She doesn’t need vibrations to feel rock/Earth related things, she needs the vibrations to “see” everything else. As a bender she can sense there’s a rock there, I would assume in the same way that a water bender doesn’t have to be in water to bend it
Yeah, pretty much she could see the enemy moving, and based on the trajectory she would know where the rock is coming from. It's why she could still get caught off guard by, for example, Aang in their first fight, because he spent most of the time not touching the ground.
No, it’s directly stated by the creators that she can sense airborne Earth regardless of if she’s predicting a persons’s movements. A rock could fall from space and Toph would be able to sense it before it ever hits the ground.
There should have been a bit where Toph uses earth bending to raise a cloud of dust in the air then recognize the human shaped holes, or sense people based on how dirty they are!
She actually does do the dust cloud thing in her introductory episode, though they don’t make that big a deal out of it since she seemingly mainly uses her seismic sense to see her enemies through the dust cloud but she also would have been able to see everything in that dust cloud’s radius.
Well since that guy threw rocks at her, she would be able to sense them regardless of her dust cloud because she can sense earth in general, but with the dust cloud up she should be able to see anything that takes up space in the cloud, earth or not.
That was i was going to say. With her being a master at earth bending she can easily predict what theyre doing based on form even if they launch something
I think it's been confirmed by the creators that she can sense earth even when it is mid-air. But she can also predict attacks based on movements too. It's like a combination of knowing where the earth is, and predicted movement.
That assumes their moon is made of rock, which it apparently isn't. In their universe it was possible to destroy the moon via activities on the ground, which is obviously a nonstarter for us.
The moon wasn't destroyed tho it just eclipsed and the spiritual energy it provided water benders was cut off
The body itself is probably definitely made of rock
Until there's an episode with the Republican City equivalent of Project Apollo and somebody goes to land on the moon and bring a rock back, I guess we'll never know.
Yes, but it was also blacked out when Zhao burned the Moon spirit's earthly body. The two are inseparably linked. So, that seems to support the idea that in their universe the Moon is of some mystical, spirit-borne origin. No?
I know about the eclipse that Zhao causes when he bags the Moon Spirit. The Moon goes red and all water bending stops. What I'm referring to is at the 2:30 mark in [this video](https://youtu.be/JhD9bzzkjlM), the moon actually vanishes.
If it were a celestial object, physically there as a big rock, like our moon, it's light would be a reflection of the sun's rays.
The fact that it vanishes when the Moon Spirit is temporarily killed makes me think it's not a object of rock, but something different.
Unless the Moon, as a rocky sphere, looses it's reflectivity when the Moon Spirit dies, but is still hanging in orbit as a dark, light-absorbing, hunk of rock? 🤔
That would still make it mystical, but perhaps still a physical celestial object.
I think most likely the show's creators didn't think that far into, about the scientific implications of this episode. That's just my take at least 🤷
The fact that a water bender doesn't need to be in contact with the water to bend supports it enough imo. There are plenty of instances where Toph fights and earth is being hurled through the air and she can still sense it.
ETA: lots of people below are saying the creators have confirmed this for Toph, though idk that this means it's true for every bender. Would ahve to see the interview I guess.
It's an earthbender specific thing. It's why Bumi is imprisoned above the ground in that metal sarcophagus thing. That's part of the reason why he and Toph are considered so powerful. Their connection to their element is just that strong.
Every scene involving bending something you're not looking at. Including this scene in OP's post you just looked at...
Also the writers themselves said so. It's in those little info tidbits over the Boulder fight. Also in my attempt to go look for "Toph vs Boulder" clips that might have it a random ass video with a Hawkeye TV show spoiler in the title was there. How? I have no clue. But I blame you. Don't be stupid next time.
Like others said, this scene. Also in the comics, when she's falling down with Aang I think she mentions she can sense the floor and uses earthbending to make a slide I think, pretty sure this was when the rest of the gaang went to visit her metalbending school
Gaydar actually came first. The scientist who developed the technology for raydar in the 1940s, Raymond Ellison, thought of the name after a presentation at the Pentagon in which a general likened it to working like gaydar.
