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I think Wiz made a blog post somewhere where he re-researched the Goku VS Superman and proved (through far too much math) that Goku indeed would win the fight. Too bad I have no idea where I found this...

If we were to follow the rules of Screwattack's Death Battles, this would be a 1 on 1 confrontation without any outside help, without the combatants having any non-canon knowledge of each other and lastly, no preperation time. - Queen Chrysalis Queen Chrysalis, on her own, is likely the most powerful Changeling, but her powers require love to charge them up. In A Canterlot Wedding, she reveals that it is the love she drained from Shining Armor that actually helped her overpower Princess Celestia. We also don't know the exctent of Chrysalis' magical power. We know she can fire a beam of charged energy, and she is most likely able to do other similar offensive attacks. Disguised as Cadence, she was also able to trap Twilight Sparkle in a ring of fire and send her to the Canterlot Caves, most likely a teleportation spell. And altough it is not shown, she can probably create forcefields, levitate heavy objects and do other things the Princesses can, but with it's efficency dependant on the love she has drained (and if she is prepared for an attack). Chrysalis' main feature, however, is her shape-shifting. In A Canterlot Wedding, she is able to replicate both Cadence's physical form and her voice. As Cadence is physically smaller in shape than Chrysalis, this also means the Changeling Queen can reduce her size, but wether or not she can become small enough to replicate the normal pony shape is unkown, but I will just guess it is here. I don't know if Chrysalis would be able to peform magic disguised as a pegasi or an earth pony, but even if she could, it would be quite obivous that something isn't right. Just how the shapeshifting works is also up to debate, but when Chrysalis sheds the Cadence form, we can se feathers blasting off, so it is most likely not a simple illusion, but actual shapeshifting. Her endurance is likely on the same level as Celestia, but the queen being an equine insectoid probably gives her a sturdier skin that ponies. Lastly Chrysalis is able to fly, even tough her insect wigns probably isn't as effective as pegasi wings. And she is a schemer, making up a plan and sticking to it. She is shown to be manipulative, cunning and daring, due to her high-risk plan and tricking of Shining Armor. Sadly, plans rarely work in Death Battles, as the battles are spontaneus events. I have practicaly no idea how old she is, and the extent of her experience. She could be an immortal ruler like Celestia and Luna, or simply a mortal queen that someday will be switched out, I don't know. - Discord Discord's power levels are... hard to decide, seing as he has yet to reveal his ture limit. But, for the sake of it, I will list up some of the abilities Discord has shown to have in the show: Item Manifestation: Discord has the ability to make literally everything he wants from thin air. While he seems to do it mainly to create chocolate milk and other non-lethal objects, there is nothing to suggest that he isn't able to materilize weapons and dangerous objects if he actually wants. Body Manipulation: In his appearances, Discord has been shown numerous times to be able to warp his own body to great lenghts. He can loose any body parts at will, split his head in two, grow extra faces, stretch and warp and generally do whatever he wants. One important question, however, is if physical harm can do anything against Discord. My theory is that Discord can use his magic to prevent any injury by warping his body, but that he is actually suspensable to injury (as seen with him backing away from the Tatzlwurm) Power of the Sun and the Moon: In Return of Harmony, Discord speeds the day cycle up, lowering and raising the sun and the moon on a whim. Reality Bending: Discord's most important power is his ability to warp physics and reality. He can practically morph any object into anything he wants, change the texture of the ground, deny gravity, change the size of objects and creating food-related weather. Again, he can practically do whatever he wants. Mind Warp: Discord can hypnotize doubtful minds into the reverse of their personality with his eyes, and even if that doesn't work, he can forcefully mind warp anyone with a touch. If this will only reverse the personality or change it into whatever Discord wants is unkown. Object Animation: Discord can bring objects to life. If this is true sentient life or simply an animation is unkown, but the function is the same. Cloning: Discord can create copies of himself (as seen in Keep Calm and Flutter On) Illusions: Thanks to his mind powers, Discord should be able to produce hallucinations and illusions to users, either to a single induvidual or a whole crowd. While he has never been shown to do this, and therefore I will not calculate this ability, it is very likely that he can. Discord's age and experience is very sketchy. While he appears between the Unification of the Pony races and Celestia and Lunas rise to the throne, we still don't know how long he was around before that. He could basicly be anything between a thousand years old and as old as the world itself. While he should techincally have tons of experience, he doesn't seem to use it very well. Discord's main flaw is his personality. While he has the power to seemingly destory Equestria, he prefers to mess around with ponies and not do any actual physical harm. He is goofy and arrogant, sometimes underestimating his opponents and their ability to resist his magic. But due to his enormus magical potention, there is little that can actually harm him. Celestia stated that she and Luna combined posed no match to him, and therefore had to use the Elements of Harmony, the only real counter to Discord, to defeat him. And Tirek, too, knew he was no match to Discord, and therefore tricked and backstabbed him, using the momentum to drain Discord's powers. And while this may seem good, Tirek is so far the only one shown to have that particular ability. - Conclusion Based on this, it is pretty clear that Discord would trump Chrysalis in a 1v1 matchup. While Chrysalis managed to infiltrate Canterlot and almost conquer the capital, Discord managed to manipulate all the Element barers, exept Fluttershy, by making them doupt their elements, revealing that he had lots of knowledge about them even when being turned to stone. Discord was also the one to discover the "Rainbow Connection" to the Tree of Harmony, proving that he indeed does know the Elements of Harmony well. All this makes their planning abilities, thanks to both their triumphs and failures, pretty similar. Even without planning, Discord easily trumps Chrysalis in magical ability. His magic allows him to negate all of Chrysalis' main attacks, and he is technically able to turn her into a mindless taco with the snap of his fingers. Even if Chrysalis had brought the Changeling swarm, Discord could have gotten out of the situation in multiple ways, either by creating an army of himselfs, teleport out and create magma rain or make the Changelings fight themselves. Chrysalis' main ability, her shapeshifting, is what would be her best chance agains the God of Disharmony. The only problem is that Chrysalis most likely doesn't know about Discord's connection with Fluttershy, and even if she did she would have to have good knowledge of Fluttershy to actually be able to trick Discord. And lastly, even if she could trick Discord, then what? Would she try to blast him with a beam that's most likely innefective or backstab him in a heart that could be located anywhere in his body, if he even have a heart? While Discord normally wouldn't harm anyone, on of the main Death Battle rules is that all restraint from killing is removed, and even if Discord still would prefer to play and trick with Chrysalis, he would have no moral hinderance from killing her. In the end, my vote goes to Discord in this matchup.

Discord's powers, as statet above, is still not explained or explored enough that we can get a clear picture of his limits. And while he seems to only do tricks that's mostly harmless, this could very well be Discord himself not finding any amusemt in violence and death, and thus keeping his spells more at a troll level. If we ignore the possibility of him simply playing illusions and mind-tricks, Discord seems to be the most magically powerful being we have yet seen in Equestria. Celestia states in the Season 4 opener that she and Luna cannot harm him without the Elements of Harmony. And Tirek too knew he was no match to Discord, she he instead tricked him and later backstabbed him. And after all, we have seen Discord completely reverse a pony's personality with a touch, move both the sun and the moon as if it were nothing, create life (or at least manipulation objects to the point that they may seem alive), change density in an object, reverse gravity and create almost any object at will from nothingness. However, while Discord probably could create a storm of swords or make it rain magma instead of chocolate, I don't think it is in his nature to do so, unless extremely angered. And if Discord is truly pissed, I dare not phantom what he would do...