As an extremely powerful and gifted waterbender, Amon was able to use bloodbending to take bending away by severing active chi paths. Katara discovered her healing abilities after dipping her burned hands in a lake. Healing is a special ability possessed by some waterbenders that enables them to heal those who have been wounded, including themselves. This is accomplished by drawing upon the life-giving properties of water, which are used to heal numerous types of physical wounds and illnesses.
Healing can also alleviate certain types of stress caused by mental strain. Though the technique is effective in many contexts, it is limited in scope. For example, healing is ineffective in treating birth defects, such as Toph Beifong 's blindness or the complications associated with Princess Yue 's birth.
Healing can also be used to detect areas in the body where chi flow is blocked, as displayed by Katara when she sensed the energy locked within Aang 's chakra during a healing session. The healing abilities of a waterbender can also be affected by the water they use. Water from the Spirit Oasis has special properties that can heal wounds otherwise unaffected by regular water, such as the fatal wounds Aang sustained at the hands of Azula during their battle.
Korra used spiritbending to purify dark bat spirits. Spiritbending is a variation of the healing technique which allows the user to instill a balance or an imbalance within spirits. It was invented by Unalaq , [12] who successfully taught it to Korra. When used to change a spirit's negative energy into positive energy, the water, followed by the spirit, will begin to glow a golden light, at which point the spirit dissipates or assumes a pacified form. When the technique is used to change positive energy into negative energy, the water and spirit emanate a purple light.
When used against humans, this variation has the potential to destroy their souls. However, this technique has not been proven to be effective against spirit vines: when Korra attempted to use in it on the vines that had infested Republic City, it dispersed them only momentarily before they surged back, even stronger than before.
Bolin used lavabending to liquefy the earth around him. Lavabending is a rare technique that involves the manipulation of molten rock. The first known user of lavabending was Szeto , who used it to cause the simultaneous eruption of four small volcanoes.
Centuries later, Kyoshi utilized the technique to split her peninsula from the Earth Kingdom mainland. Skilled earthbenders such as Ghazan are also capable of performing the technique.
Using lavabending, Ghazan was able to form shuriken-like lava projectiles that are capable of burning through several mediums, create trails of molten rock to attack his opponents, and otherwise manipulate lava with great dexterity. Metalbending is achieved by manipulating the particles of unpurified earth within the material.
Metalbending is a special set of techniques within earthbending which allows an earthbender to indirectly bend processed metals by manipulating the trace amounts of regular earth in them, much as they would bend regular earth.
The ability was discovered and later perfected by Toph Beifong. Through the use of seismic sense , Toph was able to perceive, target, and eventually utilize the trace amounts of earth present in refined metal in order to bend the metal itself.
After the Hundred Year War , Toph opened the Beifong Metalbending Academy to share her knowledge of the technique with the rest of the world; her efforts eventually led to the establishment of Republic City's Metalbending Police Force.
Later, Toph's youngest daughter, Suyin Beifong , founded Zaofu , a city made entirely of metal, and the majority of its inhabitants practice metalbending. Toph used seismic sense to detect vibrations through the ground. Seismic sense is the unique ability to perceive an environment by feeling acute vibrations through the ground.
Similar to sonar and echolocation, seismic sense enables the practitioner to detect earthen objects and objects in contact with earth when out of sight. The technique provides a specific map of the user's surroundings, detailed enough so a blind person, such as Toph Beifong, can navigate effortlessly.
Badgermoles , the original earthbenders, use seismic sense as an innate substitute for eyesight, and this technique was adopted by Toph after she observed the badgermoles that lived in the mountains surrounding Gaoling. Combustion Man was able to "shoot fire from his brain" as Sokka put it.
Combustionbending is a form of telekinetic firebending. Unlike conventional firebending, which produces a flame from the body, the technique instead creates a powerful beam that explodes upon contact with a solid surface. Combustionbending requires good chi flow and a properly calibrated focus in order to be effective, as disrupting it can have fatal consequences, as demonstrated when Sokka hit Combustion Man's third-eye tattoo with his boomerang.
Despite superheating the air directly around the practitioner, the technique does not appear to harm the user unless the explosion occurs in the immediate vicinity. If a combustionbender uses this skill and the fire beam explodes too close to the user of this skill, it could prove fatal, such as when P'Li 's combustion beam was contained within a makeshift box made from Suyin Beifong's armor, causing the explosion to occur just centimeters away from her head [22] or when Combustion Man was unable to control his ability and blew his right arm and leg off.
There have only been two known practitioners of this technique, namely Combustion Man and P'Li. Azula was capable of generating lightning. Lightning generation is a sub-skill of firebending that allows a firebender to produce and guide a bolt of lightning from their fingertips. Physically, generating lightning involves a circular motion with the arms. Mentally, it involves a complete absence of emotion as well as peace of mind, thus allowing an individual to separate the energies of yin and yang, also interpreted as positive and negative electrical potential, respectively.
When the forces collide, the bender guides rather than controls the lightning's direction. Lightning attacks usually take much longer time to initiate than standard fire attacks. That said, certain firebenders, including Ozai , Lightning Bolt Zolt , and Mako, are able to generate lightning at extremely high speeds.
That being said, what could be the other forms of bending that would make reasonable sense in the Avatar universe? Should these new variants be related to the original four, or can they be entirely independent? Is it possible for a bending style to be powerful enough to affect even the Avatar?