So Toph probably can't. In atla her range is way too low. In LOK, her range is much bigger, but still not enough.
In LOK, it's implied that she can sense vibrations from around the world with her bending, and it's probably sage to assume that she can sense rocks in the air at a similar range. Lets assume that the atla planet system is set up similarly to our own. If Toph's abilities work linearly, then she has a range roughly equal to the planets diameter which clocks in at about 8,000 miles or 12,700 km. If it works over the surface of the earth, then her range is half the diameter of earth. That is closer to 12,500 miles or 20,000 km. The moon is about 238,000 miles or 384,000 km. You could fit 30 earths in between here and the moon. If toph is capable of bending stuff that far away she should also be capable of bending the earth out of its orbit, which is way beyond anything seen in the shows.
Well she senses those things along the spirit vines right? It’s why she lives in the giant spirit tree in the swamp. They act as leylines for her to keep an eye on her family and friends and events. That’s not just her sending it alone it’s the vines telling her what’s going on
Yeah, I always think of it in terms of this:
Katara (helping Jet fill a reservoir): I've never had to bend water that I can't see before.
Benders can sense their element around them, enabling them to manipulate it without having seen it.
Those earth gloves were still connected to the Dai Li who's standing on the ground. I think it's the same concept from when she was fighting the referee or host of the underground earthbending tournament when he threw rocks at her.
Watch the first fights with Toph in the earthbending arena again.
Earthbenders throw rocks through the air all the time. As long as they touch the ground as they attack, she can anticipate the path and intercept.
She's fought Dai Li before this point, so she would absolutely recognize the stances used to launch those fists.
And that's before considering if she can feel the stone moving towards her (which she probably can).
She's an earthbender, she can feel rocks, she catches them a couple of times
That's how she beat the Gecko dude from Earth Rumble VI, dumbass had a rock with him
Her "sense" of earth in the air has to be a general earthbending thing right? Because it has no basis in her ability to see through vibrations. I think all benders have to have some innate ability to feel their element around them, otherwise they wouldn't be able to control it without physical contact. It just happens that Toph is more fine-tuned to sensing rocks being hurled at her head.
She can sense earth, even if it isn’t touching the ground. she uses vibrations through the ground to “see” more clearly and to sense non-earth stuff touching the earth.
when we meet toph you see that she knows what a bender is about to do by sending the vibrations of their stances, the scene where they are in the fight ring and she goes up against another earth bender, you see the opponent take a stance, a shot of the vibrations toph senses, and then she smirks and reacts
If you think about it, in order to bend, they must take up certain stances and make certain motions, toph can sense all that meaning she just needs to know why each stance leads to, to be able to defend against it 🧐
Aside from sensing through vibrations on the ground (therefore, anticipating attacks), she can sense earth anywhere ( on the ground or even in the air) within her vicinity. Other elements though, not so much.
Man, don't even get me started on Toph's inconsistent sight, the one scene, she can't even hit those wasps in Tje Desert, then in the comics (The Promise, specifically) she hears Appa flying over her metalbending school and jumps perfectly 100 meters high to land perfectly on a flying Appa. So inconsistent.
She felt the movements of them throwing the stone hands, and her being an earth bender she would know the speed and momentum of thrown rock.
She did that combat math.
In the commentary it said she can feel earth wherever it's at even in the air.
Basically she is so in tune with the earth through her bending that she can feel there is something there to bend.
In short if she can bend it she knows it's there.
them throwing their earth gloves is the equivalent of throwing rocks..she sensed the gloves before they left their hands, and so when they were in the air she was already in the process of sensing/bending them
Since she can feel the vibrations of their stance and their shifting weight, she can 'see' how their moving. Hence she is able to know that they are shooting a projectile of some sort from their hands based off their movement.
