Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4519633-20141022032431/@comment-25926288-20160420185757

I know (nearly) all the magical things that Regina has done and that's when I say that you're right with versatility, but we can't use ability to do something to mean instant win.

Example: Let's do Regina versus Amara. Both can turn people to stone. Both can use telekinesis and telekinetic choking. Etc. I mean I could just say that Amara wins because she made an entire group of soldiers kill themselves. But the thing is, Amara didn't go for that spell with Jafar for some reason and plot happens to get in the way of ability because we can list all their abilities, but we don't really know how they work and what's their limitations.

Rumple tells Hook that he can't teleport someone if he doesn't know where they are. Well, that's important to know. The Spirit of the Dark One teaches Dark One Emma how to teleport. That's cool to know. But we don't know all the intricate details. Plus, we don't know what everyone knows magically. We see Regina more often than others so obviously she shows the most magical versatility, but we know that she learned it from Rumple and Rumple taught Cora and Zelena. So, do they all have the same abilities? Well we don't know. If he did, then the only thing that separates them is raw power, speed and intelligence.