Elder God tier: Tempest Shadow  
Great tier: Pony of Shadows  
High tier: Starlight Glimmer & Sunset Shimmer  
Mid tier: Mean Six  
Low tier: Discord & Queen Chrysalis  
Very low tier: King Sombra & Lord Tirek

By this point I’m fairly certain that this wasn’t meant to be taken seriously and may very well have been bait.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to rate opponents from most difficult to fatality/friendship to least difficult? That’d put Tirek, and Sombra at the top with 1000+ years and counting of fighting friendship, Discord, Nightmare Moon, and Pony of Shadows in second teir with 1000+ years but finally friendshiped, Chysalys in the <1000 years but still not friended teir, Starlight, Sunset, and Tempest in 4th teir as easiest freinds (Starlight at top of this tier for taking longest to befreint in the teir), and The Mean 6 arent even villains really, they’re like a spell or something.

@Evil Emperor Proteus  

So why is the Pony of Shadows in Great Tier?
 

@Makarosc  
If you consider the comics canon

Both Sombra and Tempest belong on the high tear

I’d just like to know why the Storm King isn’t on here. Do I even need to ask where he goes?

@MangoBox  
god, don’t be such a MangoBox.

@Paradox_Brony  
Whatever you say, angrybrony.

@MangoBox
 
And that’s an odd way to spell Starlight. You feel’n ok friend? You seem a bit mixed up.

So, a villain who was willing to raid all of Equestria, turn their rules into stone and probably enslave all it’s citizen because she lost the equivalent of a finger and was ostracized by two fillies in her childhood is “Elder God Tier” now?

@Evil Emperor Proteus  
At least a good threat

@Paradox_Brony  
…which is an odd way of spelling Luna, btw. 😉
 
 
@MangoBox  
and way better than her “reformed” self! 😄

@Paradox_Brony  
Sunset as a good villain is funny.

@MangoBox
 
That’s an odd way to spell Sunset.

@Evil Emperor Proteus  
Starlight was a good villain.
 
She was powerful without being some ancient evil.
 
She was clearly a threat.
 
And she had some actual character.

@CrystalScale  
That doesn’t make them good villains or antagonists, though.

@Background Pony #347B  
Starlight was at least powerful, she was able to alter someponies destiny, by both altering time & removing there cutie mark

Starlight and Sunset Shimmer were bad villains though. Sunset’s plan was extremely basic and Starlight’s plan made no sense and she was terrible at running a society.
 
The Pony of Shadow’s only happened because the writers wrote everyone being stupid. Starswirl never asked why Stygian was doing his ritual, and Stygian never bothered to explain his actions or simply ask the others for their help. They didn’t even explain what the Darkness was.

I call bullshit on most of these… But Tirek is JUST fine at the bottom

I’d put Sunset at the bottom one honestly. There were no misdeeds done to her and she sure didn’t seek to change society. Her goal was to take over Equestria for ‘reasons’.

discord is literally god teir his motives aren’t inherently good or bad, they are solely to cause discord because he is discord.

why’s starlight not in the top tier
 

@Ferrotter  
Agreed.