bending style, infact id consider it the only true bending style, as every other form of elemental bending revolves around bending the chi of the element through your own chi.

@@madjack5593 well said, although TLK just shoehorned how Amon was able to do it with bloodbending.

@@xaviermartin390 Pretty much yea. Its my headcannon that lineage and mentality both impacts a persons ability to bend specific sub-elements, like, just the knowledge of blood bending might awake the capacity to perform the art in some people even if theyd never show it since the stigma around it is so bad. Lineage i think is a factor for example because of people like Bolin, we can infer from the fact Bolin is an earthbender and Mako is a firebender that thier parents were probably an earthbender and firebender respectively even if thats not confirmed, he has the lineage of a firebender and an earthbender giving him access to Lavabending. These are just my opinions and headcannon tho

@@xaviermartin390 Amon doesn't bend energy, he uses blood bending as a parlor trick to achieve more or less the same result. He's basically doing a blood version of the pressure point chi blocking that all the anti-benders learn.

@@aGoshDarnTravesty I understand that Amon doesn't energy bend. I'm saying they just shoehorned that explanation of how he was able to take one's bending without energy bending.

the next avatar series wont be about genji since its a fan created comic. but an earthbender is next in the cycle

just curious, since korra's era was already modern as we saw in TLOK, will we see a more advanced society in the next avatar? perhaps a virtual society like what we have now?

@@kcraincano8961 i honestly doubt it. i reckon itll be closer to tlok but maybe with more electricity stuff

To me combustion seems to be a process of compression. They compress their (fire?) chi (in the area around the stomach) before they shoot it out. Then finally it decompresses, and that together with the heat causes an explosion

​@@moortucombustion benders are focusing all their chi in one place making a huge reaction of explosions and to learn this skill they will need to be tortured severely and placed under water for hours on end a theory that the community came up with after the dawn of yangchen(yangchen handles some in a city one time)

what about bloodbending?

There is also Energy Bending (taking/restoring bending) which isn't a sub element but seems to be given to the Avatar directly, though, I feel it should still be considered.

@@markhanna3306 I didn't include energy bending because it's not a sub bending category. It's a different form of bending all together. It's not a sub of one of the four, it is its own thing.

Vine bending was talked about

@@MrSirFluffy Mark Hanna literally acknowledged that it wasn't a sub bend

You are my favorite person. You remembered mudbening.

Where does earth liquidation get talked about?

Why do comics always do much better stories than the actual shows/movies/games they're based on

This same method could also be used offensively as an attack as well. Air has more effects on our bodies than we think. Think of how an airplane takes off. The amount of air pressure buildup is too much to isolate outside the plane as it can travel through solid objects similar to soundwaves. The added pressure is what causes our ears to pop. No doubt, the loud vibrations produced by a skilled airbender could burst someone's eardrums. Nasty.

Sound bending could also be used differently cause sound waves travel through air right? So an airbender can bend the air to make different sounds, and when mastered can even imitate voices

That would be a cool thing to see in the new Earth avatar series coming two years from now

Please read the avatar yangchen books she does soundbending alot and even grew up in the western air temple, which has an all day echo chamber to practice

In the series, when encountering pirates and stealing water scrolls, Aang finds a hilt, which airbenders redirect air through to make a blade.

the speed of the vibrations would depend on what its going through. if it was going through rubber then it would be a lot slower. if its going through diamond etc then it would be a lot faster

Vibrations travel faster through earth, but have a more limited range. The vibration is due to movement of molecules, so the more densely packed earth will transmit those vibrations faster and clearer, but they lose energy faster. This is why sound travels better through metal then through air.

@@michaelmurphy2112 but wayyy slower through rubber apparently. wren from corridor digital made a vid bout the speed of sound through different mediums a while ago

In theory water benders would be able to feel vibrations in the water (probably the easiest to learn) Fire benders might be able to sense sources of heat? could sense where someone is by their body temperature compared to their surroundings

@@MrLorem64 and snice living things have water in them, they could detect people etc. even through the air

It is in fact definitely a possibility that that's the scenario

lava is just molten earth. just because something pertains to heat, does not autimatically pertain to fire as well

@@SuperKoopBrosOfficial Remember when avatar roku and fire load Zozan where fighting a volcano

@@Rhino-Prime here's the thing: lava is STRICTLY earth, while smoke pertains to heat in general. both fire and air are the elements most pertaining to heat as smoke is air, and smoke is hot, but because it's open to both elements, firebenders are able to bend the smoke. i know what i said sounds contradictary to my previous statement, but there are some exceptions to that rule.

I find lava bending to be earth bending with water technique/style. Using both the state of matter change between liquid and solid, and flowing movement on earth instead of water. Similar to how iron explains lightning style as flowing and is stylized on fire bender using water bender techniques.

One thing the lightning isn't based on water bending, Unce Irohs lightning redirection technique was made using water bending techniques.

