Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-28211584-20160529172959

Eskaver wrote: I'd easily put the Dragon above Regina/ EQ. Just because he didn't fight back means nothing. He could simply be a pacifist.

I think vertical might be misleading how I see the power levels (raw power, skill, etc) so I'll use letters and symbols to try that out.

Merlin (M) The Dark Swan (TDS) Dark One (DO) Dragon (DR) Apprentice (AP), Zelena (Z), Regina (R), Cora (C), Emma (E), Mal (Mal), Amara (AM), Jafar (J), Red Queen (RQ), Blind Witch (BW)

- this means insignificantly stronger

( > ) - this means slightly stronger

( >> ) - this means fairly stronger

( >>> ) - this means incredibly stronger

So, Dark One and above would go:

M > TDS > DO

Below Dark One:

AP >> DR >> Z, E (threshold line) R, C > M, AM, J > RQ > BW

The threshold line is seeing across realms of their own accord through a mirror, until there's some better showing the differences between Regina and Emma. A threshold is simply there because no matter how skilled Regina is, she lacks the raw power to use any non-magical mirror to see across worlds. You can't always raw power things, you can't always throw skills in other people's faces either. Cora and Regina are near equals, but Emma could manage to defeat Cora, before she could even do magic, same with Regina. The Apprentice would be more skilled than most dark ones, but his skill/power combo still won't ever put him above DO. why you put the dragon above  regina / evil queen ?? , What reason have you to say that? I agree that in relation to the AP can even be discussed their level of power ,but now put the dragon above  evil queen because you speculates that he does not use his power to attack, this is wrong. When tamara threatened the dragon, he prepared to attack her, but he did not expect her to be faster and hit him.Just as the evil queen tore his heart, at least it shows that they are at the same level.

I would not say M> TDS> DO; the level of merlin power is the same as all other dark ones, he has the same power as them (they gained powers through the same cup), the question is that how he has more knowledge and skill he manages to excel, as he says to emma when they fight "I'm in this game for a long time," (which further reinforced when I say that  regina is more powerful than emma in total even with emma has more raw power) .And there are many things in show who can prove that, for example, when the hook turns dark one it has the same raw power that all the other dark one, but he was easily asleep by emma and had erased memories, so I think that if the apprentice fight with hook dark one ,he would win because even  hook has more raw power than apprendice, he knows almost nothing about magic (both he only showed teleportation and telekinesis) and eventually lose .So as regina and emma, if they were fighting regina eventually will winning ,because  she has more knowledge,variety and skill, as stated earlier  it would need only a sleeping / paralyze or transmute spell in emma to regina win the fight.