/pony/ - Pony

The things people will go in a tizzy over. Wasn't any whining when they added Steel, but I guess "stereotypically girly = bad" was in effect.

Well, I mean - I do like me a lot of my Dark and Ghost types, given my general interst in spoopy stuff, but in general, not really. My favorites reach pretty far and wide (hah). I like a lot of flying types too, just on account of thinking birds are cool.

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To be fair it is interesting that steel, dark and fairy were all introduced to nerf another type

Steel and dark to nerf psychics who ruled the gen one roost

And fairy to nerf dragons Hydreigon in particular who went to having to just two rare weaknesses to Ice and Dragon to gaining a huge 4x weakness to fairy  

>>1211963
All rebalancing. And again, people only got mad when one of them was called "fairy".

Even though it honestly makes a lot of sense for a monster-collecting game where many creatuers are based on folklore to begin with to have a more general "fair folk" category amongst the Ghosts and the Dragons. If anything, it's weird that it took them that long.

I still think Fairy sucks as a type thematically. Competitive counterbalancing sure whatever, but the type has absolutely NO consistency in what is and isn't Fairy. Other types may have edge cases but Fairy is dubious more often than it isn't.

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I mean almost all Fairy Pokemon fit into certain moulds when it comes to a design.

Their goblins, trickster, nature spirits. That sort of thing

Only one that's kind of weird to me is Galarian Weezing, but it explains in its dex and lore that it purifys the land and air wherever it goes. It cleans up toxins and nasty elements, so it's sort of like a nature spirit. Sort of. A weird victorian smokestack fairy.

Mr Mime may seem odd being fairy may seem odd to some but his entire thing is being a silly goofball that loves tricking people. Classic goblin energy.

Klefki.. Yeah, also strange. But it is based on mischievous spirits that steal your stuff like keys so again trickster kinda deal. Hell it has the prankster ability, says it all.

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But that's already several different things, and tricksters were already covered under Dark type, and nature spirits have been widely represented among most types.

Most ridiculous though are most of the retrofit Fairies, like Marill and Snubbull, who should logically be the most obvious for why they had a type added.

>>1211967

I mean you're not wrong but it is funny the most goblin troll like Pokemon Grimmsnarl is Dark/Fairy type