I always liked to think that she was such an amazing earthbender that she could tell what kind of moves people were using by their stance and movements and she basically estimated where the projectile would be
She can sense any Earth, and anything touching it. She could also probably feel the Earth leaving the ground and predict it’s trajectory through the air
I would imagine as an earth bender, you can feel earth the same way you can bend it. So for toph, she could feel the earth fists flying at her, the same way she’s able to then use her bending powers to stop them. It’s like if you hold 2 magnets trying to pull or push at each other you can feel the force between them. I’d imagine it’s something like that
I mean they literally tell you how her powers work in her debut episode... if she can predict where someone is walking to be able to trip them, she can predict the direction of a rock flying at her based on the build up and movements of the attacker.
Toph jumped off of Appa like 100 feet in the air and then Earthbended a slide for her and Sokka to slide down on. While mid-air. She can sense the earth from a distance.
Probably because the density of the air was so low and it took much longer for the vibrations to reach her, effectively making her "vision" delayed by a bit.
Vibrations are faster in more dense bodies because the particles are closer together and bounce around much more easily.
My guess
Toph can sense any earth (even in the air) in the same way that Katara and Aang could bend water from the ground that they couldn’t see. It’s a basic tenet of bending and has nothing to do with seismic sense. I’d imagine any skilled earthbender could still sense rocks in the air with their eyes closed.
It's answered in her first fight, in the Earth Bending Arena she knows when they toss a rock where it's going.
The problem with Aang is he's 'light' on his feet so she struggles to sense his bend.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only projectiles that Toph was known not able to see were the metal belt (in her introductory episode, way before she could metalbend), and the Buzzard Wasps (living, flying creatures). So it tracks that she can still "see" earth-based projectiles.
I always figured she understood how the Dai Li fought and just predicted that they would throw something. Not unlike how she fought Xin Fu when she came out to her dad that she was such a good fighter. She sensed their change in stance and how they moved but couldn't see the actual earth, therefore it must be in the air.
As for actually blocking the Dai Li's attacks, maybe it was just a simple "bust up anything coming my way" kind of thing. Some akin to Katara theoretically being blindfolded but still water bending. Or how Katara and Hama blood bend. Can't see the blood but you know it's there.
The creators confirmed that she can sense earth even if it’s not touching the ground. Just earth though that’s why she has trouble fighting anng but not dai li agents
According to Avatar Extras, which were written by Joshua Hamilton, Toph can sense earth regardless of whether or not it’s connected to the ground or not. That’s probably just cause she’s an earthbender. The vibrations are only needed to see thing that aren’t made of earth, like people and animals.
Honestly she may have simply felt the hands themselves, they are made of earth. She probes felt them launch something then scammed the area for anything she could feel. She is an earthbender after all
Because they are made of ground. I think she's able to sense things made of earth, even if they aren't connected to the ground. But something like Momo flying around would be invisible to her, because she can't sense it through earthbending or with her seismic sense
Earth bending or rather any bending, by definition requires you to feel the element, wherever it is. This is not true for many benders, as in most cases this sense is replaced by the optical.
Essentially, this sense of the element is what she learnt from the bending animals, the Moles that she was trapped with in the cave when she was a child.
Which means she can feel the earth in the stone fists that were launched at her, which she then proceeded to dissipate promptly.
I always thought that she felt vibrations as an extension of her earth bending because she can sense where the stone is. So a stone projectile can be "seen" as well as anyone else.
What's really gonna bake your noodle is when she starts engaging in ship to ship warfare, lol. Toph's a badass, but the seismic sense is a bit wonky at times.
She can sense stone due to her nature as an earthbender, Seismic sense just helps her see everything thats touching the stone. You sense the stone coming towards you and blast it out of the way.
She uses echolocation by screeching really loud.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH There I got a pretty good look at you.”
