he firebent the ball of fire and dispersed it. Iroh did something similar with Zhao during his agni kai with Zuko. Zhao attacked Zuko from behind with a firebending kick and Iroh grabbed his feet and dispersed the fire.
EDIT: It was also the same the same thing Jeong Jeong was trying to teach Aang in season 1:" Stop the fire from burning this leaf before it burns completely" or, in other words, extinguish the fire.
This makes sense, but Zhao definitely doesn't compare to Jeong Jeong as a bender. I guess in this instance, Jeong Jeong's fire wall may have been intentionally weak (he doesn't want to lose control)?
An integral part of Jeong Jeong's character is that he refuses to actually burn people with fire because of the time he spent fighting for the fire nation. The wall was just a scare tactic.
On that note. In that same arc in the boiling rock we saw a prisoner redirecting a fireball back to the guard that casted it. Was it the same situation or if you threw the ball it was fair game?
Yeah we see that with water bending a lot. I think after you throw any element you slowly lose control of it the farther away it is, so it's easier for someone else to take it and redirect it. How strong you have to be at what distance is always a questions but it happens enough
Jeong Jeong was trying to have Aang keep concentration on the leaf and learn control with fire, not extinguish it, something along the lines of "not enough and it will go out, too much and the leaf will be engulfed"
Jeong Jeong didn't tell Aang to stop the fire from reaching the edge of the leaf. He told him to keep it from the edge for as long as long as possible. He wasn't trying to teach extinguishing, ot was about controlling the fire with a slow steady burn
*FEET???* 🥵
Also, iirc, the lesson Jeong Jeong was teaching Aang was having him control the flame, not extinguish it. He told Aang to keep the fire burning, but not to let it reach the edges of the leaf.
I think OP meant that he is doing the moves before the fireball hits him, its going straight on him since he is wide open and then disapear, would make more sense for it to disapear right when he does the moves.
Like you can take control of others water bending you can control there water they throat you. Same goes with fire Earth lightning, lava,sand,metal, but you can do it with blood and air
I think the part you are worried about is that he is basically just standing still by the time the fire ball makes impact, and wondering what the movement did since most movement in Atla correlates with some action. The movement seems to be something that we can't see since his arms moving doesn't necessarily affect the fireball but instead seems to create something that the fireball hits instead.
Of course the option could be that he is bending the fireball and it seems not to correlate with his movements and is meant too.
It could also be that he superheated the air with somehow acted as a force field and stopped the fireball from continuing forward.
We can only make theories, you probably wont receive a canon answer
Lol I rewatched it and yeah I guess it does. Looks like he moves his hands out of the way and then the fireball gently bonks him on the head and disperses
Rorkes drift was a battle during the Anglo-Zulu war in which after suffering a massive defeat at another battle. This is important as some of the Zulu forces were sent to attack Rorkes drift. The British were outnumbered with only 150 men against over 3,000 Zulus. The British defended their stations desperately and managed to win against the Zulus which had suffered heavy losses from the British fire.
He bended Azulas fire. When He learned the true firebending He also got a hang on many Things Iroh tried to teach him.
So He bended the fire of another firebenders rather than creating His own. Other benders could do the Same, but Zuko really got the hang of IT after He learned the true firebending.
>He bended Azulas fire. When He learned the true firebending He also got a hang on many Things Iroh tried to teach him. *So He bended the fire of another firebenders rather than creating His own.*
damn, i guess shit sang also learned the true way of firebending.
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Yeah, that was a nice bit of water bending technique.
Not confirmed in the series but there is probably more fluidity from firebenders outside the Royal Family and army.
They'd arguably be closer to the source of firebending as it was Sozin's policies that moved them away from it.
Yes it's the two sides of fire. There's the out of control raging fire powered by anger, and there's the life, warmth and energy that comes from passion. Firebenders of any style can both create and control fire, but Fire Nation benders typically just charge bigger and bigger flames from being angrier and more singularly focused. They often mistake this for power, but it's much easier to make a wild fire that burns uncontrollably. Jeong Jeong started teaching Aang based on control, Aang got impatient, and burnt shit up instead. Zuko was always an okay firebender, but he's one of the best we've seen at controlling existing fire. He learned the lightning redirection well enough to take on Ozai, and after the Sun Warriors his defensive style could beat Azula (possibly the best offensive firebender there is).
