—Was the Creation Plate powerful?
Of course it was powerful. After all, it was the "underlying code" that made up the world itself, and a fragment of the power of the supreme Creator God.
Giovanni had also collected Plates when he ruled his own world.
But in the end, they reached a conclusion.
The Creation Plate could indeed grant Pokémon greater, higher-order power. If their attributes matched, they could unleash even greater strength.
But that was all.
Ultimately, the Creation Plate belonged to the Arceus that seemed to exist in every world. Even if another being obtained it, there was a limit to the power they could draw from it.
Giovanni had once equipped Mewtwo with a Mysterious Plate, but once it reached a certain threshold, its increase in power stalled as though it had hit a bottleneck.
This led Team Rocket's scientists to conclude that if they wanted power beyond that, they could not rely on the Creation Plate.
That was also why most Legendary Pokémon would not refuse the Creation Plate's enhancement, yet did not desperately seek to bring it under their control.
Thus, Giovanni had long abandoned the idea of improving Mewtwo's Combat Power by attaching Plates to it. Instead, he searched for other methods, eventually setting his sights on the negative energy of Dark Matter by chance.
Without accounting for type restraint, Diancie could barely rank among the peak Class One Legendary tier in Combat Power. By normal reasoning, even with every enhancement taken into account, it could at most wield power slightly stronger than Black Kyurem and Zygarde.
Very strong, but not enough to inspire fear.
—That was how it should have been.
Yet when Giovanni saw portions of Dark Mewtwo X's armor melted away by the high-temperature Dazzling Gleam, with the surviving nanobots still