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[FireAndBlood]

Earthbenders can bend metal.

I don't understand why they can't fly. It seems to me you can just sit on a disk of earth and fly around.

 

[Megalosaro]

I once had a stoner co-worker who asked me this. Only having the vaguest of ideas what he was talking about, I said earthbender.

 

[ObbyDent]

Fire is pretty inefficient to do that. A bullet would work better.

But then it would be more fun. I'd rather shoot someone full of lightning or burn them alive than boringly shoot them.

Plus, you have unlimited ammo.

 

[Kazenokatana]

Waterbending. Being able to swim underwater indefinitely and float on water tornados and make ice spears and speedslide like Iceman and bloodbend and Spiritbend would be neat. Plus, my eyes are blue, so I don't really have a choice, do I?

Oh yeah I see a career in Ghost Hunting for your WaterBending future.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

People picking firebending: what are you going to actually DO with it? Fun fact: you can be a firebender right now if you go buy a chemical flamethrower, which are completely legal.

Except no one does that because it's fucking stupid.

Airbending, thanks.

Wait, it's legal? That's a load off of my shoulders. Thanks!

Fire is pretty inefficient to do that. A bullet would work better.

A fair point, but people don't run away from you on fire when shot with bullets. Not that I know anything about shooting people with flamethrowers, haha.

 

[aly]

Waterbending has always been my favorite. Go have to go with that since it includes bloodbending too.

 

[Brakke]

Blood ending, only ever bend the blood in my D. Have the best D of all time. The end.

 

[Not]

Fire is pretty inefficient to do that. A bullet would work better.

So, water or earthbending?

 

[XAL]

Earth bending. Easy construction.

Also comes with metal bending, sand bending, and lava bending. You can feel vibrations well enough to tell if someone is lying.

Shit is OP.

 

[SixMachine]

Fire is pretty inefficient to do that. A bullet would work better.

A firebender would be the TSA's worst nightmare. Going into airplanes in those pressurized cabins, they can easily ignite everyone in there.

I didn't give an answer in my previous post but I would like airbending, just because even if I don't reach the high level and sacrifice to fly, I can still use that awesome air bicycle or at least the ball to ride around on.

 

[TheRedSnifit]

Well the problem with actually flying would be.

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You basically have to give up your relationships with everyone you know including your friends, family, and coworkers. Not to mention you'll have to give up every physical possession you own...like your computer.

To say nothing of dealing with the FAA.

 

[Not]

Oh yeah I see a career in Ghost Hunting for your WaterBending future.

Hey pal, when the spirits run rampant and you can't Spiritbend them away, don't come cryin' to me

EDIT:

Blood ending, only ever bend the blood in my D. Have the best D of all time. The end.

I guess someone had to say it eventually

 

[Thatonemoor]

Fire is pretty inefficient to do that. A bullet would work better.

Lightning moves faster then a bullet dude.

Edit: I'd choose earth bending.

 

[Letterbomb]

The clear choice here is Waterbending. It's always been overpowered as fuck within the context of the Avatar world, and that's ignoring its implications if we took its powers literally.

• Water bending
• Ice bending
• Healing
• Blood bending
• Plant bending
• Spirit bending

You get all that shit with Water bending. I'd bet you I'm even missing something too. Let's take a look at fire bending now:

• Fire bending
• Lightning bending
• Combustion Bending (?)

Pretty cool I guess. Although it's never fully explained if Combustion bending is strictly within the abilities of fire benders. Next up is air:

• Air bending

Oh... Yeah, that's all. You can fly and suck out people's oxygen from their bodies to suffocate them too. But you gotta detach yourself from the world and do all this spiritual shit that makes no sense as to why it'd be the triggering factor for a rather physical skill. Last up is Earth:

• Earth bending
• Metal bending
• Lava bending

So I guess my order of preference:

Water > Earth > Fire > Air

Kind of like the introduction to the first series. Katara lists out the elements in order of decreasing value for us from the get go!

 

[MasterOfPastures]

I'd shoot fucking explosions out of my forehead.

