Thread:KylaraE/@comment-33030270-20180519173752/@comment-24021004-20180520011528

Sorry to butt in, but here are some of my few cents: See, one would just say Near is not as smart as L, and I'm not taken aback by this. However, it's important to note that while Near studied to be L for years, L had experience, which teaches one better than any textbook can. So, Near has far less experience than L, which justifies his intellectual inferiority. And then, there's Light. The thing is, Light has a generally healthy lifestyle, eating healthy, playing sports, and having a perfect amount of sleep, so that'd give him an edge in intelligence. Light implied that had he not slept the perfect way he already does, his grades and stuff would decline. BUT, L is super intelligent as is despite such an unhealthy lifestyle. BUT THEN AGAIN, Light is 7 whole years younger than L, and that's a huge difference, especially considering that Light's still considered a teenager at the start of the series.

Sooo, the closest thing we could do is compare Light at the end of the series to L at the beginning of the series. So, it's still hard to say considering L had 3,500 cases of experience while Light simply helped in two, and I highly doubt Light had to solve many cases as L during the timeskip. However, Light's psychoanalysis skills are better than ever, he was able to analyze and predict what each person would do:

-Matsuda

-Near

-Mello

-Mogi

-Demegawa

-Misa

-Soichiro

 While L managed to analyze :

-Naomi

-Soichiro

-Higuchi

-Namikawa

-Light

Meanwhile, Light in Part I:

-L

-Yuri

-Rem

-Namikawa

Also, let's look at how Light analyzed each person, and any possible justifications:

Matsuda: He predicted Matsu would suggest taking the Eye deal. However, considering he spent four years extremely close to the Task Force, it isn't that much of a feat.

Mogi: He knew that Mogi wouldn't be the kind to spill info to Near. However, again, four years does something, no real psychoanalysis skills required.

Near/Mello: He knew Near would swap the notebooks based off of how Near would approach things, and he thought Takada's kidnapping was moreso something Mello would do. However, they are indeed his main opponents; however, Light had many, many other things to think of besides them during Part II, like the Task Force and Kira's regime, plus there's the fact that the entire time Light had to analyze them based off of anonymous interactions.

Demegawa: Bleh, anyone'd know this guy's too greedy and selfish, nothing special.

Misa: He's been spending years and years with her, not too hard to predict the kinds of things she'd do.

(NOT DONE YET)