Avatar: The Last Airbender was a huge part of people’s childhoods, but looking back, the show wasn’t entirely meant for kids. The🔴re was a lot of creepy, if not downright weird, facts about the different aspects of being an elemental bender and there was also a lot of death and serious topics. The original series featured something considered a bit of a rarity these days in children’s cartoons in each episode’s specific plot. That being said, if you’ve never watched the show, we highly encourage it! There’s something that all ages can enjoy and the story is really quite endearing.
Katara was one of the main characters as part of a trio including Aang and Sokka; her brother and the Avatar. Of course, if you’ve seen either of the Avatar series, you know that Aang was the only one in the world who had t🐓he ability to bend all of the elements to his will. This power is incredible and takes a lot of true care, time and effort in order to reallyไ master. But just because the Avatar holds this kind of weight doesn’t mean that there aren’t people out there with more ability then them. Katara was certainly one of these people.
Even though she couldn’t utilize earth, fire or air, she still had an incredibly mastery over waterbending that no one else really showed in the series. I🅘t’s hard to think that anyone could be more of an expert in their element than the Avatar, but Katara came very close. Here’s 20 things she could do that Avatar Aang couldn’t!
20 🅺 Better Water Bender
Aang may be able to use of all elements, but that doesn’t exactly mean he’s the best at each of them. As we’ve seen from past Avatars, there are some that hold a preference as to which kind of bending they use most. Aang’s passion for waterbending on🍃ly grew stronger after Katara helped teach him.
Ultimately, she’s always been one step ahead of him when it comes to her waterbending.
Katara has a lot of incredible talents when it comes to her bending, some of which we’ll get iꦉnto a little later. Her mastery of the water and willingness to learn have always served her well, and we can see that she’s clearly the superior bender when it comes to this element.
19 ♕ Her Attacks Are More 𒅌Powerful
If you watched the show, you know that Katara is brutal in a fight. Aang grew up being a little bit more of a pacifist, but being the Avatar, sometimes fighting can’t be avoided. The two of them, generally speaking, are peaceful people with peaceful backgrounds. But in a fight, especially when it comes to water🎶bending, we’d place our bets on Katara.
Katara may try to hold out as long as she can in battle, at least to attempt at resolving conflict, but we also see her never really hesitate. She’s knows that it’s a quick decision between life and the end during some battles, and we really saw this attribute shine when s🌞he battled A𒀰zula.
18 🧸 Bloodbending 🐲
When bloodbending was introduced into the series, it added a really dark layer over the kind of abilꦺities waterbenders in particular had access to. Seriously, they’re incredibly over powered, especially when it comes to the different boosts their particular element has; such as the full moon. Hama was the original person to ♋use bloodbending, and this is also where Katara picked it up.
Seriously, we wouldn’t want to get in a fight with a waterbender because of this.
This isn’t an easy skill to pick up, and it clearly wasn’t somethinඣg Katara enjoyed doing, but it does speak volumes to the kind of power she holds. We’re fairly certain Aang wouldn’t want to learn this trick.
17 🏅 She Can Also Break Free Of Bloodbending
Speaking of bloodbending, there’s more than just using it for yourself; there’s also recognizing when it’s being used on you. A bloodbending technique is perhaps one of the hardest abilities to master, but it’s equally as difficult to break free of. Once someone has youꦑ in that hold, it’s nearly impossible to get out.
And yet, according to the show, Katara was able to break free of it. When Hama was forcing her hand and trying to get her to use the bloodbending technique, Katara could only sit 💯by and watch as Hama almost hurt Aang and Sokka. Pushing herself to the limit, Katara broke free of h🏅er bind and was able to stop Hama. That takes a lot!
16 She’s 🤪A Master Healer
Throughout the series, we see that Katara has an abil🅺ity that’s not only relatively rare, but also incredibly useful; her healing. Healing is usually another part of being a waterbender, but there are only a few that actually have this kind of power. Katara just so happens to be one of them.
Seriously, if this were DnD, we’d want her to be our healer!
As the series went on, Katara would prove to be an excellent healer that would help her team and even save Aang’s life! Even the Avatar hasn’t shown that he can actually heal people with his waterbe🅘nding.
15 Get You A Waterbender That Can Do Both ♛
Katara is an incredible waterbender, not only because she has a very strict control over her be⛦nding, but also because she has abilities that most waterbenders don’t. If you’re a fan of the series, you know that there are subcategories that go along with waterbending, such as Katara’s healing. Bꩲloodbending is another subcategory and arguably one of the hardest ones to learn.
If Katara’s healing and bloodbending abilities weren’t enough on their own, the fact that she can control both of them should be enough to scare y൩ou off. Aang doesn’t really have either of these, or at the very least we’ve never seen him use them, so it’s another thing that makes her very unique and powerful.
14 ꦿ She Has Spirit Water To Aid Her 🍬
We’ve mentioned it before, but waterbending is incredibly powerful. There are many different subcategories of waterbending, and Katara has the ability to heal. As the series continued, she would slowly learn more and more about how to level up her abilities and eventually she𝓰 got to a point where she really mastered spirit water.
Where do we get our own spirit water?
Spirit water is essentially when spiritual ene🌊rgy flows through the water itself. Waterbenders The water itself has incredible healing powers, which we saw Katara use in order to heal🅰 Aang. It’s pretty intense that Katara even own a vial of it, let alone could use it herself.
13 🥃 🅠 Plan Ahead
While the age difference between Katara and Aang isn’t extremely significant at two years, they do have very different experiences when they first meet and both of them are clearly at different stages in their lives. Katara has always been more of a forward thinker between both Aang and her older br𓆉other S𒆙okka.
When you’re going on a long journey like this trio did, planning is really important. We often saw Katara herding the group and making sure everything was under control. But even in battle, Katar👍a really thinks through her strategies and what she can use next; it’s always a fast decision too! Aang proved to not be quite as quick in this area and it was something he really had to work on as a character.
12 🦹 Be A Leader ༺
Even though Aang🥂 is the Avatar, it doesn’t quite mean that he’s really in charge of everything. There are 🌺clearly still people who hold a little more influence all over the world and nations constantly struggling over power. Aang is basically just trying to keep peace. Katara, on the other hand, has always been more of a leader.
She was the mom friend for sure!
In addition to always taking care of the group, she often made some major decisions for them too. We saw this often in the beginning when Aang really didn’t🎃 have any direction yet. We’re pretty sure this kind of thing continued well into their older years too!
11 ♒ She’s Smarter
We love both Aand and Sokka, but we have to admit, Katara was clearly smarter. Throughout their entire journe꧙y, she always had a real hunger for knowledge, even though she didn’t really need to. Whereas Aang needed to learn because he was the Avatar, Katara felt it was important to take part in growing her knowledge on waterbending.
This led her to wanting better teach🍎ers and picking up﷽ things throughout their journey that would make her the kind of waterbender we saw towards the end of the original series and into the next. We bet Pakku and Hama are really regretting it now!