Avatar: Why Airbending Is So Deadly
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- The Secret Power Behind Airbending
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All benders have their merits, but it is pretty clear that Air-Benders are flying high above the rest. Looking through the power sets and abilities, we can scope out a clear image of just what makes these benders much more deadly than they appear. When looking at what they can do, the sky's the limit and there isn’t much standing in their way. From the likes of Avatar Aang, to his master, Monk Gyatso, to the much more sinister Zaheer; we have a wide variety of fighting styles to compare; none of them to be messed with. The peaceful nomads were packing a real punch this whole time! And having that style missing from the world for one hundred years truly did no one any favors. Harder to counter something you don’t know anything about.
Here we are breaking down Air-Bending and what truly makes it so dangerous. With their peaceful reputation, it’s certainly easy to underestimate the Air-Bender. The lack of burning fire, rocks to break bones, and ice shards to pierce your skin makes it much less scary; but that subtly may just be one of its greatest weapons. Hard to fight something you can’t see coming.
So just how powerful are they? Can they really use the force of a jet engine? What gives them an edge in battle over other elements? Who was the most dangerous Air-Bender of them all? Stay tuned to find out. Also, make sure you leave a comment letting us know what you think is the most terrifying bending style. Let’s find out how the Air-Benders could blow us all away.
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Imagine a airbender assassin, can made his paths soundless, accelerate proyectiles to deadly speed, deafening targets by leaving a void in targets' ears...
Kill your target with zero evidence...
de-oxygenating the lungs.*Shivers in fear*
They wouldn't even need to put voids in their targets ears, just prevent the air from transferring the soundwaves
@@nappabond3238 or burst the eardrums (of course that would probably count as evidence...
@@hailtothevic true
Fire: haha electric zap zap
Earth: haha metal stronk
Water: haha blood magic
Air: *haha no oxygen*
What about Lava bending
@Joel Roy i Unterstand your point but you what i mean earth bender is still powerful
In fact, I think that secondary bending related to air is spirit. That is why Ginora can astral project herself and do those things she did during the harmonic convergence. And that is why most airbenders are spiritually trained. But flight might also be one of the advanced bending skills. Until now, only fire have not seen 2 advanced bending techniques. Water has healing and blood, earth has metal and lava, air has flight and spirit. Fire has only electricity.
Sonic bending
I always thought gravity bending could work for an air bender
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There is actually a theory that Monk Gyatso used a vacuum to eliminate all of the Fire Nation soldiers(and himself) who attacked him while he was meditating, since Aang finds him sitting peacefully with a plethora of Fire Nation Soldier skeletons around him. They would have been comet enhanced, and his clothes aren't burned, meaning he almost certainly used some method of Airbending that was so effective, that Fire couldn't have been produced. A Vacuum is the perfect explanation for this, but it would have also killed Monk Gyatso since he would have also been in the vaccuum.
He probably remove all the air from the chamber, suffocating everyone.
nice one buddy
For anyone he could have easily made a habitable environment only around him .but The thought of killing with airbending probably crushed him . He probably wanted die and vacuumed the place alonng with himself while mediating
Well, fire can't be created without oxygen so that theory could also be true
That would have been awesome to see it animated but at the same time metal as fuck
They were recognized as very strong, remember the fire nation waited for the comet to attack them, precisely for this reason
Air-benders could have just remove all the oxygen in a huge area and no more fires.
They needed sozin's comet to stand a chance. No Oxygen = No fire
did we watch the same show? they did not destroy the Airbenders because they are strong. they killed them because they knew the next Avatar to be born after Roku was going to be an Airbender. Like when Pharaoh in the Bible had a dream that a Hebrew will be the downfall of Egypt. Because of this he had all the first born sons killed to prevent it.
and if the Airbenders were that strong and were recognized as strong the Fire Nation would not have fought them. Comet or no comet.
@@mauri2981 I think you misunderstood this comment. The comment didn't say anything about why they attacked the air benders at all. The comment is talking about why they wait for the comet before they launch their invasion toward the air benders. Like you've said, their reason is to eliminate the future avatar. But to do that, they need to destroy the all air benders. And since they know how dangerous they could be, they waited for the comet to come.
Another thing is that you can't actually see airbending. They just give it a visual representation for our sake. The people its being used on see none of that brightened bit of air like we do. Unless it's like a burst of air that picks up dust or something you aren't going to see anything
Yeah u r correct. But creators made the air visible to the characters too(IDK why. Maybe with out visual, air would be too much OP). You can see that between the fights of Aang and Azula or Aang and Zuko. They were able to see the air to dodge those, even with out dust mixing in it.
@@walidalhasan7807 I would guess that examples like you mentioned are less so seeing the air, but instead they are simply reading Aang's body movements and avoiding what would come from them. They are trained combatants after all. Predicting an enemy's attacks is a useful skill. There is a reason why the Earth benders at the earth bending fight didn't know he air bended and thought Toph threw the fight. They couldn't see it.
This was debunked.
The characters can actually see the air also remember when kai showed korra he could Airbender by blowing air into the sky so yeah...
@@raphaelb5237 It has? What about the episode of ATLA when Katara had to pretend to earthbend in order to get arrested and save Haru? If airbending is visible in the avatar universe, wouldnt the firenation soldiers have seen the airbending?
@@forteeve3355 maybe because all the air benders were considered dead and extinct, they didn’t really understand what they were seeing, so just assumed earth bending?? Idk though, cartoons are hard to debate over for things like this I think lol
Most bad guys in avatar: “Airbenders aren’t that dangerous.”
