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Katara became a master waterbender in a matter of weeks, was able to hold off Azula and a bunch of Dai Li, defeated a comet boosted Azula, and figured out how to bloodbend (a technique that usually takes years to learn) in like two minutes whilst fighting Hama. All this at age 14. This is also not to mention her being one of the best healers in the world. Ya, no, she's easily legendary tier.

I would mention Katara’s healing abilities as a waterbending skill. She brought Aang back from death. She is a master healer.

Really refreshing to see someone acknowledge how much of a menace Ming Hua was. We’ve never really seen a waterbender fight with such ferocity. Waterbenders are mainly defensive combatants and adapt to whatever force is charging at them, but with Ming-Hua, she was relentless and in your face. She has the aggression of a fire bender and the mobility of an airbender, but with the adaptability of a waterbender. She was so formidable.

Hama is the one I'd move up maybe half a tier. She may not have had the raw power, but her creativity with waterbending was unmatched anywhere in ATLA. She's the first waterbender we ever see pulling water from the air, and as far as we know she came up with bloodbending all on her own. That shows not just a high level of mastery, but very high resourcefulness which is a defining trait of great waterbenders.

Kataras abilities with healing and combat, and yes even blood bending (which should still be counted because it's still rare to blood bend even during a full moon) she's legendary for me no doubt.

Nah Katara is too low. In the comics she proves herself worthy of being over pakku, Ming Hua, Roku, and korra. Katara is shown to be able to move as much water in the comics as korra did against the Giant Mech against General Old Iron. Not to mention iroh states that Katara strikes him as the most powerful outside of Aang. Her mobility gets even better as she’s able to use ice bridges to “fly” in the air. Not to mention katara also uses water arms, can pull water out of thin air in the comics, from plants, she even plantbends in the comics. She’s effortlessly seen to be able to create gigantic waves, in BROAD DAYLIGHT. Idk i guess we need to wait till the new avatar movie comes out.

I'd dispute Katara being so low. In the Firebending Video you have ranked Azula under the dragon Tier. And Katara has won against Azula on two occasions (end battle and in the crystal cave). To be honest I dont know if I would rank her higher than the people u mention above her. There is just so many OP waterbenders they all belong into S Tier xD

Korras waterbending really is underrated but people need to realise just how amazing she is as a bender in general

Regarding Hama's skill... I just wanted to point out that in her time she was the last waterbender standing among all the waterbenders in the Southern Water Tribe...

I think Aang had the problem of Water availability, he barely got to use water bending in a lot of fights due to not running around with a water pouch, the only water bending he really does is big scale due to him only using it next to a big body of water.

You didn't mention how katara was caught in a wooden cage with Toph and started running on the spot to generate sweat to bend and cut the cage. Katara is extremely amazing, fighting is just not really her thing and she doesn't have the ambition to push to far. She wanted to be good enough to help her friends and family

Watching katara it always felt like she wasn’t just a water bender , it was a part of her if that makes sense , her quick advancement , adaptability , creativity , sub-forms and being around Other benders most of the time made her a really strong , well rounded and an unpredictable bender imo , but I feel like she only got better in the future after the show ended

Im just saying Yue became the moon spirit so TECHNICALLY she is the best waterbender

Even without taking her bloodblending into consideration, Hama should be ranked higher. She was the last waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe, surviving through countless battles and standing strong against literal armies of fire benders. That’s no small feat and is testament to a level of skill few other waterbenders have showcased. Also, we should take into account her age when she’s fighting Katara-she’s easily in her eighties and she still put up a strong fight against Katara. If she had been closer to her prime, I think she’d be going fit for hit with Katara easily. Hama is a grandmaster.

Katarra is still severely underrated. PLS Remember that she was learning it in a short amount of time along with Aang. She was able to handle a master, pakku, and can also fight toph with waterbending quite well. We see her ability to waterbend, bloodbend and also she mastered healing. Healing is taken as not skillful but without it, Aang would have died without a healer. Also Korra had way more time then her and aang to master waterbending but they had impressive feats. Korra already trained since young. Unfair advantage

I LOVE THAT MING HUA TAKE!! So many people underestimate her and overrate others it's crazy!!