@@dextergray1670 Basically the same thing, but okay? Also, anyone else reminded of Naruto’s chakra nature system when looking at this? Like, I get it’s not the same, but this list makes them look quite similar, wouldn’t you say?

@@banzeyegaming2234 yeah this is basically Kekkei Genkai

1.Ligthning bending isnt based of water bending only one singular technice of Ligthning bending is 2. There isnt such a thing like chi bending but there is energy bending wich is pretty much the same thing but with a diffrent name same with spirit they are the same thing 3.in this logic how those glass bending works? Is it a sub sub element? (Yes there is such a thing like glass bending it was in the kiochi book wich is canon so it oficialy exist) 4.i personally disagree as most of those feel like they are added on to existing sub elements not like they were made with this mixing thing in mind (sorry for my bad grammar)

Plus mud is actually whether this is true or not a mix of water and earth bending as it can only be used in a stable way with combined power of a earth and water Bender for all we know

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@@piyathuyangoda7522 ??

I never thought of spirits being based on the mood in their environment but I like this theory

"it it"

The difference is that the air benders on the lion turtle were using air bending to create a cloud to stand on. The flying he’s talking about is flying effortlessly or without doing any bending whatsoever. They fly like super man kind of just willing themselves to move and effortlessly moving through space. Of course it might be the air is now bending to their will so it changes pressure on each side of their body however they will it to move in any direction.

unlikely? is there proof of that ever happening?

@@nalapala_ lightning redirection is just redirecting chi which wouldn't be fire bender specific since its a part of every other bending style

For anyone wondering, lightning redirection and lightning generation have their own seperate pages on the official avatar wiki fandom page.

lightning redirection is exclusively a firebending ability. Otherwise, you'd think Zuko would have taught it to more people than just Aang

@@isaac_aren there's no fire bending specific elements to it and Iroh explains that All you need to do is attract it through one had through the stomach and out the other hand

I was just about to mention that. Him funnelling the heat out of the volcano to calm it was one of the most extraordinary feats in all of bending. It put Roku, a fully realized avatar, to shame in my opinion.

oh yeah forgot about that

Water benders bending air if their is enough water in the air.

@@Playingwithproxies Theoretically Earth benders bending blood via the minerals in one's body. Air benders using the oxygen and/or other gasses in blood to blood bend. Not sure if fire benders could do it even in theory. I will say he use of suffocation tactics via Air bending would likely outweigh the "need" for blood bending that way.

Yeah! Like, I think a fire bender could most likely lava bend and that both earth and water benders could probably bend mud and swamp

Earth Benders: -bending water via Mud -bending fire by combining lava and dustbending -bending air by bending very fine sand and dust Water Benders: -bending air by bending steam -bending fire by bending gasoline? ;) -bending earth by bending wet clay Fire Benders: -bending air by redirecting heat and introducing artificial air flow -bending earth or water? no idea Air Bender cant really imitate any element only the subbending like sand but nakes up for it by spritiual potential

@@tillmartens5770 Wave combinations: +Air: *Sonic.* E.g: Megaphone. +Earth: *Seismic.* E.g: Earthquake +Water: *Resonance.* E.g: Riptide. +Fire: *Pulse.* E.g: EMP.

Agreed, as Iroh did do something quite similar when he left for the spirit world. Remember its explicitly stated he didnt die, but ascended. Which considering he is as enlightened as a non airbender gets, says it may be possible for other bending types. But it would be ALOT harder for them.

It is

Sozin heat transfer bended. He was literally cooling down the Cresent Island volcano 🌋.

Lao Ge?

The minerals in one's blood could also help bone bending

@@Nenerii if you stretch it enough with physics in mind you could say air benders could just simply bend the oxygen in someones blood, or bend the oxygen directly in the brain. Or maybe a firebender could manipulate the electricity needed to run your mind. Or an earthbender like you said could bend the iron, or calcium, or any other metal on the periodic table that is found inside someone's body.

@@skull1161 so wouldn’t a team of benders be able to create an artificial life?

Stretching it

Flight wouldn't be considered a Sub Bending form. Sound could though.

to bend smoke or poison gas, there has to be already smoke/poison gas to begin with.

@@risingdarkness A Poison canister could be carried around much like Waterbenders carry a container on Water. I'd imagine Firebenders could create Smoke. They'd likely be a more common Smokebender.

@@joesunday199 i mean, we saw Iroh (The Winter solstice part 1, while aang was dealing with that panda spirit then entered the spirit world with roku and his dragon. Whilst Uncle Iroh was in a hot tub he just released hot air/steam through his nose)create smoke. And we also saw Sozin redirect it.

@@risingdarkness I think that would be Heatbending or Steambending. I think Azula Smokebends in the Smoke and Shadow comic (haven't read it).

And ironically a bending that is so peaceful, is able to be very deadly in wrong hands.

Isn’t that the one element that Korra struggled with the most?

