As a longtime Darkfag, Dragonfag, Pseudofag, and Kaijufag, Hydreigon instantly joined the ranks of my favorites from the moment it was leaked. So you can probably imagine how I felt when, just a generation later, Game Freak decided to take a big, sloppy dump over all of it with the introduction of the Fairy-type.
In all honesty, though, thanks to the Pokebeach leaks, I had time to take it in and assess the new addition as a good thing. I was all set to welcome the brand new type with open arms when the official reveal came and Game Freak decided to introduce us to Fairies by making a shitty 4x weakness joke with my silver medal pick as the punchline. That one image instantly turned Sylveon, a Pokemon that I had been neutral-to-positive about up to that point, into my absolute least favorite of all time, and quickly soured me on the entire Eevee family by association, especially since TPC decided to use that moment to crank Eevee shilling into overdrive. That existing ire did make skipping Let's Go a very easy decision to make, even after I spent genuine American dollars on both Sun and Ultra Sun, so I suppose I've got someone to thank. Even now, six years later, I've come to actively like every single Fairy-type in the game with the sole and glaring exception of that ribbony atrocity. Worse yet, that official art convinced some """""people""""" that it'd be fun to romantically pair the precious puppet dragon with the most abortative of the Eevee tumors. Never mind the fact that Slurpuff is right the fuck there and has a food and cooking theme that pairs beautifully with Hydreigon's constantly hungry nature. Nope, let's make the Pokemon with the most suffering built into its life cycle even more miserable by strapping it to this unbearable gift wrapped turd.
