#rihou

To defeat someone who is very meticulous, you have to be meticulous yourself.  I felt, that was Korra’s main problem in this most recent episode Book 4, and that her problem tends to be very consistent.  She likes to attack without really thinking meticulously about it like her enemies.  And Kuvira is VERY meticulous, more-so than I think all the others were.  Kuvira has a very good strategy for fighting and defending, which I do think Korra is more capable of showing, but as we have seen, she tends to just chucks rocks, or other bending techniques in a more head on “brute-force” fashion.  That was another big problem in Book 3 when she fought against Zaheer.  One of my favorite animes out there, “Law of Ueki” really digs deep into that concept.  One of the characters doesn’t always rely on his special ability.  Yeah, it’s helpful to have such great power through such a supernatural force, but he relays mostly on his martial arts more then he does the power he was given.  Rihou is the guys name by the way for those of you who may know the anime.  Uekis problem, like Korra, is that he always tends to rely too much on brute force, and head on attacks that really don’t really have a strategy to them other than “hit your opponent with all you got and nothing more.”  And as we have seen in this episode of Korra, when Korra kept trying to hit her with all she got, Kuvira was always one step forward, and used her brains over brawn techniques.  It wasn’t until the very end that Korra had to go into the avatar state, but even then, everything in front of her froze, and she couldn’t go on, almost getting herself killed in the process.  But I’m sure she’ll learn that lesson more as the series progresses.  We haven’t given up on Korra just yet!!  Also…As the series goes on, it’s very noted how much political boundaries have changed, and become thicker in each new avatar season/series.