Okay so story time.
Long ago, when this Project only had
3 pages, I tried making a "versatile Pokémon", Powette. It had 450 BST and I thought it was too strong because of its movepoll and abilities. It's only gimmick is that it can have either one or two moves of any type it wants. The first method of getting those moves restricts it to holding a plate, not getting STAB and using a move with 75 BP. Yes, 75 BP. The move that gets its type changed is weaker than Multi-Attack, with no STAB. It was made before we knew Multi-Attack would exist, and before people using Silvally competitively knew it was garbage. It was supposed to have Multitype, giving it a type change and STAB, but Jerry suggested Protean instead. So no one is realistically going to use this. Non-STAB 75BP coverage that takes up the item slot? Nope.
The second method uses the ability but allows Powette to change the type of the move in the first slot, based on Hidden Power type. This is just a glorified Hidden Power. The ability was based on
Custom Power but what I didn't realize was what made Pokemon viable in that metagame. The viable Pokemon in Custom Power are viable in the OU metagame, and have top tier moves like E-Speed or Boomburst for stronger STAB or coverage. None of those things affect the Pokemon I created. It's not viable normally because of low stats, it doesn't have any top tier moves and it already has Psychic for STAB and BoltBeam for coverage. So using this second method of getting any move type won't make it viable in any way.
Since it's single main gimmick won't make it viable or even usable, let's look at Jerry's suggestion: Protean. Now let's look at it's stats. Almost the same BST and stats as Kecleon, which has the same ability and is NU. Yeah, it's not going to work.
-~-If you don't want to read everything, start from here. Long story short, I made a Pokémon and it sucks. Now read the rest.
You might be thinking "
Why would you write all of this?? Buff it already!!". Well, you see, I wanted to give Powette a Mega. Simplest solution. Maybe it could fix it. It's Hidden Power gimmick would be lost but what can you do... right? However... VARIBRAWL EXISTS. The second versatile Pokémon submitted much later, in page 21. It makes Powette completely unviable. It doesn't SIMPLY have a form for every type like Powette was SUPPOSED to have with Multitype. It has a different stat spread AND a new ability for every type. MegaPowette would have 550 BST. Varibrawl has 540 BST and can hold items. MegaPowette would have 1 Ability, Varibrawl would have 19, ALL of them top tier ones like Adaptability, Filter, -ate Abilities, Drought, etc.
How am I supposed to fix Powette? If I fix all the mistakes I made while making it, it would still be 100% worse than Psychic Varibrawl alone. If I gave it Multitype, ignoring Jerry's suggestion from months ago, it would still have 18 forms 100% worse than Varibrawl forms. So much for trying to make the metagame's "versatile Pokémon" first... Powette is the metagame's most outclassed Pokemon at everything it tries to do, that's what it is. At least the third versatile Pokémon Aurulong is a legendary, so it being strong makes sense... (Note: Why did we need so many versatile Pokemon lol)
I wrote this post to get suggestions. To explain the problem and then to try and fix it.
Seriously, how do I fix Powette? Give it a Mega? Improve the effects of Power Burst (its 1st option for coverage) and Power Change (its 2nd option for coverage)? Give it Sketch x4 so it REALLY becomes versatile? +100 BST Boost to base form so it's at least Varibrawl tier in BST? Multitype? Adaptability (even though every Varibrawl has Adaptability and higher stats)? All of the above? Some of the above?
I wouldn't want to nerf Varibrawl just because of Powette, but even Aurulong's forms are somewhat outclassed by it, so maybe?
