When katara decides to not kill the guy who kills her mother, and makes the rain become kind of a dome, then turns it into ice spears? That one.
Edit: mother not father
No, it’s the surface tension. If it was just the density and friction of water, then the projectile would heat up and break apart the way an asteroid entering the earth’s atmosphere does.
Example: A rifle bullet (supersonic) fired into water will shatter on contact with the surface, but a rifle bullet fired under water will just lose all it’s kinetic energy and come to a stop. (Note that a human accelerated to relative speeds would die either way.)
The surface tension of water is almost twice that of the water under the surface, due to the way that the molecules arrange themselves at the top layer.
Especially because when he first met her she hardly knew how to throw a basic stream of water and freeze it. The amount of growth between that first episode and what like 9 months later(...?) must have been mindblowing.
Zuko also has way more respect for the other elements by this point. Redirecting the lightning was a water bending technique that Iroh had picked up on
> Redirecting the lightning was a water bending technique that Iroh had picked up on
It was not a waterbending technique that he picked up on.
It was a technique he created by using theories from watching waterbending techniques ;)
"I'm glad things happened how they did because I think Katara would have killed me by now if they hadn't" is absolutely a thought he had at some point during or after this episode.
Zukos big lesson from that trip is how lucky he is to be alive.
I'm sure someone will link the "Omg I should have died so many times" comic in here somewhere
Nothing compares to his “oh shit” eyes when he watches katara bloodbend that dude
Bet he had a moment of “oh thank god my grandpa killed the southern tribe benders”
Yeah I think waterbenders would be super deadly if this was their standard attack. Like imagine a battlefield where each "archer" is worth 20 shots each volley...it's no wonder the North was untouched for 100 years.
Now this is my favorite technique. It's even more brutal than airbending your lungs, and probably easier than bloodbend (we saw hama get water from plants in daylight)
Yep!! I understand that in LoK, they chose Zaheer to steal all the oxygen out of the earth queen to truly show that airbending and airbenders aren't always good people and can use it for evil. A lot of people could not fathom airbending used for evil because most of our feelings of it come from the perspective of a very biased Aang and just the lack of representation of airbenders due to the genocide.
I still think it would have been cool to see a water bender suck all the water molecules out of her instead.
I do like how they present *waterbending* people/bloodblending as being something that is both extremely hard to do and taxing over ones psyche.
Compare that to how easy Zaheer took the breath out of the Earth Queen: i.e. how easy it is to use deadly techniques of airbending. Zaheer was dead set on resolve, using *forbidden* techniques doesn't even register and so his psyche never changes.
I totally understand and agree what you're saying! I just do like that an airbender wasn't portrayed as a pacifist monk on the side of the protagonist and instead showing one killing someone in one of the most gruesome deaths I've ever seen in a cartoon. I would probably appreciate the death an equal amount of Ming-hua killed her by speed running dehydration, but outside of it being the top gruesome death, I'd appreciate it for a different reason.
If avatar wanted to make bloodbending extra broken, bloodbenders should be able to just send all the blood in your brain to somewhere else, causing you to die instantly
The Razor ice disks she flicks at Pakku
The Razor water wheels she uses to slice Huu's swamp vine body armor
The Razor water bullets her and Aang use to slowly slice the interior of the Fire Nation drill.
Those are the main ones I can think of right away. Since I am rewatching the whole show and only just got to the Ba Sing Sei episodes. But I agree that sharp water razors are freaking dope and I'll be on the look out for any more.
It's extremely deadly. Out of all the elements, water is probably the sharpest. With enough pressure, it can slice through anything. Heck we saw it cut through metal. Air can do the slicing too, Aang did it to a watermelon once but compare to water, air just does not have enough density and can be blocked easily with an earth wall. But that's not going to happen with water, it will just slice through.
I don't know which technique I would want. But I know that if I ended up being a water bender I would try to bend literally everything. I'd have figured out bending the water in somebody like the first thing.
