he forgot 1 thing , the wall that ghazan crumbled was the wall seperating the inner circle to the outer circle which i think is thinner than the outer wall that acctually protects Ba Sing Se
Uncle Iroh even mentioned in ATLA that his “Lightning Redirection” technique that he taught Zuko was self learned by studying Waterbending techniques, probably the 1st direct reference of “Bending Hybridization” in the series
@@notfunny5018 I think he's talking about *how* they bent the ice, rather than the fact that they bent the ice in the first place. Sure, pretty much every waterbender can control ice, but earthbending techniques are able to be applied to it.
@@notfunny5018 Bending Hybridization doesn't always have to result in a new technique. I can see how you think it isn't, but the most iconic move of earthbending, in my opinion, is bringing a chunk of earth from the ground, and then punching or kicking it at the enemy.
I loved Bolin getting Lavabending at the end of TLOK Book 3. He kept getting embarrassed not being able to metalbend, so inheriting a much rarer ability, with the added benefit of being the one thing able to save them in that tunnel situation, felt like an earned payoff for a character that had been sidelined as comic relief, seemingly less important/useful than the rest of "Team Avatar" for most of the prior episodes.
Yeah, Bolin started out as a simple goof, yet ended propably getting the most powerful Earthbending Sub Skill to date. It really gave him a strong respect for the character. Who needs to bend metal, when you could bend something that is molten rock, which would likely melt metal. Bolin got a great deal, no doubt he could pretty be much more powerful than any Metal Bender (baring Toph, who pretty much learned to conect with the Earth as a whole, but still Lava Bending is just awesome).
@@killme1389 To my knowledge, she never tried. That being said, knowing how in tune she was with the earth, and given how fast she picked up the other earthbending niches (invented metalbending, mastered sandbending in a day), I don't see any reason as to why she couldn't. The only issues I could potentially see is that she can't directly touch the lava, like she can the other forms of earth, and touch makes up a big part of her skillset. But I definitely think she could if she had tried.
@@noahsteiner5052after atla toph had lots lf students,one of them was accepted because he showed lavabendint to toph,that was when toph wasnt even an adult,she definitively knew about lavabending,idk why she didnt try it
Honestly i was excited about the setup, it was clear that Bolin was going to learn something cool, but in a series where abilities are based on specific techniques and training, it felt kind of lazy that he figured it out on the spot with no training just because he had to.
Thr fact that it was Bolin that untapped his ability to lava bend was one of the highlights of both series for me. No better person could have been gifted with such a powerful bending ability
Aside from the Avatar, Bolin is the only real strong character in the Avatar team. If Korra's team goes against Aang's team, Bolin is the only one really putting up much of a fight.
Confront a water bender with an icy wasteland and they eventually learn to bend ice. Throw an earth bender in to a lava filled volcano and they'll most likely die first. This is probably why there aren't many lava benders.
"Lava bending" is impossible in our atmosphere. It requires 2,000℃ of energy under the earths crust to create magma. Lava benders need something special to be able to do that, which would have to be their mixed genes.
@@BhBc8f8 While it is not physically feasible this is a world where people shoot lightning out of their hands, I don’t think feasibility is an issue for lavabending. The creators of the show have stated previously that they don’t really buy the whole bending comes from genetics thing so to say that lavabending is genetic would go against their philosophy. Personally, I view lavabending as icebending for earth benders. The ability to control the state of matter that your element is in. A better example would be fog generation by water benders, going up a state of matter. But where water is the element of change, earth is the element of stability. Water wants to change, earth resists. This is the factor at play here, you have to not be a traditional earth bender and be willing to flow, only then can you unlock lava.
@@stahpg5430 I haven't found any article or videos where the creators ever said that but if they did that wouldn't make any sense. A water bender got with a non bender and had Katara. Aang got with a water bender and had kids with both types of bending. Tenzin got with a non bender and had 3 airbenders. There shouldn't be any doubt at this point that your ability to bend an element is heavily reliant on the genetics of your parents. Almost all Water benders we've seen on both shows can turn water into ice. Katara was able to control fog as easily as breathing after Aang brought up the idea. There are only 3 people on both shows who can turn Earth into Lava. Lava bending is common knowledge and isn't banned like blood bending and yet only 3 people in 160 years, that shows how rare the ability is. It shows that it's not something you can be taught by a master earth bender. Not even Toph can do it. A million earth benders could have the same personality type or the same "flow" as Bolin and still wouldn't be able to lava bend. what makes Bolin so special, what makes him stand out from the rest? His location? his personality? his upbringing? his training?...or his heritage? Occam's Razor: The simplest answer is often the correct one.
I agree that lava bending is similar to water benders changing water from liquid to solid. I always figured that the reason lava bending is so much rarer is that water only needs to change ~30 C (60F), whereas turning earth to lava would require 1000C (2000F) temperature changes, and thus be much more difficult
Well when you think about it, for water all you have to do is slow the water molecules, for lavabending, you speed them up. I don't think it's rare because it's hard, but I think it's because people don't think of that.
Chris Brown To turn ice into water you have to speed up molecules, so people have obviously thought of it. Not to mention the White Lotus have already seen Gazan lava bend when they fought him and put him in prison. Why didn’t they just do it too if it’s not difficult and they know it’s possible
Metal bending requires the highest level of traditional earth bending (toph being the best example as her fighting style is based around waiting before acting and staying in one spot) but bolin’s fighting style AND life style goes against traditional earth bending (because his fighting style is based around making the first move and his personality is usually hyperactive) so him being able to do lava bending makes sense to me
i dont think the personality is matter! toph was blind so she must to wait for the oppenet! bolin was an arena fighter so he must to attack first also i think metal bendig is the purest form of the eart bending and lava bending is a fused form with some fire bending essence!
@@gipsymelody1268 I think personality does play into it a bit for utilizing it. I'm sure many Airbenders could rip the air from someone's lungs, but most lacked the mentality to do it. But Bolin had the right combo of genetics and personality to lavabend since he is more light footed and has to think fast.
@@firepuppies4086 airbenders not do this cause of their culture! They was very pacifist folks! Even they was vegetarians and not eat meat (but drink milk and other things)
@@gipsymelody1268 a culture that influenced personality. Keep in mind how Monk Gyatso was found. He was already a bit of a wild card for how he was with Aang, but there was no sign of burning around him, and he was surrounded by dead Fire Nation Soldiers... what do you think killed them all?
Lavabending is about "going with the flow." Ghazan and Bolin are both thieves with roguish pasts they don't seem to take the lead in their teams but are very good at cooperating with their leader this is the key reasons they can lavabend it's part of their personality. Lavabending is like waterbending turning ice into water or back. Rock/earth is the solid state, lava is the liquid state. It's just that water from ice is cold while lava from earth is hot. They can be go with the flow but also harden at will and return aggressively with full control of it. You need to be both a master of being hard and soft at the right time.
@@izukumidoriya-qg8lu Spoiler!!!!! If you aren't a God of Highschool webtoon reader and are anime only!!! Not if you have the 4 fundamental forces of nature. Strong force, Weak force, gravity and electromagnetism
As an earth bender, I’m not surprised Bolin carried the whole show. He’s literally my favourite character, and have you seen his face? Adorable. Talented? Sweet? Kind person? Cutie? Has values? A hard worker? Family guy? A strong bender? People should have been respecting Bolin.
Another reason why I think Bolin is able to lava bend besides heritage is his upbringing. Bolin is the younger brother so he had Mako to look up to and they are two different types of bending with no formal schooling. Bolin bends lava like a firebender, learning from Mako.
This is such a cool idea and yet another example of korra being very disappointing and lame. Bolin couldve gotten energy from his breathing to turn earth into lava like how firebenders make fire. Mako couldve maybe tried to teach firebending to bolin when they were really young and he kept the breathing to heart, which could also be why he cant metalbend. Maybe using breathing makes you not rigid enough for it.
That's true but also if you look up what Lavabending is based off of, it Bājíquán which is power generation (fajin or explosive power). Or alot of force. Almost like a jumper needing to generation alot of force into the ground to dunk. Now imagine earthbending alot of force into the ground and bending it. Makes since for a brother of a firebender.
This actually makes sense...I mean lava is basically the combination of fire and earth....the only way an earthbender would be able to do it would be if they studied firebending in tandem with earthbending
As a geologist student let me say it loud and clear: lava bending would be the most terrifying and most dangerous ability for the bender and for those it is used against. It's like water bending but with the punch of earth (trice the density) and the heat of the hottest of fire (+1000°C). Not to mention all the nasty fumes solved in molten rocks (HCl; H2S; HF; CO2 and Co). Try to rapidly cool it down, you create a phreato-magmatic explosion, turning the molten rock into a hot cloud of tiny glass shards (volcanic ash). If we apply some real life logic to the show, you could counter lava bending by fighting a lava bender on ground not easily turned into lava at surface conditions e.g. limestone, clays. Other than that, it was nice knowing you.
isn't there also a phenomenon of volcanic lightning? just imagine an avatar who actually turns into a villain, plunging the world into darkness and chaos. so many OP abilities that an avatar can master, not just the main 4 elemental ones.
another counter would be to attack the lava bender with not easily turned into lava stones, so his naturel response- turning it into lava, will fail and gives you enough time to stun him
what do you think of diamond bending? that still falls under earth bending, right? but like a special kind of earth bending because it's a very specific composition of carbon. diamond bending out of thin air would be so OP, like you can make shards of diamonds from the carbon in the air and whatever you can scrounge up from the surrounding soil :D
I personally think lava isn’t the fusion of fire and earth, but rather the reverse of metal. A metal bender should be refined and disciplined, while lava should be creative and messy. Metal is the most refined form of earth, while lava is the most primal.
There arent (to my knowledge ) any examples of genetics between two separate benders contributing to a special or unique for of bending. So being the child of a fire bender shouldn't effect your usage of earthbending. That's like saying the avatar can use all the elements but mix breeding allows some liberties to normal benders. Although genetics plays a part in a benders abilities and potential I simply believe the bending is the usage of a singular element.
That used to be the theorie also ever noted that bolin and the other dude are much agiler than other earth benders? to move rocks you have to stay strong but nether of these too does it for long they are quick and messy like you said
I really like your theory!! Especially when you consider that when Bolin first used lava bending, he switched into a primal protective instinct (along w his majorly undisciplined character)
Bolin is one of the best characters in the whole Avatar story. The fact that he was ready to sacrifice himself to give his brother and others a lttle more time to maybe save themselves, is one big proof.
They did this in LOK, not much but it is shown to exist as a possibility/technique. The only reason I doubt it is used more is it is a cruel/horrifying way to kill/incapacitate someone, going completely against air bending philosophy/air nomad culture. Which is why we only ever saw a villain do it. And why we probably won't see it again, unless we get some kind of anti-hero character who can also air bend (unlikely).
@@jonathanward9584 oh oh and imagine if those air benders increases the air density into their enemy body or insides. I'm pretty sure they'll explode into pieces LMAO
@@leyrua I mean creating vacuums in the sense that you pull the air out of someones lungs like Zaheer did to the Earth queen and Korra etc by creating a vacuum around just their heads, or literally suffocating them. Also no I wouldn't consider aang pulling objects toward himself the same as creating a vacuum. He was just manipulating the air around those objects so they are "blown" towards him. That's different than air bending the air out of a persons body and killing them using a vacuum like effect.
