Ranking the CANONICALLY smartest Smash Bros characters
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- oh boy another tier list video based on canon abilities, this can only go well!!
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Music used:
Delfino Plaza (remix) - Smash Ultimate
Spirited Girl (Labrys) - Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Soundtrack
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Xenoblade Chronicles Medley - Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Guile Stage- Super Smash Bros
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Ark - Persona 5
Calamity Ganon Phase 2 - The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
The Grand Finale - Smash Bros Ultimate
Outro: Beneath the Mask - Persona 5
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and that's the canon smart character tier list in smash! ranking based on intelligence didn't seem to have been done before, and so this was a big task to take up
LOTS of smart fellas in smash, so coming up with a list to say who is smartest overall was tough. there's bound to be some characters people disagree with, but overall i think i did a fairly good job representing these fellas. bowser being the smartest i refuse to settle on though, mans is actually BONKERS with all that he's done LOL
sephiroth, i'll be honest, i wasn't quite sure about due to wanting to avoid final fantasy 7 spoilers, but from everyone i consulted it seems like he is indeed really smart
Characters like Rosalina and Palutena who are smart but also goddesses basically got passes for being divine, so that's why they're up there
the classic fellas mario link and sonic are mostly in the same tier, but i bumped up mario a bit due to him being the one that's actually solved mysteries and dealt with tech as opposed to link who uses weapons for the most part and sonic who is just fast
ROB being in the bottom tier i also stand by!!
#tierlist #smashbrosultimate #tcnick3 - Hry
i'm aware this list is deeply flawed LMAOOO we all have our cringe moments except mine are permanently on the internet forever
sorry in advance if you watching this 🥴
what do you have against megaman? Why is he never in these 😭😭
You should try doing an “update” tier list on this lol
He came back to his own list 562 days later 😭😭😭
This list made me lose enough brain cells to put me in ROB tier
I love how you place Meta-Knight low even tho he built a Space Station XD Steve has some similar feets but it matters which version of Steve youre talking about and the Mods and such. But Meta-knight is famous for hand building his Space Ship by himself.
I like how Snake, a guy who knows 6 languages and has an iq HIGHER THAN EINSTEIN is in the same tier as a 7 year old dinosaur-turtle 😂
Lmao
@@adriangorski5446 bowser jr
Bowser Jr knows how to pilot an entire ship, command an army, and fly a Koopacart. Plus his father is a military genius so
@@marcosvazquez5912 I think he’s in the right tier lol, just thought it was funny cuz he’s like 7 and a turtle 😂
@@marcosvazquez5912 my dad is a doctor, but that doesnt make me smart...
Nick: They're ranked by leadership, strategy, and ingenuity
Metaknight: * Builds a flying ship, is a battle genius, and leads an army *
Pac-Man: * Just has sex and has a son *
Nick: Yup, Pac-Man is clearly more intelligent than Metaknight.
LMFAOO okay idk why this one was so funny
you got a point fam, i wont deny it
Ok, glad I’m not the only one who heard meta knight built the halberd, and got placed in can probably read, and thought something didn’t add up
@@TCNick3DISCLAIMER: I don’t play inkling
(I play splatoon)
You put inkling in the same tier as all the children, even tho they ENTIRELY REBUILT SOCIETY
Good video tho
@@funwithcoding2818 same
Also Dedede build various machines just in order to have a competitive match with Kirby yet he got in the dumb animal tier
Metaknight: literally makes a flying ship and commands his own crew
Nick: Yeah he can probably read at most
kirby: can handle and operate a mech
Nicc: but he's just a little baby
King Dedede: Has ordered monsters from NME, told several people to keep star rod pieces safe, and operates an entire castle.
Nick: Yeah but his minions do it so it doesn't count.
Bowser jr: a baby, cant probably read qnd has a lot of minions
Nick: he can cure cancer
@@dabasil unless Bowser is a horrible teacher/father to Jr.
I don't really think so.
But then again...Bowser *did* get all the koopalings killed in Mario world.
Ye and also the anime of kirby is cannon with the games, meta knight should be way higher, like if you watch few episodes were you see him you can tell.
TCNick3: "Educations does not equal intelligence"
Also TCNick3: "Link, the young adult known for coming up with solutions for puzzles while travelling the world by himself and using telepathy can barely read or write"
He’s read in his games too
Bro should be in common sense
@@onlychrisallthetime Also, the Japanese version of BotW formats the quest log as if Link wrote it, suggesting that Link also writes
@@seabassjames8222 There’s literally a quest where the whole point is “read these please”
This list is all sorts of wrong. He place Shulk a researcher, inventor craftsman and mechanic in the critical thinkers tier. And placed Simon and Richter in the barely can read tier because they are from the past. Who ever made this list is badly informed.
Isabelle canonically has 17 different engineering degrees. She should be higher
Yeah she deserves to be Big Brain at least
Yup, Big or giga brain
@@Treydemark Animal crossing lore drop
Dude I thought you were meming at first but I looked it up and wow 😂
It should be noted that she studied for those degrees _because she was bored._ She's so smart, she considers pursuing a university-level education a leisurely activity.
“Infants are very dumb.”
Only hot takes on this channel.
Okay, so for the Links.
Young Link- yeah fair, he was raised by a tree. HOWEVER.
BOTW Link- was canonically not only the son of the knight captain but was also the best knight at a young age. That implies FORMAL knight training and high intelligence, at least as far as is important to rise through knightly ranks.
Toon Link- grew up on an island, yes, but he had one teacher who had taught him combat and another who taught him... well like actually world knowledge and considered Link very smart.
