9.9/1018,539 votesLoading...#1 - Sozin's Comet: Avatar Aang (4)
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 7/19/2008
Aang defeats the Fire Lord by bending the elements within the Fire Lord and removing his firebending abilities. After Zuko is taken down protecting Katara from Azula, Katara joins the fight and manages to restrain Azula. Afterwards, Zuko is crowned Fire Lord and promises a better future for the world, while Aang takes his place as the next Avatar. Katara finally shows her love for Aang as they kiss under the setting sun.
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.8/1011,111 votesLoading...#2 - Sozin's Comet: Into the Inferno (3)
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 7/19/2008
Sokka, Suki, and Toph try to stop the Fire Nation's air fleet. Meanwhile, Zuko and Azula duel in an Agni Kai and Aang confronts the Fire Lord. On the verge of losing, Aang gets hit in the back of his scar which sends him into the Avatar State.
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.6/106,703 votesLoading...#3 - The Siege of the North (2)
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 12/2/2005
Aang returns from the spirit world to a big surprise. Meanwhile, Zhao and his forces continue to press deeper into the Northern Water Tribe. Iroh makes a powerful stand and Zuko struggles to keep his plan intact.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.6/107,821 votesLoading...#4 - The Crossroads of Destiny
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 12/1/2006
Everyone races against time to stop Azula's sinister plan. Zuko finds companionship in an unlikely source. Aang's destiny hangs in the balance—and so does Zuko's, as Iroh tells him it's time to make a choice.
Director: Michael Dante DiMartino
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.5/108,310 votesLoading...#5 - Zuko Alone
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/12/2006
Zuko travels by himself to an Earth Kingdom town were he meets a local boy. The two almost become friends, while Zuko suffers from flashbacks of his past.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
9.5/107,259 votesLoading...#6 - The Avatar and the Firelord
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/2007
The tale of Avatar Roku and Fire Lord Sozin is revealed to Aang and Zuko by different sources. Both learn about themselves and are shown the origins of the war.
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
9.5/107,304 votesLoading...#7 - Sozin's Comet: The Old Masters (2)
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 7/19/2008
While on the island, Aang seeks guidance from his past lives, but is not pleased with what he is told. The island, in fact, turns out to be a lion turtle from which Aang is given the guidance he had been seeking. After the tracker is unable to track Aang, the rest of the group decide they must find Iroh. Meanwhile, while tracking down Iroh, the group meets up with The Order of the White Lotus, a group that transcends the division of the four nations.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.4/106,396 votesLoading...#8 - The Day of Black Sun: The Eclipse (2)
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/2007
As the invasion force fights their way to the Fire Nation capital, the kids help Aang find the Fire Lord in time for the eclipse. Zuko confronts his father with shocking news.
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.3/106,912 votesLoading...#9 - The Siege of the North (1)
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 12/2/2005
Zhao begins to launch his attack against the Northern Water Tribe. As the walls of the prestiged city begin to fall, the Avatar taps into the spirit world and seeks the help of one of the oldest spirits, in hopes of saving one of the most prominent areas of the world.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.3/108,227 votesLoading...#10 - The Tales of Ba Sing Se
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 9/29/2006
A series of short stories, highlighting different characters and their individual adventures in the city. Tales of Katara and Toph, Iroh, Sokka, Aang, Zuko, and Momo.
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Joann Estoesta
9.2/106,365 votesLoading...#11 - The Firebending Masters
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 7/15/2008
While teaching Aang firebending, Zuko realizes that he has lost all his firebending skills. To regain his powers, Zuko and Aang must seek the original source of firebending within the ruins of a lost civilization.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: John O'Bryan, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.2/105,935 votesLoading...#12 - The Boiling Rock (2)
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 7/16/2008
Zuko and Sokka make new plans to break out of the prison with Suki, Sokka's father and some others while a shocking twist leaves Azula none too happy with her two closest friends.
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Joshua Hamilton
9.1/106,810 votesLoading...#13 - The Blue Spirit
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/17/2005
While Aang, Katara and Sokka are traveling, Sokka gets a fever. Katara and Aang try to help Sokka, when Katara also catches the fever. It's up to Aang to go up on his own to save his two friends. But before he can get the medicine he is captured by the newly promoted Admiral Zhao and put in Zhao's fortress.
