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MorganTJ posted...

For what it's worth, I never got the idea that Aang had actually mastered all four elements by the series' end. He obviously mastered air and definitely water, but he hadn't been doing firebending for that long, and I believe Toph remarks at one point that his earthbending could still use some work later in the series. I thought that was part of the reason why they were originally going to wait out Sozin's Comet and confront the Firelord when Aang was actually prepared. I'm sure to the average layperson in-universe he would be considered a master, but not to the extent of previous Avatars that trained with the best benders in the world for years and years.

But yeah, definitely stick around for Book 3.

That's fair and true. Although, with earth, he did seem to get the seismic sight down in the end, so that's really impressive. But yeah, far from a master, and probably far from how strong he was by the time he was Korra's age.

In theory, wouldn't the Avatar be able to beat their teacher in their respective element by the time they are finished? We saw Roku able to beat his water-bending teacher in a fight and his earth-bending teacher in a race. Forget if he bested his air-bending teacher(s), but still, I assume he would have been rather impressive there too. I wasn't under the impression that Aang could beat Toph in a straight-up Earth-bending battle except if he were to use the Avatar state of course. I also don't remember him being as versatile as Katara was with water (did he even really use ice at all in the series), so I don't think he'd beat her either honestly. I mean, Katara and Toph were prodigies with blood bending and metal bending respectively but still.

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