Smartest My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Characters

She incredible and the boss and very smart no wonder when she a filly she the middle star that mean she the boss and she look like one already. Am I right? who agrees?.

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!

Honestly, I don't find her as smart as everyone says she is. She does have her moments, but I feel a combination of repeating the same stupid mistakes( underestimating pinkie and thinking magic will solve every problem that isn't social based despite multiple instances of her Magic either not working or making things worse)her multiple mental breakdowns over minor things or things that make no sense and obliviousness to blatantly obvious things( like AJ and Rara fighting or with her "mentoring" of star being pretty bad) makes her seem a lot less intelligent than she potrayed.

Honestly I feel Discord is the smartest character in the show, as he has a lot more clever and well thought out moments and strategies than twi has ever had in the show.

Call it my opinion but that's how I see it

She is so smart. No wonder she is Princess Celestia's most faithful student and the member of the mane six who became an alicorn. Not only that, her mind is sharper than the others. She's the one who could figure out the truth of evil cadance. Also she could figure out the counter spell on Season 3 finale (magical mystery cure). She is also a good character and very educational. Probably one of the most under ratted characters of MLP FIM.

I'd barely call her underrated, I've probably seen way too many people who like Twilight, that I may even consider her overrated.

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 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.

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

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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In my opinion, Applejack is more smarter than Twilight.

Bro, how is she lower than twilight?

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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!

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

Figuring out ponies internal struggles must be very hard.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I think she is supposed to be in first five. She have very and I mean VERY powerful magic. She just don't know about friendship. (that doesent mean she isn't smart)

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.

If the mane six were to take an IQ test, I think Pinkie would get the highest score (although Rarity, Twilight, and probably even Rainbow Dash would also get high scores). There is a very deep layer of complexity under her simple exterior and she displays a lot of creativity in regards to her style of partying. She has displayed an ability to organize on par with Twilight and she was able to dominate the scavenger hunt in The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows.

Out of all the characters seen in the show, I think the only other pony who can compete with Pinkie in regards to IQ would be Maud. It makes sense, as I imagine that a super genius gene runs in their family.

I think Pinkie Pie is the smartest of the mane 6, but she doesn't know how to use her brain, that guessing thing she did in Equestria Girls, knowing what Twilight had been through, it was like she knew everything about magic and equestria. But who can forget those pesky Parasprites, only Pinkie Pie knew what to do, So technically she should be no. 1

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!

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).

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

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

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.

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.

How is she higher than Fluttershy? Rainbow Dash is a little stupid and truely doesn't know everything about flying(even though she does know something about flying),and yet Fluttershy knows everything about animals(mentioned by Twilight in swarm of the century and she does seem like she knows everything about animals).Rainbow Crash is on the incorrect list. -ApplejackFan

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

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

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

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

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.

How in equestria is he smart

Ya no one even likes him!

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

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

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

She isn't smart

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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.

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

Gummy is secretly a philosopher

Gummy is actually very smart