>>26768609This.
Being the "Meta" type is the most solid definition I can come up with. They kind of styled Fairy as "Pink Blobs" and "The Moon" but were very inconsistent with giving it out. I have a solid idea what a Dragon, Fire, or Psychic type needs to be. Fairy is worse than Dark for just being a color.
They did not to their job of hard countering Dragons as well as advertised, because most of the Dragons in question are great for reasons beyond typing. Garchomp hardly noticed fairies, for example. It made The Button a bit riskier, at best. Hydreigon is pretty much the only dragon really affected, along with the weaker dragons that didn't need nerfing anyways.
The Fairy type is very overpowered, having weaknesses to the two worst offensive types (they stayed the worst even after Fairy's introduction), and resist several good types. And Bug. Offensively, Fairy is a solid type, though not as good as it is defensivly. It bothers me that Fairy has so many two-way relationships as well. Bug and Fire are literally the only two interactions that aren't a hard win or loss for Fairy. It just seems messy.
It also bothers me that Moonblast has 95 bp, while the other special mainstays like Ice Beam got nerfed down to 90.
The most damning of all, is that there are no good fairy types. "But Muh Sylveon, and muh Xerneas!" No, Sylveon and Xerneas are not good pokemon. Pixilate and Geomancy are very good tricks. Name a fairy that gets by on being a good pokemon, not for having an OP ability, or Geomancy. Just try to use Clefable without unaware, Sylveon without Pixilate, or Xerneas without Geomancy. I dare you. Gardevoir is about as good as it gets, or maybe Diancie.
Related to this, the Fairy Type is the posterchild for what is wrong with the current Meta. one OP trick supplanting actual strategy. Fairy should not take all the blame for this, Smogonbird and Megamom had a worse impact, make no mistake, but the type serves as a broad example.