And for all of them, they all solve tons of dungeon puzzles and are able to pick up and master even the most obscure Magics and items and master them instantly. That’s pretty smart.
yes this is exactly what I was going to comment thank you
Thank you
i feel bad for young link being the dumb guy
Well young link in smash is one from mm since he uses bows and fire arrows so he knows alot about hyrule since shadow temple and lots of stuff
Btw Link is as smart as the player
While DK may be an animal, he is capable of critical thinking. In subspace emisary he decided to sacrifice himself for Diddy and Fox to survive. DK deserves more man
So do Yoshi and Diddy
also monke
DK also can Play tennis and other sports
@@guidokawajiri6383They're at least as smart as humans
Exactly! I believe that Donkey Kong is smarter than people give him credit for
Palutena: *Loses a fight to vegetables*
Nick: “Easy giga brain tier”
Who could beat eggplant wizard though?
@@m1sterch3f7 great potential for a "yo mama" joke
agreed
500 likes pls
@@villagerminecraft464 That's what Joe Mama said
Bowser is ranked smartest among the entire cast.
Meanwhile: He fights on a bridge underneath lava behind an easy to trigger switch and leaps super high giving Mario enough time run behind him, activate the switch, destroy the bridge and have him die in the lava like an idiot.
😂😂😂😂
Has big brains but not common sense.
But he doesn't die in lava. He's obviously immune to it if he keeps coming back
@@saitamacraft5322 He does die in lava in New Super Mario Bros.
@@kyurei4478 Whaa- :O
I would say Dedede is the same tier as K.Rool. While he appears dumb and short-tempered, he does have a fair amount of intellectual feats. His engineering skills are high where he was able to make a Kirby cloning machine, a mech, and add a jet engine with precision bearings into his mallet. Not to mention he was able to strategize a way to take *all* of dreamland’s food supply in one night.
Exactly
agreed
I feel that Peach allowing herself to get kidnapped dozens of times by the same guy, while never taking any sort of precautions in case it happens again, really takes away from her intelligence
That same guy is the smartest person in the entire list
@@AndrewLamas19 he can turn into a giant as well and pretty much do anything with all the power ups he has
@@krxy12 yeah which is no surprise that bowser of all people keeps on stealing peach from her kingdom
Plottwist: Peach wants to get captured and rescued
@@elijahflorian215 peach bowser and mario are in a capture relationship trouple
Nick: “I won’t rate them based on how good they can do on tests”
Also Nick: Rates them based on how formal their education is and how well the can read/write
Formal education doesn’t equal test IMO. Just because you did bad on a test doesn’t mean you are dumb, you’re just not good at test and studying. What he was getting at is intelligence isn’t something that can be boiled down to a fraction of right and wrong answers. This is rather ironic as the video is about rating intelligence through tiers, but that’s whatever
When he said skilled trades require no education. I realized he didn't know what he was taking about
@@77dead I realized that long ago when he wrongly thought having the ability to see the future means that you're smart.
Like bro if you can see the future, that just means you have more information, not that you're smart.
My thoughts exactly
@@supreme_king_obama1158 There is a difference between intelligence and knowlege. You can know a lot af things and be veeeeeeery dumb, and be one of the best strateges in the world while having mostly no education. Intelligence is the ability to use your knowlege and physical abilities to your advantage.
School mostly gives us knowlege. They don't really teach you how to think by yourself.
Luigi should be leagues higher than Mario, considering the fact he starred in the game mario goes missing. A game where he goes on solving puzzles involving geography to save his brother.
Even Luigi being My fav... Lets just pretend Mario is missing isn't a thing
^
Iirc, a Mario Party manual says Luigi is smarter than Mario
But the smart could be said for Mario in Mario's Time Machine and Mario teaches Typing. Mario is a fucking scholar.
Mario has a medical degree tho
Excuse me, Yoshi can drive a car, and can definitely read. He also comprehends the rules of Tennis, Golf, Volleyball, dodgeball, Basketball, and Soccer. Give the Dino boy more credit. Donkey and Diddy can also read and write canonically
Also he raised a kid
@@kingcar4728 and the kid is the most loved character of video games history (mario)
And I'm pretty sure Yoshi is the only one (or at least one of the few) of all the Yoshis that can read and speak two languages (yoshi and english)
He commits tax fraud that’s why he’s low *duh*
Not smart enough to pay tax
Setting aside Shulk being a professional researcher and the Aegis's who "supercomputer" thing. Rosalina is actually really impressive in the smarts department when looking at her backstory. She managed to repair an alien spaceship in her early teens almost singlehandedly. Later she supervised the construction of an entire spaceship. No wonder Mario Kart claims she has "a passion for Motorcycles;" woman's a freaking engineer when off work from watching the entire cosmos.
13:55 as someone who has played Fates A LOT... yes, Corrin is an idiot, and should be on ROB's tier.
The legend himself
bruh lmaoo i didn't know anything about fates so corrin was originally a bit higher in that tier but when i asked everyone said they were dumb as hell so i had to re-edit that portion to include that lmaoo
Seems true
I mean Corrin is smart in therm of reflections and poetry but he is also to naive and empty i would say he lacks of personality
@@redead8513 No wonder he says "I win!" in one of his victory screens
When pit can’t read but he’s put in the “can probably read and write” tier.
“Probably”
@@sevenyo-yos513 it’s not probably if he straight up can’t, unless that tier means they have the potential to read and write
@@Random1567 that’s what I meant
Meta knight was reading at the beginning of return to dream land and was put in the same tier
He just needs to learn the particular skills. He can do it, he just doesn't know how yet!
For Sephiroth you could’ve mentioned he read an entire library filled to the brim with books about mathematics and science.
