Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170429134340/@comment-25926288-20170720115800

Technically, it's subjective over which way you present your list: feats, statements, raw power, skills, etc.

Since we're still debating Regina and Emma and Zelena, I'll say that:

From obvious feats and battles, Emma does things far beyond Regina's power level, but she also does many more things below Regina's capabilities. Most of us account that for Emma's lack of experience and skill.

Ex. Emma for the first time did a light pulse against Elsa's snow man. She barely did anything, while Regina destroyed it with a single fireball. Then a few episodes later, Regina's fireballs barely phase the ice viking, while Emma's light pulse fractures a portion of it. This shows that Emma's gaining greater control over that spell.

But if you give both of them prep or a magical challenge to face, Emma could very likely outpower the challenge easier than Regina, but Regina could outwit and outskill her in regards to the complexity and nature of spells and how the approach them. Basically, Regina has the brains, while Emma has the brawns. Zelena has some of the brawn and some of the brain, but her emotional stability is....unstable.

Like with that Merlin wand, Regina used Zelena's raw power to have her cast the spell, but also used Zelena's emotional instability to cause it to backfire on Zelena (aka Zelena's power surges up and down). Regina has something similar, but she's actually went about ways to deal with that.

But it's like putting Merlin above Super Rumple because Merlin has more experience and feats or doing the opposite because of the implied (stated) raw power.