Could the Mane Six defeat a Sith?

[Azureth 686]

Such as Exar Kun, Revan, Darth Vader, or even Sidious?

[Cagey 4,205]

I don’t know about the others, but I imagine Twilight could. Starlight, definitely. 

[SharpWit 2,472]

I think not. Even if the mane six were willing to go so far as to attempt killing a sith, they have no training and presumably no prior knowledge to prepare for such a lethal foe.

[Fluttershutter 2,112]

A soft magic system can defeat anything but a soft magic system. The Sith in the comics of the early days had a hell of a lot of power but they did have some limits.

[SunsetShimmerisBae 16]

If it's kylo , fuck even the weakest character could

Now, talking about a real Sith , maybe they could (theorically) "defeat" Vader by reforming him, just like luke Did.I mean yeah they don't have any bond, but maybe if the mane 6 manage to know about his past and bla bla, they could. We've seen them reforming a lot of characters after all.

But trashing that idea, if we are talking about a 1v6 fight to death, no reforming/change of hearts, my odds are completely with any sith. 

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

It'd be an even match, but my bet's on the ponies. 

[Splashee 28,537]

Darth Vader, yes.

 

The rest, I don't know. Those are unknown siths to me.

 

 

Lord Sidious, no.

[Monsoon 1,648]

I don't think they would to be honest, in the show the main six tend to get overwhelmed by the many villains and only tend to win because of plot armour so In a legit fight to the death with a sith I think they'd lose. 

[EpicEnergy 22,060]

Only if the mane six use the force, then they will be able to stand a chance against a sith lord.

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

Even better question, could they redeem a Sith? And I mean without rainbow powers.

[SharpWit 2,472]

Something to remember is that contact with a lightsaber is in all likelihood a death sentence, and while Twilight can have an advantage of being able to use her magic to attempt immobilizing him, he can possibly use the force to counteract this and still just rely on melee attacks.

In this fight Maul uses the forces maybe twice, when he leaps up to bring Pre Vizsla back to the ground since it's clearly an unfair advantage, and at the very end when he retrieves a lightsaber, but he's clearly won at that point. Being scratched by the flying blades and being hit by the blaster show he wasn't trying to sense anything coming at him and he was relying only on his own physical talent. It's all for show so he'll be accepted as the new ruler of Mandalore, but he fought very honorably. Throw in the ability to hurl others about or even bring them towards him just so he can cut them down, and he can clear the room of most individuals. The mane six would see a similar end.

 

[Sunamena 426]

As with any battle there are many factors to consider.

Raw power is one thing.
Stratergy and knowledge is another one.

If both had knowledge about eachother, I think the one with innitative would win.
Pony's do have plot armor though, while siths usually don't have this.


 

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

On 12/1/2019 at 11:49 PM, SharpWit said:

Something to remember is that contact with a lightsaber is in all likelihood a death sentence, and while Twilight can have an advantage of being able to use her magic to attempt immobilizing him, he can possibly use the force to counteract this and still just rely on melee attacks.

Even more complicated than something like Star Wars vs Star Trek, you have magic systems that are entirely foreign to each other. So really we're asking which system is more powerful? The Force? Or Pony Magic? That's a VERY complicated question, especially once you start going into the EU, which seems to break continuity and logic in ways that even go far beyond MLP. EU had Force Users destroying stars and sucking all life from entire planets, but that seems pretty insulting to what we see in the films. For instance, probably the most classic argument about this is Darth Vader warning against being too arrogant about the Death Star because compared to the Force, it is insignificant. The kneejerk reaction to this would be that a Force user could destroy a planet just as easily as the Death Star, but we never see that happen, and with not just one but two Siths in the ranks, why would the Empire need a Death Star at all? So really, Vader was alluding to the fact that the Death Star is vulnerable to the Force, which it was, when his kid used it to guide a torpedo into the main reactor. So perhaps we're better off looking at what we see on a regular basis, instead of looking at the most extreme examples of this-or-that. In common practice? We see a lot more power on the Pony side. Every day Alicorns are using magic to move entire heavenly bodies across the sky. Five regular unicorns had enough power to do the same at least once. The most powerful thing we've seen a Jedi or Sith levitate certainly ranks a little lower in the mass category.

So now we got strength of magic out of the way, strategy. Asking about the Mane 6 as a whole fighting a Sith is a strange question unless you're just asking if the Elements of Harmony could defeat a Sith (I think we can agree there the answer is most likely yes). That's not a very interesting battle to debate though since it's a check-mate in a single move. But in terms of coordinated fights, we've never actually seen the Mane 6 work as a team to attack an enemy beyond when they're combining their magics for the big knockout move. I don't think we have nearly enough information to know what each of them would uniquely bring to the table in such a fight, and if so would they be more capable than any other team consisting of two of each kind of Pony? AJ is definitely not the only Earth Pony who can buck trees. Rarity's shield is probably not a spell unique to her. Fluttershy's main attribute is arguably diplomacy, though she could probably summon a rampage of animals if she wanted to (but she'd never put them in that kind of danger). That leaves Pinkie, Twilight and Rainbow Dash who have rather exceptional abilities apply here (yes pre-Alicorn Twilight as well). Dash could use a Rainboom like an offensive shock-wave blast, and might even be fast enough to safely get in the face of a saber wielder (she can execute a ninety degree turn at Mach 1). Pinkie? Well... she's Pinkie. And her head is about to peek out of Darth Maul's ear to inform him that he missed. And I think here is where a solid strategy against a Sith starts to really form. Play defensively and let the Sith Lord get frustrated. Without even attacking, Unicorns can get as close as they want and just teleport away if they make a fatal mistake. Rarity theoretically may not be the best teleporter, but it's no problem for Twilight. She could also use that to get out of a Force choke/push/pull. Playing the teleport game like Starlight did against Chrysalis is going to wear their opponent down, both physically and psychologically, and Twilight also has the biggest gun at her disposal. And while that's going on you've got Pinkie playfully bouncing around like it's all a big game. That right there is enough to make a Sith go a little crazy, and this will keep them focused enough for other Ponies to get some shots in.