What are some Creation Trio downplaying you guys can think of?

[Purmeenant]

Like outside of Arceus "Not being able to stop a meteor that would destroy the world"

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

Why is this in the Q&A board?

This should be in Fun and Games.

 

[Purmeenant]

Because it was a question but if it should be in Fun and Games, I'll remove it

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Moved it to Fun and Games.

 

[Imaginym]

Hmmm. Let's start with Palkia.

Diamond	It has the ability to distort space. It is described as a deity in Sinnoh-region mythology.
Pearl	It is said to live in a gap in the spatial dimension parallel to ours. It appears in mythology.
Platinum	A legendary Pokémon of Sinnoh. It is said that space becomes more stable with PALKIA’s every breath.
HeartGold SoulSilver	Its total control over the boundaries of space enable it to transport itself to faraway places or even other dimensions.
Black White Black 2 White 2	A legendary Pokémon of Sinnoh. It is said that space becomes more stable with Palkia’s every breath.
X Omega Ruby	It is said to live in a gap in the spatial dimension parallel to ours. It appears in mythology.
Y Alpha Sapphire	It has the ability to distort space. It is described as a deity in Sinnoh-region mythology.

Is stated it can distort space, as though that's notable, therefore merely distorting space is the most Palkia can do.

Described as a deity in Sinnoh Mythology, implying it may not be one elsewhere, such as in reality, & thus, doesn't have powers like those one might expect of a deity.

Lives in the gap in the spatial dimension parallel to ours, implying it is better suited to that habitat, & performs less ideally outside of that.

Only has total control over the boundaries of space, not control over the things within those boundaries, & only for transportation.

Legendary Pokemon of Sinnoh, thus, Palkia does not qualify as Legendary compared to the Legendary Pokemon of other regions; It's just that weak by comparison.

Palkia needs to breath regularly to keep space stable, so it must be constantly hyperventilating during fights to avoid damaging space when it uses its powers in a fight. Thus, it collapses quickly.

Now what about Dialga?

Diamond	It has the power to control time. It appears in Sinnoh-region myths as an ancient deity.
Pearl	A Pokémon spoken of in legend. It is said that time began moving when DIALGA was born.
Platinum	A legendary Pokémon of Sinnoh. It is said that time flows when DIALGA’s heart beats.
HeartGold SoulSilver	This Pokémon completely controls the flow of time. It uses its power to travel at will through the past and future.
Black White Black 2 White 2	A legendary Pokémon of Sinnoh. It is said that time flows when Dialga’s heart beats.
X Omega Ruby	A Pokémon spoken of in legend. It is said that time began moving when Dialga was born.
Y Alpha Sapphire	It has the power to control time. It appears in Sinnoh-region myths as an ancient deity.

The power to control time, singular, therefore it only has one form of time manipulation, & not only is it so limited, but since it's unspecified, we don't know what it can do with its Time Manipulation, making Dialga's Time Manipulation inapplicable.

Only spoken of in Legend, & not described by them or having Legends about it; It's so obscure, weak & unimportant that it's only mentioned in passing in legends.

Dialga couldn't hatch until time began moving, thus being a supposed master of time that required time to begin.

Time flows when Dialga's heart beats, therefore it stops its heart when it stops time & compresses it to rewind time, making it prone to cardiac arrest when it uses its powers.

Controls the flow of time, implying motion, not the stopping or travel outside or through it.

The past and future, so it can only go to the past and future of 1 timeline, that being the one it's in.

& I guess Giratina is part of the Creatio Trio, too, since Arceus is technically the trio master, no?

Diamond Pearl	A Pokémon that is said to live in a world on the reverse side of ours. It appears in an ancient cemetery.
Platinum	It was banished for its violence. It silently gazed upon the old world from the Distortion World.
HeartGold SoulSilver	This Pokémon is said to live in a world on the reverse side of ours, where common knowledge is distorted and strange.
Black White Black 2 White 2	It was banished for its violence. It silently gazed upon the old world from the Distortion World.
X Omega Ruby	This Pokémon is said to live in a world on the reverse side of ours, where common knowledge is distorted and strange.
Y Alpha Sapphire	It was banished for its violence. It silently gazed upon the old world from the Distortion World.

When they say the reverside of our world, they don't mean another dimension, they mean the underside of the Earth's crust; Giratina doesn't actually manage its own dimension & just lives in the Earth's core, moving around upside down related to Sinnoh.

Banished for its violence, but only managed to silently gaze upon the old world, showing it couldn't just destroy its prison & come back.

Since it was banished to The Distortion World, we can presume its violence isn't dangerous enough that it would be assumed it'd do any harm to the Distortion World. Thus, Giratina can't break rocks & trees & plants.

Giratina lives in a world where common knowledge is distorted & strange (& probably doesn't remember being outside of the Distortion World anyway.) so its intelligence is about as coherent as the equivalent of scrambled alphabet soup, & it has no common sense, nor any comprehension of tactics, making it one of the least intelligent Pokemon ever.

& of course, Arceus.

Diamond	It is described in mythology as the Pokémon that shaped the universe with its 1,000 arms.
Pearl	It is told in mythology that this Pokémon was born before the universe even existed.
Platinum	It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world.
HeartGold SoulSilver	According to the legends of Sinnoh, this Pokémon emerged from an egg and shaped all there is in this world.
Black White	It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing, then shaped the world.
Black 2 White 2	It is said to have emerged from an egg in a place where there was nothing then shaped the world.
X Omega Ruby	According to the legends of Sinnoh, this Pokémon emerged from an egg and shaped all there is in this world.
Y Alpha Sapphire	It is told in mythology that this Pokémon was born before the universe even existed.

Mythology was written from the perspective of people living on Earth, therefore it only created Earth, or the parts of Earth those people knew about. Furthermore, that it used arms implies it needed to maneuver, reach, grab, etc. Thus, Arceus had to manually manipulate physical materials, & it needed 1,000 arms because it wouldn't be efficient at it otherwise.

Born before the universe even existed, but we don't know when it arrived, therefore we can assume it arrived after the big bang & travelled via a route that avoided all that scary cosmic radiation, cold of space, black holes, stars & supernova.

Arceus's egg had to be where there was nothing so that it wouldn't get hurt before making Earth, by the aforementioned scary space stuff & aliens like Deoxys, Staryu & Cleffa.

Something like that?