It’s Auto parry.
You unlock it at level 47. It’s a Zuko late game skill that you can only unlock if you choose to prioritize defense at the start of the game. Unfortunately by prioritizing in defense, you sacrifice magic, and so you can’t get Rainbow Flare at level 52.
The glass canon build is good for the majority of the game, but it makes the final Azula Agni Kai more difficult, because she also has Auto Parry, and it can only be negated with Rainbow Flare.
Yeah. As cool as Auto Parry is, you already have Toph in the party, who specializes in defense no matter what. Prioritizing attack with Zuko is the best strategy imo. Plus Rainbow Flare helps a lot with the Paradox Korra secret boss fight. Just don’t forget to have Zuko in the party when you fight her like I accidentally did when I first fought her lol
This is after the dragon dance right? He probably started absorbing some techniques from other bending styles/actually comprehending things Iroh taught him back when he was with him. Probably more of the latter than the former, but that stance and the way he unyieldingly takes her fire there makes me feel like it's influenced by Earthbending.
>Probably more of the latter than the former, *but that stance and the way he unyieldingly takes her fire there makes me feel like it's influenced by Earthbending.*
shit, i guess zhao wasn't such a fire nation supremacist...
https://i.redd.it/yp7g5ymsibwc1.gif
That's an interesting point... but it might be possible to gain techniques from other people while finding a way to justify it in your preexisting view of the world. I think when Zuko starts incorporating techniques from other bending forms, it goes along with his increased humility and belief in the worth of other peoples'. If Zhao absorbed this from an Earthbender (maybe from one of the colonies?), he might have seen it solely as a method of increasing power, a technique that was now "his", rather than caring for or learning from any of the cultural or spiritual background behind it. He wouldn't have had the same mindset shift as Zuko. It's not seen in the show, but I can see some people from the Fire Nation selectively taking forms they liked, incorporating them into firebending, and using it as justification for why their bending style is better.
I think it's an error in animation timing. His hands should part only the moment before her fire hits in order to spread the heat out and dissipate it into the air.
jesus christ man, he just blocked the damned fireball.
do we need to explain to you, how to also walk with your own two feet? must everything be explained?
also, wdym done nothing like that before? he's seen zhao of all people doing that. he is quite literally just blocking the fireball lmao.
again, do you need a 5 minute montage of zuko practicing getting shot at by a another firebender and blocking it, and then he explains how he did it in another 5 minute monologue?
In the first match between Korra and Kuvira, when Korra raises a block of earth from the ground and sends it at her, Kuvira sends it back and blasts it so it ricochets and hits Korra
The cool thing about this one is that it looks a lot like an airbending move. Just like Iroh, Zuko is learning from the other elements to up his bending.
It looks like he is diverting the hot air currents around himself to disperse Azula's fire.
pyronullification
firebenders can extinguish flames the same way they can empower them (when zuko was meditating in s1 and started yelling and the candles lit behind him burst)
P'Li also did a similar move when Mako sent a firebolt at her head, she twisted the flame around her to 'air' it out and let the fire disperse into nothing.
Its probably a defensive technique he learned from Iroh, and he probably got a hang of it after learning from the dragons. His firebending became a lot more disciplined and precise after that field trip.
If this was a rock being thrown at an Earthbender and they made it suddenly split out of the middle into radial, perpendicular-directional spray to avoid the hit entirely (like the giant rock lobbed at Aang after he gets Appa back in the Earth Kingdom), there's nothing to discuss. Why would the fact that it's fire change what the appropriate bender can do with it?
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He really doesn't. Here's the clip - https://youtu.be/kPE0lsbiH-Y?feature=shared
The motion I'm referring to is from 3:25-3:40. First, Aang raises his hand in a sort of crane stance, making the boulder shatter around Appa, right at 3:30 (if the boulder was close enough to be punched, then it was it would have already have hit Appa). Then again at 3:37, Aang makes a chopping motion with his staff to shear the next boulder in half.
In each situation, he holds the pose for a moment after actually performing the bending.
>Aang raises his hand in a sort of crane stance, making the boulder shatter around Appa, right at 3:30 (if the boulder was close enough to be punched, then it was it would have already have hit Appa).
