Talk:Bending arts/@comment-12963398-20130722050110

This is the order of which bending art aside from Energybending is the strongest when pushed to its absolute extreme:

Waterbending/Bloodbending

Airbending

Earthbending

Firebending

When pushed to extremes, Waterbenders can control the water in another person's body enforcing their own will over their opponent's and can control every vein/muscle in another person's body.

When pushed to extremes, Airbenders are capable of bending the air in a person's lungs and make them choke essentially. Although this isn't admitted in the show, it's most definitely plausible since Airbenders can bend air within their own body as well as outside.

When pushed to extremes, Earthbenders can create mini-Earthquakes and Fissures and trap others inside the Earth therefore constricting their movements and preventing them from bending unless an Earthbender is facing an Earthbender, Bloodbender, or Airbender who can avoid being trapped by utilizing their abilities.

Firebenders can create Lightning, but that doesn't do Firebenders much good when they are trapped underneath the Earth, controlled by a Waterbender, or have the air sucked right out of them by Airbenders.

Remember guys, Bloodbenders aren't hindered by the Moon anymore, if they practice to perfection, obssessively, they can Bloodbend anytime. Yakone/Tarlokk/Amon are a bunch of nobodies that came out of nowhere. Katara is definately more powerful than them and if she went looney, I'm sure the Moon wouldn't hindered her from Bloodbending.

If Bloodbending wasn't introduced/practiced at all then Airbending would be the most powerful bending art, but it is. So BAM CHAKALA BAM.