>>44784254>yes but still viable in ou. having more super effective stab is absolutely the kind of thing that would give it a step up one tier. If you gave it fighting type instead it probably still would have been OU.There aren't many type combinations that could've pushed Azumarill over the edge. The main reason for it becoming too strong is entirely due to it gaining a new immunity and 3 new resistances that allow it to set up with impunity. Not to mention Fairy is a really strong STAB that hits Water/Grass neutrally and is SE against Dragon. Steel would've been equally good for letting it set up, but it wouldn't have been as powerful offensively, meanwhile Fighting wouldn't have given it the ability to set up easier, but would've made it even stronger offensively. Fairy has the perfect combination of attack and defense to be the tipping point.
>There are so many factors that have to combine to make azumarill and Mawile as powerful as they are. its not just fairy + fairy moves that make them good.Yes, obviously there are many Pokemon that fall through the cracks because they lack a crucial sticking point. Breloom would be a shitmon without its combination of moves and abilities, but Breloom is amazing because it has just enough of everything to push it over the edge.
>But no where near good enough to over centralising or as strong as dragon was.Other than the fact that Fairy is objectively stronger, measurably so, than Dragon was, and the fact that Dragon was only overbearing under Smogon rules, and for arbitrary reasons. Dragon wasn't the most pressing threat, nor was it second, or third.
And even though Dragon was good in OU, it's not because the type was OP, but the fact that OU is filled with 600 BST Dragons. It's impressive if a Psuedo ISN'T OU. In Gen 5, every single Psuedo was OU. That's 4 Dragons + Latios + Latias + Kyurem fucking Black, a Pokemon with 20 less BST than Arceus. If Dragon was so OP, shouldn't a 700 BST box legendary be Ubers?
