Quote Originally Posted by Traab View Post
The fight should have really gone something like this.

/garra summons enough sand to crush toph
/toph turns the sand to stone and takes control
/garra realizes he cant attack directly and uses a super powered sandstorm to scour the flesh from her bones.
/toph realizes she cant turn billions of unconnected grains of sand to stone in time and quickly dies.

Even without that as a setup, toph can only transform the sand she touches. She doesnt have some omnidirectional aura that auto transforms sand into her control. So the guy who can make all the sand everywhere attack toph does just that and she is pierced so many times she makes swiss cheese jealous. But hey, two of his sand spears were turned to stone and stopped. Grats?
I would have kept the fight the same up until the point where Toph grabs Gaara. Toph sends the mother's sand flying so far away that it can no longer protect Gaara...

...and as she prepares to grab him, she's knocked out cold by a flying kick to the face. Unconscious and unable to counterbend, she's helpless as Gaara attempts the Sand Burial for the second time... this time succeeding.

KO!

That way, they could have kept the claim that Toph could counter all of Gaara's sand manipulation, but that ultimately it only matters so much when you're ALSO against someone that much faster and physically stronger.