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1. Regina never said Emma was more powerful than her.

In the bridge scene she said that Emma had potential that she was wasting. No where in that scene did she say Emma had mpre potential than her or that Emma was stronger.

In the hospital scene during the wicked witch arc Regina said that Emma's light magic was the onlything powerful enough to take out Zeleena and that she wasn't strong enough. It had everything to so with Emma having light magic and nothing to do with Emma being more powerful than her.

2. They state that there will be a moment when the Evil Queen won't have her magic. The Evil Queen didn't have any magic and on top of that she wasn't even focused on Emma. Blue did the same thing when Regina tried to rip Mary's marget heart out in the forest then she throw Fairy dust trapping her. It didn't work a second time though as Regina easily caught and destroyed the fairy dust. There s a huge difference between being faster and catching someone off Guard when they are vunerable. Context is so important in that scene and so much was left out in your post.

3. Rumple only absorbed Nimue and Merlin power. The darkness simply left Rumple and went into Emma. It was the exact same power Rumple possessed. The only reason Emma was considered more powerful because of her light magic. Raw power doesn't transfer from 1 dark one to the next only the knowledge they possesses and the darkness itself.