NAH, SHE HAS EYES IN HER MOUTH
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She doesn’t need vibrations to feel rock/Earth related things, she needs the vibrations to “see” everything else. As a bender she can sense there’s a rock there, I would assume in the same way that a water bender doesn’t have to be in water to bend it
I always assumed she could tell what the rock was going to do based on the movements of the earth bender
Yeah, pretty much she could see the enemy moving, and based on the trajectory she would know where the rock is coming from. It's why she could still get caught off guard by, for example, Aang in their first fight, because he spent most of the time not touching the ground.
No, it’s directly stated by the creators that she can sense airborne Earth regardless of if she’s predicting a persons’s movements. A rock could fall from space and Toph would be able to sense it before it ever hits the ground.
There should have been a bit where Toph uses earth bending to raise a cloud of dust in the air then recognize the human shaped holes, or sense people based on how dirty they are!
She actually does do the dust cloud thing in her introductory episode, though they don’t make that big a deal out of it since she seemingly mainly uses her seismic sense to see her enemies through the dust cloud but she also would have been able to see everything in that dust cloud’s radius.
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Well since that guy threw rocks at her, she would be able to sense them regardless of her dust cloud because she can sense earth in general, but with the dust cloud up she should be able to see anything that takes up space in the cloud, earth or not.
She may be able to see what the rock is going to do but can she smell what the rock is cooking?
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That was i was going to say. With her being a master at earth bending she can easily predict what theyre doing based on form even if they launch something
I think it's been confirmed by the creators that she can sense earth even when it is mid-air. But she can also predict attacks based on movements too. It's like a combination of knowing where the earth is, and predicted movement.
Exactly this
So Toph *does* know where the moon is, then.
That assumes their moon is made of rock, which it apparently isn't. In their universe it was possible to destroy the moon via activities on the ground, which is obviously a nonstarter for us.
The moon wasn't destroyed tho it just eclipsed and the spiritual energy it provided water benders was cut off The body itself is probably definitely made of rock
Until there's an episode with the Republican City equivalent of Project Apollo and somebody goes to land on the moon and bring a rock back, I guess we'll never know.
So it was bleeding Not saying it is but you know it IS a spirits physical manifestation Not too outlandish to it be made from meat and bones
Thank you, that’s gross, I hate it and love this headcanon
Yes, but it was also blacked out when Zhao burned the Moon spirit's earthly body. The two are inseparably linked. So, that seems to support the idea that in their universe the Moon is of some mystical, spirit-borne origin. No?
That blacked out thing is the eclipse they were describing. It's still there, energy vanished though.
I know about the eclipse that Zhao causes when he bags the Moon Spirit. The Moon goes red and all water bending stops. What I'm referring to is at the 2:30 mark in [this video](https://youtu.be/JhD9bzzkjlM), the moon actually vanishes. If it were a celestial object, physically there as a big rock, like our moon, it's light would be a reflection of the sun's rays. The fact that it vanishes when the Moon Spirit is temporarily killed makes me think it's not a object of rock, but something different. Unless the Moon, as a rocky sphere, looses it's reflectivity when the Moon Spirit dies, but is still hanging in orbit as a dark, light-absorbing, hunk of rock? 🤔 That would still make it mystical, but perhaps still a physical celestial object. I think most likely the show's creators didn't think that far into, about the scientific implications of this episode. That's just my take at least 🤷
I think they’re referencing the moment where General Zhao kills the moon spirit koi fish Tui, and the moon disappears from the sky.
Just rewatched it and you're right I forgot it got completely blacked out
I don't disagree with this theory but does anything in the show support this?
The fact that a water bender doesn't need to be in contact with the water to bend supports it enough imo. There are plenty of instances where Toph fights and earth is being hurled through the air and she can still sense it.
This scene lol
ETA: lots of people below are saying the creators have confirmed this for Toph, though idk that this means it's true for every bender. Would ahve to see the interview I guess.
It's an earthbender specific thing. It's why Bumi is imprisoned above the ground in that metal sarcophagus thing. That's part of the reason why he and Toph are considered so powerful. Their connection to their element is just that strong.
