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[rac7d]

There are a few no sells that no one in this series have tried yet, and while they aren't unassailable, they do make it preeety difficult for Amon to do anything.
Earth Bending: Sink into the ground. If you can feel vibrations you can logically bend while underground. Alternatively, erect a room around yourself.
Air bending: It's not a perfect defense, but a true master air bender should be extremely difficult to beat. unlike the other elements, a omnidirectional defensive move has been displayed for air bending. On top of that, air benders have by far the most dynamic fighting style, fire bending is the only one that comes close to it. It's canon that air benders can run at like 200 mph, Tenzin should have been dodging those attacks so easily in that most recent battle.

That could have been an avatar thing plus no room and tenzins 50, Airbenders are fast but they dont zip around the battefield. Unfortunatly aibending is alsmot useless against metal as we leanred in the drill.

[Mastermind]

Ozai wasn't the best firebender in the world. He would have never conquered shit without the comet. Amon has the means to beat any bender. He is making the equipment so any nonbender can beat any bender. His machines just trashed the children of masters.

If he wasn't the best, then either Azula (sane) or Iroh were. His nation already took Ba Sing Se without the comet. Amon, while extremely skilled, has yet to convince me that he could beat someone of worth. Korra is so naive and arrogant that I can't say that she's a worthy opponent for Amon at the moment.

[dakirbymaster]

If he wasn't the best, then either Azula (sane) or Iroh were. His nation already took Ba Sing Se without the comet. Amon, while extremely skilled, has yet to convince me that he could beat someone of worth. Korra is so naive and arrogant that I can't say that she's a worthy opponent for Amon at the moment.

What about Tenzin and Lin? They're obviously quite powerful, and though Amon didn't deal with them directly the creations of his lackeys did. The very fact that he's pioneering this anti-bender technology means he's far more of a threat than Ozai.

Ozai just had firebenders. Amon's amassing an army that literally anyone could join (except benders, obviously).

[Relix]

Well to add my two cents I find Amon a bit more terrifying and more of an immediate threat than Ozai. My little brother compared Ozai and Amon's forces like a dictatorship vs a terrorist group or violent gang. Sure a dictatorship causes a significant amount of damage to the world especially in Ozai's sense since he was literally burning the world to the ground but he needed the power of the comet, undercover operations, and generations of planning to put him where he was. Amon and the Equalists on the other hand are an uprising that is underground, underestimated, and secretive. I don't know about you but I was actually freaked out when they discovered Sato's underground factory and you see flags of Amon's face everywhere because its such a powerful presence that's in hiding and waiting to take the city and soon the world by storm, and you don't even know who the members are! Fire Nation soliders wore the colors out in the open but the equalists could literally be anyone who is lead by a leader with no face and no fear of benders including the avatar. He's the ZERO OF AVATAR. Lol

[Mastermind]

What about Tenzin and Lin? They're obviously quite powerful, and though Amon didn't deal with them directly the creations of his lackeys did. The very fact that he's pioneering this anti-bender technology means he's far more of a threat than Ozai.

Ozai just had firebenders. Amon's amassing an army that literally anyone could join (except benders, obviously).

Take out the head and the body will die. That's how this movement seems to me. Amon has yet to go toe to toe with a competent bender.

Ozai had firebenders that got the job done. The fire nation was effective. The air fleet was taken down thanks to an unprecedented metalbender, Toph. If not for her, they would've continued to burn down the earth kingdom.

[LegendaryHeroLCB]

Seeing as how Amon doesn't do things the easy way, he always does something for a reason. He didn't get rid of Korra's bending because A. He let her know that he wasn't diddlying around and B. He didn't want to have an immediate uprising of benders. Mind you he's still human. He can flip and roll all he wants but that wouldn't stop a shitload of fire, water, earth, and wind coming at him. He's probably waiting for Korra to get to a level where he's going to start taking away important people. He has a habit of commiting psychological warfare on others. The taking of bending obviously messes up its victims so my guess is is that he's going to break Korra down level by level (if possible) to the point where she does something rash and he'll use that to sort of prove his point that bending is a naturally negative thing.