In the span of 3 days
Yeah but he came to an INCREDIBLY stupid conclusion from it and based his entire mentality on that conclusion from that point on
@@BJGvideos tbh I'd go crazy too if I found out my entire life was a lie
Link is able to solve complex puzzles, he deserves to be higher. Pit can't read, he should be lower. Isabelle has a lot of engineering degrees, so she should be way higher. Ness became the essence of the universe and basically gained the knowledge of everything, canonically the smartest and deserves his own tier
i dont think the puzzles link solves are that complex, since the average player solves them too, implying link has pretty average intelect (about solving puzzles)
Bowser essentially creates the universe(s) he’s one step above ness in my opinion
@@fantastic_jarod2391 Nothing can beat Omniscience
@@jessielsanchez5079 we can agree to disagree
The only things lower than can probably read is dumb animal and rob, and the thought of putting pit in dumb animal is hilarious to me
12:30 You did Isabelle dirty.. In Happy Home Designer, she complains about mayors destroying the town or disappearing, making her overwhelmed and stressed with all the work. She's clumsy and a little bit of an airhead but very intelligent. Her twin brother, Digby, remarks that she has engineering degrees from nineteen different universities.
19????
I feel like Jr should be low “giga brain”/S tier, he’s known in his lore for being a canonical super genius. Like alongside being listed as breathing fire his superpower is “Galaxy brain”, he figured out how to steal from E.Gad and completely rig a police force to stop his enemy in his tracks from the shadow *as like a 6 YO*
I don’t think he’s to book smart but after a while learned some things
I don't think he "stole" from E gad, he said that E gad just GAVE it to him.
Doesn’t he build giant machines. I’m pretty sure he’s an infant smarter than any engineer on this planet
But most importantly
He figured out Peach isn't his mama on his own
Yeah, and so is ness.
Luigi knows a lot about geography thanks to ‘Mario is Missing’. Plus he expresses more emotions than his brother, so he’s also more emotionally intelligent. Mario was also in the military delivering bombs in ‘Game and Watch; Mario’s Bombs Away’, he’s a boxing referee in Punch Out NES, he and Luigi mastered and are well-rounded in any sport you can name. Mario has been shown he can read, as he reads a letter from Bowser in Hotel Mario. Mario can fly a small jet as seen at the end of Super Mario Land. Luigi reads Mario a letter in Super Paper Mario. There’s probably a few things I missed but at the very least Mario and Luigi can both read.
Yeah as shown by the first goddanm seconds of Mario 64
In fact its the same for yoshi as he can atleast read signs in Mario 64 DS.
All mario caracters know how to race too.
Steve: Has an extreme understanding of magic and traveling between different dimensions.
TCNick: you go next to bear and bird
I could go longer
@@owenporter38 do go on
@@AlexAlexAlexAlexAlexAlex Steve found out by himself about potion brewing, interdimentional traveling, succeeded on leaving the end, and you could say that he understands phycology by the way he lowers the prices with the villagers
This is why i dont agree with this list
and the fact he is an expert blacksmith and always creates the exact same weapon perfectly with no issues or blemishes every single time, infused gold with a space rock and made armor,tools and weapons out of it. found a way to literally create more space with an object bigger on the inside literally bending space to his will with shulker boxes and ender chests. hes also mastered teleportation (ender chests).builds contraptions to do things like bomb out an entire area or automate a crop farm completely and thats only the start of it.... hes at least waaaaaaaaay smarter than bowser
I'm glad people recognise how intelligent Olimar is.
He's one of the most fleshed out Nintendo characters, but is often overlooked.
You know mega man was overlooked as well
@@zpellet6326 Mega Man isn't particularly smart
Olimar should have been Giga Brain.
The guy wrote the whole ass Piklopedia, He's a Biologist who can work with Alien species.
@@dezouza8996 He's smart, but his intelligence isn't exactly supernatural.
@@lookatmynose9788 he managed to rebuild a spaceship using alien plant creatures.
In Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite, Ryu taught Hulk how to control his anger. This implies that Ryu is also a skilled teacher, and so should be in a higher tier.
That's more so related to martial arts over booksmarts. The dude is basically a hobo.
ryu taught hulk how to controll his temper fairly well your right, maybe not as much as professor hulk in avengers end game but yes that was a pretty big part of marvel vs capcom infinite to me. but then ryu couldnt take his own teachings and goes hay wire with the dark hadou later in the game.
Martial art is not intelligence it's experience
But that’s about anger, he could probably not teach anything else then something related to fights or anger
@@Crxsseyed1 He can do emotional health well tho
In the kirby anime there's an entire episode about how king dedede can't read
Also according to the anime，metaknight describes kirby as "he cannot speak, he can barely think!"
Game and anime are in different universes. In game kirby has ability to drive in several games, operate a mech, get medical license and even hold a job and cook along with several other feata, but on other side he cannot communicate, is very simple minded and so on. Apprently post his anti hero arc dedede apparently is a good ruler and even takes precautions against some threats even if not always succesful.
You know shulks a scientist and his gameplay in his game is strategy based off of positioning and leads everyone near the end of the game. Definitely needs to be higher
Plus doesn’t he and his friends actually go to some kind of school when they where younger.
And Mythra calculated the exact power needed to defeat Mikhail and Patroka without destroying the surrounding terrain in seconds. Shulk also creating a weapon (with a small amount of help) that could defeat otherworldy beings that can't even be damaged by normal weapons
King DDD literally can talk in the anime and taught himself to fly via inflating himself because he was jealous of Kirby, I’d say that’s smarter than an animal
I consider anime Dedede and game Dedede as different. In the anime, it was shown multiple times that he has the intelligence of slightly above a sack of bricks. (Well most of cappy town/Pupupu village are pretty stupid for falling for his schemes everyday.)
