Unfair comparison. Firebender's were empowered by Sozin's comet and 100x as powerful. No one could, or did, stand a chance against an army of comet-empowered firebenders.
I think 10 Airbenders vs. 10 Firebenders on a normal day would result in Airbender victory.
I pick my second choice: air, the element of freedom... Besides, with my head shiny head and peaceful ways, Im only one severally painful tattoo away from looking the part. I would choose earth but I have a feeling this would happen:
In reply to Freelancer05, #8017: To be fair, the air nomads didn't have a formal military; Sozin defeated them by ambush.
Airbending is pretty good for everything except for fighting. Unless you want to dodge your enemy until he gets tired.
Traditional airbending is entirely defensive, you are right. But if you were to just be an airbender with no ties to the ethics or spiritual nature of the Air Nomads, you could be a pretty brutal fighter.
I mean, you could very easily collapse your opponent's lungs and watch them suffocate. Or pull all the oxygen from their brain and cause them to black out. Think the bloodbender, there are plenty of ways to use bending beyond the traditional techniques.
Not necessarily. To blood bend you need to be a master level bender and under most circumstance it has to be at night with a full moon. My own bullshit theory as to why bending doesn't work on people that way normally is that their internal chi flow obstructs your own interference. You would have to be some god level bender to bend the air out of someone's lungs, and you couldn't do it out of their blood since at the point it isn't air, just oxygen molecules. Also, there is no known catalyst for super airbender (like the moon, sun, or sozens comet) so I don't think that's a reasonable argument.
In reply to Baraxis, #8038: From my understanding, bending depends both a physical and spiritual side, to varying degrees depending the element. Imo, air-bending is very spiritual and, as such, an air-bender who is not spiritual/free cannot be a proficient air bender. Take Korra for example, expert bender; fiery personality, fiery bender. However, despite having the physical talents down, she can't bend a puff of air as she hasn't the spiritual aspect down. Thus she is yet to have grasped the even the basic concepts behind it, despite trying her entire life (presumably).
Also: I don't think they could pull oxygen from the brain, just as they can't bend water, which contains dissolved oxygen. Airbender could bend, say, ice cream because it has in (free)air, maybe soda, because it has in (free)air but not water despite having plenty of dissolved gases. Colloids & suspensions vs. solutions.
Lastly, the air pressure required for collapsing lungs would be phenomenal; remove the air from the area, sure, crush lungs? It would be like a water-bender making a person explode, too crazy for one person to do alone.
Lol wut? Airbending is Good for EVERYTHING including Fighting as you can knock him away and then play with his body with just simple movements.
Water beats everything, even if it takes a while.
I chose Airbending, but god damn it Freelancer, that post made me lose my shit.
Stating Water is the mostest superiorest element in the whole wide world... est.
I live in Nebraska. I would feel screwed over if water was my element.
Y'all don't have like taps? I hear those things produce water. Enough to at least choke a bitch.
You somehow manage to avoid dying of dehydration though.
Post edited 4/05/12 2:50PM
Unfair comparison. Firebender's were empowered by Sozin's comet and 100x as powerful. No one could, or did, stand a chance against an army of comet-empowered firebenders.
I think 10 Airbenders vs. 10 Firebenders on a normal day would result in Airbender victory.
the only reason they were able to do that was with Sozin's Comet otherwise the Firebenders would have had to go home like the bitches they are.
My point is as opposed to the other elements, I'd be limited to what's in my water bottle.
Typical Firebender, cocky about their abilities even though they got their asses kicked by one 12 year old airbender.
He was the AVATAR though. And a main character.
And the Firebenders were empowered by Sozin's comet during that time. Unfair advantage vs. unfair advantage still means AIRBENDER VICTORY.
Yeah, only because you fuckers have the most land.
Watertibes = 2 cities.
Fire Nation = some islands.
Air Temples = 4 fucking temples.
Earth Kingdom = THE FUCKING WORLD.
Technically Water Tribe has both poles, but they've chosen to only build the two cities.
This is what happens when you spend all day sledding with penguins.
Penguins are clearly the ruination of civilization.
Would you really want to build more cities in an environment like that?
Don't be ridiculous, the Water Tribe doesn't have money!
Yes. I would in fact rather live in a city, than a tent. Call me crazy, like that, I'm just way out there!
In reply to Freelancer05, #8033:
Though you'd think a waterbending female would be more valuable... Hmm
Get back in the
kitchenMedical Tent!!"Bitch, I want some seaprune soup!"
Besides, with my head shiny head and peaceful ways, Im only one severally painful tattoo away from looking the part.
I would choose earth but I have a feeling this would happen:
In reply to Freelancer05, #8017:
To be fair, the air nomads didn't have a formal military; Sozin defeated them by ambush.
I mean, you could very easily collapse your opponent's lungs and watch them suffocate. Or pull all the oxygen from their brain and cause them to black out. Think the bloodbender, there are plenty of ways to use bending beyond the traditional techniques.
Post edited 4/05/12 9:49PM
Not necessarily. To blood bend you need to be a master level bender and under most circumstance it has to be at night with a full moon. My own bullshit theory as to why bending doesn't work on people that way normally is that their internal chi flow obstructs your own interference. You would have to be some god level bender to bend the air out of someone's lungs, and you couldn't do it out of their blood since at the point it isn't air, just oxygen molecules. Also, there is no known catalyst for super airbender (like the moon, sun, or sozens comet) so I don't think that's a reasonable argument.
From my understanding, bending depends both a physical and spiritual side, to varying degrees depending the element. Imo, air-bending is very spiritual and, as such, an air-bender who is not spiritual/free cannot be a proficient air bender. Take Korra for example, expert bender; fiery personality, fiery bender. However, despite having the physical talents down, she can't bend a puff of air as she hasn't the spiritual aspect down. Thus she is yet to have grasped the even the basic concepts behind it, despite trying her entire life (presumably).
Also: I don't think they could pull oxygen from the brain, just as they can't bend water, which contains dissolved oxygen. Airbender could bend, say, ice cream because it has in (free)air, maybe soda, because it has in (free)air but not water despite having plenty of dissolved gases. Colloids & suspensions vs. solutions.
Lastly, the air pressure required for collapsing lungs would be phenomenal; remove the air from the area, sure, crush lungs? It would be like a water-bender making a person explode, too crazy for one person to do alone.
In reply to gosimmons, #8018:
Or whatever you can sweat out of your body. Sweat's just Waterbender ammunition you have to work harder to gain access to.
Sounds like it'd be faster to pull a Blood Mage like Dragon Age.
(blood's easier to bend once it's outside of your body right?)
Sure, until you pass out from the blood loss that is....
Ay if water can heal, so should blood.
Take the little that I need, and patch up my hand with the excess. ^^