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who is the strongest avatar if we were
going to have every Avatar fight each
other in a one-on-one fight who would
actually win this is a topic that has
been heavily debated on since the start
of the phandom there are a multitude of
videos that cover this topic but I find
myself watching them and wanting more
many channels that cover this topic only
use the cartoons lore of the past
avatars obviously a is the main
character of The Last air bender and
he's going to be the focus of the
cartoon so lore of the past avatars
wasn't really the main focus especially
in terms of strength and abilities so
today I am going to be fixing that in
this video we are going to be using lore
from the video games novels comics and
both Avatar series there are six main
avatars that people often include when
they talk about the strongest avatar
those are Avatar one Yang Chan Koshi
Roku Ang and Kora we will be going over
the best Feats accomplished by these
avatars and at the end of the video we
will choose a winner I do want to make
it very clear that this video is about
choosing the strongest avatar not the
best Avatar we are purely going to be
looking at their strength and bending
ability we are not here to tell their
life stories we're not here to look at
their politics or any of that sort of
stuff or what they did for the world
although some of those things may be
adjacent when talking about their
strength they will not be determining
the winner Avatar Kyoshi was a
Powerhouse in every sense of the way
known for her Incredible strength and
towering height coming in at exactly 7
ft tall she didn't just look and posing
she she was imposing her life was filled
with struggles from being abandoned as a
child to fighting through personal loss
but she came out stronger every single
time Koshi had this unbreakable resolve
to where she wasn't afraid to make the
tough calls even if it meant being seen
as ruthless she firmly believed that
peace required decisive action and
didn't hesitate to take down those who
threatened it Kyoshi was different she
arguably has some of the best Feats in
the entire Avatar verse and there are a
lot of them so for the avatar that have
a ton of Feats we're going to be
breaking them down into a few different
categories obviously I'm not going to be
breaking down every single detail for
Avatar Juan who has a 15-minute
backstory no we're just doing this for
the big ones our categories are going to
be strength speed durability the four
elements and of course the Avatar State
Kyoshi is strong and I mean stupidly
strong I'm not even talking about our
bending strength yet which is on another
level and we'll get to that I mean her
physical strength before Kyoshi knew she
was the Avatar and before she had any
training at all Kyoshi was a servant and
a really strong servant being able to
lift heavy items by herself that were
said to be a job for multiple grown men
almost every scene that she's in likes
to make a big deal out of her bending
strength but there is this one really
cool scene that's a pretty good
indication of her physical strength when
she literally picks up a grown man by
one hand from his neck and then presses
him so hard into an ice wall that It
Breaks by the way these two feets AR
Koshi not even trying uh so far we've
never even seen what her max strength is
but if you do think her strength is
impressive wait until you hear about her
durability in the rise of Kyoshi she was
given a poison that paralyzes you but
she was quickly able to overcome this
poison without even entering the Avatar
State too bad she couldn't have taught
Kora this trick later in the same exact
novel during her battle with the leader
of the yellow neck she was directly shot
with a bolt of lightning that nearly
snapped her spine in half then shot
again with not one one not two but three
additional bolts of lightning straight
into her back to put it in perspective
both Zuko and Ang were out of the game
after one lightning bolt and she not
only survived four lightning bolts but
went on to enter the Avatar State and
win the fight when it comes to bending
the four elements Koshi was not only a
Pioneer but extremely powerful Earth
bending specifically is where she really
shines room siiz Boulders or giant
statues she's able to throw them around
with little to no effort even as a
novice she was able to match Master
Earth Benders in power struggles despite
them having Superior technique one of
the coolest Earth bending abilities that
Kyoshi has is called dust stepping she
bends the Earth to make tiny little bits
of dust just barely large enough to
momentarily support her weight in order
to reach higher elevations in practice
it's said to look like she's walking up
an invisible staircase and if you really
think about it in a lot of ways this was
one step short of achieving flight
remember when I called Koshi a pioneer
well here's something no one in the
Avatar world has done but her she looks
down and was horrified to realize she