He gets outsmarted by children, pretty much every episode. He needs a snail in order to get many of his plans rolling. (To be fair, Escargoon is very intelligent.) He cannot even read.
If we’re considering the Kirby anime that means we have to consider the Mario anime and advent children; advent children is fine but pls not Mario
@@OrigamiAhsoka well advent children is canon and honestly could have been a perfect continue of ff7 in game form rather than a movie
Dedede has also talked some in the games (namely the Revenge of the King subgame in Super Star Ultra and in Kirby Battle Royale), so it's not just the anime that he talks in.
I mean he was kinda smart in triple deluxe when he launched Kirby into Sectonia at the last second
"intelligence isn't just how well you do on a test"
*Ranks link fairly low for being uneducated despite solving numerous puzzles and figuring out bosses weaknesses. Certainly not the smartest character, but he's gotta be somewhat better than that. He also rates kids low for not having education which again defeats the original idea. Many kids are smarter than adults, they are just ignorant.
He ranked so many people low because they “don’t have a formal education”. meta knight built and commands a battleship but he didn’t go to college so he’s dumb I guess.
Thank you. Link spend most of his time solving puzzle. He is more smart than he was given credit
In Skyward Sword, Link was in, in fact, at a school, and was the top of the class. In this game, he wielded the triforce of wisdom as well
are we just gonna overlook the fact he prevented a fucking moon from colliding with termina?
@@sumojack99 by resetting time over and over until he found items he could take back in time with him that worked
Tcnick: says that meta knight built a spaceship/aircraft thing
Also Tcnick: *puts him in the “can maybe read or write”tier*
I'd say Joker deserves at least to be in the Big Brain category. While it's true he is only 17, the dude is leads the Phantom Thieves and does so pretty competently. Lets not forget he has to figure out who their targets are, where their hidden treasure is, but also has to send the calling card and successfully infiltrate the Palaces within in a set time frame while still keeping his studies up in school. All that should easily put him in the Big Brain category.
I know this is late, but don't forget that he also knows how to craft infiltration tools.
He manages Training, Palaces and School at the same time without his skills dropping. His time management is amazing
Shulk is a proper ISTJ researcher paper-writing nerd scientist fella in his home context, bless him this tier list is just about all he's got going for him before his quest begins. Can't expect you to know that without playing the game of course, but yeah Shulk was probably my first choice for the top tier lol
Love the video pal, you had to get so many clips, the tier list itself was barely even in it, what a legend
Yeah, Hes smart. He was smoking here
oh yeah I forgot about Byleth, isn't he like, a teacher lol
i appreciate the criticism without being rude! but i actually did play xenoblade, i still lowkey think he's where he belongs in the tier
never left his home town before the quest, and was only an apprentice mechanic so nothing too crazy- good with his hands but i don't think that necessarily translates to being top tier intelligent (unless you're thinking of late game stuff in which i'm not including in this vid since we only get base form shulk for smash)
@@TCNick3 but bosser junior also just do ressearch
@@TCNick3 Yeah but lower than Mario? He should have been at least top of his tier
Two notes:
Unlike most Fire Emblem lords, Roy is his own army's primary strategist, which I feel puts him a step above Marth, Lucina, etc. Maybe not Big Brain tier, but I'd argue higher within the Smart tier than the other FE characters there.
Chrom was once witnessed to eat an orange without peeling it, which I feel puts him a step below Marth, Lucina, etc. Maybe not Has good critical thinking tier, but I'd argue lower within the Smart tier than the other FE characters there.
Chrom deserves to be in giga brain for that feat
He doesn't waste the best part of the orange.
I’m just genuinely shocked that a bunch of _canonically inbred 11th century Fire Emblem nobility_ are ranked so high intelligence while an ace pilot like Capitan Falcon and a redstone engineer like Steve are placed in low tier.
Like seriously, there isn’t enough strategy and tactics in the world that could help a whole army of dumb medieval peasants win against 1 blue falcon or even 1 redstone machine.
@@TheRealHelvetica i think theyre being ranked within a vacuum. Its kinda unfair to rank them like that since yeah obviously theyd be lower since the FE characaters are a tier below "modern technology" in a sense
Agreed
You said it yourself that meta knight built the halberd by himself, and I think that deserves a lot more credit
Same for kirby piloting mechs and figuring out bosses weakpoints
Rip Simon who's considered canonically the smartest and wisest Belmont in his whole family
I know it's saddening, but it doesn't equate to modern smarts
He would probably be extremely highly educated for his era
But does he wipe his butt
yeah bro, but after all it's his family (literally know nothing about Castlevania lore btw)
Yeah the Belmont's should be higher on the list as they are a noble house. It you put the royals up higher the Belmonts deserve better as well for the same reasons
Meta Knight is probably one of the smartest considering he's clearly a master strategist (meta knights revenge)
Commands an army HAS A HALBERD and fairs better than the others on landia also unlike most people knows how to run away from a fight
Also shown to enjoy reading aswell. He kinda just completly ignore feats then use similar feats to somone else.
Yeah but his biggest threats are dummies so
Isn’t he also hundreds of years old?
@@projectgarchomp2380 thousands
Yeah I’m surprised he basically said yeah he built an entire ship himself. Can barely read tier
The smartest character is Pit. The reason he doesn’t read is that he surpassed the need to.
He gets his knowledge from palutena basically
@Matt Well it heals you i dont see why he needs to stop doing that
@@OkOk-cf3ej And since it heals him, it clearly hasn't broken the 5-second rule yet 🧠🧠
@@ReitheOffbeatOtaku big brain
I know your joking but I like to imagine he's smarter then he lets on since dark pit is seemingly smarter then him
If we counted Steve as a representation of every Minecraft player, even the ones that, you know, did things like build FUNCTIONING COMPUTERS inside of the game, then I think he could be ranked higher.
