I would say that really only overpowered thing with unicorns is the manipulation of tools and better dexterity in general. Pegasi can hold stuff with their wings but that stops them from flying. And Earth Ponies just struggle in general

One thing I always remember is when Rarity used her magic to throw a boulder at Tierk; it actually caught me by surprise. You can see that it put noticeable strain on her, and we never really see her use her magic to the same degree like Twilight or Starlight.

Might I point out the magic feats that the Cake twins pulled off? The unicorn of the two was casting all kinds of spells. And she didn't even have her Mark yet.

One thing I love about Starlights magic is its directly influenced by her emotions or emotional state. Like that massive laser beam that banished Discord. If I remember correctly she was so furious with him, she was able to cast such an enormous spell. She's done this on multiple occasions.

this sounds like Pegasus propaganda

And even with TWILIGHT, when she’s shown studying as a filly, she could BARELY TURN A PAGE using her horn. Her magical ability as an adult is only as powerful as it is because of all the studying and practice she did as a filly. 😊

This actually annoys me when people say earth ponies aren’t special enough and need magic, but I Highly disagree. I think earth ponies are already special enough, their specialty is of course their specific skill. And even if they don’t have as unique of a power Than the other two, it still makes them interesting enough working off these challenges, Wich is why I feel g5 just rips out the challenge by giving them a over powered ability, and yes I think it’s very much overpowered compared to unicorns in that universe.

I thought to myself “but what about Rarity moving the clouds that one time in Magical Mystery Cure?” and the answered my own question. She had Rainbow’s cutie mark, so her special talent allowed it.

Sure, let's just overlook the fact that in part two of both beginning of the end and ending of the end, regular Unicorns were able to produce fairly rudimentary laser blasts, and working together they were able to produce a quite powerful shield. So they can combine their magic to heighten spells, which could mean that a small army of regular ol unicorns could combine their magic to just nuke a larger army of either or both other races. Additionally, the Unicorn species *can* produce paragons of their race, like Star Swirl, Starlight, Sunset, Tempest, Sunburst, Moondancer, Twilight, Mistmane, and possibly Chancellor Neighsay. The other races have their extra powerful individuals as well, like Rockhoof, or Rainbow Dash. But they can barely compete with the weaker of the Unicorn paragons. The strongest Unicorns can take on entire armies of the other races using just regular nuking, clever tactics, and/or attrition The simple fact that Unicorns have those powerful exceptions make the entire race op, just because those exceptions are many of orders of magnitude more powerful than anything any other race can produce *Also I'd argue that the ability to walk on clouds is not much of a sign that Pegasi are incredibly powerful. Unicorns can replicate the effect quite easily with a simple spell that lasts awhile and doesn't create conscious upkeep, so Pegasi having that ability built in is not much of a show of power. Being able to create tornados is pretty powerful though. The problem being that they are hard to control/aim, and dissipate fairly quickly once Pegasi are no longer actively sustaining it

Not exactly. Pegasi still have to learn to fly and control the weather. Like when ranbow dash and fluttershy were in flight school as fillies. Plus, their wing power determines how strong they are with flying. And flying determines how good they are with weather control. So pegasi have to train their wings like unicorns have to train their magic. EARTH PONIES DONT HAVE TO DO EITHER! THEY'RE OP!

It is fun when watching the show to remind yourself that Trixie and Sunburst are actually a cut above when it comes to magic. Starlight and Twilight are just that crazy good.

Kind of unrelated but this video proves how incredible Rarity in particular is, because like, remember in the series finale she just managed to conjure up magic strong enough to lift a huge chunk of rock? For Twilight, that would have been super easy, but for Rarity it took ALL of her magical power and she still did it!!! Another small moment is during the season 7 finale when Chrysalis is defeated and threatens them all, every single powerful magic user lines up and flexes their magic, AND RARITY IS DEADASS JUST RIGHT BESIDE THEM!!!! Flurryheart and Cadence and Shining Armor are on either side of her, very powerful ponies, but Rarity is also prepared to throw hands right next to them and I think that's just such a powerful moment, because she's only as strong as the average unicorn. Sorry for the long comment this video just made me think of that lmao

Unicorn magic is like a skill similar to hard sciences and metaphysics. Everyone can learn them and use it to do bs feats, but not everyone is able to and has the time, resources and capabilities to have the brains of Einstien to get to that skill level and use it to it’s fullest potential. Ponies like Twilight are the realistic exception, but the average unicorn only ever uses a levitation spell. Just like the average Joe only needs to know basic caculus, untill it’s no longer used and needed because caculators.

