>>51129360Enter Fairies:
- They are immune to Dragon, which ends Outrage spam. Ok
- They are supereffective against Dragon, making Dragon have 3 weaknesses now (the usual number)
But:
- They themselves are only weak to Poison and Steel. Two very uncommon attacking types (Poison being only super effective against Grass, which is weak to a fuckton other types and Steel being Rock but without being SE against Flying). Technically this would mean we'd see more Poison and Steel attacks, but they are still horrible attacking types, and most of Poison and Steel types are Defense-oriented.
- They make Fairy SE against Dark and Fighting too, because potato. This gives another weakness (even x4 Weaknesses like Scrafty) to Pokémon that were pretty good but not broken, and now they are useless.
- Psychic's main niche (dealing with Fighting) is stolen. Even more, Fairy can beat Dark, which is immune to Psychic, making Fairy a better Psychic.
- Fairy type is given to very good Pokémon, given to Megas, making it everywhere.
Basically, Fairy type introduction nerfed Dragon, Dark, Fighting (as intended), but indirectly Ice, Psychic (loses main niche), Bug (more Fire to resist Fairy), Grass (more Poison), while not really buffing Poison and Still and giving Fire an undeserved buff.
So now the broken type is Fairy. And it's been like that for 3 gens, now for the 4th without any change
