Tuesday, 25 February 2014

The Pokeddexy challenge: My favourite Fairy Type?

Ever since the release of Gold and Silver, there was a huge cute baby Pokémon explosion with popular Pokémon gaining new, adorable pre-evolutions and cute baby Pokémon for new Pokémon entirely. One of the most popular and famous one's is Togepi. Togepi had a spot as Misty's cute baby Pokémon in the anime for years, eventually evolving into a Togetic and being released to live with its own kind. Well when Generation 4 came around Togetic and Togepi got a brand new evolution in the form of Togekiss! By this point you're probably saying "But Mr Author guy, you said that Fairies weren't released until Gen 6, so why are you talking about Togekiss?" and you're absolutely correct, Fairies weren't in anything before X and Y. So why am I talking about Togekiss, who was Normal/Flying type? Well, Togekiss is now a Fairy/Flying type.

Togekiss's journey has been an interesting one. In Generation 4 it had two distinct roles, a Hustle abusing (extra attack at the cost of 20% accuracy) STAB Extremespeed user (which was pretty good at revenge killing) or a good Special Sweeper with Serene Grace (Doubles the chance a move's secondary effect occurs. With Air Slash it had a 60% chance to flinch, a 20% chance to burn with Flamethrower, and chuck in paralysis from Thunder Wave and you have a great support Pokémon). Generation 5 didn't really change much, it just gave it a couple of new toys in the form of Roost and Choice Scarf, making the Hustle set even more viable and the support set immensely difficult to take down. In Generation 6 it was blessed with the amazing new Fairy type. Fairy type, after Steel type, is the best defensive typing in the game, having a complete immunity to the infamous Dragon, a resistance to the popular fighting types and a resistance to the less popular but sill used Dark type. Putting this on top of Togekiss' Flying typing gives her a 4x resistance to Fighting types, a 2x resistance to Dark Types, a 2x resistance to Grass types, a 2x resistance to Bug types and a complete immunity to Ground types, only exposing her to Electric, Rock, Steel, Ice and Poison types (who all only do 2x damage). She also has a new toy in the form of Assault Vest, allowing her to be a specially bulky tank who can take special variant hits of all aforementioned types really well, and taking normally-effective moves especially well. She also looks absolutely beautiful in her normal form, not her shiny form (for once). All of these reasons combined make her my favourite Fairy type.

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