I'd say the WG being so strong is less because of outright power and skill (not to say they aren't skilled or powerful) and more 'right place, right time' over and over to an extreme.
We manage to get our hands on canonically-powerful equipment, like armor empowered by shadow magic and necromancy (Barrows), dragon metal, divine shapeshifting crystals of a goddess, the Godsword, Silver/Darklight, and so on.
Fairies gave us their blessing to use their rings for transport, a Mahjarrat bestowed knowledge of powerful dark magic unto us, the Moonclan opened our minds to the possibilities of magic through their ceremonies.
Death literally doesn't let us die - presumably Guthix was like "yo when this person is born, don't reap them, just resurrect them". It comes up in Elegy, so it's canon that we die and come back.
Plus there's the common idea that our enemies initially underestimate us or we catch them in a weakened or reluctant state.
And we also apparently have some great cosmic destiny since Oreb knew about us and was trying to get us to arrive, and Xau-Tak knew about us before we were born.
There's so much more I can list (besides the obvious World Guardian empowerment) but I think you get the point - it's just the sum of all these different advantages adding up to make us a force to be reckoned with. In terms of straight-up power and skill, the Wise Old Man probably still has us beat, and we're definitely outdone by any Mahjarrat or god.
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