Ayewale said:
Aang's mobility won't matter much as several opponents have managed to tag him. Plus, Korra still has huge AoE.
Korra ABSOLUTELY has superior waterbending, as she learnt it from Katara and it's her primary element so that's not an argument, she has a greater mastery over waterbending.
Aang's 8-B shields are nice but it took great difficult for him to make them, and he definitely didn't create them reactively or on the fly. And speed is equalized. They'd just run down his stamina and then let Korra eventually take the win.
Korra's firebending is her wincondition, what? A non-bloodlusted non full-power Zuko was able to nearly take out Aang with his firebending. Azula managed to soundly defeat Aang with her firebending on 2 occasions, and I think during the second one she was dealing with Katara simultaneously. Korra would win via firebending. Keep in mind, during the Zuko v Aang example Aang nearly got hit, and the fight only stopped because Zuko wanted to prove a point.
I never said her airbending was superior to Aangs', don't mince my words. I only said she'd be perfectly used to it.
Anyways, you say that her weaknesses were exploited by every single villain, but you forget that Korra overcame every single villain in the series too. I already mentioned this. Meanwhile, Aangs' fighting style that supposedly dicks on all-out attackers was triumped on 4 different occasions by the very same all-out attackers, and he only managed to repel fire lord ozai because of the avatar state. Meanwhile, Korra managed to defeat the villains who exploited her weakness. And Korra already knows Aangs' fighting style to begin with, so she has a big advantage there.
Seismis sense is cool and all but Korra being quick on her feet would make this hard to use. Let's not also forget that Aangs' Seismic Sense sucks; he was only able to accurately predict a defeated Fire Lord Ozai and it was far from instant. He was also only able to do it whilst concentrating, as opposed to Toph just using it reactively mid-battle.
Korra still has all her other advantages, too, so Aang loses hard. All Aang can do is run away and defend, which has failed many times.
You're underestimating Aang by a lot. Korra's waterbending isn't superior to his, and primary elements doesn't matter at all in this case. Aang also knows how use Water against her as well.
Korra managed to defeat the villains? Let's see:
1) Amon was beaten because she suddenly unlocked Airbending (which he's weak against anyway, since Tenzin was able to hold his own and even blow him away, while other benders were stomped by him, including Korra) and the fact that it hit him by surprise, that wouldn't happen with Aang.
2) Korra did not defeated the Dark Avatar, and he managed time after time to exploit her weakness and seperate Raava from her. He only was defeated with a help from Jinora and a technique that won't work on Aang.
3) She didn't defeated Zaheer either, even ib her Avatar State he managed to escape, and was only brought down by a whirlwind created by many airbenders.
4) Kuvira also managed to take out Korra as well even with Avatar state in the battle for Zaofu, and was fighting on equal grounds with her even in the finale. She won only after Kuvira blasted her with spirit cannon and created the new portal.
As for "Let's not also forget that Aangs' Seismic Sense sucks". First of all, this is still a major advantage over Korra, especially since it makes her attacks even more predictable (Remember
Korra vs Old Toph ?) Aang is much more agile and light on his feet than her, even if speed is equalized. Also,
Aang has used this abilities much earlier than the battle against Ozai as well as a part of his training with Toph. And Katara attacked him as well .
And Sokkat
As for the " it was far from instant.:" point, No. That wasn't far from instant, As soon as Ozai even started to move in order to attack, Aang already felt it, and was already countering it. Also, even while defeated, Ozai is still a massive threat and was still capable of severly harming base Aang.
"A non-bloodlusted non full-power Zuko was able to nearly take out Aang with his firebending" I think you refer to
this scene. Aang wasn't trying to attack Zuko there for the most part and when he finally did, he used Airbending to knock him out of the building.
That and Aang was also able to take some hits from Ozai as well and fight him. He even survived and re-directed his amped lightning, and he would've killed him on the spot if not for his "no-kill" nature, which is dropped in VS matches, so he would definitely kill Korra in such a situation.
As for Azula defeating him,
the first one is in the drill , in which Azula was far superior to him in power anyway (High 8-C Azula vs. 8-C Aang). And Aang kind of held off well on his own and even managed to turn the battle in his favor after getting knocked out by her.
The Power difference between Aang and Korra is much smaller between that of Aang and Azula in this fight. Also, the other time where Azula beated him is when she blasted him with lightning behind his back in the Season 2 finale. Which he was unguarded and was taken out by surprise.
"Korra already knows Aangs' fighting style to begin with, so she has a big advantage there". No she doesn't, or else she would have defeated Zaheer, who has a fighting style very similar to Aang, except that Zaheer is obviously a lot more aggresive than Aang. But even if she knew, Aang has far more tricks in his sleeve than her and he would definitely give her a lot of trouble to deal with his fightning. Also, as I explained, Aang adapts his battling style based on opponent, and this would be no different with Korra. Korra was even told by Tenzin countless times that she goes too much head on, in sense that she usually goes all out for attack without much strategy or battle tactics, and even with waterbending she had trouble fighting Tarlok at first. Not to mention that Unalaq exploited her battle style to steal Raava from her
