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[Thewookie Wooker]

Where do you think she stacks up in raw power against the many other unicorns and alicorns?

She is the Element of Magic which may not have been used in the defeat of Nightmare Moon since she seemed shocked that there was a 6th element.

If Nightmare Moon >Celestia
Celestia + Eoh > Nightmare Moon
also Mane 6 with EoH > Nightmare Moon/Celestia
Celestia + Luna with EoH = Mane 6 with EoH > Discord

Twilight did block Discord's magic near the end of that 2 parter.

So where is Twilight in power. Does she have the potential to gain the knowledge to actually overthrow Celestia alone?

Would Nightmare Twilight be stronger than Celestia?


What do you think?

[Prince Lightning Da Cute]

No, she isn't even the strongest unicorn. Shining is, and he can't even beat Celestia, but when his powers were united with queen C's they did beat Celestia. If Twilight can then she won't be able to for a long time.

[Alkryn]

She's very powerful, I agree. But I do not think she's close to that of Celestia's power. The only reason she blocked Discord's magic is because she used the Elements.

[Strafe]

Celestia always seemed to be unaffected by normal unicorn magic so I don't think so.

[Another Creative Username]

This is how powerful she is:

Spoiler

[Thewookie Wooker]

Shining Armor may only be good, at well, making a massive shield though. But we have very little evidence to show what else he has done magic wise. Maybe kickass power just runs in the family...

[Venrix]

Shining also has had, what I guess to be, high level military training. Being captain of the guard and all. While Twilight, on the other hand, still has untapped potential power. Also, if magic is like any other skill, and Shining only trained in or practiced the most at making force fields and related defensive/offensive magic. This would explain why he was able to make a massive forcefield. If Twilight is given more time and the same training her power could be much more than it is now.

Edited by Venrix, 23 April 2012 - 07:00 PM.

[WingedRatchet]

I believe that simple logi will conclude that Twilight is in fact the most powerful unicorn out there. Her special talent is magic, and she is capable of reaping the uses of each and every spell. This can be seen in Season 1 Episode 19 "A Dog and Pony Show" when Twilight is able to use Rarity's gem finding spell, and also in Season 2 Episode 20 "Its about Time" when she is able to harness the power of the time spell. Her power is not equivalent to Celestia's as you seem to assume. She was only capable or defeating nightmare moon and Discord with the power of The Elements of Haromny, which even then only work in conjunction of the mane 6. The Elemental power is distributed evenly there, but still adds up to be almost a 17% increase in power. Shinning Armor is not a very powerful unicorn at all. He has a very specific talent, as can be seen in the recent finale in both his action and his cutie mark. His cutie Mark depicts A shield with three stars above it and a large pink star on the shield. He is specialized in Fore Field Spells, and this in joint force with the alicorn magic provided by Cadence was very potent. (This confused me because Cadence's love helped get rid of Queen Chrysalis when the Queen was supposedly gaining power from the same love that was used to defeat her. WTC). Back to Twilight, all in all she is well rounded, which may as well make her the most powerful unicorn, or if a better word is needed, the most adaptable unicorn.

[Eric Noecker]

Shes the most powerful unicorn on the show.

Considering her talent is magic itself, she can do anything she damn well pleases.

Travel through time? Check
Teleport? Check
Reproduce spells created by other ponies? Check
Magical Energy blasts? Check
Transforming one thing into another? Check

She's far more powerful then any normal unicorn, even her brother. All her brother can do is create a forcefield, which we've seen twilight do.

Now as to her forcefield being stronger then his, I am not sure.

Im sure she could overpower celestia and luna.

[Venrix]

In the grand scheme of things there are still a good number of unanswered questions and many speculations. Twilight is, with out a doubt, a powerful pony. With this recent episode showing how "weak" princes Celestia is this leaves some room for other ponies like twilight to take position of most powerful pony. If we look at Celestia and how she was defeated, she was defeated with the power of love, as was Chrysalis. Corrupted love, but love none the less. And that is arguably the all around most powerful force out there. So unless there is another confrontation were Celestia gets to test her mettle. I doubt that we will get an accurate measure of her force. Which means Twilight might not be as powerful as we like to believe.

Edited by Venrix, 23 April 2012 - 07:20 PM.

[Aureity]

Powerful enough, let's leave it at that.
And remember she's still a young mare. Shining Armor has had time to develop his powers more-from the flashback, it looked like he was Twilight's age when Twilight was still a filly. I have a feeling Twilight's going to be one of the most powerful ponies in Equestria once she develops more, especially with the magic of friendship by her side.
(She can time travel, for crying out loud! >.<)

[SBaby]

Honestly, I think it's going to be a matter of her learning to fully control her power. Once she does that (IF she does that), then I could see her at least being on par with Celestia.

Edited by SBaby, 23 April 2012 - 08:06 PM.

[Eric Noecker]

I still think shes potentially more powerful then either of the alicorns.

[Pony Joe]

As far as brute force goes, Shining seems to be the most powerful unicorn.

However, her special talent being the study of magic, she has one of, if not the most varied arsenal of magical knowledge of any unicorn currently alive, and as she grows up it's likely that she'l join the legendary ranks of such magicians as Starswirl the Bearded.

It'd be unfair to compare her to Celestia, of course, who has 1000+ years of magical study and practice under her belt.

[Crystal Sparkle]

Well of course I think she's can be more powerful, I mean we've seen what she can do!

All this shows that whatever you do, you should not buck with Twilight!

[Forlong]

This is how powerful she is:

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=SiMHTK15Pik

And you couldn't edit the clip, putting Twilight in the shot? I am very disappointed in you.

Edited by Forlong, 24 April 2012 - 12:04 PM.

[Midnight Moon]

i agree, put twilight in the clip, then i will squee XD

[Gingerpotato]

To quote the Great and Powerful Scootacool, who probably quoted something else:
KNOWLEDGE IS POWAH!

Twilight lives in a library with hundreds of spell books around her, she has been studying magic since she was a foal, she is the Princesses personal student and she has beaten an Ursa Minor. She has to be pretty damn powerful. Not Celestia, Luna or Discord style powerful but still a force to be reckoned with. So far, we have seen one other unicorn who is more powerful then Twi and that was her brother. Judging by how much older he is then her and by Twilight's already growing magical potential, I feel that when she turns Shining Armours current age (He looks to be late 20's or early 30's) she will be even more powerful then him.

[WingedRatchet]

To quote the Great and Powerful Scootacool, who probably quoted something else:
KNOWLEDGE IS POWAH!

Twilight lives in a library with hundreds of spell books around her, she has been studying magic since she was a foal, she is the Princesses personal student and she has beaten an Ursa Minor. She has to be pretty damn powerful. Not Celestia, Luna or Discord style powerful but still a force to be reckoned with. So far, we have seen one other unicorn who is more powerful then Twi and that was her brother. Judging by how much older he is then her and by Twilight's already growing magical potential, I feel that when she turns Shining Armours current age (He looks to be late 20's or early 30's) she will be even more powerful then him.

Im jsut not sure that Twi's brother is more powerful. The only thing more powerful about him was his ability to cast large force fields and use that ability to repel a massive swarm of changelings. And even then, he was only able to do this with the assistance of Alicorn magic, which does seem to have more powerful capabilities compared to regular Unicorn magic.

[The Alpha Team]

Discord>NMM>Celestia>/=Luna>Twilight