@@nicktheavatar_ yup

if airbending is the hardest element, why had aang mastered it at 12 years old?

@@mathematicalgamer7692 because he’s the avatar and was born an air bender? Korra had mastered water bending by a young age and was great at fire bending if I recall correctly

And Iroh did a similar thing on a smaller scale, heating up his bath water and tea. Arguably Zuko did it too melting ice in the North Pole. Heat transfer/manipulation definitely ties into the “fire is energy” ideas presented by the sun warrior episode.

We don't know if bone bending is a thing. We've never seen an earthbender bend bones in a canon installment.

Much obliged kind person🙌

No because many avatars also could, for example Avatar Kyioshi when creating Kyioshi Island and her parents were earth and airbenders. Also Avatar Roku and he didn't have and earth parent. Actually the only lavender I know of is Bolin.

@@esaucorrales actually avatar kyoshi used earth bending to split open the tech tonic plate separating a plot of land from its natural structure causing the lava from the center of the earth to rise it was a natural reaction and avatar roku wasn’t alone at that moment he was with fire lord sozen and the merely used fire bending to Chanel the fumes out of the volcano to cause the molten rock to dry up again a natural occurrence lava bending wasn’t officially introduced until legend of Korra also I was going based off the description given in a KZfaq video by a purely avatar the last air bender content filled account where he said that exact description saying it was from something called the avatar handbook

@@Thunderstrike2002 if kyoshi actually in anyway shape or form effected the flow and movement of a tectonic plate then that is by far with no competition the most impressive physical feat that any character in avatar has ever done

@@esaucorrales stop using avatars as a basis for rare feats when they can bend all elements. It's a mute fken point if we talking about a bending brought up by genetics of fire and earth when they can use earth and fire bending.

@@esaucorrales They don't need fire and earthbending parents because THEY ARE THE AVATAR! THEY CAN LITERALLY BEND BOTH EARTH AND FIRE!!

thats just airbending my guy.

That’s just removing air instead of adding it

When Aang talks to his predecessor airbender, she said that the avatar can never achieve true spiritual high, because he is bound to the world. Also, 1/4 earthbender.

But the avatar already has to let go of all the stuff to master the avatar state

@@moortuno he actually doesnt…if that was the case he would not have ended up with katara in the end and korra wouldnt have ended up with mako or that one girl forgot her name

Interestingly, there was a past Avatar mentioned in the Yangchen novels named Gun who slowly developed a disdain for humanity over the course of their life, which only worsened upon the death of their companion Mesose. I think if any Avatar were to have the ability to gain flight, it would be Gun, who had no attachment to humanity and who had already lost the one person they cared about.

i do remember Jinora saying something along the lines of "its a high level airbending technique, with some spiritual stuff sprinkled in" which would imply that it does require one being an airbender

It makes sense because of the air nomads culture that they'd be predisposed

@@abdelabdu3721 alas what does that mean in Iroh's case. The man literally transcended spiritually into the Spirit Realm

There was a full moon

You have to watch it!

Calcium and mercery being a metal I believe that metal benders actually learn to bend iron over time not just impurities in metal. And maybe metal benders could learn to bend platinum it would just take specific practice.

yeah air benders only really get flight... and only 2 airbenders in existance can do that...(unless you count the avatar) air benders shoulda been the ones to do spirit bending IMO... water already has enough sub-bending..

I consider cloud bending as one of those subs that aren't specifically called out. in one of the episode the airbenders and Wan would make clouds they can ride instead of rotating air currents. It's clearer to see as a cloud during his fight with vatuu as he creates it then rides it. it's probably a forgotten technique.

Hey sound bending makes a whole lot of sense I never thought of that its just a vibration of the air no matter the source so yea manipulation cancellation soundproof bubbles etc should all be possible with a crazy level of control. We would need the Toph of Airbenders with her level of sensitivity to their element

@@dextergray1670 you know how in the first episode aang said he manipulated the air around him to stay warm I'd like to imagine that sound could work in a similar way but for a nomadic group of airbenders that are ninjas, they manipulate the vibrations around their body to make no sound and so sneak around causing pranks.

Soundbending is actually a thing, and Aang does it while he's in Ba Sing Se looking for Appa. Admittedly, he's not sociopathic, so he doesn't even attempt to use the more obviously lethal applications that Soundbending would present to him; matching the resonant frequency of bone would literally turn someone's skeleton into splinters in mere moments, for instance. Sound can also carry enough energy to cause physical concussive damage, which is what a sonic boom is. A Soundbender would theoretically be able to _pulverize_ stone and concrete, and _mush_ an enemy into paste... plus their attacks would be impossible to dodge.

He also forgot mudbending

I am not sure about Sozin, but Roku was managing lava as a earth bander (as i know from avatar's lore)

@@cherneshenko Fair, but Sozin was very clearly lavabending too...

I think amon was just bending their blood to block their chi permanently, he definitely wasnt energy bending