Zaheer: “It’s time to stop.”
Unalaq evaded Korra's airbend in their last fight
To stop breathing?
@@gengarhd1278 0o0
Why do you think that in avatar the legend of aang, the fire lord wiped out the air bender first?
@@samuelronny4666 I thought he went for them first because the air benders were next on the list to have the next avatar since it rotated through the elements. He was trying to prevent the next avatar or delay or some such. Been a long time since I’ve watched it.
Airbenders are insanely overpowered they’re just pacifists. Monk Gyatso took out around 20 comet powered firebenders
and he was one of the most powerful airbenders of the nomads
Theres a theory going around that gyatso took the oxygen out the room (similar to what zaheer did but on a larger scale) and suffocated the fire benders along with himself.
@@bloodieddeadman6.1.65 I wouldn’t be surprised if he did as a fire bender needs oxygen for both fighting and igniting a flame. Zero scorch marks in the room, his clothes still intact. It’s a clean sign gyatso would’ve made it out in his prime
@@aureliohernandez4948 And even if they're not firebenders, everyone needs oxygen to be alive. No air to breath, everyone drops dead by suffocation.
@@varric super op ability lol
Ive said this again and again.
One of the biggest advantages for air benders is the fact that you cant see air. Everyone overlooks this because we can see it in the cartoon. In reality they can't. In the episode where Aang defeats Toph, they both were accused of fixing the match because they didn't see anything knock Toph out of the arena.
You cant see the blood in your veins that a water bender controls
In reality? :-)
In reality in the show....i guess thats what op meant
I bet you could see ripples of distortion of the air was pushed hard enough. Or it would create the sonic boom effect that could create moisture in the air.
lol nice one
If the airbenders weren’t so peaceful they would definitely start and finish the war
That's why they are peaceful
@@gamerdammy2149 tf-
Yep
True but there are some unique abilities to air bending
They could end the war in like 13 weeks
That scene with the remains of Monk Gyatso in ATLA shows that the Air Nomads actually understood how deadly they can be if they wanted to, which is probably the root of their pacifism and why I believe they recruit every single air bender they could find into their "nation", much like the Jedi.
The airbenders definitely were the ones that could've stopped the fire nation, that's why they must've decided to kill all of them before some masters to the same to them.
@@nbHawkeyewell they also attacked with the intention of killing the avatar
@@sime0524 i still cannot entirely believe that's the reason I mean why killing the Avatar it will either be reborn or (like with Ang ) miraculously being safe yet he killed every single air bender heck Killing all childs and women I'm the temples and capturing the males was enough or imprisoning all yet the fire Lord knew they were dangerous
@@billykaplan9915 that is the thing they thought they killed the air avatar, then captured all water benders searching for the water avatar, then they went after earthbenders, they were trying to make sure the avatar was always a fire bender
That makes a lot of sense, since air nomads aren't quite a nation where only some people are benders, every air nomad is a bender
Finally somebody realized just how deadly air bending could be. It should also be pointed out that the other three elements had specialized moves incorporating more then just their elements. Air could be used to cause explosion's, slice through metal, or more impressively, vaporizing... well, everything. Then there is the fact that you talk about taking someone's breath away... but what happens when you force to much air in? Way to gruesome for a cartoon.
not to mention their defense. Air is everywhere, and if they were extremely skilled at detecting it then any movement nearby would be felt. even below their feet. Also there is air in every element, so they might be able to detect the movement and even know what type of attack it was.
Idea for an anime? Gruesome avatar lol
I want to use that method to rob banks if I was a airbender. Evil smirk. 😈
@@dysy0013 a do
@@mansfieldtime even better than Seismic Sense
As a small side note it was confirmed that the air whisp animations we see in the show aren't actually visible to the characters themselves, they're just a visual aid for us. So airbending is also the only form of bending you can't see coming at you, you can only watch the bender's movements.
Dust? Leaves? Debris? That should get caught up in the wind they kick up.
It's not always that obvious to spot small stuff like that and attacks are pretty fast so you would also need to react pretty quickly
Fire Nation: *attacks peaceful air-benders*
The air-benders: *flies away*
Fire Nation: 😐
That was funny
the irony is that fire needs air to live and air can't move without the use of one's inner fire.
@@subterranea9095 airbenders: blows fire nation away
Firebenders:👁👄👁
@@beatriceretops so which blow are we talking about
@@beatriceretops Don’t forget Giazo took on dozens of elite fire benders amped by sozin comet. AND WON, till you know mobbed, but still badass.
Airbenders are usually monks and they deal with strong moral values. So they don't kill. That's why ang was even looking for a different way to stop the firelord. But if they let loose if their moral values. They could be deadlier than bloodbenders
I believe it is more deadly and harmful than blood bending. Imagine air bender can explode someone's lungs in a matter of seconds.
@@warnasamika their can’t do that coz “air bending” is acc way closer to wind bending and there’s only one known move that involves air and even that (from the most powerful air bender) was slow and needed time to use
@@Benjaminjames7 Perhaps! but why can't they get closer to anyone, because I think you remember Aang and Zuko's second fight in the ship. Aang being Zuko's behind while Zuko blasting fire. And Aang never used his air bending at all, also know how faster Airbender can be. Episode blue spirit Aang run faster than none Bender or another bender can't even think, same as how he runs faster than unagi and it's not land but water. And remember how Zaheer killed Earth Queen? It's not a big deal at all. Not only Queen but avatar Korra also get killed together with rawa. And like Amon's blood bending, Zaheer doesn't use his hands much.
