I actually go by Alan Scott > Hal Jordan > Kyle Rayner > Guy/John >= Kilowog. And that's without factoring in Alan's wild power ups he's gotten over the years.
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It's worth noting that the list there (which I agree with) is raw power. For all of his psychotic feats, Alan doesn't have some of the nifty versatility feats that Hal and Kyle do. It's arguable that they have a wider range of powers with the ring than Alan does, though Alan blows them away on pure power.
I do think that nowadays versatility among the Lanterns is pretty much non-existent, which is a shame as they've been relegated to energy beams and constructs. Alan's displayed enough versatility to compete, though, imo, including elemental attacks, having precognition "danger sense", being able to teleport without opening spacial warps, the ability to see ghosts/the spirit world, etc.
In any case, Alan's ridiculous when it comes to pure power.
Prior to Flashpoint, it was arguable that Hal/Kyle were still better for, say, tourney purposes. They had some nutty versatility feats that were never retconned until Flashpoint, despite the fact that they had been slowly dumbed down in recent years. I'm not saying Alan's without versatility, I've read a lot of his stuff. He's just always been the type to "throw the book at them" so to speak, rather than doing fancy matter or time manip, shrinking, tech-building, a bunch of others I'm forgetting, etc. If the links are still working, the respect threads are great places for those two to say "wtf, when did they do THAT?!"
It's just DC trolling, he'll be back with the relaunch. But yeah, dumb. Two panels for the funeral. My issue wasn't with him dying, it was how quickly and moronically they wrapped up the plotline. They knew Flashpoint was happening months, maybe years, in advance. Gotta script that sh*t a little tighter.
Mr. Terrific's "I got better?" explanation to his plotline was even more unfathomable. Deep, emotional loss of what he values most with a unique "villain" that robbed him of intelligence, then "er, I got better" two issues later so he can Deus Ex in the finale. Just an utter lack of storytelling responsibility.
GL versatility used to include cloning, time warping, matter manips, energy manips, energy drains, lantern traps, worm holes. A lot was lost by the corps.
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