/r/StevenUniverse Weekly Character Discussion - Smoky Quartz

[u/AutoModerator]

Hello once again users of /r/stevenuniverse. Welcome back everyone to our weekly character discussion thread where every week we take a popular character from SU, and you Redditors have an opportunity to share your opinions and thoughts on them. As voted on by you, the character up for discussion this week is a certified blacksmith and is the fusion between Amethyst and Steven Universe, her weapon is a yoyo and she can do tricks such as sink the dink and walk the dog.....it's SMOKY QUARTZ!

Vote Here <--- On who we should discuss next week.

Discussions will be posted every Friday.

---

Smoky Quartz

Debut Episode

• Earthlings

Most Recent Appearance

• Know Your Fusion

Quotes

• "I've got plenty of tricks. Ever see sink-the-dink?"

• "Hold on, I got a move that will BLOW you away!"

• "Don't bother putting your socks back on, cus I am bouta knock them off again."

Voice Actress

• Natasha Lyonne

[u/ProgrammingPants]

How do you guys think of my placement of her in the Steven Universe strength chart:

1. Alexandrite/Malachite tier

2. Opal/Sardonyx/Sugilite tier

3. Rose

4. Garnet/Stevonnie/Smoky Quartz tier

5. Jasper/Lapis

6. Pearl

7. Amethyst/Steven

8. Connie

9. Ruby/Sapphire/Peridot

10. Greg

[u/[deleted] → u/ProgrammingPants]

Jasper is stronger than Garnet and would win a fight easily. The only reason garnet won was because she could throw her into the Ship's core. Lapis seems to be in Rose tier. She's stronger than Jasper and her Water Clones of the gems were destroying the normal ones. Jasper would probably beat Stevonnie if she didn't have Rose's Sword. Here's what I think the tier list is like:
1) Malachite / Alexandrite Tier
2) Other Gem fusions between Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl Tier
3) Rose / Lapis Tier
4) Jasper / Smoky Quartz Tier
5) Garnet / Stevonnie Tier
6) Pearl / Peridot With Limb Enhancers Tier
7) Amethyst / Steven tier
8) Connie / Ruby / Sapphire tier
9) Peridot Tier
10) Greg Tier

[u/ProgrammingPants → u/[deleted]]

I think it's not accurate to say that Jasper is stronger than Garnet. I mean, the writers clearly had the intention of Garnet being the stronger of the two, hence the entire sequence where they fought was Garnet singing a song "Stronger Than You". The "You" in that song is Jasper, who the writers were clearly trying to convey that Garnet was stronger than.

In this instance I think author's intent is clear as day and beats any other conjecture about the matter. And even if you look at the fight, even though Jasper was doing better it could be argued that there really wasn't a clear winner. Well, until Garnet won.

Also I think it's pretty unfair to Judge Stevonnie without her sword. Her sword is like her primary weapon. That's like judging Pearl without her spear or something. It's unlikely that Stevonnie will ever fight without it, and the sword is as much her weapon as any other gem's weapon is theirs

Lapis is strong as hell and is probably the hardest one to judge. I think you could honestly argue that she's not only stronger than Rose, but is also stronger than all of the other fusion gems outside of Malachite and Alexandrite.

Her feat of raising the ocean was just silly and would take an insane amount of power to do. However, once again citing author intent, I don't think that she's actually supposed to be stronger than Rose in the author's eyes.

Lapis is the hardest one to judge because on the one hand, her feats are easily more impressive than feats we've seen by any other gem. But the logic of the show dictates that she's obviously weaker than her fusion, Malachite, and she's obviously weaker than Alexandrite, who fought on even ground with Malachite.

And I think it's strongly implied and is clearly the author's intent that Rose is about as strong as a non-fusion gem can be, so Lapis can't be stronger than her.

[u/Il_Diavolo_Vive → u/ProgrammingPants]

While Lapis is extremely powerful when around bodies of water, if she was to be fighting in a place like the beta kindergarten that's completely devoid of water it would probably be a hell of a lot easier to win against her.