there are some rare and forgotten bending Arts that are so strong they've been banned but just what are these ban techniques how strong are they and most importantly is wiist bending a real thing oh that's hot well let's go through the Avatar series extensive history to decipher these long forgotten bending Powers the first one is a rare bending style we know all too well energy bending technically no longer forgotten it was a complete shock to anyone who witnessed the final battle between Ang and oai this is because energy bending comes from the lion turtles who
used to Grant humans the power of the elements by Ang's time only one Lon Turtle remains as the others have either been hunted or naturally gone extinct so yeah nobody knew what this was energy bending is seen as the true form of it as it literally manipulates the energy within oneself or their cheat this is a super important concept to remember for later on in the video as pretty much all unique and mastered forms of bending revolve around influencing chi in some way in fact the reason why bending exists is because some people are born
of chi that extends beyond their own body and into the natural world and thus they're able to bend the four elements energy bending on the other hand can directly manipulate Chi itself which is why the power is able to take away or Grant someone bending as we see Ang do with oai and K do with Aman's victims whilst the true limitation of this broken ability aren't known we do know that it doesn't seem to be a physically powerful ability but rather much more spiritual which makes sense because you know it comes from the master ug
of Avatar you saved me why monkey despite this Avatar Kora was able to use the power to stop and redirect laser beams of pure Chi to stop Republic City from being destroyed this resulted in the creation of a new spirit portal because Kora bended all the energy back into her location ripping a hole between the two worlds however this relationship between the spirit world and energy bending goes even further as this power grants someone astral projection this is basically what Cor does at the end of book two when she becomes a giant Kaiju in order
to fight vatu and unalo only two people in history have ever used energy bending being Ang and Kora with the latter only being granted the power from the goat himself but whilst we're on the topic of the spirit world let's talk about one of water bendings greatest technique healing and spirit bending as we said earlier she is the life energy that empowers living things and two substances that carry chi in particular are water and blood which is why water benders are able to heal in the first place by using water they can focus at Chi
points of injury where they can influence that Chi to accelerate the body's healing process this power can also be used to repair broken or misaligned cheap Pathways and even alleviate mental turmoil and trauma but did you know there was another rare and band power behind it healers can also exploit this ability in another way such as kyoshi's Master Al loot having mastered the ability to chill the water inside a person to slow their bodily functions essentially keeping them alive long enough to receive a proper treatment however Koshi used this band bending style to kill someone
but also save a friend essentially in the past there's a story about about Yun whom the Avatar confronted during the battle Yun managed to injure many of kyoshi's friends and kill some of them however in the end Koshi was victorious in battle by sending the cold through his body which then formed a tunnel of ice between his ribs the moisture in the air behind him transformed to frost in an instant and even crystal wings erupted in his back freezing his heart and lungs following this she used used the same band technique to treat her friend
to save their lives but it's not only that Spirit bending can be seen as an extension of this the technique was created by makito a waterbending Master during roku's time the power uses water to help balance the energies or cheat within a dark Spirit to purify it calming its raging frenzy it's important to note that this can also be used oppositely too as the power can corrupt a normal spirit and this ability is so rare it's only been used by three people in all of existence with Kora and her uncle unalo being the others however
cheap pathways are integral to a lot of spiritual bending techniques but as we see with energy bending that power can be taken away and that Supreme form of bending isn't the only way to do it as we all have to remember another rare and band ability blood bending no God please no no yeah please I still have PTSD from the episode too but it's still really important and Incredibly dangerous this power was developed by the water bender hmer after she and the others of her kind were imprisoned by the Fire Nation she experimented with the
ability on elephant rats learning that she could use the water inside a living creature to basically pueter and manipulate their their body remember the average amount of water in the human body is about 66% in the form of blood digestive juices and urine yeah blood bending can basically use that to control a human body now it's important to remember that hmer can only use this power during a full moon as it's when a water bender is the strongest but even that didn't last long as this extremely broken and ban technique resurface when yakone and his
