With a little spiritual stuff thrown in. Having the ability to project your spirit to other locations is extraordinary, but ultimately not that useful of a skill except in rare scenarios.
First made popular by the infamous Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender , lightning generation has since become fairly common in the Avatar universe, as seen in The Legend of Korra when Mako goes to work at a power plant where firebenders are employed to generate lightning. This is an incredibly powerful subskill of firebending that is highly potent and also highly dangerous for both the user and whoever the lightning is being targeted at.
Because of its volatility, many fans are wary of taking on this specialized bending technique. Spiritbending is a form of waterbending introduced in The Legend of Korra that allows powerful waterbenders to calm wild spirits and peacefully send them away.
It can also be used to corrupt spirits, and even destroy a person's soul. Due to the abundance of spirits in the Avatar world, fans believe this ability would come in handy. That said, the effectiveness of spiritbending isn't always a certainty, and spiritbending has also been seen to be ineffective against spirit vines.
This ability doesn't appear in the Avatar universe until the third season of The Legend of Korra , but lavabending is a highly formidable and strong subskill of earthbending. A lavabender user can overwhelm other benders quickly and inflict mass destruction, as seen when Ghazan demolishes a section of Ba Sing Se's wall in a matter of seconds. Putting aside destructive power though, lavabending lacks essentially any practical use which limits its favorability. Another potent and destructive ability, combustionbending was popularized by Combustionman in Avatar: The Last Airbender and then never seen again until season three of the Legend of Korra with P'Li.
Being able to generate massive explosions from long-range gives combustionbenders an edge that allows them to overpower their opponents, even when outnumbered. Like lavabending, combustionbending lacks the practicality of other bending subskills and also requires the user to have a chi spot on their forehead which acts as a point of weakness.
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. Spirituality is an important aspect of bending inheritance.
It is for this reason that all Air Nomads, the most spiritual community in the world, were airbenders. Another notable variable is the population size of the country: for example, the Earth Kingdom is the most populous nation but has the smallest percentage of benders relative to the total population among the four nations. The Earth Kingdom is also the least spiritual nation. Generally, people can determine whether or not they are a bender before reaching puberty.
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Season 3. Episode February 21, Season 1. Avatar: The Last Airbende r features four main types of bending: fire, earth, water, and air - but each of them have their own unique specialities as well. Avatar: The Last Airbender , which aired on Cartoon Network from , is one of the most beloved animated shows of all time, and is now finding new fans after being added to Netflix.
The show takes place in a world where some people are born with the ability to "bend," or manipulate one of four elements. The show's protagonist, Aang, is a uniquely gifted being called the Avatar, who is only born once in a generation and has the ability to control all four elements, not just the one of the nation they were born in.
Related: Iroh vs. Bending is one of the core elements of the show, but there are more than just the four basic types of bending. Each type - fire, earth, water, and air - has its own unique subset of bending-related abilities that help both in and out of combat, including everything from lightning generation to healing. Here's the complete list of each type of bending ability featured on Avatar: The Last Airbender. The first category of bending is airbending , the power set belonging to the Air Nomads.
We find out via flashback that prior to the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender , the Air Nomads were all but wiped out of existence by the fire nation, who were looking to kill the Avatar - Aang.
However, unbeknownst to them, Aang survived, and audiences got their first taste of what powers belonged to the Air Nomads. The main ability of the Air Nomads is, of course, airbending: the ability to control and manipulate air. This is most often visualized in the form of wind: airbenders can create strong gusts, propel themselves, and create balls of compressed air to use as projectiles. Other than classic airbending , some airbenders can also manipulate clouds, because they're composed of mostly air.
Advanced airbenders like Aang can also harness their abilities to spiritually project - send their consciousness outside their physical form - although this ability is strongly tied to their spirituality as opposed to their bending.
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