Smartest My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Characters

MLPFan This is a list about the smartest characters in MLP:FIM. The list starts with 3 items. So feel free to add some other characters to this list. Only My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic characters. I also already did search with a google search

The Top Ten

1 Princess Twilight Sparkle Princess Twilight Sparkle Twilight Sparkle is the primary main character of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. She is a female unicorn pony who transforms into an Alicorn and becomes a princess in Magical Mystery Cure.

One of the reasons she is my favorite character is that she's smart and reads books. In real life, I read books EVERY DAY and do well academically. No wonder she has 45% of the vote... - MusicalPony

Wow, oh my goodness my favorite princess' student has a lot of majority. Good job everypony. :) I wonder how she got all of these votes I wish my favorite pony which is Princess Celestia could get those which I voted. How can that pony get that much votes just wondering. - PikaGT27Celestia

She is smart, kind and best character. No matter what the haters say! - Sugarcubecorner

She is smartest of all! - Sugarcubecorner

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2 Princess Celestia Princess Celestia

Celestia can take care of her castle, she can teach other ponies, & she also has reasons. - PikaGT27Celestia

Excuse me? She should number one! She is ecleast 1500 years old, ruled equestrian alone for 1000 years, taught genius ponies, was taught by star swirl the bearded, and probably learned during Luna's banishment, which was 1000 YEARS

Celestia also has a pretty sparkling mane. She is a nice alicorn to like, She really needs more love. :)
Could we have more fans or people pleased? I wish this character could move positions like Top 5 or something. - PikaGT27Celestia

3 Applejack Applejack

In my opinion, Applejack is more smarter than Twilight.

Applejack is WAY Smarter than anypony. She knows everything! She should be number 1. She's WAAAY smarter Than Twilight.

Apple jack is my favorite character ❤️❤️❤️

4 Princess Luna Princess Luna

SHE IS NOT CLEVER! She ruined Nightmare Night party. By the way, the dumbest thing she did is shouting like an ASS. She was mad because ponies were afraid, and, how could they not be afraid when she yells like a donkey?!

5 Discord Discord

Somehow, he is super smart. He knows the mane 6s' personalities and knows how to trick them. Wow?

He is rather sly and clever and slightly insane but is a very smart character.

How is he not the smartest. He is such a trickster. He can trick twilight! How is he below RARITY! - wren6

He's not bookish or knowledgable, instead he can come up with genius ideas and clever tricks. That in my opinion is more intelligent than booksmarts which Celestia and Twilight have.

6 Starlight Glimmer Starlight Glimmer Starlight Glimmer is a recurring character, initially an antagonist, in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She first appears in the season 5 premiere, The Cutie Map. From The Cutie Re-Mark - Part 2 to Celestial Advice, she is Twilight Sparkle's student in the ways of friendship.

She got learned by herself she is a self taught pony who is smart. Twilight learned them by her mentor but Starlight has more ability to be the smartest one. And she makes very good plans.

She followed her skills and beat Twilight up and she is self taught so this tells why she is the smartest. - ashlyn

Her magic rivals Twilight. - Gabriola

7 Princess Cadence Princess Cadence
8 Pinkie Pie Pinkie Pie Pinkie Pie is a major character in the 2010 show My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, based on Surprise from My Little Pony G1, She represents the element of Laughter.

Pinkie Pie sometimes has a sudden burst of genius, and becomes smarter than even Twilight sometimes, when she wants to. That is why I think Pinkie Pie is a pretty smart character, also considering she knew what parasprites were before any of the other Mane 6 knew.

Pinkie Pie is usally considered simple, but, she is really just perky. She may be a little lost at times but she also can know then she is supposed to and she can break the fourth wall, she's pretty genius!

She is smart because she knows astrology

Pinkie is amazing, but she’s not the biggest egghead like Twy Twy. - ArielleBelle

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9 Ms. Cheerilee

She is a teacher after all. - Pegasister12

10 Rarity Rarity Rarity is a female Unicorn pony from the 2010 Animated Television Series My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic. She is the element of Generosity and her main passion is fashion.

Rarity is not smart like Twilight or many of the others here, she is smart with people and knows how to get her way, take when she whines her way out of the diamond dogs tunnels for instance. She also knows everything there is to know about making clothes and that takes some learning!

Rarity is probably the smartest of the mane six after twilight

After Twilight both Pinkie AND Rarity are pretty intelligent and people who say Applejack or someone else need to rewatch the whole show to understand.

