Mako's power comes from him being the more serious and composed of the two when the story began. As Bolin grew as a bender though, he also unlocked some skills he never thought he would have, like lavabending.
Bolin spent a lot of time honing his skills because it's metalbending he hoped to master. He never managed to find a way to manipulate metal, but that's okay since there were a lot more metalbenders in the series than lavabenders. Bolin's skill might actually be the more rare one. Jinora might be one of the most interesting benders of her generation.
That's because, while the audience sees her initially best Korra in a lot of the airbending skills and rival her own father in certain areas of airbending, Jinora was also the first person to be heavily in touch with the Spirit World. Being able to commune with spirits appears to be a pretty rare gift in the Avatar universe.
While Air Nomads trained to do it, even some of the best, like Tenzin, had difficulty mastering the necessary skills to do it. It speaks to Jinora's composure that she was able to focus enough as a child to repeatedly find her way to the Spirit World when much more experienced adults couldn't.
Long Feng was the head of the infamous and secretive Dai Li; a shadow police force equivalent to many real-world police forces under dictatorships in history.
As the audience discovers gradually through the second season of A:TLA , Long Feng was the one secretly controlling the government behind the scenes.
Not only that, but he was also a powerful bender who rarely ever gets mentioned in that context. While he rarely used his powers and instead lets his minions do the jobs, whenever the audience saw him use earthbending, he was especially good at it.
He was innovative, had quick reflexes, and knew how to weigh odds in a battle. Yes, he was beaten by Appa after he was thoroughly defeated by Team Avatar, but, admittedly, Appa was a powerful bender in his own right.
Still, her raw power was enough to almost single-handedly destroy the Northern Air Temple with her explosions and take down Tenzin, so she definitely deserves a spot. She was also the founder of Zaofu, apparently the safest city in the world that was made entirely out of metal, and was influential in the propagation of metal bending around the world.
She comfortably overpowered Lin in the episode Old Wounds, and also held her own against Kuvira for quite some time before she was beaten. Zuko was by no means a particularly powerful bender at the time of his character introduction in the first episode of A:TLA , though he definitely picked up some skills through the years that earned him a place on this list.
For one, Zuko was one of the only two firebenders the audience knows who directly learned from the dragons in the episode "The Firebending Masters," the other one being Iroh. While he never truly learned the skill of producing lightning like the rest of his family, Zuko was able to redirect the lightning from his father at the end of the episode "The Day of Black Sun: Part 2" , making him one of the only three people the audience knows to possess that ability, other than Aang and Iroh.
He was also instrumental in defeating the Red Lotus before the events of TLOK , so he certainly was one of the most powerful benders in the world at that time. Kuvira was a central character in the last season of TLOK , having formerly served as an important military leader under Suyin Beifong in Zaofu, who later usurped the throne of the Earth King.
Having learned from Suyin Beifong - one of the best metalbenders in the world - Kuvira was an expert metalbender. Because of this, she could take most opponents with ease, including Suyin in the episode "Operation Beifong". Apart from being the best at her bending form, she was also a brilliant tactician who knew the strategic steps to turn the tide of a battle, as was shown in many of her conflicts with Team Avatar and other central characters in the fourth season of TLOK.
Father to Noatak aka Amon and Tarrlok, Yakone was, at his time, the only bloodbender who could bloodbend without a full moon, on top of bloodbending being a powerful ability in its own right.
In the flashbacks seen in the first season of TLOK , Yakone was shown to have overpowered a room full of city councilors who were also some of the most powerful benders in the world at the time and Avatar Aang with his bloodbending, and it was only due to Aang entering Avatar state that he could chase Yakone and take away his bending for good. The audience was introduced to Pakku in the episode "The Waterbending Master", and looking at how skilled he was with his bending, it was certainly aptly named.
Even though he was a bit misogynistic in his approach towards who he was willing to teach amongst Water Tribe members — he outright refused Katara before eventually changing his mind — Pakku may have been the most powerful waterbender in the world at his time.
Provided that he had help from other powerful benders who were also some of the best in the world, Pakku certainly deserves a spot on this list. As one of the members of the Red Lotus in TLOK — the same one that was trying to capture Korra and end the Avatar cycle — Ming Hua was a famously powerful bender, which is proven by the sheer size and security of her prison in the first episode. One of the main points that put her above all of the rest of the others below her on this list is that she had no arms, which is an incredibly important part of waterbending from all the moves we have seen in both the shows so far.