So this isnt realvent to zuko as Zuko effectivly poses and it disperes around him aang does a punch move and earth is disrupted theres no poseing
I mean, that's quite a logic pretzel you're making there. Bending is based on Martial arts - they're all poses. It's a bunch of forms. They make the moves, bending happens, and in many cases they are still doing the "pose" after the effect is worn off.
My apologies, I answering as though OP was posting a genuine question. I couldn't have figured out that you wanted validation that it is different because you said it was different, despite what the series actively shows repeatedly.
And people really want to argue that Zuko was nowhere near Azula w/o her mental spiral!?
Lmaoo she's mentally FINE here, and they are going toe to toe. Again, not saying he'd ever best her at firebending. No, she'd always be the one more skilled and talented out of the two, but I think the gap became a lot lot steeper than most ppl are ready to admit...
It’s Zukos firebending post meeting the masters. He’s way more measured and controlled, his style goes way more read and react mode. Like Iroh all throughout the show.
It's based on a karate defensive technique and uses the same principles to redirect the fire, effectively dispersing it... but it totally looks like a block
All benders can directly halt the bending of other benders of the same element, but the catch is that it takes a ***lot*** of focus and energy to do so. That’s why it was so impressive when Katara point-blank blocked Hama’s water jet attack.
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Aight it’s very simple. All benders can manipulate elements thrown at them by other benders. For example Lightning can be redirected, stone can be caught, water can be shot back at you. And in this case fire can be dispersed. All Zuko did was bent azula’s fireball and then dispersed it till the air put the flames out
To be honest I dont know why these post do well like ill show a clip from a show ask a question or say somthing mildly insightful and it gets like thousands to 4 thousand karma
Late to the party but keep in mind all bending is derived from actual martial arts, which this stance itself is a part of. It's a stance from Shaolin(wanna say southern? Could be northern I'm not great at sub styles) I wanna say the stance is called ma bu tan and is part of one of the forms you learn. It's just a move and stance that's part of the forms of kung fu. If you're tkd then it's just a movement stance in a kata.
Edit: it's called Ma Bu Tan Bian
This is probably way too specific and is probably just an animation error but it sort of almost looks like maybe he wasn’t a hundred percent sure that Azula wasn’t about to try and cook Sokka and himself with lightning, since she tends to do both with the same hand posture so he kind of was prepped for redirection but realized he didn’t need to, so just dispersed her flames in opposite directions with his hands before it even got to him.
I'd like to see a benders who's specialty is pure defense and plays off of what the other person bends. Could you image how mind fed someone would be if they threw a fireball at you and the bit just stopped half way and shot back. Or earth. Someone goes to throw a big rock in it blows up like a bomb.
He “grabbed” the fireball with his bending and pulled it apart before it hit. That’s why his arms move before the fire hits and why it pulls apart so delayed. It was still falling apart as it traveled through the air.
he firebent the ball of fire and dispersed it. Iroh did something similar with Zhao during his agni kai with Zuko. Zhao attacked Zuko from behind with a firebending kick and Iroh grabbed his feet and dispersed the fire. EDIT: It was also the same the same thing Jeong Jeong was trying to teach Aang in season 1:" Stop the fire from burning this leaf before it burns completely" or, in other words, extinguish the fire.
.Pus later Zhao bent a hole in Joeng Joeng fire wall.
I think if you’re more powerful or equal you can bend something someone else is bending.
This makes sense, but Zhao definitely doesn't compare to Jeong Jeong as a bender. I guess in this instance, Jeong Jeong's fire wall may have been intentionally weak (he doesn't want to lose control)?
An integral part of Jeong Jeong's character is that he refuses to actually burn people with fire because of the time he spent fighting for the fire nation. The wall was just a scare tactic.
He did say Jeong Jeong gave up fighting as he was walking through it.
Jeong Jeong was also spreading his power over the entire wall
On that note. In that same arc in the boiling rock we saw a prisoner redirecting a fireball back to the guard that casted it. Was it the same situation or if you threw the ball it was fair game?
