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Avatar Legends is a crossover fighting game spanning two eras: Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra. This page only collects officially announced or otherwise documented setting information, and it is built around three core topics: the character roster, the differences between bending disciplines, and the battle stages, followed by notes on Story Mode and on how this page sources its information. Where the developers have published no data, this page gives a mechanical criterion instead and invents nothing.

A Setting of Two Eras#

In the original canon the world is made up of four nations — the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads — with bending tied one-to-one to the four elements; the Avatar is the only being able to command all four and the bridge that keeps the world in balance. This game puts characters from two eras, decades apart, into the same arena. It is a crossover project, and its matches are not a continuation of the original canon.

Characters from both eras sharing the stage is exactly the basis of this game’s cross-era duel angle: on one side the original cast that ended the Hundred Year War, on the other the Avatar and her enemies from the Korra era. Understanding where the two eras come from lets you read the relationships and positions between characters much faster.

The Origins of the Four Bending Arts#

In the original canon the four bending arts did not appear out of nowhere; the first people learned them from the natural world. That origin sets the tone of each discipline and is the cultural grounding for this game’s style design:

Character Roster (12 at Launch)#

The launch roster has 12 playable characters drawn from both eras, including 2 special-form characters who fight as separate entries. One point needs stressing: this is a fighting game, and the developers have never published character point values such as health, attack, or defense; any five-stat tables circulating online have no official source. Each character’s real strength and move performance is whatever the game shows in play, and it may be adjusted by later patches.

Two things about the roster structure are worth noting. First, characters from The Last Airbender era are the majority, and the Fire Nation side (Zuko, Azula, Ozai) concentrates three generations of firebenders, which suits players who want to dig into the fire style; the Korra era is represented by Korra and Zaheer, bringing the face of bending in the spirit era. Second, “Avatar State Aang” and “Nightmare Korra” are listed as characters separate from regular Aang and Korra, and their actual differences follow the in-game move lists. If new characters are added after launch through patches, official announcements take precedence; this table records only the 12 launch characters.

Grouped by bending discipline, the style spread of the launch roster reads clearly (Korra trains in all four but is counted here by birth as Water Tribe; form characters are listed separately):

Bending Disciplines: Style Differences, Not Damage Multipliers#

The four elements appear in this game as different bending move sets and fighting styles, not as damage multipliers at the numbers level. The developers have published no damage bonus or weakness coefficient between elements, so the trade-offs between disciplines follow the actual in-game numbers and shift with balance patches. The original animation gave each of the four bending arts a real martial art as its model, and those differences carry over into this game’s move design:

A few further judgments: first, Sokka does not bend, and his move set is rooted in weapon combat, an independent style outside the four-element framework; second, signature abilities such as Toph’s metalbending and Azula’s blue flames usually get dedicated representations in character move sets, and their actual form follows the game; third, the range and tempo differences between disciplines are best tried one at a time in training mode before you settle on a main.

Battle Stages (8 at Launch)#

The launch build includes 8 battle stages drawn from landmark locations of both eras. The representative stages revealed so far are listed below; the remaining stages and their details follow the game itself:

Every stage has a source in the original animation, and the looks differ sharply: pole, temple, metropolis, and spirit realm each have their own feel. Which stage you want to fight on is a matter of taste, but the match itself carries no stage bonus; stage differences follow what the game actually shows.

Story Mode: 27 Original Chapters#

Story Mode uses original plot written for the series, 27 chapters in total, with the franchise’s creators involved in the writing. The story is newly written for this game, not a retelling of the canon of the two animated series; how characters from the two eras meet inside this original story is something players need to experience in the mode itself. For chapter flow, boss fights, and unlockables, see Story Mode.

How This Page Sources Information#

This page follows a “better to omit than to invent” rule, and every uncertain point is given as a criterion instead:

• No invented numbers: official sources have never published character point values or five-stat attributes, so anything about strength, damage, or speed follows the actual in-game numbers.
• Roster follows official sources: if the 12-character launch lineup changes with version, platform, or later updates, official announcements and in-game data take precedence.
• No exaggerated elemental counters: the four elements are differences in move sets and fighting style; there is no published damage multiplier, and match outcomes shift with balance patches.
• Character backgrounds stay faithful to the source: a character’s bending and history follow the setting of the aired animation, while the game’s original interpretation follows the game’s actual content.

Further Reading#

• Characters — move sets and how to get started with each character
• Combat System — a detailed look at the core versus mechanics
• Story Mode — walkthrough of the 27 original chapters
• World and Story Home — section overview and game summary