@UltimateHero0406:
She can do that water tube thing, snowboard, super swim, everything so I think it more than fair to say that their levels of waterbending are about equal. Trying to boost Katara past Korra by waving around her quick learning is just speculation on her limits which has no place here. She has not shown any raw combat feats that were particularly impressive.
She mastered bloodbending in one episode, used a technique never seen before in the series to defeat Azula, created a wave that nearly capsized a Fire Nation ship, very nearly beat Azula in the fight under Lake Laogai (IIRC, somebody else intervened and Katara never got a chance to finish her off), and master Pakku deemed her worthy of being the Avatar's waterbending teacher.
I guess this all comes down to a matter of opinion unless we want to cite dozens of specific feats all day, but I see Katara's waterbending feats as being on another level than Korra's. The water tube thing is the only waterbending feat I've seen from Korra that I would call impressive at all.
Combat experience is the best experience. She had been on the way to the NWT for a while and had gotten into some fights along the way. She picked up a few tricks in the scuffles was all. It's not like she never been in a real fight up until Pakku. But even that does not trump over a decade of training and some combat experience.
Yes, combat experience is the best experience.
Korra has a decade or so of training with the Order of the White Lotus. Since she moved to Republic City (which, timeline speaking, has probably been only a few months now), the majority of her fighting has been in the pro bending arena (which I would say barely counts as combat experience at all). Korra really has very very little experience in actual bending fights.
Katara, on the other hand, had a lot of experience by the end of the series. Timeline speaking, I think it was close to a year that she was traveling around with the GAang. She spent a little bit of that time getting formal training from Pakku, but everything else was raw in-the-field life-and-death-battle experience.
What do you mean you can't see why? Because Korra is a waterbender. Being able to freeze someone doesn't mean much against a high calibur waterbender. Even if Korra didn't block the shot, she could just unfreeze herself and keep going.
Not necessarily. In Avatar, bending power relies heavily on physical movement. As you may recall, Azula was nearly powerless when Katara chained her up. Aang was nearly powerless when the Fire Nation captured him and chained him up. Katara was powerless when Pakku trapped her in a bunch of icecicles. Aang was powerless when the guys from Earth Rumble 6 got him in a fight metal cage. Aang was shocked when he found out that Bumi could still earthbend from within the metal coffin Azula had him in. It's not impossible to bend without movement, but it seems to be something that only high-tier benders are capable of.
If Katara manages to freeze Korra, I really don't see Korra being able to get out of it without difficulty.
And I would like to know all of these special feats you guys meep mentioning where Katara stone cold took someone down validly or did something that Korra couldn't.
That's what's tough about Katara fights. She spent the entire series as part of a team. I'm having a hard time thinking of any fights at all she had where nobody else intervened at some point or another.
But, off the top of my head... She did beat Azula in the final episode. She almost beat her at Lake Laogai, but I think somebody else intervened. She out-bloodbent Hama. She matched Hama in a waterbending duel even without the bloodbending technique. I'm pretty sure she defeated the swampbenders the first time they met (I might be wrong about that. I haven't seen that episode in a long time). She beat Zuko, but they were in the garden with the waterbending spirits, so that may not be entirely applicable. She made a wave big enough to knock away a Fire Nation ship on at least two occasions. Despite not being able to beat Pakku, she seriously impressed him with her skills. She beat Mai at Omashu (Ty Lee was there too, but I can't remember how she ended up). She curbstomped Jet at Ba Sing Se (don't forget he nearly beat Aang in book 1).
That's all I can think of at the moment.
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