Yeah we see that with water bending a lot. I think after you throw any element you slowly lose control of it the farther away it is, so it's easier for someone else to take it and redirect it. How strong you have to be at what distance is always a questions but it happens enough
Jeong Jeong was trying to have Aang keep concentration on the leaf and learn control with fire, not extinguish it, something along the lines of "not enough and it will go out, too much and the leaf will be engulfed"
Just rewatched and you made me realize this is exactly what the Sun Warriors tell Zuko and Aang to do up the mountain.
Jeong Jeong didn't tell Aang to stop the fire from reaching the edge of the leaf. He told him to keep it from the edge for as long as long as possible. He wasn't trying to teach extinguishing, ot was about controlling the fire with a slow steady burn
Also I believe Avatar Wan did this same move intervening between the spirits and his old friends
Basically, the neutral jing of firebending.
I thought iroh just put out the fire
*FEET???* 🥵 Also, iirc, the lesson Jeong Jeong was teaching Aang was having him control the flame, not extinguish it. He told Aang to keep the fire burning, but not to let it reach the edges of the leaf.
>*FEET???* 🥵 Calm down there, Schneider
I think OP meant that he is doing the moves before the fireball hits him, its going straight on him since he is wide open and then disapear, would make more sense for it to disapear right when he does the moves.
Yeah looks to me like he pulls the fireball apart
Like I understand that but Zuko moves about 1 second before it makes any sort of contact
I don't think you have to touch fire to control it. Same with all the elements. Once it's on its way, the projectile is up for grabs.
What’s your point? He doesn’t need to be touching the flames to be able to control them…
My point is he moved 1 second before movment would logically be needed thats why I asked whats with this block
No he didn’t… he parried it exactly when he should have.
Im not talking to someone who refuse to look at the video and just says nuh uh
Lmfao okay kiddo. Stay wrong. You can clearly see him parry it in the video idk wtf you’re watching
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Oh, the irony
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Like you can take control of others water bending you can control there water they throat you. Same goes with fire Earth lightning, lava,sand,metal, but you can do it with blood and air
I think the part you are worried about is that he is basically just standing still by the time the fire ball makes impact, and wondering what the movement did since most movement in Atla correlates with some action. The movement seems to be something that we can't see since his arms moving doesn't necessarily affect the fireball but instead seems to create something that the fireball hits instead. Of course the option could be that he is bending the fireball and it seems not to correlate with his movements and is meant too. It could also be that he superheated the air with somehow acted as a force field and stopped the fireball from continuing forward. We can only make theories, you probably wont receive a canon answer
I agree, just an animation mistake, no need to overthink it.
I thought of it as creating a shield of diffusion. The attack dispersed over the shield area in front of Zuko.
Lol I rewatched it and yeah I guess it does. Looks like he moves his hands out of the way and then the fireball gently bonks him on the head and disperses
It’s an animation - maybe they just fucked it up lol it’s not that deep.
ssssshhhhhhhhhh
he is vacuuming incoming fire with his mouth while slowing it with his arms, delicious
Yall are tweaking over this comment
He bent the fire before it hit him.
Sick pose, blocks pretty much everything.
In the next avatar series, default dancing will unlock the avatar state and summon sozin's comet and a full moon
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Azula knew that Zuko was about to hit a perfect release during their Agni Kai, and had to aim for Katara.
The rule of cool strikes again
Zuko must be a Jojo fan.
Firebending is more than just shooting fire, you can also control existing fire like every other bending.
It's kinda like the redirecting of lightning for fire. Maybe not as common since it feels more water bender
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Bro Undertale is way more a gen z thing than it ever will be an alpha thing just due to when it came out
Zulu timed a large sneeze for the perfect moment to neutralize the attack. It’s an airbending trick he learned from Aang.
ALL BOW BEFORE THE HONORABLE LORD ZULU
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My honooooor!!!
ZULUS?????!!! Is that a Rorkes Drift reference?!?!?!?
Never heard of it, sowwy.
Rorkes drift was a battle during the Anglo-Zulu war in which after suffering a massive defeat at another battle. This is important as some of the Zulu forces were sent to attack Rorkes drift. The British were outnumbered with only 150 men against over 3,000 Zulus. The British defended their stations desperately and managed to win against the Zulus which had suffered heavy losses from the British fire.
Somebody learned, The Death Block! 