And if you wanna strictly stay to In Game things without the coding and stuff, Steve became capable of understanding the speech of higher dimensional beings and even reading their thoughts
@@scurreith3667 and he is an expert blacksmith and alchemist
@@elplaceholder Expert doesn’t even do it justice because yes he can make iron swords that can hit creatures made purely of bones that doesn’t break, but he can also use an anvil to imbue magical powers from books onto his expertly crafted weapons and tools.
@@elplaceholder OH YEAH, let’s also add unique flying expertise since he can fly seamlessly with the Elytra.
@@scurreith3667 the ranking considers education and skills, so yeah, it makes sense
How tf is someone who designed and built his own ship and leads the crew of said ship dumber than Simon? Meta knight is not that dumb, prove me wrong
I cant cuz its literaly the truth in kirby canon
@@An_Entire_Lime that’s the thing, NOBODY can prove me wrong
This whole list is wrong tbh. Bowser being top spot despite messing up simple things like putting giant "remove floor" buttons in his castles and getting tricked so often in the RPGs.
ROB is somehow the dumbest yet he's a robot who can drive go karts, solve puzzles in gyromite, and was shown to be capable of emotion and even leadership in brawl's subspace emissary.
Or Steve being so low despite being an absolutely ridiculous engineer.
It's a pretty shitty list tbh
@@dddgaming885 Really shitty list, Megaman isn't even in it
@@Licon746 nobody can prove you wrong, coz ur literally spitting hard facts
As much as I LOVE the idea of Bowser being the most Giga-Brained of the entire Smash cast, I'm like 90% certain the dude just has geniuses working under him in his army, and isn't personally drawing up the blueprints himself. Tho he should def get points for being able to successfully lead his entire army
Yeah Bowser's inside Story i feel best shows this as it's the game where you interact with bowser the most.
It's mostly his assistant that made the plans
Even then he leads his army to defeat vs one guy. Pretty shit leader
@@wish7540 and he loses
I mean, we are talking about Mario, he's very fucking strong and fast enough.
@@wish7540 he's a villain he can't change that
“Pit can prob read or write” also Pit: “ I never learned how to read”
“Rob isn’t sentient”
Ancient minister: 😐
Meta Knight: Builds giant airship, capable of laying waste to cities and carrying a crew hundreds strong, all by himself"
Nick: "...counts for something I guess"
> Meta Knight literally builds a ginormous ship, far surpassing anything built by humans
> “can probably read or write”
Not to mention, his presence is one that demands respect.
King DeDeDe built mutiple castle, a sentient attack blimp and had the genius idea to split the star road to avoid nightmare attacks.
Dude should be way higher
Me: Botw link has to be really high considering his ingenuity and creativity and the fact that we can assume since he was the son of the royal knights he would've had a great education. He also spends a lot of his time solving puzzles and has figured out how to save 4 giant divine beasts through solving many puzzles.
Nick: He can probably read and write
this video really underplays how hard thecnology like piloting airplanes or robots is to understand
Yeah, you literally need to learn a new language to understand those.
TCNick: gives bonus points for a medical degree
Luigi: *am i a joke to you?*
Luigi shouldn't count, right? I mean, If Dr. Mario is a different character from Mario so is Dr. Luigi
Mario and Luigi have medical degrees and peach has a nursing degree..... Confusion
@@benjasilva6300 Even if they are different characters, they are the same person
The degree is fake anyway-
Yes. Luigi is usually a joke
According to Super Mario Galaxy 2, Yoshies can write in our language as good as a human being would do.
Also, some of them have human-like lifestyles, such as watching movies while eating pop-corn. They also know how a monetary system works, explaining how can they buy stuff and how to drive.
So, I'd say Yoshi is way smarter than he looks.
Did my boy Yoshi dirty when he called him a dumb animal, bro saved baby Mario back then
Pit and Dark Pit being in the “Can Probably Read or Write” tier is pretty accurate.
He does have a lot of knowledge about other Nintendo universes... does that count for anything?
"I never even learned how to read" - Pit
@@Stoopid420 But that doesn’t mean he *can’t* learn how to read!
@@linhardtvonhevring7262 precisely
Shulk have lived in a village, but isn't a medieval village or something like that, he was a really brilliant scientific was always reading about his world and trying to know about everything. He was a really smart person before he start having visions with monado
Ddd is smarter than you give him credit for, canonically he was so obsessed with being better than Kirby he trained himself to fly and inhale, he wasn’t born with those abilities
"Ness is probably in 4th grade"
Ness is canonically 13, and Lucas is 12
+ boy literally knows the whole Earth secrets
Has high iq stat at the end of the game especially at max level or using iq capsules
As a HUGE Pokémon fan, seeing Lucario so low hurts. Every single time we have seen one in canon it shows a level of intelligence similar to that of humans. It even has grown to that level without a trainer. And, having access to the ability Justice proves that it does have AT LEAST enough level of sentience to have its own morals, and act on them.
Yeah, I feel he should be big brain at most considering he can do what ryu does and more on his own, and can train itself to become a master at even common language.
You’re literally forgetting Slowking, Alakazam and Metagross. Slowking can speak FLUENT ENGLISH and is one of few Pokémon to do so.
Alakazam has 500iq
Metagross is 4 supercomputers.
Literally every Pokémon is capable of reading and writing as seen in the manga where Golds Pokémon check the Pokédex.
Greninja and Incineroar should likely at least move up one tier, cunning as they are.
Yes, Incineroar is actually quite cunning for a brawny bruiser - its main talent is heel-wrestling, after all.