I feel like lava bending comes from adapting from one’s environment. Earthbending in the past has usually been almost limitless as the ground underneath them has always been used by earthbenders to fight. But for Bolin, when he was fighting in the arena, he doesn’t have a massive amount of earth to play with, only small disks. He couldn’t fight like a traditional earth bender, but needed to adapt to reserve his resources and use earth with precision like how a water bender would need to learn how to reserve their water when not around a body of it. Bolin learned how to analyse earth as if it was a liquid form because of how he was brought up to change his style of earthbending. Look at Bolin fight. He doesn’t fight moving like how we see earthbenders should. He moves more like a water bender. With the style of earthbending changed, a different type of bending can be formed. Don’t believe me? Look at the sand benders in ATLA. They moved like airbenders instead of earthbenders. Their environment lacked hard earth so they learned to adapt with the light sand and bent that instead in a more fluid air-like motion. Bolin has adapted the same way while being an Earthbender, using his resources like how a water bender would, and firebenders. Bolin managed to merge the concepts of the earth element, the fluid-ness of waterbending, and the heat of fire benders while fighting in the arena. Bolin already mastered the techniques required for him to lavabend, but it was at a particular moment where he had to try or die where he gave it his all and learned to bend the earth elements in lava and deconstruct earth into lava and move it like water. This could only have happened in a person who has mastered and adapted to the bending styles of other martial arts while being an earth bender.
I think it was a missed opportunity to have a scene where Kuvira tried to convince Bolin to use his lavabending powers in a particularly destructive way.
Well if you see how some fire benders end up losing their control. They end up burning others. So if lava bending was to ever lose control it could end up very badly. Now with blood bending if they could freeze the water in the blood then the person would likely have more frostbite. Though I believe it should be a challenging thing for a blood bender and it would be more of a slower process. If you wanted to balance the way benders can bend so that there isn't just 1 overpowered character. And who knows what would happen if someone knew chemistry and started bending. Like for example if earth benders bended silicon or if water benders bended hydrogen and if air benders bended oxygen. Water benders would be able to get rid of hydrogen bonds. which would be kinda crazy if you ask me. As well as lightning bending would be very powerful. if you could change the direction of the lightning.
I've said it before, and I'll mention it again. Ghazan's movements seem to mimic Volcanoes, the only natural form of lava. Given his Polynesian-like tattoos, he seems to be an islander, and if so, that perhaps gives him his source for lavabending's movements: Volcanoes. Flowing pyroclastic rushes, Hurled half-molten rocks and rapid upward blasts of Superheated Stone. I believe true lavabending, as the art, can only be created by studying volcanic activity; As dangerous a source for tutelage as the element itself.
I agree with most of it, but because of the few true lava benders, I don't think it's safe to assume it has something to do with the bender's parents. Maybe the technique uses the flow of waterbending and the heat of fire bending and that's why we only see it after the cultural exchange of Republic City. It makes more sense with the lore of the show.
I don't think it has anything to do with being descendants of earth and fire benders, its purely an earth sub-bending ability. Bending abilities don't mix, otherwise the avatar wouldn't be anything special. The ability to change earth into lava is just temperature manipulation, lava is molten EARTH. So earth benders can heat up earth by moving the earth so much it creating friction. Like water benders phase changing water into ice (and vice versa). Its just temperature control. Lava may be hot but its not fire. Then by that logic a fire bender should be able to bend boiling hot water, but its still water, not fire lol. I think its such a rare ability because changing the temperature to such a drastic degree is insanely difficult for most average earth benders
Gonna be honest I like LOK but IMO the biggest injustice of that show was the fact that we never get literally anything on the history of the red lotus. Would have been so cool to learn how Ming-Hua developed her armless waterbending, how Ghazan learned he could lavabend, how P'li learned she could combustionbend, and how good of a fighter Zaheer was before he got airbending. They drop a line here or there mentioning their backstory but it never gets fleshed out and I so wish we could have learned more about them
ToonGabe might be a good reason to get a set of comics on these guys. Get one for each red lotus member and their past that brought them to were they were in lok.
@Meta Man debatable, as seen on atlk bloodbending(water) trumps every element if one was to fight 1 on 1, aang even needed to be in avatar state just to break free from it, you can bend air if you cant move fiber of you being(anatomically correct because blood runs on every organ and even inside bones).
@Meta Man you are focusing on the fact that we breathe oxygen, well general chemistry tells that an element can be in various states, nitrogen as you say can be a liquid or a gas or even solid, water bending is being able to manipulate the element of water or combination of water and something else such as sea water(water + salt) while airbending is manipulating the containment(pressure) and flow of air, as seen on the animated series airbending cannot be used to target specific element but only specific cluster of it such as the cluster of air in the lungs. General chemistry and literal reference from the animated series truly disagrees with your theory.
@Meta Man Also with enough creativity an airbender can actually be a pseudo avatar as they can bend the air and winds to make it appear they are bending the other elements like for example earthbending the airbender can launch a very pressurized wind slash at a boulder or something and make a fast enough wind current to launch it at a target
I object as water is the opposite of fire which causes wounds so Fire: wounds Water: healing Airbenders are really spiritual so it makes sense for them to project their spirit but lava bending is a sub element of earth ( lava is just molten rock) but its burning like fire
I think Yun's (from the Avatar Kyoshi book's) style of Earthbending is largely a precursor to lava-bending. Kyoshi describes it as "melting earth down into a liquid-like element" that he's able to use in very waterbender-style manipulations.
It could also be very constructive in the Avatar world think of the building potential I mean users can literally control liquid rock and shape it at will you have lava Benders work together with metal benders and oh my God all I'm saying using it for fighting is a complete waste what about just going around and creating roads say you want to your own private island will you take a lava Bender out somewhere on a boat and point and go I want an island there then damn you have an island it's such a terrifying power that realistically even with all the other types of bending no one should want to fight that but it is so many other applications that the guy with that ability should be so rich that he shouldn't have to worry about fighting
What this speaks to me of is bender's with the ability to excite the atoms within their element. This wouldn't just stop at earth into lava. But, theoretically Water benders could create boiling water. Air benders could create massive storms by exciting the air to create massive pressure differentials. Fire benders could theoretically use super hot oxygen trails to create oxygen bombs. This opens up pretty much Nuclear capabilities for benders.
@@d4s0n282 katara did it in the final azula fight! she boiled the ice into water! but maybe only the water benders can do this without extra ! also water benders is the most disadvantaged benders so probably because of this (super felxibility adaptions!) air and fire has extremly advantages earth too but because of the civilization they lose more and more! :S
It’s not that difficult to understand, is it? Waterbenders are able to change the state of water as well as control these different states. We see Katara bend water vapor, liquid water, and ice. And we also see her CREATE these, which means waterbenders can control the temperature of their element. Therefore an earth bender can bend lava because it is just hot earth. They are just changing the temperature.
(Just gonna copy paste my comment here) For the love of god why don't people understand this? The Avatar is the only person who can bend more than one element. At no point in the show does anyone bend more than one element, and the writers would have to be braindead to give another group of individuals this ability (as it would undermine the very core premise of the Avatar and thus the entire show). Both fire and waterbenders can control the temperature of their element. It stands to reason both earth and airbenders can do this as well. There are literally thousands of people in Republic City with the same background as Bolin. Perhaps even tens of thousands. Why aren't they lavabending? I mean hell with this logic in one or two hundred years there will be dozens of avatars born in Republic City, if not hundreds. The only reason it appears to be mixing elements is because Avatars have a history of lavabending. They are simply uniquely capable because they can combine the core lavabending technique with their firebending (something completely separate). This additional heat plus the massive power boost of the Avatar State is what makes them far more capable. An example of using firebending to manipulate earth on a smaller scale that exists in the show that completely works is Mako melting a section of a metal bar on a cell. He was firebending it for hours. Imagine what an Avatar could do with the Avatar State and on ordinary rock, something far softer. And if you are looking for almost the reverse of this, of Earthbending fueling firebending, here's an example that would work. If a firebender was surrounded by lava, they would get stronger. Firebenders draw from sources of heat, mainly the sun. But others work, such as Sozin's Comet. Also, P'li was unable to firebend in a freezing cave showing the reverse effect weakens them. By this video's logic, a Firebender drawing from that heat would be considered Earthbending. It's not.
@@quinnmcgee7323 Exactly, so only extremely powerful Earthbenders or those with a more unique mindset and more prone to a fluid style of Earthbending would develop the skill.
In my opinion, lava bending isn’t really comparable to water in the way you describe. While ice and vapor bending is a thing, I think the way it works is that it’s just compressing or dispersing the particles themselves, since we’ve never seen water bending being used to boil or generate scalding water
I think the only example of true lava is something that needs to be found.That said the only reason I think the avatar could lava bend was because of combining earth and fire techniques. Bolin and ghazon both can do what the avatar could but better and more precise.
oh yeah combustion is also really powerful, in fact each element has their own 'super-ability'. water - blood, earth - lava, fire - combustion, air - asphyxiation.
Ghazan is an exceptional bender, a true bending master, like all of the red lotus, so I guess just as Uncle Iroh learned to redirect lightning while studying waterbenders, Ghazan may have learned to bend lava. After all, lava is basically earth at another temperature, and besides, he was always in the company of a great waterbender (Ming-Hua), so it would make sense that their proximity would give Ghazan some basis for "liquid earth" bending.
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As you said in your "waterbending is overpowered" video, Korra was able to outperform two earthbenders during the battle against Kuvira's mech, by freezing a portion of the leg, then striking to topple it. Overpowered, because of a phase shift. Additionally, the red lotus lavabender was capable of _singlehandedly_ penetrating the walls of Ba Sing Se, using lavabending. Overpowered, because of a phase shift. Coincidence? I thonk not, after all, in the words of guru pahtik: "The greatest illusion in this world is that of separation. Even the four elements are not separate, four parts of the same whole" I wonder what airbending techniques could be created by compressing or cooling gases: liquid nitrogen is deadly, and most of the atmosphere is nitrogen.
or by cooling fire... we know that heating it can cause blue flame and lightning, but none of them ever thought to go the other way... cooler flames require less energy, can produce greater volume. but at what point would it stop being firebending? Iroh could heat up his tea directly... could someone say, firebend straight hot air? given practice and enough time could they form an airbending deviation?
@@jordanteslapainsake6657 more like Heatbending. That could power a hot air balloon for months with how little energy it takes; maybe even an aiship with only a five-to-ten-man crew, airborn for years at a time with enough rations.
Just Some Jersey Devil With Internet Access well we know, or at least based on theory, how powerful phase shifting air bending can be not by compressing gases but decompressing them. The evidence is there to suggest that Monk Gyatso was capable of decompressing air to the point of creating a vacuum. Getting rid of the air means theres no fuel for fire and makes fire bending impossible. Thats why in the room where Gyatso’s body was found, there were dozens of bodies of Fire Benders around him, but with no visible damage. Thats also dozens of Fire Benders fuelled by Sozin’s comet who were not able to leave a single scorch or burn mark anywhere in the surrounding area. Why? Because they couldn’t make fire in a vacuum. The only issue was that the vacuum Gyatsu created was a bubble centred around him meaning he was caught in the middle of it too. We see a much more basic version of this from Zaheer who creates a decompressive bubble around people’s heads which literally sucks all the air out of their lungs to try and rectify the pressure balance. If we were to reverse engineer this to compression ad you were talking about, I suppose it would then be possible to form techniques that create sonic booms from dramatic shifts in pressure that blow out people’s ears and cripple their equilibrium, throwing them off balance which as we see in Zuko’s duel with Zhao, can dramatically inhibit your bending ability in an encounter
Airbending has the least amount of variants because the culture that practices it are pacifist monks that isolate themselves from society. However the second generation Airbenders are more likely to create new techniques and variants, Zaheer had already figured how to use Air as a lethal weapon with his suffocation technique for example.
2:54 There's actually a third moment Avatar Roku uses lava bending. In the episode Team Avatar first goes to Roku's island, Roku's spirt comes to save them. We see Roku's spirit lift his hand and the next shot cuts to pools of lava rising through the temple, destroying it. It the first time we actually see lava bending in the series.
it irritates me that they showed a clip of the exact episode right before they bring up the other 2 instances only to not mention the first time lava bending is ever seen
That's freaking scary seriously what if a sociopathic mass murdering manic had their hands on Lava bending, also I'm glad you got your first channel back Slice.
