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She just did.
How did toddler Korra learn 3 element without being taught? She just did.
How did everyone suddenly able to use air bending so effectively without being taught, where Katara and Toph barely even know how to control their element when they first discover they are a bender? They just did.
The show moved the plot with "just happened to be" with nonsensical exposition. It's a mess.
A lot of bending ability comes down to personality. Being adaptable, forceful, consuming, or evasive makes you good at bending. Being rigid, timid, pacifist, or stubborn makes you bad at bending. Katara sucked at waterbending when the show started because she was a stickler for the rules. She always had a nurturing element, but she also had to learn to go with the flow. Toph was a child prodigy at earthbending because she has an incredibly forceful personality. But it's not something her parents taught her, she had to cultivate it within herself.
It is the duty of the Avatar to embody the wisdom of each element and to undergo the personal growth to be able to see things from everyone's perspective. Korra's situation is basically normal. Aang is the weirdo for being a timid pacifist who struggled with earth and fire.
If you rewatch Last Airbender, all the previous Avatar have to went through training to learn how to bend other element. Roku took 12 year to learn and fully master all the element. Aang, with intense pressure, master it within a year. Korra, without being taught by anyone how to channel the element, know how to do it by herself. Korra's situation isn't normal lol.
And what element is hard to learn for the Avatar is supposed to be dictated by the opposite element, not personality. Roku struggle with Water because his element is Fire, Aang struggle with Earth because his element is Wind. Aang didn't actually struggle with fire, not at all, he learn how to do it immediately after being taugh how to channel it, but doing it so carelessly and without discipline, even after being warned by Jeong Jeong, his Firebending Master at the time. He accidentally burned Katara and since then he did not use firebending, until he learn from Zuko. Legend of Korra changed that.
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They wrote her to be pretty constantly on her ass throughout all 4 seasons, I just don't get this criticism. Yes she was naturally good at bending most elements and physically impressive, but that's pretty easy to accept when she has other major flaws that her character needs to grow to overcome.
It's good that you likes it, it does has its moment, but it destroyed the whole foundation set by the Last Airbender. Korra had issue, but the issue of the series doesn't really stem from her character, it's the whole setup. Like i said, the plot push forward purely by "it just happened", smart guy Zaheer didn't even know power vacuum will just lead to someone replacing the throne, third season story is purely "Zaheer just happened to have airbending power", season two Korra just happened to know how to goes Blue Ultraman to fight Red Ultraman, so on and on.
And yes, Korra may be on her ass all the time, but all her suffering is her own doing. She being an ass to Tenzin in season 2 lead to her getting her ass kicked and all the connection to previous avatar severed. She allow the portal to remain open lead to Republic City's overun with spirit vine, and her getting her ass kicked and mercury poisoned, which lead to her further suffering along with Republic City getting destroyed in season 4. It's a serious issue with the writing because unlike Aang, where his suffering isn't his own making, the writter make Korra constantly making the wrong choice which in turn lead to her and everyone suffering.
Supposedly the show had the same writers, either they sold out or were paid so little they didn't care.