Who is the smartest villain in Arrowverse

If you mean pure intelligence Reverse flash is from the future and shows advanced knowledge.

Prometheus

Intelligence goes to RF

Prometheus is 10 steps ahead of Eobard and he doesn't even know what game they are playing.

Scientific intelligence goes to Thawne

strategic intelligence goes to Prometheus but Clock King is up there with him

IMO

10.Captain Cold

9.Webb

8.Clock King

7.Vandal Savage

6.Gorilla Grodd

5.Indigo

4.Ra's al Ghul

3.Prometheus

2.Lillian Luthor

1.Reverse Flash

Reverse Flash keeps coming back.

Reverse Flash is technically the smartest, and shouldn't Abra Kadabra be on the list?

@hypnos0929 said:

Just because he has 64th century technology doesn't make him smart in my opinion

Captain cold is the smartest thief, but intelligence overall goes to Reverse Flash

Eobard and it's not close.

Why the hell isn't Malcolm Merlyn on this list?

Reverse Flash or Adrian Chase.

Whenever I see these I assume you mean the comics, and then I realize it's the show.

prometheus. he died as he lived, ten steps ahead.

Seriously, Legends episode 10 basically just confirmed that Malcolm is more cunning than Thawne. There's great tension among the Legion of Doom, but every time Thawne wants to kill Malcolm, Malcolm finds some reason why Thawne can't. He just trapped, manipulated, and then thought of a way to rescue Thawne from the Black Flash, when Thawne was utterly hopeless and scared shitless. Damien helped Malcolm, but Malcolm was also the one who first realized Thawne's untrustworthiness and had to persuade Damien to join him. Malcolm is the only villain who has played every single side at one point, pits mutual enemies against each other, and almost always comes out of the season gaining what he wanted in some way. He's more dangerous than Damien too, which is saying a lot for a 200 year old supervillain who has eluded Ra's al Ghul for decades (who Malcolm has also manipulated several times) and literally came this close to destroying the entire planet.

Keep watching.....

Uh oh.

Thawne was in s1 flash but LoT PiS has tampered his image somewhat.-

I agree Malcolm does belong on the list however.

Reverse Flash

@endrit17: Yeah but if he's from that time we can assume his school's teaching standards dwarfs ours. It'd be like comparing an ancient Greek's learning to ours

Reverse Flash or Prometheus.

Thawne

Depends what the OP means by "smartest." In terms of pure intelligence, that'd go to Reverse Flash. In terms of tactical smartness/ability/planning, that'd probably go to Prometheus. Yeah Merlyn should be here too, he's definitely up there. Probably at #2.

Reverse Flash.