To be honest, I’m not sure. I personally don’t see it as a fairy type or root for it becoming one, but at the same time, if it happened I don’t think I’d be bothered either. Kind of middle of the road on Absol.

And I getcha, but still, fairy type doesn’t seem wrong to me. No wronger than dragon, bug, ghost, etc. I mean, I’m not saying I’m absolutely going to love fairy type. That will depend on how well executed the type and its Pokemon are. But I don’t see it as something wrong in concept.

Do you see Absol as a Fairy? Everyone was quick to chew me out because I don’t see it as a fairy at all. I wasn’t saying all Normal types was but Fairy type just doesn’t seem right.

“They can do so much with the name Fairy, not just mythological
creatures. I think bringing up only mythological creatures is limiting.” that’s what I meant.

I’m kind of confused by your post. Do you think fairy should be limited to only the stereotypical fairy or be boundless and all consuming? By limiting a new fairy-type to only Pixie style fairies would be far too binding. While the game is designed around categorizing creatures based on stylistic and physical attributes, strengths and weaknesses that they share with one another, but it’s not always limited by that. Prime example is the old Charizard who is Fire/Flying and not dragon although he looks very much like a dragon.

At the same time I don’t think every mythical creature should be a fairy type or the game would be over run with them. There are tons of pokemon based on mythological creatures, just off hand I can think of at least 4 from gen 1 alone: Ninetails is a Japanese Kyuubi, Rapidash is a unicorn, and Lapras is commonly related to the Loch Ness Monster. And of course the obvious Clefairy.

If it were too broad it would end up being a type for every pokemon. Dragons are mythical creatures, they shouldn’t be fairy-type (although a Dragon/Fairy would be pretty awesome.) Fey envelop many different roles in folklore. Undead like a Banshee, who’s name roots to “fairy woman”. Also Elemental based fairies like sylphs which are spirits of air (as in Slypheon) and lots more.

I have faith that nintendo and gamefreak can manage this in a responsible way, and hopefully do some balancing actions along the way to bring back some old favorites and introduce some new ones.They handled steel and dark well (though I still think dark is a little underwhelming but thats just a personal opinion.) I imagine they can do the same with Fairy.

Mythology is simply a gateway to get a basis for the type in the most direct way. I’d be surprised see not them bend the stereotype to fit the type into something different as well. Like The Great Prophet said the point of my original post was to broaden the idea of fairy, not constrict it. But theres got to be limits there as well.

Oh never mind, my bad. You are absolutely correct… I guess I always worried about Torterra against poison moves all this time for no reason (Rock and Ground types are so similar to each other, and I think all this new speculation on the Fairy typing has got me all jumbled with my type match-ups.)

That’s true but their fully evolved stats should go no lower than 550 because Dragon types are beasts when it comes to Attack, and Sp. Attack. I would think somewhere on the line of Fairy types excelling act Attack, Sp. Attack, Speed, and Defense XD.

PS: Still too much?

I guess so 😀