Lightbending could theoretically be a sub-type of Firebending, but it also works as a totally independent style. Controlling light would mean controlling electromagnetic waves in general, from X-Rays all the way to Radio Waves, and the stronger the bender the more range they'd possess.
Light is meant to travel in a straight line, according to the rules of physics, so manipulating it is of immense advantage. For instance, one could increase or decrease visibility according to the situation, such as creating an aura of darkness for stealth purposes. Also, there is a small chance of surpassing the rigidly defined speed of light. Gravitybending goes hand in hand with Earthbending , but is likely a considerably stronger technique than its parent.
Imagine forcing an opponent's knees to buckle in the middle of a fight, as if their body is glued to the ground, preventing movement, similar to Bloodbending.
On the extreme side, Gravitybending could be employed to pull airborne objects towards the earth, such as airships or flying Airbenders, and the most talented practitioners might even be capable of generating a micro black hole.
With all the advancement in technology that has happened between the show and its sequel, the invention of plastics is either on the horizon or has happened by now.
Being a completely new material, Plasticbending would likewise be in its infancy at first. However, it shouldn't be long before enough people are born with the ability to form a society around it, as the four main bending disciplines have. A Plasticbender can probably exploit the innumerable instances of plastic used in daily life, including bags, automobiles, electrical devices, and so on. Waterbending concentrates on the flow of energy, focusing less on strength and more on turning the opponent's own energy against them.
While a bender's victory in battle depends on their skill or ingenuity, waterbenders gain a serious advantage or disadvantage depending on the amount of water around them, although highly skilled waterbenders can draw water from anywhere, such as draw humidity from the air and bend the water in living things, especially plants. Due to its lunar sympathy, waterbending is stronger at night and ineffective during a lunar eclipse or when the Moon Spirit dies.
The opposite of waterbending is firebending, with its relatively stagnant, direct philosophy. The sub-skills for waterbending are healing and bloodbending. Toph Beifong is one of the greatest earthbenders of her time. Earthbending originates in the Earth Kingdom and the first earthbenders were badgermoles. Because of their element's stability and its stress on neutral jing, earthbenders stand their ground, absorbing or intercepting attacks until they completely overwhelm their opponents.
Earthbending is in stark contrast to airbending as airbending's emphasis is on evasion and mobility while earthbending's emphasis is on fortitude and strength.
Zuko is a strong firebender. Firebending is used by the people of the Fire Nation and is the most aggressive bending art. Dragons were the first firebenders; they subsequently taught the Sun Warriors. As the element of power, firebenders have to be able to maintain a constant source of energy and balance in battle, unleashing a volley of direct, successive attacks. Unlike other benders who depend on external sources of their elements to bend, firebenders can create fire using their internal heat source in addition to controlling already existent flames.
Skilled firebenders are able to fly using powerful jets of flames. Firebending's relatively simple and direct style contrasts with the changing style of waterbending.
A notable feature of special firebenders is the ability to create a hotter, blue fire; Azula was the only known firebender who demonstrated this extra-powerful flame.
The sub-skills for firebending are combustionbending , generating and redirecting lightning. Firebending is the element of power, and its season is summer.
Avatar Aang energybent Ozai to strip him of his bending. Energybending is the art of bending the energy within one's body. It existed in the era of Raava though was considered a lost art over time. Few Avatars have learned this bending art, and even fewer have used it. The lion turtle bestowed the power of fire to Wan. During the era of Raava , people could request a lion turtle to grant them control over an element.
As the protectors of mankind, the lion turtles bestowed the ability upon those who planned on traveling through the Spirit Wilds. However, upon their return, they were supposed to return this power to the creature. After Wan became the Avatar by fusing with Raava and closed off the spirit portals at the North and South Poles , the lion turtles declared their roles as protectors of mankind over and stated that they would no longer bestow humans with the power of the elements.
After the departure of the lion turtles, the acquisition of bending abilities became dependent on a large number of factors and complex variables; inheritance patterns are not well understood by the people of the world. Though each nation is affiliated to a specific bending art, not all citizens from any nation, with the exception of the Air Nomads, are born with the ability to bend an element. In the case of mixed marriages, the children may be benders of either element, but never both if they are benders at all; for example, firebender Mako and earthbender Bolin are brothers with parents from the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom.
One important known factor in determining the likelihood of a person to inherit bending abilities is the genetic history of the family. It can be considered a recessive gene, since it is possible for a person to inherit bending skills even if they have two nonbending parents, as in the cases of Katara and Toph.
Likewise, having one or two bending parents is no guarantee to inherit bending skills; Aang and Katara's eldest son, Bumi , and the swordmaster Piandao were both born nonbenders despite each having two bending parents; though Bumi later acquired airbending abilities following the reopening of the spirit portals. People who have a greater genetic basis for bending are said to have more "talent", or inherent ability than those who have a weaker genetic basis; though genetics alone do not entirely account for the actual proficiency of a bender, as a person with little genetic basis can become a skilled bender through significantly hard work.
On the other hand, it is possible for someone with a strong genetic basis to go about their entire life without ever developing a true ability in bending because of a poor spiritual upbringing or lack of fervor in practice. Due to these anomalies, the nature of bending acquisition fluctuates and has prevented the rise of a superior "bending social class" in the world.
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