@Que eso? Es música I mean Gazhan did not come off like that though I'm talking about someone who kills for fun and enjoys the torment of others Gazahn was following the red lotus' revolutionary/anarchic ideals
Metalbending supports this theory, because it was considered impossible until Toph figured it out then she began teaching the practice all over the place, 70 years later Metalbending is considered something that any basic Earthbender can figure out given the right teacher because the practice and teaching of it have been refined and passed down for decades. Lavabending would eventually be the same if Bolin began teaching others how to do it.
I honestly doubt that. We have only seen 2 real lavabenders and though we don't know the origin of the other lavabender I find it interesting that Bolin just so happen to be in a family where firebending AND earthbending have combined. We know for a fact that Bolin's dad was an earthbender (Or was it the mom? doesn't matter) and that his other parent was a fire bender since his brother is a firebender..and I think that is the key to his ability. It is the combination of firebending and earthbender that makes it possible. The same reason the avatar is capable of lavabending since they know both elements. The earthbending have somehow gotten infused with the firebending in a minor fasion making the earthbending capable of controlling the heat of the rocks alongside the rocks themself.
@@bibbobella That "fire + earth = lava" theory is pointless nonsense, fire literally has nothing to do with lava. Lava is just very hot ground there's no fire in it, waterbenders control the temperature of water and turn it into ice or steam flawlessly without needing any fire bender parents, an Earth bender can control the temperature of ground until it turns into lava it's just that the practice is very uncommon. If the theory that earthbenders need a firebender parent to lavabend had any merit then waterbenders would also need a firebender to bend evaporated water which is very clearly not the case.
When the metal benders saw him bend lava they should had said "I quit, he just bend lava, LAVA! But of course you other guys trained to fight a lava bender right?"
And taking into account the general traits of each of the elements, it makes sense why water benders can phase shift their element the easiest because water is the most versatile of the elements, and earth bending is the most rigid of the element. Fun to think about 😊
Bender can manipulate the temperature of the element they’re bending like turning water to ice or turning fire to blue fire, that’s why you can turn Earth to lava, it completely makes sense because lava is just heated rock.
Exactly. Thats why the earth is always spinning or moving when they are creating the lava from individual rocks because they ate adding pressure to increase the temperature
I also noticed that known lavabenders have a connection to the elements of earth and fire. For example Bolin has fire nation mother and earth kingdom father. There are other lavabenders like Ghazan, and the boy Toph met in the comics, but we do not know anything about they’re ancestors so we can’t be entirely sure if this is the case. I have also noticed that the only avatars that have lavabended were born earth benders or fire benders.
the only thing I'll never agree with is that to lavabend you need fire nation/fire bender blood Come on, theres no such thing as one people bending more than one element unless they are the avatar. If anyone tries to argue that fire bending blood is necessary to a earth bender to lava bend, or that lava bend is a combination of 2 elements, that one didnt watched the series at all
Well, what an earthbender does is move the earth molecules fast enough to turn the potential energy into kinetic energy in order to produce such energy release that soil turn into lava.
It's not farfetched at all. Actually, it's the only real explanation. No one has been able to do it along from the Avatar, because for so long the cultures have been separated. Not to mention the Avatar blends elements together all the time. In Legends of Korra life is different, they live in a new time of cultural mixing. It is not unlikely, for a sub brand of earth bending to form due to someone having a firebending bloodline. Toph and Bumi are the GREATEST earth benders of all time. If a regular earth bender could do it naturally, these two should have no problem performing lava bending. But they can't. Making it only plausible that they don't have the genes to do so.
I think you've been mistaken pretty heavily here. Bolin can't bend fire and earth. Bolin is an earth-bender and only that. If anyone else than Avatar can master multiple elements in future series, I won't continue watching. Its kind of the point of the whole series. Just listen to the intro of ATLA. However, I do find this UA-camr's idea interessting. Bolin has both firebender and earthbender blood within him. This doesn't make him be able to bend both elements, but It is a cool concept. Bolin can only bend earth. Lavabending is a subskill of earthbending. But we are talking about insanely hot lava. If you think about it, lava is just earth mixed with the hotness of fire. Mixed blood would make perfect sense in this scenario. If you have firebender-blood in you, you can't automatically bend fire, but maybe you have the essence or (idk, lets just call it magic), of a firebender. Bolin will never ever ever be able to fire bend. He is an earth-bender, and an earth-bender only But it is sick if fireblood and earthblood would be the key to lava bend.
@@-Mxfia- The appearance of Lava-Benders has more to do with how Pro-bending merged various bending forms together and the drift away from the traditional mindset and applications of bending than it does with genetics. Think about it, our main cast consists of a fiery waterbender, a stoic fire bender, and an emotional earthbender. None of them fit perfectly within the traditional mindsets each bending discipline requires, which has made their bending a lot more unconventional. For example, Mako's focus and discipline makes Lightning Generation far easier for him than traditional firebenders, whose passion often makes it difficult for them to empty their mind and focus. Bolin follows this trend. His mentality means that he is incapable of metalbending, which is a form of earthbending that requires even more willpower. Yet it also means that he has a far more instinctual grasp of lavabending, which requires adaptability and fluidity that the more rigid mindsets of traditional earthbending has trouble dealing with. It's why Toph can't metalbend, because lavabending requires an earthbender to avoid thinking like an earthbender. This is backed up by the fact that Ghazan and Bolin seemed to have similar personalities; both being quite laid back and having a sense of humor.
@@quizzlybear my counter argument is that what defines you in the dominant gene from your family so for example you have blue eyes and your mom has green and your dad has blue that means the blue eye gene was dominant and the green eye gene had no effect which is how bending would work because they can’t fire bend so they can’t produce heat to heat something up which is part of what fire benders do to create fire it takes tons of practice and understanding on other bending styles to be able to create a fire away from your body and the only time we have ever seen that happen was during the sozins comet when jeong jeong crate fire pillars to protect other white lotus members so what makes you think and earth bender could use fire bending to heat earth to an extremely high temperature and heat rocks that are far away from him without any direct contact without being a fire bender and there being no comet
When you mentioned that waterbenders learned how to harness the different phases of water by adapting to their climate two things popped into my head: 1. Waterbenders also studied the different phases of the moon to learn how to phase water in and out if its different states. 2. Science class in the Avatar Universe are suddenly a lot cooler.
@@rafaelachaparrobarriera6179 i feel like Katara making bloodbending illegal kind of made a Streisand effect. In which, people who have no idea it exists or heard the technique as a myth had their suspicions confirmed and led to more people trying to unlock their bloodbending.
Lava Bending really made like Bolin in my eyes. While he was struggling with Metal Bending (which was invented by Toph, who was considered one of the greatest Earthbenders in her time), he ended up learning something even more powerful. It's possible Bolin could end becoming likely a legend by mastering this skill. Let's be real Metal Bending may be an interesting sub skill, but Lava-Bending is just awesome!
I think it’s the sister not the mustache thing and it’s my head canon that his sister taught him lava bender or was a waterbender and that’s how he developed the technique
Metal bending was not common but toph taught people how to metal bend it became common. Bolin can do the same thing to teach people how to lava bend so it can be more common.
idk why lava bending is such a hot topic. it's just liquid dirt. Water benders can turn water to ice and back again, so why can't earth benders? There's a reason in last air bender the lion turtle basically said it was energy bending
When i saw lavabending in Kora i thought well it makes sense, since in that universe the water bending can froze, unfroze and condensation (in theory i think they can boil water too) so in my mind with the lavabending it's the same concept about freezing water xd but they are heating the earth like with the tectonic plate subducts to make magma
That’s all well and good, but here’s my problem with Legend of Korea: How did lightning bending become so common? Iroh tells us that it is a technique that goes beyond simple fire bending power, mastery, or prowess, and is almost a spiritual technique. You have to be so in control of your own energy, that you can separate the positive from the negative within you and then release the negative energy outward. We only saw three people in ATLA who could generate lightning, all of which were Fire Nation royalty who we know have access to higher, almost secret degrees of bending techniques and teachings as shown by their very different style of bending compared to other firebenders such as the Fire Nation Military. We also know that all three of these lightning-benders were some of the most powerful firebenders of their time, the most prominent of which being Azula, the only Blue-fire bender we’ve ever seen. But in LoK it’s extremely common. It’s so common, that there’s a vital occupation based around it, and it seems to pay close to minimum wage! How does Mako, an orphaned urchin from the earth kingdom, who had no apparent formal fire bending training or teaching, have the fire bending and physical capabilities to split his energy and produce lightning, when he can’t even split his options and produce a lasting relationship?
I have the feeling that some time after Zuko became Fire Lord, he began to think that the lessons Uncle Iroh taught him about lightning bending/redirection shouldn’t just be for a small selection of people but shared with everyone. So much like Toph who made a metal bending accessible to everyone, Zuko did the same. Perhaps released ancient scrolls about lighting bending to the public.
I think it would be more accurate to call the Avatar's Lava bending, Magma Bending. as they are bending the magma from beneath the earth and bringing it to the surface. where as lava benders are creating it.
Okay a few things. The Avatar before Yangchen is called Szeto. We actually know of 3 instances of Roku lavabending, although we never directly see the second, which is when he formed the passages in the sage temple out of the magma, as is described by the fire sage helping Aang. With the above example this also suggests it may have been outside of the Avatar state.
I always saw it in the following ways: Water: -Ice, steam, and water -Blood and Plant -weakness: no moisture, water, ice, no bending Earth: -Stone, Sand, Soil -Metal and Lava -weakness: no earth to stand on or use Air: -wind, storms, air pressure -weakness: not really one Fire: -Flame and heat -Lightning -Weakness: solar eclipse as a studier of science though, i think that lightning bending also requires a certain affinity for air bending, as if anything, creation of lightning would also be involved with air pressure and atmosphere conditions which an airbender can manipulate. Another theory for fire bending that is based on Iroh's explanation of fire bending, is that firebending doesn't have a source requirement, as all you are doing is projecting energy, not making it, whether it be as fire or lightning or heat. This falls into your theory as to why mako and other firebenders wouldnt be able to lavabend. Because lava isnt fire. It's molten earth. Sure, there is heat involved yes, but thats coming off of the magma/lava, NOT the source of it. Whereas metalbending as you said relies on manipulating the trace amounts of earth left in the metal, lavabending relies on manipulating the pure molten earth in a liquid state, similar to how sand benders can create sandstorms and sand streams to move their sandships without being airbenders, they simply manipulate the sand in a way that is akin to air or water and make it move in such a way to generate that force. Metal bending is about taking something dense, and manipulating it as though it was a liquid. But with lavabending, you are taking something dense, and not only manipulating its form, but also its state. Metal benders never convert their metal to liquid form, only manipulating it as such, but with earth, you are achieving a similar result by converting the rock into liquid, as you said just like ice to water to steam for water benders, but given the high melting point of rock, it would be a much harder thing to do.
I always saw it as lavabending is when you're vibrating the more finite particles of Earth so much that it turns into lava. You're essentially generating heat. Technically metalbenders should be able to do the same thing. Water benders should be able to actually create steam and boiling water. Firebenders/Airbenders should be able to become cold benders in that same regard by slowing the movement of particles in the air/around them (in the case of firebenders)
Plants is earth, I saw Toph bending some vine plants in a fight Also Air have Flight and Spiritual projection (dunno if they count as sub-elements) Fire got combustion and blue flames (hotter than normal flames)
I completely disagree that you would need fire bending genetics to lava bend, water benders don’t need air bending genetics to bend water vapor, nor do they need earth bending genetics to bend solid water, lava is simple a phase of earth and I don’t think temperature matters as water vapor is over a 100 degrees Celsius, but they don’t need fire bending genetics do they
I always though waterbenders were bending fog/mist and clouds more than water vapor. Steam fucking hurts man, it would be a horrible way to die via a waterbender. Like damn take some pity on me and freeze me instead.
