What is the best bending style in Avatar: The Last Airbender?

By YPB Team

Each bending art is a philosophy as much as a power — rooted in culture, discipline, and spirit. Which one would you master?

Waterbending

The fluid, adaptive bending art of the Water Tribes that uses the flow of water — and in its darkest form, blood — as both weapon and shield.

1000pts

Airbending

The evasive, freedom-rooted art of the Air Nomads based on total nonattachment — the rarest and most spiritually demanding of the four bending disciplines.

914pts

Bloodbending

The forbidden and terrifying sub-skill of waterbending that lets the bender control the fluids inside a living body, effectively puppeting them.

571pts

Metalbending

Toph's revolutionary sub-skill of earthbending that allows a bender to manipulate the earth impurities within refined metal.

285pts

Lightning generation

The elite firebending technique mastered only by Ozai and Azula that involves separating positive and negative energy to generate a deadly bolt.

285pts

Lightning redirection

Iroh's revolutionary defensive technique that borrows from waterbending philosophy to absorb and channel an opponent's lightning safely through the body.

285pts

Earthbending

The powerful, immovable bending art of the Earth Kingdom based on endurance and confronting obstacles head-on rather than working around them.

0pts

Firebending

The aggressive, internally-driven art of the Fire Nation that generates fire from the bender's own breath and life energy rather than requiring a nearby source.