Can you imagine being a Rurouni Kenshin level swordsman and yet despite having master class swordsmanship it literally doesnt even matter because you exist in a universe where people bend the elements around them with their handsWho was the White Lotus kidding with this?
Well you dont fight benders with conventional weapons or tactics, that would be stupid.
>I don't sound like a drooling retard if you just ignore all the times in the series that non benders successfully fight bender opponents
>>143344297Didn't Katara job to Ty Lee one time? It's all about mashups and being able to blitz.
>>143344297>Can you imagine being a Rurouni Kenshin level swordsmanRouroni Kenshin's a fucking chump.>despite having master class swordsmanship it literally doesnt even matter because you exist in a universe where people bend the elements around them with their handsAnd yet he was beating firebender ass with said aforementioned masterclass swordsmanship during the peak of Sozin's Comet when he and the White Lotus liberated Ba-sing Se from Fire Nation occupation. Doesn't look useless to me there.
>>143344326This. Even Zuko took on blade weapons, and had an edge in battle for a brief moment.
>>143344326>Grossly misremembering how stupid the average Earth and Fire Bender is where its clear that schooling is for the privledged class since most benders who arent in the military are poor and dont really have complex thoughts outside of I MOVE ROCK GOOD
>>143344331>Jobbing to a Chi BenderIts respectable to accept defeat in that.
>>143344297>Rurouni KenshinWho
>>143344387A pedophile.
Piandao > Iroh
>>143344297He could use a wooden sword. That can be deadly, ask Kojiro Sasaki
>>143344297Wasn't he jumping 30 feet into the air like an airbender?
>>143344297Suko beat benders with just swirds
>>143344510Sokka, a literal eskimo beat benders with a boomerang
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People forget that the protagonists and antagonists are some of the best benders in the world (including katara for some reason) like in the earth kingdom lifting big rock is a cool enough spectacle that people pay to watch it, whenever we see something cool happening it's either an important character or several benders working together.Holding regular fire bending kingdom citizens to that standard is stupid
Piandao took out 100 Fire Army soldiers. I imagine many of them were firebenders.
>>143344297>bend the elements around them with their handsJust chop their hands/arms off then.The bender cannot bend if you disable the hand.
>>143344604he said wronglyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHfYCF4u4jo
>>143344604Wanna say that again Anon?
>>143344297think of it this way: in a world where everyone relies on bending for all combat, being able to use a physical weapon competently is a unique and lost art that everyone is unprepared for.Hence Ty Lee mogging everyone with just some pretty good acrobatics
>>143344642just a drop of a water job please
>>143344331If you, as a bender, let someone with punching range, you only have yourself to blame when you lose. Earth and water can literally immobilize someone in an instant. Toph does it so casually that she uses it as a joke.And while Toph is unarguably a pioneering prodigy, I don't see what the average person can do against an earthbender doing something as simple as 'I make a thirty foot tall platform for myself to stand on while I throw rocks at you' besides hide.
>>143344297There's a reason that Piando's training was all about not fighting a bender head on and doing everything you can to distract, ambush or outmanoeuvre them.Because once you get within stabbing distance, no amount of magic kung fu is gonna save you.
>>143344858Can most earthbenders actually make a pillar that high?
>>143344642Imagine the handjobs
>>143344297>This guy is totally useless against benders!>Bodies countless fire bender in Ba Sing SeAt least watch the show before subjecting us to your dog shit opinions faggot.
>>143344387Weeb trash, don't worry about it.
>>143344639>>143344642Not gonna lie this is cool and hot as fuck
>>143344927One of the wrestlers Toph fought could do it. And the Dai Li were crawling around on the ceiling besides. It seems like it would be very easy for a trained earthbender to just lift the ground around them.
>>143344297Remember Jet vs Aang in season 1?Jet just straight up wins that fight. A non-bender with a couple hookblades and no formal training beat a master Airbender.
>>143344297the introduction to firearms would be a huge change in the world of avatar
