Miles Edgeworth was actually a better lawyer than Phoenix Wright.

T'would have been ironic if you challenged me to this if you still had your Phoenix Wright avatar, L-M. Miles Edgeworth was in fact not a better lawyer than Phoenix Wright. First I'll address the so-called advantages of Miles Edgeworth, which supposedly make him better than Phoenix Wright. First, my opponent brings up experience. It's true that experience is often used to denote skill; however, this is a faulty assumption. It may be more likely that a person with experience is more skilled, but this is not necessarily the case. Take Winston Payne for example. He had _way_ more experience than Phoenix, but it's quite clear that he was quite inferior. Thus, I will argue that Phoenix was a better lawyer than Miles _in spite of_ his lesser experience. Next up is intelligence. My opponent supposes that Miles Edgeworth is smarter than Phoenix Wright. To support this, my opponent makes two statements. The first is that Miles is capable of making his opponent look like an idiot in court. He does this not by superior intellect, but by taking advantage of the fact that defense attorneys usually have less information at their disposal than prosecutors. This is because prosecutors are in on the police investigations, but defense attorneys are not (at least in the game, not sure about IRL). While Phoenix has to find out all the information himself, Edgeworth has a team of specialized detectives doing the work for him. Also, Phoenix is sometimes not given access to crime scenes and such. The second support for this is that Miles had several opportunities to get his guilty verdict in the last case of Justice For All, but instead waited until both sides were certain that the defendant was guilty. However, I fail to see how this is intelligence. However, it may show another positive lawyerly attribute: seeking the truth. I will speak of this later. The last thing my opponent brings up to show that Edgeworth is superior to Wright is his skill. My opponent brings up that Edgeworth was able to successfully act as a defense attorney in Trials And Tribulations. He was able to defeat von Karma the younger, and without breaking out in abnormal amounts of sweat. I hold that this shows nothing: Phoenix, too, had been able to defeat von Karma. While it may be true that Phoenix got a lot more nervous, it is because Phoenix deeply cares if his client gets a guilty verdict. Also, Edgeworth is better at keeping his nervousness inside, which I hold is neither a positive nor negative quality for a lawyer. Now, even though I need not prove that Wright is actually better than Edgeworth, I will attempt to do just that. First, let us consider the track record of the two lawyers: Phoenix Wright has never gotten a judge to give the wrong verdict. Edgeworth, on the other hand, has done so many a time. This is because for some time, Edgeworth was uninterested in the truth. He was simply interested in getting guilty verdicts. Edgeworth himself has even said that he does not seek to find the truth of a case, he simply seeks to get a guilty verdict, lest a criminal be allowed to remain free. However, our legal system has opposite values: we would rather let ten guilty men go free than to wrongly imprison one man. It is far more unjust to get a guilty verdict for an innocent man than it is to get a not guilty verdict for a guilty man. However, Phoenix Wright did neither of these; he has always fought for great justice. Edgeworth only sought to send the defendants on the way to destruction. Courtroom ethics are a big part of being a lawyer, and while Edgeworth may have cleaned up his act later on, this does not change the facts of the past. And with that, it's back to ye, L-M.