And Is way cooler. do with this information what you will.
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Lei Shen also had a (at the time) nigh on indestructible and rejuvenating army of stone, he also had powers himself.
Would probably be a stale mate as both the Scourge and Mogu being of stone would be both tireless armies.
This is what I will do with the information:
Cry and remind myself that I have literally 1 achievement left for the Meta of that bloody island in order to get the amazing title, and I haven’t completed it because I need other people and can’t solo it.
/cry
#IncompleteMetaSinceMoP
#IwantmyStormbreakerTitle
#LeiShenISstrongerThanTheLichKing
#ItsMyFavoriteAOTCIgot
#BestPatchEverReleasedInWoW
My brother can beat up your brother.
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Cooler?
LK took an ice bath for years, doesn’t get much cooler than that.
No law that says you can’t harbor a wrong/bad opinion…this is good news for you.
I forget which of the writers backed this statement, but it basically went:
Lei Shen is individually more powerful than Arthas, and would win in a one on one. But in terms of military power, the Scourge was more powerful than Lei Shen’s forces and Arthas would win in an army vs. army fight.
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I could see that .
Arthas was a human paladin with some psychic undead-dominating powers and a spooky ghost sword. Lei Shen is a construct created for war who stole the power of the Gods for himself. Of course one is stronger than the other in a one-on-one duel.
However, the Scourge are definitely way more of a threat than the Thunder King’s forces as has been previously said. Lei Shen and his followers were a backwater cult, the Scourge threatened total world domination.
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The Jailor being written into the story made the Lich King less cool, by extension.
He’s cooler because he wasn’t overused.
This isn’t true and quite the opposite in fact.
The LK showed up and was an active participant throughout all of the Wrath quest experience. He made cameos in every zone except maybe grizzly hills and storm peaks (and it might be I’m just not remembering them). In fact, he was a key figure in them. Questlines revolved around him and there was always the feeling of him watching and aware of all that is going on and the questlines often centered around taking the fight to him or his forces.
The jailer has next to none of that. He barely a blip in the leader’s mind as we quest since they are all focused on their own problems. He himself never actually interferes with us…even in his zone, the worst we got is pestered and harassed by his invisible forces. You’d think our mere presence in the maw, given he KNOWS we can leave it, would incentivize him to camp that waystone and/or stack his forces on it…or at worst, as soon as he is made aware of our daily meddling, come and stomp us himself.
But no…none of that.
Of course Lei Shen was stronger. He was wielding the power of a titan that he literally took from Ra-Den who he beat the crap out of alone BEFORE taking that power. He also beat the crap out of Xuen in a duel. The LK’s power mostly lies in his unending army of undead.
Which Lich King? I feel like this question is going to be important.
I always found it amusing there are simple forest creatures more powerful than raid bosses of the previous expansion. Why don’t we just send them to do the hard work while we relax?
Because they have no resistance to getting their souls ripped out. Then we’d have to deal with them being supped up undead raid bosses. 
Many WoW bosses have been stronger than the Lich King. And not Bolvar, Arthas.