Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6739926-20150118083555/@comment-25926288-20150318115835

I agree with above. It would be Zelena without the pendant, then. They wouldn't put a powerless Zelena in the fight, because she would just die. What we know is Zelena was the most powerful witch/sorceress that Rumple met. Also, we haven't seen Ingrid teleport people away. Ingrid is the main threat on Team Sisters. Zelena is the biggest threat on Team Mills. I think it goes:

Zelena >= Ingrid > Emma > Cora >= Regina > Elsa

Zelena > Regina, Regina > Elsa, Ingrid >= Regina + Emma, Regina + Cora > Emma

All of these were established by the show, not counting PIS or CIS. I would say that mostly on the show, sometimes supossedly more powerful people are defeated by weaker ones and sometimes they look strong because no one's around to compare. Even, though I like Mills more than Sisters, Regina's power level has fluctuated in a downward slope, as did Cora. Emma's seem to have consistency for the most part. In season two, it would have been Rumple, Cora, Emma, Regina mostly because the battle scene and "winning against Rumple." But that no longer is the case and she's actually several steps below him in fact. Regina's vain sayings of "We are the two most powerful practioners of magic" and defeating a powerless(?) or weakened Pan don't mean much apparently.

Whoa, tangent there. I think with the open opportunities of witchcraft over cryokinesis leaves them the winner.