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I don't like fairies very much.
I talked a lot about how OP Steel and Dragon were in Gen 5, but I feel the changes that Nintend made were pretty poor.
I won't go into the Steel nerfs, but Fairy is just too good. They're only weak to Poison and Steel. I understand that they wanted to make these types better for offensively oriented Pokemon of the type and maybe as coverage moves, but you can just switch the Fairy out and there's minimal punishment because Poison and Steel are shit typing for moves outside of hitting fairies. They're a lot bulkier than their stats may tell because they are so rarely hit super effectively, kinda like Spiritomb was (before Fairy typing came into existance, coincidentally enough).
I think the immunity to Dragon was a good start. Lots of times Dragons could just brute force their way through steel types if they weren't Skarmory or Forretress. Super effective against Dragon is a given. I don't really agree with super effective against Dark, but I think the resistance makes more sense with the nerf to Steel. Resistance against Fighting is cool, not so sure about the SE against it, but I lean more towards yes than no, so why not?
But why the fuck does it resist bug? Bug is such an awful attacking type made worse by Fairy. It was a complete sucker punch to the type. Sure, Scizor U-Turn hurts like a motherfucker but you have to keep in mind that the majority of bugs are like RU/NU status, maybe UU on a good day.
I also dislike how fairy just shits on Psychic type in general. I can't even think of a single Psychic type that wouldn't want to be made Fairy.