had been pierced by massive amounts of
glass shards so what does she do well
Koshi being the Chad that she is she
just casually invents glass bending and
used it to pull the shards out of her
body kyoshi's fire bending is also no
joke being one of the elements she
picked up the easiest she's notably one
of the few firebenders able to use
firebending to fly outside of San's
Comet Koshi has done so many crazy
things with her fire bending and being
able to melt metal on two different
occasions along with enough proficiency
with her firebending to be able to
combine it with her airbending to make
fire tornadoes yes fire tornadoes while
going up against Elite firebenders
described as some of the best of the
best when it comes to fire bending Koshi
easily deflects and catches their fire
Koshi is even surprised herself with how
much she has surpassed even the most
elite fire Benders her airbending feeds
are also pretty solid being able to
throw balls of wind to blast people down
hallways even doing this to groups of
people at a time with a single kick of
air bending she was able to clear an
entire hallway smashing all the
furniture to bits she's also capable of
small time manipulation with air bending
being able to make miniature tornadoes
to catch dozens of small objects water
bending is when things get kind of crazy
for Koshi during a full moon she was
able to lift an entire Pond of water
even though there was someone else with
her it's noted that she lift the Water
by herself self while the other person
simply guided the water Koshi was also
kind of a bloodbender now it's debated
on whether you can call this
bloodbending I personally do but I know
a lot of people don't but after luring
Yun to an arms length of her she places
her Palm on his heart and freezes it
along with his lungs killing him it's
also worth noting that Kyoshi possessed
basic healing abilities with water her
Avatar state is when things start going
from crazy to Unreal before Kyoshi was
identified as the Avatar she was a part
of a battle with the fifth Nation where
she displayed Feats unlike anything
we've ever seen in a battle stranded
with no access to Earth she enters the
Avatar State for the first time and
summons giant stone columns all the way
from the ocean floor to take down the
enemy ship this feat would later be
described as Moving Mountains from over
200 Paces away Janu who is widely
considered one of the greatest
earthbenders of all time with the
nickname the gravedigger because he
could bury entire armies underground
admits he could not accomplish what
Kyoshi did and this was before any
training at all and at the age of 16
Kyoshi was thought to be a weak Bender
up until this point in the same calendar
year Kyoshi would go into the Avatar
State again during a duel with the
leader of the yellow necks but this time
having full control over the power and
using it to kill her enemies remember
earlier when I said she was shot four
times in a row with lightning yeah this
is that same enemy when she enters the
Avatar State she creates a Vortex of air
to raise both her and her enemy while
they're in the air it's described that
the circulation of the air was too fast
and her opponent started to suffocate
after taunting him she drops him and he
plummets to his death in avatar The Last
air bender we also see her creating
Kyoshi Island where she literally bends
the tectonic plates of the planet to
separate her home Peninsula from the
earth Kingdom Mainland and push it so
far out it creates an island Avatar Yang
Chan was the previous airon noad Avatar
before a she stands out as one of the
most powerful and respected avatars
thanks to her incredible air bending
skills and her deep commitment to
helping others she uses her abilities
responsibly focusing on diplomacy
spiritual understanding and practical
help for those in need Yang Chan's goal
was to maintain balance in both the
physical world and spiritual worlds but
we go on to learn that she may have
neglected one of those and ruined the
next Avatar but you know we can't all be
perfect one really cool thing about
Avatar Yang Chan was her unusually
strong Connection to the Past avatars
that allowed her to draw on their
knowledge a lot more directly than the
other avatars it was as if she could
remember their past lives herself and
recall things that they saw or read even
though she has a peaceful nature Yang
Chan isn't afraid to use her power and
influence when the situation calls for
it this combination of strength and
wisdom makes her legendary across the
four nations admired not for just her
bending skills but her dedication to
Justice and Harmony it said after her
reign as Avatar there is peace between
the four nations for over 100 years to
really dive deep into how strong Yang
Chan truly is we need to take a look at
both of her novels the dawn of Yang Chan
and the legacy of Yang Chan Avatar Yang
Chan's air bending is her best element
of course she's a master of all four
elements even since her youth but air
bending is where she really stands out
her battles with thaa a powerful
