Elemental bending as shown in Avatar the last airbender. You can also choose Korra ones.
I would choose anything but airbending.
Elemental bending as shown in Avatar the last airbender. You can also choose Korra ones.
I would choose anything but airbending.
(Picture me infodumping like an annoying nerd)
Actually in the original series “lighting bending” is extremely rare and seen only in the royal family. Which means that this is not a skill many people would have and therefore-
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Imo Korra wasn’t bad it just wasn’t as re-watchable like ATLA. It got gimped because Nickelodeon is run by a bunch of morons. They only approved a single season of the show even though the writers asked for multiple to make a full story like ATLA. So they had to make the first ark self contained. Then Nick came back approving yet another single season. It wasn’t till after that they approved multiple seasons which gave us 3 and 4. Even then I think it was better than it gets credit for. No ATLA for sure but then that show is actually perfect.
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Lightning bending definitely exists to show the difference between Zuko and the rest of his family. But I thought it was implied this is a “royal bending skill” and I don’t seem to be the only one who does.
The power plants in Korra are powered by lightning bending and it’s portrayed as dangerous work done by industrial laborers and not royals. I think it’s a safe conclusion to assume that the royals opened lightning bending schools to teach non-royals so they could perform this labor. While lightning bending is depicted as rare in ATLA, I think it’s more due to it being very destructive and the Fire Nation wanting a strict control over the knowledge to protect themselves from insurrection.
Also after the events of the ATLA show, the comics continue the story and Toph opens a metal bending school. Metal bending is portrayed quite frequently in Korra in contrast to ATLA where the only metal bender was Toph (who is the sole metal bender in the world at the time). So I’m not sure if any specialized skill is inherently rare, just controlled by access to knowledge.
Nah, in Korra many well trained fire bender could lightning bend. They even have lightning bender stations at power plants to add extra juice to the cities power grids. The key to lightning bending was kept secret for only the highest in society. Once Zuko and Aang come to power they teach it pretty openly. It’s not super common but not a super rare thing anymore. Same with mental bending. The rarest are still things like blood bending because they made it illegal and lava bending. Breath bending is the rarest though. One guy could do it in over 100 years and he was a psychopath anarchist that would have humanity living in huts fighting over each other berries because that’s the extent of anarchists ability to create a society.