Smartest My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Characters

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

Nerd. She spends all her life reading. - WorldPuncher47592834

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

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.

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Apple jack is my favorite character ❤️❤️❤️

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?!

To whoever posted that stupid, immature hate comment: If you hate Luna so much, look at Veruca Salt. Veruca is the DEFINITION of yelling!

I guess those obnoxious haters are back. That's not good. - DrFizzy (TheMuslimMemer's new name)

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.

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.

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

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

In my personal opinion, Pinkie Pie does, in fact, have a ridiculous high amount of intelligence. Her skills range from baking, to crafting, to ice skating and catering, so she seems to be well educated on a wide variety of subjects. The next thing to look at is problem solving. Pinkie Pie here is a mixed bag for me. Sometimes, she’ll be presented with a problem and find a creatively genius way to fix it. Other times, it’ll take a whole episode for her to figure out if somethings going on.

Case in point, Mystery on the Friendship Express.

In that episode, Pinkie Pie is shown to jump quickly to conclusions, but since then, she’s definitely developed.

The last category to look at is emotional intelligence. Here’s when it gets tricky. Pinkie Pie is typically GREAT at resonating with other ponies feelings and cheering them up. Case in point, the Smile song.

However, Pinkie Pie seems unrealistically unaware of her own feelings and how to cope with them. ...more

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!

WHO SAID RAINBOW IS STUPID SHE IS SMART! SHE GOT 100 PERCENT ON HER TEST.

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.

I love Sunset!

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

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.

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.

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

She IS pretty smart! Magic much?