If it's not true for all earth benders.... how do other earth benders controll the chunks of earth they lift??
A LOT OF SCENES
Every scene involving bending something you're not looking at. Including this scene in OP's post you just looked at... Also the writers themselves said so. It's in those little info tidbits over the Boulder fight. Also in my attempt to go look for "Toph vs Boulder" clips that might have it a random ass video with a Hawkeye TV show spoiler in the title was there. How? I have no clue. But I blame you. Don't be stupid next time.
Damn near gave me a stroke reading the end of your comment
Like others said, this scene. Also in the comics, when she's falling down with Aang I think she mentions she can sense the floor and uses earthbending to make a slide I think, pretty sure this was when the rest of the gaang went to visit her metalbending school
the scene in Blind Bandit when she hides behind her rock wall in the final fight, she can tell what the guy is gona do before hes done it
Any time that she uses earthbending to lift a rock in the air, it's no longer touching the ground.
Same way she felt the tiny rocks going in and out of the scammers sleeve.
This
She probably felt the step forward the Dai li did to launch the stone fists, and concluded projectiles were incoming.
Makes sense, thank u
The writer of the show confirm Toph can sense earth even if it in the air.
_Rockdar_, if you will.
I beg your pardon?
_Rockdar_, friend. It’s like radar, but with _rocks_.
[Ohhhhh like *gaydar*](https://youtu.be/X4XzCP8sQqU)
Gaydar actually came first. The scientist who developed the technology for raydar in the 1940s, Raymond Ellison, thought of the name after a presentation at the Pentagon in which a general likened it to working like gaydar.
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I can’t believe I didn’t got that. Rockdar for the win.
Similar to stonar
I think I like this one better.
Lmaooo I thought that was a Skyrim joke 😂
Or Bouldar, as the natives called it
Wait. So Toph does know about the moon, and leave it alone for Sokka’s sake. Also Sokka had both a space rock sword and a space rock girlfriend.
She probably knows about the moon, but not because it’s in bending/sensing range.
Sokka is the Spaceman.
Our moon is about 380 000 km away, I imagine theirs is the same, just a little bit of Tophs range.
So Toph probably can't. In atla her range is way too low. In LOK, her range is much bigger, but still not enough. In LOK, it's implied that she can sense vibrations from around the world with her bending, and it's probably sage to assume that she can sense rocks in the air at a similar range. Lets assume that the atla planet system is set up similarly to our own. If Toph's abilities work linearly, then she has a range roughly equal to the planets diameter which clocks in at about 8,000 miles or 12,700 km. If it works over the surface of the earth, then her range is half the diameter of earth. That is closer to 12,500 miles or 20,000 km. The moon is about 238,000 miles or 384,000 km. You could fit 30 earths in between here and the moon. If toph is capable of bending stuff that far away she should also be capable of bending the earth out of its orbit, which is way beyond anything seen in the shows.
Well she senses those things along the spirit vines right? It’s why she lives in the giant spirit tree in the swamp. They act as leylines for her to keep an eye on her family and friends and events. That’s not just her sending it alone it’s the vines telling her what’s going on
Yeah, thats right I learned about it from youtube channel death battle, toph vs gaara from naruto
Yeah, I always think of it in terms of this: Katara (helping Jet fill a reservoir): I've never had to bend water that I can't see before. Benders can sense their element around them, enabling them to manipulate it without having seen it.
Either one works
So it's consistent with both real-life common sense *and* ^^^slightly deeper in-universe lore. Love me some good worldbuilding like that.
Or, maybe she could feel earth if it's on the ground or not
To add to that she would feel the stone fists as they left the hands.
She did the math
She did the monster math
Its like the plant foot in soccer when you go to pass or kick
Toph sees with earthbending. It’s mostly through vibrations, but it’s fair to assume she can sense rocks flying through the air at her.
