Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-24894881-20161207144910

8Rob wrote: Hmcooper4 wrote: Well, When Regina was talking to Robin in INEBG, she said that Rumples letter to Cora indicated that Zelena was the most powerful. Agree. And Rumple met Zelena BEFORE she got the pendant.

And in 6x10 we saw (again) that magic works on the serum people, because EQ was turned into a snake by Gideon.

Which makes even worse how Zelena lost that battle in 6x09

Geez, she could transform people into flying monkeys in 3B... She just need to transform the EQ into a shoe or a beach ball  or something

It's like the show is saying when you are good you become weaker! Rumple may have contradicted that letter though by saying in 5x23 that his best student was the EQ. I assumed at the time he just meant in darkness, but maybe he meant strength too. Maybe the EQ is indeed stronger than good Regina and Zelena if we try and interprete his statements that way