Psychic type is broken upon debut

>Psychic type is broken upon debut
>immediately fixed in the next gen
>Fairy type is broken upon debut
>still busted nine years and almost three gens later
Why does Game Freak have such a boner for Fairy-type?

Attached: maxresdefault.jpg (1280x720, 210.7K)

It's not that broken. Psychic literally didn't have any weaknesses

Fairies are the good guys, and dragons are the bad guys

Fairy was made specifically to counter Dragon. It's doing exactly what it was intended to do.

Psychic being as broken as it was in Gen 1 was an oversight. Twin Needle and Pin Missile were the only damaging Bug-type moves, and Lick was the only Ghost attack other than Night Shade, and a glitch made Psychic immune to Ghost.

Feels like it needs either one more type resistant to it or one more weakness. Bug makes the most sense in my head for either.

All they needed to do was make it so that Fairy > Dragon > Bug > Fairy

Fairy was obviously included to counter how OP dragon was. Doing something to fix/nerf fairy would be an admission that they fucked up and made things even worse than they were before.

Pokemon was not meant to be a competitive game in the first place. PVP was a last minute addition

Fairy was made specifically to buff Steel. It's doing exactly what it was intended to do.

Psychic being as broken as it was in Gen 1 was an oversight. Twin Needle and Pin Missile were the only damaging Bug-type moves, and Lick was the only Ghost attack other than Night Shade, and a glitch made Psychic immune to Ghost.

>made to nerf dragon and fighting offensively while buffing poison and steel offensively
>steel getting an offensive buff also gives it a defensive nerf in the same gen to ghost and dark and it’s fine because it’s still the best defensive typing in the game
where’s the issue

>Steel counters fairy
>every fairy learns mystical fire and/or focus blast

>Why is the type designed explicitly to combat the consistently most powerful type in the game so strong?
Gee user, I fucking wonder why. It's almost like they're trying to counter an ever-growing pool of primarily Legendary and psuedo-Legendary Pokemon or something.

Slow fairies learn mystical fire and focus miss is neutral against all the good steel mons.

Psychic was never broken, it was the Gen 1 environment that made it so overpowering (it was also broken in lore).
Then GF overnerfed it yet kept making high BST Psychic legends to justify that nerf.

Why doesn't Fairy resist Ghost? It makes some thematic sense with the Fey having power over supernatural shit, and it would help fix the meta with Ghost being too overpowered offensively.
Yeah it makes Fairy even more obnoxious as a defensive typing but what else is new

Yeah, I agree.

Non elemental types are not based on anything but balance. Anything that seems to make sense is a happy accident.

>specifcally to counter dragon

While also being a better psychic in almost every way. Imagine hitting fighting for SE while also resisting dark and bug, and then hitting dark for SE as well. Why run psychic over fairy? To hit poison types and get cucked by knock off on every team? Just get a ground pokemon bro.

Why people think fairy is broken? It's like Zacian, Togekiss, Tapus, and Whimsicott and basically none of them are good because of being fairy. People even use regular weezing instead of galarian for regigigas teams because the fairy weaknesses are crippling

>>Fairy type is broken
it isn't though

it's an above average type like water or steel but it's not broken

Because Fairy's explicitly the "Girl Type", so it needs to remain powerful and usable for the female demographic in order to pander to "GIRL POWAH!!!!" crowds.

>zero resists except itself
>not broken
lmao

Make it weak to water and watch it sink to worst type

Fairy should be weak to bug instead of resisting it.