The second element Korra learned, Korra's earthbending is mighty, allowing her to alter the terrain and control the movements of others to dominate battles.
Power and Scale
Earth Waves/Quakes:
Korra has a penchant for unleashing variations of earth waves to topple over large objects, groups off opponents, or alter the scene of the battle to heavily favor herself
Earth Wave Variations:
Uses a small wave to launch a car into the air in the
Tears up a road and laucnhes an equalist and there motorcycle in the air Overwhelms Tarrlok with a wave sending him crashing into the fountain behind Creates mini earthquake to rock the courthouse Uses her earthebnding to create a rolling plain of sorts that takes down the Lieutenant and his men Unleashes a massive wave of earth tearing up a street
Even on a reduced scale Korra can narrow them down to specifically target a person
Overturns the earth to smash the balcony Tarrlok held ontoEarthbent a small wave to try and hit Zaheer on target
Large Boulders and walls: In order of scale
Shoves large boulder asideShoves even large boulder asideRaises an entire row of boulders each far larger than a human with a single kickBetter shot of the amount of boulders raisedRotates the huge back wall of Tarrlok's office to displace his water and completely overwhelm himRaises a huge wall of earth to prevent the spirit vines from chasing her and MakoA fantastic example of the sheer power Korra commands is when Tarrlok has an entire battalion of metal benders round up and raise boulders/platforms in the air to trap the non bending protesters, just count how many officers are actively bending as I highlighted, well over a dozen!And even more officers assist where the trucks are to help pull the platforms into the truck
Yet Korra is able to effortlessly override the bending of all the officers present to bring the boulders down gently
Gigantic Boulders and walls:
In the series finale Korra raises multiple huge boulders to chuck across the city and pummel the Colossus withAt some points the boulders are represented as being as large as the Colossus limbs though of course the size changes are dubious She once again raises another band of boulders to attack with before being interruptedAnd even knocks away to giant boulders a significant distance with none arm while holding Kuvira with the other and weakened
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Earth Bridge:
As Team Avatar proceeds to hunt down Equalists they take turns showing off their individual skills, when it's Korra's turn, Asami signals to her to do somethingKorra stands up while Mako, Asami, and Bolin stay seatedDoes a motionRaises her arms
And boom she raises a gigantic platform for the car to slide on from a large distance, the platform itself far taller and longer than the vehicle, dwarfing itThe platform itself extends down the street and gets bigger, look how massive it is, each individual piece is comparable in length to the buildings and the entire street, incredible scale on Korra's part and effortless
Environmental Manipulation:
Granted many of the earth waves are also designed to mess up an opponents footing but here I'll list more concentrated and singular usages
Toddler Korra trips up a White Lotus Sentry
Korra launches a triad member up in the air
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Korra BFR's Jinora and Ikki(they weren't hurt don't worry)Korra launches the protestors table stand sky high Korra catches the lieutenant by surprise and smacks him into a metal wallKorra uses a boulder under an equalist to put him down in CQCA tour de force of earthbending here, Korra spams multiple pillars in CQC and from afar in tandem with earth waves to "unhorse" the motorcade of bandits, and large earth walls to separate them from AsamiKorra uses an incredibly discrete and quick enviromental attack that leaves a hard to notice dust trail up until it got to Zaheer and raised a boulder to trip someone even with his speed and senses And even from afar Korra can raise large boulders to try and flank Unalaq atop his spout
Other Techniques
A list of more unique usages of earthbending aside from large scale waves, boulders, and pillars etc.
Rotating platformEarthbending Snake of sortsBends and redirects Jenamite shards
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Fusses shards of earth over Asami's electric glove to create a makeshift gauntlet
Sub Element: Metalbending
Korra learns Metalbending in S3 and instantly picks it up showing an incredible talent for the element in key situations.
Korra was able to metalbend on her first try and after some training even has Suyin and Bolin impressed
Technique and Skill:
Capable of using standard metal cables in combat
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After a mere week or so of training Korra could defeat Wing or Wei in a saarring match, despite either brother being the most powerful fighter in Zaofu after their own mother
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Previously Suyin was unable to get 100% off the metallic poison out of Korra's body
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With guidance from Toph, Korra was able to extract the remaining traces deep within her body her3 years after the factFuses it into one orb of poison and sends it to Toph to be disposed off Korra even gains the recognition of Toph herself for performing a feat Su failed and Toph thought she herself had to do
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Korra is able to utilize modern metal sheet bending efficiently, easily deflecting a barrage with her own metalbending
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Offensively she uses the style remarkably similar to Kuvira, binding vital body parts precisely, as she does to President Raiko's campaign managers mouth without even looking at him
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Korra's Crown Jewel in Metalbending:
Korra blocks and and dissembles it into a armillary sphere of sorts before transferring and combining it into a mini wall behind herShifts said wall into a stream of liquid meteorite and fires it back at KuviraCurves it to flank her, and hardens it into a blunt object to knock Kuvira off her feet and into the panels
A true tour de force of bending ability, an application of shape manipulation, phase shifting, accuracy and speed in a combo that yielded devastating effects of metalbending...against the premier metalbender of her time.
Scale:
Bends a large opening into a metal wall
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End result
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Tears open a truck ceiling
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Bends an entire train cart ceiling by parting it to create a huge opening for Team Avatar to escape with Wu
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Environmental Manipulation:
Flings Kuvira into the air with the floor beneath her to capitalize on the vicious onslaught that brought her down there in the first place