sons came into the story they would develop a way to have permanent access to this incredible power I mean yakone used it to knock out everyone in the Republic city council room including Saka tof and Ang all at the same time controlling them at once like the dude broke all of Ang's bones instantly and forced him to lock in but what makes bloodbending even more scary is the fact that when combining it with the knowledge of healing we discussed before it can sever cheap Puffs and take away a person's bending as we saw when Aman
yon's son was able to steal away kora's water Earth and fire bending now obviously she got it back cuz um plot but this still means the Avatar was no different than anyone else when it came to the might of Aman's blood bending that's why is the goat this power is so rare the only users still alive by the end of Kora is qara who did everything in her power to ban the use of it so in the future blood bending will be seen as a myth or a forgotten art but speaking of which here's one
bending ability you probably never heard of air bending is actually a lot more powerful than people give it credit for as the bending art was pretty much just restricted due to the pacifist nature of the air Nomads however that didn't stop the Avatar Yang Chen from creating some super brok broken abilities such as voice amplification this power was invented when Yang Chen was in a state of deep anger and so she went to the beach to let off some steam it was here where she developed the ability to amplify her voice with air bending she
was literally able to create ripples in the ocean and on top of that this ability is said to be so strong that anyone who hears it will go DEA due to how high its frequency is but that's not the only technique she perfected she also learned how to master heat regulation this is an advanced breathing technique to warm themselves up in snowy environments this is why Ang was literally wearing a very loose air Nomad outfit in the literal South Pole however this power has a darker aspect as it can be used on others for the
exact opposite purpose an airbender can simply touch someone and they can chill their body temperature to the point where living isn't even possible and finally Yang Chan was able to use an ability called heirless void which condensed the air around someone blocking off their oxygen instantly but Yang Chan would never kill anyone using this but if she really wanted to she could have just pulled the air from someone's lungs and instantly killed them that is why these are forgotten and Bann in fact we see Zahir use a similar technique although more graceful and refined to
kill the Earth Queen resulting in the rise of Cava and the Earth Empire now zah achieved something far more impressive despite air Benders tethering all Earthly ties to live spiritually very few mastered the most perfected technique life it's a complex and extremely rare skill that has only ever been demonstrated by two known air Benders gurma did I read that I'm I'm kidding it's not gur aligma guys it's gur L and Z like it was believed to only exist in Legends this state of pure air bending was exclusive to the original airbending Masters the airline T
and the Flying Bison however lakima was a Northern Air Temple Guru who lived 3,000 years before Ang was born he discovered the secret to weightlessness which basically just means he left all Earthly ties to live in the sky which is exactly what this mad lad did as he didn't touch the ground for the last 40 Years of his life his writing and philosophies was studied for thousands of years including Zahir so when he got air bending he naturally followed his teachings and became the second person in history to achieve this ability like come on Ang
how can we simp for you if you can't even Learn to Fly oh wait he did hell no man what the invting this what the hell is even that but you know what's not a joke offenders have some pretty insane rare bending techniques of their own one of which is a sand coffin like G in Naruto we know it's banned due to being super dangerous basically an Earth Bender liquefies the Earth they are standing on essentially turning what's beneath their enemy's feet to Quick side and the Earth Bender with that and place a boulder on
top of them making it virtually impossible to escape and killing them slowly and silently at this point the victim would sink into the ground where they would be trapped forever even the most powerful Benders were unable to escape as without leverage it would be impossible to move now you would expect that since Earth Benders could just bend themselves out of the stone this technique would be ineffective against them right however we find out they are not able to move any limbs because the rock will be pressing so hard the only people who could succeed would
