User blog comment:Whitehorse24/Who was the worst villain/@comment-5395062-20161205015632

Depends on what you mean by "worst".

If you mean who was the most effective, I'd choose Simon Keyes - after all, he was the only one who got what he wanted in the end: revenge on Blaise Debeste, Patricia Roland and "Di-Juan Huang". And he even gets a "father figure" of sorts in Sirhan Dogen, who saves him from Shelly de Killer and takes him back to their "home". Not prison. Home. He's not alone anymore. Furthermore, he succeeded all this despite his opponents being the former Chief Prosecutor, a prison warden and the president of a nation. And he was just a simple circus clown.

Compare with the others:
 * Redd White's web of blackmail was dissolved;
 * Manfred von Karma never completed his revenge against Gregory Edgeworth;
 * Dahlia Hawthorne failed each of her plots except the murder of her step-sister;
 * Matt Engarde either goes to prison or is executed by de Killer;
 * Kristoph Gavin has both of his plans derailed by Phoenix Wright, and Phoenix reclaims his badge shortly after he is indicted the second time making the disbarment a moot point;
 * The phantom didn't manage to destroy all traces of his identity and is now a liability to whoever employed him;
 * Ga'ran was dethroned and all laws made under her rule rendered null and void;
 * Quercus Alba's smuggling ring was dissolved and he has to answer both to murder and smuggling charges in Zheng Fa and America.

I'm afraid I don't know enough about Darklaw to state anything about her, though.

Honestly, two of the villains I like the most are Dahlia Hawthorne and Simon Keyes. They have literally nothing and nobody - no connections like von Karma, Debeste or White, no inside knowledge and sabotage like the aforementioned, the phantom, Gavin or Ga'ran, and they don't have Engarde's resources - and yet they pull off several difficult crimes impressively and nearly get away with it.