User blog comment:Iamthelegion/Artemis Fowl vs Skulduggery Pleasant/@comment-24140340-20141014232330/@comment-25931106-20160503234810

Artemis age changes with series: He's 12 in first book, and at the very end of final one he is 16.

As for Artemis genious - he has highest IQ in europe, several dozen patents, wrote several psychology books under aliases of at least five different Ph.D's, found an ultimate way of writing romances and wrote several romances under pseudonym (this one at age NINE). At age TWELVE, he has madly hacking skills and has an active file in Interpol as well as many aliases including chessmaster one, which he demostrated, basically giving a mat in 6 moves to a topclass chessmaster.

Also, in every book his plans make his opponents look like total idiots, outclassing them severely, including entire LEPRecon with Foaly (not Foley), who have technology centuries ahead of humans; genious, megalomaniac pixie Opal Koboi, and many more. He masterfully manipulates people, and takes great delight of being smartest in the room, utilizing rethoric like a master to have everything he wants/needs done by other people. He can improvise, creating plans and assessing their chance of success in minutes or less under pressure.

Oh, and he can cheat mind-wipe, time-stop, and the death itself.

His only weakness is lack of physical strength and care for a family.

There is virtually nothing impossible for him in series save for relatively normal things: confession of his feelings towards a certain redhead and normal social life, as well as developing decent physical condition. And even that is more about his attitude and less about sheer capability and could be solved with enough pressure from his mother and mentioned above redhead :D

There is NO WAY Skuldugggery is THAT smart.