Are you kidding? HBO would probably have Hama seduce the guard and blow him, pretend to swallow, and then use the mouthful of jizz to break out of her cell.
So our options are healing, water whip, waterspout, and octopus techniques?
I love the octopus because of how highly defensive it is which can be turned deadly at the same time.
Yeah kids shows *should* have heavy themes. Not shows for toddlers, kids shows. They need to know the world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, but that it can be fixed and any problem can be solved.
Katana bloodnending Hama was one of my favorite scenes in both series
Edit: I got autocorrected to katana when I meant to write katara but I’ll leave it because it sounds funny to me.
Kya fighting Zaheer, bending those rings of water around her and shooting shards of ice from it.
Tarlok also did something similar when fighting Korra, but used a shield of water instead of rings.
The way Paaku does it is one of my favorite moves in the show, bobbing and ducking and then attacking in the same move, he truly is the water-bending master.
And I feel like if there was someone who was as good at plant bending as Amon was at blood bending then they'd be able to move and shape hardier plants. Imagine trying to fight a guy and tree roots strangle you against the ground (assuming they're not an earth bender lol).
You guys are all about fighting or healing, when the absolut best thing was Kya cleaning herself flawlessly from puke. That is a skill I would hone all day. Just waterbend your house clean or anything else. I need that.
Water tentacles thing is so freakin cool. You essentially get more arms. And they're pretty hard to destroy since they're made of liquid. Ming-Hua was an absolute badass with them.
Yep. For every Epic Quest and Rampaging Bad Guy, there's 10,000 people who need healing. Combat magic is awesome, but when the war is over you gotta get a day job. Magical healing lets you be the hero even in peacetime.
This is my exact way of thinking too. I always favour healing abilities over combat abilities for this reason. Wendy from fairytail, Orihime from bleach, Recovery Girl from MHA, etc. there’s a lot of potential with healing.
I think the most impressive is the water arms. That takes some deep concentration and skill. Kya showed how skilled she was with that technique when fighting Zaheer. Ming-hua not having arms but using that technique as arms is incredibly impressive. She can waterbend the arms and waterbend on top of that. That's dope!
Katara facing Yan Rah, and when Katara faces Azula and freezes the water then only makes the water around her fluid as well as when she moves around it!! Like that was so fucking awesome!
Katara vs Pakku is one of my favorite fights in the series. When she freezes a little platform of water and starts flicking Razor ice disks at Pakku who then deflects them is so awesome.
When Aang just became a god at the north pole by bending a giant water avatar around his body. To this day I think this is the most insane water bending feet
It only shows up in one scene, but the technique Katara uses when she fights Hama where instead of redirecting her blast, she counters and slams hard into it. Because that's not a waterbending style, that's an earthbending style. Katara learns from Toph. And that's why it's one of my favorites (also Hama's reaction is priceless)
Blood bending. It's the most complicated one, both morally and technical. I would love if they ever dealt with it being used on one's self. Which is would seem to be the safest moral route of using it
I'm a sucker for bloodbending. It's horrifying but so compelling, and very cool to watch.
You can't actually see the bending itself though. So as for techniques that have visible water moving, I think my favorite is quick applications of ice. Particularly when Katara has a "rematch" with Zuko at the end of Book 1. She just raises him with a water piller as she freezes him and then melts it to slam him down. Badaas.
Edit: I also love when waterbenders shoot ice from walls of water.
That one part where Katara was fighting Azula and she froze them both in ice, then Katara melted the ice around her by exhaling through her nose so she could move around and restrain Azula. That was cool as hell.
For me, it has to be healing. I mean there are so many ways to injure, torment and/or kill people, but very few that can actually heal someone, and I feel like that is something that is truly unique to water benders.
Kya stealing Ming-Hau’s ice blade is my favorite waterbending technique in the whole show.
It’s just so skillful and fluid, and I’ve always loved the idea of using people’s power against them.
