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Not_an_Owl posted...

There are a lot of bending-related things that don't make any sense. Metalbending is initially this super-difficult technique that no one could figure out for thousands of years, and it took the greatest earthbender of all time deciding she didn't want to be trapped in a metal box to finally figure it out. Fast forward 60 years or so and almost every earthbender is a metalbender now (seriously I'm pretty sure we see more earthbenders who can metalbend in LoK than earthbenders who can't metalbend). It's kind of dumb and cheapens metalbending, IMO.

Doesn't Su state that only like 1% of Earthbenders can metalbend? I think we see it more because it's just that useful and those who can do it are prominent (metal police force started by Toph, Metal Clan started by Su, daughter of Toph)

I do know Toph figured it out (obviously), mastered it, then created a school to begin teaching people. I don't recall if the "coaching tree" grew very far out from Toph, but even in TLoK you can basically and easily trace all metalbending mostly directly, and certainly indirectly to Toph.

Lavabending is just wut
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