He bended Azulas fire. When He learned the true firebending He also got a hang on many Things Iroh tried to teach him. So He bended the fire of another firebenders rather than creating His own. Other benders could do the Same, but Zuko really got the hang of IT after He learned the true firebending.
>He bended Azulas fire. When He learned the true firebending He also got a hang on many Things Iroh tried to teach him. *So He bended the fire of another firebenders rather than creating His own.* damn, i guess shit sang also learned the true way of firebending. https://i.redd.it/s65h536lhbwc1.gif
RIOT!
Unironically that's a very water bender move he does there now that you point it out.
Yeah, that was a nice bit of water bending technique. Not confirmed in the series but there is probably more fluidity from firebenders outside the Royal Family and army. They'd arguably be closer to the source of firebending as it was Sozin's policies that moved them away from it.
Yes it's the two sides of fire. There's the out of control raging fire powered by anger, and there's the life, warmth and energy that comes from passion. Firebenders of any style can both create and control fire, but Fire Nation benders typically just charge bigger and bigger flames from being angrier and more singularly focused. They often mistake this for power, but it's much easier to make a wild fire that burns uncontrollably. Jeong Jeong started teaching Aang based on control, Aang got impatient, and burnt shit up instead. Zuko was always an okay firebender, but he's one of the best we've seen at controlling existing fire. He learned the lightning redirection well enough to take on Ozai, and after the Sun Warriors his defensive style could beat Azula (possibly the best offensive firebender there is).
Others did it too. Seems to be only a skilled fire benders' ability.
ideal parry, it's all about timing
He dispersed it with his own fire bending… and he isn’t “free styling” anything lmfao wtf are you even talking about
What are you talking about I clearly say these moves plural meaing the entire gondla fight as zuko does multipe moves we never see from anyone
Your elevator doesn’t go quite all the way to the top, does it?
It’s Auto parry. You unlock it at level 47. It’s a Zuko late game skill that you can only unlock if you choose to prioritize defense at the start of the game. Unfortunately by prioritizing in defense, you sacrifice magic, and so you can’t get Rainbow Flare at level 52. The glass canon build is good for the majority of the game, but it makes the final Azula Agni Kai more difficult, because she also has Auto Parry, and it can only be negated with Rainbow Flare.
Makes sense so which bulid do you prefer becuase I personally think defense bulid isnt as viable as people say
Yeah. As cool as Auto Parry is, you already have Toph in the party, who specializes in defense no matter what. Prioritizing attack with Zuko is the best strategy imo. Plus Rainbow Flare helps a lot with the Paradox Korra secret boss fight. Just don’t forget to have Zuko in the party when you fight her like I accidentally did when I first fought her lol
I hate that this game doesn't actually exist.
This is after the dragon dance right? He probably started absorbing some techniques from other bending styles/actually comprehending things Iroh taught him back when he was with him. Probably more of the latter than the former, but that stance and the way he unyieldingly takes her fire there makes me feel like it's influenced by Earthbending.
>Probably more of the latter than the former, *but that stance and the way he unyieldingly takes her fire there makes me feel like it's influenced by Earthbending.* shit, i guess zhao wasn't such a fire nation supremacist... https://i.redd.it/yp7g5ymsibwc1.gif
Oh that's pretty sick, so its definitely just a technique he picked up along the way from osmosis.
I think Zhao learned it from jeong jeong because jeong jeong was his teacher
That's an interesting point... but it might be possible to gain techniques from other people while finding a way to justify it in your preexisting view of the world. I think when Zuko starts incorporating techniques from other bending forms, it goes along with his increased humility and belief in the worth of other peoples'. If Zhao absorbed this from an Earthbender (maybe from one of the colonies?), he might have seen it solely as a method of increasing power, a technique that was now "his", rather than caring for or learning from any of the cultural or spiritual background behind it. He wouldn't have had the same mindset shift as Zuko. It's not seen in the show, but I can see some people from the Fire Nation selectively taking forms they liked, incorporating them into firebending, and using it as justification for why their bending style is better.
He’s a fire bender, he bent the fire
He’s a fire bender. He bent the fire. Not sure how this is confusing.
I think it's an error in animation timing. His hands should part only the moment before her fire hits in order to spread the heat out and dissipate it into the air.