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The Contenders

11 Star Swirl The Bearded

Okay, also like Clover The Clever, We don't know him that much because he is a historical pony. Probably live like before ponyville is founded. So, we don't found him in the show. We can only imagine how he looks like. Okay, he is smart and legendary. He manage to make the spell 'a one to another... Another to one. Each mark if destiny fulfilled'Even he don't understand the magic of friendship as well as princess twilight, he is still smart - MLPFan

If he never wrote that stuff then twilight would have never become a princess and realized who she was. Without him she wouldn't be smart. I'm appleloosa

Maybe you all think twilight sparkle is the smartest but I disagree. I mean without him twilight wouldn't be smart and there wouldn't be a safe equestria. That's all I can say cause I'm in danger from appleloosa

12 Apple Bloom Apple Bloom
13 Spike

Spike gets side tracked easily, makes a lot of stupid mistakes and is basically useless so I don't think he is smart whatsoever.

Spike might be smart because she is twilight's assistant or something.

14 Rainbow Dash Rainbow Dash Rainbow Dash is a female Pegasus pony from the popular 2010 kid's show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She represents the element of loyalty is one of most well known characters of the show. She may be a little mean sometimes but she still does what is best for her friends .

Rainbow Dash is stupid not smart.

She is super smart! Remember when she got 100% on the Wonderbolts test? She just has her own way of learning and is smart in a different way.

How does she know everything about flying?!?! She is so smart!

She's Pretty Smart
But Not As Smart As Let's Say Twilight Sparkle - JPK

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15 Flash Sentry

How in equestria is he smart

16 Sunset Shimmer Sunset Shimmer

I don't like Twilight I especially love Sunset Shimmer because she made real good plots and it was the main 5 against Sunset and the main 5 worked together so it was harder for Sunset to do the plot and if she was against Twilight she would definitely win and she loves math and Twilight loves chemistry which she needs to be good at but since she is not good at math Twilight can't do all those stuff. - ashlyn

Dumb character! Doesn't deserve to be in this list! - Sugarcubecorner

Sunset Shimmer is very nice and she is very smart.

VERY SMART SHOULD BE #1! (I don't like twilight)

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17 Clover The Clever

We actually don't know Clover The Clever that much but, It says on wikipedia that she is Star swirl the bearded's most faithful student like Twilight as Princess Celestia's most faithful student - MLPFan

18 Sunburst
19 Diamond Tiara Diamond Tiara

You with the hurtful comment "you are not very flipping nice"

She Became Smart In Season 5 By Becoming Nice - JPK

She isn't smart

No. Diamond Tiara is a dumb bird and is nothing but crap. She's the worst pony ever.

20 Fluttershy Fluttershy Fluttershy is a female pegasus pony from the 2010 animated TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She is a kind pegasus and is very timid and shy. She takes care of the animals.
21 Zecora
22 Gummy

Gummy is secretly a philosopher

23 Sweetie Belle Sweetie Belle

She isn't smart at all. Opposite, she's stupid, ugly and whiny. If Sweetie Belle was smart, she would know that her voice is squaky and stupid.

24 Trixie Trixie Trixie Lulamoon, is a female unicorn pony and traveling magician. She tends to speak in the third person and refer to herself as "The Great and Powerful Trixie".

She cheated in "Boast Busters". That not being smart at all.

She IS pretty smart! Magic much?

25 Dr. Whooves
26 Snips

Why would you think he is smart this is just my opinion but he is one of the most stupid ponies in all of equestria. Actually that's wrong. He isn't one of the most stupid he is the #1 most stupid and that is not my opinion that is a fact.

27 Snails

Why would you think he is smart? He is along with his buddy snips the #1 most stupid pony in all of equestria and that is not my opinion that is a fact

28 Mr. Cake

Pretty smart because there is more to baking than throwing stuff in a bowl

29 Mrs. Cake

Knows how to cook, clean, and watch twins. Good enough for 19

30 Scootaloo Scootaloo
31 Lightning Dust

She was being more focused on her and RD being awesome. That's not being smart at all.

32 Photo Finish
33 Suri Polomare

No. She wasn't smart enough to copy Rarity's designs.

34 Celestia

Hasbro says she is super wise she should be on top
MAKE HER TOP NOOOW. SHE NEEDS MORE LOVE

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35 Moon Dancer
36 Derpy Hooves Derpy Hooves Derpy Hooves is a female Pegasus from the 2010s kids show My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic. She is described as dumb and clumsy. Her occupation is a delivery mare.
37 Night Glider

I love Night Glider so much and is my favourite Cutie Finder ♡ ♡ ♡. Because of the following reasons why she is so smart:
1. She knows the staff has magic what she, her friends and the other our town need to get their cutie marks back.
2. She offers Double Diamond to mantian his old skies next time she said to him "She's almost to the caves". However instead of reminding Double Diamond to talk about his old skis next time, he helps her out to stop Starlight Glimmer from going to the caves.
3. Night Glider is also actually one of Starlight Glimmer's friends (along with Sugar Belle, Party Favor, Sunburst, Double Diamond, Discord, Throax and Trixie). She knows that she is related to the night. Maybe related to either Spitfire or Fleetfoot.

Have fun.

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