 

[Frog-fu]

So hard to choose. I'm not crazy about waterbending, though it's awesome, so I guess out of earth, fire and air, I'll pick air.

 

[DrSlek]

Waterbending is clearly the most OP. Bloodbending, dehydration,/dessication, slicing shit up, and healing. Unless someone kills the moon, you've got no real weaknesses. You can always bend.

 

[R10Neymarfan]

What most forget that if you are in an area with no water, water benders are screwed

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Unless you go by real life logic where you pull water out of the air

 

[PK Gaming]

Oh my god, this is going to be so hard. No it's not. Airbending.

Cmon this is a no brainer. AIRBENDING guys.

Access to flight. Check.
The ability to easily knockdown opponents with powerful gusts of wind. Check.
Can effectively defend yourself against the other elements. Check.
Fun as hell. Check.

BONUS: You can

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bend the oxygen out of a person's body

. How is air not the greatest element?

 

[Letterbomb]

What most forget that if you are in an area with no water, water benders are screwed

Waterbending masters always have access to water.
Worse comes to worse, you can take it straight out of the air.
EDIT: To address your edit--pulling water out of air also happens in the show. It's not just applying it to real life logic.
You're fucked if you're in a dry ass desert or some shit, but every element has a weakness like that. Fire benders? Avoid night time fights and dem eclipses! Earth benders can get fucked over hard if they're at sea, etc.

Airbenders would have the most unlimited access to their element I'd reckon.

 

[zeemumu]

What most forget that if you are in an area with no water, water benders are screwed

Bend your sweat, or the water out of nearby plant life/animals

 

[SixMachine]

What most forget that if you are in an area with no water, water benders are screwed

Well you can bloodbend but pretty much only the real top tier waterbenders can do that. Katara did take water from the grass on the ground before, and they withered up when she did that. So I wonder if you can do that to a human, sort of how Magneto does something similar to people by pulling the iron out of their blood.

 

[kess]

read the OP as waterboarding

 

[ObbyDent]

What most forget that if you are in an area with no water, water benders are screwed

Unless you go by real life logic where you pull water out of the air

And show logic. They did that in season three of the original show.

 

[Booty Patrol]

waterbending, of course.

 

[Hidden One]

Earth bending. Metal and Lava bending <3.

Air is a close second though.

 

[TheOGB]

Energybending.

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I'm going to assume that would give me the ability to make myself whatever kind of bender I want

I couldn't see myself dedicating my time to mastering Airbending to know some of the cooler techniques, and Earthbending seems great, but Firebending seems a lot cooler and Waterbending is OP. So either Water or Fire.

 

[zeemumu]

And show logic. They did that in season three of the original show.

What he's trying to get across is that waterbenders are really only second to airbenders in availability of their element

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Earth bending. Easy construction.

Also comes with metal bending, sand bending, and lava bending. You can feel vibrations well enough to tell if someone is lying.

Shit is OP.

A human 3D printer is what it is. One can't go wrong.

 

[Hamlet]

Earth bending. Easy construction.

Also comes with metal bending, sand bending, and lava bending. You can feel vibrations well enough to tell if someone is lying.

Shit is OP.

I'm sure I could whip up a pretty cool looking ice fortress with waterbending. Plus Bloodbending that's pretty OP.

 

[Foxy Fox 39]

So I forget

Water's specialty is Ice or Blood Bending

Earth's specialty is Metal Bending

Fire's specialty is Lightening Bending

What's Air's specialty?

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Air's specialty is literally flying like superman. Oh and Earth has two. Metal and Lava.

 

[SixMachine]

A human 3D printer is what it is. One can't go wrong.

Now that you mention it, Earth Benders are the strongest. They can print guns and bullets! I wonder if someone gets skilled enough to compound gunpowder out of random chunks of dirt, now that would be really OP.

 

[beyond_death]

My heart says Earth, because I think its the coolest out of them all. But my head says Water. Only if I can Bloodbend though.

 

[ObbyDent]

What he's trying to get across is that waterbenders are really only second to airbenders in availability of their element

Firebenders make their own fire. I'd say all of them are pretty abundant.

