Suggestion EarthSmash - Many Changes Needed

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

MeskenasBoii said:
CanFly: true/false

This is already a thing.

MeskenasBoii said:
CanFlyInArches (meaning, like in the course of a rainbow-shape, If the above happens to be 'true' obviously): true/false

I think instead of calling it "CanFlyInArches" call it "SmoothFly: true/false"
Smooth fly true = Flying as if you were an airbender on a boulder.
Smooth fly false = More rigid, gravity obeying mode of transportation for EarthSmash. AKA This move will not defy gravity like it currently is.

SuperBower118 · Apr 10, 2017

I honestly do not know why you should even remotely leave the ground with a boulder. It's extremely un-earth like. It'd be like if Fire got a passive where they don't take fall damage if they land in a patch of fire blocks.

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

SuperBower118 said:
I honestly do not know why you should even remotely leave the ground with a boulder. It's extremely un-earth like. It'd be like if Fire got a passive where they don't take fall damage if they land in a patch of fire blocks.

Well I'm sure all of the logic we've provided in this thread can answer this.

MeskenasBoii · Apr 10, 2017

It is just plain weird though. Imagine Ming-hua, on a similar note, used the waterball thing to fly, on herself rather to pick Biolin out of the water :|

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

MeskenasBoii said:
It is just plain weird though. Imagine Ming-hua, on a similar note, used the waterball thing to fly, on herself rather to pick Biolin out of the water :|

She could have. In Pk we call it waterwave

SuperBower118 · Apr 10, 2017

xNuminousx said:
She could have. In Pk we call it waterwave

He means a literal water ball I think.

MeskenasBoii · Apr 10, 2017

xNuminousx said:
She could have. In Pk we call it waterwave

Doesn't look like one.

I think there is a big difference between lifting others vs lifting yourself, than how it is perceived.

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

If she used it to "fly" that's what I'm saying. Like you said, if she were to use it to fly it'd look like waterwave

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MeskenasBoii · Apr 10, 2017

xNuminousx said:
If she used it to "fly" that's what I'm saying. Like you said, if she were to use it to fly it'd look like waterwave

Comparing waterwave to earthsmash/waterball would be like.... Well... They aren't just the same one thing. One is lengthy, other is a marble shape.

Throwing a ball in the air vs pressing a spring toy until it expands without dispatching from the ground are just two different phenomenons and shapes. "Throwing a ball in the air" while the user is in it, it just screams un-earth and un-water like respectively.

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

You used it as an example, not me.... The "flying waterball" thing would just be a different look to waterwave.

And I'm still not seeing why an earthbenders would not be able to manipulate the earth beneath them to propel them forward (similar to catapult) but instead of leaving the earth on the ground, bringing it with them as a sort of "ammunition"

MeskenasBoii · Apr 10, 2017

I just look at it from what canon sides takes earthbending as earthbending. Catapult is there, because is canon. RockSlide isn't there, but it is canon. EarthSmash is there, but it ain't canon. I'm just sticking and siding with the canon lore. I guess it's pointless argue, and I can only just say "to each their own I guess".

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

Earth Smash is canon, maybe not the flying part.

I actually just had an idea about how EarthSmash flight can be made canon...

Remember when Toph first discovered metalbending? She locked those two dingbats in the cage and then she used an earthbending move to get to Ba Sing Se quickly. I'm on my phone right now so searching for a gif would be difficult, but maybe someone else could. It looked similar to EarthSmash in its spherical form. Only instead of leaving the ground, it stayed connected and allowed her to "ride the wave of earth"

MeskenasBoii · Apr 10, 2017

xNuminousx said:
Remember when Toph first discovered metalbending? She locked those two dingbats in the cage and then she used an earthbending move to get to Ba Sing Se quickly. I'm on my phone right now so searching for a gif would be difficult, but maybe someone else could. It looked similar to EarthSmash in its spherical form. Only instead of leaving the ground, it stayed connected and allowed her to "ride the wave of earth"

That's what I was suggesting the whole time. Reading the original post, and click the link to "EarthWave".

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

MeskenasBoii said:
That's what I was suggesting the whole time. Reading the original post, and click the link to "EarthWave".

I saw that link but I was too lazy to click it, oops.

xNuminousx · Apr 10, 2017

I still stand by being able to shoot yourself up with EarthSmash, it'd be possible. But this "earth wave" is a good compromise.

MeskenasBoii · Apr 10, 2017

xNuminousx said:
I actually just had an idea about how EarthSmash flight can be made canon...

Remember when Toph first discovered metalbending? She locked those two dingbats in the cage and then she used an earthbending move to get to Ba Sing Se quickly. I'm on my phone right now so searching for a gif would be difficult, but maybe someone else could. It looked similar to EarthSmash in its spherical form. Only instead of leaving the ground, it stayed connected and allowed her to "ride the wave of earth"

xNuminousx said:
I still stand by being able to shoot yourself up with EarthSmash

You change my mind so quickly, lol.

P.S. Here's the link: http://projectkorra.com/threads/earthwave-resuggestion.5701/