combustion bender gets us across the
best while thaa is launching an
explosion at Yang Chan she's able to use
her air bending to outrun the explosion
from Point Blank Range with only the
shock wave hitting her back to put this
in perspective a and team Avatar had to
hide from combustion man's explosions
and the one time Ang did outrun him was
when he was leaping from cover to cover
to stay protected now this isn't said to
put down Ang Ang was only 12 years old
here and yang Chan was almost an adult
it's purely to show you how absurd this
maneuver actually is when Yang Chan
realizes that these combustion venders
are kind of a problem she uses and
enhances a couple of forbidden
techniques to deal with them yes more
than one firstly to render their
firebending SL explosions useless she
drains the room that they're in of its
air it's like I can't get enough air
thaa muttered I don't know what's
happening he backed away from the window
completely abandoning his buildup he
clutched his throat heni opened his
mouth to comment but as soon as he did
his ears were stricken by a bout of
uneven pressure he jawed up and down
trying to relieve the swell thaa was
saying something to him but he couldn't
hear him dizziness his head spun fun
edges of the darkness crept in around
his vision what in the name of the
spirits was going on it wasn't just him
th's eyes were rolling back into his
head and his face had turned blue heni
attempted to slump into the chair landed
short his hips sliding off while he
clung to the back for dear life his
breath was gone his lungs had no
strength to open that is just terrifying
is that not terrifying she could just
drain a room of its air and it's stated
that she's able to do this in just over
10 seconds now this technique is
incredibly op but you know what would
make it even more op if the Target
didn't need to be in a room for it to
work well she's able to just do that to
neutralize combustion Benders in an open
environment she creates an airless void
in front of their blast to stop the
explosions from ever happening the
vacuum that she creates does damage to
those in its radius specifically
rupturing someone's eard drums and lungs
almost killing them instantly could you
imagine if a certain someone got a hold
of a technique like this was actually
trying to kill people with it if she
decided to make a void on someone's head
it's over it's over it's almost killing
people from like 10 ft away these are
just a couple examples of how she uses
air bending in a cool way but there are
so many more she's able to create
vacuums around her and whoever she's
talking to in order to keep their
conversations from being heard she's
able to make small tornadoes with just
her breath amplify her screams to a
degree that they can be felt the list
goes on and on Yang Chan truly takes air
bending to another level we've never
seen in the franchise now would be a
good time to briefly mention the other
elements they didn't get as much love in
these novels I get it air Bing's cool
they wanted to really explore that in
these books she never really uses water
bending for combat in her novels but
she's shown to have extraordinary
healing abilities bringing a woman back
from the brink of death it's even stated
by cavic that her healing is Flawless
earthbending is also fairly standard
there is one cool thing she did uh she
created a wall of Earth big enough to
cover herself and kavic from the ocean's
waves kavic even notes that the wall was
so big and so thick that they couldn't
even hear the ocean anymore Yang Chan's
fire bending was also pretty much used
as utility in both of her novels mainly
using it to light rooms warm herself
increase ambient temperatures light
candles that sort of thing where things
get particularly interesting with Avatar
Yang Chan is her connection to her past
lives she is exceptional at connecting
with her past lives often times not even
remembering if she had done something in
her past life or her current life these
details can go all the way down to
literal books she can remember books
that were read by past avatars the
amount of knowledge she has at her
fingertips is actually insane
surprisingly her connections to the Past
avatars go even deeper than this she can
even relive their lives through their
eyes from their perspective she even
states that when she does this time
doesn't pass the same in the outside
world as in the Visions Yang Chan could
potentially comb through knowledge of
dozens and dozens of avatars in just a
few seconds in the outside world it's
really no wonder the world was left
peaceful for 100 years after her death
she quite literally has the knowledge to
deal with anything y Chan's Avatar State
Feats are good but she doesn't use it as
much as the other avatars in the comic
the rift we learn that she battled with
the Massive Spirit General Old Iron for
24 hours straight leaving a city in
Ruins eventually as time went on people
assumed no battle could have caused this
much damage and they declared that the