It may be extremely rare but I wouldn't say that it's a mix of earth and fire genetics. 1) Waterbenders can freeze and evaporate water and use it as they please. 2) Tenzin states that airbenders can keep themselves warm in cold temperatures while heating up the air around them 3) Firebenders can (kinda) create plasma with lightning-bending, which is (kinda) hot fire. So it's not a stretch to believe that earthbenders could heat up earth to the point it melted.
12:30 "Good luck nerfing something like that" *Proceeds to show a lava blade cutting through a heavily locked reinforced steel door like it was made of butter* Yeah no... this element has the same destructive intensity of fire but also the the more solid constitution and permanence of earth. I SHUDDER to think what a trained focused and precise user of this element given generations of development would be capable of.
If you could bend the earth so as to produce lava then you can (in theory) control the continental plates . thus, you can change the earth as you like it to be
Since every bender can control the state of their element, like ice for water, and lava for earth. Fire is a reaction not matter, and thus does not have a state, but air benders should be able to create EXTREMELY cold liquid air, they just haven’t tried like how toph hadn’t realized how to metal bend until thousands of years after earth bending had been established.
I'd say differently, as Firebending is energy projection. The sub-elements with fire-bending that are confirmed are Combustion and Lightning generation. IMO, Thermo-bending is possible as while most firebending is push oriented, Thermo could be its pull orientation. Heating a cup of water without sparking a flame, freezing a person solid while the ground is scorched at their feet, draining a car-battery by pulling the energy out and over heating the engine. Thermo-bending would be entirely about give and take. The energy must go someplace else.
@@aurelian2668 fire is actually partial plasma created by the ionisation of gas in the combustion of molecules. It differs from regular plasma that is a stream or a cloud of electron from super heated gas
I mean red lotus where showed quite evil which they where not. They where just kinda communist of the series and gazan even being support antagonist wants that the lava bending should be know and carry forward by some one as he most probably won't marry or can carry by himself.
Yeah it is impossible for them to do so. And yeah I thought it was crazy people thought fire benders could lava bend. Like seriously what is lava made of? Earth, just melted. I’m sure fire benders could make lava by shooting a massive fire blast at the ground they definitely couldn’t control it
Well I don’t blame them because in ATLA when the avatar state was being explained, we see avatar kyoshi pick up huge earth statues, avatar Kuruk make a giant wave, avatar yangchen make giant wind, and the fire avatar (I think he is unnamed) bend lava out of volcanos so it was heavily implied firebenders can bend lava. Also avatar roku was a master at lava bending and his best element was fire. We don’t know who taught him lava bending but it’s implied that a fire bender did.
A reason, other than the fire avatar bending lava, for me to think that fire benders could also lava bend was that earth and water benders from what we could see could bend mud. Like in that episode where katara fought toph using mud and toph made that face mud creature in the BaSingSe episode. Another reason I believed it was that 3 of the 4 types of benders need their element in in their vicinity to use it, ie. water benders need water, earth benders need earth, even air benders need air to bend, but why does fire appear out of thin air for fire benders? I believed that fire benders were really bending the HEAT of fire, therefore making the air more flammable causing that stream of fire. And if they were bending the heat, then couldn’t they bend the heat of lava? But this is all just what I thought.
Roku's been shown in the show to have used Lavabending 3 times. 55 BG Volcano eruption on Crescent Island. 12 BG Fighting said Volcano which led to his death. 99 AG He used it to destroy the Fire Temple during the winter solstice.
3:19 actually in Book 1 - Avatar Roku: Winter Solstice, Part 2; whilst being on the top floor of the Fire Temple, Avatar Roku split the floor by turning the solid earth to lava and letting it tear through to expose the floor below (and maybe some floors below as well?). After that he proceeded to bend the existing lava from underneath the temple skyward to demolish the entire temple.
I haven't seen the later seasons and didn't know this was a thing. At first I was confused, but my own immediate intuitive explanation is that they are simply shaking the earth to the point of it combusting and melting almost instantly. Although that feels like a huge reach, and seeing an Earthbender practically throwing fire makes me feel uncomfortable, I can respect the idea I guess.
Never questioned why lavabending existed or why it was rare. I always thought it was weird that earthbenders couldn’t bend lava like they can mud. Since it’s just molten earth. I figured it was just a balancing thing. But for a handful of earth benders being able to bend and create lava just never didn’t make sense to me at least
Maybe Earthbenders just never tried to bend Lava, just like how they never thought of trying to bend Metal. Or it's so rare because finding Lava to train Bending with means going near a Volcano. Not to mention that it's incredibly dangerous. You can't afford Mistakes during Lavabending.
@@johannesseyfried7933 Same conclusion I came to, we never see a earth bender near lava. Except Bolin but since he's lava bender does it count? Maybe normal earth benders can move the lava, but they can't create lava from available earth
@@johannesseyfried7933 the tried in the history but they failed! maybe toph is the first or there was some but not teached! also the sand bending is really similar like metal! sand is made from silicium which is a metal!
I always theorized that lava benders have to have both fire and Earth bending ancestry while being born an earthbender, with the exception of the avatar
2:05 his name was Avatar SEZTO and I'm like most avatars where he went around the world saving people he focused mostly on the fire Nation and trying to save his people who were suffering from conflict ,warfare and infighting ,he rejected all of his Avatar privileges slowly worked his way up to bureaucratic administrator and ground adviser to the fire lord of his time an Avatar who put his people first for and foremost in his mind, is portrait hanging to the fire Nation Royal palace has holding a fireball in one hand and an abacus at the other showing he was both powerful and intelligent.
12:01 ok I have a bit of a problem here when he says "single target focus" even in the original series Hama who created it was able to blood bend Sokka and Aang at the same time as well as in Korra we've seen particularly talented blood benders (Yakone and Tarrlock) bloodbend entire rooms full of people and in Yakone's case this included a fully realized avatar.
i love how this video only reinterates what Iroh taught to zuko about being whole only when you understand all basic bending arts besides your own. Bolin fought ghazan multiple times and was near a primarily water bender for a long time to adapt those practices, and I add similarity to water bending in this case because its a liquid, yet denser, and we can see how both of those lava benders use not so rigid and not so fluid movements to do this
Bolin not being able to Metal bend low-key broke my heart, he wanted it so bad. When he started to Lava bend i let out a scream of accomplishment on his behalf i was so hyped 😂
All it takes is one lava bender to turn Ba Sing Se into Na Sing Se
underrated af smh
he forgot 1 thing , the wall that ghazan crumbled was the wall seperating the inner circle to the outer circle which i think is thinner than the outer wall that acctually protects Ba Sing Se
haha lol
hi bumi
Lol
Uncle Iroh even mentioned in ATLA that his “Lightning Redirection” technique that he taught Zuko was self learned by studying Waterbending techniques, probably the 1st direct reference of “Bending Hybridization” in the series
I remember seeing those waterbending twins kick out a block of ice and hurl it at the enemy. If that's not hybrid bending, idk what is
@@ricknicolai5740 what? That sounds dumb dude. Any water bender can ice bend, it’s literally solid water.
@@notfunny5018 I think he's talking about *how* they bent the ice, rather than the fact that they bent the ice in the first place. Sure, pretty much every waterbender can control ice, but earthbending techniques are able to be applied to it.
@@logankoster4703 They just kicked a block of ice, and they were waterbenders. That’s not Bending Hybridization at all
@@notfunny5018 Bending Hybridization doesn't always have to result in a new technique. I can see how you think it isn't, but the most iconic move of earthbending, in my opinion, is bringing a chunk of earth from the ground, and then punching or kicking it at the enemy.
I loved Bolin getting Lavabending at the end of TLOK Book 3. He kept getting embarrassed not being able to metalbend, so inheriting a much rarer ability, with the added benefit of being the one thing able to save them in that tunnel situation, felt like an earned payoff for a character that had been sidelined as comic relief, seemingly less important/useful than the rest of "Team Avatar" for most of the prior episodes.
Yeah, Bolin started out as a simple goof, yet ended propably getting the most powerful Earthbending Sub Skill to date. It really gave him a strong respect for the character. Who needs to bend metal, when you could bend something that is molten rock, which would likely melt metal. Bolin got a great deal, no doubt he could pretty be much more powerful than any Metal Bender (baring Toph, who pretty much learned to conect with the Earth as a whole, but still Lava Bending is just awesome).
You seem knowledgeable can toph lavabend
@@killme1389 To my knowledge, she never tried. That being said, knowing how in tune she was with the earth, and given how fast she picked up the other earthbending niches (invented metalbending, mastered sandbending in a day), I don't see any reason as to why she couldn't. The only issues I could potentially see is that she can't directly touch the lava, like she can the other forms of earth, and touch makes up a big part of her skillset. But I definitely think she could if she had tried.
@@noahsteiner5052after atla toph had lots lf students,one of them was accepted because he showed lavabendint to toph,that was when toph wasnt even an adult,she definitively knew about lavabending,idk why she didnt try it
Honestly i was excited about the setup, it was clear that Bolin was going to learn something cool, but in a series where abilities are based on specific techniques and training, it felt kind of lazy that he figured it out on the spot with no training just because he had to.
Thr fact that it was Bolin that untapped his ability to lava bend was one of the highlights of both series for me. No better person could have been gifted with such a powerful bending ability
"I know, I just found out."
Their parents are earth and fire Bender?
Aside from the Avatar, Bolin is the only real strong character in the Avatar team. If Korra's team goes against Aang's team, Bolin is the only one really putting up much of a fight.
Confront a water bender with an icy wasteland and they eventually learn to bend ice.
Throw an earth bender in to a lava filled volcano and they'll most likely die first.
This is probably why there aren't many lava benders.
It’s hard to argue with your assessment
Tru lol
"I can not argue that"
hahahahahahahahahahaha yeah
No but on volcanic island will probably have a better chance or learning and mastering the art.
I've always thought that lava bending is possible by extremely compressing earth as to make its temperature raise, thus generating flowing lava.
Yes, it's essentially creating lava through the same process the earth's core is molten.
"Lava bending" is impossible in our atmosphere. It requires 2,000℃ of energy under the earths crust to create magma. Lava benders need something special to be able to do that, which would have to be their mixed genes.
@@BhBc8f8 While it is not physically feasible this is a world where people shoot lightning out of their hands, I don’t think feasibility is an issue for lavabending.
The creators of the show have stated previously that they don’t really buy the whole bending comes from genetics thing so to say that lavabending is genetic would go against their philosophy.
Personally, I view lavabending as icebending for earth benders. The ability to control the state of matter that your element is in. A better example would be fog generation by water benders, going up a state of matter. But where water is the element of change, earth is the element of stability. Water wants to change, earth resists. This is the factor at play here, you have to not be a traditional earth bender and be willing to flow, only then can you unlock lava.
@@stahpg5430 I haven't found any article or videos where the creators ever said that but if they did that wouldn't make any sense. A water bender got with a non bender and had Katara. Aang got with a water bender and had kids with both types of bending. Tenzin got with a non bender and had 3 airbenders. There shouldn't be any doubt at this point that your ability to bend an element is heavily reliant on the genetics of your parents.
Almost all Water benders we've seen on both shows can turn water into ice. Katara was able to control fog as easily as breathing after Aang brought up the idea. There are only 3 people on both shows who can turn Earth into Lava. Lava bending is common knowledge and isn't banned like blood bending and yet only 3 people in 160 years, that shows how rare the ability is. It shows that it's not something you can be taught by a master earth bender. Not even Toph can do it. A million earth benders could have the same personality type or the same "flow" as Bolin and still wouldn't be able to lava bend. what makes Bolin so special, what makes him stand out from the rest? His location? his personality? his upbringing? his training?...or his heritage?
Occam's Razor: The simplest answer is often the correct one.