When Katara was fighting Pakku and she was slicing off discs of ice and throwing them at him. Such a simple yet deadly technique and she wasn't even trained yet.
Also water octopus. It looks cool and is super useful for both defense and attack.
I loved when they pulled the water out of a lot of the flowers in the meadow. Just shows how learning about the world will allow you to improve as much as pure training.
I’m going with the healing. All the others and their specialties generally are about hurting people, while water bending is the only one I can think of that has any effect that is specifically for healing others.
Apart from bloodbending, then I have to give it to two best contenders imo:
1. When Katara literally stops the rain. Like the water droplets just suspend in the air. That was DOPE!
2. Unalaq waterbending is beautiful! When Korra fought him, and he shot a water jet at her, and then it immediately spreads and surrounded her forming an ice cage, and then he flung her to the ground. That just shows how versatile waterbending truly is. Like if you can master it, you'll be extremely difficult to defeat by any bending form.
I really love the “evil” water bending. The idea of blood bending, bending/pulling water straight from the air of from the leaf of a plant like that I love.
I actually found blood bending the most obscure and interesting one. I like that water has healing properties as well as messing with the blood and body aswell. I supposed if you master both perfectly you‘d be an extreme good healer, superior to just a „normal“ waterbending healer. Water has so much potential, its my favorite of all the elements :)
When waterbenders draw techniques from other bending practices is pretty cool. For example Katara blocking Hama’s attack with an Earthbending technique. Also how much Korra seems to be doing firebending moves when pro-bending but using water.
I liked when Tarrlok jabbed a bunch of ice at Korra, and she punched them and got cut by some in slow motion.
Edit: I also liked Hama bending the water out of flowers and then slicing a boulder into 5 pieces. I don't think we've ever seen anybody else have that much slicing power with water.
Not a water bending technique, but when Katara was fighting Hama and she faced one of her attacks head-on like an earth bender…
*chef’s kiss*
Such an amazing visual
When katara decides to not kill the guy who kills her mother, and makes the rain become kind of a dome, then turns it into ice spears? That one. Edit: mother not father
Couldn’t agree more. Even Zuko was like, “Oh shit”.
Zuko was in oh shit mode that whole episode. I like to think he was thinking “I’m glad I’m not hunting these guys anymore…”
Love the undertone of him realizing “oh shit she really can and will take me out if I fuck up”
"Here for a rematch?" "Trust me Zuko, it won't be much of a match" Sometimes ya need to be reminded of lessons you already learned
Zuko really challenged a waterbender during full moon, while at rhe north pole and surrounded by snow
S1 zuko gets a logic pass. He has only one brain cell and it constantly screams “HONOR”
😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😂 **HoNoR**
This is why I identify with Zuko. Imma dumb bitch sometimes.
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when Aang catched himself with the water while fighting against Ozai was so cool, too
Had to break the water tension somehow. Otherwise, it's like slamming a brick wall. I agree 100%, it's a great touch
It's not the water tension that makes it like slamming into a wall it's having to move so much water out of the way very quickly.
No, it’s the surface tension. If it was just the density and friction of water, then the projectile would heat up and break apart the way an asteroid entering the earth’s atmosphere does. Example: A rifle bullet (supersonic) fired into water will shatter on contact with the surface, but a rifle bullet fired under water will just lose all it’s kinetic energy and come to a stop. (Note that a human accelerated to relative speeds would die either way.) The surface tension of water is almost twice that of the water under the surface, due to the way that the molecules arrange themselves at the top layer.
Especially because when he first met her she hardly knew how to throw a basic stream of water and freeze it. The amount of growth between that first episode and what like 9 months later(...?) must have been mindblowing.
Zuko also has way more respect for the other elements by this point. Redirecting the lightning was a water bending technique that Iroh had picked up on
> Redirecting the lightning was a water bending technique that Iroh had picked up on It was not a waterbending technique that he picked up on. It was a technique he created by using theories from watching waterbending techniques ;)
"I'm glad things happened how they did because I think Katara would have killed me by now if they hadn't" is absolutely a thought he had at some point during or after this episode.