Interesting thing about Ming-Hua is that she doesn't need to move to waterbend. I had a headcanon that chi flows that would've located in her arms still exist and so she can channel them into her water arms and use them exactly like actual arms

It's so lame Amon never beat his father, great genetic and teached potential with extraordinary set of self-learned skills and huge motivation. No one could beat him.

To me Katara deserved better, as she only chooses not to bloodbend, but I ready to bet that if she trained her ability and embraced it, she would be able to bloodbend at any time. Not to mention her incredible healing skills (she brought Aang back from the dead, that’s no easy stuff, plus she proved she was open minded to all the possibilities of waterbending, as she is the only SWEATBENDER we saw. And just for that she deserves Legendary tier ahah

Katara, Korra and Hama deserve higher rankings

I think it’s important to distinguish that Aang’s ranking is him during the Last Airbender, not his full strength was which he got when he was older

You gave Roku grandmaster because he made a wave. But Kioysi "not enough rocks thrown" when she split a giant land mass into two....crazy

MING-HUA supremacy! She is definitely the greatest waterbender in the entire series. I’m so glad you are able to see that. Her creativity and brutality is unmatched. She uses her entire body as a weapon, as an icy Swiss-army knife. Whether she’s a drill, a sea serpent, a scythe, or an eldritch sea abomination with thousands of tentacles, there is nothing she can’t do. Every other water bender manipulates water to their advantage, but Ming-Hua simply IS water. There’s a fan comic of Ming-Hua bloodbending Amon. In it, she brings him to his knees, glares down at him, and says, “The water may obey you, but it belongs to me.”

katara went from knowing next to nothing to being a master waterbender within the span of a year, including being a bloodbender, plant bender, and healer. that alone should put her in legendary tier.

Glad someone gave Korra the praise she deserves 🎉 11:46

Though it is by natural consequence that benders are typically equipped with a fit physique as a result of their bending, Ming-Hua is like fusing the very tenets of waterbending -- adaptability and change (in both, the fluidity of her waterbending, and the use of water as a prosthetic to overcome her invalidity) -- and Ty Lee's agility and acrobacy, which I'm sure many ATLA fans sort of thank the creators in the background for not making her a bender. But now they realize this through Ming-Hua, which is why she is so formidable.

Good thing that you acknowledged Korra. She's a top tier waterbender with some of the best feats in the franchise but many people are unaware of that. Now, Ming-Hua over Korra, Katara and Unalaq is just straight up wrong tho.

Ming-hua literally moved like water. She was amazing

I have always said that Ming Hua is the strongest waterbender withour bloodbending.

Have you noticed how many episodes have a full moon in the origional series? There's only like 2 cases in which the moon wasn't a full moon, and one of them the moon jumped from a cresent to full just a few scenes later. It's implied that the moon cycle is the same as on earth but the frequency of full moons in the show begs to differ.

Katara should have been above Roku. She can both blood bend and healing. Plus aang definitely should have been bottom master he took to it incredibly quickly and mastered it

Yakone and family were so powerful, they couldn't be beaten except by the plot.

I feel like you're not giving Katara enough credit, given Azula was powered to insane levels by Sozin's Comet when Katara took her down, and using a technique that requires insanely good fine control to pull off.

Katara is considered the greatest healer in the world by the time of TLOK. That alone sounds legendary to me

Love these ranking vids! Didn’t know this game yet but actually looks really cool

I don't think Aang's waterbending skills are highly overrated. In fact, I usually see people saying his waterbending are mediocre (which is true in the animated series).

Great tier! I'd personally say bloodbending always counts, so I'd move Hama up a notch, but otherwise, I think this ranking really works.

This is great! I agree with all your rankings! I also forgot how powerful Avatar Roku was with his waterbending, thanks for that reminder. :P

Great video again, awesome to see someone rate Ming Hua as much as I do. A lot of ppl don't seem to understand how good she is. So aggressive, skillfull and mobile. Ppl just seem to overrate Fan favourites like Katara, Zuko e.t.c. Katara is really good, I mean really really good buh bcuz she's part of the main characters and loved by so many ppl, they overrate her a little bit(I know she's sometimes underrated, that's why I said "a bit"), same with Zuko. I mean, some ppl even consider her the GOAT, even ahead of Amon which is unacceptable for me.When I imagine a fight with Katara and Ming hua, when I just think about her aggression and moblity, I feel at some point, Katara might not be able to handle her anymore. Though I don't think I agree with Korra being ahead of Katara. Tarlok, Amon and Yakone can bloodbend anyday anytime so no debate there. No matter how good you are at any bending, if you're not the avatar, you'd lose to a bloodbender

The literally sheer volume of water katara can bend is insane compared to any other bender

Katara can actually bloodbend whenever she wants. She does this witout full moon in the Zuko episode with her. She is actually pretty op :)

I didn't expect to see Aang and Tahno side by side, but I'm not mad:] Great list! I think you nailed everybody.