I always thought it was vibrating the partials to create friction and energy which when turned to heat energy it would turn the rocks to molten rock
To think the lava bending probably being the most destructive element given to the most kindest and wholesome character
That's called balancing.
@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 it’s called bolin!
That made you think about Gazhan's past, maybe he was a heartwarmed guy in his childhood but many events affected him in a very bad way.
@@hicehamer1337 oh, i think u like being Bolin to much))
ikr, I think metalbending suited him better, but it might show his maturity and character progress
I agree that lava bending is similar to water benders changing water from liquid to solid. I always figured that the reason lava bending is so much rarer is that water only needs to change ~30 C (60F), whereas turning earth to lava would require 1000C (2000F) temperature changes, and thus be much more difficult
Well when you think about it, for water all you have to do is slow the water molecules, for lavabending, you speed them up. I don't think it's rare because it's hard, but I think it's because people don't think of that.
Nice, that's a pretty logical way of thinking about it! You big smart guy, you! 😁
and that's where Bolin's fire nation genetics kicks in.
Chris Brown To turn ice into water you have to speed up molecules, so people have obviously thought of it. Not to mention the White Lotus have already seen Gazan lava bend when they fought him and put him in prison. Why didn’t they just do it too if it’s not difficult and they know it’s possible
@@darencolby1916 Kyoshi lava bended too
Metal bending requires the highest level of traditional earth bending (toph being the best example as her fighting style is based around waiting before acting and staying in one spot) but bolin’s fighting style AND life style goes against traditional earth bending (because his fighting style is based around making the first move and his personality is usually hyperactive) so him being able to do lava bending makes sense to me
i dont think the personality is matter! toph was blind so she must to wait for the oppenet! bolin was an arena fighter so he must to attack first
also i think metal bendig is the purest form of the eart bending
and lava bending is a fused form with some fire bending essence!
@@gipsymelody1268 I think personality does play into it a bit for utilizing it. I'm sure many Airbenders could rip the air from someone's lungs, but most lacked the mentality to do it. But Bolin had the right combo of genetics and personality to lavabend since he is more light footed and has to think fast.
@@firepuppies4086 airbenders not do this cause of their culture! They was very pacifist folks! Even they was vegetarians and not eat meat (but drink milk and other things)
@@gipsymelody1268 a culture that influenced personality. Keep in mind how Monk Gyatso was found. He was already a bit of a wild card for how he was with Aang, but there was no sign of burning around him, and he was surrounded by dead Fire Nation Soldiers... what do you think killed them all?
Lavabending is about "going with the flow." Ghazan and Bolin are both thieves with roguish pasts they don't seem to take the lead in their teams but are very good at cooperating with their leader this is the key reasons they can lavabend it's part of their personality. Lavabending is like waterbending turning ice into water or back. Rock/earth is the solid state, lava is the liquid state. It's just that water from ice is cold while lava from earth is hot. They can be go with the flow but also harden at will and return aggressively with full control of it. You need to be both a master of being hard and soft at the right time.
About time peeps put some respect on Bolin’s name
Lava bending couldn’t hurt the Sage of the East 🤣
@@princes428 says who I'm under the impression that lava melts people
Watching Bolin fight all throughout seasons 3 and 4 was honestly one of my favorite parts. The way they animate him is truly bae-utiful.
@@izukumidoriya-qg8lu Spoiler!!!!! If you aren't a God of Highschool webtoon reader and are anime only!!!
Not if you have the 4 fundamental forces of nature. Strong force, Weak force, gravity and electromagnetism
As an earth bender, I’m not surprised Bolin carried the whole show. He’s literally my favourite character, and have you seen his face? Adorable. Talented? Sweet? Kind person? Cutie? Has values? A hard worker? Family guy? A strong bender? People should have been respecting Bolin.
5:58 everytime... this scene... roku's dragon protecting him and dying with him in the eruption always has me crying
@Kingdrago101 yes they can... reptiles are not lavaproof. Lava is so hot, thousands of degrees Celsius, even a dragon cannot withstand that
@Joel Williams exactly
Yeah I always imagine how Appa would have done the same thing for Aang
@@ryanmims9110 technically he did when the avatar dies his/her spiritual companion dies with them.
@Layla Gilley that varies according to the world building tho
Another reason why I think Bolin is able to lava bend besides heritage is his upbringing. Bolin is the younger brother so he had Mako to look up to and they are two different types of bending with no formal schooling. Bolin bends lava like a firebender, learning from Mako.
It's like uncle Iroh utilizing waterbending techniques in his fire bending.
This is such a cool idea and yet another example of korra being very disappointing and lame. Bolin couldve gotten energy from his breathing to turn earth into lava like how firebenders make fire. Mako couldve maybe tried to teach firebending to bolin when they were really young and he kept the breathing to heart, which could also be why he cant metalbend. Maybe using breathing makes you not rigid enough for it.
Yeah like lavabending would be fire and earth to make molten rock?
That's true but also if you look up what Lavabending is based off of, it Bājíquán which is power generation (fajin or explosive power). Or alot of force. Almost like a jumper needing to generation alot of force into the ground to dunk. Now imagine earthbending alot of force into the ground and bending it. Makes since for a brother of a firebender.
This actually makes sense...I mean lava is basically the combination of fire and earth....the only way an earthbender would be able to do it would be if they studied firebending in tandem with earthbending
As a geologist student let me say it loud and clear: lava bending would be the most terrifying and most dangerous ability for the bender and for those it is used against.
It's like water bending but with the punch of earth (trice the density) and the heat of the hottest of fire (+1000°C).
Not to mention all the nasty fumes solved in molten rocks (HCl; H2S; HF; CO2 and Co).
Try to rapidly cool it down, you create a phreato-magmatic explosion, turning the molten rock into a hot cloud of tiny glass shards (volcanic ash).
If we apply some real life logic to the show, you could counter lava bending by fighting a lava bender on ground not easily turned into lava at surface conditions e.g. limestone, clays.
Other than that, it was nice knowing you.
isn't there also a phenomenon of volcanic lightning?
just imagine an avatar who actually turns into a villain, plunging the world into darkness and chaos. so many OP abilities that an avatar can master, not just the main 4 elemental ones.
another counter would be to attack the lava bender with not easily turned into lava stones, so his naturel response- turning it into lava, will fail and gives you enough time to stun him
what do you think of diamond bending? that still falls under earth bending, right? but like a special kind of earth bending because it's a very specific composition of carbon.
diamond bending out of thin air would be so OP, like you can make shards of diamonds from the carbon in the air and whatever you can scrounge up from the surrounding soil :D
@@danielzaaroor
except a lava bender probably is also highly skilled in regular earth bending, so he/she could still attack normally without lava
Whats more dangerous than lava bending is bending boiling water. This gave water bender advantage over fire, lava.
I personally think lava isn’t the fusion of fire and earth, but rather the reverse of metal. A metal bender should be refined and disciplined, while lava should be creative and messy. Metal is the most refined form of earth, while lava is the most primal.
Cool idea.
There arent (to my knowledge ) any examples of genetics between two separate benders contributing to a special or unique for of bending. So being the child of a fire bender shouldn't effect your usage of earthbending. That's like saying the avatar can use all the elements but mix breeding allows some liberties to normal benders. Although genetics plays a part in a benders abilities and potential I simply believe the bending is the usage of a singular element.
That used to be the theorie
also ever noted that bolin and the other dude are much agiler than other earth benders? to move rocks you have to stay strong but nether of these too does it for long they are quick and messy like you said
And thats why bolin couldnt metal bend
I really like your theory!! Especially when you consider that when Bolin first used lava bending, he switched into a primal protective instinct (along w his majorly undisciplined character)
Bolin is one of the best characters in the whole Avatar story. The fact that he was ready to sacrifice himself to give his brother and others a lttle more time to maybe save themselves, is one big proof.
yikes man. Hands down u say?
@@Ame865 unpopular like u apparently
@@Ame865 more like wrong opinion
Don't jet and the gang do the exact same thing?
They should explore airbending more, creating vacuums would be devastating as well
They did this in LOK, not much but it is shown to exist as a possibility/technique. The only reason I doubt it is used more is it is a cruel/horrifying way to kill/incapacitate someone, going completely against air bending philosophy/air nomad culture. Which is why we only ever saw a villain do it. And why we probably won't see it again, unless we get some kind of anti-hero character who can also air bend (unlikely).
@@jonathanward9584 oh oh and imagine if those air benders increases the air density into their enemy body or insides. I'm pretty sure they'll explode into pieces LMAO
@@socksucker9308 I remember seeing a reddit post about that scene where aang discovered the skeleton
Isn't creating a vacuum literally how Aang yanks objects like his staff over to his hands?
@@leyrua I mean creating vacuums in the sense that you pull the air out of someones lungs like Zaheer did to the Earth queen and Korra etc by creating a vacuum around just their heads, or literally suffocating them. Also no I wouldn't consider aang pulling objects toward himself the same as creating a vacuum. He was just manipulating the air around those objects so they are "blown" towards him. That's different than air bending the air out of a persons body and killing them using a vacuum like effect.
I feel like lava bending comes from adapting from one’s environment. Earthbending in the past has usually been almost limitless as the ground underneath them has always been used by earthbenders to fight. But for Bolin, when he was fighting in the arena, he doesn’t have a massive amount of earth to play with, only small disks. He couldn’t fight like a traditional earth bender, but needed to adapt to reserve his resources and use earth with precision like how a water bender would need to learn how to reserve their water when not around a body of it. Bolin learned how to analyse earth as if it was a liquid form because of how he was brought up to change his style of earthbending. Look at Bolin fight. He doesn’t fight moving like how we see earthbenders should. He moves more like a water bender.
With the style of earthbending changed, a different type of bending can be formed. Don’t believe me? Look at the sand benders in ATLA. They moved like airbenders instead of earthbenders. Their environment lacked hard earth so they learned to adapt with the light sand and bent that instead in a more fluid air-like motion. Bolin has adapted the same way while being an Earthbender, using his resources like how a water bender would, and firebenders. Bolin managed to merge the concepts of the earth element, the fluid-ness of waterbending, and the heat of fire benders while fighting in the arena.
Bolin already mastered the techniques required for him to lavabend, but it was at a particular moment where he had to try or die where he gave it his all and learned to bend the earth elements in lava and deconstruct earth into lava and move it like water. This could only have happened in a person who has mastered and adapted to the bending styles of other martial arts while being an earth bender.
Woahhh i love your insight so much! I know Bolin’s such a powerful bender but you made me realize he’s *THAT* powerful.
Nice explaination
wow amazing dude
Is this Uncle Iroh
This is quality
I think it was a missed opportunity to have a scene where Kuvira tried to convince Bolin to use his lavabending powers in a particularly destructive way.
They should have had a fight scene
Well if you see how some fire benders end up losing their control. They end up burning others. So if lava bending was to ever lose control it could end up very badly. Now with blood bending if they could freeze the water in the blood then the person would likely have more frostbite. Though I believe it should be a challenging thing for a blood bender and it would be more of a slower process. If you wanted to balance the way benders can bend so that there isn't just 1 overpowered character. And who knows what would happen if someone knew chemistry and started bending. Like for example if earth benders bended silicon or if water benders bended hydrogen and if air benders bended oxygen. Water benders would be able to get rid of hydrogen bonds. which would be kinda crazy if you ask me. As well as lightning bending would be very powerful. if you could change the direction of the lightning.
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I've said it before, and I'll mention it again. Ghazan's movements seem to mimic Volcanoes, the only natural form of lava. Given his Polynesian-like tattoos, he seems to be an islander, and if so, that perhaps gives him his source for lavabending's movements: Volcanoes. Flowing pyroclastic rushes, Hurled half-molten rocks and rapid upward blasts of Superheated Stone. I believe true lavabending, as the art, can only be created by studying volcanic activity; As dangerous a source for tutelage as the element itself.
Lava bending is the most dangerous!
