+60 Water-bending is the most versatile element. You can bend water into ice, you can blood-bend, you can draw water from plants, yourself (sweat/tear-bending), and you can even draw water from thin air (water vapor)! Water is everywhere, which is why water is the best element to bend, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I was with ya till the very last sentence. I love Water Bending. It's my second choice. But it doesn't help me fly. I also just prefer the lifestyle of an Airbender.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

On a side note: If you are a Waterbender and you hate some one, I mean really hate them, bend the water out of their eyes. I'd imagine that feeling terrible.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Bend the water vapor and use them as jets to propel you forward and around. Boom. flying.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh god that would hurt. From the way that blood-bending sounded in the series, I always thought you can snap someone in half, or pull the blood out of their body, have it gush out endlessly.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You give too much credit to the moisture in the air. I've always thought of bending the blood out of their brain. Or sending all of the blood to the brain. But I'm not really sure how blood bending works. Like I don't know if you can redirect the flow of blood. Also an evil Airbending trick would be pushing an incredible amount of air in to their lungs. (but an Airbender would never do that)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Depends on the humidity, but yeah I guess you could. Or use a shitton of water to propel yourself, it's been done in the show before.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I've always said if I had to pick one element to be able to bend, I'd pick water. I've always loved the water and being in it, playing with it and stuff, so being able to bend it would be amazing. Of course, if I could, I'd also like to be able to bend the other three elements, but the role of Avatar seems to have already been filled.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I know, right? Personally I wouldn't want to be the avatar. I'm not a huge fan of fire or earthbending.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, water is totally awesome, and my first pick if I HAD to pick, but I really like all the other elements as well. I'd love to be the Avatar, because then I'd get to bend all four of the elements. Plus, hello, the AVATAR - why wouldn't you want to be it? I like fire bending, but earthbending... Eh, it's my least favorite, if I'm being honest, but I'd still like to be able to bend it. Plus, earthbenders have the whole metalbending thing going on, thanks to Toph, so that's cool. And Airbending is amazing, of course. God, could you imagine actually being able to fly with one of those gliders or riding on a fucking ball of air? That would definitely be amazing. Still, water would be my first choice, followed closely by air, then fire, and then earth.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Same here! I don't want to be the avatar because it would be a pain to master all elements and I don't even care for all of them. Firebending is cool and badass but you can't really do much with it. There are different uses, but how many real world applications are there with it? Not many. Plus there's the responsibility of the avatar, and that's too much of a pain for a person like me.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

OH I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING. okay so another way you could use water bending is somehow making use of osmosis and diffusion.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Water is a compound.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Air is everywhere too. Everywhere relevant at least.

by Anonymous 11 years ago