city was hit by a typhoon in the legacy
of Yang Chan while in the Avatar State
she split the sea exposing the ocean
floor I really don't know what's more
impressive the stamina to battle for an
entire day straight with a giant Spirit
or splitting the sea and exposing the
ocean floor both are kind of insane now
I will admit it's not incredibly clear
how deep this part of the ocean was but
it's still really cool to talk about how
strong Kora is we need to address the
overhaul on bending that the series did
now this is something I've talked about
a lot on this channel I've made so many
videos diving deep into the topic you
can go back and check those out if you
want but for this video I'm going to
keep it brief in the original Avatar
Series so Ang and all the prior avatars
bending was based on traditional martial
arts hungar Kung Fu Northern Shaolin
pring mantis bang you get the point the
creators wanted to advance these
fighting styles like in real life so
what they did was they made bending
based off of modern styles of fighting
boxing Muay Thai wrestling so basically
MMA if you're the Avatar not only that
but techniques that were reserved for
the royal family are now factory worker
techniques bending had progressed so
much that some of the most impressive
techniques that we only saw avatars
doing were now being done by Regular
People cor grew up in a world where
people can just casually do the
strongest techniques and that shaped her
as the Avatar being the youngest Avatar
to bend three elements at Just 4 years
old she was a prodigy by the time we see
her in season 1 she was a master of
three out of four elements only lacking
air bending of course she does unlock
air bending later in the season it's
difficult to judge cor's power for a
couple of reasons one cuz she's never at
her Peak during the show but two the
legend of Kora isn't flashy over the top
when it comes to bending they live in a
city you can't bend massive amounts of
these elements without some
repercussions the first episode clearly
establishes this because of this I feel
like even though the bending skills
themselves progressed Leaps and Bounds
the actual power of the bending went
down a ton Kora also loses access to her
past lives which should substantially
weaken her Avatar State You could argue
that that would make her the first
Avatar and line hence the closest to
raava but I think that's a little weird
considering its reincarnation and
technically all avatars should be the
same closeness to raava but then again
Avatar Juan is obviously the closest cuz
he can speak to her whenever she wants
uh it's all a little weird the thing
Kora really has going for her is her
creativity in battle she really mixes
the martial arts yeah I know I know Kora
loses some battles she should have never
lost but that doesn't change the fact
that she's the most creative Avatar when
ites comes to fighting whether it's
flinging herself hundreds of feet in the
air with earthbending or perfectly
mixing her airbending punches with her
firebending kicks or slipping bobbing
and weaving or using tons of movement uh
how about being the first metal bending
avatar look at the Way She Moves she has
to be the fastest Avatar in terms of
combat speed a lot of people like to
give Kora flak for losing to kurira in
their first fight by saying Ang wouldn't
have lost to her to be fair Kora
shouldn't have lost to her but look at
the way kuvera is moving man she is
slipping every single element with ease
no one was moving like that in Avatar
all the battles were block heavy block
counter block counter maybe dodge
occasionally kuvera was slipping
blocking countering side stipping she
fought with movement in mind I'm not
sure Ang would know what to do when
fighting someone like that I'm also not
saying Ang would lose so put your
pitchforks down anyways this isn't an
Ang versus Kua video maybe we talk about
that some other time but not today cor's
most impressive feat by far is in season
4 when she blocks a city destroying Beam
with her bare hands while in the Avatar
State and keep in mind this is a nerfed
avatar State and she's able to do this
other impressive things would be kora's
healing and spirit bending after Uno's
death Kora is technically the only
Spirit Bender alive her final battle
with Zahir is also pretty good throwing
massive Boulders while flying with
firebending and this battle is probably
the closest we get to atla in terms of
destructive force created by bending
Avatar Roku was born to a noble Fire
Nation family interestingly enough he
was a twin and not only that he and his
twin brother were born on the same day
as future Fire Lord soan makes you
wonder if anything weird was going on
there Roku had a fairly normal
upbringing as the Avatar at the age of
16 he was told that he was the Avatar
and was immediately sent off to the
southern air Temple to learn how to air
bend from there he would master air
bending and repeat the process with the
other elements spending a total of 12
Years doing so currently we only know a
lot about his time learning air bending