@@warnasamika bloodbending is just as dangerous. A powerful one can control your body without moving at all. And they can draw the blood out of your body
@@Benjaminjames7 but ppl can make it to wear it doesn't take time like Amon did with bloodbending without the full moon. And ozai not taking time to lightning bend against Aang
Waiting for this line
“Everythingn changed when the air nation attacked”
nomads*
World will be f****d up if that happened
„the Devils didnt come up from hell…they came down from the sky“
Aang: no killing
Zaheer: killing few for greater good.
Gyatso: Kyoshi, I wanna say I am a big fan.
big fan 💀
yang chen: 😐
If Aang wasn't a pacifist he could have ended the war pretty much immediately
Goes into Fire Nation. Every fire bender that faced him he would vaccum their powers away. Goes into Palace, takes air out of Ozai's lungs.
Legend of Korra debuts next week
@@wokie.3204 he also could just force air into wounds and cause a aneurysm
I don't think so, I think because he wasn't taught the more violent techniques, that means he wouldn't be that much stronger
@@marcusholloway1147 cuz airbender a peaceful tribe.. they know how powerful their bender that why they suppress their urge to go forward..
Look at zahir he make advanced technique.. now you wonder how they make the air bender more lethal if they not so peaceful tribe they can go rampant by calling storm out of nowhere..they are walking disaster..
@@wokie.3204 lol
Imagine an airbender removing the oxygen out of someone’s blood to kill them or shifting the air pressure around or in someone’s body to crush them
Or bending the air inside the water inside you blood to blood bend. So OP
That's so lethal
It would make more sense if they simply bended the air in the lungs making others unable to bend or breathe. But sorry Blood doesn't contain air but oxygen a chemical that we absorb from air, so it wouldn't work.
@@filipeg.f.3136 yea exactly
@@brendanlynskey4507 not how that works but ok
You forgot one thing , with air bending your own lung capacity is heavily increased. This means one air bender vs any other bender will have naturally super human endurance so when the other benders have run out of gas just from sheer exhaustion of their muscles the air bender is still at 80% capacity minimum. Not once did Aang during a battle show any signs of wear and tear or exhaustion except with azula but she got a cheap shot with lightning. Tenzon only started to slow down after he ended up in a 4 v 1 taking multiple hits over n over n over n over n over again and was still standing. Increased oxygen = increased muscle size and strength as well , Zaheer was incredibly physically capable and it make sense they were vegetarians because large muscles would impede movement and their fighting style was light on their feet except for him who used brutal force.
nicely said,,, and vegans wfpb raw have crazy superior stamina so yess definitly (goiod point forgot about medicalnutritioon for a moment how shame of me,, vegans are by FAR SUPERIOR XD,, the more strickt THE BETTER (wfpb after and raw,, mix between wfpb and raw is best diet in the world i found researched crazy about,, i know its the ultimate truth on nutriton and most health issues its just crazy,, how good this show is
Agreed and it anybody watches demon slayer you see how normal humans use breathing techniques to increased their physcial attributes such as stamina, strength, endurance, speed etc. Breathing technques utilize you capacity of intaking oxygen which is just air now pair that with airbenders you got to the broken benders in the world.
We all know that we learned a lot from aang but zaheer made us understand what an airbender is truly capable of
Zaheer is a special case where he combines philosophies of Air Nomads with other benders and non-bender fighting styles.
that is actually what Avatars are supposed to do, understand all the difference between elements and form peace between them.
Zaheer might deserve the spot of Avatar if only he didn't misunderstand the difference between peace and chaos.
partialy capable of?
@@fortcastlevgn2368 if you watched the show you must know what I'm talking about
I wish you had addressed the power wielded by Master Kelsang in The Rise of Kyoshi novel. Kelsang was Avatar Kuruk's airbending teacher as well as a member of his team avatar. He also helped identify and care for Kyoshi. He was actually exiled from the southern air temple due to him single handedly creating a massive storm at sea, killing an entire fleet of pirates. He was known by pirates around the world as the living typhoon.
The Living Typhoon, damnnnn
I'm glad this video came out, a lot of people down play airbending so much
Ngl they do
They probably haven't heard of Zaheer
@@Fw_dontavious__ earth and water are still stronger
@@Benjaminjames7 They're not ❤️
@@PxndaCakes in a fight they are
I never really understood as a kid how the air-benders lost. I know they were peaceful but for me it was the biggest and most irritating part of the show for me. I was a kid at the time but even I knew that all they had to do was create vacuums around the fire benders long enough to either knock them out and send them packing or just even long enough to show them they'll never be able to bend their fire around them.
Even with any tactical leverages they were SEVERELY outnumbered by armored soldiers enhanced by the power of Sozin's comet. Eventually they could just be worn down. They were also the first 'faction' to be hunted. I do still find myself slightly irritated, though, that absolutely none of them were able to flee and take refuge in the Earth Kingdom.
that vacuum move needs the user to constantly move the air away. zaheer only used it when he was able to do so without interruptions. he cannot fight or use any other bending as long as he using it. another thing is it might be an expert level move not every air bender would be able to do, and like auxified said they were outnumbered on top of the fire nation having boosted power. do remember the air nomads were split up in their respective temples.
there's a theory that that's what gyatso did, 'cause there aren't any scorch marks in the room and his clothes are still intact
@@Auxified except there is the theory that some Airbenders DID escape to the Earth Kingdom. That's why after the Harmonic Convergence all the new Airbenders emerged from the Earth Kingdom, because they were descended from refugee Air Nomads. There is even a theory that Ty Lee is descended from an Air Nomad, given her passive form of attack in chi blocking along with her grey eyes.
