Which Detective Conan character is the smartest?

[Uchiha Shadow]

I'd say Elena Miyano and Shiho are the smartest, but since they're not here
1/ Anokata
2/ Yusaku/Heizo
3/ possibly Rum
4/ Gin
5/ Haneda
6/ Shinichi
7/ KID

Intelligence has more than one aspect, Haibara and Elena can make a complicated drug while Yusaku can't, but Yusaku can solve a case much better and much faster than them.

[Whiskey]

I have yet to see any proof that Yusaku is a better detective than Shinichi.

File 138. Episode 96 in the anime.

Oh man, that really brings me back. The cases were so good back in the day! The cases today are probably still just as good, but by now I might just be desensitized to the series from having been with it for so long. I have to say though, in the old days it didn't really matter to me if it was a filler or a story case, I was always excited to watch it.

[Christcc9]

Also in the movie 6 (Baker Street), when Shinichi saw the letters "RTJ" blood-typed on the keyboard, he tried different combinations before finding it was JTR for Jack The Reaper. Yusaku immediately found it after barely seeing them and solved quite quickly the case.

[Christcc9]

Am I the only one who thinks Conan and Shinichi should be distinct in this poll?
I personally find him more clever when he is a child, because he is more determined to capture the BO and get back to his appearance, especially for Ran. Being/seeing things as a kid make him more watchful and discreet.

[Whiskey]

Am I the only one who thinks Conan and Shinichi should be distinct in this poll?
I personally find him more clever when he is a child, because he is more determined to capture the BO and get back to his appearance, especially for Ran. Being/seeing things as a kid make him more watchful and discreet.

Well, I can definitely see your point. Maybe I should have separated them. I think its the opposite, though. He seemed to be a lot more attentive as Shinichi. His deductions in the cases where he is Shinichi are usually way above Conan's level (even though they are the same person, lol). Though, this is probably just from a writing perspective to make it more special when Conan is Shinichi, since Shinichi is not shown too often in the series anymore.

I don't know if I would say Conan has gotten smarter than when he was Shinichi, but he definitely has gotten a lot more experience with dealing with the BO. If you look back at the Pisco case, he barely managed to get Haibara to safety after Gin attacked her on the roof, and afterwards in the car he tells Agasa that it was a little scary how perfectly Gin was able to read Haibara's actions. Then in the Itakura CD case, he barely survived because Gin stopped checking inside the lockers. Gin also easily managed to dispatch all of Conan's traps that Vodka fell right into. Later on in the Halloween party case, Conan was able to outwit Vermouth, but lost in the end because she used sleeping gas on him. The last case where he lost (kind of) to the BO was in the Kir case when they decided to go after Kogoro and he got saved because Akai sniped at them.

Ever since then, he has gotten a lot better at dealing with them. In Clash of Red and Black, he found strategies that even Akai couldn't think up and was able to discover the truth about Kir. In the Red Shirts case he got everybody out of the department store safely and in the Bell Tree Express case, he was able to beat Vermouth much more soundly. So yeah, I guess its safe to say he has gotten a lot better since the first episode, where he was letting people sneak up on him and knock him out with a baseball bat and feed him poison... lol.

[DCUniverseAficionado]

So yeah, I guess its safe to say he has gotten a lot better since the first episode, where he was letting people sneak up on him and knock him out with a baseball bat and feed him poison... lol.

I think Gin whacked him with a metal pole—that first file had more blood than every file after the early years (1994–1997), in which there was a lot of horror and gore elements in the cases. Incidentally, those were the years where Tequila was the furthest Shinichi/Conan got in his quest for leads to the BO.

[Christcc9]

Am I the only one who thinks Conan and Shinichi should be distinct in this poll?
I personally find him more clever when he is a child, because he is more determined to capture the BO and get back to his appearance, especially for Ran. Being/seeing things as a kid make him more watchful and discreet.

I think its the opposite, though. He seemed to be a lot more attentive as Shinichi. His deductions in the cases where he is Shinichi are usually way above Conan's level (even though they are the same person, lol). Though, this is probably just from a writing perspective to make it more special when Conan is Shinichi, since Shinichi is not shown too often in the series anymore.

You're right. And also he's more confident as Shinichi Kudo because of his well-known detective reputation and is taken more seriously as a (young) adult. As Conan, he is just a kid nobody really listens to him except for the persons who know his true identity and some exceptions like Akai, Jodie, Sera, etc. And sometimes Ran, Takagi... but he is more "shy" with them and immediately says: "I've heard that on TV!" after a serious talking or knowledge - so he restrains himself often.

Last thing (I know I'm annoying LoL): I regret Haneda's absence in the survey too.