Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6810329-20160911021344/@comment-25926288-20160925010926

I typed out a whole thing that apprently wasn't caught, lol. So time for a TL;DR version.

Magic tiers changed from season 3 or so to the Introduction of Frozen. Rumple was top tier but Cora, Zelena were right behind him. Regina was likely lowered down the totem pole as seasoned progressed. Frozen messes up the powerscaling as we've never seen town-sized spells without items before. This was also when the DO went from powerful wizard to essentially lesser deity level, even though feats don't back it up. Merlin created a kingdom sized Forest (and probably more) by accident with his magic. Nothing Rumple did ever came close, but WOG says they are equal.......lol.

Magic feats are a mess. Regina was trading spells with the God of Death, while Rumple did four magic spells in 5B: fireball, heart rip, tethering SB's magic, and force choke. Rumple's feats are rarely showing his tier-worthy status. (Regina did far better against Pan than Rumple in 3A even though Regina was supposedly weaker than Rumple and Pan). Peter Pan being able to go thru Zelena's heart protection, but not Henry's (via Regina) contradicts. (which goes back to me talking about magic tiers changing).

Emma's raw power is greater than Regina's. Regina said so. Using a mirror to see across realms says so as well. Regina said that she (herself wasn't strong enough) while both Zelena and Emma were able to. Taking Emma's first light pulse as a guage of her powers is not fair as if we took Regina's first fireball when she first started out, we'd put Regina at the bottom. Emma did better attacking Ice Viking than Regina, so Emma clearly just needed some practice and her power shows that.

Regina has magic finesse and skill over Emma. Emma has raw power over her. Thus, I put them at the same level. It's brains vs brawn, and I say both count to some degree.