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Saying Elsa is stronger than Emma is pretty weaksauce. Emma clearly had no idea what she was doing. Plus, we can't keep taking season 4 Emma and comparing her to Elsa when we clearly have season 6 Emma.

I say statements trump feats anyday as the writers clearly dictate what is and what isn't. Saying "Regina was powerful enough, she just didn't believe" (5) was said by the same writers that "Zelena is more powerful than Regina" (6).

I don't think Emma is supremely powerful, but some things aren't fair. Comparing an Emma who first used magic to Regina in the same episode "Emma didn't destroy Elsa's Snowman, Regina did" is obviously not being fair. If we compared early days of these witches, Regina would be six feet under as Zelena was doing magic as a baby and Emma accomplish more unwittingly.

Plus it's pretty weird to claim Zelena telekinetically pushing Emma as some feat that Emma is weaker than Zelena. If that were the case, then Blind Witch would be stronger than Regina as the only other enounter was Regina killing Blind Witch from miles away behind a mirror because the BW had a powerful protection spell that Regina couldn't break to get the apple. (So, doing feats, I could claim that BW's magic is stronger than Regina's, but we all know BW is really weak and not even close.)

The srongest argument is that the show isn't clear. But Regina hasn't shown herself stronger than Zelena at any point in seasons 4 through 6.