Toph Beifong

Toph Beifong was born into one of the Earth Kingdom’s wealthiest families, but was kept a sheltered secret by her parents. Toph’s blindness, they believed, made their daughter weak and vulnerable. Little did they suspect that Toph was using her blindness to her advantage, learning earthbending (a martial art which controls minerals) from the badgermoles and soon building a secret life as a championship fighter. When the Avatar crossed Toph’s path she soon joined he and his friends on their adventure to end the Fire Nation’s war and restore balance to the world. It was during this time that Toph invented the art of metalbending and declared herself the greatest earthbender in the world. Having enjoyed her time teaching the Avatar, Toph dedicated much of her life after the war to teaching others to metalbend, and toward the end of her life became a legend throughout the world.

Offensive Earthbending

• Launches Sokka several feet into the air by attacking from beneath her target. (source) (S2)
• Launches 3 people several meters into the air by attacking from beneath her target. (source) (S2)
• Takes the ground out from under 3 girls so they fall through a bridge. (source) (S2)
• Creates columns that slam 6 different men into a high ceiling. (source) (S2)
• Encases Azula in earth. (source) (S2)
• Raises a rock from the bottom of a sea to break apart an iron boat. (source) (LA)
• Old Toph knocks over a small army of mechs with an earthquake while protecting her allies from the attack. (source) (LoK)
• Launches opponent into the air with an earth column. (source) (TR)
• Creates a massive dustcloud that throws men back and obscures their vision for the fight’s duration. (source) (S2)
• Destroys an iron catapult with an earth projectile. (source) (S3)
• Launches a massive earth projectile attack. (source) (S3)
• Binds a man’s hands together with earth. (source) (TR)
• Collapses a section of a building. (source) (S2)
• Creates and topples over several giant dominoes to incapacitate a battalion of soldiers. (source) (S2)
• Creates rock gloves that amp her punches. (source) (N&S)

Defensive Earthbending

• Maintains a mobile defense for herself and her team using an earth shield. (source) (S2)
• Raises an earth shield to block projectiles. (source) (S2)
• Raises a giant wall that Azula blasts through. (source) (S2)
• Raises a giant wall that doubles as an attack. (source) (S2)
• Uses a rock wall to defend from a water attack. (source) (LA)
• Can create a wall defense that she can launch projectiles out of. (source) (TR)
• Armors herself in earth. (source) (S2)
• Partially holds up a giant collapsing building and tries to counterattack while doing so. (source) (S2)

Metalbending

• Destroys a thick metal door. (source) (S3)
• Bends a massive fin on an airship to reroute its course. (source) (S3)
• Tears a chunk of metal off a boat and binds men together with it. (source) (LA)
• Pulls metal from behind a man to wrap around his head and can tighten it at will. (source) (TP)
• Uses her meteorite bracelet to strike someone. (source) (N&S)
• Armors herself in metal, takes a Comet-enhanced fireblast, defends against further fireblasts, and launches attacks while climbing across the ceiling and knocking a guard out of the room with a punch. (source) (S3)
• Keeps a mine from caving in and holds it for long enough to exhaust herself. Katara says this is ’literally the weight of the world’. (source) (TR)
• Catches several falling I beams. (source) (N&S)
• Bends a meteorite into a variety of shapes. (source) (S3)
• Old Toph can bend metal seamlessly. (source) (LoK)
• States that if someone is close enough to see metal, she’s close enough to bend it. (source) (TP)
• Disassembles a battalion of tanks simultaneously. (source) (TP)

Mobility

• Can burrow into the ground. (source) (S2)
• Can burrow with others into the ground. (source) (S2)
• Burrows into the ground during a fight and pops up behind her opponent. (source) (LA)
• Hides inside a rock until she gets sick of waiting. (source) (LA)
• Burrows into the ground to sneak beneath a tank. (source) (TP)
• Can surf on the earth to increase her speed. (source) (S2)
• Surfs on mud as well. (source) (S3)
• Old Toph surfs on mud with agility. (source) (LoK)
• Surfs on a smaller amount of earth. (source) (TR)
• Launches herself and 2 others onto an airship. (source) (S3)
• Launches herself up onto Appa. (source) (TP)
• Hops off of Appa and creates a pretty big slide for her and Sokka. (source) (TP)

Speed

• Evades attacks and counterattacks. (source) (S2)
• Evades attacks and counterattacks again. (source) (S2)
• Evades attacks and counterattacks once more. (source) (S2)
• Old Toph clowns around on Korra by dodging her attacks. Korra was poisoned during this time and absolutely not at her best. (source) (LoK)
• Dodges a boomerang approaching. (source) (LA)
• Dodges a thrown blade. (source) (TR)
• Catches someone before they fall. (source) (S2)
• Saves Sokka from a rock slide. (source) (S2)
• Covers herself in earth armor and races forward into Aang. (source) (S2)
• Raises a shield to block Mai’s daggers after they’re thrown. (source) (S2)
• Easily takes out 4 Dai Li agents attacking from different sides. (source) (S2)
• Grabs Aang with an earth hand. (source) (LA)
• Blocks attacks from Aang that her students weren’t fast enough for and is also fast enough to hit him with an attack. (source) (TR)

Senses

• Detects ants a person right next to her wasn’t aware of using seismic sense. (source) (S2)
• Detects an attack from underground using seismic sense. (source) (S2)
• Detects Iroh behind a boulder using seismic sense. (source) (S2)
• Pinpoints an animal underneath the ground hundreds of meters away and launches it directly into her hand. (source) (S3)
• While sleeping, she detects Combustion Man approaching from an impressive distance away. (source) (S3)
• Her seismic sense stretches over the span of miles. (source) (N&S)
• Can sense if someone is lying. Some are capable of fooling her, however. (source) (TR)
• Hears a ship captain speak to the person next to him through metal using seismic sense. (source) (S3)
• Fires a projectile from one ship to another with accuracy using her seismic sense with metal. (source) (S3)
• Can intuitively fix a machine she’s never been around before using seismic sense through metal. (source) (TR)
• Needs her target to make physical contact with the ground in order to locate them (limitation of seismic sense). (source) (S2)
• Her vision is fuzzy when on sand, and she has difficulty aiming attacks (limitation of seismic sense). (source) (S2)
• Her vision is fuzzy when wearing boots, but she can still feel a giant drill coming toward her (limitation of seismic sense). (source) (N&S)
• Can hear a man swinging toward her and rearranges the environment so he attacks his allies. (source) (S2)
• Catches Momo in a storm using hearing. (source) (LA)
• Hears a boomerang approaching. (source) (LA)
• Hears a thrown blade approaching. (source) (TR)
• Can’t tell an airship from a sky bison by sound (limitation of hearing). (source) (TP)

Misc

• Can’t swim. (source) (LA)
• Fought to a draw with Bumi, who is her rival for greatest earthbender in the world. (source) (LA)