Jesus LoK made waterbending so overpowered

I think Ming Hua is a bit high? She's definitely an amazing water bender but I think her placement is heavily reliant on her combat skills rather than pure water bending. I know that the ranking heavily focuses on that but there's people in the Grandmaster tier who has both Combat and skills and Proficient Water Bending skills that are ranked lower than her. I also don't think Roku shouldn't even be ranked. You've disclosed already that if a person is not seen much in combat then they shouldn't be ranked, and i believe Roku fits that case.

I'm curious how future Avatar content will shake up these lists. I can definitely see Katara ascending the list.

I feel like Korra deserves bottom of top tier she is pretty OP

I think Kya would have been incredibly strong in her prime. She managed to do all that when she's in her late 50's/early60's(?) so imagine when she was in her 20's at her peak strength and agility

the "Not wet enough" category didn't make me laugh, but master paku saying no somehow did

did everyone just forget that katara bloodbended without a full moon

These videos are nice, keep up the good work bro💪

Didn't see anyone else say this, Katara can bloodbend whenever actually. She bloodbends the leader of the leader of the Southern Raiders on the ship in broad daylight.

Let's stick with the elements and do air next, then finish strong with the non-benders. It'll be fun seeing Bumi II make both lists--the only non-avatar to be featured on more than one list (unless Zaheer is included in the "not enough info" tier).

I think it’s a mistake to not include healing for your consideration. Healing is known to be a skill only some can learn and is a sign of one’s mastery of waterbending. Katara is also one of the most powerful healers and kinda gets shafted by its lack of involvement. Also katara beat sozins comet azula, your 3rd strongest fire bender

OK, I get that katara has no strategy sometimes and just runs for her opponent sometimes, but we have been shown over and over again just how creative she is and how much potential she has. She has such underrated power like she literally made a wave that was high enough to reach the top of a giant factory and I know that it was at night but it was not a full moon that night. I think that katara, ming hua and unalaq should be at legendary tier on equal footing

i like Eska and Desna because they remind of Android 17 & 18, the fact that they like shooting ice spikes a lot also resembles the Android's special infinite ki blasts attack

You didn't mention healing or spirit bending. I believe that hama and katara should be higher up, hama invented blood bending, and managed to drain flowers for water. Katara was as incredible bender and we see a glimpse of what she can actually do when she is enraged and hunting down the fire nation (creating localized rain? really?) don't think Roku deserve such high positions just because he controlled a big body of water, as far as I know others could as well, not like that situation even called for it. Katara also grew a lot during the season's so one can only imagine just how powerfull she would become

Iroh should get an honorary mention for being well versed enough in waterbending to adapt it to fire bending. Good video though.

Very nice video! App looks pretty sick actually

Weirdly enough, I really appreciate that you just rattled through it! I wanted your ranking and I got it

I feel like katara should have been top of grndmaster or even legendary really

The fact that so many people overlook kya annoys me. She easily held her own and kicked the ass of Zaheer AND Ming Hua for a GOOD minute. She uses techniques similar to Katara but also very unique to her own self. Shes quick, agile, and super powerful. The fact that she’s lower than tonraq just goes to show that ATLA fandom members easily get carried away when they’re shown benders of unique style. Just because you get up close and personal when you fight doesn’t mean you could take down KYA.

I would really like if they expanded on Yakone’s rise to the top of his criminal empire. Bear in mind: he was strong enough to bloodbend a room full of people, including Toph (which at that point had control over her body chakra -yes, that’s a thing in Avatar) and ADULT AANG (which, undoubtedly, had 100% control over his chakra, possibly enabling him to resist any kind of “common” bloodbending). Yeah, besides the Avatar, Yakone’s the most powerful bender of all time.