@@Idrk776 they ain't in smash
Ness can be in the Giga Brain tier considering that Ness has got information from "The Truth of The Universe", due to Ness becoming one with the universe he has gained every information in the universe, which is really just more than enough to register him in the Giga Brain tier, But if we're talking about the Ness in the beginning of the game then yeah he is really just your typical kid.
I dont remember if it was Ness or Ninten, but Im sure one of them already had a bit of psychic powers at the very start of the game
@@vicbird68 they both technically did as they, unlike Lucas, have the psychic power points at the start. However, Ninten got his first Psi ability earlier because his fight against the lamp happens in his room
Maybe Shulk should be a tier higher, because even before he wielded the Monado, he was scientifically analyzing it, so he's a scientist.
He already knew that the power of the Monado had to be unlocced
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Given I literally beat Xenoblade today, Shulk should be a lot higher, he has vision even without the Monado and is essentially a god at the end of the game.
@@Redfiery_Anders yeah you’re right however the thing is endgame Shulk and Shulk in smash is kinda different since Shulk in smash still wields the Monado I which signifies that the shackles have not been released yet and that he’s still early game Shulk. Shulk has not yet possessed the power to have visions without the Monado in smash. Smash Shulk’s goal was still to destroy all the Mechon. Sorry if this is too long xD in a fan of Xenoblade.
Should be like 4 tiers higher, this should is the shulk with base monado, bit even before starting his adventure through bionis he was really really smart, he is a brillian and cultured person that is constantly studying, reading and learning new things. He deserved one of the highest tiers in this list
Chrom should be in Ike's tier. He canonically gets reckless at times, that's why all the strategic stuff was handed over to Robin
Agreed
Agreed
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Robin pfp, I trust it what they sayin
Please forgive me but (Reckless*), 'wreck' is the work for a slew or mess of something and doesn't carry suffixes aside from '-ed'. Reck, as archaic as it is, is defined as taking caution but isn't really used by itself anymore. Again, really sorry I merely wish to inform
There's more to base shulk though since he's the head researcher of the *one* sword that saved his race for a time, and even had *correct* theories on how the Monado works. (which was a divine entity)
Shulk's visions are a little difficult to judge, true. Actually, in Xenoblade, he doesn't exactly have full control over them - they kinda pop up at random points, and sometimes when he focuses hard on a certain thing.
I mean, Shulk was a primary researcher, historian of sorts when it comes to technology, and mechanically inclined, that seems pretty damn smart.
he may be engineering smart, but exsisted on a world ideald behind 2 giants, so the amount of actual information hed have would be limited.
King dedede should be barely one teir higher since he he removed the star rod so that nightmare could not give every one nightmares constantly and then tried to beg Kirby not to do it but Kirby does not have much of a thinking brain.
Kirby has been known to been the one who causes the problem is most of his games.
I was thinking exactly the same.
Kirby creates problems and then deletes them
There's also the argument to be made that he made his jet hammer, a giant mech of himself, and possibly the machine that can mass produce clones of Kirby in Kirby Battle Royale.
@@dddgaming885 let's not forget a super computer (star dream) couldn't make clones while dedede could
"ALL FOR JUST A CAKE"
As a greeninja main this is what I have to say. Greeninja has the mind power to set up an ambush teleport via mind And knows how to fend for himself. He deserves higher than Dumb animal.
Metagross in Pokémon is 4 supercomputers. It is clearly smarter than greninja.
While he (unfortunately) was never made a canonical Smash fighter... holy crap, Tabuu is a genius. My man enslaved an entire race of sentient robots, managed to take over Meta Knight’s airship, figured out how to essentially warp space-time through the use of the Subspace Bombs, and figured out how to use Pikachu to power a research facility.
And that’s just the canon stuff.
Steve can literally read ancient languages and understand redstone
I feel like Steve is hard to pin down, because it's not really fair to say that Steve's accomplished everything that anyone playing survival's ever done, so it's hard to say how intelligent he is redstone wise. Also, in game I think it's kinda vague how the enchantment table works, if that's what you mean by reading ancient languages
I think that originally, enchantments were completely random and unlabeled because steve _didnt_ understand what he was doing and just kind of mashed tools into a table. But you’re right that he’s got a wrinkley brain for being able to craft complicated circuits like comparators
Heh. Yep.
Yeah, Steve should be ranked way higher.
Like the ability to build basic redstone machines requires way more brainpower than what any of those 11th century inbred Fire Emblem nobility are even capable of.
Or he can mine diamonds with a wooden pickaxe
I'd argue that incineroar should be one tier higher. He knows how to please a crowd and clearly has a humanlike ego
Same goes for Greninja, who can be quite cunning as well. Combat skills are disregarded here, but being able to accurately compress water to slice through steel and aim them accurately takes some serious calculations.
@@shadowbanningcommentssucks3551 Aim them sure, but compressing the water is more of just vague magicky stuff in the context of pokemon, it probably doesn't take any more brain power than Charizard's fire breath
@@shadowbanningcommentssucks3551 every single pokemon i think is just as smart as a regular human, unless said otherwise. So Pikachu, pichu, jigglypuff, and others should be a tier higher
Shouldn’t all pokemon be in that tier? I mean. They all understand human language.
@@CephenJane fair, incineroar just *feels* more human to me though
Nice to see Samus in the “big-brain” tier when the foundation of her games is literally “figure this out”.
I think Isabelle and metaknight are the biggest flukes of this list but not everyone in the Read/Write tier has the confidence to make a list like this so well done! (this is a joke, mad respect)
“Bowser is canonically smartest character”
Leaves literal aces to drop him in a pit of lava where all Mario needs to do is jump on it.