as that was the primary focus of his
novel The Reckoning of Roku I do want to
mention the coolest feet in this novel
but it was in a spirit enhanced cave so
it won't be used to determine if he was
one of the strongest avatars I decid it'
be cool to mention in a spirit enhanced
cave he lets off a blast of iridescent
Flames so powerful that it shook the
world when Roku would return to the Fire
Nation after mastering the elements he'd
get into a conflict with fire lord soan
over the Fire Nation annexing Earth
Kingdom territory Fire Lord San would go
on to try to cheap shot Avatar Roku but
would still lose the fight rather easily
defeating a f Lord this easily is an
impressive feat but what makes it even
more impressive is that this is a firel
Lord that had been to the hidden library
and learned in his own words the kind of
power that could rival the avatars while
possessing a in the Avatar State he was
able to feat Xiao the fire sages and
xiao's Men during the short fight Roku
summoned a giant wall of lava Rising so
high to be as tall as the temple itself
and eventually causing the entire thing
to sink I know I know Roku lost to a
volcano but he was an old man and he was
also betrayed and I don't really want to
do anti feets here you all know a
everybody knows his story it's been told
countless times throughout the years
it's been told in comics cartoons video
games parodies liveaction adaptations
liveaction adaptations that feel like
parodies point is you all know his story
but there are a few key things I do want
to mention here before we dive deep into
his Feats Ang is potentially the most
talented person we've ever ever seen in
the franchise at just 6 years old he was
a better Bender than many teenagers and
by the time he was 10 his air bending
had surpassed many Masters this gets
even crazier because at 12 years old he
would invent the air scooter and earn
his tattoos making him the youngest air
Bing master in history of course his
record would go on to be shattered by
janora but I figured I'd still mention
it here a wouldn't be dealt the same
cards as the rest of the avatars most
avatars get to master the elements with
the best teachers in the world and at
the age of 16 but due to circumstances
Ang was only given six or so months to
master all of the other elements all
while only being a 12-year-old kid so
when we talk about the things Ang has
done even if they don't seem as
impressive as the other avatars just
remember he's by far the youngest on
this list ER is Ang's most used element
so we get to see his proficiency with
air bending all throughout the show in
episode 14 of book one a volcano is
erupting and is about to destroy a
nearby town this leads to Ang's most
underrated feet being just a 12-year-old
no Avatar State and and only air bending
a was able to defeat this volcano cool
all of the lava and save the town
something our boy Roku just wasn't able
to accomplish he also uses air bending
in a lot of creative ways like creating
an avalanche in order to stop the Fire
Nation it's also worth noting that Ang
has kept up with some of the best
Benders in the show while only using air
bending and only using said air bending
in a passive way one thing that
surprised me while doing research for
this video is A's strength and I mean
his physical strength he is UN
unbelievably underrated if you thought
kyoshi's strength was insane wait until
you see this when Ang was training with
Toff before he could Bend any Earth at
all so he had no assistance with this
one he was able to lift a boulder and
Carri it around on his back this rock is
easily thousands of pounds some people
online have calculated this rock to
weigh as much as 6,000 lb speaking of
earthbending Ang is the only Avatar to
have seismic sense he's not only shown
to be great with seismic sense and
training but he also used it against oai
and in many ways is one of the reasons
he beat oai Ang doesn't have Kyoshi
level durability one lightning strike
was enough to take him out but that's
not to say his durability isn't
impressive because it is his durability
is great but what's even better are his
recoveries Ang will be knocked out down
on the count and then he'll randomly
open his eyes and be ready to finish the
job Tyson Fury getting back up in round
12 has nothing onang he's kept this
ability later in life when yakone
bloodbent him unconscious and threw him
against a staircase he once again just
wakes up and gets the job done Ang's
unbelievably fast as well not only in
just combat speed where he's
effortlessly able to react to lightning
but also his point A to point B he's ran
so fast that he created tornadoes on
land and also whirlpools on water in the
last Adventures comic in a battle with
combustion man Ang's air scooter was
shown to be faster than a train at full
speed I haven't really talked about
Ang's fire bending or water bending yet
mainly because there isn't a whole lot
of it to go off of he's literally used
air bending alone more than all of the
other elements combined obviously his