 

[Kazenokatana]

Waterbending masters always have access to water.
Worse comes to worse, you can take it straight out of the air.
EDIT: To address your edit--pulling water out of air also happens in the show. It's not just applying it to real life logic.
You're fucked if you're in a dry ass desert or some shit, but every element has a weakness like that. Fire benders? Avoid night time fights and dem eclipses! Earth benders can get fucked over hard if they're at sea, etc.

Airbenders would have the most unlimited access to their element I'd reckon.

I won't spoil it but if you haven't seen Season 3 that argument doesn't have a lot to stand on.

 

[Not]

I'm sure I could whip up a pretty cool looking ice fortress with waterbending.

Elsa?

 

[PK Gaming]

Spoiler

Air's specialty is literally flying like superman. Oh and Earth has two. Metal and Lava.

It also has the ability to take away a person's freedom

Spoiler

because you know, oxygen = freedom

 

[foxuzamaki]

I sometimes change between airbending and earhbending but I think imma go with airbending, secretly the most OP and the most fun

 

[Letterbomb]

I won't spoil it but if you haven't seen Season 3 that argument doesn't have a lot to stand on.

I'm all caught up with the show. Can't think for the life of me what you're referring to.

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Unless you mean the VOLCANO prison? Cause that's a rather extreme/particular circumstance. Generalizations like what I made aren't meant to be attributed to things like that.

 

[Not]

Now that you mention it, Earth Benders are the strongest. They can print guns and bullets! I wonder if someone gets skilled enough to compound gunpowder out of random chunks of dirt, now that would be really OP.

Chemical bending? Dangggg

 

[xaosslug]

water or earth, because you could be freaking GODLY if you master either to their FULL potential (blood bending, metal/sand/lava bending...)

 

[foxuzamaki]

So I forget

Water's specialty is Ice or Blood Bending

Earth's specialty is Metal Bending

Fire's specialty is Lightening Bending

What's Air's specialty?

Air's specialty is being OP as shit

 

[zeemumu]

Firebenders make their own fire. I'd say all of them are pretty abundant.

True, but the outer environment can still affect a firebender's ability. Humid areas with a lot of moisture in the air and extreme cold abilities could hamper their abilities.

 

[Kazenokatana]

I'm all caught up with the show. Can't think for the life of me what you're referring to.

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Unless you mean the VOLCANO prison? Cause that's a rather extreme/particular circumstance. Generalizations like what I made aren't meant to be attributed to things like that.

Actually I was referring to

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Ming-Hua versus Mako. She basically ran out of water and couldn't counter his attacks because of it. I mean she eventually found some water but it proves the point that she didn't have readily available access to her abilities.

 

[Not]

Also, it seems like metalbending and lavabending are mutually exclusive. You can only be one or the other

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Waterbending. Healing, underwater shit, surfing. I could take the water out of people's bodies, killing them by way of dehydration.

That's OP

 

[Letterbomb]

Actually I was referring to

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Ming-Hua versus Mako. She basically ran out of water and couldn't counter his attacks because of it. I mean she eventually found some water but it proves the point that she didn't have readily available access to her abilities.

Hers is a special case.

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What happened in that scene is that her water arms got destroyed. If she actually had arms, I'm sure she could've pulled water out of air if she wanted to, but she's got a handicap. Unless "Ming-Hua" isn't the armless lady I'm thinking about. I'm still terrible with names. But yeah she was gimped.

 

[Hamlet]

Elsa?

She's the ultimate icebender.

 

[-Deimos]

Actually I was referring to

Spoiler

Ming-Hua versus Mako. She basically ran out of water and couldn't counter his attacks because of it. I mean she eventually found some water but it proves the point that she didn't have readily available access to her abilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKlTZkC9-ng

Ming Hua ain't shit.

 

[Letterbomb]

Also, it seems like metalbending and lavabending are mutually exclusive. You can only be one or the other

Give it time for the writers to run out of ideas again. Another "irregular" will show up soon that can do both. xD