Fairy (type): Difference between revisions

Fairy redirects here. For the Egg Group, see Fairy (Egg Group).

Types

Normal

Fire

Fighting

Water

Flying

Grass

Poison

Electric

Ground

Psychic

Rock

Ice

Bug

Dragon

Ghost

Dark

Steel

Fairy

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The Fairy type (Japanese: フェアリータイプ Fairy type) is one of the eighteen types. Notable Trainers who specialize in Fairy-type Pokémon include the Gym Leader Valerie of Laverre City.

The Fairy type was introduced in Generation VI. As well as introducing new Pokémon with the Fairy type, 22 Pokémon and 3 moves were changed to be of the Fairy type.

Statistical averages

Overall

Fully evolved

Battle properties

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×

Characteristics

Defense

As it was created to balance the competitive play in Generation VI, the Fairy-type is considered to be one of the best defensive types, along with the Steel-type. As such, it is considered to be an anti-metagame type, having traits that no other is capable of offering - a key resistance to the powerful Fighting type, as well as the Dark and Bug types, granting resistances to frequently used moves like Close Combat, Knock Off, and U-turn. Most of all, it also has a useful immunity to Dragon-type moves. Its only weaknesses are to Poison and Steel, both of which were rarely used offensively prior to its introduction.

Since the Pokémon of this type tend to have a high Special Defense, they excel at the role of being a special wall, further strengthened by the fact that there are few powerful special attackers among Steel and Poison types, Magnezone and Gengar respectively being examples of such.

Despite all of this, Fairy type Pokémon tend to have a below average Defense stat, though there are some exceptions, such as Mawile, Carbink, and Togekiss.

Offense

Fairy is quite strong on offense, as well. It is super-effective against Dragon, Fighting, and Dark, all of which previously only had two weaknesses. It is resisted by the Fire, Poison, and Steel types. However, most Fire types struggle defensively and cannot hit Fairy types super effectively in return, making Poison- and Steel-types the only true threats against them, even if the former is weak to Psychic-type moves, common among Fairy Pokémon. Additionally, all three of those types are weak to Ground, making Fairy and Ground a viable attack combination to use. Fairy also pairs well with Ghost and Dark, with the former combination being resisted only by Litleo and Pyroar and the latter being resisted only by Mawile and Klefki.

Despite having numerous advantages, the Fairy type is hindered by a lack of particularly powerful Fairy-type moves, being somewhat weak statistically and having a disadvantageous match-up against the Poison- and Steel-types, two of the best defensive types in the series. Also, since Fairy types typically have high Special Attack and Special Defense but relatively low Defense and Speed stats, they have advantageous match-ups against most special attackers but poor ones against physical attackers overall.

Contest properties

In Contests, Fairy-type moves are typically Beautiful and Cute moves. None of them are considered Cool or Tough moves.

Pokémon

As of Generation VI, there are 37 Fairy-type Pokémon, or 5.1% of all Pokémon (counting forms and Mega Evolutions that change typing as different Pokémon), making it the third rarest Pokémon type, behind Ghost and Ice.

Pure Fairy-type Pokémon

# Pokémon 035 Clefairy* 036 Clefable* 173 Cleffa* 175 Togepi* 209 Snubbull* 210 Granbull* 669 Flabébé 670 Floette 671 Florges 682 Spritzee 683 Aromatisse 684 Swirlix 685 Slurpuff 700 Sylveon 716 Xerneas

Half Fairy-type Pokémon

Primary Fairy-type Pokémon

# Pokémon Type 1 Type 2 176 Togetic* Fairy Flying 468 Togekiss* Fairy Flying

Secondary Fairy-type Pokémon

# Pokémon Type 1 Type 2 039 Jigglypuff* Normal Fairy 040 Wigglytuff* Normal Fairy 122 Mr. Mime* Psychic Fairy 174 Igglybuff* Normal Fairy 183 Marill* Water Fairy 184 Azumarill* Water Fairy 280 Ralts* Psychic Fairy 281 Kirlia* Psychic Fairy 282 Gardevoir* Psychic Fairy 282 Mega Gardevoir Psychic Fairy 298 Azurill* Normal Fairy 303 Mawile* Steel Fairy 303 Mega Mawile Steel Fairy 334 Mega Altaria Dragon Fairy 439 Mime Jr.* Psychic Fairy 531 Mega Audino Normal Fairy 546 Cottonee* Grass Fairy 547 Whimsicott* Grass Fairy 702 Dedenne Electric Fairy 703 Carbink Rock Fairy 707 Klefki Steel Fairy 719 Diancie Rock Fairy 719 Mega Diancie Rock Fairy ??? Magearna Steel Fairy

Moves

Abilities

Interacting with the Fairy type

A Pokémon with Color Change, Protean, Imposter, or Multitype will become a Fairy-type Pokémon if (respectively) it is hit with a Fairy-type move, uses a Fairy-type move, is sent out against a Fairy-type opponent, or is holding a Pixie Plate.

Exclusive Abilities

Only Fairy-type Pokémon can have these Abilities. This does not include signature Abilities.

Trivia

• More Pokémon were changed to Fairy than either of the other types added since Generation I (the other two being Dark and Steel in Generation II), with 22. Also, more moves were changed to Fairy, with three. All three of them were Status moves introduced in Generation II and were previously Normal-type.
  • It is also the only one out of the three types to completely change the types of Pokémon from previous generations, changing several previously pure Normal-type Pokémon, such as Snubbull, to pure Fairy.
• Every type that resists Fairy also resists Grass and Bug.
  • In addition, those types are weak to Ground.
• The Fairy-type is one of the two types that Hidden Power cannot become, the other being the Normal-type.
  • This, combined with the lack of any Fairy-type moves in Kecleon's and Greninja's movesets, prevents all Pokémon that naturally have Protean from becoming Fairy-type using it (although Kecleon can become Fairy-type with its other Ability, Color Change).
• The Fairy type has the fewest physical moves of all types, with only one.
• Fairy-type has the fewest damage-dealing moves of any type at seven, with only six of these available to players.
• Dazzling Gleam is the only Fairy-type move that is available via a TM.
  • No Fairy-type moves are available via Move Tutors.

In other languages

Language Title Japanese フェアリー Fairy Mandarin Chinese 妖精 Yāojing Danish Fe Dutch Fairy Finnish Keiju European French Fée German Fee Greek Νεράιδα Neráida Indonesian Peri Italian Folletto Korean 페어리 Fairy Norwegian Fe Polish Baśniowy (XY13, XY74 - onwards) Bajkowy (XY46) Portuguese Brazil Fada Portugal Fada Romanian Zână Russian Фея Feya Spanish Hada Swedish Fe Älva Thai ภูต แฟรรี่ Vietnamese Hệ Tiên