if you had to fight an alicorn

[The Wandering Magus]

fights can often turn into diplomacy sessions if you're skilled in words

[Zygrograxgra]

With dragons in Skyrim, fights are actually deadly verbal debates.
So why can't we have something similar?

[The Wandering Magus]

that would be awesome, actually!  And it would be even MORE awesome if it was a rock-off or something

[Zygrograxgra]

Never did say what kind of fight...
I'd challenge them to a "see how long you can game" match.
Last one to quit wins.

[Lord of Madness]

With dragons in Skyrim, fights are actually deadly verbal debates.
So why can't we have something similar?

having a language like that sounds awesome... just oh so awesome...

[The Wandering Magus]

chanting-battles!

[Firey]

Hmmmmmmm.....okay let's see.....


RUN!

[Book Smarts]

fights can often turn into diplomacy sessions if you're skilled in words

AND you get the same amount of experience 

[The Wandering Magus]

yep! +4 for that Charisma stat!

[Zaddist]

ok ignore the diplomacy its not like that, sure u can do that after u fight, but were talking about the fight. no diplomacy involved here How would you handle the fight . diplomacy

[Zygrograxgra]

Gimme an StG44 and a clip or two.
...tranc darts, of course.

[The Wandering Magus]

ok ignore the diplomacy its not like that, sure u can do that after u fight, but were talking about the fight. no diplomacy involved here How would you handle the fight . diplomacy

would psychological manipulation with just words be considered "fighting"?   Like Hannibal Lecter is able to talk a sheriff into "defeating himself" (aka something violent that I can't say here on the forum) without even doing anything, or Lord Blackwood is able to talk all of London into riots and anarchy, or "Herr Adolf" is able to talk Germany into a dictatorship, all with nothing... but.... words.

The tongue is the deadliest weapon of all, and the pen is truly mightier than the sword

[Echo]

The lack of information you provide about said Alicorn foe is displeasing to say the least.

First of all, we know very little about their kind bar the fact that the only ones in the show are dieties, be it the Sun and Moon raiser or some mirroring of pony cupid. So, is that Alicorn such a being too or a more common pony? What's their talent? As Twilight said a unicorn's magic is limited by their cutiemark, if theier cutiemark isn't anything close to conjuration/illusion magic then you have nothing to fear from their horn.

They can fly, but how fast? Again their talent comes into play, is their talent flying? If not then they are either flying realy slowly, sloppily or even are afraid to.

Someone called the earth ponies a strength class earlier, I would like to point out that Equestria wasn't made as an RPG and all ponies can be equally strong as long as they excersice. As mentioned by Faust, earth ponies has a magical connection to earth, not stregth, they are the ones that grow flowers, get food, make the industry and economy flow, unlike the unicorns which mostly stick to fancy stuff and Pegasi that mostly stick with weather making.controlling and flying, Earth ponies have a very much wider variety of talents, that's their strong point, not pure strength.

So, after you actually have a materialized opponent, with personality, stregths and weakness plus a talent, then come and ask again.

[Shadechaser]

This topic looked like it needed a bump-up...
When all else fails, the dark will guide me to victory. As a unicorn, I will manipulate the shadows that are one with me, and evade all oncoming magic. Slowly draining the alicorn's magic from the shadows, then when she realizes that she is weak, I would come near and smack some sense into the alicorn.
Unicorn: For the Win. (?) Ignorance is bliss? failure! ...

[Nimbus]

Lure the Alicorn into a dogfight at low level, flare wings, perform Kulbit maneuver, repeat as necessary.

[~Durpy]

Enable Cheat-Engine, remove entity.

I win

[HerpyDooves]

Enable Cheat-Engine, remove entity.

I win

Or you could just use the Konami Code.

[GoldenTerrabyte]

I'd do the armadillo.
Pleasedon'thurtmepleasedon'thurtmepleasedon'thurtme!

[Somebeing]

BFG9000

One word says it all.

[Shadechaser]

What have I revived?