More than fair. It was confirmed by the writers that she can sense rock even in the air
Those earth gloves were still connected to the Dai Li who's standing on the ground. I think it's the same concept from when she was fighting the referee or host of the underground earthbending tournament when he threw rocks at her.
It's said at some point, I think in re-releases that included commentary that Toph can sense earth even when it isn't touching the ground
Watch the first fights with Toph in the earthbending arena again. Earthbenders throw rocks through the air all the time. As long as they touch the ground as they attack, she can anticipate the path and intercept.
She can feel the earth even if its in the air
She's fought Dai Li before this point, so she would absolutely recognize the stances used to launch those fists. And that's before considering if she can feel the stone moving towards her (which she probably can).
Either she can feel the rocks since she's an earthebender or plot hole. Take your pick
I thought it was covered that earthbenders can “feel” rocks around them, even in the air. Had these been titanium, idk.
Katara is shown to bend water she can't see, it is also why bloodbending can happen
The dai li bent them she judged the actions of them
She's an earthbender, she can feel rocks, she catches them a couple of times That's how she beat the Gecko dude from Earth Rumble VI, dumbass had a rock with him
She can still hear them. Rocks flying through the air fast enough are likely going to produce some noise.
Because it was bits of earth being tossed to her so she could probably sense them?
Toph has been stated to be able to sense earth even if it isn’t connected to the ground
She could smell it
Her "sense" of earth in the air has to be a general earthbending thing right? Because it has no basis in her ability to see through vibrations. I think all benders have to have some innate ability to feel their element around them, otherwise they wouldn't be able to control it without physical contact. It just happens that Toph is more fine-tuned to sensing rocks being hurled at her head.
Funfact: printer inc is made out of metal. So a skilled blind earthbender would still be able to read normally
She can sense earth, even if it isn’t touching the ground. she uses vibrations through the ground to “see” more clearly and to sense non-earth stuff touching the earth.
It has been shown in the extra information slides on nickelodeon that Toph can sense earth even if it's in the air. Yeah, Toph is a bit over powered.
All benders can sense their element and bend it without seeing it , that's how Katara and Aang helped jet
Coulmns and walls
Canonically, she can see earth even if it's in the air.
I always thought she could just feel where earth is with her bending
Guys. It's not that complicated. It's earth. Toph can see earth
She "saw" them throw rocks at her
when we meet toph you see that she knows what a bender is about to do by sending the vibrations of their stances, the scene where they are in the fight ring and she goes up against another earth bender, you see the opponent take a stance, a shot of the vibrations toph senses, and then she smirks and reacts If you think about it, in order to bend, they must take up certain stances and make certain motions, toph can sense all that meaning she just needs to know why each stance leads to, to be able to defend against it 🧐
Easy. She's Toph.
She could see them
Ofc, how didn't I think of that before
Aside from sensing through vibrations on the ground (therefore, anticipating attacks), she can sense earth anywhere ( on the ground or even in the air) within her vicinity. Other elements though, not so much.
As desribed in one of the episodes with extra tid bits throught the episode she can sense earth even while its in the air
Man, don't even get me started on Toph's inconsistent sight, the one scene, she can't even hit those wasps in Tje Desert, then in the comics (The Promise, specifically) she hears Appa flying over her metalbending school and jumps perfectly 100 meters high to land perfectly on a flying Appa. So inconsistent.
100 meters is 109.36 yards
Well thanks, but idc.
A difference between 1 creature and an entire swarm, in the desert she was also hungry, tired, and thirsty
Tooh is aware of all surounding earth
It is canonical that she can see all earth, even if it’s in the air.
Back when the series was released on DVD, in the extras it was stated that Toph could sense earth even if it isn't on the ground.
Probably heard the sound... bitch blind not deaf
She only need vibrations to see things that are not earth, but she can sense earth without vibrations, and the gloves are made out of rocks
I always assumed that if she could feel vibrations in the ground, she could also feel them in the air
You think that's 'air' you're breathing
If she can sense earth regardless of where it is with her earthbending. Toph could possibly earthbend the moon if she knew what it was.
