@dream-light-at-night  

Beautiful horse✨

Is her mane supposed to flow there?

Beautiful landing, Starlight. 🙂

@AC97  
Dodging: the act of avoidance.

@Vivace
 
Lol. That does refer to Starlight, right?
 

 

 

 
That kind of checks out actually.
 

 
(Not that she’s really a coward, lol)

@AC97  
It’s a skill she learned by running away from/avoiding her problems.

@Dark Dash
 

 
Yep. Chrysalis blames her losses on the heroes “cheating,” when she’s orchestrated her own defeat numerous times, by keeping her back turned at a critical moment in her debut, to how she just didn’t bother in S6 to kidnap and replace Starlight, which started a chain of events that caused her demise.
 
With a being like her, she cannot for the life of her take responsibility for her failures. Her ego pathologically prevents it.
 
Chrysalis cannot win a fight without surprise and/or a power advantage on her part (both of which were the case with Celestia in S2). She’s never learned much finesse in her fighting, because she’s just used to brute forcing her way past opponents, and she’s never felt the need to change that.
 
Chrysalis cannot teleport herself, and she’s never used a shield to help her in a fight either, which are serious disadvantages against more skilled opponents like Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Starlight, if they’re not getting taken down by a cheap shot due to luck.
 
Starlight has always been rather good at dodging. (Special note goes to that last one)

@Dark Dash  
Chrysalis got into an impromptu fight with Mean Twilight in “The Mean 6”. A fight she would’ve lost had the Tree of Harmony not dealt with The Mean 6.

@AC97
 
I would lean more toward this, since Chrysalis has only ever been successful in a head-to-head confrontation once, and it was because of the love she had sapped from Shining Armor. Her only other battles have been when the odds are tipped in her favor to an extreme degree (in one of the alternate timelines, and in the Season 6 Finale). Since her head-to-head battle against Celestia in the S2 Finale, she’s never fought any other character until she faced Starlight in the S9 Finale.
 
Couple with Chrysalis’ arrogance and lack of good judgement, it only makes sense that a more level-headed and experienced fighter, like Starlight, would be able to beat her through strategy if not through pure magical strength. I think that was Starlight’s intention for the most part, if we’re analyzing this to any degree, to anger Chrysalis so that she starts making mistakes and then take advantage of those mistakes when they present themselves. Especially since Chrysalis never seems to learn from her past mistakes anyway.

@Dark Dash
 
Chrysalis is just a vastly inferior warrior, and it’s not just in comparison to Starlight.

@Background Pony #20C8  
Poor writing.

@Dark Dash  
Starlight’s a smarter fighter. Most of what she did was rapid-fire teleportation to evade. She never actually directly blasted Chrysalis like she did Discord, whom I bet a few viewers wanted her to blast again after his in-character, but utterly boneheaded, scheme.

@Dark Dash  
I would want a longer Gim vs Chrysalis battle. But Chrysalis in her 2nd form she had more power than Glim. Starlight needed more strategy maybe.

Badass Glim 💜

Oh wow, talk about a “blink and you’ll miss it” I didn’t notice her getting tired from casting that powerful spell because a split second later she gets hit. Nice attention to detail
 
@Darth Shy  
She was diffidently a highlight

She was the best part of these episodes

@Background Pony #365E
 
Fair enough. Still, she wasn’t having trouble with her and even taunted her twice, and could’ve won if she hadn’t let her guard down.
 
Really I don’t know if how that brief fight makes Starlight look overpowered that she can take on a more powerful version of the former Queen of the Changelings while only being a unicorn herself, or if it makes Chrysalis look like a terrible/predictable fighter, or both.

@Background Pony #365E  
Didn’t you watch A Matter of Principals?

@Dark Dash  
Not really. She was mostly running from Chrysalis during the fight, and she couldn’t really hurt her.

When you think about it, Starlight is the only one who actually put up a serious fight against any one of the villains. Lord Tirek demolished the Pillars, and the Mane Six and the Princesses had trouble with Alicorn Cozy Glow (though they did beat her in the end), but Starlight actually could’ve probably taken down Chrysalis on her own based on how their fight went if she hadn’t assumed that she’d beaten Chrysalis so quickly.

Graceful!

I’m in love! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

So graceful

@Background Pony #FD7C  
I know i can’t explain just watch the episode and you will understand