Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-70.36.254.206-20120421220241/@comment-4888161-20120424231320

It's conditional to the full moon. Since the conditions are so restrictive, a certain amount of extra power makes sense. However, bloodbending is likely not as overpowered as many people think it is. We don't know that much about it, so most weaknesses are unknown. It likely has a bunch, but we don't know about them because again we don't know all that much about it in the first place. We haven't seen bloodbending used enough.

But all the elements have killing blows if used a certain way, and most of those moves can be used all the time. Dead is dead. There is no such thing as more dead, so after a certain point is doesn't matter? I mean is bloodbending really any worse then a lightning bolt through the heart? I would argue it is better, because it can be used to not kill people while still being used on them. A lightning bolt on a human is pretty much just a killing technique.

Ironically, the only time we saw bloodbending actually kill anything was in the prison cell in a flashback when Hama used it on an elephant rat. The rest didn't involve any direct harm.