There's a difference being smart and having common sense
Plus we know boswer doesn't highly of Mario so he probably thought he could've never gotten past him
@@Datoneguyhax Despite that same trap having not worked on him 7 times in a row in each previous castle?
Those were in older games, the smart feats he has were from the newer games
Pokémon trainer is theoretically very high tier as Pokémon is all about strategy and leading your Pokémon to be the best they can be and such
Do he/she knows whats 9+10 tho?
@@andricode Pokemon go brrrrr
yea but there's no proof they're actually a good trainer
@@sevi630 we talking about a good trainer for battling or a good trainer to their Pokémon? Because Red is a champion for Pete sakes
They command one or two pokemon at a time you know, is not like commanding armys and usually they get away with the power of friendship and stuff.
Shulk... Shulk has an engineering education. It's literally how he gets a hold of the Monado because he's studying it.
Inkling should be on a higher tier. They made their own language, rebuilt civilization, and found ways to make power throughout their city.
inkling themself didn't, the inklings did as a species, they're just a younger member of the species
“Inkling can’t even say their own name”
Probably because they speak inkling, not English or Japanese. Inklings are strategists and masters of their weapons, whether they just play turf war for fun, or are fighting for their team in a splatfest, inklings are much more than woomy and booyah, trust me.
I like how he actually did his homework, instead of doing stupid jokes
i pride myself in a little of both really
@@TCNick3 Even though you did forget about Megaman…
@@Robous trust he wasn’t forgotten
Ehh he kinda missed some things. Like how pacman literally had his own series where he lived in a village w other pacmen and women and reads and stuff through the entire game. Not saying he placed him wrongly, just didn't fully research, but I don't blame him when he has 70+ characters to research
Though I do wish Mega-Man wasn’t always left out. Yea I get he is a terrible smash bros character, but he has some good games.
Damn Mega Man is so smart, he isn't even on any tier
Ikr lol how dare you take my comment
thats what i was thinking
I like how isablelle, who has 19 phds in engineering, is equal with all the fire emblem characters.
Simón and Richter Belmont: spend their entire childhood and teenage years training and studying to become the best vampire hunters of the world.
This guy: they barely can wipe their ass
The canonically smartest character:
Donkey Kong 100%
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Yes ofcourse Monke smartest of all.
DK must show us the way!
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Pyra/mythra don’t have many feats? At the end of chapter 4 mythra literally calculates whether a building she is currently in would survive a laser blast based on its angle, power and the structural integrity of the building within a few seconds and accurately finds the exact timing needed to use it
I don’t believe he has perfect knowledge of every game these characters come from. I honestly doubt anyone does tbh.
daaamn 😳 i should play xeno blade
@@Person-nf6dj play Definitive Edition on switch, it's a better starting point than XC2 IMO.
Shulk is probably more iconic to people anyways, especially naked Shulk (which is actually a thing in the game, available from the start, and the game lets you change the way you look without changing stats).
I was looking for this comment cuz that shit caught me off guard😂. For that alone she deserves gigabrain
Rosalina also knows the way the universe works and built the entire Comet Observatory as a little girl.
I think shulk was scientist before becoming a adventurer so I think she is at least in the big brain category
Obviously Zelda
Her thing is the Triforce of *WISDOM*
i mean wisdom ist nessesarily intelligent
@@tostupidforname nonetheless
Its smarts power, also he put her at the top anyway
@@Ladele209 how is that a spoiler?
@@Ladele209 sorry
Its just obvious
Anyone who solves zelda puzzles without the internet should be a genius
Put the links way up there, except maybe Toon Link, I found wind wakers puzzles easier, along with phantom hourglass’s. Breath of the wild link has some tough shrines but Young link is equally smart as Ocerina of Time’s adult link who solved the water temple without a guide.
@@williammckinney5213 don't even start me with the water temple
@@williammckinney5213 Breath of the wild link, when it is the regular alt, is ambiguous, but that means the Hero of The Wild alt is canocially SUPER smart since it means he has solved ALL of the shrines, including all of the difficult ones
I'm pretty sure that's most people who play Zelda games; looking up the solutions takes the fun out of it.
@@TheOneGuy1111 For most of the shrines yeah, but the constellation ones in BOTW I couldn’t figure them out, I would probably have done every combination if I couldn’t Google it.
I think ROB as the Ancient Minister and leader of the ROBs in Brawl's Subspace Emissary shows a lot more counsciousness, tactical thinking... their race is literally an ancient race that lives on a floating island and has access to advanced tech (iirc the subspace bombs were created by them)
Yeah I think Nick forgot about subspace
Meta knight needs to be a tier higher due to the fact when Kirby attacked the ship, he was standing his ground and commanding his team to keep the ship in the air
Same for kirby as he litterally attacked and succesfuly destroyed an airship.
Dedede also built a giant turbojet hammer along with other techs.
Theyre all way smarter than this lists implies
If Banjo and Kazooie are one rank above "dumb animals" because they can drive cars, then shouldn't the Kongs move up since they've been in Mario Kart?
Also, where is Mega Man?
mega man has the intelligence of a 10 year old boy and while he probably has a supercomputer for a brain he constantly falls for wily's paper thin disguises so he's probably in the same tier as pit
I ask the same question. Where is the blue bomber?
I didn’t saw Mega Man and Daisy on the list
And Yoshi
@@imthecoolest3884 yoshi was in "dumb animal" tier
9:20 Correction, Wario can make his own microgames. He just likes to call up his friends to finish the game as a whole.
Megamicro games intro shows this and truthfully Wario's keen eye to know good technology to adapt to sell games shouldnt be overlooked.