Let’s not forget Katara’s badass moment of stopping the rain & turning it into ice daggers

FEw things.. Ming Hua - deserves her place, infact she would probably beat the blood benders too since she can water bend WITHOUT MOVING, which is insane, so even if you blood bend her in place she's just going to put an icicle through your face while you focus on that.. she was definitly the best of the best, but I can see valid reason for blood benders being higher because of how easy they domiante other people. Just saying, even blood bending dosen't mean you'd beat her. Hama - Deserves to be higher.. You can't really ignore her blood bending, yes it's only on a full moon, but she was so technically skilled with it, every other blood bender just used it as a raw power, Hama used it to literally puppet Ang and Sokka into fighting against Katara for her while still using her own water bending to defend agaisnt Katara at the same time. But.. even ignoring that, Hama was still insane, she's the only water bender we have EVER seen who could pull water out of air. Honestly she's atleast on Paku's level and should be above Katara. There was also the absoloutly horrific implication made with the fire lilys, where she tore the water out of them and they died, Katara was sad over the loss but Hama didn't care, before explaining you can do the same thing with other sources of water (like people!). It was heavilly implied that Hama can (And did) tear the blood out of peoples bodies to kill them. Obviously that was never going to be showen in a kids show but it was implied! Katara - Honestly, spot on placment, she is very strong and very skilled, and up there with the best, but she isn't the best, everyone you listed above her deserves to be above her. No argument. Tonraq and Kya - These two deserve more cridit, they were both amazing benders, they jsut unfortunatly only ever were showen fighting against people that were in the god tier, so obviously lost.

I’m usually very protective over Kataras placements during ranking videos or comparisons just because of how biased I am of her. So I usually get a little defensive when I see her lower in tier lists just because I’ve always considered her the strongest water bender ever. But I’ve recently had to consciously tell myself, by the end of the ATLA series she was 14! She was 14 and with just her 14 year old feats she’s placed up really high in tiers. May not be the highest, but still really high. I’m very curious to see how her rankings will change now that we’ve basically had confirmation about upcoming future Aang gang content. She was an absolute menace when she was 14, curious to see how much she progresses into her late teen early 20’s.

I do love your reasoning for the Amon vs tanrok debate and I think I agree with you. The one thing I would change would be kataras placement. Going off of where she finished in the show proper I would’ve put her just below Ming Hua. Loved the video ❤

Katara can blood bend with the moon at the opposite side of the earth. When she stopped falling rain by making a dome, i dont think there was even a half moon in sight. And let's not forget that she's a child and as they grow, they grow with their bending abilities.

I have to disagree about not taking Hama and Katara's bloodbending into account as in ATLA the moon cycle is just full moon, full moon, full moon, Yue tries something new, full moon. As Overanalysed pointed out, it's almost always a full moon lol

Katara is easily legendary. Although we haven't seen it yet, her in her prime would have been amazing considering how everyone talks about her. She is a master healer too (which is a great skill) who brought Aang back from the dead and kept Korra alive even with the poison still inside her.

Cant wait for you airbender tier list. Your lists have been pretty fun and entertaining to watch. Would you be able to do a non bender tier list too?

I have to say by far this is the most fair list I've ever seen

Putting Amon and Ming-Hua above Katara takes courage against the whiners. Great video! ♥️

I cannot wait for the new Avatar series coming out and to show us how matured and more powerful Katara is in her prime! Katara is legendary to me.

Awesome stuff. A list of the best physical fighters would be awesome

great video i enjoyed it as much as i enjoyed the series for real. great editing and loved your calm nature. wish you had some kind of a scoring system like defensive abilities attack abilities and special stuff like bloodbending, healing. and putting older version of katara in the list would be fun as well or putting katara during full moon and other times to show difference would be fun too. imo if katarada wanted she could bloodbend without fullmoon as well i think, she was just against bloodbending in general so didnt push the limits she was a prodigy for real. and aang indeed does deserve the rank prodigy in this list but he just got it quickly and didnt get better after that. he started good and remained good. and the last comparison most people make is korra imo korra is one hella waterbender. really strong tactical and learned many things (thanks to tonraq and wan lmao) i would put korra higher than roku tbh we only seen few scenes of roku bending and they showed how great his bending power was but in battle i feel like korra would bet his ass. roku was so strong and but mentally he wasnt for it i feel like. imma watch your other vids now but i hope im not gonna write this long comment WTF IM DOING LMAO bye

Katara > Ming-Hua Ming-Hua might have been agressive but we have seen Katara just straight up win through sheer bending strength difference, especially in the fight against Hama. Katara was also specifically called out as a generational talent, so I dont understand how she could be placed below so many others.

