Can a non Avatar learn other elements?

Though fans have long since discussed whether normal benders can learn to bend more than one element, according to canon material revealed in The Legend of Korra, the answer is clearly no. However, Avatar: The Last Airbender revealed that they are still capable of much in regards to sub-bending.
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Can anyone other than the Avatar Bend multiple elements?

There are five known bending arts; four of them bend a specific physical element while the fifth bends the energy within the human body itself. The only case of any one person being able to bend multiple elements is the Avatar, who has the ability to practice all five bending arts.
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Can only the Avatar learn all elements?

Only the Avatar can master all four elements. It has nothing to do with the skill, worthiness, lineage, karma, chi or capabilities of an individual.
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Can a non Avatar learn more than one element?

While it seems that it would break one of the rules of the show, that only the avatar can master all four elements. There would also be good reasons as to why someone couldn't learn all four, there is always the opposing element that is hardest for the Avatar to learn.
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Can two non-benders have a bending child?

If parents have different types of bending abilities, their child can inherit one or the other, or neither, but not both (only the Avatar can bend more than one element). Having two parents who are both benders, even masters of their art, is no guarantee that their children will be benders.
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What Type Of Bender Are You?



Can a firebender lava Bend?

Yes they can bend lava just by its heat alone. Because Mud is made of earth and water, and lava is earth and heat. Firebenders bend heat and energy.
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Can a waterbender be born in the Fire Nation?

You don't have waterbenders being born in the Fire Nation or to "random" households because that's not how genetics works. The only known exceptions come in Books 2 & 3 of Legend of Korra.
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Can Korra bend without Raava?

The flaw in assuming Raava would have a lingering effect (thereby allowing the Korra to hold four elements unaided) is the after-effects of their separation: Korra lost all connection to her past lives (never to be regained); she couldn't even sense Raava's presence, despite searching for her.
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Can the Avatar give birth to any bender?

They cannot, however, pass on the genes they do not have. Eventually, however, all the bloodlines will mix as they have begun to in Korra (the nations, now at peace, have started fusing and their people intermixing), and all people will have the potential to be born benders of any single variety.
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Can a non Bender become the Avatar?

Yes, an avatar can be born of two nonbenders because it doesn´t matter whether or not one of your parents are benders, Raava, the spirit that keeps the avatar cycle alive, she will still find someone to be the next avatar.
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Can non benders learn bending?

So when all humans were nonbenders, some eventually learned how to bend from watching the animals' or the Moon's capabilities, and then the ability started being born into the people from those first human benders.
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Did Toph learn lava bending?

That's right, this means that Toph not only metalbends, but actually also learns lavabending! While this is technically not the first time lavabending has been seen within the franchise, something that is shown in The Legend of Korra, this is canonically the first time it is seen in the known Avatar timeline.
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Does airbending have a sub skill?

@senshin it is a sub-skill. Also its revealed that combustion and lava bending are rare sub-skills. I wouldn't be surprised if this season (3) they show us an Air subskill since its kind of about airbenders and the Red Lotus (most of whom have unique skills) have an extremely skilled airbender (Zaheer).
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What is the rarest bending in Avatar?

One of the rarest forms of bending featured on the show is Aang's energybending - a unique power that gives the user the ability to bend another person's life energy. Aang uses this ability to defeat Phoneix King Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender's finale.
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What's the strongest element in Avatar?

Looking at all the abilities and sub abilities of the different bending arts I believe that Waterbending is the most powerful form of bending. Not only can you alter the form of the water from steam to ice you can also use waterbending to heal.
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Does Sokka learn to bend?

According to his sister Katara, Sokka was initially skeptical, abrasive, sexist and immature but was always sharp-witted. Incapable of bending abilities himself, Sokka instead pursues martial arts, sciences, and engineering.
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Can avatars have siblings?

2 Healthiest: Sokka & Katara Are A Classic Sibling Duo

Avatar Aang's first friends after awakening from his century-long slumber were the Southern Water Tribe siblings, Sokka and Katara.
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Is bending genetic or learned?

Bending powers have historically been passed down through genetics on Avatar: The Last Airbender. A firebender can't train if they aren't born with the ability. It's an indisputable piece of mythology that is reiterated in the show's sequel series, The Legend of Korra.
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Can lion turtles Bend?

The lion turtles protected humans and only granted them the ability to bend elements when they were away from the city.
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Why does Korra Firebend so much?

Korra can Firebend easily because she has a Firebender's heart. Her understanding of positive jing allows her to easily focus her aggression. She has trouble with Airbending because her inner Chi does not line up naturally with what is necessary to Airbend. Her negative jing is too weak.
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Can lightning bend Zuko?

Lightning bending is one of the strongest abilities in Avatar: The Last Airbender, with Azula's lightning attack nearly killing Aang for good. It's also one of the rarest techniques, with only Ozai, Iroh, and Azula able to generate lightning on their own. Even Aang, the avatar, and Zuko could only redirect lightning.
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Can lightning bend Korra?

The Avatar proved that he learned well, as he was able to catch the lightning and send it out into the sky (though it did weaken him in the process). Korra was never shown to use or need this ability, as she didn't go up against anyone who could bend lightning.
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Do all Waterbenders have blue eyes?

In some cases, the eye color determines the person whether he is a bender or not and if he is, what particular one. It is known that Airbenders all have gray eyes except Jinora who has brown. Firebenders have red, Earthbenders have green and Waterbenders have blue.
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Who can blood Bend?

Bloodbending is the only known bending technique to have been completely outlawed by society. Bloodbending is the only known way besides energybending to strip a person of their bending indefinitely. Katara is the only known waterbender capable of bloodbending to still be alive at the end of The Legend of Korra.
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Are all air nomads benders?

The Air Nomads are the only nation comprised entirely of benders. The only known exceptions were those who were born in other nations, and later adopted into the Air Nomad culture.
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