Every Warioware game has an explanation for how he came across the gimmicks: twist, touchscreen, wiimote and etc. (Snapped as an example, but not a good game)
Wario's always made it big with the latest gimmick, but blows all the money quickly. Oxymoron I suppose haha
Snake outsmarted a literal psychic that can read both his mind AND the player's and I think that's worth mentioning
7:36 “Miis can’t speak”
Miitopia:
Tomadachi Life:
Every other game where Miis talk:
If I'm right, inklinks have their complete own language and I think most of them are normally schooled. So they do talk but just not... Yeah.
They actually are really smart. But only when they grow up as we can read in a scroll from Splatoon. That says teen inklings are kind of dumb at times.
In the story of Splatoon 2 you the agent are technically the last surviving agent because the other agents didn't have the skills as pointed out by Marie. There's gotta be some smarts in there.
@@phantomblue2798 considering the amount of puzzles in splitting yeah they'd need to be decently smart to be part if the splatoon
Correct
How is Steve in the lower tiers? Like… he can straight up build a computer using redstone, let alone be able to enchant stuff in ancient languages. Steve's ingenuity knows no bounds
That's a very good question
Those buildings were made by some genius players playing steve, not steve himself, although he's still quite smart being able to craft some preety impressive stuff and enchanting equipment
@@An_Entire_Lime With that logic nothing Steve does is canonical due to the fact that players are doing it as Steve. This is the issue with every sandbox character because it is down to how a particular player will play the game. So, we don't do that and we say that anything a player can do in vanilla is canonical to what Steve is able to do so as not to get the "canonical for each player" problem
@@tecwynjones6532 Steve does have some feats of inteligence, he does know how to craft... everything under the sun, yea the players that choose what and when to craft but the ability to turn some rocks into a functioning arrow launching machine is still from Steve, Same goes for enchanting and potion making, the players place the stuff there but Steve's still the one with the knowledge base to operate those blocks
And just like your method of counting everything as canon, if you count all building as non canon to steve's knowledge it avoids the "depending on the player" issue
@@An_Entire_Lime For the computer thing we're discussing, Steve has the knowledge of how everything operates inside the computer (he does craft the components and does interact with them), therefore it isn't a stretch to say that Steve does know how to build a computer using redstone, all he needs to do is place the pieces in the right places.
Same goes for building literally anything. Steve can place the blocks down in any configuration, therefore he can build a house, castle, windmill, or anything under the sun, all he needs to do is to know where to place stuff, and what to place down
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In any case, players are making Steve do it because the player themselves is Steve
Rob in smash lore actually has emotions and he feels sad after sacrificing his own kind as the ancient mister
"Bowser is the smartest character in smash"
Man literally has a button or axe to drop him in lava in like almost every game
Smart. Not wise.
One thing about Wario: I remember he's actually a decently good inventor. Main thing that comes to mind is in the DS game Master of Disguise where he made some helmet that transported him into the world of a TV show. Probably a few more examples elsewhere, but I haven't touched every single thing he's been in.
He was also able to somehow transform a pissing/shitting pot into a power granting crown in WarioWare Gold
Mario should be Higher, he taught us typing.
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Good one xD
I dont get It.
@@joaquincespedes3073 Mario has a game called Mario Teaches Typing. Take a guess at what the game is about.
Mega man is so smart he managed to get under Nick's radar and not appear on the list
Steve: is capable of harvesting and manipulating his environment to build virtually anything.
Nick: he’s not that smart
Ain't it obvious? Joker with the highest intelligence stat is clearly the highest
Haha social stats
Lmao joker can at best make a pickaxe or armor, but can he craft an end crystal, read and understand long lost ancient languages, and understand the process of making potions like steve? Also, in the game, it's not like he got smarter, he just got better at answering tests, which removes the point of this video
@@othamneil8958 he led a team to fight and defeat god.
@@wish7540 that's coz his tools and arsenals are really good. You can't just go fight god with a knife and the power of determination. But, you CAN fight god with personas and the power of friendship. In the end he never used his intelligence much to defeat god. It's not like he masterminded everything and thought of the biggest brain plan to defeat him. No. He prepared for a fight, went there without a plan, lost, and got a really op persona at the last minute. He didn't plan for that op persona to appear. He used the power of friendship.
And he was able to outsmart an ace detective which allowed him to cheat death
The Kirby Characters are smarter than you think. I originally thought "Yeah Kirby and Dedede ain't that smart." But then I looked into it and King Dedede can build Insane Machinery including robots of himself to Cloning Machines and Kirby has enough Intelligence to pilot a Mech Suit. As for Meta Knight, he is far more intelligent than those two as he's lived for thousands of years with all of them giving him insane experience under his belt.
Do we have any evidence that dedede was the one to build those? he could've just gotten someone else to do it, he's a king after all
“You are talking about the penguin that fit a jet engine in a hammer”
-D3nsity
To be honest, the mecha suit in Planet Robobot has the characteristic to adapt to the one that uses it, so it's not like you need to be smart or anything
Im aware that the Kirby anime is not canon but Meta Knight in the anime perfectly describes what Kirby's intelligence is like.
Kirby is a "Star Warrior" an enitity born to fight evil and in Kirby's case he really is an infant compared to Meta Knight who is of the same species as him. Which is why I had to point out that the Kirby anime may not be canon but it certainly is a very accurate statement to how kirby acts in ALL of his games.
His fighting style and living habits are all from instinct like an Animal's and only ever has a Black and White understanding of morality.
I think king dedede is smart enough to read and write
“But because they’re naive not because they lack brain cells”
The conquest story says otherwise
We don't know enough in Canon to know if the feats of Krool or Bowser are feats of their own intelligence or lack from their subordinates. Sephiroth and Ganon we do know for sure are Giga brain though