Airbenders lost because they never developed their bending for combat to anything more than self-defense. A lot of us understand if an Airbender were truly ruthless they could rob the air from another human or create high pressured waves to slice through armies even a joint effort to lv5 Tornadoes on demand but all these required the pacifistic Airbenders to think up such violent things. Those politics dominated most decisions of the nomadic tribe and when it came to military affairs they decided not to grow in this particular area.
Air bender's not willing to embrace all Air had to offer and ignoring the very human fears of other nations that could imagine their overwhelming threat lead to their own demise.
They we're too detached from their own reality to save themselves in time.
The real sad thing is as Nomads, which travel the world, Airbenders *would* have seen the horror's of their reality and the violence they've refused to acknowledge. The elders choose to keep blind to the world and it's troubles leaving it to the next generation to deal with them should they come knocking on their doorstep some day.
fun fact about the monk gyatzo scene! It's heavily implied through the lack of scorch marks on ANYTHING that what he did was get as many soldiers to enter the room as possible, before he de-oxygenized the ENTIRE ROOM, preventing fire from forming at all, and completely suffocating himself and every single other living thing in the room.
For all we know, zaheer's suffocation move could have been from gyatzo's secret dark teachings or something, simply distilled and perfected against a single target.
Everyone knows cabbage bending is more deadly.
Only the cabbage bender could stop the avatar
@@apgabsalut143 Yes
@@apgabsalut143 Im a carrot bender.
@@apgabsalut143 But I believe cabbage man can save the world from the Avatar/
But I believe cabbage man can save the world.
Did we just forget how powerful aangs airbending was in his fight with ozai. He could literally erode boulders just from one strike of air.
If you create a vacuum, (a big one) they wouldn't be able to walk or even move their finger(cuz they would be dead in the time they try to move their finger) due to the air pressure(13 tons) and their veins would BOOM like in seconds cuz the blood pressure is equal to air pressure if you remove air pressure there would be nothing for neutralizing the blood pressure and it will destroy your body from inside to outside
@@sabriparlakyldz3994 i think you will need enormous amount of effort to pull it off, maybe as hard as making water tsunami
@@sabriparlakyldz3994 No. Vacuum doesn´t kill you immediately idiot. It takes a long time. You can move in vacuum until you pass out.
I think the reason Zahir was so good without second-hand formal training in bending is because of his already disciplined mind to normal martial arts that allowed him to naturally use his new powers with the forms he already knew as he had utmost confidence in himself. No doubt that he was strong already, so his confidence only increased when he recieved the power of air. This is most likely why he is one of the few self-trained benders is due to his muscle memory naturally combining with....whatever force causes one to bend lol.
Video creator didn't include the fact that Zaheer already had intensive knowledge of Airbender culture. He knew about teachings that most people hadn't heard of.
When you think about it, each bending style has it's own spiritual/emotional challenges that they must overcome, or can fall victim to.
First introduced by Aang's first firebending master Jeong Jeong, fire must be careful of it's passions, or else it will burn across everything, and eventually snuff out everything, including itself.
Water is all about give and take, ebb and flow. The blood moon abilities going to the extremes of control and release. Water isn't something you just swing around, it is a constant rhythm of motion and slipping grip.
Earthbenders are practical, and literally down-to-earth. They can be blunt and stubborn though. Metal-bending meant having to slow down and learn, and to have some give to improve one self, and lava-bending maybe even more so.
Air bending was the calming of a storm. Every single Air bender had the potential to wreak destruction at the slightest whim or turmoil. Imagine just a few Airbender causing a few hurricanes across the world at the same time. They could drastically change the world. They had to measure their Selves and their strengths.
Lava bending I feel would be the most challenging to over come for them, because instead of being head strong and impatient as most earth benders are, you have to slow down and focus on the finest details of the earth, allowing them to create friction within their bonds and in turn, heat up until molten, metal bending just requires patience and awareness of the earth within metals.
I’ve always thought about that symbolism when Toph created metalbending. When punching and striking the box she was in didn’t work she decided to go against the earth bending norms, taking a deep breath and starting to focus. Her focusing on accuracy instead of stubbornness ended up creating the next evolution of earth bending.
I more bending skill-tree short of summoning Captain Planet.
"Gyatso is technically the most lethal known air-bender,even more than zaheer" kinda sad but also amazing
Edit : gyatso is the only known one and avatars don't count,even a pascifist like aang came so close to killing , avatars are forced to kill
Tbf we never saw full adult airbender in original series and bending is different in legend of korra. Where they like screw this we just gonna attack ppl with airbending instead of only when necessary. That's why I think aang is best avatar he stuck to his ways, even when feeling threatened
@Plane Plain we are talking about JUST airbenders
We never saw him fight and we just no he let go of earth things, that just proves he had nothing in life, not that he was powerful
@@Benjaminjames7 he clearly means when he killed off like 50 fire benders before dying himself
@@ricecrispylemon3645 when did he do that?
i know avatar gets a lot of its charm from being family friends but ducking hell how good would an adult versions of avatar be. ripping the blood out of people and freezing their blood and shit. filling their body with air so they explode. so much graphic shit could of been possible lol
It would be mortal kombat
Possible if there is a counteract to the bending like Haki to Fruit user in One Piece. Or else there wouldn't be much action combat for the top tiers fighter.
