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DracoWombat wrote: Eskaver wrote: DracoWombat wrote: When was Hades not willing to test himself against Merlin's magic?

5x15 The Brother Jones. Hades asks Liam to get inside Merlin's house with the heroes. Liam asks why? Hades says that light magic doesn't agree with him. This doesn't mean anything. Sometimes beings with extreme raw power have increasingly specific weaknesses. See: Zelena being universally regarded as more powerful than Regina but was defeated easily by the latter simply because she's '''extremely vulnerable to light magic. '''That doesn't mean Regina's factually more powerful than Zel.

I believe that light magic > dark magic with equal power. (Sort of like Pokemon or like any rock-paper-scissors). We know Hades was depowered by the heart stop (even Blue's heart stop when her power was stripped from her). So, Hades's divine magic being weaker than Merlin's light magic isn't bad as his immortal trumps everyone's (even Dark Ones as Hades wasn't affected by Acheron's water, but Rumple was fearful).