#eartbending

and of course Mr. Lu Kim is the avatar

I LOVE DISCUSSING THIS OKAY SO LOOK LOOK LOOK

also there will be mild spoilers in regards to legend of korra so,,, 

first of all, let’s break down the other benders.

firebenders: they’re capable of lightning bending and combustion bending. combustion bending is VERY rare, however lightning bending seemed to be a far more common skill for factory work and such in LOK. firebenders can also create fire at will, so fire doesn’t have to already be there.

waterbenders: they’re capable of healing, bloodbending; however this is also a rare skill that most people can only maintain during a full moon. And if you want, you can count ice and steam and those things. i feel like im forgetting something but meh. waterbenders can’t really create water they need to get it from another source as seen with katara using her sweat and such.

airbenders: well,,, they can bend air jkashdkajshd. i feel like airbenders often have their skill lessened than it actually it because the only airbenders we see are all mostly against violence. airbenders are capable of suffocating people, and im sure more talented one can do worse. along with the ability of flight, which is VERY rare as there was only 2 reported incidences of this, and the funky spirit thing.

EARTHBENDERS: so the main reason i think earthbenders are probably the most powerful in the entire series is because of all the subtypes of bending. for starters, theres normal earthbending, then there’s metalbending which wasn’t necessarily rare just new, then there is lavabending which is also new so im unaware of how uncommon it is, and sandbending. so there are already like 4 types of bending within earthbending, and when you consider the potential uses of all those types eartbending is honestly really overpowered. 

we witness metalbenders capable of bending poison out of bodies because it has minor metallic properties, and since the human body has iron in it i wouldn’t be shocked if metalbenders could do things similar to that of bloodbending. 

BOLIN! Y U NO EARTHBEND ROCKY ROAD?