It's fucking Pokémon, why would you need to explain anything about it?

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Fairies are completely immune to Dragon-type attacks and effective against them. ('bout time they added another weakness for the overpowered Dragons; Ice Pokémon tend to suck with defense) They are harmed by Steel (which is great, since faeries ARE weak to steel or iron objects in most mythology) and Poison (...I don't quite understand that one, though). I'm glad they made Poison a bit more useful, since that and Bug type tended to be among the least used types. I mean, they're not bad, but you get Bugs so frequently and so early, you get tired of them or they have reached their max evolution very fast and can fall behind. Not to mention that most of their Bug-attacks were not all that good at first.

Except that wouldn't really fix anything; nobody would run Steel attacks just to beat Dragons. Ice already does 4x damage to a lot of Dragons (so you don't even need a STAB bonus), is available to a lot of Pokemon through Ice Beam (and Hidden Power if needed), and has extra utility against other annoying types like Ground and Flying.

Base 120 power attack with STAB that hits everything for neutral damage other than Steel,

I never understood why the fairy type needed to be added. Just make the Steel type super effective to dragon and you would've fixed the type chart without a new addition.

I'm not sure what you mean, having only one type that resists your attacks and only two weaknesses (one being itself) is stupid good, especially if the Pokemon that have said typing have the stats to make good use of it (which a good number do)

But Dragon didn't need another weakness, it needed something else to resist its attacks.

If your opponent's Life Orb Garchomp gets off a Swords Dance and starts spamming Outrage, it doesn't matter if you have Ice Beam or not; you're going to be OHKO'd before you get to attack. Even something like Ferrothorn, a defensive Steel type, can't switch into that.

Fairies are the sole reason nobody uses Outrage anymore.

So you're saying that the type meant to keep another type in check completely destroyed one of the strategies associated with it? That's some great game design right there.

nevermind the fact that the hypothetical I presented was very likely to happen and the defender I mentioned is one of the best defensive pokemon in the game and it still gets 2HKO'd

Of course, that's assuming that Garchomp can get off a Swords Dance

or that even if it didn't pretty much every dragon carries fire blast/flamethrower or earthquake anyway

or that almost every steel type in the game is slow as shit other than like lucario and a handful of legendaries

or that the only things that carry ice shard that people actually use are mamoswine and maybe weavile

If it kills a braindead, degenerate "strategy" like "hur dur, SD, Outrage, hope you have Mamoswine or something with a Focus Sash or you auto-lose", I'm 110% for it.

So any strategy that involves sweeping is "braindead and degenerate." k

Why the hell would Garchomp (or any other mon carrying Swords Dance) have a particularly hard time using it?

I've been using Garchomp as an example but pretty much every commonly used Dragon is faster than almost every Steel type

Multiscale Weakness Policy Dragonite with Dragon Dance can produce the same results.

So the Steel Pokemon is going to take at least one hit when it switches in, and as I said, even the most defensive Steel type is taking around 50% damage from a boosted Outrage.

Nobody uses Mega-Abomasnow or Mega-Glalie in serious battles. Cloyster has four-moveslot syndrome: it needs Shell Smash, Icicle Spear, and Rock Blast. That leaves one slot, which is usually Razor Shell since otherwise it has no Water STAB and Ice/Rock is poor coverage. Frosslass might, but Frosslass is almost exclusively a lead Spiker since that's all she's good at, so she's likely to be the first thing on your team to die.

Steel types are still ridiculously good, they don't need to be SE against Dragons on top of that, they're the best defensive type in the game even after 6th Gen nerfs.

It's braindead and degenerate because it requires absolutely no thought or work. Any other team that has a sweeper has to clear out the sweeper's counters before it gets to sweep. Outrage spam doesn't need to do that because at the time of 5th Gen, only one type in the entire game resisted it, and even that type took heavy damage.

all it would have done was make the whole game Dragons vs. Steel. Adding Fairies barely changed things for most Pokemon anyway, it just weakened Dragons and gave something for Steel to beat on

A new mode called Hyper Training is announced. With Hyper Training, Pokémon that have grown to Lv. 100 will be able to increase their individual strengths (IVs), which has never been possible before.

Wait, there's no Pokémon League?

……………Bullshit.

And if they have to force a legend into the story, I hope it is the result of someone just messing up. No intentions.

I'll be honest, I'm more excited for the Alola forms of existing Pokemon than the new ones. Ice-Fairy Ninetales? Yes please. Sandslash that isn't even Ground? Sure.

I'm pretty sure that, since it's Ash, he will still fuck it up somehow. Or they will have contrived reasons for why he cannot participate.

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