We could carry a pouch of dust ala waterbenders.
Li already does that with his training weights.
Worth keeping in mind that most Earthbenders we've seen would require that a tunnel be wide enough for them to stretch in all directions without touching a wall so that they can dig unimpeded, and that the more Earthbenders you have on an excavating job, the wider it's going to need to be. I'd say the tunnels being approximately a bit wider than two men with arms spread out is reasonable.
Naw, obviously after they were done with the punks they set to trashing each other.... Those must have been some badass hooligans if they managed mutual destruction against The Avatar and The Green Beast.
Depends on how fast enemies react. If he gets close to the Naruto jounin raw speed/stealth baseline he probably could do it.
Probably not. Naga at full sprint is around B++ or B+++. Eel Hounds, noted as being the fastest thing on ground or in the water, A+++. Neither seemed fast enough to seemingly teleport behind people. Though, that's before accounting for what Body of Steel might do for us.
Oh sure. Like I said, easily explained them being big. But several were flat out huge. Big enough for several Sato Mechs to go side by side.
Simple Chunnin would do it. Even academy students are hella good fighters, as seen in the short clip of Naruto vs Sasuke. And, we see how blindingly quick Lee is after taking off his weights. He could easily get behind people like that.
Mostly because I doubt our Strong Fist will ever be just as good as our bending. It compliments our bending, and it will be very helpful to use them together, but it isn't going to ever be better
1) That's 4 stats that we would have to raise to S rank, compared to just one. And yeah, we could challenge the Avatar with just those, I never said we couldn't, hell we'd probably decimate your normal avatar. Just said they'd be less powerful than the S Rank Earthbending. Avatars might have S Rank Power when they do bending, but they seem to only have A rank control, and sometimes not even that. Korra in particular seemed to only ever get a power boost from her Avatar State, no super fighting skills.
A fairer question would be how Li with S in all physical skills and strong fist and body of steel, would do against someone with S in Bending, and all sub-skills. Earthbending would have Direct Control, Remote Control, Dustbending, Metalbending, Seismic Sense, Lavabending, and who knows what else at S.
Raava may be immortal, but doing that would break her connection to Wan's soul, and since Raava is the one carrying the potential to bend all of the elements and powering the Avatar state, her having no connection to a human soul means no more Avatar.
Also no one has ever said that Bad guys have to be the brightest.
Just everyone believing it to be true is enough of a drawback. After all, there's no way to prove it false without risking it being true.
Why would it break her connection to Wan's Soul? We saw that, even after she was physically pulled out of Korra, she still had a connection to every single other avatar. It took assault on Raava's own body for the connections to break, and odds are Vaatu was doing more than JUST hitting her with water, but was also doing some spirit stuff.
Sure. Like I said there, Zaheer could easily be wrong. It's a thing that I try to make sure I do when watching/reading something, question how someone would know something. Lots of times, there is no way someone could know something, like what would happen if the Avatar died in the Avatar state.
What other Avatars? There's only one Avatar, that's what reincarnation means. Korra is Wan. Just as she is Aang and Kyoshi and every single Avatar that has ever lived. It's all one soul, just with new bodies.
I think they would be very even, body of steel at S would let Li tank many powerful attacks.
If the Avatar dies, Raava dies, after a while she would rivive from Vaatu, which mean that they would begin to fight immediately, and with the two spirits too busy with each other, then here won't be an Avatar, that's what I assume will happen.
The other reincarnations are the other Avatars. They are often referred to as other people, even when it is just reincarnation like you said. The Avatar before Korra is referred to as such, not Korra's Previous Life.
I wonder if their combined might would allow them to escape the ball in the tree. Or if they'd just be stuck there, forever.
It's not overthinking if I enjoy that amount of thinking.
Everyone beliving it to be true would have the same effect, regardless of it's really true. Things would only become different if the avatar died in the avatar state. Which never happened. So the tension is still there, even if it's wrong.
Well, we ARE quite adept at bending dirt. Sadly, we aren't allows to show that off this round.
