Yarma wrote:
Cadence only dissolves lovers spats so I won't count her until I know more about her(another example of using love magic to power up something.), but celestia and luna have been around for at least 1000 years so it makes sense that a pony in her 20's wouldn't be able to compare to them in magical ability. But there is nothing stopping her from getting there.
Regardless if she is an outlier or not(we haven't seen any other unicorns from her magic school.) the fact exists that a unicorn born under regular circumstances to regular unicorn parents is able to manipulate space and time. It is kind of implied that ponies can do this who are not twilight(she was able to read about some of these things in a library.) which would also require them to be a unicorn. Based on these observations I think I can safely say that unicorns are godlike in comparison to the other two races of pony.
I'm just going to go ahead and say (Without my bias that yes, Twilight is amazing) unicorns are indeed the most powerful race. They can manipulate anything they want to match the other ponies. It's completely unequal in terms of ability in the show, but they never play it up nor will they ever in the future.
I also find it funny that any time a magical problem is going to present itself, Twilight could just use her debuff failsafe spell, but she won't because the show creators know it's overpowered.
Perpetual Lurker wrote:
Considering that a pegasus can create a shockwave powerful enough to demolish buildings, and an earth pony can do heavy manual labor for days on end before finally giving out and pull objects weighing many tons quite easily, I really don't see the disparity in raw potential power as being that great.
I disagree. Any unicorn can simply use the most basic spell, telepathy, to stop any other races ability in its tracks. We don't even know the extent of all the magical abilities either, but we are hinted that there is a plethora of time manipulation spells, which generally always lead to broken overpowered situations. It doesn't matter anyways. I could see those feats being accomplished with magic.
When it comes to the brokenness of magic, the show treats it in an infantile manner. We know Twilight can lift an Ursa, water tower, and such. She could have also pulled the diamond dogs out of those holes, but she didn't, because that would ruin the suspense and story. Same with Chrysalis: Lift her into space never to be seen again.