Third, IMO the Ancient One's feats are not that impressive given that she is awesome against Chitauri ( so was Black Widow and Hawkeye) Kaecillius' thugs but ends up getting shanked by him. There are many people who do jobs for a long time, but never progress beyond a certain level of competency, due to lack of talent. My point is that the comparison with Strange is complicated, as it may be that by Infinity War Strange was the more powerful magician. Something supported by Wong's assertion that Strange had a natural affinity for the Mystic Arts. You can at least infer that she suggesting that Strange will become a greater Wizard than herself. In Endgame she notes that Strange is " supposed to be the best of us." Second, just because the Ancient One was around a long time doesn't necessarily mean the was the most powerful sorcerer supreme- perhaps mystical threats during her tenure weren't particularly powerful. Not that 300 years give or take is going to make much difference in a comparison of experience, I accept. )Ĭlick to expand.I disagree with you entirely.įirst, The Ancient One is only about 700 years old. Wanda is certainly more versatile than she used to be, but as things currently stand she does not seem to be more *powerful* than she already was, she just knows she can use her powers for things more esoteric than the energy effects she did before. ( Also, again, as a rough if slightly indirect benchmark: Dr Strange, who is almost certainly less skilled and powerful than the Ancient One at this point being a thousand years less experienced, managed a fairly prolonged fight against Thanos *with three Infinity Stones*. Only, I will be fair, given Wanda's greater exposure to magic and the weird aspects of her powers, I will say she probably does manage to counter the *first* such esoteric blindside. The fight is going to go the same way the last fight between the two went: Wanda pulls off some impressively powerful moves, the Ancient One counters them deftly, and then Wanda gets utterly blindsided by some esoteric attack she can barely comprehend that ends the fight. Two, the Ancient One has at least a thousand years of experience on Wanda. One, the only evidence we have of the Scarlet Witch at least *theoretically* being more powerful, is Agatha, who is a massively unreliable source to say the least.
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