Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24018644-20150915144835/@comment-24863788-20150917172551

Eskaver wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: somehow, i think Emma is actually better than Snow in terms of sword fighting. We never see Emma learn and somehow got almost as good as Rumple which I can shenanigans because that makes zero sense. She only used a sword once and somehow she's that good. Forgive me if I don't believe that. I mean she never used a sword in season 3 for anything good and never seen in 4, so I call that as nonsense.

But she's still up there with Snow who sort of rarely use swords.

I think it goes Rumple (with Magic) > Hook > Mulan > Anna  > David > Neal > Emma

Archery it goes probably Robin > Merida > David = Snow = Granny Yay!

It's all close to me. Mulan does seem to use her sword better than David, who loves to throw his. I'd say Mulan may be a little better than David, also based on the fact that her sword is the most powerful in all realms. Sure, that doesn't change how good she is at sword-fighting, but it definitely changes her performance in battles and gives her the upper-hand, and she just seems to handle her sword better than David to me, I don't really know why (I may be a little biased because I love her so much, I'll admit that xD). And Blackbeard is pretty good with a sword as well.

As for archery, we didn't really see David using a bow much, so, based on that, I'd say Snow is probably more well-trained (IMO). Robin is an amazing archer (that was made obvious when he went to Oz and had the fight with Zelena), but I think Merida might be better, since she literally hit three targets in the absolute center and even broke an arrow that was already on one of them (yes, I know this happened in the movie and not in Once, but she did the same thing in the promo, so it doesn't really make a difference).