That is exactly what I was thinking all the time
I first thought blood bending meant stopping their bloodflow or ripping their blood out of their bodies, not controlling them, although even for the controlling it's shown well how painful it is.
@@scr4932 controlling their blood is exactly how bloodbenders move the bodies of their victims. Since Waterbenders can also change fluid to solid and back in the blink of an eye, there's every reason to believe they could freeze blood too, as well as possibly any cell in the human body (cells are generally comprised of 70% water after all). The only thing stopping that from happening is the TV show's rating. ;)
Can we also mention that in real life, air bending would be invisible to the naked eye. you wouldn't see a wind blast coming even if you wanted to, you'd have to sense it or something to even be able to roughly dodge it.
Yes, if an air bender wanted to take someone’s life they definitely could. Monk Gyatso was proof of this, during the attack on the Southern Air Temple he was able to single handle take down dozens of Fire Benders, killing them in the process.
Attacks the airbender could have learnt to use if necesary:
--Instantly throw people miles into the air, only Azula could have survived that
--Spin people around in a tornado, leaving them defenceless just like if you were inside a cube of ice
--Push them back and forth from different directions, making them unable to concentrate
--Using a small but strong air current to slightly move arms and feet, causing their opponents to miss with their bending attacks
--Put dust into their eyes
Enemy's ACCURACY fell!
Now if you want to get deadly air benders could also create crushing force and slicing forces by compressing air to such a point it acts like A solid , generate explosions by manipulating air pressure , this would especially deadly if they did so in an opponents lungs . they can manipulate the weather via Air pressure , they can control sound Possible going infrasonic and popping organs with sound blasts and they can even cause vertigo in other benders with air pressure manipulation , they can't bend if they can't balance and they can't fight if they can't balance.
@Joel Roy That is just an artistic choice, to balance the factions. If airbenders could actually bend air like waterbenders bend water, that would be impossible to stop.
Air sword
pocket sand!
Everyone talking about Zaheer, I’d like to see Meelos fighting style when he grows up. In the lok comic turf wars, he really suggested rioting over peacefully protesting 😂
Another power of airbenders (which would only be unlocked by true masters) is sound bending, as sound is nothing more but vibrations in the air. I've heard it's actually canonical as this (briefly) appears in the official comics. Sound is actually incredibly powerful and a very versatile weapon. A low frequency blast could crumble walls, break bones, or make you sick and lose coordination. It's possible to hit someone through a wall if the frequency is not harmoneous with the wall (think about stem forks. Equal frequence forks will vibrate along with the one struck). In an enclosed space you'd be even more at a disadvantage as they could also amplify high frequency sounds to bounce off of the walls eventually becoming so intense it could kill you (somewhere above 200 db causes fatal injury). Sound amplification appears in some comic too with Yangchen where she was upset and enraged about something (don't remember what, as I've only heard it described in another clip on an airbender's true potential). Unable to unleash it she went to some very noisy coast where she'd eventually scream hear frustration out amplifying it with airbending to such a degree that the ocean split in two.
Zaheer is the most powerful (if not the only) evil airbender in the Avatar universe. He showed us that the airbending can be as dark and deadly as the bloodbending. Like when he killed the queen of the earth kingdom by draining all the air from her body and then, he tried to do the same to Korra in her avatar state. Despite having his powers for a short time and being self taught he was a match against the full-fledged airbending master, Tenzin.
I just realized that when Aang is on his air scooter, we can see the little ball of but his opponents can't they just see him hovering with his legs crossed.
You could probably see all the dust and rocks being picked up.
Airbenders: We’re just about peace and love. We won’t kill because it’s not our way!
Zaheer: Nah, imma head out......
I deeply appreciate getting to the point with information, especially the more basic information (many youtubers draw this out by reexplaining everything). Great source of information, hope the rest are like this!
It’s possible that they became a pacifist nation after one of their own showed just how much raw damage they can inflict. Maybe there was some sort of tragedy somewhere in the past that shaped the amount of training they all have to go through to ensure that they can protect themselves and others from themselves.
Ohhhh oh oh that sounds like a fantastic part of avatar history I would love to see such an event
It was explained that once an airbender would turn evil knowingly, his spirituality would decrease and his abilities as an airbender would fall apart. Zaheer was different, he had his believes and thought that it would bring good to the world. When he saw that he was defeated, he accepted that.
Who else still wanted to be an Airbender even before this video
Me lol
Me
after watching zaheer to be fair...
Me 😎
I always want to even be a Airbender or a earthbender
Finally I have been waiting for this type of theory concerning air bending in avatar and its one of my favourite elements which air is pretty powerful considering in real life what the strong winds of air can do ,its scary. Air is underrated at times which sometimes it's not about power or sheer strength ,avatar the last airbender and legend of korra has proven this several times that I truly respect air bending. Also imagine a acrobat air bender bending air😅😁😜✌Thank you CBR🙏
I just noticed that detail of the firebenders' bodies where Monk Gyatso died today before watching this video (despite watching the series multiple times now). But the fact that there seemed to be no major scorch marks AND it was during Sozen's comet is certainly terrifying to imagine what power he must have shown those firebenders who probably felt invincible ambushing a bunch of pacifists with god like power. That is something I would die to see!
The first thing I heard about Avatar, before I even saw the original show as it was airing, was a short story showing Aang going over to the dark side. He removed air from someone's lungs before forcing a lot of air back in. This burst the lungs, and the character just coughed up a bit of blood before collapsing.
