Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-184.4.211.248-20120811013424/@comment-24.61.65.126-20120819162910

Lava bending requires you to bend earth and fire, at the least. Water and air just gives you more control. Show me a water bender that can lava bend? The only known lava benders were avatars, and I doubt anyone who isn't the avatar can, because lava is made up of multiple elements. Few can energy bend, and their own soul must be unbendable (or their soul will be corrupted), and very few's are. And they can't really airbend. They'd just be bending the water that's in the air, not air itself. Ice bending is technicially water bending. It's like an air bender bending colder air. Healing, plant bending, and blood bending are the official subskills of waterbending, and I do agre that Katara is quite special for acquiring all of these skills.