Still top 2 in usage, though. >_>
I will only say, that Pixilate makes Sylveon a lot scarier than it should be. I agree with the FUCK TALONFLAME movement, but you can just run Heatran against it and profit. Seriously, fuck both of those Pokemon. Greninja is kinda under-appreciated imo. However I will say, Special lead Greninja with U-Turn with Espeon on the same team is really sick.
Fairies are fundamentally broken, let's look at the facts.(A long and dull read, cliffs at bottom)
I run Heatran on my main team because it just rawks. Heatran blows up Talonflame and every last Fairy...if you get the burn on Azumarill, it gets mopped up, too.
thegrandenigma (once everyone puts theirs up I'll add it in the OP)
Meeeh I do agree that poison is bad, but it's mostly because of it's weakness to ground that kills it, and as long as eq is a thing I don't really see poison types becoming prominent without a second typing to back it up. Fairies don't really MAKE you pack something for them either, the meta is just kind of set up to deal with them atm, and it's mostly to deal with the re-emergence of flying types. Steel is everywhere this gen, you can't hide from it and it has gotten better offensively this gen while remaining about the same defensively with maybe a slight nerf due to the ghost/dark neutrality now. Also half of the decent/good fairies in the meta don't have any coverage on their weaknesses. Klefki, Mawile and Azumarill are the only ones I can think of off the top that really do, while Clefable and Sylveon deal with monotype fairy and Togekiss, Gardevoir, Diancie all actually gain more weaknesses with their dual typing. The movepools don't make them that scary either seeing how the majority of them don't hit that hard, and aside from Mawile and Gardevoir their move pools aren't even really that deep. Clefable and Sylveon only run the same two moves if they are offensive, Togekiss runs like three, and if you don't have them you aren't anywhere near as viable. They really aren't a hard typing to deal with imo, and I think they are very healthy for the meta so that dragons no longer reign free.
I agree
You are forgetting the steel weakness though, you don't need poison, in fact it won't even effect mawile. Excadrill is the biggest fairy killer in the game right now, and for good reason, it's Iron head fucking hurts. Especially if it happens to be running a SD set. Steel is the way to deal with fairies not poison unless yer running venusaur or landorus with sludge wave.
i'm willing to be you're running him in tandem with TTar tho..... with sand rush....... so yeah.
I literally laughed so hard when I saw he gained this attack.
Ya he does. Swords Dance once and you basically one shot most Faires.
Oh I don't run him atm, but I have been looking into putting him onto my mega ttar team with sand rush so yeah haha. Mawile can be a bitch so that's understandable lol. I personally wish poison types were better as well, because a resurgence of psychics would be awesome to me as well lol.i'm willing to be you're running him in tandem with TTar tho..... with sand rush....... so yeah.
Yes Steel is def. the fairy killer... I get that. But i still don't understand why they didn't pump up a poison mon as well to really bring back the Psychic types outside of the dragons.
Poison is so cool yet so bad in this game
but yeah I agree with everything you've said as well. I think i'm just disappointed in the implementation and how many of the Fairy types are not single but dual that tend to negate one of the weakness' they have, and give Mawile 2 immunities while having a boosting move and sucker punch.
If you haven't noticed, I hate dealing with Mawile.
The only true counter to most fairies that i've used has been Toxicroak. He destroys Azu's priority and hits mawile like a fucking truck while replenishing its life. Basically I can switch him in and get a free sub then smash any fairy/steel/rock/dark/grass/bug and coverage a few other types while hiding behind the sub.