Something I learned from JoJo was that the poison closest to all living things at any given time was oxygen. The current oxygen concentration we have won't kill us but if changed to increase that O2, then we'd be dead in seconds.
The increase won't kill us, getting an 02 tank to breathe more is just more oxygen aka the increase, the lack will because of our air atmosphere is made out of gases like c02, methane, etc
@@noodleshop7468 yeah I mentioned oxygen concentration.
@@guyatwork5527 All matters are poisons with right dosage....even water, salt, CO2, sugar,
@@markfourtwenty9897 yeah. it's just oxygen that's closest to anyone person at any time.
@@guyatwork5527 not just oxygen, all atmospheric gasses are literally in the same distance
If I remember correctly, Aangs air-bending master took down an army of Fire Benders enhanced by Sozens comet by himself before dying.
no need to remember that as exactly this was told in the video ^^
zahir absolutely had tons of knowledge on air bending, even though he didnt have training.
One of the most interesting about air bending is that, in the show, we can see how the air moves. In reality we can't see the air unless there's impurities moving along with it.
This would mean that air bending could be lethal and unnoticeable to a degree.
SPOILERS.
Example of an insane feat of airbending not in the shows, in The Rise of Kyoshi, Master Kelsang mercilessly demolished and entire fleet of 5th nation pirates after they had attempted to expand their territory, singlehandedly, killing much of the leading family as well as all the other pirates. He became so feared amongst the 5th nation that they gave him the nickname “The Living Typhoon”, do to the deadly typhoon he summoned that day. Under the then leader’s rule, they never again attempted to take that territory.
"Airbending SLICE!" -Sokka
All the bending styles have the potential to be more lethal than we give them credit for.
Water bending: Think blood bending is bad? Imagine FREEZING the blood inside you. Instant death.
Earth Bending: A piece of gravel can be as deadly as a bullet.
Fire Bending: Fire Bending is kinda vague, we know it uses generic fire, but also electricity and explosions. But what constitutes as "fire"? Are other types of burning such as oxidation also within the realm of fire bending? Give a fire bender a few lessons in chemistry and see what happens.
For earth bending we even see such a demonstration in the last battle between aang and ozai . Aang chucks rocks at high velocity breaking pillars of rocks . Now that is deadly . And for firebending there is also combustion bending which is very deadly. And yes a few lessons in chemistry and we will see firebenders put everything on fire .😄
In one comment i read that firebenders could have the ability to stop electrical signals from our brain
@@joseffrolik8799 No that would require to focus too much on a small part of our body and the electric signal is too small to sense . So I don't think that's possible. But if they shoot lightning at our head it would do pretty much the same thing .
Kyoshi novels really explore how deadly bending could be, the air, earth and water. I can‘t remember any fatality related to fire.
During the flashback, when Roku and Zosin "fight" the volcano, you can see Zosin directing the heat away from an eruption point, causing it solidify. The technique used looked very similar to lightning redirection. Hypothetically, it should therefore be possible for a firebending master to simply drain the energy from a body literally freezing them to death with firebending, which I find pretty ironic.
I also thought about how air bending can be used in some other ways.
Fire and Lightning/Electricity:
Swirl/move air so fast that particles become charged and produce current and heat/flames.
Return fire by sweeping fire attacks back to senders with huge gusts of wind, fuelling it with more oxygen back to its source.
Considering we watch Zaheer literally do so, yeah scary ass mf’s
and he almost did it to korra until the huge tornado came😭
@Dizi Editleri sorry not interested 🥲
@Dizi Editleri sorry. I’m not really impressed
Tenzin who slammed a few Equalists into a wall with their own ropes: ... Am I a joke to you?!
Imagine if he had more time to train , he really be a force to wrecking with.
Nobody:
Airbenders & Tupac: "I ain't a killer but don't push me"
Great video! I'm curious how an airbender might deal with bloodbending though because that seems impossible to defend against once it starts. Also, let's not forget that waterbenders can extract moisture from the air and maybe turn it into needles or something aerodynamic which can't be countered with airbending. Earthbenders can do metalbending and there are toxic metals in the atmosphere, which, if concentrated into someone's lung, can also kill them. Fire benders can increase humidity or something, but they're at an obvious disadvantage against airbenders. However, lightning can be much faster than airbenders and essentially unblockable. Now, if a firebender manages to blast consecutive lightning bolts or multiple at a time to form a shield around them, I would imagine it would be pretty hard for an airbender to finish the job.
For blood bending, it may be impossible to defend against once it starts the same can be true for air bending if they have the same level of control. Just need to put an air bubble by converging it out of the blood itself and put it in the heart, instant heart attack. The fact the air benders could make an pure air shield/armour against those toxic metals in the atmosphere that will stop that ability from earth benders, and that's if they can even do so since they aren't directly in contact with those particles.
Now lightning can be blocked, but an air bender would need to place ionized/charged air as a spike to draw it in a different direction? Not sure how well that would work however. A total vacuum doesn't stop electricity from crossing. But also in that regard, lightning is a bunch of free electrons and is difficult to product without specific circumstances. Like shuffling against a carpet in socks can do a bit, but is far more effective during the drier winter days than the humid summer ones.
Airbending is extremely flexible and adaptable watching Aang literally handle multiple differnt benders at once already convinced me it was a crazy strong element back when I watched it as a kid.
Let’s be honest: Airbending in the wrong, deadly hands can be lethal as hell, as demonstrated by Zaheer for example. He’s an MMA fighter before having airbending to his arsenal. That’s what makes him so dangerous.
