Korra (firebending only) runs a gauntlet

Rules:

• Everyone is bloodlusted
• Full heal after each round
• Fight takes place at the Misty Palms Oasis (as of A:LoK). Metalbenders have access to one Zaofu sheet and two meteroites.
• Starting distance: 20m
• Korra is restricted to firebending only

Round one: Wing & Wei

Round two: Tonraq

Round three: Mako

Round four: Bolin

Round five: Zaheer (Pre-Flight)

Round six: Ghazan

Round seven: Zuko

Round eight: Azula (EOS)

Boss: Kuvira

As I have no clue where anyone ranks Fire! Korra, and many answers I saw depend on her morals, I decided to let Firebending Korra run a bloodlusted gauntlet Where does she stop and why?

Callouts:

With bloodlust on I see her scraping past Zuko to stop at Azula. Kuvira murders her, she's above fire Korra in a general sense anyway and to add insult to injury Kuviras style is perfect for this matchup (and firebenders in general) and you gave her meteorites and metal sheets.

@vengefulshot: Reasons for her beating to Zuko and Ghazan, but losing to Azula?

Also, fwiw, I changed Kuvira's access to metal - she now "only" has two meteroites and one sheet. Maybe I should give her just one sheet lol

Stops at 5

@darthfallax: Ghazan lacks the defensives to deal with her more powerful attacks. Korra is very fast and should end this in the early fight before Ghazan can gain momentum with lava by simply overwhelming his shields (if this was morals on I'd give Ghazan a few more wins out of 10).

Zuko is slower than Korra, less agile and slightly less powerful by eos too. Again, if she opens with the sandshark blast, or the blasts she used to destroy Unalaqs shield I don't think Zuko has a response. If he can withstand those first attacks he should edge her out due to superior versatility as the fight drags on, but as it stands Korra should win 6/10.

Azula is basically Zuko with better agility and speed by eos. Those 2 things should allow her to survive the early fight long enough for her superior skill to come into play, giving her a 6/10 majority.

Still Kuvira low diff, too fast, too versatile, less power but doesn't matter since her attacks are oneshots and Korra cant block them. Korras only chance is CQC which will never happen despite starting distance due to Kuviras battlefield control and her cables.

Azula should be the last round, and Korra stops at Ghazan.

I would change the order a bit, Mako above Bolin and maybe even above Zaheer. I would usually consider Zaheer above Mako, but i think Korra could maybe stop at Mako if he abuses his lightning, but she should beat Bolin and Zaheer.

And the Boss round should be Azula instead of Kuvira, even without comic feats would i put Azula a bit above Kuvira and Korra has obviously no chance to win against a better firebender who is faster and more agile than her.

Stops at Ghazan imo, though with bloodlust on she may just overwhelm his subpar defence. Definitely won't beat Azula or Kuvira. Mako should be higher, but he won't stop her regardless.

Ghazan possibly. Definitely Zuko.

Definitely stops at Zuko

@greysentinel365: @geekryan: @anthp2000: @crimson-feather: @theonewhoknocks: @morbusgrav: Reasons?

Korra makes it not past Zuko, but has already many problems in earlier rounds.

Order seems slightly off.

@darthfallax: She can’t tag him

@darthfallax: The first 6 rounds will give her varying amounts of trouble, but Zuko is a vastly superior firebender than Korra is. Korra also has no feats against established firebenders.

I have a hard time rating exactly where Korra falls with just firebending. I could make an argument for her clearing in all honesty with bloodlust - no one here really has a good answer to spammed fireblasts the size of a waterspout or the sandshark blast. But at the same time, I really don't think she's a better firebender than Zuko or Azula, and Kuvira's style is great against firebenders. Likewise, I think that Bolin, Zaheer and Ghazan all have a solid shot against her, as earthbending is a good counter to high-scale firebending (see Sozin's Comet for examples) and Zaheer is the most agile person here, which allows him to work around Korra's scale. Could stop anywhere from 4 to clearing.

@mialthefencer:

I could make an argument for her clearing in all honesty with bloodlust - no one here really has a good answer to spammed fireblasts the size of a waterspout or the sandshark blast.

But if we are already making shit up, could we at least get a lot more creative.

Wing and Wei, and Kuvira form bullets and spam them like miniguns.

Bolin and Ghazan create lava golems.

Zaheer suffocates Korra in an instant.

Azula spams the lightning that killed Aang.

@gunchar16:

I'm not making stuff up.

@mialthefencer said:

@gunchar16:

I'm not making stuff up.

mialthefencer logic:

Fire gets visibly spread out by ice constructs, in an ambigous likely Avatar State scene. Obvious conclusion = Korra can spam as big fire blasts, despite never doing so anywhere else.

Korra charges a fire blast and shoots it into the belly of a big living organism, which causes what a surprise a big explosion. Obvious conclusion = Korra can spam big explosions, despite never doing so at all.

My conclusion:

Die Zuko and Azula.

@gunchar16:

...I show you Korra using a spout sized fire ball and then completely obliterating a massive ice wall in quick succession and you dismiss that as "the fire visibly spreading" even though it clearly retained all of it's power? I agree that the AS is ambiguous, but the sandshark feat, which is way beyond even this feat, occurs next season, which makes me think that this is probably base Korra. No one on this list really has a good answer to attacks on this level. As for consistency... this is the only time Korra is fighting to the death against someone post S1 (outside of berserker Korra vs Zaheer and sick Korra vs Kuvira, but those aren't relevant for obvious reasons). You don't use spout sized fireballs on people you don't want to kill. The sandshark feat makes it clear that this level of power is not an outlier.

As for the sandshark feat lowballing, Tektonic already handled that. It's one of the best firebending feats in the verse, and you can't just dismiss it because you don't like it.

Stops at Zuko or Azula. The only way she can beat Zuko is if she relies on her power advantage

Since it's bloodlusted, if Mako uses lightning, she could stop at three. Arguments could be made for the next few rounds but as most have stated, she would definitely stop this gauntlet at Zuko. ?

Stops at Zuko.

Stops at Zaheer. If Mako is “nothing” to Zaheer then Korra isn’t much better

Stops at Zuko

Probably stops at Zuko

Out of order, but stops at Bolin.

At best she makes it to Azula--where Korra would lose out albeit with a good fight--but there's plentiful arguments to her not making it past Ghazan in the first place.