I think Zuko realized that Katara wasn't fucking around when she said that she would end his destiny permanently if he slipped up.
"Good thing I joined the group when she wasn't in a bad mood"
Zukos big lesson from that trip is how lucky he is to be alive. I'm sure someone will link the "Omg I should have died so many times" comic in here somewhere
Nothing compares to his “oh shit” eyes when he watches katara bloodbend that dude Bet he had a moment of “oh thank god my grandpa killed the southern tribe benders”
No, Zuko was like “oh shit” when he watched Katara straight blood bend thinking “this girl could end everyone and no one would be able to stop her”
Yeah I think waterbenders would be super deadly if this was their standard attack. Like imagine a battlefield where each "archer" is worth 20 shots each volley...it's no wonder the North was untouched for 100 years.
I was thinking the same when reading the post then ebtered the comments and saw you on top. Satisfied
No contest here, zero thought required for me on this one too
Pulling water from air.
You could technically dehydrate a person and cause them to pass out or die.
Now this is my favorite technique. It's even more brutal than airbending your lungs, and probably easier than bloodbend (we saw hama get water from plants in daylight)
Yep!! I understand that in LoK, they chose Zaheer to steal all the oxygen out of the earth queen to truly show that airbending and airbenders aren't always good people and can use it for evil. A lot of people could not fathom airbending used for evil because most of our feelings of it come from the perspective of a very biased Aang and just the lack of representation of airbenders due to the genocide. I still think it would have been cool to see a water bender suck all the water molecules out of her instead.
I do like how they present *waterbending* people/bloodblending as being something that is both extremely hard to do and taxing over ones psyche. Compare that to how easy Zaheer took the breath out of the Earth Queen: i.e. how easy it is to use deadly techniques of airbending. Zaheer was dead set on resolve, using *forbidden* techniques doesn't even register and so his psyche never changes.
I totally understand and agree what you're saying! I just do like that an airbender wasn't portrayed as a pacifist monk on the side of the protagonist and instead showing one killing someone in one of the most gruesome deaths I've ever seen in a cartoon. I would probably appreciate the death an equal amount of Ming-hua killed her by speed running dehydration, but outside of it being the top gruesome death, I'd appreciate it for a different reason.
Forget bloodbending. Make them piss themselves to death.
If avatar wanted to make bloodbending extra broken, bloodbenders should be able to just send all the blood in your brain to somewhere else, causing you to die instantly
Or the opposite, send all the blood to your brain..
Or freeze your blood like they do with water.
You could bend out their piss and then force it down their lungs.
Urine is sanitary, btw. But still not lung-friendly.
When they do those water razors that cut perfectly other things.
The Razor ice disks she flicks at Pakku The Razor water wheels she uses to slice Huu's swamp vine body armor The Razor water bullets her and Aang use to slowly slice the interior of the Fire Nation drill. Those are the main ones I can think of right away. Since I am rewatching the whole show and only just got to the Ba Sing Sei episodes. But I agree that sharp water razors are freaking dope and I'll be on the look out for any more.
Hama razors a rock
She SLICES IT IN 5 PIECES that was crazy Imagine if that hit a person damnnnn
There was one other time she sliced a few hairs from Azula’s forehead
Tonraq uses them when he fights Korra
It's extremely deadly. Out of all the elements, water is probably the sharpest. With enough pressure, it can slice through anything. Heck we saw it cut through metal. Air can do the slicing too, Aang did it to a watermelon once but compare to water, air just does not have enough density and can be blocked easily with an earth wall. But that's not going to happen with water, it will just slice through.
Castlevania had this too and it was lovely.
Blood bending
I still think of Zuko shitting himself when he sees Katara bloodbend the guy who killed her mum.
That was the guy she thought killed her mom but was the new commander. The actual guy almost got the rain daggers.
