Talk:Airbending/@comment-110.33.12.96-20111218141713/@comment-76.24.189.176-20111228093942

I just thought of another potential airbending weakness and that is somewhat related to defense, and it is the density of the element. Earth is the most dense (solid), then water (liquid/ice is solid), then fire (I feel it's heavier in substance then air and it is a plasma), then air (gas) would be the lightest. You see, wind is lighter and naturally faster then the other elements, but my point is that at the same speed air does less damage that the other elements and has to be sped up or used in a special technique (like air slashes) to deal that same kind of damage. Fire can overcome this easily because of the power of the heat and energy of the chemical reaction that creates fire/lightning, but wind is just moving air. Air is only harmful at high speeds. Don't get me wrong because speed kills, but in elemental terms, air is a lightweight. It also shows up defensively because air is less solid it is not as good at blocking attacks as the denser elements of water and earth. Fire's natural power doesn't add to defense much because it is a more aggressive, so air is able to beat fire in defensive strength despite probably being less dense. The reason why air being low in density is important is in certain situations with blocking or in head to head attacks it has may lose to an elemental attack with more weight behind it. There are also plenty ways of counteracting this, and I believe air benders can effect the density of the air on some level because I don't see how else they could decrease wind resistance to run really fast and stuff like that without having control over air density on some level. I don't know for sure about density of the element being a weakness but it's just a potential problem I saw.