Director: Dave Filoni
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.1/106,544 votesLoading...#14 - The Blind Bandit
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/5/2006
In search for an Earthbending teacher for Aang, the kids go to an underground Earthbending tournament called Earth Rumble 6, where they encounter Toph, a blind but powerful Earthbending girl. After seeing her unique style of Earthbending, Aang wants Toph to become his teacher, but there are complications with Toph's family.
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.1/105,795 votesLoading...#15 - Lake Laogai
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/3/2006
Aang and his friends continue to search for Appa and, unbeknownst to them, they aren't the only ones looking for him. During their search, the kids meet up with Jet, whom they are understandably reluctant to trust. The kids soon realize that the Dai Li are doing their best to thwart the kids' efforts to find Appa. Meanwhile, Iroh is offered his own tea shop in the upper ring, and Zuko discovers the avatar is in the city.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Tim Hedrick
9.1/106,430 votesLoading...#16 - The Puppetmaster
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/2007
The gang investigates the bizarre disappearances taking place within an eerie town.
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Tim Hedrick
9.1/105,850 votesLoading...#17 - The Day of Black Sun: The Invasion (1)
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/2007
The day of the eclipse has arrived, and the invasion force gathers together to make last preparations. They infiltrate the island and the battle begins. Meanwhile, Aang searches for the Fire Lord.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.0/106,741 votesLoading...#18 - The Storm
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/3/2005
Aang, Katara and Sokka have run out of money. Katara suggests Sokka get a job, and coincidentally, they meet a fisherman who is looking for someone to help him out with his fishing. But when the fisherman recognizes Aang as the Avatar, he blames Aang's absence for all of the troubles of the last 100 years, and Aang runs away on his glider. Katara follows on Appa, and when she finds him, Aang begins to reveal his life before he was frozen in the iceberg. Meanwhile, Zuko and Lieutenant Jee get into a fight, but Iroh breaks it up. Soon thereafter, the Lieutenant and the rest of the crew gain a newfound respect for their leader after learning of his past.
Director: Lauren MacMullan
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.0/105,943 votesLoading...#19 - The Chase
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2006
Tired from trying to escape a machine that shows up every time they try to sleep, Aang and the gang have to escape Azula and her team, but their exhaustion leads to a tight situation. Meanwhile, Zuko must deal with something personal, and Iroh bonds with an unlikely individual.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Joshua Hamilton
9.0/105,815 votesLoading...#20 - The Guru
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 12/1/2006
Aang travels to the Eastern Air temple to receive guidance from Guru Pathik while Sokka is reunited with his long-lost father. Meanwhile, Azula has something diabolical in store for her enemies in the Earth Kingdom, including Zuko and Iroh.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
9.0/106,513 votesLoading...#21 - Sozin's Comet: The Phoenix King (1)
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 7/19/2008
Aang struggles to decide whether or not he has to kill the Fire Lord and, during the night, is drawn toward an island which disappears before morning. Zuko leads the rest of the group to the Earth Kingdom to meet a tracker whom they hope can find Aang. The Fire Lord crowns himself Phoenix King and Aang awakens on the island not knowing where he is.
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
8.9/105,670 votesLoading...#22 - The Drill
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 9/15/2006
Having made it to the outer wall of Ba Sing Se, the kids confront a Fire Nation army that is driving a massive Fire Nation drill, which poses an imminent threat to the last Earth Kingdom stronghold. Meanwhile, Zuko and Iroh make crucial mistakes which begin to attract Jet's suspicions.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko
8.9/105,930 votesLoading...#23 - Appa's Lost Days
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 10/13/2006
Appa's journey from being abducted in the desert to the present is explored.
Director: Giancarlo Volpe
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
8.9/105,672 votesLoading...#24 - The Western Air Temple
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 7/14/2008
Aang and the group arrive at the Western Air Temple, with Zuko in pursuit. Zuko wishes to help the Avatar end the war by teaching him firebending.
Director: Ethan Spaulding
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
8.9/105,847 votesLoading...#25 - The Southern Raiders
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 7/17/2008
Katara decides to confront the Fire Nation soldier responsible for her mother's death. Aang tries to talk her out of it, but she doesn't listen.
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos
Writer: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Elizabeth Welch Ehasz
The Best Episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender
Every episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender!
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and...
Genres:AnimationAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Nickelodeon
Best Episodes Summary
"Sozin's Comet: Avatar Aang (4)" is the best rated episode of "Avatar: The Last Airbender". It scored 9.9/10 based on 18539 votes. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos and written by Aaron Ehasz, Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, it aired on 7/19/2008. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Sozin's Comet: Into the Inferno (3)".