I always forget about combustion bending because of how rare it was.
Ice is just frozen water so idk if it should really count. Healing is a nice benefit but water is also the least likely element to be around unless you live near a major body of it.
Water bending is objectively the scarcest element and specifically why they settle at the poles where construction with ice is simple. That’s why they have so many benefits like healing and being overpowered with blood bending.
Air and fire are at will, and earth exists wherever humans live since we aren’t aquatic. Water definitely has to plan for not being near water, no one else really has to do that kind of a thing.
Water has healing (and ice, technically). Fire has combustion and also has lava. Also, blood bending is OP
I headcannon combustion bending as a mix of air and fire
I always forget about combustion bending because of how rare it was.
Ice is just frozen water so idk if it should really count. Healing is a nice benefit but water is also the least likely element to be around unless you live near a major body of it.
Katara healed Aang while riding on Appa. I think they can manage.
Weirdly defensive lol
Water bending is objectively the scarcest element and specifically why they settle at the poles where construction with ice is simple. That’s why they have so many benefits like healing and being overpowered with blood bending.
Air and fire are at will, and earth exists wherever humans live since we aren’t aquatic. Water definitely has to plan for not being near water, no one else really has to do that kind of a thing.
It’s been a minute, but I seem to remember Katara carrying a vial of water with her, maybe that’s standard practice among water benders.
I’m sure it was, but like I said no one else has to do that. Water is the hardest to come by but that’s why it’s the most utilitarian.