>>12031042Even discounting the ability of a mon to best other common mons, BST still doesn't tell the whole story.
Ice isn't just a bad type because it's weak to types that dominate the meta (fighting and fire), but because it has comparably fewer resistances than other types. Surely you don't think an ice type and steel type pokemon with equal stats are equally powerful?
Not to mention we have to take into account its capacity to USE said power. Mons with lower attack but access to better physical moves are still more powerful in terms of their aggregate capacity to wreck shit than mons with higher attack but a shitty physical offensive move pool.
A pokemon with a BST of 580 that has a base 160 Atk, base 40 def, and base 260 Spe is WAY more powerful than a BST 600 mon with 30 Def, 30 HP, 30 Spe and 150 SpDef and 200 SpAtk. Even though on paper it's "more powerful" it will get ripped to shreds by the first mon just because its stat distribution sucks, leaving it both too slow to hit first and too frail to hit second.
A mon with mediocre stats but a great ability like Magic Guard is far more useful than a mon with terrifying stats but a shit ability like Slaking or Regigigas.
Even outside of the metagame context, where a mon will appear more powerful than it is because it can serve a role or counter a common threat well despite massive overall shortcomings, BST STILL doesn't tell us a whole lot about "objective power"
