Ming Hua

Ming Hua's powers and abilities

Despite lacking arms to perform the complex fluid motions necessary in waterbending, Ming-Hua made use of her body to create two tentacle-like water arms strong enough to support her body weight when used as makeshift cables. The ease and fluidity with which she maneuvered her body allowed her to extend these tentacles to great lengths without jeopardizing strength or control. As a testament to her precision, Ming-Hua could bend the tips of her tentacles into hand-like appendages capable of grabbing an individual by the neck from a distance and tossing them across the room, all without breaking the tendrils themselves. She was also able to locally freeze portions of her tendrils, in effect fashioning the tips of her makeshift arms into an assortment of weapons or tools.[3]

The strength of Ming-Hua's water tendrils allowed her to swing and navigate through obstacles with relative ease.[1] She could use her prosthesis to execute amplified water whips powerful enough to pierce solid ground and materials used in construction. Ming-Hua was also capable of creating multiple arm projections, managing to effortlessly control as many as eight water tendrils simultaneously.[4] Her use of several tendrils in unison provided Ming-Hua with exceptional mobility and substantially augmented her offense, allowing her to remain aloft for longer periods of time and execute numerous waterbending techniques in succession.[9] Essentially, Ming-Hua's use of water tendrils as makeshift prosthesis allowed her to overcome her disability and perform otherwise impossible feats, such as driving.[6]

Ming-Hua could maintain both of her prosthesis while simultaneously performing other techniques.

As a further testament to her skill, Ming-Hua was able to maintain her water tendrils while performing other feats of waterbending, creating a water orb to trap Bolin despite already using one of her tendrils to clutch Mako. The extent of her resourcefulness as a bender was also evident by her use of her own body as a weapon, as she was able to generate enough momentum to turn herself into an ice drill capable of tunneling underground. Ming-Hua's use of the water tendrils also made her incredibly agile, capable of evading a series of ice bullets and navigating through numerous iceberg spikes with little difficulty.[1]

Despite the numerous advantages provided by her prosthesis during battle, Ming-Hua's water tendrils had a critical weakness involving the conductive nature of impure water. Because of this, any attack involving lightning directed at Ming-Hua's makeshift arms would travel up toward her body and shock her. This weakness proved lethal when Mako electrified her tendrils with a bolt of lightning, resulting in her immediate death.[4]