My plan with Beast Boy was to have him be a Ditto shifter, to mimic his animal shapeshifting abilities from canon. I'm the exact opposite of a pokemon expert, but I have been told that dittos can only transform into a pokemon if there is a version of it in the area, though, which takes out a lot of the fun of playing Beast Boy in action scenes, where he normally rarely spends more than five seconds as the same animal. I was wondering if, since he is not just a ditto but a crazy awesome enlightened dude, we could reach some sort of compromise.

Perhaps he can turn into any pokemon he knows of, but he always counts as normal type. Perhaps he gets all the type bonuses, but isn't any good at the special moves (like, he can turn charizard whenever he wants, but can only punch and kick and bite, no fire breath). Perhaps he has a few pokemon forms that he memorized and can use whenever.

Thoughts?