He was also the only known airbender in both series who figured out one of the most coveted airbending skills: flying. Further, in the attempt to rescue P'Li, Ghazan engages with Zuko, and actually manages to defeat him although it must be noted that the ex-Fire Lord is pushing ninety at this point. Kuvira is an extraordinarily adept Earthbender, not to mention the precision and economy of her stances, which explains the reason she succeeded in exerting so much influence in a span of three years.
She is fast enough to dodge attacks from Avatar Korra herself, and almost defeated her in their one-on-one showdown before the Avatar State gets triggered. More importantly, she learns to Metalbend from Suyin Beifong and her family, obtaining the basics and later incorporating elements unique to her martial vision.
The Chief of Police in Republic City has a job that constantly keeps her on her toes, what with the underground criminal activity that never seems to go out of fashion. Lin is trained in Earthbending and Metalbending by her mother, Toph Beifong, who is more or less assumed to be the greatest of her generation at the very least.
That's not all: For a middle-aged woman, she's shockingly spry, being able to keep up with the young members of Team Avatar. Lin's seismic sense is finely honed, which is why she can levitate massive rocks with elegance.
Toph's youngest, Suyin Beifong, is a shade more skillful than her big sister , largely because of her ability to employ both Metalbending and Earthbending simultaneously, or in quick successive moves, while fighting.
She doesn't spend her energy on empty movements, there is no pomp in her style, and its substance is embedded deep in her psyche. There's also the fact that she pretty much created the metallic city of Zaofu from scratch— with the help of her architect husband, of course. Bolin's primary reason for Earthbending is for the Fire Ferrets, because winning the Pro-Bending tournament is his best bet at getting a better life for himself and Mako.
More importantly, he blends his Pro-Bending stances and flexibility into battle motions, which make him a tricky opponent against someone expecting a traditional mode of Earthbending.
Glossing over the fact that he figures out the precious art of Lavabending , it is crucial to state that Bolin's aim is supremely specific, as proven when he temporarily disorients P'Li by lobbing a pebble at her third eye. Bumi had a century of practice with his Earthbending, not to mention his innate gift for this form, making him almost incomparable in terms of stamina, durability, and precision. However, one of those hybrid animals were the very first Earthbenders, the Badgermoles, and the only complaint we have about them is that we wish we'd seen more of them.
Appa and Momo might have been some of the best pets to ever grace television, but how awesome would it have been if Toph had had a pet Badgermole? Master of all elements includes earth so this ranking shouldn't come as too much of a surprise. Despite being the element that Aang struggled with the most, he had several notable moments throughout the series where he demonstrated that his Earthbending could be just as strong or subtle as any of the other elements in his arsenal.
His constant technique of trying to use rock as armor never met with much success, but anytime he paid attention to his blind teacher and started "feeling" and "listening to" the earth, he made for one heck of a stone-tosser. We might not have gotten to see her in action as we did with Avatar Roku except when she technically killed Chin the Conqueror but as sure as Roku and Aang were Firebending and Airbending prodigies, Kyoshi was just as proficient with her native element of earth.
Not only that, the skilled bender encouraged an entire island of women to turn into a team of deadly, fan-wielding warriors themselves. That society lasted for several hundred years after Kyoshi's death. When it comes to Avatar spin-offs, there probably wouldn't be many fans upset with the idea of a series based around Kyoshi. You heard it here first, ladies and gentlemen - eating rock candy and being mad as a hatter is the secret to living to the ripe old age of His character might have been a bit of a stretch come on, years-old and still looking like an MMA fighter but the concept of Aang running into a friend from his past that was still alive was too good to pass up.
That said, Bumi was easily one of the most formidable Earthbenders in the entire Avatar universe and could go toe-to-toe with anybody on his worst day. Bumi, you're a mad genius - and we love it. We may love Bumi, but this wasn't even kind of close. Toph not only sits atop the list of Earthbenders in the Avatar universe, she arguably sits atop the list of all benders - period.
The Blind Bandit was the greatest addition to the series and we only wish that we'd gotten to see more of her as her confident, brassy attitude combined with her superhuman bending abilities created one of the greatest characters in television history.
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