Blood bending: Am I a joke to you?
I get where your coming from but blood bending cant do things like destroy an air temple
Lavabending is definitely the most destructive.
justin none of that matters if you’re knocked out by a blood bender before you can even twitch your thumb.
Antoine Bandele well the title said “the most dangerous” but I get what you mean.
One is scary
While the other is dangerous
Let's be honest,we all know what is the most dangerous bending.
Cabbagebending
YES LOL
Not The Cabbage!
Why do you think aang went out of his way to destroy that vendor’s stand
c k idk
But everything changed when the air nation attacked
I agree with most of it, but because of the few true lava benders, I don't think it's safe to assume it has something to do with the bender's parents. Maybe the technique uses the flow of waterbending and the heat of fire bending and that's why we only see it after the cultural exchange of Republic City. It makes more sense with the lore of the show.
I don't think it has anything to do with being descendants of earth and fire benders, its purely an earth sub-bending ability. Bending abilities don't mix, otherwise the avatar wouldn't be anything special. The ability to change earth into lava is just temperature manipulation, lava is molten EARTH. So earth benders can heat up earth by moving the earth so much it creating friction. Like water benders phase changing water into ice (and vice versa). Its just temperature control. Lava may be hot but its not fire. Then by that logic a fire bender should be able to bend boiling hot water, but its still water, not fire lol. I think its such a rare ability because changing the temperature to such a drastic degree is insanely difficult for most average earth benders
@@Dre-yd2xhunderrated comment
Gonna be honest I like LOK but IMO the biggest injustice of that show was the fact that we never get literally anything on the history of the red lotus. Would have been so cool to learn how Ming-Hua developed her armless waterbending, how Ghazan learned he could lavabend, how P'li learned she could combustionbend, and how good of a fighter Zaheer was before he got airbending. They drop a line here or there mentioning their backstory but it never gets fleshed out and I so wish we could have learned more about them
ToonGabe might be a good reason to get a set of comics on these guys. Get one for each red lotus member and their past that brought them to were they were in lok.
Ghazan’s hair strikes me as being very Fire Nation-styled (especially that stache) so I suspect he was also the child of a firebender and earthbender.
Honestly compared to water healing and spirit projection, lava bending makes perfect sense
@Meta Man debatable, as seen on atlk bloodbending(water) trumps every element if one was to fight 1 on 1, aang even needed to be in avatar state just to break free from it, you can bend air if you cant move fiber of you being(anatomically correct because blood runs on every organ and even inside bones).
*you can't bend air
@Meta Man you are focusing on the fact that we breathe oxygen, well general chemistry tells that an element can be in various states, nitrogen as you say can be a liquid or a gas or even solid, water bending is being able to manipulate the element of water or combination of water and something else such as sea water(water + salt) while airbending is manipulating the containment(pressure) and flow of air, as seen on the animated series airbending cannot be used to target specific element but only specific cluster of it such as the cluster of air in the lungs. General chemistry and literal reference from the animated series truly disagrees with your theory.
@Meta Man Also with enough creativity an airbender can actually be a pseudo avatar as they can bend the air and winds to make it appear they are bending the other elements like for example earthbending the airbender can launch a very pressurized wind slash at a boulder or something and make a fast enough wind current to launch it at a target
I object as water is the opposite of fire which causes wounds so
Fire: wounds
Water: healing
Airbenders are really spiritual so it makes sense for them to project their spirit but lava bending is a sub element of earth ( lava is just molten rock) but its burning like fire
I would like to the sound bending, a type of air bending in the future hahaha
Same
Let's just hope blood benders never realize they can freeze water.
Omg😭😂
We all gonna die😭😭😭
Or worse... boil it.
Junjun Jamore It would cost you nothing to not say that.
Shh. 2020 will hear you
I think Yun's (from the Avatar Kyoshi book's) style of Earthbending is largely a precursor to lava-bending. Kyoshi describes it as "melting earth down into a liquid-like element" that he's able to use in very waterbender-style manipulations.
*Plot Twist:*
The Original Lavabender was Groudon
Who's that?
@@praetorianrex5571 it's a pokemon
Praetorian Rex it’s a legendary Pokémon
Omg yes
It could also be very constructive in the Avatar world think of the building potential I mean users can literally control liquid rock and shape it at will you have lava Benders work together with metal benders and oh my God all I'm saying using it for fighting is a complete waste what about just going around and creating roads say you want to your own private island will you take a lava Bender out somewhere on a boat and point and go I want an island there then damn you have an island it's such a terrifying power that realistically even with all the other types of bending no one should want to fight that but it is so many other applications that the guy with that ability should be so rich that he shouldn't have to worry about fighting
Lava Bending with Seismic Sense at the level of Bumi's skill set would make for an unstoppable lava bender
Fascinating idea. Do you mind elaborating please?
What this speaks to me of is bender's with the ability to excite the atoms within their element. This wouldn't just stop at earth into lava.
But, theoretically Water benders could create boiling water. Air benders could create massive storms by exciting the air to create massive pressure differentials.
Fire benders could theoretically use super hot oxygen trails to create oxygen bombs.
This opens up pretty much Nuclear capabilities for benders.
"Fire benders could theoretically use super hot oxygen trails to create oxygen bombs."
I believe this is how combustion bending works
wait, pretty sure in some points of the series water benders have turned snow into water right?
Likely, yes
@@ruairiburnett788 well now I finally understand combustion bending thanks
@@d4s0n282 katara did it in the final azula fight! she boiled the ice into water! but maybe only the water benders can do this without extra ! also water benders is the most disadvantaged benders so probably because of this (super felxibility adaptions!)
air and fire has extremly advantages
earth too but because of the civilization they lose more and more! :S
It’s not that difficult to understand, is it? Waterbenders are able to change the state of water as well as control these different states. We see Katara bend water vapor, liquid water, and ice. And we also see her CREATE these, which means waterbenders can control the temperature of their element. Therefore an earth bender can bend lava because it is just hot earth. They are just changing the temperature.
Well to be fair, ice melts at a significantly lower temperature than solid rock, so it would make sense that it’s a more rare skill to have.
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For the love of god why don't people understand this? The Avatar is the only person who can bend more than one element. At no point in the show does anyone bend more than one element, and the writers would have to be braindead to give another group of individuals this ability (as it would undermine the very core premise of the Avatar and thus the entire show). Both fire and waterbenders can control the temperature of their element. It stands to reason both earth and airbenders can do this as well.
There are literally thousands of people in Republic City with the same background as Bolin. Perhaps even tens of thousands. Why aren't they lavabending? I mean hell with this logic in one or two hundred years there will be dozens of avatars born in Republic City, if not hundreds. The only reason it appears to be mixing elements is because Avatars have a history of lavabending. They are simply uniquely capable because they can combine the core lavabending technique with their firebending (something completely separate). This additional heat plus the massive power boost of the Avatar State is what makes them far more capable. An example of using firebending to manipulate earth on a smaller scale that exists in the show that completely works is Mako melting a section of a metal bar on a cell. He was firebending it for hours. Imagine what an Avatar could do with the Avatar State and on ordinary rock, something far softer.
And if you are looking for almost the reverse of this, of Earthbending fueling firebending, here's an example that would work. If a firebender was surrounded by lava, they would get stronger. Firebenders draw from sources of heat, mainly the sun. But others work, such as Sozin's Comet. Also, P'li was unable to firebend in a freezing cave showing the reverse effect weakens them. By this video's logic, a Firebender drawing from that heat would be considered Earthbending. It's not.
@@quinnmcgee7323 Exactly, so only extremely powerful Earthbenders or those with a more unique mindset and more prone to a fluid style of Earthbending would develop the skill.
In my opinion, lava bending isn’t really comparable to water in the way you describe. While ice and vapor bending is a thing, I think the way it works is that it’s just compressing or dispersing the particles themselves, since we’ve never seen water bending being used to boil or generate scalding water
I think the only example of true lava is something that needs to be found.That said the only reason I think the avatar could lava bend was because of combining earth and fire techniques. Bolin and ghazon both can do what the avatar could but better and more precise.
But how about combustion bending, isn't it too dangerous to even posses the ability like every combustion benders we see died with their own attack.
I feel like lava tops combustion in pure environmental destructive ability, but i'd say combustion wins at danger against combatants.
oh yeah combustion is also really powerful, in fact each element has their own 'super-ability'.
water - blood, earth - lava, fire - combustion, air - asphyxiation.
S C no for air it would be flight any airbender could asphyxiate someone they just choose not to
@@mmmkkkyla true, but I was thinking of offensive moves rather than any move at all.
S C
I mean, Fire benders can also bend Lava, I would wager
Ghazan is an exceptional bender, a true bending master, like all of the red lotus, so I guess just as Uncle Iroh learned to redirect lightning while studying waterbenders, Ghazan may have learned to bend lava. After all, lava is basically earth at another temperature, and besides, he was always in the company of a great waterbender (Ming-Hua), so it would make sense that their proximity would give Ghazan some basis for "liquid earth" bending.
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As you said in your "waterbending is overpowered" video, Korra was able to outperform two earthbenders during the battle against Kuvira's mech, by freezing a portion of the leg, then striking to topple it. Overpowered, because of a phase shift.
Additionally, the red lotus lavabender was capable of _singlehandedly_ penetrating the walls of Ba Sing Se, using lavabending.
Overpowered, because of a phase shift.
Coincidence? I thonk not, after all, in the words of guru pahtik:
"The greatest illusion in this world is that of separation. Even the four elements are not separate, four parts of the same whole"
I wonder what airbending techniques could be created by compressing or cooling gases: liquid nitrogen is deadly, and most of the atmosphere is nitrogen.
or by cooling fire... we know that heating it can cause blue flame and lightning, but none of them ever thought to go the other way... cooler flames require less energy, can produce greater volume. but at what point would it stop being firebending? Iroh could heat up his tea directly... could someone say, firebend straight hot air? given practice and enough time could they form an airbending deviation?
@@jordanteslapainsake6657 more like Heatbending. That could power a hot air balloon for months with how little energy it takes; maybe even an aiship with only a five-to-ten-man crew, airborn for years at a time with enough rations.
Just Some Jersey Devil With Internet Access well we know, or at least based on theory, how powerful phase shifting air bending can be not by compressing gases but decompressing them. The evidence is there to suggest that Monk Gyatso was capable of decompressing air to the point of creating a vacuum. Getting rid of the air means theres no fuel for fire and makes fire bending impossible. Thats why in the room where Gyatso’s body was found, there were dozens of bodies of Fire Benders around him, but with no visible damage. Thats also dozens of Fire Benders fuelled by Sozin’s comet who were not able to leave a single scorch or burn mark anywhere in the surrounding area. Why? Because they couldn’t make fire in a vacuum. The only issue was that the vacuum Gyatsu created was a bubble centred around him meaning he was caught in the middle of it too.
We see a much more basic version of this from Zaheer who creates a decompressive bubble around people’s heads which literally sucks all the air out of their lungs to try and rectify the pressure balance. If we were to reverse engineer this to compression ad you were talking about, I suppose it would then be possible to form techniques that create sonic booms from dramatic shifts in pressure that blow out people’s ears and cripple their equilibrium, throwing them off balance which as we see in Zuko’s duel with Zhao, can dramatically inhibit your bending ability in an encounter
Airbending has the least amount of variants because the culture that practices it are pacifist monks that isolate themselves from society. However the second generation Airbenders are more likely to create new techniques and variants, Zaheer had already figured how to use Air as a lethal weapon with his suffocation technique for example.
Jordan Tesla Painsake You can actually see Sozin bend hot air in the flashback where he helps Roku fight the volcano in ATLA
2:54 There's actually a third moment Avatar Roku uses lava bending. In the episode Team Avatar first goes to Roku's island, Roku's spirt comes to save them. We see Roku's spirit lift his hand and the next shot cuts to pools of lava rising through the temple, destroying it. It the first time we actually see lava bending in the series.
it irritates me that they showed a clip of the exact episode right before they bring up the other 2 instances only to not mention the first time lava bending is ever seen
That's freaking scary seriously what if a sociopathic mass murdering manic had their hands on Lava bending, also I'm glad you got your first channel back Slice.