Starlight straight up can pull a beam like the death star

"Let me explain" xD I wonder if earth ponies start out with an inherent level of super-strength in the same way that pegasus foals can already walk on clouds from the beginning of their lives. Applejack is the epitome of an earth pony's strength magic for being able to stop a boulder weighing several hundred tons, but she actively improves her strength as time progresses. On the other hand, there is a school filly earth pony (I forgot her name) who can lift an entire house. She hasn't had a lifetime to train yet. Anyway, I think that that of the three races which is the most powerful depends on how one analyzes the problem, but this is an insightful approach to pegasus magic that reveals a unique perspective!

Most unicorns are only ever seen levitating stuff and occasionally performing a few talent related spells. All pegasi have cloudwalking, flight and some degree of weather manipulation. They all help out with winter wrap up and the rainwater funnel. Earth pony magic is arguably the most varied and unpredictable- From "Pinkie Sense" to some subtle plant growing magic and increased strength. You'd have to wonder what would happen if an Earth Pony or Pegasus had a talent related to magic, though it might not be possible.

Most unicorns throughout the show are definitely shown to be nowhere near the main characters’ levels, what with Trixie, Sunburst, and Rarity all proving that it’s pretty common for unicorns to just know a few (skill-specific) magic spells, and to struggle with larger magic. Plus most unicorns are just shown levitating things, which-while nice-definitely doesn’t scream OP. 😆 I will also say that the claim that pegasi are the most advanced in terms of magic kind of makes it interesting that they became the most technologically advanced and financially capable in the new MLP series. I know some people felt like it didn’t make much sense, especially when paired with the idea that unicorns got relegated to “superstitious forest freaks,” but I guess this assertion about pegasi being so advanced already kind of helps serve as a justification for that. Of course, they _lose_ their magic in the far future (according to the new MLP, which I guess some fans of FiM might not want to view as canon ahaha), but hey, maybe as the three pony types began fracturing before they lost their magic, pegasi rose in power with their weather control before just…skedaddling off into the mountains and becoming technologically advanced with their resources. As for unicorns becoming superstitious and not coming across nearly as royal or elegant or high society as they once were… Well, I suppose any society can fall far enough when given enough time, but also the fact unicorns were the ones who had the most _visible_ manifestation of magic could maybe mean losing that affected them pretty bad. Especially when it’s not like they had other things they could rely on for continued thriving (like the farming of earth ponies). In fact, since unicorn society was so upper crust high society-esque, maybe that made them less willing to let go of traditions and move into a new age, and with magic slowly becoming a legend (or an “old mare’s tale,” to use MLP’s words lol), they could’ve become superstitious that way. As for earth ponies… They just seem to have developed pretty normally, but the whole thing G5 added of them being able to grow plants out of thin air-as opposed to G4 where they had an _affinity_ for farming but were mostly shown as being stronger than average-I wonder about that. It kind of feels like the writers took pity on them and gave them more visible magical powers, but I guess maybe in the show’s canon that affinity for farming just eventually translated into magic plant-growing skills asjakfl. Anyway, I went off on a huge tangent there, but just some musing for fun ahaha.

Maybe we should have seen this coming. After all, our residential RD may be an overachiever by breaking the sound barrier, but unlike with those exceptions in unicorn magic, not nearly as much training is required to pull off something THAT OP. Twilight, Starlight, Celestia, Luna, and Cadence have all done their studies of Starswirl's magic, as Starswirl was the famed wizard that started all of the unicorn legends after Equestria's founding. So in comparison, hypothetically, it would not take nearly as much for other pegasi to possess as much power as Dash.

“ Unicorns aren’t powerful “ * shows a picture of an alicorn on the thumbnail *

I’m glad I’m not the only person who realized this from that line from Boast Busters. Also I never thought of pegasi being the most powerful species.

I think unicorns just feel overpowered cus almost all of the unicorns we know as main characters have magic as their talent. Also I think it feels that way because a lot of the big bads in the show have unicorn magic/horn magic and it’s usually twilight who ends up defeating them via some sort of spell/unicorn magic…and with just the theoretical notion that all unicorns could be as strong as twilight if they tried hard enough also adds to that

you forgot shining armour since he protects canterlot with his sheild spell.

