Actually if any of the four unicorns put any competent effort against spike (I assume that’s the current discussion since I didn’t bother to read everything yet) they manage to win fairly easily.
 
Telekinetically closing off several blood ways to the brain, or stopping the movement of his heart and volla! One dead dragon.
 
Telekinesis is used smartly is way more dangerous then any offensive spell ever.

@Sjogre
 
Which is still more than everyone else combined could pull off. If the Wonderbolts failed, what does that say about all those folks they outperformed?

MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DISHARMONY…

MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DISHARMONY…

MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DISHARMONY…

MEANWHILE, AT THE LEGION OF DISHARMONY…

@Kazapsky  
The second they made a move against Spike, he shut them down. Still pretty damn fail.
 
The most that you can say is that they managed to annoy him.

@Evowizard25
 
They were the only ponies to make even a token amount of headway versus a monster that was crushing everything in its path.
 
That’s not exactly “epic fail”.

Now I want to see these six go on adventures and be hilariously selfish along the way. They’ve got a good team composition:  
F/F: Mage/Rogue  
G: Fighter  
LD: Fighter  
SS/T: Mage

Where’s Discord and Sombra? Just wonderin’.

@Sjogre  
Yes, that’s what I was talking about…

@Prof.NightJack  
Well, we know that those were specifically academy records, so she’s only being compared to Wonderbolts hopefuls. That might not even include records set by Wonderbolts after they made the team, and shouldn’t mean much related to military records.
 
At any rate, she’s an above average flyer, at the least, but she sure as hell doesn’t act like she’s been in the military.

*I see it more in a way she’s more capable but not at top level

@Sjogre  
>My point was that there were no grounds to compare Lightning Dust to the military, as she’s never been around them.  
That’s my point too, but I see it more in a way she’s more liking not.  
To me the broken record are academy record, not the record of in service ponies as well.

@Prof.NightJack  
She was strongly implied to be good enough to get into the Wonderbolts, according to all those broken records. We do not know how the Wonderbolts, who have always been treated as separate from the actual military, compare to the actual military.
 
My point was that there were no grounds to compare Lightning Dust to the military, as she’s never been around them.

@HunterSClopson  
She was an antagonist to Pinkie. Throughout the episode Pinkie just tries to hang out with Dash, hey even be friendly with Gilda, but Gilda does whatever she can to make sure she doesn’t. Classic Antagonist. (As well as be a jerk to several other characters.)

It is still beyond me why people call Gilda an antagonist. At the most, she’s probably just a scorned friend who was just jealous of Rainbow’s new friends. Her issues are decidedly minor in comparison to the rest of the ponies in this pic.

*reckless  
*lacking

@Background Pony  
I’d call her tied with Nightmare Moon in that department. She was charging up to run Twilight through, and her larger body mass would have caused her to succeed of Twi hadn’t teleported.

@Trickquestion  
Ya, but a part of military training(form what my friends in the military have told me) is how to work with others and how to not be wreckless, Rainbow laces one and Lightning the other, so not fully military level.

@Trickquestion  
Give credit where credit is due, she’s the closest any villain has come to canonically killing Twilight.

@Prof.NightJack  
To be fair, military level in Equestria is pretty low. I’m convinced Rainbow is better then most of the Wonderbolts, but hasn’t joined because she’s not enough of a team player.

@Sjogre  
So by that when you join the military you intently the skills of someone that has been there longer.  
No, she just joined the training camp, so she’s going over basic training, same thing that you first get when you join the military.  
So she may be good but it’s clear she’s not military level yet.

I’d call Sunset as an antagonist. Sure, she talks about taking over the world, but her mindset has completely transformed to that of a dumbass high school bully. She’s a petty bitch with delusions of grandeur.

@Background Pony  
That was one of the reasons i liked her, it caught me off guard, never expected her to be a villain.