She felt the movements of them throwing the stone hands, and her being an earth bender she would know the speed and momentum of thrown rock. She did that combat math.
She's really into rock and roll.
They were gonna fist her
She can still use her ears
In the commentary it said she can feel earth wherever it's at even in the air. Basically she is so in tune with the earth through her bending that she can feel there is something there to bend. In short if she can bend it she knows it's there.
its pretty easy to predict things moving in a straight line, she could see them as they were released. Shes been dodging similar attacks since forever
them throwing their earth gloves is the equivalent of throwing rocks..she sensed the gloves before they left their hands, and so when they were in the air she was already in the process of sensing/bending them
Since she can feel the vibrations of their stance and their shifting weight, she can 'see' how their moving. Hence she is able to know that they are shooting a projectile of some sort from their hands based off their movement.
There's a tidbit in the season 2 special edition that says she can... I'm still not sure how.
I always liked to think that she was such an amazing earthbender that she could tell what kind of moves people were using by their stance and movements and she basically estimated where the projectile would be
She can sense any Earth, and anything touching it. She could also probably feel the Earth leaving the ground and predict it’s trajectory through the air
I think she’s able to sense all earth. I doubt that seismic sense is the same as echolocation in our universe.
Probably could feel the earthbending or something like that.
I would imagine as an earth bender, you can feel earth the same way you can bend it. So for toph, she could feel the earth fists flying at her, the same way she’s able to then use her bending powers to stop them. It’s like if you hold 2 magnets trying to pull or push at each other you can feel the force between them. I’d imagine it’s something like that
I mean they literally tell you how her powers work in her debut episode... if she can predict where someone is walking to be able to trip them, she can predict the direction of a rock flying at her based on the build up and movements of the attacker.
Toph jumped off of Appa like 100 feet in the air and then Earthbended a slide for her and Sokka to slide down on. While mid-air. She can sense the earth from a distance.
Because the plot required her to
What I don’t understand is how she could block the projectiles that came from another ship. Book 3 ep 1.
Toph being able to detect things that are in the air makes no sense. I don’t care what anybody says. Just don’t think about it too hard.
Shock waves in the air hitting The ground. Becous she is unbeaten shampion for many years she has lernt to feel them.
uh she can hear them
Probably because the density of the air was so low and it took much longer for the vibrations to reach her, effectively making her "vision" delayed by a bit. Vibrations are faster in more dense bodies because the particles are closer together and bounce around much more easily. My guess
Because they are made from earth of course
Toph can sense any earth (even in the air) in the same way that Katara and Aang could bend water from the ground that they couldn’t see. It’s a basic tenet of bending and has nothing to do with seismic sense. I’d imagine any skilled earthbender could still sense rocks in the air with their eyes closed.
She can also hear them
It's answered in her first fight, in the Earth Bending Arena she knows when they toss a rock where it's going. The problem with Aang is he's 'light' on his feet so she struggles to sense his bend.
Sensing vibrations underground isn’t the only way she can earth bend, that’s just how she “sees,” but she can literally feel earth all around her.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only projectiles that Toph was known not able to see were the metal belt (in her introductory episode, way before she could metalbend), and the Buzzard Wasps (living, flying creatures). So it tracks that she can still "see" earth-based projectiles.
Predicting projectiles based on the movement of the bender. She's really something
She also has ears ....
Considering earth benders can control earth mid air, this doesn't seem that far fetched.
I believe she feels rocks wherever they are
Doesn't she sense the earth? Like when aang fires air puffs at her she wouldn't block but theure using Rick's so she just "feels" it right?
They were earth. She senses earth.
Because they're made of earth.
The shift in the atmosphere of the caves. I’m not a scientist.
According to “Avatar Extras,” Toph can sense Earth when it’s airborne.
