Smartest My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Characters

She awesome and very intelligent no one could be even smarter than her and Moon Dancer... Nah.

Twilight is definally the smartest I mean she was taught by celestia (who is dumb no offense to her fans) and is still smart cause she studies and finished a spell that not even princess celestia herself couldn't figure out and that's how she became the princess of friendship!

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...

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.

Although she IS my last favorite princess, I really like her too. Why can't everyone just like all the princesses? Anyways, yeah, her magic is powerful lol.

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

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.

Applejack isn't my personal favorite pony, but she definitely is the smartest of the mane six,even more so than Twilight. Unlike Twilight and the other 4 mane six (pinkie pie is a earth pony so not counting her) Applejack has always had to do things the hard way, I mean she has to watch over a whole orchard! Twilight has magic, yes strong magic but obviously magic makes unicorns life easier than earth ponies, same with Pegasus they have they have the ability to fly, earth ponies are left with nothing. Even though Applejack is usually busy with friendship quests or working the orchard, she's always there for her Apple family. Applejack also knows how to do stuff at random times like in the episode where the pipes are broken at the spa (sorry can't think of the name of the episode) and Applejack fixes it off hoof. Overall, Applejack is the smartest pony because she's had to live a different way then the rest, being the only farmer in the show.
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Bro, how is she lower than twilight?

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.

Luna is the smartest and wisest pony because, she is always up at night (since she is the princess of the night) so she sees the world in a different perceptive than most other ponies, even celestia. She is also a way better ruler than celestia, because she is more connected to her subjects, by entering their dreams every night and learning new lessons every night.
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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?!

The reason Luna yelled like that was because she was extremely used to doing that. I mean, she was banished in the moon for a thousand years! - PhoenixAura81

To me, she is the cleverest of them all

Figuring out ponies internal struggles must be very hard.

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!

If he's so powerful that he's omniscient, the fact that he has gotten beat twice by mortal ponies dosen't exactly tells me that he's that smart.

Like others have said, she never had any mentor and in some ways her magical talent surpasses Twilight's. Just imagine if Starlight had a mentor when she was young, her powers could likely rival that of Celestia Herself. One thing that I take from Starlight being so powerful with no mentor, perhaps some ponies are simply born with greater ability and she falls into that category.

Another thing about Starlight, here recently she has become a voice of reason and has aided Twilight in making sound decisions...School Daze is a perfect example. In that episode Twilight was so too quick to give up on her school of friendship and with a bit of tough love, Starlight got her to realize not to cave in to Chancellor Neighsay.

I like how shes so advanced in magic probably as good as twilight herself

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.

She is not that smart but she is still a pretty character

I bet she’s smarter than she looks.

She is a teacher after all.

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!

Bam she's genius randomly out of nowhere

She is smart because she knows astrology

Sunset did not figure out how to defeat the sirens it was actually twilight and the song needed an open singer!

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.

Sunset was so smart that she was the only person in Canterlot High EVER to make it to the last round of the Academic De-catalog, was Princess Celestia's student, and figured out many of the solutions to the problems happening in the human world(how to defeat the Sirens, why the main 6 were starting to pony up in random places, the source of the magic the main 7 were getting, and how to defeat Midnight Sparkle).

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

Definitely the.smartest character in the whole show. I mean, he problem created Alicorns!

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

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

Rainbow dash is not dumb or stupid, she is actually super smart and she even got 100% on the Wonderbolts test to prove it. So she is actually that smart is just that she learns differently. Let's not talk negative about others. If we don't have anything positive to say in your opinion about others than it is best not to say anything at all. I'm talking to those who are saying insults about Rainbow dash. Remember the point is that she represents kindness and harmony. So stop talking negatively about her.

Rainbow dash is not dumb she is actually super smart, it is just that she learns things different. Let's not say anything negative about her.

Rainbow dash may not be the smartest in my little pony, but she is still super smart, fast, beautiful,kind and intelligent. She just learns differently. So the lot of you better stop stop talking negative things about her as those things which you are saying like those insults I've been seeing are false. And it will always come back to you. If you can't speak highly of anyone who most people like than it is best if you don't say anything at all. Yeah you heard me. You can talk negative about flash as he is rude, but never those who show kindness and harmony. I'm talking to you, AppleJackFan, PheonixAura81 and JPK. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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.

He is playful and sarcastic so that must mean he has enough "knowledge" to use more complicated speech patterns and be smart. Also, he knows what is the right thing to do when the situation calls for it, so I believe he is pretty intelligent.

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.

Oh my God she isn't stupid! Shes about right there with Twilight and Celestia

She use to be so so badly mean

She is one of the smartest( besides twilight ) of the mane 6 because she can do anything if she puts her mind to it (you can see in one of the equestria girls episode, fluttershys little birdie

She played around with the entire main-cast, Twilight even crumbled and cried! How is She not at the very top. Assuming most of you believe Twilight's the best.

Ya no one even likes him!

How in equestria is he smart

He probably ruled for years and years, and any ruler in power for that long has to be smart.

If he ruled a kingdom, he had to be smart

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

She Became Smart In Season 5 By Becoming Nice

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

She isn't smart

I Voice Sweetie Belle and Sweetie belle should be #1 and I am so mad

Wait if you're the voice of sweetie belle then what’s your name cause ik who acts as 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.

Gummy is secretly a philosopher

Gummy is actually very smart