MMA fighter... not so much. A warrior, yes. "MMA fighter" indicates competition.
@@akiraicMMA just stands for ''mixed martial arts'' little bro, MMA fighter doesn't imply competition whatsoever.. By definition, Zaheer literally is an MMA fighter, he uses techniques from all disciplines in his fighting. Idk why you felt the need to argue that tbh
Zaheer is easily the best antagonist in the avatar series standing next to Amon and the *melon lord* 💯💯
Lol better than Amon.
Him going from a nonbender to a master level airbender (though in a non-traditional style) is such a good development
@@333dae Fr 💯
Would love to see him fight prime iroh bumi ozai or azula
@@aarontoocold3137 Fr 💯
I had completely forgotten about this show. But I remember thinking (way back when this was still airing new episodes), that water benders wouldn't be the only ones who could blood bend. Air and earth benders could do so as well. And that air benders could can an immediate embolism in their victim if they so chose.
I'm surprised that Airbending was never explored as a cataclysmic force. With enough power, one could redirect tropical storms and annihilate cities on a whim, compress massive amounts of air into pneumatic bombs, or just fill other people with air until they pop.
Dang, that Thumbnail picture of Kora is scary beyond scary.
Could this make everyone learn from Aang about air bending and not use the techniques mentioned in this video?
I always wanted to see a rundown of what happened in that battle with Gyatso.
You also forgot about one little-shown, but wildly dangerous thing - slashing and piercing blows of focused air. The series has repeatedly demonstrated how densely focused “wind blades”, without any problems, cut right through wood,stone and even metal, and now imagine what would happen if there was human flesh in the place of the stone. Essentially, airbenders were absolute killers, capable of incredibly fast and coordinated movement, instantly changing positions and trajectories, delivering fatal blows capable of cutting stone, sucking air from the lungs, and from a distance, blocking and redirecting almost any objects and attacks, flying( at least with the help of a staff) and I’m not even raising the issue of “mass” techniques like hurricanes and tornadoes. In general, the authors did the right thing by branding them pacifists, because otherwise any airbender would have been a walking death machine.
korra's so creepy in the thumbnail, it's like she's spying outside your door.
Yeah no KIDDING
I think it's the anime crazy face
@@Eric_Smith2662 so creepy, am I right?
I cannot sleep peacefully tonight now.
@@thegachahouse1293 haha
Imagine if Aang didn’t mind killing.
Then Zutara BIGG happen end of story.
mind killing. hm. who'da thunk? airheads. their out of control!
he would just redirect that lightining at ozai and ended it there
If air nomads didn't mind killing,im telling you,they would've ended the war before it even started
@@Ghoulofidiocy2917 the war started on sozin's comet😅 firebenders were too powerful to stop
NGL the animation and choreography is pretty amazing
You make some very compelling points the Airbender might definitely be the best element and the most lethal of all
Tenzin absolutely kicked Zaheers ass, showing us what a true master can really do.
Let's be honest, Tenzin should've defeat Zaheer in two seconds if the later was alone.
@@varric hands down zaheer got whooped so damn hard no amount experience in combat prepared him for that ass whooping.
That's because tenzin have more practised than zaheer be even deflect the four attack of lutos
@@varric 2 seconds? Chill
@@varric Zaheer wasnt a fool, he knew that Tenzin was more experienced than he was in terms of Airbending, so instead of continuously charging at him head on which was a metaphorical death sentence he choose to spend the majority of the fight running and buying time so the rest of the Red Lotus could join him and they could jump him.
Zaheer had air bending knowledge prior to getting air bending. He himself mentioned it.
3:30 “a fight where you opponent cant see or stand straight won’t last very long”
Toph: oh so I can see now?
I would love to see more airbenders like zaheer ! Aggressive airbenders
Now THIS is the truth
No one can denie this.
"A person who can't see or stand straight isn't gonna last very long."
Demoman: "hold my scrumpy"
Another thing that I’ve always found interesting is the fact that you can kinda use air bending to control other elements, like moving boulders, and water, essentially makeshift bending.
Honestly with the new toph season I would really love to know how the air bisons repopluated . Like we saw no other bison in aangs story, but in Kora there is tenzon bison and baby bison. Where did they come from?! Like when did appa have the partner to do the devils tango.
They're a different species of bison.
Appa was the last of his kind. You can see the difference with the brown fur in LOK
Man I would be a airbender if I could
Me too
Same
Theres are minecraft servers for it lol
Ye me too
I won’t be a air bender if wasn’t for Aang and Zaheer
Korra in the thumbnail:
*Don't be shy bend some more*
This was a great video again!
Just one smal critique.
At 8:40 you say the prison built to. Hold earthbenders, but all of. Those are actually waterbenders from katara's tribe.
The woman you Show is hama, the bloodbender
I would even say that Gyatso was able to defend everything, since his clothes are very much intact. He has beaten all the enemies approaching, and afterwards he went to meditate
The airbenders could try to abandon their peaceful ways to display the threat they can possibly inflict, but with the following consequences:
1. All air nomads are airbenders because they have the strongest connections with the spirits by being peaceful. If they abandon this, some of them, or maybe even a lot, will probably lose their airbending.
2. If their airbending won't be gone, it'll be weaker as usual since airbenders have notably kept themselves detached from the world. Holding a grudge would tie them in this "world" and will affect their bending.
3. They will have to use other motivation to drive their bending, just as how firebenders draw theirs from life-giving and energy into desire of violence during the Hundred Year War.
