Talk:Airbending/@comment-110.33.12.96-20111218141713/@comment-76.24.189.176-20111228093308

I like to say that we don't know enough about airbending to know most of it's weaknesses. Closed spaces I can concede to that because they would make wind/air flow harder to use but like any weakness there are ways around that. But, I think a lack of finishing moves is more based on the only known peaceful style of the monks and personal choice rather than a weakness. I see one potential but unconfirmed weaknesses. The weakness could be defense related (minus the dodging and less severe then for firebenders). They can create walls of air (similar to wall of fire but better because it has wind power to blow things away) to stop attacks but if you think about it most of the defense of air seems to be evasiveness. It's certainly effective to dodge, but if you had to rank bending by defensive strength, earth and water would have be ahead of air. That would make it the second worst defensive element, although it still wouldn't suffer as much as fire and there are ways around that like dodging.