A community of nine writers and 12,000 wiki entries tracks all 47 officially licensed Avatar: The Last Airbender titles from the 2006 Game Boy Advance original to last month's browser drop. This week: a new S-tier shake-up, a hidden cheat surfaced from the PS2 era, and a 47-game retrospective you can read in one sitting.
Inside this issue: the four-way race for S-tier after 14,200 community votes, a walkthrough drop for the Fire Nation temple sequence nobody could finish, and a wiki note on why the smoke shop in Omashu was almost named something completely different. Subscribe at the bottom of this paragraph and the next issue lands in your inbox every Friday morning.
Three pieces from the editorial desk — a tier-list shift, a walkthrough drop, and a wiki deep-dive — chosen by readers this week.
After 14,200 votes, our S-tier reshuffle moves Azula above Toph for the first time since 2022 — but only by 41 votes. We break down which moves flipped the count and which strats readers used to defend the old order.
Read the tier update →Page 187 of our 312-page walkthrough archive finally has company. The complete route, all six torch puzzles, every chest location, and the boss-dodge timing window that took our writers nine attempts to nail cleanly.
Open the walkthrough →Cross-referenced against 61 episodes and the original game script, our 12,000-entry lore wiki surfaces a cut-room note on the shop's name, its original owner, and a thread of canon most fans have never connected. A small piece of ATLA history, recovered.
Read the lore note →Four characters, four voting cycles, one crowded top of the table. Below is where the S-tier sat at the close of the latest community window — community-aggregated, not gospel, and open to challenge.
Aggregated from 14,200+ community votes over six years of continuous ranking windows. These are reader opinions, not competitive truth — every vote is open to challenge in the next window. See the full tier list →
The smoke shop on the upper terraces of Omashu appears in the original game for exactly forty-three seconds. It has no name on the exterior, no owner portrait, and no dialogue tree — but the 12,000-entry lore wiki we've maintained since 2007 has, over the years, accumulated twenty-six footnotes on the location, including one that surfaced only this winter when a long-time contributor pointed out a discrepancy in the room's original asset tags.
According to the cut-content index we keep cross-referenced against the aired episodes, the shop was originally slated to be named Madam Liu's Emporium, a callback to the second-season episode where the same shopkeeper is briefly glimpsed in the city's lower market. The line was cut before the GBA cartridge went to mastering, but it survived in the developer's internal build notes, which were shared with our archive in 2019 and have since been re-verified twice.
It's a small detail — the kind of thing only a reader who has spent real time with the franchise would notice. But it's the kind of detail the wiki is built for. We don't promise completeness; we promise that someone, somewhere on the team, is still reading the cut-content notes at 2 AM, and writing down what they find.
Browse the full 12,000-entry lore wiki →The Avatar Games Hub speedrun squad holds four verified records on speedrun.com across Avatar: The Last Airbender (GBA, 2006), Avatar: The Legend of Aang (PS2, 2007), and Avatar: The Last Airbender — The Burning Earth (Wii, 2007).
All four runs are publicly archived on speedrun.com under the Avatar Games Hub crew profile. Submit a challenge run to our inbox — verified times are added to the next quarterly update.
