Fight takes place at Piandao's courtyard.
@anthp2000: In character she never goes on for full on knife spamming in large volumes unless she is fighting multiple opponents or she wants to end things immediately. She has never pulled this off anyway against established fighters. Heck even when she tried to throw several arrows/blades at Katara when she was on top of her game she managed to block. Sokka blocked some of her projectiles, meaning he can perceive them, there's literally no reason why he can't dodge them all together. Mai shot a projectile at Katara and Sokka literally ran from Point A to Point B just to block the projectile, counterattacked Mai with a boomerange, she counterattacked with another set of projectiles, then Sokka AGAIN deflected her projectiles. He has enough experience to avoid attacks from her. The thing that makes the feat more impressive initially is that she was riding one of those Lizard Creatures which are fast and nimble enough to run on water, while taking the shot, so Sokka reacted to a strafe shot to protect Katara.
As long as he can hold her off which is all that matters Suki can take Ty Lee with skill.
Edit: Yes she can throw large volumes of projectiles, but has it ever occured to you that a combatant could run, dodging a good portion of the projectiles, while simulatenously deflecting the ones in your general direction instead of attempting to get all of them???
And people seem to forget that Sokka is actually surprisingly good with his boomerrang.
@anthp2000: In character she never goes on for full on knife spamming in large volumes unless she is fighting multiple opponents or she wants to end things immediately. She has never pulled this off anyway against established fighters. Heck even when she tried to throw several arrows/blades at Katara when she was on top of her game she managed to block. Sokka blocked some of her projectiles, meaning he can perceive them, there's literally no reason why he can't dodge them all together. Mai shot a projectile at Katara and Sokka literally ran from Point A to Point B just to block the projectile, counterattacked Mai with a boomerange, she counterattacked with another set of projectiles, then Sokka AGAIN deflected her projectiles. He has enough experience to avoid attacks from her.
As long as he can hold her off which is all that matters Suki can take Ty Lee with skill.
Edit: Yes she can throw large volumes of projectiles, but has it ever occured to you that a combatant could run, dodging a good portion of the projectiles, while simulatenously deflecting the ones in your general direction instead of attempting to get all of them???
That's true but she used very high volume against Aang in 1 on 1 too. Also against Katara, both in Omashu.
Trying to capture him. And i do not recall in omashu
Katara had a reliable stonewall defence that Sokka lacks. She could use the bars and her icebending. Both of the times Mai attacked Sokka, she attack with 3 linear arrows easily deflectable.
Doesn't change the fact that Sokka still reacted to her projectiles....
Does Sokka have any speed and agility showings to dodge attacks from Mai aiming at him and not on Katara? Esspecially if she fires projectiles at multiple directions?
IMO Sokka has better reflexes than Katara. He may not be as agile or flexible as Katara may or may not be, but he's consistently shown better reflexes on his own accord, such as the feat with Mai, his sparring sessions against Piando and his other students, in The Rift where he deflected an arrow in close range with his club. etc.
Suki blocked all of Ty Lee's attacks in the gondola, but Ty Lee also blocked and dodged all of Suki's, Ty Lee is not unskilled, at the very least she can force a stalemate. Their fight will definetely be longer than Mai vs Sokka.
Fair enough.
Besides, her daggers definetely seem faster than her arrows from the shooters. Remember when she blitzed a Kyoshi Warrior with the daggers and another one blocked her arrows? Or the fact that Katara (who is every bit as fast as Sokka) could not do much about her daggers right after Sokka deflected her arrows? And she uses the daggers to send people flying too.
sleep deprived......
She was not trying to capture him when she almost stabbed his brains out with that richrocketed knife or when
She threw 5 daggers at Katara when the fight begun.
Just because someone can react to a marksman's projectiles, it doesn't mean it's an auto-win or that they can dodge them for a good enough time.
Katara is the one who consistently keeps up with people like Zuko, Toph, Ty Lee and Azula, Sokka has only sparred arrow timing feats all over the place. Besides, Katara reacted to attacks aimed at both of them, faster than him before:
As for flexibility or agility, Sokka hasn't done anything close to Katara's dance with Aang.
Sokka was also sleep deprived, this is exactly my point about her arrows being slower than her daggers which is backed up by more showings.
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