Talk:Endgame/@comment-76.179.27.61-20121006201024/@comment-4848126-20121218142410

Hmmm. Didn't think of that. All that I can think of is that Amon was using his bloodbending to affect the way chakra flows through a bender's body, essentially being able to control whether they can bend. And since chakra seems to be viewed in the series canon as a sort of life-energy-thing, energybending - being able to bend the life-energies inside a being - would possibly be able to affect chakra as well. I cobbled that together mainly from what we learned from ATLA, so yeah the writers didn't really do a good enough job of explaining that in Korra for all they said that it stands alone from The LAst Aibender.