I already figured all this but I am SO GRATEFUL someone has pointed this out. Also 1:49 makes it clear why Starlight never became an Alicorn; that and she was able to _match_ Alicorn Twilight in battle. An Alicorn Starlight would be _way too powerful_ all things considered.

I think walking on clouds is a regular thing a Pegasus can do. Meanwhile they do still need to learn to fly.

It doesn't really help that perception when FiM seemed to mainly focus on the insane power of a select few uber-talented unicorns. Not really complaining though because Twilight & Starlight are awesome! hehe

Unicorns are still overpowered in terms of the number of their possibilities, while pegasi and earth-ponies restricted to their craft. Illusion, transformation and modification, giving life to inanimate objects, mind control, speed boost, levitation, teleportation (anything), cloud walking spell (applies to anyone), laser beams (able to destroy rocks), telekinesis (it's sterile that makes them perfect doctors and in general allows doing very delicate work), immobilization, duplication and cloning objects (Starlight copied mane six's diary), opening portals (also to the limbo), magic shields, crystals and platforms, extracting and swapping cutie marks, invisibility, time traveling and even creating new spells. And there are even more less major spells.

Talking about unicorns, earth ponies and Pegasi. Twilight casually becomes a Alicorn

I've seen this theory floating around where Starlights talent is to "humble the mighty" and bring them down when necessary. We see this when she versus Twilight, When she switches the royal sisters cutie mark, and even when she battles Discord. She stops them from going against her even if she's in the wrong. Her talent isn't just magic but magic to control those higher then her in Status,Wealth,Power or anything else.

Pegasi are also very durable. Rainbow blew up the barn without hurting herself. Pegasi also cleared snow from large mountains and clouds. when earth ponies have to work quite hard in large groups to clear a similar amount of snow. however i think the strongest unicorn will be stronger than the strongest pegasus

They’re not necessarily overpowered from a concurring the world perspective, but having natural telekinetic abilities? In a world with no hands nonetheless?? That’s way op.

I've always thought there's different levels of magic for unicorns,so I think the unicorns that study magic are the only ones able to get to alicorn level of magic,I don't know,it's just something I thought of when all the other unicorns don't use the same levels of magic of others,it's got to be levels and ranks for them to achieve certain magic

Friendly reminder that Starlight Glimmer's talent is also magic, much like Twilight Sparkle's is, and so is Star Swirl's. Now let me talk about others with similar cutie marks and names, even though I haven't watched the show since, like the fifth season, I think, and have only discovered new characters through hearing people rage or gush about them. If you look at their cutie marks, they all have stars on them, and all have names relating to stars and light. Sunburst also has a cutie mark with stars on it, and a name relating to the stars (the sun) and light, and his cutie mark also relates to his talent with magic. Sunset Shimmer also has a cutie mark with the sun on it, a name relating to the stars and light and her talent relates to magic. Celestia's name means 'heavenly', or 'sky', and heaven is definitely associated with the 'light side', or the 'light', and her cutie mark is the sun, with her talent relating to magic but more commonly being interpreted with the sun since she is the one to raise and lower the sun. Moondancer, one of Twilight's friends before she set off to Ponyville, doesn't have a name exactly relating to the stars, but has a cutie mark with a star on it. Three stars, to be exact. She also looks similar to Twilight, with purple streaks in her tail and mane and similar eye colours, and she has glasses extremely similar to Human Twilight. Her talent was also hinted at to be magic, although it's not noticeable all that much since she was, quite literally, skipped over almost immediately in favour of the rest of the Mane Six. Trixie Lulamoon has a cutie mark with a star on it, and although her name isn't directly relating to actual light, 'Trixie' means 'bringer of joy', and joy is often a 'light' in dark times. You could also take 'Trixie' from 'Bellatrix', which is a star in the constellation Orion. She also has a name relating to the moon, much like Moondancer has. Her talent is related to show magic, too. Essentially, if you name a child something to do with the sun, moon and pair it with a word relating to any form of light, or give them a name like Sunlight, you've essentially wrote your child's destiny for them and they're now a prodigy at some form, if not all, magic. (Before you ask about Luna, her name literally just means 'Moon' and she has no stars on her cutie mark. It's just a moon on a black blanket.)