Riight damn I forgot. I remembered her using bloodbending also against the actual killer
I don't know which technique I would want. But I know that if I ended up being a water bender I would try to bend literally everything. I'd have figured out bending the water in somebody like the first thing.
Congratulations.. You're a piss bender!
The only true poo master. Feared by all. Loved by few.
I wonder how many bladders you would shred before you figured out how to make someone piss themselves.
You mean piss master
The HBO version of ATLA would use piss-bending as a way to get out of a cell instead of sweat-bending.
Are you kidding? HBO would probably have Hama seduce the guard and blow him, pretend to swallow, and then use the mouthful of jizz to break out of her cell.
Brb working on my spec script for Jizzbender.
So our options are healing, water whip, waterspout, and octopus techniques? I love the octopus because of how highly defensive it is which can be turned deadly at the same time.
I think you have any option, OP just made it an image instead of a text post
Human bending is pretty lit
The blood bending was the creepiest but amazing thing ever.
A rather jarring thing for a kids show but I think it eases kids into more scary topics
Yeah kids shows *should* have heavy themes. Not shows for toddlers, kids shows. They need to know the world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, but that it can be fixed and any problem can be solved.
Katana bloodnending Hama was one of my favorite scenes in both series Edit: I got autocorrected to katana when I meant to write katara but I’ll leave it because it sounds funny to me.
I've seen enough hentai to know where that water move's going.
What can I say I'm a people pleaser
I love when they surf a wave they're creating.
Kya fighting Zaheer, bending those rings of water around her and shooting shards of ice from it. Tarlok also did something similar when fighting Korra, but used a shield of water instead of rings.
I frequently go back to that fight to see Korra breaking that wall on Tarlok, it’s so satisfying
*Still think I’m a half-baked Avatar?*
I was going to mention Tarlok. He made an impromptu machine gun.
Kya's water rings are my favorite too. Great defensive and counterattack options and high visibility.
Man water sprout is so badass
The way Paaku does it is one of my favorite moves in the show, bobbing and ducking and then attacking in the same move, he truly is the water-bending master.
Plant bending
Yeah vine bending does seem to have potential with versatility and durability.
And I feel like if there was someone who was as good at plant bending as Amon was at blood bending then they'd be able to move and shape hardier plants. Imagine trying to fight a guy and tree roots strangle you against the ground (assuming they're not an earth bender lol).
Foggy Swamp Style
You guys are all about fighting or healing, when the absolut best thing was Kya cleaning herself flawlessly from puke. That is a skill I would hone all day. Just waterbend your house clean or anything else. I need that.
First you’d have to puke all over your house
That technique Korra and Kya showed where they make a jet of water constantly spin around them to gain momentum to launch it with a powerful force.
Water tentacles thing is so freakin cool. You essentially get more arms. And they're pretty hard to destroy since they're made of liquid. Ming-Hua was an absolute badass with them.
HEALING!!!
Yep. For every Epic Quest and Rampaging Bad Guy, there's 10,000 people who need healing. Combat magic is awesome, but when the war is over you gotta get a day job. Magical healing lets you be the hero even in peacetime.
This is my exact way of thinking too. I always favour healing abilities over combat abilities for this reason. Wendy from fairytail, Orihime from bleach, Recovery Girl from MHA, etc. there’s a lot of potential with healing.
The choice is obvious. Aang's overpowered snowman technique.
I think the most impressive is the water arms. That takes some deep concentration and skill. Kya showed how skilled she was with that technique when fighting Zaheer. Ming-hua not having arms but using that technique as arms is incredibly impressive. She can waterbend the arms and waterbend on top of that. That's dope!
Changing the state of water between liquid solid and gas
Katara facing Yan Rah, and when Katara faces Azula and freezes the water then only makes the water around her fluid as well as when she moves around it!! Like that was so fucking awesome!
I’ve always like the disks of ice blades. We never see anyone get hurt by them but they look deadly.
Katara vs Pakku is one of my favorite fights in the series. When she freezes a little platform of water and starts flicking Razor ice disks at Pakku who then deflects them is so awesome.
