Haha, it's ok. All theories and arguments welcome.

I would say Sailor pluto but only because she can see the future and its outcomes. Who would be more powerful than someone know knew your fate?

With Manga in mind,

I would Sailor Moon. She turns into Sailor Cosmos, she was debating on destroying the Galaxy Cauldron. Yes she didn't win in the future but she came back to
right wrongs (pun intended lol).
Sailor Cosmos is still a mystery to us, so we don't know if she could take the star seeds out like Galaxia and Sailor Chaos.
I mean someone has to fight Sailor Chaos and I don't see any of the other Senshi winning that fight with out Sailor Moon.

**I do think that the Mercury idea is very intriguing. Does remind me of Blood Bending too. However its plausible but very unlikely. You know?

I feel that Sailor Moon and the outer senshi are the most powerful. I haven't read the manga yet, but in the anime, the writers basically made the inner senshi nearly useless. I'm re-watching the anime and on seldom occasions do the inner senshi attacks ever work on the monster they are attacking. Meanwhile, the outer senshi always attacks and it always works. Rarely does it not. Sailor Moon on the other hand, well, she channels love for her power and in the show, love is the end-all be-all since it's an attribute the enemy cannot understand.

Getting off that train of thought in regard to the anime, I would stick to the outers being the most powerful because they just seem to be. Pluto is the solider of time, Uranus is the solider of the sky and wind, Neptune is the solider of deep waters, and Saturn is the solider of destruction. Saturn is basically the end-all and therefore would be the strongest of the four. Plus, I think it would make sense to have the outer senshi be the strongest since they're supposed to protect the galaxy from outside invaders. If they can handle the threat before the threat made it past their barrier, there's no problems.

Also, I do agree with a point made earlier that said it is a matter of willpower too that fuels the senshi. The outers seem to have the most willpower most of the time and therefore that could be why they always appear to be the strongest and their attacks actually work. When the inners have a burst of willpower, their attacks work too. I just finished watching the other day an episode in S where Jupiter wanted to become stronger since she was disappointed in herself that her attacks have been failing. She was determined and when the daimon appeared, she single handedly defeated it, without the help of Sailor Moon. So I think there is great potential in everyone, it just depends on their drive.

I even like the ideas of everyone else though like with Sailor Mercury and Jupiter. It makes me wonder what it would be like if Sailor Moon were targeted at a more mature audience. Would their attacks be more realistic and powerful in these ways? There is potential for everyone.

Yeah. I meant that as in, the outers attack and it weakens the enemy, where the inners attack, they seem to miss and whatnot. I still stand by that it all depends on willpower. I believe that the outers have more willpower than the inners.

In terms of power I think all of them are matched in their own ways and it really does come to their willpower.

For example I would say Usagi is far stronger than Princess Serenity, since Usagi, even after losing Mamoru would not turn away from a battle. I think that's what separates them the most... while Serenity would panic and probably kill everything after losing Endymion...

Also in the myu... Haruka was shown to be capable of killing Michiru when prompted, she would have if Usagi hadn't stopped her, however Michiru was completely incapable of killing Haruka and Setsuna had to step in to kill Haruka instead. It shows that they're all capable of beating each other but it depends if they have enough strength in their mind to do so.

I think, as far as Outers v Inners go, Outer are stronger based solely upon the duties they were given upon their awakening.

The Inners were the guardians to the Moon Princess, so they were trained to handle pretty tough evil guys, right? But to me, while they could easily kick-ass and take names of pretty much any threat, they were members of the court. They were meant to deal with court politics and minor evil disturbances from within the system, to serve as the final defenses of the Princess in case of an attack.

so they were meant to handle the little big things.


While the outers (Neptune and Uranus) were to guard the solar system from threats OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM. Holy crap. Seriously?! There's a ton of evil out there - dark masses and pockets teeming with evil stuff that, if it's able to make it past the Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt, means serious business. Their duty was to stop threats from entering the solar system, so while the inners dealt with, say, level 20 monsters that were grown within Earth or one of the inner planets (which didn't happen often as the star seeds of those planets were pure), Neptune and Uranus were facing level 70 monsters who had grown somewhere disgustingly dark and were attracted by the light of the Silver Millennium, passed through its natural defenses (proving its strength and cunning) and Those Two were the only thing standing in its way.

Pluto was off guarding the Time Gate

And according to Neptune in S, the three of them were never to meet in case their Talismans would touch and awaken Saturn.

From hints of Uranus talking about being lonely with only one shining light (Queen/Princess) to keep her going, and the sheer distance between Uranus and Neptune, I bet they never met or spent time together, so those senshi were facing those huge terrible badguys alone.

So, yeah. Neptune and Uranus are stronger and more badass than the Inners because they were created to protect the system from dangers from without. Venus and the girls are still badass, but they were facing baby things compared to what the others were facing.

And I still think they're stronger than Saturn (if only because Saturn's kinda an all-or-nothing fighter; if she can't win, she destroys everything - where's the fun and challenge in that? ) and possibly Pluto (just 'cause I don't think Pluto would ever unleash the full force of the Underworld for fear of what could happen to the timestream), and that's when they arent working as a team.


Now, by the end of the series, the Inners had risen to the challenge and evolved to become stronger and more capable warriors, but so did the outers, so I say the outers still win.

Kanye West wrote:

Yo, Kyralih, I know you makin' a point and all, and I'mma let you finish, but Sailor Moon is still the most powerful senshi of all time.

That's okay, Kanye, I agree. XD aaaand I'm done x]

Oh Kyra, I <3 you SOOOO much. *huggles*

Gah I love this so much. You made an awesome point, Uranus. It's funny too because I just watched the anime episode where Uranus and Neptune were talking about this and their duties they had in their past life, also stating that they were like the strongest because of this.

I can't wait to read the manga (when I get them and I have the chance) too and also see how the senshi work in them.

I actually don't think any of them are more powerful than the other. Each of them have immeasurable strength, but the most power and strength a senshi has, it means that their power is drained quicker. i.e. Saturn with her attacks and Sailor Moon depleting the Silver Crystal.

They are the most powerful together.

I'd say obviously Sailor Moon, then, as Hootie said, Saturn, because she has the power to pretty much destroy the world.

In human form, Mako is the strongest, right?

I feel like this will boil down more towards popularity than actual power level...

My head canon goes likes this: Usagi, Hotaru, Setsuna, Haruka and Michiru, then inners. Actually, I usually group Haruka and Michiru with the rest of the inners, particularly with the anime, as they don't get new attacks or anything and generally don't do much during StarS >.<. But anyway, yeah, that's basically how I see it.

Poor Hotaru, all that power, and they couldn't even give her a transformation sequence...