be boomy who can bend without using any of their limbs but as we know Earth bending has a multitude of different bending Styles like Crystal bending which is just another form of normal Earth bending that allows users to bend crystals I mean it's in the name this is because the minerals inside the Earth can be found in them which allows people like Ang to create a crystallized set of armor to protect him but you want to know what's an even cooler thing to bend metal we all know how Toff created metal bending it was one
of the coolest moments in the show this was possible by Toff bending the Earth impurities within metal metal Benders have a pretty versatile mve set as they can bend Gold Silver and Mercury with Platinum being the only one that's an exception as Toff herself couldn't even bend it but did you know only 1% of all Earth Benders can perform metal bending but according to Su Yin pretty much any Earth Bender could in theory learn the technique but at this point only Toff her kids Kora and anyone from tof's metal bending Academy and the Republic City
police force have Mastery over it and guess what metal bending Works hand inhand with a rare subskill of earthbending seismic sense it's basically just Echo location through the ground this gives the user a 3D map of the surroundings in real time and it also allows you to tell if someone is lying by monitoring their heart rate and other impulses so moral of the story don't lie to to you want crazy ass but rare powers for Earth Benders don't end there as some can control little volcanos this is lava bending and its functions are pretty self-explanatory
the energy that is is needed to essentially change a rock's matter from a solid to a liquid is of much greater magnitude than what water benders do with ice snow and mist and so because of this only a few lava Benders exist with the earliest one we know of being Avatar cetto how do you do you pronounce this guy's name this guy is stupid regardless this technique is still around as it was leared by Bolin when he fought against the red l in season 3 of Kora now a little bit of scientist since we do
go balls deep but magma if cooled rapidly can form volcanic glass and it can be manipulated by Earth Benders as Avatar Koshi pulled it off did you know that even glass spending exists and the rise of Kyoshi novel she is tracking down a criminal group known as the tried of the golden wing throw Kong attempted to bind Koshi with a broken glass device meant to choke and strangle victims but in the end she bends glass and does a Uno reverse she even bends glass shards that was stuck inside her body I mean this is Kyoshi
we're talking about so of course this isn't even the strongest bending technique she has access to as she learned a band power that literally made her immortal like she chose to die after 230 years but she honestly could have lived for much longer kind of wish she did cuz uh the viation would have got smoked she literally is the strongest avatar that could move entire islands with air bending alone oh oh wait did I just start a war in the comment section so you're probably saying bro how stupid are you bending can't do something like
this well pretty much this entire video we've been talking about how bending extends far beyond the elements and Earth bending especially Koshi learned this technique from l g an immortal who traveled the world acting as a drunkard and criminal La was also called taigu The Immortal where he lived over 200 years old and claimed to have discovered the secret at some point however there are even hints that he's from the 3r century BG making him older than 4,000 years which would explain why in his entire life he would change his name and lifestyle multiple times
to to live vicariously in one of those lives Hau became Infamous in the earth Kingdom for murdering the 40th King but essentially kyoshi's mother had a journal which described him and actually believed laay to be a legendary figure so Koshi became his student after encountering him enough yapping how is it even possible to use Earth bending to become immortal well tigue explains that an Earth Bender is a able to maintain their own vitality and constantly replenish their cells by carefully manipulating the chi channels within their body and then bending the metal within their own cells
they can in essence choose which version of themselves to stick with forever the training for this one's something like La makes Koshi practice Heating and breaking a piece of scrap metal then divide multiple times over to then put the pieces back together again to make it whole Kyoshi States a human being isn't a block of stone where L remarks that's where you're wrong the illusion that the self is separate from the rest of the world is the driving factor that limits our potential once you realize there's nothing special about the self it becomes easier to
manipulate essentially he taught Koshi to arrange her cell in a way that would maintain a current state no growth no decay simply at rest she lived 230 years where at around 150 she had her daughter Coco obviously Kyoshi decided at some point to end her life believing the Avatar cycle should continue but this is easily the rarest most banned and most extraordinary bending technique in Avatar now to enjoy more Peak fiction check out this video regarding all the past stories of the avatars that you may not know
