Talk:Princess Celestia/@comment-13418548-20130726031332/@comment-26973802-20130820000052

1. To an extent she seems good at predicting how things will turn out, such as with Nightmare Moon and Sombra, but I don't think she can actually know the future or else Chrysalis couldn't have deceived her

4. With Nightmare Moon, she couldn't do more than banish her to the moon and she wanted Twilight to find some friends and use the full power of the Elements so Luna could be restored rather than trapped inside Nightmare Moon while imprisoned in the moon for another thousand years. With King Sombra, last time Celestia and Luna defeated him, they could only imprison him and he cursed the Crystal Empire, she probably didn't want him to do that again. And the Twilight's test thing stands too. With Discord, well, as Grovyle said, she was no longer connected to the Elements so it had to be the Mane 6, but she did decorrupt Twilight when Discord looked like he was going to win. And she tried to defeat Chrysalis first before telling the Mane 6 to find the Elements of Harmony.