#more cringefail cop lin propaganda is needed

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Another controversial opinion from ✨️me✨️

You guys are SO wrong here. Like I hate powerscaling and these hypothetical fights but good fucking god. Don't get me wrong, Lin is an extremely skilled fighter, and it would probably be a close call, but I think Suyin is heavily underestimated here.

The first point people bring up is the fight between Su and Lin, and the fact that even when Lin was weakened, her and Su seemed to be evenly matched. Thing is, it's very obvious that Su wasn't going all out either. Between her primarily dodging and blocking Lin's attacks, focusing heavily on putting distance between her and Lin, and not taking all the shots she could've, it's pretty obvious that Su was playing for time. Waiting for Lin to 'get it out of her system', as she said.

Which, Su essentially allowing Lin to rage at her and verbally abuse her, and later physically attack her and just take it is a very interesting part of their relationship but oh well.

And we know this isn't Su going all out, because she immediately goes for the kill. She's a very aggresive and quick fighter, and can fight from both a ranged distance, and a melee one.

Suyin is a heavily agile, fluid fighter, and has an uncanny ability to use her surroundings to her advantage.

Another argument for Lin being a better fighter than Su is that Lin spends most of her time fighting criminals and triad members, while Su lives a primarily peaceful life. And, yeah, that is a very good point. Here are some other fighters who lived mostly peaceful lives and therefore struggled against their more combative contemporaries.

Like, yeah, you can argue that Lin has more combat on a day to day basis, but most likely it is triad mebers and petty criminals. We see that Lin struggles adapting to different enemies. Like the equalists very obviously threw her for a loop.

And I think that's one of Suyin's great strengths. She is a great strategist, very quickly adapting to a rare bender like P'li, coming up with the strategies to take her down.

Suyin combines intellect and speed, making her a very effective and adaptable bender. She's one of the most acrobatic benders, not only using her wires to move around, but she just has mad hops.

Suyin also seems to have taken the Iroh method of learning from other benders, as her bending heavily resembled waterbending with its fluidity and usage of momentum, while her propensity to dodge and use her surroundings bears the hallmarks of airbending. This is not surprising, since Suyin is a very well travelled person, as well as had established a diverse city.

While Lin uses very typical earthbending movements, prioritising stregth and power. She packs a punch, but that probably leads to longterm strain. Like Lin strains her entire body to bend the earth, while Su utilses momentum her body already has. And I think that honestly represents the sisters' personalities very well.

Lin bends harder, and Suyin bends smarter. And in the world of Avatar, there's a pattern of the creative and innovative being the most cabable fighters.