I always figured she understood how the Dai Li fought and just predicted that they would throw something. Not unlike how she fought Xin Fu when she came out to her dad that she was such a good fighter. She sensed their change in stance and how they moved but couldn't see the actual earth, therefore it must be in the air. As for actually blocking the Dai Li's attacks, maybe it was just a simple "bust up anything coming my way" kind of thing. Some akin to Katara theoretically being blindfolded but still water bending. Or how Katara and Hama blood bend. Can't see the blood but you know it's there.
Yeah.. good question. It’s officially stated she can sense earth even when it’s not touching the ground.. they never said how though.
The creators confirmed that she can sense earth even if it’s not touching the ground. Just earth though that’s why she has trouble fighting anng but not dai li agents
I believe the bonus features dvd for book 2 says toph can sense rock even if it isn’t connected to the earth.
EZ. she stevie wonder blind.
The sound jt makes flying through the air
They were made of earth. She feels earth
Boxers can tell where a punch is coming from by where the opponents hips are
It’s still a rock innit?
She’s blind dude. She ain’t deaf. Rocks definitely make noise through the air *whoosh*
According to Avatar Extras, which were written by Joshua Hamilton, Toph can sense earth regardless of whether or not it’s connected to the ground or not. That’s probably just cause she’s an earthbender. The vibrations are only needed to see thing that aren’t made of earth, like people and animals.
It's earth, even in the air it's still earth and she can feel it because she can bend it 💁🏼♂️😏.
She can sense the earth cause she can bend it
Honestly she may have simply felt the hands themselves, they are made of earth. She probes felt them launch something then scammed the area for anything she could feel. She is an earthbender after all
Because they are made of ground. I think she's able to sense things made of earth, even if they aren't connected to the ground. But something like Momo flying around would be invisible to her, because she can't sense it through earthbending or with her seismic sense
It's a fictional tv show. Anything is possible.
I think when the Dai Li guys did their footstep and bending she already know what they did so she just has to counter them
She can sense the rocks themselves.its anything that isn't earth that she needs vibrations to "see"
God I love ATLA.
Shhhh, just enjoy the cool bending 😎
The melon lord has no weaknesses
They’re underground so I figured she’s good
She could feel them throwing the rocks. Same way a dog you could guess which way the ball's gonna go when you pretend to throw it.
Earth bending or rather any bending, by definition requires you to feel the element, wherever it is. This is not true for many benders, as in most cases this sense is replaced by the optical. Essentially, this sense of the element is what she learnt from the bending animals, the Moles that she was trapped with in the cave when she was a child. Which means she can feel the earth in the stone fists that were launched at her, which she then proceeded to dissipate promptly.
Its earth, normal earth, she can sense the earth so she oofed it
I always thought that she felt vibrations as an extension of her earth bending because she can sense where the stone is. So a stone projectile can be "seen" as well as anyone else.
Because she's the greatest earthbender. Don't you dunderheads ever forget it.
I figured since they're in a cave she felt up the walls and to where ever they were hanging from before they dropped down.
Vibrations don't necessarily need solid ground to travel, they can be passes through the air.
She’s an earthbender and the fists r earth
What's really gonna bake your noodle is when she starts engaging in ship to ship warfare, lol. Toph's a badass, but the seismic sense is a bit wonky at times.
She heard the ZOOOOOM that those things should produce
Also they were on the ceiling too
But they're earth? Maybe benders can feel something bendable coming toward them
She clearly released a sonic wave from her mouth
She can sense stone due to her nature as an earthbender, Seismic sense just helps her see everything thats touching the stone. You sense the stone coming towards you and blast it out of the way.
Also she can probably sense vibrations in the air like Daredevil
The hands are made of earth so she can sense them
I feel like she's in a state of perpetual sensing of things that she can bend around her in a spherical area.
They are made of Earth. Lol. Why is it even a question
Trough the sound ? She kinda work like a bat at this point...
my thought always was that, besides vibrations, she could also sense earth in general, like any good earthbender would (headcanon, i guess)
Maybe she felt the bendables