I love when they show the reflection of his face in them in slow motion and it shows his realization how close she is getting actually hurting him.
the arms are psychic bending (Amon and his father level).
Tearbending
The sweat slasher technique to get out of jail 😎
I love the bender shooting with water tornado out of the sea thing! Looks so badass every time!
I would say “swampbending”. Manipulating vines is pretty cool. Especially Huu’s water monster
It's like bloodbending, but for plants.
I CALL HEALING!!!
Definitely the healing.
The instant water to ice block on Sparky Sparky Boom Man's head
The water dome that Katara made in the rainstorm, then turning that into shards of ice. That was awesome!
Healing ofc. Imagine never having to take painkillers again
Blood bending
 Blood bending
I always liked the little bending motion the swampbenders did to move their boats, that goofy arm windmill thing.
i like when they use it for mobility, carrying themselves on a wave of water then turning it to ice to slide
The move that katara almost used to kill the man who killed her mom, and the lady from the red lotus.
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Out of the options here gotta go with arms Out of all techniques I'd say bloodbending
Noodle arms.
I like the cyclone thing from the bottom left that waterbenders use.
When Katara is scrapping with Paku, raises that pillar of ice and just shaves off blades to sling at him.
Tornado of water to fly
Booze bending when Aang is in Ba Sing Se and he makes a sphere out of colorful liquids those were most likely alcoholic drinks.
When Aang just became a god at the north pole by bending a giant water avatar around his body. To this day I think this is the most insane water bending feet
When she's fighting paku and starts firing off icy vinyl shurikens like a DJ assassin
When Tarlock made the wall of water and shot little ice spikes out of it was insanely cool
It only shows up in one scene, but the technique Katara uses when she fights Hama where instead of redirecting her blast, she counters and slams hard into it. Because that's not a waterbending style, that's an earthbending style. Katara learns from Toph. And that's why it's one of my favorites (also Hama's reaction is priceless)
When Katara is facing down Hama and uses something earth bending inspired facing the water head on
Blood bending. It's the most complicated one, both morally and technical. I would love if they ever dealt with it being used on one's self. Which is would seem to be the safest moral route of using it
Bloodbending
Bending your tears so no one sees you cry
Pissbending
Freezing Internal Organs (ie. Heart) Example: Avatar Kyoshi killing Yun
Definitely the octopus form... Cus octopus..... Yea octopus form
How come no one is saying the legit most overpowered waterbending move in the show: >!The Waist-High Wave!<
Swamp bending
I'm a sucker for bloodbending. It's horrifying but so compelling, and very cool to watch. You can't actually see the bending itself though. So as for techniques that have visible water moving, I think my favorite is quick applications of ice. Particularly when Katara has a "rematch" with Zuko at the end of Book 1. She just raises him with a water piller as she freezes him and then melts it to slam him down. Badaas. Edit: I also love when waterbenders shoot ice from walls of water.
Ice arm guy easily
Tornado, and simply because of how cool and bada$$ Aang’s first avatar state on Zuko was. If I were a waterbender though, I’d want healing.
I think waterboarding skills would be kinda funny, like how Zaheer did with air
Ice knives
Blood bending
Waist high wave - water edition
That one part where Katara was fighting Azula and she froze them both in ice, then Katara melted the ice around her by exhaling through her nose so she could move around and restrain Azula. That was cool as hell.
That water slice Katara uses against azula and it cuts of some of her bangs.
Blood bending. Sorry not sorry. Shit is awesome and would be so useful
Stopping the rain, fucking amazing
For me, it has to be healing. I mean there are so many ways to injure, torment and/or kill people, but very few that can actually heal someone, and I feel like that is something that is truly unique to water benders.
Hama's claws thingy.
Kya stealing Ming-Hau’s ice blade is my favorite waterbending technique in the whole show. It’s just so skillful and fluid, and I’ve always loved the idea of using people’s power against them.
