He obviously started off as a ripoff, we have Isabella himself describing it. They just had to change him enough, and through the process of "superfriend
zing" him, which played ambiguously and often inconsistently with their powers, he got a tremendous power upgrade. As well as a new costume .
In the end it really does make him an all new character.
He's more of an all-out lightning elemental (if you can call lighting an element) Besides using standard energy blasts, he can make hard-lightning constructs, bolts, lassos, cages, etc. use them to cling to lift or move people without hurting them(so electro-magnetism), Travel at lightning speed, through space, more on par with a Speedsters, add flight!, to actually transforming to living lightning etc.
He's insanely powerful!
Like all the HB creations on the surface pretty outrageous, but they were damn powerful:
-Apache didn't just grow, but could go to cosmic scale, where he exists moves around planets. Add his Longshadow and YJ incarnation, and pretty much extends his soul-self into a cosmic being.
-Samurai wasn't just wind, tornado, etc, but could also become fire, become invisible, and more.
-Dorado could not just teleport (himself and others as well as objects) , also had flight, like J'onzz telepathy could read minds, also generate telepathic illusions, which in essence manifest real, so like a power ring, except directly through his mind.
-The Exor Twins, obviously Jayna is essentially Beast Boy, including some mythological and alien creatures. Zan who was pretty laughable, conceptually like Jayna who could shape-shift to any animal, started off not just transforming to water based objects, but a full organics elemental shape-shiftier, could become objects of water, rock, liquid metal, crystal, etc.
Pretty much imagine Plastic-Man if he could become objects of any element too. He was actually to powerful so they only focused on water. If given a story arc, I'd have him learn that he can access all these powers, he preferred being clowned, just cause he was so afraid to use them, for fear what he might become.
I'd love to see a story where the Seven HB created Super Friends, actually face off against classic JL Seven.
Again just please give them all pants and shirts! LOL!