Talk:Avatar/@comment-74.67.10.162-20120406044117/@comment-4989471-20120406044950

Korra is a bit differnt. She realized she was the Avatar at a very young age, as such she never really was just a water bender. Aang and Roku, up to the point they were revealed to be the Avatar, beleive they were simply A Airbender and Firebender, so they had the mind set as such. Aang was raised with the airbending philosphoy, so earth bending's philosophy contridicted everyhting he was taught, same for Roku. There natural elemts opposite isn't so much the most difficult as the philophy behind it's technequies is the issue. Korra never really had the sense of "just being a water bender" she'd been bending the elemets sense she was four so didn't have the same mental blocks Aang and Roku did. It's normally harder for the Avatar to master there native elements opposite more to the mind set behind there orginial bending philophy rather than a physical problem do to being a water bender. Korra's personality is more in line with a Firebender or Earth bender, blunt straightfoward and aggressive, so the evasive and defensvie nature of Airbending doesn't come to her naturally.