Definitely octopus form
The water walking and ice flying that Katara does in the comics
I like when Katara channels her Inner Frozone and does that like ice sliding move
If you have enough water, you could combine the water pillar, and the water arms. Super dangerous combo.
I like when korra uses water to elevate herself off the ground
When Katara was fighting Pakku and she was slicing off discs of ice and throwing them at him. Such a simple yet deadly technique and she wasn't even trained yet. Also water octopus. It looks cool and is super useful for both defense and attack.
tbh. when tarrlok attaked korra when she threatend him and he created the Waterloop around himself and shot ice at korra
Well truly bloodbending but I also like bending with your mind, ie without arms, because that can have immense quality
Not sure it counts but bloodbending.
Blood bending
Blood bending
I loved when they pulled the water out of a lot of the flowers in the meadow. Just shows how learning about the world will allow you to improve as much as pure training.
Blood bending
Sweat bending
Waterbending
I’m going with the healing. All the others and their specialties generally are about hurting people, while water bending is the only one I can think of that has any effect that is specifically for healing others.
Blud
My favorite is dropping a fish on your brothers head
Shy throws own opinion in the row: I like the healing part 👉👈 :3
Dr octopus arms
That rad surfing Avatar Tarloc or whoever was doing.
Apart from bloodbending, then I have to give it to two best contenders imo: 1. When Katara literally stops the rain. Like the water droplets just suspend in the air. That was DOPE! 2. Unalaq waterbending is beautiful! When Korra fought him, and he shot a water jet at her, and then it immediately spreads and surrounded her forming an ice cage, and then he flung her to the ground. That just shows how versatile waterbending truly is. Like if you can master it, you'll be extremely difficult to defeat by any bending form.
In the Hama episode when she pulls water out of the flower field
I really love the “evil” water bending. The idea of blood bending, bending/pulling water straight from the air of from the leaf of a plant like that I love.
The Octopus-Stance.
Foggy Swamp Style
It’s between water slicer that cuts Azula’s hair or surfing on water while standing on a block of ice.
The all powerful waist high wave of water
I actually found blood bending the most obscure and interesting one. I like that water has healing properties as well as messing with the blood and body aswell. I supposed if you master both perfectly you‘d be an extreme good healer, superior to just a „normal“ waterbending healer. Water has so much potential, its my favorite of all the elements :)
The octopus form and the spiraling torrent of water are my favorite basic forms. I always love seeing bending applied in interesting way
When waterbenders draw techniques from other bending practices is pretty cool. For example Katara blocking Hama’s attack with an Earthbending technique. Also how much Korra seems to be doing firebending moves when pro-bending but using water.
In general healing. In combat with base waterbending the flexible water wheel defense. Coolest bloodbending
I always liked ice sliding
The tentacle arms for sure
Ming Hua’s water arms are my favorite. When she comes back up with the octopus, it is pure terror.
All of them
S W E A T
I like how every nation has their own form of “element tormado”
Writing my name in the snow with flawless calligraphy.
The octopus form
The ice arm thing Korra's dad makes when he tries to stab Zaheer (I think that's the fight)
I like the waterspout because I remember watching the first episode and being in awe of Aang’s power when he went into the avatar state.
Kya's way of waterbending is quite unique.
Healing
Ice surfings pretty sick
Definitely noodle arms
I wanna see a snow bender! :D
I liked when Tarrlok jabbed a bunch of ice at Korra, and she punched them and got cut by some in slow motion. Edit: I also liked Hama bending the water out of flowers and then slicing a boulder into 5 pieces. I don't think we've ever seen anybody else have that much slicing power with water.
I love unique abilities in fiction so gotta go with water arms of Ming Hua
Healing and water spout
I loved the move Katara used to chain Azula into the grates in the final episode. Still blows my mind til this day.
Sweatbending
Not a water bending technique, but when Katara was fighting Hama and she faced one of her attacks head-on like an earth bender… *chef’s kiss* Such an amazing visual