That’s will be scary. Imagine if they also can blood-bend.
@Que eso? Es música I mean Gazhan did not come off like that though I'm talking about someone who kills for fun and enjoys the torment of others Gazahn was following the red lotus' revolutionary/anarchic ideals
Man, imagine if Kuvira had access to that ability
@Tiny Korra R-rated TLOK would be dope. They could actually flesh out that love story too.
Metalbending supports this theory, because it was considered impossible until Toph figured it out then she began teaching the practice all over the place, 70 years later Metalbending is considered something that any basic Earthbender can figure out given the right teacher because the practice and teaching of it have been refined and passed down for decades.
Lavabending would eventually be the same if Bolin began teaching others how to do it.
I honestly doubt that.
We have only seen 2 real lavabenders and though we don't know the origin of the other lavabender I find it interesting that Bolin just so happen to be in a family where firebending AND earthbending have combined.
We know for a fact that Bolin's dad was an earthbender (Or was it the mom? doesn't matter) and that his other parent was a fire bender since his brother is a firebender..and I think that is the key to his ability.
It is the combination of firebending and earthbender that makes it possible. The same reason the avatar is capable of lavabending since they know both elements.
The earthbending have somehow gotten infused with the firebending in a minor fasion making the earthbending capable of controlling the heat of the rocks alongside the rocks themself.
@@bibbobella That "fire + earth = lava" theory is pointless nonsense, fire literally has nothing to do with lava. Lava is just very hot ground there's no fire in it, waterbenders control the temperature of water and turn it into ice or steam flawlessly without needing any fire bender parents, an Earth bender can control the temperature of ground until it turns into lava it's just that the practice is very uncommon.
If the theory that earthbenders need a firebender parent to lavabend had any merit then waterbenders would also need a firebender to bend evaporated water which is very clearly not the case.
When the metal benders saw him bend lava they should had said "I quit, he just bend lava, LAVA! But of course you other guys trained to fight a lava bender right?"
It felt like you’ve been gone for 10 YEARS!!
For real felt like 2020 trapped you in a ball of ice for 100 years when the world needed you most
"I think it was more like 100 years!"
duuude, imagine if a water bender used leaves, froze them, and threw them fast like Mai did with her knives...😭
a girl does that in 'the search' comic trilogy
Yeah so freezing the moisture in plants with plant bending and then using them as sharp weapons is a great idea
What about a lava bender and obsidian knives
Why not just use pure ice then....?
I feel like just making ice spikes would be better.
And taking into account the general traits of each of the elements, it makes sense why water benders can phase shift their element the easiest because water is the most versatile of the elements, and earth bending is the most rigid of the element. Fun to think about 😊
Hearing that "I love you" at the end after so long is enough to bring me to tears honestly...
Bender can manipulate the temperature of the element they’re bending like turning water to ice or turning fire to blue fire, that’s why you can turn Earth to lava, it completely makes sense because lava is just heated rock.
Exactly. Thats why the earth is always spinning or moving when they are creating the lava from individual rocks because they ate adding pressure to increase the temperature
why cant water bender boil water then?
Tom Almonte They can. Katara made water evaporate during her battle with pakku
I was looking for this comment so I didn't make it again xD.
Bingo
Airbenders have too much restraint. Imagine shockwavebending, vacuumbending, or screambending.
Lavabending: No can beat me?
Bloodbending: Allow me to introduce myself.
Combustion bending:Allow me to introduce myself
@@Kayjay5939 Boomerang: Allow me to introduce myself.
@@leyrua Cabbagebending: Keep dreaming suckers
@@clothes4094
CabbageCARTbending/breaking: _"My cabbages!"_
Truthbending: Allow need to introduce my _spin..._
I'm so glad Slice of Otaku is back
Why couldnt i find his channel for so long :(
I also noticed that known lavabenders have a connection to the elements of earth and fire. For example Bolin has fire nation mother and earth kingdom father. There are other lavabenders like Ghazan, and the boy Toph met in the comics, but we do not know anything about they’re ancestors so we can’t be entirely sure if this is the case.
I have also noticed that the only avatars that have lavabended were born earth benders or fire benders.
Someone make 1h of "hi how are you slice of otaku here" PLS
Bonus points if you make it a lofi track.
@@AntoineBandele That would instantly become my favorite song lol
Stop being weird
Ikr
His voice is so...chill
@@AntoineBandele yes
Love to hear the joy and excitement in your voice. Glad your back Slice. Excellent breakdown, I never considered all the deep details.
the only thing I'll never agree with is that to lavabend you need fire nation/fire bender blood
Come on, theres no such thing as one people bending more than one element unless they are the avatar. If anyone tries to argue that fire bending blood is necessary to a earth bender to lava bend, or that lava bend is a combination of 2 elements, that one didnt watched the series at all
Well, what an earthbender does is move the earth molecules fast enough to turn the potential energy into kinetic energy in order to produce such energy release that soil turn into lava.
It's not farfetched at all. Actually, it's the only real explanation. No one has been able to do it along from the Avatar, because for so long the cultures have been separated. Not to mention the Avatar blends elements together all the time.
In Legends of Korra life is different, they live in a new time of cultural mixing. It is not unlikely, for a sub brand of earth bending to form due to someone having a firebending bloodline. Toph and Bumi are the GREATEST earth benders of all time. If a regular earth bender could do it naturally, these two should have no problem performing lava bending. But they can't. Making it only plausible that they don't have the genes to do so.
I think you've been mistaken pretty heavily here. Bolin can't bend fire and earth. Bolin is an earth-bender and only that.
If anyone else than Avatar can master multiple elements in future series, I won't continue watching. Its kind of the point of the whole series. Just listen to the intro of ATLA.
However, I do find this UA-camr's idea interessting. Bolin has both firebender and earthbender blood within him. This doesn't make him be able to bend both elements, but It is a cool concept. Bolin can only bend earth. Lavabending is a subskill of earthbending. But we are talking about insanely hot lava. If you think about it, lava is just earth mixed with the hotness of fire.
Mixed blood would make perfect sense in this scenario. If you have firebender-blood in you, you can't automatically bend fire, but maybe you have the essence or (idk, lets just call it magic), of a firebender. Bolin will never ever ever be able to fire bend. He is an earth-bender, and an earth-bender only But it is sick if fireblood and earthblood would be the key to lava bend.
@@-Mxfia- The appearance of Lava-Benders has more to do with how Pro-bending merged various bending forms together and the drift away from the traditional mindset and applications of bending than it does with genetics. Think about it, our main cast consists of a fiery waterbender, a stoic fire bender, and an emotional earthbender. None of them fit perfectly within the traditional mindsets each bending discipline requires, which has made their bending a lot more unconventional. For example, Mako's focus and discipline makes Lightning Generation far easier for him than traditional firebenders, whose passion often makes it difficult for them to empty their mind and focus.
Bolin follows this trend. His mentality means that he is incapable of metalbending, which is a form of earthbending that requires even more willpower. Yet it also means that he has a far more instinctual grasp of lavabending, which requires adaptability and fluidity that the more rigid mindsets of traditional earthbending has trouble dealing with. It's why Toph can't metalbend, because lavabending requires an earthbender to avoid thinking like an earthbender. This is backed up by the fact that Ghazan and Bolin seemed to have similar personalities; both being quite laid back and having a sense of humor.
@@quizzlybear my counter argument is that what defines you in the dominant gene from your family so for example you have blue eyes and your mom has green and your dad has blue that means the blue eye gene was dominant and the green eye gene had no effect which is how bending would work because they can’t fire bend so they can’t produce heat to heat something up which is part of what fire benders do to create fire it takes tons of practice and understanding on other bending styles to be able to create a fire away from your body and the only time we have ever seen that happen was during the sozins comet when jeong jeong crate fire pillars to protect other white lotus members so what makes you think and earth bender could use fire bending to heat earth to an extremely high temperature and heat rocks that are far away from him without any direct contact without being a fire bender and there being no comet
I just wish you showed Bolin winking in that lava fight. Best scene ever
When you mentioned that waterbenders learned how to harness the different phases of water by adapting to their climate two things popped into my head:
1. Waterbenders also studied the different phases of the moon to learn how to phase water in and out if its different states.
2. Science class in the Avatar Universe are suddenly a lot cooler.
There was also some cloud bending things
It would have been cool if they actually used blood bending against the bad guys
I would love to see why Katara banned it and a story of here having to break her own established ban.
@@rafaelachaparrobarriera6179 i feel like Katara making bloodbending illegal kind of made a Streisand effect. In which, people who have no idea it exists or heard the technique as a myth had their suspicions confirmed and led to more people trying to unlock their bloodbending.
Lava Bending really made like Bolin in my eyes. While he was struggling with Metal Bending (which was invented by Toph, who was considered one of the greatest Earthbenders in her time), he ended up learning something even more powerful. It's possible Bolin could end becoming likely a legend by mastering this skill. Let's be real Metal Bending may be an interesting sub skill, but Lava-Bending is just awesome!
The only thing we know about the bad guy lava bender is that he might of had his mustache when he was a kid.
And him and the water bender lady had an unspoken attraction lol
@@Artistgirl254 Stop small talking with the enemy
I think it’s the sister not the mustache thing and it’s my head canon that his sister taught him lava bender or was a waterbender and that’s how he developed the technique
@@kehindehopkins6933 that'd be very interesting! Just like how Iroh learned lightening bending
Metal bending was not common but toph taught people how to metal bend it became common. Bolin can do the same thing to teach people how to lava bend so it can be more common.
Would it be terrible/ asshat move to be one of the only benders on earth to have an extremely rare ability but not share it with the world?
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Katara: *sweats nervously*
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Miguk Moonpark i thought katara bannned it meaning a person could learn it illegally and that also implies many people knew bloodbending existed
i feel like laavbending is like bloodbending of water. It's dangerous and can kill people, instantly.
actually Mako knows lightning bending so he doesn't need a lava bending
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idk why lava bending is such a hot topic. it's just liquid dirt. Water benders can turn water to ice and back again, so why can't earth benders? There's a reason in last air bender the lion turtle basically said it was energy bending
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I think if someone asked me if I wanted to manipulate and be surrounding by liquid fire I’d be like, “No thanks.”
When i saw lavabending in Kora i thought well it makes sense, since in that universe the water bending can froze, unfroze and condensation (in theory i think they can boil water too) so in my mind with the lavabending it's the same concept about freezing water xd but they are heating the earth like with the tectonic plate subducts to make magma
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That’s all well and good, but here’s my problem with Legend of Korea: How did lightning bending become so common? Iroh tells us that it is a technique that goes beyond simple fire bending power, mastery, or prowess, and is almost a spiritual technique. You have to be so in control of your own energy, that you can separate the positive from the negative within you and then release the negative energy outward. We only saw three people in ATLA who could generate lightning, all of which were Fire Nation royalty who we know have access to higher, almost secret degrees of bending techniques and teachings as shown by their very different style of bending compared to other firebenders such as the Fire Nation Military. We also know that all three of these lightning-benders were some of the most powerful firebenders of their time, the most prominent of which being Azula, the only Blue-fire bender we’ve ever seen. But in LoK it’s extremely common. It’s so common, that there’s a vital occupation based around it, and it seems to pay close to minimum wage! How does Mako, an orphaned urchin from the earth kingdom, who had no apparent formal fire bending training or teaching, have the fire bending and physical capabilities to split his energy and produce lightning, when he can’t even split his options and produce a lasting relationship?