Good points. I personally think of an academic Unicorn studying magic as being akin to a Pegasus who specializes in flight. While one may be a more academic discipline, and the other is more physical, both represent a very small percentage of their race as a whole. Headcanon time, but I personally think Rarity is quite powerful in her own right, and only lacks the abilities that Twilight has because she doesn't need those skills to be a fashion designer. We all know Fluttershy is powerful in her own right too.

while i haven’t seen the entire video yet, i’m glad to see a video on this topic. i think that it’s important to recognize that magic is a skill to improve at like everything else and in a lot of cases it seems to be very limited depending on the unicorn’s talents as well. unicorns like twilight, starlight etc. were just more powerful because they dedicated parts of their lives to just studying magic and spells so of course they’d be magically OP but generally it seems that most unicorns just have the base spells of teleportation and levitation + talent/destiny based spells. edit: also, i would like to mention that i have a changeling OC who i consider weaker than a real unicorn due to her being another species. she can only levitate things and cast a few minor spells with a lot (and i mean a lot) of training. i can also see changelings disguised as pegasi or earth ponies having the same problem. maybe they need to consciously think about it to stand on clouds as pegasi and are just kinda weak and dont have any nature connection as earth ponies.

I mean, Unicorns can control the weather too if there are a lot of them and or have a talent related to it. That's literally how Canterlot handles their Winter Wrap-Up. And when Rarity temporarily had Rainbow Dash's Cutie Mark, she was able to control the weather fairly easily, albeit she was terrible at the job because she wanted it to have patterns. And it's not like Cutie Marks are the reason they could do so, like how Fluttershy can't make people laugh despite having Pinkie Pie's Cutie Mark at the time. And if you count G5, the Unicorns can basically function as the dreaded Windigos by just saying a greeting, and reverse it by also saying a greeting. No studies needed, and the reversal spell wasn't even studied properly but just thought of on the spot. Wasn't even a "new" magic like the Earth Ponies' plant magic but implied to be something they always had if not for everypony not having access to magic in general.

I already know that. Powerful unicorns like Starlight Glimmer are powerful because they are talented and trained! Not all alicorns are like Starlight.

0:42 I kinda felt bad for twi when she first met Star swirl, the guy was a douchebag at first, but then became good. I’ve learnt that it’s sometimes best not meet our idols, they can sometimes be real jerks and egotistical.

Lets not forget, as per journal of two sisters and mentioned in one episode, over straining your unicorn magic can permanently cut you off your access to magic.

Starlight Glimmer: _I'm gonna end this pony's whole career._

i like to put it into categories of passive vs active magic. Like an example would be cloud walking would be passive, and active magic would be controlling the weather or levitating stuff.

Sweetie Belle teleports in the episode where they accidentally grow up for a while. I remember being extremely surprised by that

4:21 In the Rainbow Factory. Awesome job Star Strike. Keep up the good work. Have a wonderful day.

Are you sure you aren’t just trying to say that you are better than unicorns? 😏

Pegasai magic : easy and power full Unicorns: more training makes them more powerful than some alicorns but averge unicorn is is just little more power than earthpony Earthpony:idk

Then you remember ALL unicorns have Telekinesis and every point just made is invalid because Telekinesis is inherently OP.

Just something else Rainbow is NOT an exception when it comes to sleeping on clouds, in fact from what we saw it's the standard as Cloudsdale is the main Pegasus city we see and it's LITERALLY MADE OF CLOUDS they subconsciously walk on clouds and it seems very easy. Fluttershy isn't that great at flying yet she can easily walk on clouds HECK SCOOTS WHO CAN'T FLY ALMOST AT ALL DOES IT EASILY