koizilla Fe is extremely impressive but
we can't really use that because he
merged with another Spirit fire bending
he pretty much learned that a couple
weeks before the end of the series and
all of his Feats with the element are
supercharged by the comet however Ang's
Avatar state is where things get
interesting prey over the Avatar State
he doesn't really do much with it
although extremely cool not much happens
time and time again he kind of just gets
calmed down out of the Avatar state or
shot by lightning but postmy he is able
to effortlessly defeat a comma amped oai
whose Flames could match an entire Army
of firebenders while in this postmy
Avatar State he has the ability to
create this sort of hamster ball of
elements and fly around something we
haven't really seen from the other
avatars most other avatars fly with
tornadoes or fire rockets that sort of
thing and he gets a hamster ball this
also isn't just a oneandone thing for
the finale he actually does this again
in the the promise and in the same page
he does one of his most impressive Feats
ever he uses earth bending to raise the
mountains around udow stopping an allout
War we currently know next to nothing
about prime Ang and hopefully that
changes in a year when the new movie
comes out however an older out of prime
Ang was able to defeat the greatest
bloodbender of all time after entering
the Avatar State let's go over some
honorable mentions the first honorable
mention goes to Avatar Sito who you
probably do recognize but I wouldn't
blame you if you didn't know his name
unlike most avatars he didn't try to
police the world himself instead he
worked as a bureaucrat in the Fire
Nation rejecting any Privileges and
slowly worked his way up through the
ranks the main reason I wanted to bring
him up is because he has one of the most
casually insane Feats where he forcibly
erupts four volcanoes which violently
spout out massive amounts of lava the
second mention has to go to my boy
Avatar kuruk while kuruk didn't actually
fight that many battles against other
Benders he did fight hundred hundreds of
dark Spirits we also know the first time
Kook went into the Avatar State he lost
control and ended up annihilating an
entire Island sinking parts of it and
blowing the rest to chunks which were
scattered to the wind cork died early
due to the spiritual damage he took
during his life but it stated that
because of this he was never able to
reach his full potential who knows how
powerful he could have become if Yang
chan never neglected the spirit world or
if he continued training fun fact Kirk
was one of the greatest P show players
in history so if I ever decide to do a P
show TI list for whatever reason you
might hear about him again the third and
final honorable mention is Avatar Juan
the first avatar he started this whole
thing and theoretically has the
strongest connection to the Light Spirit
Raa being the only one to actually
regularly talk to her it's worth noting
Juan learned how to bend all of the
elements Straight From the Source this
would make him the first ever human
martial artist his greatest feat is of
course you all know fusing with raava
defeating vatu and sealing him away
along with separating the human world
and physical world that being said we
only know a small handful of the total
avatars that have ever lived so there
could be a super strong one that we
don't know about and we'll learn about
in the future but for now this is it so
now that you've heard all of the
Avatar's Feats and abilities who is the
strongest well it's a bit complicated
Avatar Kyoshi easily has the most
powerful bending Feats Yang Chan easily
has the most deadly technique Kora has
the most advanced bending and Ang is a
good allrounder here's my take on things
if there were no morals and all the
avatars were doing whatever necessary to
kill each other Yang Chan would be the
winner her void technique is too op she
could end anyone with that if she was
going all out but let's say all the
avatars had to be in character and
morals were at play obviously Yang Chan
is not killing people with her void
technique in this situation so initially
I was thinking Kora should be able to
take this one uh because of the overhaul
on the bending system but her losing
access to her past lives that makes
things a lot more interesting is Kors
Advanced but weaker bending able to take
down Kyoshi or Ang in my opinion no I
don't think she's taking down either of
them I know I've said multiple times on
Twitter that I thought Kora was the
strongest avatar but after hours and
hours of research and reading I no
longer think Kora is the strongest to me
this brings it down to Koshi or a
currently we know what prime Koshi is
capable of she can make entire islands
with her bending and can separate cities
it's just a different level of power in
character the winner would be prime
Kyoshi but that could easily and I mean
easily change in a year when we find out
more about prime Ang in the 2026 movie I
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