[ffx_fanatic1405]

Well to add my two cents I find Amon a bit more terrifying and more of an immediate threat than Ozai. My little brother compared Ozai and Amon's forces like a dictatorship vs a terrorist group or violent gang. Sure a dictatorship causes a significant amount of damage to the world especially in Ozai's sense since he was literally burning the world to the ground but he needed the power of the comet, undercover operations, and generations of planning to put him where he was. Amon and the Equalists on the other hand are an uprising that is underground, underestimated, and secretive. I don't know about you but I was actually freaked out when they discovered Sato's underground factory and you see flags of Amon's face everywhere because its such a powerful presence that's in hiding and waiting to take the city and soon the world by storm, and you don't even know who the members are! Fire Nation soliders wore the colors out in the open but the equalists could literally be anyone who is lead by a leader with no face and no fear of benders including the avatar. He's the ZERO OF AVATAR. Lol

I agree with you 100%. I mean Ozai was advertising what he's doing, but this guy... he's like hiding. It's scary to think that this guy is somewhere in your city, ready to strike. I can understand why Korra is scared as hell. I wonder how they'll get rid of him and who he is! I kinda think of him as Hitler, if you think about it. I'm just waiting for him to do a concentration camp of Benders... but I'm hoping this doesn't happen. I wonder how this will go, I mean with original avatar, I could kinda guess what was going to happen, but this... I'm kinda anxious.

[aldrain]

I'm with XIII here. Taking away bending is a horrible thing, but to me it pales when compared to flying in a fleet of goddamn dreadnaughts and burning the diddlying land and everyone on it. Not to mention the culling of an entire group of people by his ancestor.

Well my feeling is this. Ozai could kill all the people he wanted. He could take over the world. Eventually somebody would rise up. People would still have the power to take him down. Amon though, you take away benders and there is no more bending, supposedly. That changes the course of the world forever. So much more menacing.

Though, I wonder how he will get knocked off his high horse. What if maybe taking away somebodies ability to bend doesn't keep it from being passed on? What if his bending blocking is just taking away the physical manifest, but then bending could be a total genetic mutation. Anyway.

Amon. Definately more menacing.

Also here is another thought. What if Amon is just a really advaced chi blocker. What if it just wore off? Or even this: what if its a hypnosis type deal? Notice how whenever he blocks somebodies bending they just look completely gone? I wonder if that is what is happening?

[LegendaryHeroLCB]

I agree with you 100%. I mean Ozai was advertising what he's doing, but this guy... he's like hiding. It's scary to think that this guy is somewhere in your city, ready to strike. I can understand why Korra is scared as hell. I wonder how they'll get rid of him and who he is! I kinda think of him as Hitler, if you think about it. I'm just waiting for him to do a concentration camp of Benders... but I'm hoping this doesn't happen. I wonder how this will go, I mean with original avatar, I could kinda guess what was going to happen, but this... I'm kinda anxious.

I don't think the Hitler thing is fair. I don't really think it's cool for Amon to be all "Death to all benders" but he does have some merit to his rhetoric. Benders have screwed up the world on numerous occasions so in many ways, his philosophy is kind of fair.

[Mastermind]

It's not fair at all. Humans would find a way to destroy each other, bending or no bending. Get rid of bending and the new weapons of mass destruction are the machines used to take down the benders in first place.

[Twilightheaven]

Well to add my two cents I find Amon a bit more terrifying and more of an immediate threat than Ozai. My little brother compared Ozai and Amon's forces like a dictatorship vs a terrorist group or violent gang. Sure a dictatorship causes a significant amount of damage to the world especially in Ozai's sense since he was literally burning the world to the ground but he needed the power of the comet, undercover operations, and generations of planning to put him where he was. Amon and the Equalists on the other hand are an uprising that is underground, underestimated, and secretive. I don't know about you but I was actually freaked out when they discovered Sato's underground factory and you see flags of Amon's face everywhere because its such a powerful presence that's in hiding and waiting to take the city and soon the world by storm, and you don't even know who the members are! Fire Nation soliders wore the colors out in the open but the equalists could literally be anyone who is lead by a leader with no face and no fear of benders including the avatar. He's the ZERO OF AVATAR. Lol

You know something. Two episodes ago when some of the crowd members were starting to wear the equalist outfits, i was starting to think the equalist were Avatar's version of terrorists. Glad I was not the only one to think that.

[MegaWallflower]

It's just that benders seem to have the advantage since the technology is limited in this world, and some benders do take advantage of that. Still not quite far because it's a sort of discrimination, but it's not unfounded, at least. :3

I think Amon is more terrifying that Ozai for sure.

[LegendaryHeroLCB]

It's absolutely fair. If anything, benders have been responsible for at least 75% of the crap that's gone down and at who's expense, the people who don't shoot off fireballs from their finger tips. Benders not only run pretty much everything but practically can take away anything at a moment's notice. The Fire Nation displayed that easily when they started taking people down because they felt like they should be the dominant bendering order. When you have god-like powers, what makes you think for a second that you don't feel better than everyone without them? Yes, regular people can do damage to their society but benders can take it to a whole other level.

*might be an equalist* >_>

[Zenkure]

It is true that benders are to blame for most of the conflict we've heard of, but Amon is taking things to an extreme. I'm sure someone has already mention this, but Harrison Bergeron, anyone?

[LegendaryHeroLCB]

Alright, if Amon is taking it to an extreme, then Ozai was just being petty. >_>