Who do you think is the best wise guy, and the contestants for this are the turaga, Mata Nui, the protectors, and Ekimu. I think it is Turaga Vakamma, however terrible he was as a toa.
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I think Iām gonna go with the turaga
Turaga hands down. The protectors were just boring, characterless rip-offs of the Turaga (hey kinda like G2 was a boring rip-off of G1ā¦ jk). Mata Nui in a way wasnāt really an elder in the same way as the others, as he solved the problems instead of telling the heroes how to solve their problems. Ekimu was more exposition, and all knowing. So yeah, Turaga.
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But wich turaga?
This guy really fit the definition of āwise guyā IMO.
Youāve heard of why he was banished, right?
Nah, if weāre sticking to your parameters, the Protectors had the greatest potential. The Turaga Metru were the best.
-Azani
Heās not on your list, but Keetongu seemed pretty wise. I think. Itās been a while since Iāve actually been able to read the books.
Yeah, Keetongu was a wise guy.
I mean, just look at him!
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Yeah, definitely the protectors.
~W12~
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Bingzak is the wisest of them all /s
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Vakama.
Iād say Turaga Nuju or Turaga Whenua.
With my limited knowledge of these characters, they always seemed to be the wisest. Even if Nuju was unintelligible.
Iāll go with Nokama. She seemed like the most helpful lady in the MNOG. (Here, Chronicler, take this book.)
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Iād definitely have to go with Turaga on this one.
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The protectors were nearly characterless, and what little character they did have doesnāt stand up to the development of the Turaga- nor does boring-Mata-Nui and Even-more-boring-Ekimu.
The Turaga had some mystery to them, such as when Vakama fought the Rahi-Nui with the Toa Nuva, or revealed that he knew about the Bohrok- and the fflashback arc fleshed them out completely.
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I give my nominee, Jaller as a matoran. He was able to lead the Ta-matoran as the captain of the guard, and his strong sense of duty prevented him from making selfish decisions. He actually did more to help Tahuās state of mind than the Turaga presumably did. He was not a stupid toa either, he consciously checked himself, unlike toa of fire before him, and recognized when Matoro needed to lead. Also, he was a novice toa who was able and willing to use a nova blast without training. Just saying.
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he DOES have the old wise guy hat
I would agree with the outline of this; hwoever, I would add that Jaller was implied to be pretty cold and hostile to Takua at the start of the old MNOG, which may or may not be canon in this context. As it was, he mellowed out by the defeat of the Bohrok, so it was part of his thematic and personal arc, in a way. The process of character development wasnāt just restricted to Toa, back then. 
I would agree. Unfortunately we donāt see much interaction between Jaller and Takua before MoL aside from MNOG and the Bohrok Animations. I could argue that he was speaking out of stress and maybe business, but seeing Takuaās track record makes me think there was a bit of beef between them.
And he definitely mellowed out. He sounded like one of those stereotypical surfer ādudesā. (I honestly hope that changed as a Toaš)