Yes! Most of the MC unicorns we see are the exception! However, I also think that pegasi like Rainbow Dash and other wonderbolts are also exceptions. I think Sonic Rainbooms are very big magical feats but they clearly take a lot of training and skill like a powerful unicorn spell. Most flying tricks i think take some level of training and practice, i think it's like learning gymnastics or something, as a pegasus has to make sure they don't crash or hurt themselves (i mean, RD broke her wing while practicing tricks that one episode). As for earth ponies, while they obviously have the basic pony magic that everypony has (cutie marks/bright coloring, life force/energy, picking up and holding things with hoofs despite any laws of physics making it impossible to do so) it's really vague as to if earth ponies have unique magic. I guess it would be strength, but i do like the idea of them having plant magic and being able to farm/grow plants with significantly less chance of them dieing off. Maybe there's some plant magic that makes it so that bucking is a thing that works (cause why wouldn't the leaves and branches all come falling down with the apples? I demand realism in the physics my magical talking little ponies! lol) but that could also be how ponies have evolved apple trees over time (making the ripe apples looser on the beaches than the leaves?) Plus it's a little inconsistent as to if apples can be bucked to fall exactly in the baskets or if they just fall and have to be picked up and tossed in, maybe it's a precision thing that takes more effort and AJ has to gadge if she has the energy to do quicker bucking or pace herself? I feel like i got lost talking about apple trees lol, this must be what AJ feels like

i think unicorn and alicorn are powerful than pegasus and earth ponies tbh its true pegasus has able to have magic ability to walk on clouds and doesn't need training but may i remind you that an average pegasus can be overpowered by an alicorn and unicorn cause even though a pegasus is able to make a tornado a unicorn and an alicorn can stop it just by levitating an object bigger enough for the pegasus to hit it also pegasus magic come within there wings and hooves ability to fly and walk on clouds however they don't have the power to control weather if they have then the weather factory wouldn't exist also may i remind you that clouds are just made of gas so a unicorn using a blast spell against it will just destroy it also what twilight said was right you see each unicorn has a small amount of power within there horns it take practice to perform and perfect a spell also an the reason why starlight was able to send the lord of chaos away because starlight was so angry and discord that she summoned all her magic energy on her horn and blasting her target with rage

If earth ponies lose their magic, food crisis/construction crisis. If pegasi lose their power, weather crisis. If unicorns lose their power, mass inconvenience.

You can tell when rarity does a levitation spell on something bigger than a tea pot she gets winded

Given how Twilight can actually float on clouds when stopping "her", and how Unicorns can use their magic to move, manipulate and if they wanted to they could just use their magic to fly and do their wanted desires

are you watching me, i just finished watching this episode and this on my fyp

>Unicorns need to work hard to be good at magic >Pegasi need to work hard to be good fliers >Pegasi need a group of hundreds just to make a tornado and thousands working a facility just to do a bit of weather >A single trained unicorn: "Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power"

I think pegusi are so powerful only because they put so much focus as a collective on training everyone. They had a highly millataristic society prior to uniting, so I wouldn't be surprised if like in similar societies, they put heavy focus on skills that can be used by everyone for everyone to keep things running. Like how USA school system is based in creating workers with the option to branch out later but not before. Meanwhile, earth n unicorn societies seem to take the approach of teaching general stuff until a cutie mark appears and then focusing on what will serve the individual rather than training the collective society. Which is how you end up with ponies like trixie, who, despite proving she can learn more advanced spells like transfiguration when she makes teacups with starlight never really learned until meeting her cuz it wasnt considered her specialization. So all Pegasus are prob trained in weather and flight classes as a mandate, and the most talented at it just happen to do those jobs now because unity allows them to specialize in it. Theres a strong chance in an alternate world despite her talent fluttershy would be forced into the job of weather pony in the factory some where just cuz tending to animals wouldn’t be a viable career path without an united equestria.

great video. but explain why pumpkin cake was able to levitate herself as a baby.

I guess that's why Cadence became an alicorn, and that's probably also why Pegasi have royalty in Zephyr Heights.

The factory is proof of weakness needing so many people and celestis school will be able to decimate every person

aint no way im carrying stuff with my mouth, idc ill study and my cutie mark will be mary sue

Maybe at a base level they're not the most powerful, but I do think they have the most potential out of the three core pony races, though it takes training like you said. And it kind of seems like unicorns dominate the upper class anyway, with the capitol of Equestria, Canterlot being mostly inhabited by unicorns, and having been founded by unicorns. And Celestia's supposedly illustrious school of magic only being attended by unicorns. I kinda wish MLP had done a deeper dive into how that all works.