Watch LOK he detached himself from worldly stuff. And that’s how he figured out how to fly.
@Gigamn Yass he didn’t have those air bending beliefs to begin with so for him he wouldn’t suffer.
even thow it is true that bending is tied to there beleafs the bending likely wont be gone completely .
like prince zoko when decided to join the avitar he had to find a new source of bending .
all who had the gift of bending im guessing are the same
Take into account Kyoshi's mother...
@Gigamn Yass he isn't an air nomad to begin with. He's an anarchist bestowed with airbending in his later years so it's a different story.
As a kid watching Avatar before The Legend of Korra came out, I always believed airbenders could take people's breath away. A master in my mind would be able to take out multiple opponents instantly.
The ad before this video had the song „take my breath“ as background music playing I’m not even kidding
Man that air/fire combo to push Ozai always looked so warm to me
Lungs always have a bit of air in them even if we exhale everything (that we think) we've got. Imagine really losing ALL of the air and your lungs sticking together...
To be fair it's not that they are Pasifist but it's that if they aren't they would be lose the strength of their Airbending but yes technically to keep their strength yes they are Pasifist
But imagine if they weren't and their bending style wasnt so spiritually connected like that
Uh zaheer.....
@@PhantomEmperor To be fair that explains y Zaheer was weaker than Tenzin but yeah he really strong
@@randomimagination1172 no it doesnt tenzin is a master airbender, also zaheer recently got his air bending. You also forget zaheer became weightless which is extremely rare, not sure if you paid very close attention to his character.
@@PhantomEmperor isnt the reason zaheer got it is because he lost his girlfriend and therefore lost all earthly teathered and the reason it's rare is because people aren't ready to let go while yes he is fairly powerful it is stated that Kiyoshi mother's airbending got weaker by her not having that spiritual connection so why yes I would agree about your statement its just I thought of this information from that part from Kiyoshi book
@@randomimagination1172 in a way you’re right and in a way that can be over looked. You can still be a master Airbender without spirituality. Look at Zaheer. He just got his bending and was looking like a beast. Train him to become a master Airbender and he would be top notch. The spiritual side to airbending is more a culture thing. Jesa’s air bending became weaker because she tethered her spiritual ways for a life of crime. She defied her culture and her teachings and because of that she was weakened. It’s like if you have a scar and you put a bandaid over it, then your scar will be fine. But if you don’t have that scar to begin with then you don’t need to worry about getting the scar infected. That’s a bad comparison but I hope you get me. But if you don’t have those belief or culture then your bending won’t suffer. Avatar yangchen has killed before, but her Air bending is never stated to have gotten weaker. While spirituality adds to an Airbenders bending, it doesn’t over all determine if they can be stronger than an Airbender who has or doesn’t have a spiritual side.
A lot of people wouln't expect Airbending to be so deadly until Zaheer used it in a way no one had ever seen it be used before
I like the idea of stealthiness for airbenders. Sound and light travels through air, and an Airbender theoretically could bend the air to stop it. No nobody could hear or see you.
Correction: Zahir did have air bending knowledge, he studied the airbenders before being in prison
He also wasn’t the first confirmed air bender to fly. The only reason he knew that he could was because of his studies on the air nomads.
That's why he seemed to pick up air bending so easily. Heck he kind of mentions it in the show too.
Zaheer was an air acolyte before joining the red lotus and if you read the avatar comic they said they train in martial arts similar to air bending
@@thefabledmonkey6664 He was working off of a legend of one person. That's not confirmed anything.
@@thefabledmonkey6664 I never said he was , I’m aware
I appreciate how you use the word " deadly " instead of " powerful "
I knew airbending was incredibly powerful and lethal but I didn't know it was also versatile
imagine if airbenders didn’t have the morals they do or acted like fire benders
That scene where we see monk (not gonna even try to spell his name) remains surrounded by those of the enemies he killed off was my favorite part of the whole series.
im gonna list the special abilities each element has cause I can
water: blood bending, healing, mud bending
fire: lightning, combustion bending (I don't think blue fire counts because its just hotter fire), and jet propulsion(?)
air: flight, spirit (?), general oxygen-go-bye-bye
earth: metal, sand, lava, mud, and someone mentioned, although we don't see it in the show, earthbenders if it wasn't a kids show might've been able to bend matter like bone, although it's just speculation its cool to think about it
with water you can basically immobilize/control your opponent
with fire you can cause mass destruction, burn/electrocute opponents, etc.
with air you can suffocate them aswell as deflect their attacks back at them
and with earth you can basically kill on contact w/ lava, aswell as using the many sub-bending types
Air is vital.
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@@jameswalter584 wtf...
No lie I wished the fire nation could’ve tasted the power of the airbenders
I’ve ALWAYS thought airbending was the best type of elemental bending. It’s the expressiveness and versatility of it. I mean Aang used it, somehow, to have super speed and super jumping. And that’s nothing compared to the other things that are possible. Cooling lava? I didn’t even think of that when Aang did it in episode 14. It’s so cool to watch.
I must've THOUGHT I finished Korra. I remember Korra last doing something to allow spirits to visit the real world. I thought that was the end, now realizing how long ago this was. I have to re watch because after looking through episodes, I can't remember anything.
Thanks for making me re-visit my childhood
Imagine if an airbender put more than enough air in your lungs and make your lungs collapse
Or just crushed your chest with air..
One theory is that Gyatso removed all air from the tent, suffocating everyone in it. Could be possible.