Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25926288-20160529032518

Haha, I think we all end up trying to not budge which is the issue.

If we go by statements and feats, that'll get headcanons out of the way.

I'm the one that started with the Mills women being roughly the same in strength which is relatively true. Going by similar feats (keyword similar), Zelena and Emma both were capabale of using their OWN magic to see across worlds, while Regina said that she cannot and her father showed that The Magic Mirror could look across worlds, which still means that Regina hasn't shown such a feat.

So the threshold would be

Emma and Zelena

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Other witches

But none of that means that the others raw power is significantly greater as we don't have numbers or anything. Blue standing up to Zelena wouldn't necessary mean anything. Most of the fights is about who's faster, who can counter (which hardly ever favors Regina). Like peeps, one can argue that Regina has been downplayed in magic, but noone can ignore statements made by the witch herself and etc.

Regina put up a containment spell that she herself could not break (even though she casted it herself). But Emma was capable of breaking it. That right there shows that Emma's stronger.

Regina has shown at least twice that she has less raw power than Emma and Emma has a hard time with Zelena's magic, but I'd attribute that to Emma's lack of skill.

Regina is amongst the top tier witches in terms of magical skill and whatnot and probably was the top witch in the Enchanted Forest, but she's not all powerful and she's not ever going to be close to whatever Emma goes to become.

Emma is less trained and can be defeated through lack of skill and finess, but raw power Emma's amongst the top natural magic wielders.