>>40033823>It's not so much the typing as it is the stats with the typing.You can't separate the two, Dragons are by and large endgame mobs and the whole point is that they're powerful with great stats and high BP moves. The Dragon type complements this by letting them use their great stats to hit a bunch of shit neutrally for great damage--a lot of the Dragons would still be decent if you replaced Dragon with Fighting or Ground or Fire or Electric, but ultimately none of those typings afford the same spammability and raw power that Dragon did. Also keep in mind that Dragon didn't start with this level of spammability and power; it had no resists and no moves in Gen 1, then it gained some mostly bad moves and a single resist in Gen 2 (special Outrage in a game where everything's bulky and neither Dragon exceeds 100 SpA is nothing impressive), then in Gen 4 you suddenly have physical Outrage and Draco Meteor that you can boost in five different ways, all without any adjustment to the type chart. The way Fairy was implemented might have been overkill, but some kind of nerf was needed, especially with the likes of Charizard X around the corner.
>Since they are so versatile and already tend to have high stats, they could do with some minor stat reductions.Why nerf the Pokemon themselves (which, again, are supposed to have high stats because they're endgame mons if not actual legendaries) when that limits how strong any Dragon you make going forward can be and when the problem was ultimately caused by the type imbalance? You're basically proposing a Dragon nerf either way, just in an indirect way that would likely be even more distasteful to people than the addition of Fairy.
>Also Smogon was stupid not to simply ban Magnezone if it was truly that detrimental to the meta.Here's the thing though, Mag has been a part of the meta since Gen 3 and it's generally fine because you can still beat things if you drop a Steel. But what do you switch into Dragons besides Steels?
