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My Little Pony Speed Revision and Discussion

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Recently, I made a calc that got accepted for FTL mid to high tier unicorns. The question is: Who do we scale this to? Now clearly, all of the tier 4s scale to this. These are Unicorns of unknown ability aside from speed, and they definitely aren't top tier Unicorns.. I'm assuming we can scale this to characters like RD, Unicorn Twilight, or Sunset Shimmer and other mid tiers since Antvasima didn't object when I brought up their names.

In short, this thread is going to discuss whether or not the mid/high tier characters scale and if not, give them an entirely new speed rating. If they do not scale, then I have a calculation that puts anyone on par with RD at MHS+.

I'm also going to address a concern brought up: Has anyone reacted to magic beams without aim dodging? Yes. Starlight Glimmer and Twilight have moved out of the way of their attacks after they have been fired multiple times. Starlight even has a couple instances where she not only dodges after the projectile was fired, but even waited until it was close to her before side stepping. There are also instances in their fight where either Starlight or Twilight put up shields after the other fired their magic. Even when they later sparred with each other there was only one instance that could be considered aim dodging, and even then it's questionable. The other three instances involved putting up a magic shield after the projectile was fired (one of them was a magic explosion).

Princess Celestia also has a few instances of dodging Nightmare Moon's lasers after they were fired. Most of these occured at the beginning of the fight.

In short: Unicorns of comparable power and speed are perfectly able to percieve, shield, and dodge each others attacks without the need for aim dodging.
 
This seems fine to me, but you should preferably ask for further staff input.
 
I obviously agree this should scale to unicorns and mid tiers combat/reactions speed.

If this scales to Rainbow Dash is debatable. Since she's generally portrayed as being physically faster then alicorn Twi as seen with her constantly winning in races so I think it's probably fair to say her reactions are at least comparable

There's also an instance where she's shown comparable to a casual Discord in speed https://youtu.be/80BkNiAgFS8
 
While I agree with the speed aspect and the prospect of who scales to it ... Something bothered me about the calc:

What would be the AP of the moon feat ? I assumed it'd be somewhere in the tier 6 range, but I've been stumped on it since the very beginning.
 
The 2nd Existential Seed said:
While I agree with the speed aspect and the prospect of who scales to it ... Something bothered me about the calc:
What would be the AP of the moon feat ? I assumed it'd be somewhere in the tier 6 range, but I've been stumped on it since the very beginning.
I haven't the first clue how to do luminocity calcs. Maybe someone could calc making purple craters in the shape of a pony? Idk.
 
I think it could scale to their combat speed at the very least. As well as the flight speed of Tier 4.
 
DarkDragonMedeus said:
I think it could scale to their combat speed at the very least. As well as the flight speed of Tier 4.
And as for the mid tiers like Unicorns Twilight? Do we scale them or only the tier 4s?
 
I think that all of them should probably scale.
 
Well, since Ant appears to be fine with scaling the rest of the Relativistic rankings to FTL, I've updated the rest of them, and updated the MLP page with the new speed rating.
 
That seems fine, yes. Should we close this thread?
 
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