Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25926288-20151208123619

Yep, the problem is that it's more of a speed battle rather than a magic battle because it's always hard to see comparisons.

For example, we see that Amara is stronger than Jafar as their magic opposed each other as seen with the glass shards.

We know Ingrid is stronger than Elsa. Elsa bested Ingrid a few times, but Elsa's snowman was weaker and she couldn't undo the Snow wall with Ingrid alive.

But other than that, we only have skill, versatility and speed.

Regina only every loses because she's just slow. I think she's amongst the slowest on the show. Zelena is always said to be more powerful, but she only really wins because she's faster. Although when she was amped, she easily tore through Regina's porection spell and hit Regina, all at the same time.

I ignore the fact that Regina summoned the tornado, while Zelena had a backlash. Mostly because it was said that you have to recover from the anti-magic cuff, which Zelena had to recover from that and then she never had the chance to fully recover as she was doing magic left and right and healing and poofing and glamoring and using telekinesis. While Reigna was simply fine before she used magic.