Published on June 11th, 2013 | by Firestorm
Nintendo Confirms Fairy Type for Pokémon X and Y at E3
For all those waiting for the reveal of a new type for Pokémon, Nintendo President & CEO Satoru Iwata has just confirmed that Pokémon X & Y will introduce a new type: Fairy. So far the only confirmed Pokémon of this type is Sylveon. We’ll have the trailer in this space once it’s up. A Pokémon X and Y roundtable later today should reveal more on this type!
Update: Jigglypuff, Gardevoir, Sylveon, and Marril are now Fairy Types!
Update 2: Trailer added.
Update 3: Jigglypuff is Fairy / Normal, Gardevoir is Fairy / Psychic, and Marril is Fairy / Water.
Update 4: Fairy is super-effective against Dragon.
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First off, holy crap.
Second, when was this dropped?
Please link me to the direct guys, I want to see it!
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You mean, fairy is confirmed? No light type??
Butthurt incoming:
End butthurt.
Cool, another way to hit Dragons. Hopefully the new type provides a resistance or immunity to Dragon attacks, too.
Yeah, skeptical how big of a metagame impact it’ll have otherwise… but if so, assuming stuff like Togekiss gets Fairy typing it should lead to a reasonably big shift by actually adding a second resist to Dragon… which you’ve gotta wonder why we didn’t see a couple generations sooner, but…
Hey, I saw in the video that Vivillion (Bug-Flying) and Noivern (Dragon-Flying) are confirmed. There’s more details here. External
Togekiss not likely since it has 2 types already. Togepi maybe but all the revealed pokemon were single type and will likely stay that way.
idk how i feel about this play and feed your pokemon thing
Ok, since I have been somewhat prepared for this moment for awhile due to the leaks, I guess I’m a bit over the whole new type thing. However, I still don’t really care for the new type name, and if it is immune to dragon, super effective on dragon, and all the other common types that were listed way back when, this type is ridiculous.
That being said, I thought when the legends were shown at the end of the trailer, and showed their moves as well, it looked pretty badass, so I have high hopes for the rest of the game outside of stupid Fairy type.
friend guard jigglypuff anyone?
I don’t mind the new type, I just hope Pokemon I like get it so I can use them next year.
Dude, Marill is obviously Fairy Type because they wanted it to be.
State of Smogon right now:
Marill is Fairy-type because it’s in the Fairy egg group. I imagine a lot of the mono-types in that egg group will be gaining the Fairy dual-typing.
Looks so true. Was on the main server a few mins ago, and there was so much talk about fairy type, it was hard to read them all.
Well, poor dragon types… the new fairy craze will send them running. Until we find out that there is a dragon/fairy type (dragonslayer alert!)
lol to everyone who denied it… and why is there a new butterfly? We don’t need another one. Batdragon guy looks fun though.
Remember that Fairy was always an Egg Group, so we have a lot of possibilities! Here are the (fully evolved) Pokémon that are in said Egg Group with only one type:
Clefable
Wigglytuff (confirmed)
Blissey
Plusle
Minun
Audino
Raichu
Azumarill (confirmed)
Granbull
Delcatty
Mawile
Castform
Glalie
Pachirisu
Cherrim
Manaphy
Whimscott
Please keep your unoriginal meme images outside of this thread and instead put your thoughts into words.
Oh, c’mon!
This new type is pretty cool. We haven’t seen something like this since Gold/Silver.
New resists, added types to old (almost forgotten) Pokémon.
Everything is fine to me. Specially since I haven’t play the game yet, also I have not seen a battle with a Fairy type.
So I just say: I like it. And I will save my opinions about the game, until I actually play it.
Man the trailer sure hated Hydreigon : (
Haters gonna hate, Hydreigon has won Worlds at least once every year since it was released
I’m a little skeptical on the whole if-it-already-has-two-types-there’s-no-way-one-gets-swapped-for-Fairy thing. Assuming that by making it SE on Dragon there’s some amount of competitive inspiration there, it’d be really silly to add the type to a bunch of low BST Pokemon with largely unusable defenses… a type change wouldn’t make almost any of the Pokemon in the fairy egg group appreciably better. Fairy existing isn’t going to help balance the game any if nothing that gets it can be used… and given that the last time types were added it was to balance Psychic I’m assuming that’s the intent here.
Okay then, on a more serious note: I guess this means Choice Banded Huge Power Azumarill has some new toys to play with. This is all assuming that a good physical Fariy-type move is going to be made.
Wow. I might actually use Azumarill on a serious team next season. Cool.
I definitely like this lol
Fairy type is way too overhyped. I’d rather resist a Latios dropping a dragon gem draco, burning its item and halving it’s special attack rather than avoiding damage and letting it keep its item and spatk any day of the week.
mmm i wonder what fairies resist? and I hope azumarill keeps the fairy type might become the new dragon killer!
oh an fairies bring a new weather : rainbow. lol
complete joke that.
More love for Gardevoir <3 I love that it gets Fairy, because it has a good Special Attack so should be able to tank a DM and retaliate with Fairy shenanigans.
I love the design of Noivern, it’s kinda similar to Woobat’s line but the typing says it’s a new Pokemon. I really want to see it! It looks like it was pretty fast and I’d be really happy if it could outspeed every other Dragon (‘cept SS Kingdra in Rain).
As I mentioned on IRC, I think the External might be what the leaks mentioned as a way of increasing EVs. That way, even without explicitly stating it, they can have kids improve a Pokemon in speed or attack or what not by doing the appropriate minigames and stuff with them. They’re really helping people get into the competitive part of the game. All they gotta do now is kill off IVs.
Yeah, we were thinking both of the above when it got brought up on IRC too. i’m hoping that the existence of Fairy in the metagame alone kind of weakens the power of Dragons some more, since at least you’d assume they’ll all be threatening OHKOs and getting free switches (especially if we get a Fairy/Dark or Fairy/Psychic or whatever to switch into Hydreigon/Latios with impunity) and that will discourage use, but you’ve gotta actually force them out by threatening that KO this way… it isn’t enough just to be a nuisance like Metagross does. Though I think Fairy being SE on Dragon where Steel was neutral before will probably help.
bears commented a bit ago that the thing he’d most like to see from E3 is the removal of IVs. I definitely agree there… I think if you add that on to the rest of what you mentioned, the in-game part of competitive Pokemon would be heading in a really positive direction.
Although I share this sentiment, I don’t think they’d do it. And if they did, then I wonder how that would affect Hidden Power…
I think killing that off would be good for the competitive game, too. It’s just part of the game we’ve come to accept, but is it really a good game mechanic that you have to worry Cresselia might randomly have HP Ground or even the now-standard-ish Fire? I don’t know that it was ever a good thing that Pokemon like Swampert, Gastrodon, Scizor, and Heatran had to fear random HP filler slots killing them out of nowhere…