Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-28211584-20160418224110

Hmcooper4 wrote: The safe haven event would not be that hard. all it would take is a simple sleep spell, then casually going to each person and harvesting their heart. Since cora did not crush the hearts, they weren't dead, just under her control. (though it does make the Zombie like battle a little disconcerting, but that is another story).

as for the arguments on Emma. Season 1, she did not believe, so her magic ability was 0. By the end of season 2, Emma had just started accepting that she had magic ability. And even without training, her raw ability blocked Cora from ripping out her heart, she was able to use the Dreamcatcher (under Rumple's tutelage), erect a protection spell (while it was partially device driven, it was also powered by Emma's magic) that was effective enough to slow down a combined effort of Regina and Cora, and by the end of the season she was able to start chanelling her power to assist Regina in disarming the Failsafe diamond. She was not powerful by this point, but she was starting to use her powers.

Season 3a had her working with Regina to learn simple magic (lighting fires). and given the limited time they were in Wonderland, she caught on quick enough. And this continued in 3b, although here Emma was resistent to embrace her powers, which that in and of itself prevented her from fully utilizing them).

So up until the beginning of Season 4, I agree that Emma was way down on the list. By Season 4, though, Emma has started training in the use of her magic, and we saw much more versatility. She was using light blasts against Marshmallow and the Viking Ice Monster. Again, she was still an advanced novice, but she is learning quickly. By the end of the Frozen arc, she had blasted a hole through the wall of the sheriff's office and done some other feats which displayed her raw power, and that power appears to be considerable stronger than Regina.

By the end of season 4, she has light blasted Cruella over a cliff (without even touching Henry), and she has used her light magic to drive the Darkness out of the Apprentice. Again, a show of way more raw power that Regina, or even Zelena, had ever showed. And this time that power is under greater control.

Then we see Emma as the Dark Swan, and she is almost on par with Merlin at this point. in the one straight head to head battle, Merlin did win, and that win was based partially on the even greater raw power that Merlin had, combined with 1000 years of experience with Magic vs 2 years of magic use. Emma also was able to channel both her light and dark magic to undo the curse that kept Merlin as a tree.

And Now, in the Underworld, her magic was immediately accessible and working, while Regina and Zelena both had trouble with their magic (Zelena is still having trouble as of Ruby Slippers). This again speaks volumes to the Raw Power, but her time (albeit breif) as the Dark One has also given her some control and versatility that she did not have before. So, I would contend that by this point, Emma has always had the raw power and speed. and has caught up in versatility. Feats may still be lacking (though not by much). All this to say that Emma has definitly worked her way to the third spot behind Merlin and Rumple 2.0.

And keep in mind that MOST of Emma's advancement in Magic has occured over a time span of about 6 months (basically since she returned to Storybrooke after Snow's curse). It took Regina YEARS before she could even be considered barely competent with Magic. Using this as a basis of comparison, Emma completely blasts Regina out of the water. And Regina even concedes that Emma is the better witch. I agree, but do not forget that heart and regina made a ball of fire and destroyed together easily (without any difficulty, as you dissia) emma shield, and soon after heart alone destroyed the shield emma.E emma is currently more weaker than regina, mainly because of the versatility, (raw power No, she showed when easily destroyed a wall) and strengthen it when she confronted regina in your volt (in 4x11) and invez out and use a spell barrier * to try to hold it back or knock her she preferred to evade having to face a full regina of hatred, and it was just to see how regina easily trasmutava / teleportava ana and Kristoff out of the station, which reaches coclusão that regina eventually winning emma by peralização / transmutation / teleportation, as well as wizards who put above it in the list, and still think regina has the same speed as emma in cast spells (if not margialmente higher), regina can turn a gnome in quickly stone (1x02), it can use a variation of the stoppage to bring down the lost boys and all the 7 dwarfs (3x02), it can quickly paralyze daniel and the arthur (2x05 and 5x07), struck maleficent playing a chandelier on top of it, zelena, the teleportanto to the clock tower and sending back to Oz trough of a tornado and pan, tearing his heart (1x02,5x11 and 3x09) quickly broke the neck of a guard and a villain (3x06 and 5x11), teleported ana and Kristoff to the limits of storybrok (4x11) etc .And the funniest of all is that there are people who call the regina lerda witch, and has many more polls made her than nerds, beyond that, the problem was that in 3b (when he began this story of lerda) when zelena was much more powerful than her because of her pendant, and easily defeated the regina giving the impression of sluggishness but actually was not that, it was raw power, both often regina attacked first and was still knocked out or blocked, since the 4x05 to ingrid caught her as she spoke, and the meleficent she was trying to convince them that she was not the traitor (because did not like her face rumple and maleficent together right) since emma and on the contrary, she showed no done that colocassse at a level above the regina (in speed) and has no great feats of speed, what she did was amazed ingrid (which is not much, since elsa he did) and enjoy after the blocking of the tapes played regina back .... but already made nerds, she was paralyzed by rumple easily and pan (4x11 and 3x11), was hanged by ingrid (4x05) and was thrown by ingrid (4x11) then .concluo currently regina win emma and is more powerful (mainly due to lack of versatility, knowledge and skill emma)


 * = Emma learned that showing in 3x20 when she and regina make barrier to try to prevent zelena into the room of snow