AYou know, they say Arceus is the most powerful Pokémon. Yes that may be true but he is not as powerful as you think he is.
Here are some reasons why.
1. If he was god then why are you able to capture him. This the problem with all legendary Pokémon as well. If the creation trio and Arceus are gods then why can they be captured into little balls by ten year olds to engage in cockfights.
2. The best feat of Arceus was he created the Pokémon universe. However that was only one universe, and he drained pretty much most of his power in doing it. Lots of people in fiction can create universes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re powerful, especially if they waste almost all their energy in creating just one.
(Also the idea of every Pokémon game, being it’s own universe is a fan theory. It does not mean Arceus is multiversal, because since when was Arceus a multiversal being.)
3. If he was god, then why did Arceus almost die from a meteor hitting him. I know a lot people say this is PIS, (plot induced stupidity), but still why did he almost die from a meteor. It’s so stupid to see a so called god nearly die from a psyducking meteor.
4. Arceus in order to be powerful, needs these so called plates. Since when does a god need something in order to be powerful.
5. He had to struggle to fight the creation trio. He created the creation trio which means he is more powerful than them, yet he had to put up a struggle with them. If he was god he would have just instantly defeated them.
Those are just some of the reasons why I believe Arceus is powerful alright but he is a weakling compared to other gods in fiction. He’s just not the powerful god many Pokémon fans believe he is.
One other thing that I say about Arceus was the fact that He was subdued by regular Pokémon and molten Lead or some other metal. I find that both stupid and funny.
Like another person has said here we have to (at least imo) take seriously into account the contexts, 1st it's utterly contradictory to combine anime and games since they have great differences and also the anime sometimes makes even less sense (for instance, teenager characters lifting or carrying on their backs pokemon that exceed 200LBS weight) also in games Arceus can only use 1 plate at once and it just turns him into it's respective type, while in anime he can use all at once and it makes him invulnerable to type attacks, also in games by stats Mega-Rayquaza is supposed to be more powerful, but in Hoopa's movie it pretty much showed how Arceus is massively superior, and other things like in the dex Gardevoir can create a BLACK HOLE, and if Arceus is stronger than Regigigas, why is Regigigas according to the dex a continental mover while Arceus is a mere city level? that's why it's not useful to take these aspects as like one of a same kind, and now the context, it's a GAME, mostly FOR KIDS, obviously for entertainment it has to be able to be used (captured), and anime it would've been weird that we went from destroying cars or trees to literally having characters over Goku and Superman's level, besides how would've they made to create a plot with universal godlike beings when the most shown before it's environmental control, time travel and sea and continent control? It's convenience and context, that's why I'd rather take this by lore and what they're supposed to mean on surface than what the anime/games needs it to be, Arceus has the plates to organize his power and so be the forger of creation, which places him as an Universal/dimensional being since it lives outside other dimensions and can access them, Dialga, Palkia and Giratina are primordial forces created by him which can affect dimensions and the natural order's balance, so they're also universal/dimensional beings but lower grade than Arceus that exceeds their power by a lot, that's why I like to point out it's that this is lore and it seems more fitting since what's REALLY PIS is that a creature than can give form to the universe can get to be killed by a city level attack, that's why in vs battles wiki (it might have a lotta controversies but at least it's based on lore about this) Arceus is on the same tier as Alien X (2-B, Universal+) and for me as concept it's better, cause anime and games seem that can't give a really reasonable and well-grounded power to a supposed godlike being (also the creation trio) and makes sense, since would be to out of the sudden those levels for what pokemon is directed, this is not Dragon ball, Marvel or DC, nigh-omnipotent beings in Pokemon sounds odd and irrelevant for its plot, but for the concept and what technically represent, the lore makes justice putting him as a nigh-omnipotent being with universal/dimensional power.
Still the creation trio hasn’t shown much feats.
In the anime, they barely destroyed a city.
Probably PIS but still they only destroyed like a single city.
That's why I said it's the companies convenience, does pokemon need Dragon ball level fights? There you have it, and in Lore it's taken the part where directing his power through the plates (at least in there the plates are catalyzers, not extra power) can create universes and dimensions, so that's an impressive feat slightly related to the "canon" and also with the creation trio, they are forces of nature, their only existence being attached to the natural order of the universe it's a massive feat itself, and obviously this is taken as what it's "supposed" to be, not as how's shown (since lacks real senseful meaning) and it's lore.