Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6810329-20160911021344/@comment-25536775-20160924190642

KnocknickKnock wrote: Eskaver wrote: KnocknickKnock wrote: Emma is way to high. People are giving her way too much credit. The only person she took out with her magic is Cruella. She has nowhere near the power of the Dark one and never has on her own.

Tier 1: The Gods(Not even Rumple with all the dark ones power could go against Hades).

Tier 2: The Dark Ones

Tier 3: Ingrid, Evil Queen, Cora, Zeleena

Tier 4: Maleficent, Elsa

Tier 5: Emma, Blue Fairy The difference is that you're looking at feats (or at least battle feats). Emma's stronger than Regina raw power-wise. Regina beats her only in magical knowledge.

I mean, I could say that Emma outsped the Evil Queen and she prevent her from using magic in the finale which was true. (Ingrid showed that she could overcome the cuff spell Emma put on her). The thing that I don't understand is why you downgrade Emma so much. She's surely stronger than Elsa. I mean, Emma was worried about destroying Elsa with her haywire magic. Elsa has range, but she really can do two things: blast ice and make snow items.

Although, personally in my headcanon, they're (Emma, Zelena, Regina, and Cora) all around the (roughly) same raw power level. Emma was only able to put the hand cuffs on The Evil Queen because she didn't have her magic yet. Snow even says so before Regina uses the potion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqfMXp3Ji2Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqfMXp3Ji2I

Also Emma blasted Elsa snow monster and only made it mad while Regina's 1 Fire Ball completely destroyed it. Clearly Elsa and Regina are superior to Emma. Not to mention Emma could use her magic to bring down Elsa snow Wall. It is clear as day Elsa is stronger than Emma and Regina is stronger than Emma.

I am not downgrading Emma but by feats alot of other characters trump her. You keep bringing up raw power but Emma doesn't have more raw power if her Light blast couldn't take out Elsa Snow monster but Regina's fire ball could. Or if Emma light magic couldn't take out Zeleena but Regina light magic could. Emma isn't as strong as you claim. You clearly aren't taking feats into consideration when ranking her so high.

But feats are supposed to be ignored. Power levels are almost entirely defined by word of god in this show. If we did take feats into consideration, then Regina wuld be right up there on tier two, and we know she isn't. Emma is inexperienced with magic and can't use it efficiently. She can't even summon a fireball and has just VERY recently learned how to teleport, and needed Dark Clippy to teach her how to do that. But we all know she is one of the show's most powerful magic users; her magic stems from Snowing's True Love, which is one of the most powerful forces in the Onceverse. She has some instinctive magic too, and is so far the only character besides Zelena who can confirmably protect themselves from a heart ripping.