r/AvatarMemes • u/LilyKarinss Least delusional Azulaang shipper đŸ”„ • Jun 04 '25

LoK This is what PEAK firebending defensive technique looks like

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u/LostAfroK Jun 04 '25

This seems like it’s meant to be a diss, but truthfully how would shooting fire at a rock coming at you result in anything than a hot rock coming at you?

This seems a sound tactic

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u/LilyKarinss Least delusional Azulaang shipper đŸ”„ Jun 04 '25

The Fire Lord going up against a malnourished kid who can shoot stone pellets like a machine gun:

Ozai: "The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math."

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u/JackofClubs77 Jun 04 '25

I remember making an Earthbender OC as a kid who’s whole shtick was that he floated boulders around his head, broke them into smaller stone, and then fired them like drones. Ironically, this is just about the only way for an Earthbender to defeat Toph, purely by nature of “She can’t actually see it”

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u/Formal_Illustrator96 Jun 05 '25

She’d be able to sense the rocks though? This just wouldn’t work in the slightest.

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u/earanhart Jun 05 '25

She doesn't see floating rocks the same way as she does things on the ground, its a different application of earth bending, but one every earth bender does to a degree.

The following is fan theory, but I think that is the base from which she developed her earth-sight ability. Train of logic being "I can sense rocks being bent, but what is the ground other than a big rock? If I bend that just a tiny bit, I should be able to sense it. Wait, I don't even need to bend it of I'm touching it to sense things on it."

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u/Formal_Illustrator96 Jun 05 '25

It’s the same thing. The way she sees movement of things on the ground and the way she sees floating rocks are both her ability to sense earth. The way she sees floating rock is the same way she sees the ground, she can “feel” the earth with her earth bending. Her seismic sense is the same thing too. She can feel the earth moving ever so slightly in response to the things on top of it, and through those movements, she can tell what’s on the earth and how it’s moving. This works whether or not the earth she’s sensing is connected to the ground or not.