[Discussion] Who had a tougher time as Avatar?

[chopstickchakra]

Who do you think had a tougher time and who do you think had the biggest challenge so far. Aang or Korra? I'd say Korra, she had to learn and deal with a lot and as she says in the beginning of season 3 she is kind of in the blind just walking down paths until she finds the right one and has little guidance especially now she has no past life knowledge to tap. Aang had a challenge but his was straight forward, learn the elements defeat Ozai. Not much left to question there.
Korra had a tougher time but Aang has had the hardest challenge of the two.

 

[The Amazing Spider Man]

So first you say Korra then you change your mind at the end of the paragraph and say Aang...ok..

OT: I say Korra

 

[spade3dg]

Aang had a tougher time. Being a pacifist airbender and having to go against all of his ideals because of some divine obligation is pretty tough. Trust me im a Leo. We're always right. Not to mention he had to learn the other elements .

Earth being the hardest due to it being his polar opposite and the opposite of his personality.

Korra is cool and all. Her ordeals arent as tough as Aangs. She didnt have the weight of the world and freedom of its people on her hands....yet.

Cant really say yet until she dies.

 

[Power Bottom]

Anaag defiantly by far. He was a kid who had his whole family ripped out while je was away. He could've potentially helped save the air nomands. (Very tragic past)

Plus he had to struggle to find teachers, he had to save the world and stop the fire nation. He United the world.

He had way more obstacles than Korra.

 

[Sonzumaki]

Aang. He was forced to accept his duties at an earlier age, and he had to learn the other three elements in less than a year. He also had to decide between justice and the teachings of the monks, etc.

 

[chopstickchakra]

So first you say Korra then you change your mind at the end of the paragraph and say Aang...ok..

OT: I say Korra

Or you could step your comprehension game up, Korra had the tougher time being Avatar but Aang had the more difficult challenge. Aang had to fight Ozai, the toughest opponent Korra fought was Amon and Unalok. Fire Lord Ozai was stronger than either of them. Just because Aang had the greater challenge though didn't mean he had the tougher time. Aang had a straight forward mission, get strong enough to beat this enemy. Korra's challenge however is to actually be the avatar, ensure balance and protect harmony but without a clear enemy who is disrupting the balance, her's changes each season while Aang's was always Ozai. Aang also had the previous Avatar to give him guidance, Korra lost hers before asking them for much advice.

 

[ByakuganUser]

Korra definitely had a harder time! The Harmonic Convergence was a serious deal!!!

 

[Bad Touch Yakushi]

Aang, so far anyway.

Forced out of childhood, a pacifist monk forced into the most important role possible where he not only gets hunted down every second, invades a nation in disguise, coming to terms with the fact he ran away, tasked with mastering all 4 elements, and being pushed physically and psychologically into whether it's wrong or right to kill is TOUGH.

Korra has a lot of sh*t too but it's mostly organisations or bad press, which doesn't really compare with having all of your people wiped out. She's only just beginning to question herself and what an avatar should be.

 

[BenjerminGaye]

Korra. Aang's problems were always black and white.

 

[Char Aznable]

Aang. Korra has too many handout victories and not enough decisive conclusions to the challenges she faces.

 

[AMIan]

Definitely Aang.

In Korra's time, they can literally shout out that they are the Avatar and people would kiss your feet while if you said you were avatar in the time that Aang was he would probably get killed. Imagine how many times the Fire Nation came after him and the bounty hunters and stuff.. also the other Air Nomads were wiped out while Korra still had her tribe and her parents. She also could use 3 elements when she was young while it was harder for Aang. Also Aang was stuck in an iceberg for 100 years. That must've sucked.

 

[~Sky~]

Aang was a natural at peace keeping and reasoning with people. He put down Yakone like a dog.

 

[Zorø]

Aang imo U_U.

 

[Caliburn]

I say Aang.

Korra was born after Aang brought peace and prosperity (overall seen) to the world lasting several decades and as a result Korra had a very easy, comforting life till the start of LoK in which she mastered three elements without much effort. Aang on the other hand was much younger, only knew one element, had to learn all 3 other elements in a single year and this after having been trapped inside an iceberg for a hundred years. To top it off during all that time the world was at a constant state of war. Almost everyone alive has known nothing else than being at war and almost everyone Aang knew had died, including his entire culture.

For Aang this was just a horror scenario, while Korra had nearly everything going for her. I mean even Bolin said it at one point: "I wouldn't say you had it rough". Korra could profit enormously from Aang's accomplishments, but Aang had to do almost everything from scratch.

Finally the way how Aang was perceived by people was mixed. For the Fire Nation he was an enemy and many people also lost faith in the Avatar for leaving the world as it was for a near century. Aang had to 'redeem' himself, while Korra could continue on the image the world obtained of the Avatar due to Aang's accomplishments: that of a hero. Aang always had to be very cautious of mentioning him being the Avatar, Korra couldn't wait screaming it off the rooftops.

None of the problems Korra had to deal with in seasons 1 and 3 (so far) exceed those of the ones Aang had to deal with. Most of the events of season 2 also don't exceed Aang's problems, with the exception of one:

Korra had to deal with the Dark Avatar and that's a far more bigger issue than all Aang's problems combined as no matter how horrifying Aang's world could have ended up with if Aang hadn't been there, it would still be peanuts compared to 10 000 years of complete darkness with a world ruled by a Dark Avatar and the end of a 10 000 year line of the Light Avatars. Though IMO I think Aang would have handled it better than Korra, though saying that is probably a bit unfair as that's how the plot works.