Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-24264679-20170306180408

Eskaver wrote: New half-season start, so new ideas. Oncce must work on the "Rule of Cool". So, let's follow this train of logic.

Emma and Regina best a spell by Hades. E + R > H

Emma easily gets the preemptive strike on the EQ. E > R (But people act as though it is a ?)

Zelena owns a tired (?) Emma easily. Z > (tired?) E ?

Queenie defeats Zelena without a fight. R > Z ?

Gideon easily owns Queenie. G > R

Emma owns Gideon (at best they are on par). E > G

Anyhow, magic seems to act interestingly. Zelena (amped) was able to immobolize Regular DO Rumple, as now, Gideon did on Super DO Rumple. Does this simply mean that anyone could toss an imoobolization spell up on any being of any power and it work? But DO Rumple went out the way to use squid ink on Black Fairy, who seems to be stronger than Gideon. So, by show logic...

E + R > Hades > Super DO >? Black Fairy > Gideon > Emma >  Regina >? Zelena.

The show's weird. Amped Zelena feared Emma's power. Regina remarked on Emma's raw power. But then she losses to some, likewise with Rumple. Rumple is Super DO, but Hades treats him as a joke, but Emma and Regina are somehow a slight threat to Hades' spells. Unless, the show really works with the idea that any spell can be broken by anyone, leading us to not know power levels from feats, but statements.

So, Emma + Elsa + Ingrid =? Regular DO, but Regina could undo a DO spell, yet was rather ineffective against Ingrid. Which means that Ingrid would be weaker and stronger than Regina, due to them breaking or resisting spells casted by one another or the DO.

TL;DR: Apparently spells can be broken by anyone of any power level, due to lack of details. Can't do magic math.

Just because you break someone spell or you get a hit on them don't automatically make you stronger than them. Personally who is stronger than who is simply dependent on who plot needs to be stronger. No real logic to it. However your examples aren't good though. Anyone can smack the crap out of Rumple if given the chance but that wouldn't make them stronger by any means.

Emma got a shot on Gideon but she never knocked him out, just back. She then picked up a piece of the sword that can kill anyone and threatened to slit his throat with it. Once upon a time simply sucks at delivering good fight scenes.

I honestly can't tell you who is stronger than who but I feel like the top people would be:

Regina: Posses powerful Dark Magic and the most powerful form of Light Magic

Rumple: Power of the Dark ones

Dark Fairy: Most powerful Fairy of All

Maleficent: Dragon and Sorceress

Lily: Same as Mother

Emma: Posses the most powerful form of light magic

Zeleena: Posses an immense amount of raw power


 * People who are currently alive mind you.