What did we learn today ? That twilight has dedicated her life to her magical talents and starlight is a freak of nature

The reason why people say unicorns are overpowered is because they are, even if to be you need magic as your special talent. Because the fact remains that unicorns having "magic" as their special talent is way more common than for the other pony tribes. Twilight, Trixie, Sunset, Starlight, Sunburst, Star Swirl and maybe others I forget. Not to mention the other unicorns who are pretty powerful without having magic as their special talent (that we know of), such as Shining Armor, Sombra and Tempest Shadow. Even unicorns like Sweetie Belle and Rarity have displayed feats of magical power that surpass what we see most Earth ponies and pegasi do- What special talents can Earth ponies and pegasi get to allow them to match the power of unicorns who have magic as their special talent? The closest one would be Rainbow Dash, and that's something way more unique to her. Nearly all the non-Alicorn pony antagonists in the series have been unicorns. The only exception being Cozy Glow, who was by far the most individually weak villain in the series who had to plot behind the scenes to be a threat. And she only became a direct threat on her own once she attained Alicorn magic, she was already a pegasus and she showed nothing Earth pony-like, so she essentially just became an unicorn with great magical power. Can you imagine an Earth pony villain that tried to threaten the main characters directly on their lonesome? It would be a laughing stock. Even absurdly strong Earth ponies like Maud Pie are powerless before a magically powerful unicorn like Sombra. Even a powerful unicorn with a broken horn presents more of a threat than that.

To simplify, Pegasi take the median, but Unicorns take the mean since Unicorns have such powerful outliers.

I like the logic in the fic "I'll always be here for you" (and the sequel) by the abyss, where a unicorn even twilight and celestial have limits, and if they go past those limits they could potentially lose their magic all together

I never liked that Starlight was shown to have Alicorn-level magical feats. She switched the Cutie Marks of Celestia and Luna BY accident. Her magical prowess is never explained. Compared to her, Sunburst is a joke. Twilight's Special Talent IS Magic, she is the embodiment of the Element of Magic, AND she's an Alicorn trained by Celestia herself. Starlight should not be anywhere close to Twilight in power, but she is because the plot needed her to be.

Just some Cloudsdale pro-pega-nda

I am 15 and just start watching mlp and it make me feel old and it make me feel like revisiting my childhood

0:09 Chris McLean is that you? 👀👀

We have an episode in wich Starlight teaches Trixie spells, things like transfiguration and teleportation, that we as viewers are used to because our mc, Twilight, does all that with ease, but for Trixie it was hard and impressive

Don't need to imagine much, in Fallout Equestria, the grand crossover fic, Pegasi closed up the whole sky all over equestria.

I would argue that the balance to Pegasi is that they have to train to control their flight.

Well, in Griffon the Brushoff it mentions Junior Flght Camp. This implies the need for training as does the episode where Dash goes to the Wonderbolt Academy. For further proof, I'd point to Fluttershy. She is nearly killed falling off a cloud & even as an adult "Fluttershy can hardly fly".

4:28 I just got a flashback to a certain piece of media in the MLP Iceberg.

Love to see MLP vids still coming out.

I like to think that if unicorns didnt have their magic and pegasis lost the ability to fly, the earth ponies would stomp them in a matter of minutes. Pinkie pie would just turn them into cupcakes.

The reason Twilight Sparkle is actually strong, is because in a certain episode that I can’t remember, twilight sparkle gets her cutie mark by using magic to crack spike’s egg, giving herself her cutie mark when successfully cracking the egg and causing lightning, she had a magic cutie mark from the start until she got called the princess of friendship.

I think all ponies have about the same level of magic, but it gets expressed in different ways. Unicorns are the most obvious, but most of them can't do much more than levitate things, and maybe have one special skill, like Rarity finding gems. Their magic is what I call active magic, because it requires thought, and generally stops working when they stop thinking about it. Earth ponies are the opposite of unicorns, in that their magic is mostly passive. It just happens, and can be expressed in things like growing plants, or having great strength, or whatever it is Pinkie Pie does. I think they have just as much magic as unicorns, it's just a lot harder to see it if you don't know what to look for. Pegasi have a mix of active and passive magic. Their passive magic includes things like flying and walking on clouds, while their active magic does things like control the weather. They're typically born with the ability to cloudwalk, which is fortunate for the foals so they don't fall through the floor the moment they're born, but everything else, including usually flying, has to be learned and practiced.

ur videos give the same energy as Austin from the science department from film/game theory. i love it

Bro is glazing pegasi so hard

When you can find a group of pegasi that can raise the sun we can talk But given that all it takes is a few strong unicorns to raise the sun I don't see how pegasi can compete with this Literally having the ability to end the world is insane Not to mention all a unicorn has to do to immobilize the other races is to just cast a levitation spell that constricts their movements and book they're done

In my opinion unicorns are like the wizards of mlp they start out weak but there power cap is insane.

