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@redweasel
 
Even closer to how short-range teleport works in the show is the misty step spell (from 4th and 5th edition D&D), which is low-level enough to be given to eladrin elves as a racial ability.

no duh, peeps, of course rarity can’t teleport. blink is 2 levels lower.

Guys can we stop this please? There is no need to debate about this. I stated it before but if it is too hard for you to believe, you don’t need to believe it.

@Grelrik  

 
False equivalency. Twilight dedicated her whole life to study and magic. She’s demonstrated feats equal to Starswirl, which I feel is arguably the most-powerful regular unicorn in canon. Rarity’s spell was nothing special. “Detect diamonds” sounds like a pretty generic thing that wouldn’t be hard to recreate, despite it being her signature spell. Diamonds are pure carbon. Whipping up a spell that detects masses of pure carbon doesn’t sound like it would require much study and effort at all for someone who’s entire life was dedicated to magic.
 
Just because she can make dresses while there are plenty of distractions around does not mean she has the mental capability to learn and pull off a teleport. Unicorn magic levels are a canon thing, mentioned in “Magic Duel.” So we’ve already got a system in place that ranks unicorns based on their magic ability. This is canon per the show. There are some spells that low-ranking unicorns can’t do.
 
I’ll repeat what someone else said. Trixie can’t teleport. While she’s nowhere near Twilight’s level, she is more magically-inclined than Rarity. Her act would greatly benefit from her being able to teleport. Yet she can’t. If it were as simple as sitting down with a book, she would’ve learned it by now.

All of that while keeping her mane intact

@Vinyl Fluff  
Actually, we never saw Twilight training Rarity’s signature spell. Finding diamonds, one that she learned by herself. All we have is Spike telling Twilight about the spell and she concentrating to make it work. Now, I think some spells requiere training and concentration.
 
If Rarity can create clothes for 2 stores with her sister at her house I think she can learn to concentrate for a teleportation of a couple of meters

@Takugenji  
While that sequence with the dresses was really cool, I don’t think it was a thing that was literally happening.

@PonyPon  
The fact that she was able to create a new world for Hoity Toity to feel after every dress that she showed using just illusions is quite impressive. The alterations aren’t that great but the fact the Twilight only struggled once when teleporting and that was half way across town. So Rarity teleporting a short distance isn’t that hard to believe for me. If you don’t want to believe that, it is up to you.

@Takugenji  
Ofc not, but artist probably thought that blink is a common spell when it’s not.  
Or, it’s a spell only taught in Celestia’s school.  
Teleport users have been so far: Twi, Sunset, Starlight. Twi and Sunset know it, and Starlight learned it from Twilight.
 
It’s possible that Rarity at some point learned blink from Twilight as well, which explains why Trixie couldn’t do it; because she had no access to someone who could teach blink.
 
I’m still salty knowing that Trixie is actually less magical than Rarity.

@Takugenji  
By what metric do we know that’s high level?

People often seem to forget that Rarity has shown fairly high level magic, specifically in her first Fashion show, she also has Alteration expertise. She often just uses her magic for more specific things and doesn’t end up showing it off as much as Twilight, Whos specialty IS magic. So I guess if your specialty isn’t magic, that doesn’t mean you can’t be good at magic.

@Masem  
Rarity doesn’t look desperate. Also, even Trixie couldn’t pull off a legit teleportation spell and that actually became a plot point–and all she needed was ten feet, and she was in a desperate situation, too. Teleportation for the longest time has been Twilight’s signature move and the only other who could teleport was Discord. Vinyl Fluff is right in saying that, when Sunset teleported, it was a display of her skill, to establish Sunset as a really powerful magic user similar to Twilight.
 
Teleportation isn’t a spell any unicorn can pull off in desperation and hope it lands correctly. Twilight fried Spike when she teleported out of desperation and Starlight fried Trixie when she quickly teleported her out of Manticore’s mouth–and that was ten feet.
 
To have both Rarity and Starlight come out unscathed implies expertise. So, either Rarity legit knows how to teleport short distances, or the artist underestimated the spell. I don’t mind Rarity knowing the spell tbh. I mean, her work sometimes require her to move around the workplace and short distance teleportation seem like a very useful spell to have. Still, I just can’t accept that Rarity knows blink and Trixie still doesn’t.

@Masem  

 
Even if it were one foot, I’d still say it’s beyond Rarity’s abilities at this point because it’s been made out as a high-level spell. Rarity has no training whatsoever in magic from what we’ve seen in the show.
 
It’s kind of like a non-athlete suddenly pulling off an Olympic-level move on the elevated bars.

@Vinyl Fluff  
Though here, she’s shown teleporting all of about 10 feet (the “ka-zap” effect implying where she started). So it could be logically argued that she pulled it off in desperation.

@Grelrik  

 
As presented in the show, even unicorns require study and training to do such spells _{(Unless you’re Starlight, cough cough)} and teleportation is a high one. Twilight herself couldn’t even precisely control it until later and she was far, far into her studies by then. So given that Rarity’s never been shown with one ounce of interest in expanding her magical abilities, I think it’s simply an artist error.
 
Remember, it was also used as a quick way to show Sunset’s level of power when she immediately teleported to escape Twilight’s own teleportation. It’s not something your average unicorn can do.

I do believe Rarity has a good level of magic and I doubt she a unicorn has a limit. It probably works on a “training” way. It has been a long time Rarity has had to learn teleportation. I love this pic.

>Rarity
 
>best fashion designer
 
>a great business mare
 

 

 
>Pretty good hoof to hoof combatant
 
>apparently has above average magical ability.
 
God is there ANYONE who can be a more perfect Waifu?

I’m sure it was meant to be Starlight teleporting herself and Rarity but I’m not complaining.

Pinkie Pie’s nonchalant slide is hilarious!

@Background Pony #A4CB  
You forgot Sunset Shimmer.

>Rarity teleporting herself and Starlight
 

 
@Background Pony #A4CB  

 
Sunset can do it, too. It’s the first magic we see out of her, even.

Sweetie Celestia! A unicorn that isn’t Twilight or Starlight that used the teleport spell?! This is madness!

I have a feeling they got characters switched on that first panel. That’s not how Rarity works.