Bruh its korra
I have the feeling that some time after Zuko became Fire Lord, he began to think that the lessons Uncle Iroh taught him about lightning bending/redirection shouldn’t just be for a small selection of people but shared with everyone. So much like Toph who made a metal bending accessible to everyone, Zuko did the same. Perhaps released ancient scrolls about lighting bending to the public.
@@livingnystripsteak8427 I know lol. Autocorrect 😅
Evolution??
@@justafrenchfry What do you mean? If I remember basic biology it takes a helluva lot longer than just a few decades for something to evolve lol.
I think it would be more accurate to call the Avatar's Lava bending, Magma Bending. as they are bending the magma from beneath the earth and bringing it to the surface. where as lava benders are creating it.
Okay a few things.
The Avatar before Yangchen is called Szeto.
We actually know of 3 instances of Roku lavabending, although we never directly see the second, which is when he formed the passages in the sage temple out of the magma, as is described by the fire sage helping Aang.
With the above example this also suggests it may have been outside of the Avatar state.
I always saw it in the following ways:
Water:
-Ice, steam, and water
-Blood and Plant
-weakness: no moisture, water, ice, no bending
Earth:
-Stone, Sand, Soil
-Metal and Lava
-weakness: no earth to stand on or use
Air:
-wind, storms, air pressure
-weakness: not really one
Fire:
-Flame and heat
-Lightning
-Weakness: solar eclipse
as a studier of science though, i think that lightning bending also requires a certain affinity for air bending, as if anything, creation of lightning would also be involved with air pressure and atmosphere conditions which an airbender can manipulate. Another theory for fire bending that is based on Iroh's explanation of fire bending, is that firebending doesn't have a source requirement, as all you are doing is projecting energy, not making it, whether it be as fire or lightning or heat. This falls into your theory as to why mako and other firebenders wouldnt be able to lavabend. Because lava isnt fire. It's molten earth. Sure, there is heat involved yes, but thats coming off of the magma/lava, NOT the source of it. Whereas metalbending as you said relies on manipulating the trace amounts of earth left in the metal, lavabending relies on manipulating the pure molten earth in a liquid state, similar to how sand benders can create sandstorms and sand streams to move their sandships without being airbenders, they simply manipulate the sand in a way that is akin to air or water and make it move in such a way to generate that force. Metal bending is about taking something dense, and manipulating it as though it was a liquid. But with lavabending, you are taking something dense, and not only manipulating its form, but also its state. Metal benders never convert their metal to liquid form, only manipulating it as such, but with earth, you are achieving a similar result by converting the rock into liquid, as you said just like ice to water to steam for water benders, but given the high melting point of rock, it would be a much harder thing to do.
I always saw it as lavabending is when you're vibrating the more finite particles of Earth so much that it turns into lava. You're essentially generating heat. Technically metalbenders should be able to do the same thing. Water benders should be able to actually create steam and boiling water. Firebenders/Airbenders should be able to become cold benders in that same regard by slowing the movement of particles in the air/around them (in the case of firebenders)
What about the fire temple on crescent island, the monk there helping team avatar stopped the lava tube and he was a firebender
Plants is earth, I saw Toph bending some vine plants in a fight
Also Air have Flight and Spiritual projection (dunno if they count as sub-elements)
Fire got combustion and blue flames (hotter than normal flames)
I understood lightning bending to be about superheating air to create a plasma
@@alexzander7386 if i remember it right, he just took out the heating of the lava, solidifing it, not effectively bending (in this case moving) it
Me, who should clearly be learning for the exam I have in 5h: "Interesting!"
Suki, Ty Lee, and Toph all had a thing for Sokka.
Making him the most dangerous bender: _backbending_
You forgot Yuei, or whatever the moon chick is. But he only dated Suki (as far as we know).
I completely disagree that you would need fire bending genetics to lava bend, water benders don’t need air bending genetics to bend water vapor, nor do they need earth bending genetics to bend solid water, lava is simple a phase of earth and I don’t think temperature matters as water vapor is over a 100 degrees Celsius, but they don’t need fire bending genetics do they
Your right
@Declan McKenna Or even modifying bending form slightly by observing a firebender...?
Well said. Lavabending has nothing to do with firebending because lava is just molten earth
I always though waterbenders were bending fog/mist and clouds more than water vapor. Steam fucking hurts man, it would be a horrible way to die via a waterbender. Like damn take some pity on me and freeze me instead.
It may be extremely rare but I wouldn't say that it's a mix of earth and fire genetics.
1) Waterbenders can freeze and evaporate water and use it as they please.
2) Tenzin states that airbenders can keep themselves warm in cold temperatures while heating up the air around them
3) Firebenders can (kinda) create plasma with lightning-bending, which is (kinda) hot fire.
So it's not a stretch to believe that earthbenders could heat up earth to the point it melted.
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"Good luck nerfing something like that"
*Proceeds to show a lava blade cutting through a heavily locked reinforced steel door like it was made of butter*
Yeah no... this element has the same destructive intensity of fire but also the the more solid constitution and permanence of earth. I SHUDDER to think what a trained focused and precise user of this element given generations of development would be capable of.
Like singlehandedly breaking the walls of ba sing se.
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If you could bend the earth so as to produce lava
then you can (in theory) control the continental plates
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thus, you can change the earth as you like it to be
Since every bender can control the state of their element, like ice for water, and lava for earth. Fire is a reaction not matter, and thus does not have a state, but air benders should be able to create EXTREMELY cold liquid air, they just haven’t tried like how toph hadn’t realized how to metal bend until thousands of years after earth bending had been established.
I'd say differently, as Firebending is energy projection. The sub-elements with fire-bending that are confirmed are Combustion and Lightning generation. IMO, Thermo-bending is possible as while most firebending is push oriented, Thermo could be its pull orientation. Heating a cup of water without sparking a flame, freezing a person solid while the ground is scorched at their feet, draining a car-battery by pulling the energy out and over heating the engine. Thermo-bending would be entirely about give and take. The energy must go someplace else.
Isn’t fire in the state of plasma
@@ripcandice70 No thats a misconception fire in fact is not plasma.
@@aurelian2668 fire is actually partial plasma created by the ionisation of gas in the combustion of molecules.
It differs from regular plasma that is a stream or a cloud of electron from super heated gas
how about the scene where firelord sozin transfer heat away from the lava? The form he makes looks like lightning redirection
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I really love Ghazan, he seemed too happy looking Bolin using Lavabending against him
I mean red lotus where showed quite evil which they where not. They where just kinda communist of the series and gazan even being support antagonist wants that the lava bending should be know and carry forward by some one as he most probably won't marry or can carry by himself.
I can’t be the only one who thought that Lavabending is a skill that both a earth bender and fire bender can learn
I'm honestly surprised people actually thought that.
I thought that it was impossible for firebenders to lavabend
Yeah it is impossible for them to do so. And yeah I thought it was crazy people thought fire benders could lava bend. Like seriously what is lava made of? Earth, just melted. I’m sure fire benders could make lava by shooting a massive fire blast at the ground they definitely couldn’t control it
Well I don’t blame them because in ATLA when the avatar state was being explained, we see avatar kyoshi pick up huge earth statues, avatar Kuruk make a giant wave, avatar yangchen make giant wind, and the fire avatar (I think he is unnamed) bend lava out of volcanos so it was heavily implied firebenders can bend lava. Also avatar roku was a master at lava bending and his best element was fire. We don’t know who taught him lava bending but it’s implied that a fire bender did.
A reason, other than the fire avatar bending lava, for me to think that fire benders could also lava bend was that earth and water benders from what we could see could bend mud. Like in that episode where katara fought toph using mud and toph made that face mud creature in the BaSingSe episode. Another reason I believed it was that 3 of the 4 types of benders need their element in in their vicinity to use it, ie. water benders need water, earth benders need earth, even air benders need air to bend, but why does fire appear out of thin air for fire benders? I believed that fire benders were really bending the HEAT of fire, therefore making the air more flammable causing that stream of fire. And if they were bending the heat, then couldn’t they bend the heat of lava? But this is all just what I thought.
Its just really hot earth like ice is really cold water. I don't get why anyone's confused
Same here
@Tuperwear yes. We saw that with sozin when he bent the gasses at the volcano with roku.
Kram setnom agreed
Roku's been shown in the show to have used Lavabending 3 times.
55 BG Volcano eruption on Crescent Island.
12 BG Fighting said Volcano which led to his death.
99 AG He used it to destroy the Fire Temple during the winter solstice.
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3:19 actually in Book 1 - Avatar Roku: Winter Solstice, Part 2; whilst being on the top floor of the Fire Temple, Avatar Roku split the floor by turning the solid earth to lava and letting it tear through to expose the floor below (and maybe some floors below as well?). After that he proceeded to bend the existing lava from underneath the temple skyward to demolish the entire temple.
I haven't seen the later seasons and didn't know this was a thing. At first I was confused, but my own immediate intuitive explanation is that they are simply shaking the earth to the point of it combusting and melting almost instantly.
Although that feels like a huge reach, and seeing an Earthbender practically throwing fire makes me feel uncomfortable, I can respect the idea I guess.
Wish Bolin was given more highlights and actions when he discovered lavabending but nevertheless its’s so cool!
Never questioned why lavabending existed or why it was rare. I always thought it was weird that earthbenders couldn’t bend lava like they can mud. Since it’s just molten earth. I figured it was just a balancing thing. But for a handful of earth benders being able to bend and create lava just never didn’t make sense to me at least
Maybe Earthbenders just never tried to bend Lava, just like how they never thought of trying to bend Metal.
Or it's so rare because finding Lava to train Bending with means going near a Volcano. Not to mention that it's incredibly dangerous.
You can't afford Mistakes during Lavabending.
@@johannesseyfried7933 Same conclusion I came to, we never see a earth bender near lava. Except Bolin but since he's lava bender does it count? Maybe normal earth benders can move the lava, but they can't create lava from available earth
@@johannesseyfried7933 the tried in the history but they failed! maybe toph is the first or there was some but not teached! also the sand bending is really similar like metal! sand is made from silicium which is a metal!
I always theorized that lava benders have to have both fire and Earth bending ancestry while being born an earthbender, with the exception of the avatar
2:05 his name was Avatar SEZTO and I'm like most avatars where he went around the world saving people he focused mostly on the fire Nation and trying to save his people who were suffering from conflict ,warfare and infighting ,he rejected all of his Avatar privileges slowly worked his way up to bureaucratic administrator and ground adviser to the fire lord of his time an Avatar who put his people first for and foremost in his mind, is portrait hanging to the fire Nation Royal palace has holding a fireball in one hand and an abacus at the other showing he was both powerful and intelligent.
Everyone can Metal end as stated by Toph in legend of Korra but when Bolin lava bends she calls it a rare talent meaning it’s probably genetic
12:01 ok I have a bit of a problem here when he says "single target focus" even in the original series Hama who created it was able to blood bend Sokka and Aang at the same time as well as in Korra we've seen particularly talented blood benders (Yakone and Tarrlock) bloodbend entire rooms full of people and in Yakone's case this included a fully realized avatar.
Correction, Roku converted earth to lava whilst destroying his temple.
False, Roku split the earth and pulled up the Lava from beneath the temples volcano.
@@Ravenbones true
God, Avatar has such badass choreography.
i love how this video only reinterates what Iroh taught to zuko about being whole only when you understand all basic bending arts besides your own. Bolin fought ghazan multiple times and was near a primarily water bender for a long time to adapt those practices, and I add similarity to water bending in this case because its a liquid, yet denser, and we can see how both of those lava benders use not so rigid and not so fluid movements to do this
You have no idea how much I missed that intro 😭💜
It’s bin a long time welcome back
Bolin not being able to Metal bend low-key broke my heart, he wanted it so bad. When he started to Lava bend i let out a scream of accomplishment on his behalf i was so hyped 😂
8:34 it looks like Kuvira is saying the words
The world desperately needs another Avatar series focusing aroumd adult Team Aang
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