Originally Posted by kurapika

Light or LWhos Smarter?L : You could see it in the first manga when he televised the conference and Then he said it was world wide but then light killed the guy claiming to be L. but L actually only televised it in the kanto region of japan and then he Knew that light was in japan.Light: you could also see this in the first manga when he knew that L was getting people to snoop around and created a decoy diary in his drawer where he usually keeps the death note and then made a extra space for the death note underneath the dairy. In order to do that he went to buy himself wooden board place it underneath the decoy diary to make it look like the bottom but he made a hole underneath the drawer amd stuck a pen up the hole in order to get the wooden board up and there you go there was the note book. Personally I think Light is smarter what do you think?

Originally Posted by Banzai

like i said L is waay more smarter than Light...think about it, Light would've never figured out who L was....L had to walk up to Light to tell him that he was L...gee...Light sure is smart on figuring out who L was all by himself *sarcastic tone*.....Light's a moron...he uses and manipulates ppl and discards them as if they were trash when he's thru with 'em...anywho...there were so many instances that L dumbfounded Light and it was hilarious

Originally Posted by NeoDeath90

ah but there lies the flaw. Light then knew who L was. it was no longer a matter of figuring out his identity, only his name now.

Showing who he was proved to be a fatal flaw on L's part. therefore, Light was smarter.

and light manipulating people is part of why he is intelligent. think of Light as a corporation . you need to manipulate and trash people or other companies to become successfully. thats exactly what light did.