What if Aang (like, young Aang) had to deal with the Equalist threat? do you think he would have succeeded in defeating Amon if Team Avatar hadn't yet run into Hama?
What if Aang (like, young Aang) had to deal with the Equalist threat? do you think he would have succeeded in defeating Amon if Team Avatar hadn't yet run into Hama?
Plus aang is a distance nimble moving fighter the complete oppisite of korras brute force and close combat style. If aang could stay out of reach of his blood bending grip we know he can use his airbending from a far or from the air and still be effective, Id say 60-40 aang
about korras flight i dont think she can because she has asami as an earthly tether
No no no. Maybe Aang has an edge in evasion particularly at that point because Korra didn't know airbending yet, but Korra has cred for mobility. Look at the very first fight she's shown in, during her firebending test, she's pulling out some ridiculous agility feats and dancing around her opponents (who are Order of the White Lotus firebenders). Not even to touch on her bending augmented mobility (sans airbending at this point).
Stay out of Amon's bloodbending grip range? Amon has a substantial range, even from when he was a child (able to control a pack of wolves that were sprinting away for several seconds from him with a decent lead distance and then levitating them back to himself and forcing them to bow before him). As an adult we also see him gripping people from across warehouse rooms and down long hallways with ease and in addition to his bending blocking and subtle bending to redirect attacks of his opponents without them even realizing it.
Consider Aang himself, as a fully realized Avatar, got twisted up by Amon's dad, Yakone...along with an entire assembly hall full of people, when it was either known or highly suspected (hence the accusation in court and after deliberation, determining that they believed he was) that he was a bloodbender capable of bloodbending during the day and without a full moon. I'd also add that adult Toph (she's considerably more powerful in the LoK flashback than she was during say, ATLA book 2 finale) was gripped and totally helpless and she was probably the most powerful bender, physically strongest, and most determined (minus Avatar State) on the team, hence, most likely to be able to resist the grip, at the time we're taking Team Avatar from to face Amon.
Could Katara break the bloodbending grip? Probably not. Korra (LoK book 1) is a more powerful waterbender than Katara (ATLA book 2) was, Korra had mastered waterbending, presumably for around 8 years at that point. Despite this, without bloodbending training and a full moon, she couldn't break Amon's grip until she pulls airbending out of nowhere and surprises him with some airblasts. And Amon is a better bloodbender than Hama and well within his physical prime.
So, if the Avatar State is hypothetically out of the equation (which I'm not saying it would be) Amon would demolish Aang (and Korra (and all their friends)) if we also assume plot shielding will not be a factor (because he would have owned Korra and Mako yet again without plot shielding (and before it comes up again, yes, Aang had his fair share of plot shielding himself)).
No plot shielding and no Avatar State, Aang and his friends from book two get wrecked.
What would probably happen though is Aang would enter a defensive Avatar State and at that point he wipes the floor with Amon solo. Why I think he would enter the defensive state is because he would be worried about his friends (ie Katara) or maybe he'd be afraid Amon would kill him. I suspect that Korra didn't enter the defensive Avatar State because Amon was terrorizing her, but made it fairly clear he wasn't going to kill her...yet. Aang doesn't know this, unless we're playing it out as though he told Aang like he did Korra the same thing.
Flight. That was incredibly ham fisted writing for why Zaheer got flight. That said, maybe for him, P'Li was an earthly tether, but Asami might not be so for Korra even though they're in a relationship. It's entirely possible to have a relationship without possessiveness in which those involved even help to enhance the others' spirituality and/or sense of freedom (very much unlike how Aang was toward Katara, at least, while they were young).
As for Aang's continued study, I'd assume that he did. He probably did get better at energybending, he's clearly more comfortable with it on Yakone than he was on Ozai to boot. But, the thing is, without any feats to demonstrate this, it's nothing more than an assumption that he improved/became more powerful and to what degree.
Depending on at what point we're looking at Team Avatar, it very well could be. Hama turned up early in Book 3, after the fall of Ba Sing Se Book 3 episode 8, or episode 48 overall.
So, f we assume it is early-Book-3 Team Avatar(circa episodes 41-47), the Avatar State is out of the equation from where I'm standing, because Azula blasting Aang in the back with Lightning locked his chakras and deprived him of his ability to enter the Avatar State - an ability he did not regain until he got slammed into a rock during the fight with Ozai. In this situation, it could go either way, but as soon as Amon starts to go all-out with his bloodbending, Aang is boned.
IF, however, it is Team Avatar before the fall of Ba Sing Se, then the Avatar State is a wild card. Aang might enter it consciously, or he might not - in which case it would probably trigger automatically the way it did a number of times throughout Book 1 and 2, quite likely in response to Amon bloodbending him - at which point Amon's gonna get wrecked.
Either way, I accounted for it. If Avatar State, Aang wins. If no Avatar State, Amon wins.
OP didn't specify whether it was pre or post Azula lightning, only that we're before encountering Hama. I stated that I was considering book two incarnations for sake of argument, at that point, Avatar State is on the table. If we're considering post lightning bolt, well, obviously that removes the Avatar State from the equation, and since I stipulated no plot shielding (so, no chakra unlocking rock spikes to the back mid fight), my position in such circumstances is that Aang loses.
Prior to the book 3 finale, Aang couldn't consciously choose to enter it, so any Avatar State would be the;
1) Spirit possession kind. Which should be a non issue here (no known angry spirits related to this situation.
2) Past Avatar possession type. Also should not be applicable, as it didn't happen for Korra and unlike Korra, kid Aang has no previous Avatar incarnations with history with the current opponent (Korra had adult Aang as a past life that dealt with Yakone).
3) Or defensive. This definitely could be the case for Aang, but wasn't with Korra, possibly due to explained reasons of Amon telling her he wasn't going to kill her...yet.
But, sure, that's pretty much the scenario I envisioned.
And you're absolutely right. Originally I didn't account for that myself, as I considered the scenario only from the point of view of Aang circa Ep41-47(early Book 3). Wasn't until you pointed it out that I even considered pre-Book 3 Aang at all. So thanks for that ;)
Note that I said:
"...Amon would demolish Aang (and Korra (and all their friends)) if we also assume plot shielding will not be a factor (because he would have owned Korra and Mako yet again without plot shielding..."
and I already brought up Korra being told by Amon that he didn't feel like killing her...yet, referencing when he had her captured under the Aang statue.
No semantical "correction" necessary.
Amon would totally lose to Aang,even from childhood he knew that the avatar was the most powerfull bender of all times,aang defeated his father yakone and took away his bending,when aang and amon meet,amon would totally try to bloodbend him but aang will get into avatar state and destroy him. so dont talk so much ;)