Applejack is Best Pony

So does Dashie. RebuttalCaring My opponent believes that Rainbow Dash got her loyalty from Applejack's honesty. A quick glance at "Friendship is Magic Part 2" reveals that in fact, Dashy demonstrated loyalty to her friends (saving them from tumbling off a cliff) before Applejack even had an oppertunity to show off her honesty. Moreover, this does not negate the fact that a loyal friend will be generally honest, but loyalty also means generally being there for your friends when they need you, something that is always true of Rainbow - she never lets her friends down and is always happy to care for others, even above herself. It is true that Rainbow does seek a lot of attention in Mysterious Mare-Do-Well, but a lack of humility does not imply a lack of concern. Not being humble is actually really hard when you're as awesome as Rainbow Dash. But while Rainbow Dash does seek the attention of others, she also cares for them at the same time. An uncaring pony would not put themselves in great peril to save anypony's life. On Wonderbolt Academy, pro correctly points out RD started the twister that led to Applejack needing saving, which she did because she was loyal to her ideal of being a Wonderbolt, did not know Lightning Dust would be unable to control the twister, and had no idea that her friends were just beneath the cloud level. Still, she always showed concern for the other ponies at the academy, and to her friends. Causing a twister was not, however, inherently unfair - which is why my opponent later contradicts himself by asserting that Rainbow was "sticking to a fairness moral". On Lesson Zero, my opponent claims RD is unemployed. Quite the contrary - she's a weather pony. This has been shown in numerous episodes. In Hurricane Fluttershy it is even implied that she's the head of all the weather ponies. Still she took time out of her busy cloud-busting schedule to help Applejack. On Cutie Mark Chronicles - even if Dashy didn't help Applejack at all, that's still four destinies more than Applejack uncovered. However, it is clear in the episode that while Applejack may know her destiny is not in Manehatten, she didn't think of Ponyville until Dash pointed it out. She might have ended up like Cranky Doodle Donkey instead, wandering the world trying to find where she really wanted to be. While Applejack did once save Spike's life, she also almost got him and her both killed at the hands of terrifying timberwolves at the end of the episode, by lying to Spike. Not very caring. My opponent ignores the fact that Dashy helps Applejack with her chores at the end of "Applebuck Season". Rainbow's yelling allowed all the ponies to make for cover in time and would have saved the lives of many ponies had Applejack not diverted the herd's stampede. She did what she could to care for everypony. In "The Last Roundup", as well as hanging a banner, she also helped minimise further damage by telling Derpy to be careful. In the end she contributed more than Applejack, who contributed nothing, lied to her family, abandoned Ponyville without telling them why, and then proceeded to run away from her friends, all because of her personal problems. MoralsWhether Applejack was first or not is an academic question. It certainly wasn't Rainbow. However, like I explained, this is because Rainbow isn't afraid to agree she still has a lot to learn, and would rather spend her screen time learning it. My opponent ignored this. It's worth noting that despite Applejack having been mean to poor Dashy all episode, RD still helped her friend out in the end. RD learnt about humility in "Mysterious Mare-Do-Well". In "Wonderbolts Academy" her outrage was not a lack of humility, it was that she felt she was being treated unfairly. Having just smashed every academy record, she probably wanted the oppertunity to help other ponies develop and to show some of her other skills to the Wonderbolts. When this is rejected, however, she humbly accepts their decision to make her wing pony. Applejack's stubborness is never selfless - in "Applebuck Season" it's because she wants to buck the apples all by herSELF, without any regard for the friends whom she agreed to help. In "The Last Roundup", it is because she wants to save her own face, rather than being honest with the town. Applejack being just as easy to corrupt as RD would point to them being at the same level of morals, not Applejack being superior. However, the order of Discord's corruptions was important. RD had to be last so that the ponies could not escape the maze. Symbolically, her morals were so great that "abandoning" them caused the maze itself - the whole world around the ponies - to collapse. And let's not forget that she didn't really abandon her morals at all, unlike Applejack - she was just conflicted in her loyalties, seeking to save Cloudsdale (where everything's awesome). Strength In feats of strength, we have seen Rainbow Dash emerge victorious almost as often. Dash mostly suffered because Iron Pony competitions apparently include earth-based agility tricks like throwing lassos. In the pic I presented last round you can see Dash has much stronger forehooves. While Applejack has stronger hind hooves, this is because she works them out all the time, while RD almost never even walks. If Applejack had wings but all she ever did was buck apples, she would still be exactly the same except that she could also fly - and since Rainbow works out her wings more than anypony else, Applejack would definitely lose in any flying contest. Given Applejack, who trains every day, can only tie with RD in a non-cheating race, and that RD never trains at all, I think it's clear who's the naturally stronger pony. My caseDreams Applejack is the same pony that would see her little sister have like 40 sets of clothing while her grandmother walks around with a saggy old hip. Not to mention the fact that the only product she's ever been shown to sell very successfully is apple cider, and she doesn't even have the business sense to make enough of it, so I'm surprised she's even able to cover the rates on Sweet Apple Acres. If she had the mind of Rainbow Dash, whose Wonderbolt ambitions will apparently make her "showered with diamonds", she'd probably be dreaming of diversifying into the pear market and buying up all the other farmland around Ponyville too. Dreaming of joining the wonderbolts is not to abandon maturity and reality. Rainbow does it in a very mature and realistic way. Coolness This screencap was from an episode BEFORE Gangnam style. Irrespective of whether she is WORTHY of being called "cool", Mare-Do-Well established that she IS cool, because coolness is subjectively determined by one's peers. There are no fan-clubs for Applejack, and there are fan-clubs for Dashy. Simple. "Do you really think she fights off dragons every day? " Yes. One dragon comes around every morning so Rainbow can do her daily fighting. It's part of her morning routine. Even kicking a sleeping dragon in the face takes serious guts. That's why none of the other ponies - Applejack included - dared to do it. The action is cool because it demonstrate's RD's courage to do what is right (if you're uncool or have forgotten what coolness is, see . http://www.urbandictionary.com...).Just because all the pegasi can do something doesn't mean it's not cool. Lots of humans use Twitter but Twitter is still cool. Taking out the trash is an honor in Ponyville, which is why Spike is so happy he can take out Rarity's trash in "Party of One". However, RD is clearly not expecting Scoots to take her remark literally, and was instead attempting to teach her a valuable lesson about speaking in absolutes (Scootaloo had just said "I'll do anything! "). Even so, it's not like Applebloom never has to do chores like Scootaloo has to. Applejack made the whole Apple family build her a new house after she destroyed it. ConclusionIris Incitus est optimus caballio