Talk:Gaara VS Toph/@comment-25517437-20150110182721

This seems like it could end up being a bit of one sided fight, like the Thor VS Raiden or Tigerzord VS Gundam Epyon DEATH BATTLE. They will of course say it was a close fight, but it really isn't. Gaara's offensive and defensive abilities far out classes Toph's. Gaara's gourd contains the special chakra-infused sand that Gaara constantly reuses. This sand has a mind of it's own and will protect Gaara from any attack without Gaara telling it too. So Toph won't be able to control this sand, because it just has a will of it's own, and will only listen to any commands Gaara gives it. So she won't be able to get through his sand shield. Toph can't move as fast as Rock Lee or none of her attacks are fast enough to out run Gaara's sand, so getting pass his sand shield will be nearly impossible for her. Even if she could, Gaara can also cover his skin in sand armor. Which is also used from the sand in the gourd on his back. Toph can make rocks come up out of the ground to block attacks, but Gaara's sand can very easily just fly over and around it, so that won't help her. She of course can use rocks to form armor around her, but that defense wouldn't hold for very long at all because Gaara's sand can spin like a drill and grind up a massive area of dirt and rock into sand in just a few secs. And Toph's earthbending is much less effective against soft earth like sand or dust than solid rock and hard dirt. As she said in the show, she doesn't like sand because it's harder for her too see, and things look fuzzy. So this of course would mean she doesn't spend much time around sandy places and would have far less experience with bending sand. Over time Gaara would turn the ground all into sand giving him the terrain advantage. All the people in the Avatar series can't take hits like the people in Naruto. So if they were both able to land hits on each other, Gaara would last far longer in a slug fest than Toph could. Gaara was able to take many of Rock Lee's punches that were like "super sonic punches" because they were able to out run his sand, and he was still able to get back up and keep fighting after the hits were breaking through his sand armor. Toph only being able to see through her feet using earthbending is going to be a major weakness, with Gaara being able to levitate himself in the air using his sand. And no Toph can NOT see any sand, dirt, or rocks that are in mid-air. She must be physically connected to it to see it. As shown here ---> http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.607995055443673206&w=217&h=170&c=7&rs=1&pid=1.7 She even said she sees through her feet, and that is the reason she never wears shoes. She can only detect attacks fired at her if they are connected to a person that is standing on the ground. When you see her first appear in the Last Airbender series she was fighting some earthbenders and they only fired rocks straight at her, an easily predictable trajectory. But if the attack comes from someone too far away for her to detect or changes trajectory in mid-air, she can only guess where it is coming. So if Gaara uses "Suna Shigure" (Sand Drizzle) to rain sand down on her, she can't see it until it's already hitting her. From there Gaara can easily use Sabaku Kyuu (Desert Coffin) To trap her and then Sabaku Sousou (Desert Funeral) to kill her. And Toph can't escape from that attack, because benders can't bend if they can't move their body. Bending requires full movement of the body to be effective. This is why you see them always throwing kicks and punches when bending. You see this happen many times throughout the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra series. If you restrict a bender's movement, they can't bend. Can't move, can't bend.---> http://images.latintimes.com/sites/latintimes.com/files/styles/large/public/2014/08/08/legend-korra.jpg?itok=b3DGDI-6 And good luck getting Gaara trapped when he can just use a substitution jutsu to swap places with his Suna Bunshin (Sand Clone). And I'm sure by now many people are thinking, well Toph can metal bend. Not if she can't move, of course. But also it's going to be hard for her to find enough metal to use for an attack. Gaara's sand can block tons of metal objects flying at him. Shuriken, Kunai (throwing knife), Senbon (needles) all things the sand blocks like they are nothing. She would need a really big piece of metal for it to have enough mass and power to break through Gaara's sand shield and sand armor. They never really talk about the terrain advantages each person has in a DEATH BATTLE, but with both the Naruto world and Avatar world being very similar to Earth, and the Earth's crust being only about 5% iron. It's unlikely she will just find a ton of metal just laying around to use. And they can't just start the 2 fighters in a metal factory or in a desert because that would be just giving one side an unfair advantage. I have watch Naruto and Shippuuden, I have seen Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. I liked all of these series, but it looks like this is a fight Toph can't even hope to win. I really think they should have done Toph vs Terra from Teen Titans. I think that would have been a much better and fair match up. This battle is going to most likely end up with Toph as a very bloody mess. ---> http://i20.mangapanda.com/naruto/215/naruto-4193.jpg XD