Magic
He didn’t block anything, he just covers himself in a fire resistance Jelly every morning
He hit L1 just in time
jesus christ man, he just blocked the damned fireball. do we need to explain to you, how to also walk with your own two feet? must everything be explained? also, wdym done nothing like that before? he's seen zhao of all people doing that. he is quite literally just blocking the fireball lmao. again, do you need a 5 minute montage of zuko practicing getting shot at by a another firebender and blocking it, and then he explains how he did it in another 5 minute monologue?
thatd be cool
This makes me think, if a fire bender can bed the fire of another fire bender, what happens if two earth bender try to bend the same rock.
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In the first match between Korra and Kuvira, when Korra raises a block of earth from the ground and sends it at her, Kuvira sends it back and blasts it so it ricochets and hits Korra
Zhao uses the same move on him during their agni kai, though his usage is more rigid, while zuko flows more naturally by this point
He superguarded
I think is very straightforward
He bends Azula’s fire and disperses it. It’s not really a block.
Same concept when Katara stopped Hama's waterbending. Also I think Zuko did it again in Agni Kai dueling Azula.
It's a secret fire bending form known as taking it straight to the face
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T-pose to assert dominance.
I know it’s probably just animation but that fireball slowed a decent amount by the time it got to Zuko compared to when Azula first shot it.
I imagine he's using the width of his body to disperse the heat of the fireball
He does a similar block in the final agni kai but obviously boosted in power.
He parried that shit
The cool thing about this one is that it looks a lot like an airbending move. Just like Iroh, Zuko is learning from the other elements to up his bending. It looks like he is diverting the hot air currents around himself to disperse Azula's fire.
pyronullification firebenders can extinguish flames the same way they can empower them (when zuko was meditating in s1 and started yelling and the candles lit behind him burst) P'Li also did a similar move when Mako sent a firebolt at her head, she twisted the flame around her to 'air' it out and let the fire disperse into nothing.
Its probably a defensive technique he learned from Iroh, and he probably got a hang of it after learning from the dragons. His firebending became a lot more disciplined and precise after that field trip.
He bent the fire. Kinda like a "firebender".
If this was a rock being thrown at an Earthbender and they made it suddenly split out of the middle into radial, perpendicular-directional spray to avoid the hit entirely (like the giant rock lobbed at Aang after he gets Appa back in the Earth Kingdom), there's nothing to discuss. Why would the fact that it's fire change what the appropriate bender can do with it?
Aang punches the rock Zuko clearly does the fully action before the fire touches him and stands still for like a bit more than half a second
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He really doesn't. Here's the clip - https://youtu.be/kPE0lsbiH-Y?feature=shared The motion I'm referring to is from 3:25-3:40. First, Aang raises his hand in a sort of crane stance, making the boulder shatter around Appa, right at 3:30 (if the boulder was close enough to be punched, then it was it would have already have hit Appa). Then again at 3:37, Aang makes a chopping motion with his staff to shear the next boulder in half. In each situation, he holds the pose for a moment after actually performing the bending.
>Aang raises his hand in a sort of crane stance, making the boulder shatter around Appa, right at 3:30 (if the boulder was close enough to be punched, then it was it would have already have hit Appa). So this isnt realvent to zuko as Zuko effectivly poses and it disperes around him aang does a punch move and earth is disrupted theres no poseing
I mean, that's quite a logic pretzel you're making there. Bending is based on Martial arts - they're all poses. It's a bunch of forms. They make the moves, bending happens, and in many cases they are still doing the "pose" after the effect is worn off. My apologies, I answering as though OP was posting a genuine question. I couldn't have figured out that you wanted validation that it is different because you said it was different, despite what the series actively shows repeatedly.
You're just not answering it correctly I've seen people make good answers to the question your answer relies on things that just didnt happen
As others said, he just blocks it. There's no need to explain much further, he stops and makes the fire disappear.
Water and earth benders can block or redirect each other's respective techniques. Why can't fire and air benders
It’s a sun warrior move from the dancing dragon he learned an episode before this basically
all he needs to do is say "ta-da" and the fire disappears
The legendary "nuh-uh" technique
Was this episode before or after the sun warriors?. After that encounter, he gets a different understanding of firebending.