When I was a child I always thought that unicorns when they faught with the other ponies before equestria they got the far end of the stick They depend on the strength of both terrestrial and pegasus. All they do is raise the sun and moon all of them together and then they get no magic afterwards. They work themselves to exhaustion and all that to not even have the smallest bits of strength.

2:00 Problem with this point is twilight and starlight also did the studying and muscle work. they too had to go from a normal unicorn level. which goes into 2:51, this issue isnt solved by "well some unicorns are just exceptions" because the issue is - judging by the study twilight and glimglam had to do - that any unicorn can theoretically do anything they did if they put the work in. another issue is how all this study is off screen, so it inevitably feels OP to the viewers even if it may not actually be.

Wasn't there something about pegasi being good soldiers because of thier strength?

The most powerful magic in Equestria is the one Zecora used to fill that cup of hers

Then gen 5 came and made all unicorns overpowered and made spells basically not exist, made earth pony magic weird and supposedly destroyed the pony economy, and seemingly took away most pegasus magic. I haven't seen a pegasus so much as stand on a cloud yet.

Cloudsdale as a weapon? Reminds me of the Enclave in "Fallout: Equestria." Basically, the natural abilities of pegasi made it easier for them to effectively isolate themselves from the apocalypse, while maintaining their war technology. Their main flaws are that they cannot create new war technology without unicorns and earth ponies, and that they have very little practical combat experience. They also picked a bad time to take action against the rest of Equestria, because the ponies on the surface were finally organized enough to put forth a solid resistance.

You mention the Pegasi would be able to conquer all of Equestria if they ever wanted to... I'll direct you to these two proofs : Exibit A : Heart Warming, before the tribes were united, would you care to tell me which one was kited in armor and clearly militaristic ? Exibit B : Make your mark, The Earth ponies have a sheriff, the unicorn (... ?), the pegasi have a full standing royal guard. Yeah, me thinks the pegasi might have a natural tendency to lean towards the more... Proactive methods...

What about earth ponies though? Even though they didn’t have magic in g4, they have pretty strong magic in g5

People were so sleep on Earth ponies but they're strength is far more intimidating than any magic or flying to me. Although I was fascinated with only unicorns back then, I've grown to love all of the types.

Elements of harmony who? Starlight just did celestia,Luna and the Main 6 job for them all alone XD

Mordecai: my Girl's not weak!

If talking about all creatures, then the most overpowered is the changeling IMHO

I don't even think Twilight is a Mary Sue, she hasn't truly won a battle on her own. Even as an Alicorn, she isn't a match for a normal Chrysalis, Chrysalis with Grogar's bell would be a total mismatch, evident of Starlight getting one shotted in the series finale. Power scaling in MLP funny enough is consistent.

A Random thing i wanted to say: i used to think that unicorns are overpowered, but now i realize that they aren't too powerful

It reminds me: In a 3D MMO game with Ponyville simulation, everyone wanted to be a Pegasus, because they could fly and the increased mobility was great.

Also may I add When tirek takes Pelasi magic they can still fly, so they don’t need magic to fly. But unicorns if there magic is gone, they can’t do anything with there horn or whatevr

Honestly I have a theory about MLP magic. We all know that all pony races have magic within. What if earthponies were able to focus on the magic inside their bodies and kinda grow a horn? I know this sounds just stupid and impossible but since it's magic it could technically work. There surely are endless possibilities

Note about the pegasi: yes I'm of the belief that cloud walking is inherent but I'm heavily convinced that flying is not. I think of flying more as swimming. Learning to the point of being able to float/foggy paddle is very easy, but still needs to be learned (ie. Flight school) in that analogy it makes sense that mst pegasi have basic walking speeds of flight with very little high speed endurance. Its also interesting to note that scootalo dispite not having enough magic (or wing size, its debated) to fly she's still abke to walk on clouds. Idk but I feel you talked up the pegisi abilities a bit much (No harm nor shame meant :p)

so basically, unicorns have a high power cealing, but also a very high skill floor

I CANT HELP IT all I think about when I hear your voice is Chris from Total Drama