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GuerillaGorilla posted...

I disagree. You've got factory workers literally pumping out lightning bending. An entire city of metal benders. People strong enough to be capable of moonless waterbending. Earthbenders capable of bending elements thought only to be capable by avatars. Pretty much a lot of powerful techniques just randomly handed out to everyone.

Maybe it seemed weaker because the sport bending or whatever it was called was shit and was constantly shoved down our throats and the more prevalent theme of technology vs bending shifting bending away from the forefront.

I think overall the bending in Korra seems much weaker too and it makes sense. The best explanation/reasoning I saw behind it was that they found ways to make bending easier at the cost of power hence why everyone can lightning bend now. Whenever lightning bending in Korra is used it seems really weak outside of the one time Mako does the form for it that Azula does and it actually looks like it has power behind it.

Basically, nobody uses the proper bending forms anymore so the bending is overall weaker. The ones that still bend with the forms are shown to be incredibly strong like Tenzin.