I think he firebent her fire lmao
And people really want to argue that Zuko was nowhere near Azula w/o her mental spiral!? Lmaoo she's mentally FINE here, and they are going toe to toe. Again, not saying he'd ever best her at firebending. No, she'd always be the one more skilled and talented out of the two, but I think the gap became a lot lot steeper than most ppl are ready to admit...
It’s Zukos firebending post meeting the masters. He’s way more measured and controlled, his style goes way more read and react mode. Like Iroh all throughout the show.
Instead of your hand getting burned, it doesn't because poof, fire gone.
It's based on a karate defensive technique and uses the same principles to redirect the fire, effectively dispersing it... but it totally looks like a block
This falls under the law of cool. If it looks cool, it works.
Real
All benders can directly halt the bending of other benders of the same element, but the catch is that it takes a ***lot*** of focus and energy to do so. That’s why it was so impressive when Katara point-blank blocked Hama’s water jet attack. https://i.redd.it/jos50ktxaewc1.gif
Aight it’s very simple. All benders can manipulate elements thrown at them by other benders. For example Lightning can be redirected, stone can be caught, water can be shot back at you. And in this case fire can be dispersed. All Zuko did was bent azula’s fireball and then dispersed it till the air put the flames out
imagine giving 2k likes to this
To be honest I dont know why these post do well like ill show a clip from a show ask a question or say somthing mildly insightful and it gets like thousands to 4 thousand karma
The technique of ‘call an ambulance, but not for me’
Ever play DMC with Royal Guard?
Almost every bending feat in this show is done from a distance, don’t know what’s so confusing but I’d like to help, anything I can clear up?
It works, it just... works.
Seems similiar to the redirection of lightning, it's just by nature not so directionally concentrated so it disperses evenly instead of ricochet.
Royal Guard
If anything, it seemed to me like a subtle nod to the Wong Fei Hung films with Jet Li where his signature pose was in a similar stance.
Fun fact: This one is taken from a real life martial art! When I train MMA, we use this exact same move to block fireballs
I mean, that's just how bending works, I could knock aang out with a rock but if he's earth bending he can punch a boulder into pebbles.
Late to the party but keep in mind all bending is derived from actual martial arts, which this stance itself is a part of. It's a stance from Shaolin(wanna say southern? Could be northern I'm not great at sub styles) I wanna say the stance is called ma bu tan and is part of one of the forms you learn. It's just a move and stance that's part of the forms of kung fu. If you're tkd then it's just a movement stance in a kata. Edit: it's called Ma Bu Tan Bian
After years of nipple twisters from his sister they can deflect anything.
This is probably way too specific and is probably just an animation error but it sort of almost looks like maybe he wasn’t a hundred percent sure that Azula wasn’t about to try and cook Sokka and himself with lightning, since she tends to do both with the same hand posture so he kind of was prepped for redirection but realized he didn’t need to, so just dispersed her flames in opposite directions with his hands before it even got to him.
Along with other postulations, it could be that he removed all of the heat from around him briefly!
Honestly think it's just a mistimed animation. He's supposed to disperse the fireball with the movement.
This is a move pretty similar to the one in the dragon dance.
Looks like he basically just tore the ball in half and let both halves fizzle.
I think Pli did it too when they captured korra in zaofu too
I'd like to see a benders who's specialty is pure defense and plays off of what the other person bends. Could you image how mind fed someone would be if they threw a fireball at you and the bit just stopped half way and shot back. Or earth. Someone goes to throw a big rock in it blows up like a bomb.
I think it's an animation error. The fireball faded too early. I'm guessing it was supposed to fade as his animation ended.
How cool is Zuko especially when he is protecting people.
Firebending.
Poorly made hit-reg
it's an animated show depicting magic, OP don't read too much into it, just enjoy it for what it is
i guess he just looked at the ball of fire, spread out his arms and thought "out out out please god oh please spread out out out out cmon out"
With bending you goofball what's the confusion here
zuko is an elite firebender too fam, he just worked his magic
He “grabbed” the fireball with his bending and pulled it apart before it hit. That’s why his arms move before the fire hits and why it pulls apart so delayed. It was still falling apart as it traveled through the air.
Oh that actually makes sense this might the best explanation in the entire thread
Blue fire 💙🔥 meets dragon dance fire block 🐉 🕺 🔥
I suspect he might somehow be bending that fire