Talk:Gaara VS Toph/@comment-25182985-20150205225403/@comment-25517437-20150207161123

Katara has never had to bend water that has a will of it's own, so she wouldn't be able to bend Juvia. This is just like Toph trying to bend Gaara's sand. If Gaara can't just force the sand out of the way when he tried to cut himself, and his father couldn't force it out of the way to kill him. Then there is no way Toph who has little experience bending sand would be able to bend the sand that has it's own will. And even if Katara could bend Juvia, what would she do then? If she just throws her against a rock she would just reform. So it would be pointless anyways. Also water actually restores Juvia's magic, just like how Natsu's magic gets restored by eating fire. So any water attacks that Katara uses wouldn't just be useless, but it would actually be helping Juvia.

Again there is no accurate way to power-scale this. If the war with the Fire Nation kept going until LOK when Katara was old, and she had been fighting in the war. Then you could use power-scaling to get an idea of about how powerful she could be. But with the world at peace all the way until LOK and there not being a need to keep fighting and getting more powerful. She wouldn't get anywhere near as powerful as power-scaling would tell you. And there isn't much info on what she has done for the last 60 years. She might be a great water bender, but that doesn't mean she can bend the entire ocean. People could be calling her great just because she can heal people better than anyone else. And Katara is the kind of person that would be using her waterbending skills to help people rather than get into fights with other people. Korra on the other hand is much more likely to get into fights with others just for the fun of it. But because the world isn't at war from the end of ATLA to LOK, Katara most likely did little to no fighting.