Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-24894881-20161206134939

D.Prince wrote: I disagree with Regina or zelena being less powerful just because they are becoming or had become heroes. Like some of the users above said, Zelena could not defeat the serum queen. Heck not even Rumple can kill her. The same happened when he choked Hyde and he is not even a magic user. If she would have been going up againt's Regina then there would have been a chance. Also, I really don't get why some people ignore the fact that Zelena was more powerful in season 3 because of the pendant. Of all the things the writers do not explain, this was not one of them, it seemed pretty clear to me. So, that being said. Regina was not weaker during that arc, she just could not hurt Zelena with dark magic because of her pendant. And about the Snow Queen, I truly don't think she was at all that more powerful, but she did have the elemental ice magic which is something that Regina doesn't wield, but it doesn't make Ingrid stronger, just trickier to deal with. Also during that fight that Ingrid "won" let's not forget that the truth is that she took them by surprise. Any other magic user could have done the same. But Zelena's power was already acknowledged before she got the pendant. She dodged an attack from Rumple (legit why didn't she do this with the EQ?) and as I mentioned before, she was stated to be more powerful than Cora.

I think my theory of Regina just simply training and growing since s3 makes the most sense