I would say Korra>Roku, but anything else makes sense. I hope u will make a nonbender tier list

I agree with this list for the most part. with the exception of Katara and Pakku. they should be in legendary. Katara has just beaten so many top tier benders in 1v1 combat. Pakku is the one who taught Katara and is just so fluid with his bending and seemed to out skill all his opponents everytime they showed him in combat. a true waterbending master.

Nice vid keep up the good work 👍 u got a sub

The cactus from atla is god tier. We don’t see much from it but by simply getting sokka to drink a bit of water, it was able to basically entirely nullify him. It made one of the best strategists go crazy so imagine what it would do to someone who didn’t have as strong of a mind

Rank the nonbenders next bro, this was cool though

Excellent ranking

again, i love your channel a lot. your voice is chilling and relaxing and u like atla.but i have a suggestion! at the end u take the top benders from your list and make them fight eachother

Just because Katara was not a bad girl and did not do much of the destructive waterbending and/or bloodbending (of which she refused voluntarily) does not make her any worse than ming hua, or even full time bloodbenders. She would have learnt how to be a full time waterbender if she wanted to. Besides, I do not think she would have any problem resisting any of the full time bloodbenders. Plus its simply a shame to put Katara below Korra or even Roku. Katara's definitely the best

How is Amon below his father

you did not just put katara that low lmaooo

Yay water!!! Thank you!! I found your earth video first

Katara def too low on the list, especially as these guys got older

Katara is also the best healer the waterbenders have produced. I'm surprised you didnt take the later half of her life into account

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Have we considered that blood bending apptituide is more complex than just power/skill issue? Like its fully possible there's just a mental component or genetic predispostion that makes it easier.

I feel Ming hua is a bit high she should have been in high grandmaster

Not wet enough is quiet sus

In my opinion, the difficulty in ranking any kind of benders against each other is that there are too many variables and too little information... For example, they are mostly different ages and became masters at different points in life. In ATLA, we see teenage Katara, a recent master, while in TLOK we see adult Amon, who had become a master a while before. There are subjective variables as well - some believe Katara only resisted bloodbending because Hama wasn't that strong, or because of the full moon. But there's no proof that whe *can't* resist it in other instances. So... There are valid arguments to place benders higher or lower in tier lists, depending on what you believe!

I think Amon is stronger than Yakone. The only 2 times why his bloodbending was resisted was because 1 time he didn't take his opponents that seriously to use his full potential. And the 2nd time the plot demanded Korra to break free of it. Yes plot armor demanded Amon's defeat. Amon also has his father's telekinetic blood bending ability. Just look at when he blood bent his own dad without any movements in that flashback scene. He can certainly do it on a larger scale, but his character demanded him to be secret about it and only use it on a small scale to read his opponents movements than outright control them and blow his cover as a non bender. He also has more showings of regular waterbending than Yakone.

Hell yeah! you got sponsered by ATLA themselves!

If Aang is the best in only airbending why didn't the White Lotus just team up and beat up Ozai?

I'd say Katara would beat Ming-Hua. She was struggling against Kya who is primarily a healer. Not to mention she was actually struggling against Kya for the most part of their fight. Then there's the fight with Mako, the first time when she won, and the second time with her losing. She was surrounded by a cave of water and still lost to Mako, and fair to him for using lightning bending, but it shows how little BIQ Ming-Hua truly has. Not to mention that Katara can blood bend unlike Ming-Hua, can heal, and defeated a grandmaster at the age of fourteen. Another problem is that Katara also beat Azula twice, once in the caves, and the other with Zuko, whilst Azula was amped. Katara's not the strongest, but she's easily beating Ming-Hua, the only people she can't are the blood-bending family (Yakone etc)

Hama is so underrated. If katara agreed to get trained by Hama it'll literally liberate all future water benders since she'll be taught to feel the waters presence within living things. Water will be literally available everywhere and solve one of the main weaknesses of water benders which is the absence of water. Hama can generate water out of air via moisture, get water from trees, and blood bending would be more normalized since people wouldn't find it morally taxing.