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Wasn’t Fleetfoot the one with the crazy stalker crush on Big Mac?
your current filter.Besides Big Mac is a goldfish when comes to relationships.
Oh Really? Lightning is still better than RD though.
uh…nowhere in the episode did t say or show ld to be faster than RD. LD did some some courses at to high of a reckless speed which Dash called her out on. but nowhere did LD flat out go faster than RD.
Maybe it has to do with her being a Rainbow Pony and there’s some sort of Rainbow Force she tapped into.
But it was confirmed in Wonderbolts Academy that she was…
@WM-R
Lightning dust faster than RD? HA! Thats a good one!
@Vitruvius
I was under the impression there’s some sort of X factor that let RD pull it off, not just pure speed. I mean, Lightning Dust is faster than RD, and there had to be more skilled, experienced or faster fliers in the past too. Maybe RD tapped into some sort of long forgotten magic, or somehow hit a sweet spot of speed for the correct amount of time, or something else entirely.
Something something friendship.
Doesn’t the Sonic Rainboom just Require you to Break the Sound Barrier?(Literally) and if so,How come Lightning Dust can’t do one since she is confirmed to be faster than RD?
That was pretty much what I was getting at. I mean, the Wonderbolts are the best of the best. If they found out that Sonic Rainbooms can actually be done, I’d expect they’d try to find out how to do them too whether asking Rainbow Dash directly, coming up with their own versions or a cross between the two (RD tells them how she did it, but either her explanation isn’t clear enough or the Wonderbolts can’t get quite the same results, so they develop their own version that while simplified, is still too difficult for all but the most elite).
This is the same book where a copy of Soarin is now also Wave Chill.
I’ll stick with option 0: The technique was rediscovered thanks to RD but is still extremely difficult and only a couple of elite flyers can pull it off.
Other options include:
Obviously option 3 has the best probability of being true, but I’m sticking with 1 or 2 until corroborating evidence suggests that anyone other than Rainbow Dash can pull off a rainboom.
@WM-R
I don’t have a problem with that either, but it seems like an awfully significant thing to be left to an offhanded comment in secondary canon like a book…
“Oh, we can all Rainboom now” would be like “Oh, Luna is adopted.”
Edited
Look, if Fleetfoot wants to be disciplined by stallions, that’s her business. Don’t judge her.
So, Fleetfoot…you find it hard to stay disciplined and in control when you’re NOT around stallions?
@Vitruvius
I always figured it was sort of like a technique that’s been lost. As in it was done before, but the technique was since lost and no one in living memory knows how to do it, or cared enough to try before Dash did. If I were a Wonderbolt, for example, I would be more reliant on the reliable techniques my predecessors handed down than a legend that might not even be true.
If I were a young pegasus wanting to impress the Wonderbolts, on the other hand, being able to pull off a legendary technique would be one hell of an audition.
And once others know it can be done, it wouldn’t be all that difficult for others to figure out how to do them too. It’d be like in WWII, where both sides picked up on what made the other side’s tanks better than their own and adopted the same tech. “Oh, sloped armour! I never even thought of that! We have the technology, we can add that to our own tanks!”
I do happen to enjoy seeing an official pony thing with Fleetfoot talking about enjoying meeting lots of stallions ;D
dammit i was gonna say ‘‘in b4 calmwind’’
They were considered mythical until RD pulled one off in front of a crowd.
That said, she later mastered the technique, so I guess it’s not impossible that she could teach it to others.
My thoughts exactly
“Being a winderbolt is awessssome. Were all different in our own ssssspecial way”
~ Fleetfoot
The Mike Tyson of ponies