UPDATED: Pokémon X & Y News (Introducing Fairy Type)

[Headsprouter]

Well, for starters, the new Pokemon look great!

Secondly, Fairy type? That's okay with me! I didn't see it as likely, but I don't mind Gardevoir getting a secondary type, and some pokemon might actually become more useful by this type's addition. It's better than light, I mean, considering already existing light-based moves such as light screen and luster purge are psychic type...this was the most agreeable option.

The Poke-bonding is cute. No problems with that!

...Fairy type? Really?
FAIRY?

It's okay, dude. We already have ghosts and dragons, two other creatures of myth and folklore. Considering Pokemon establishes the likes of Granbull as fairies as well as more traditional fairy designs, we can say that this type will be just as flexible as the others.

 

[Fodder Aplenty]

Hah, told you fairy types were real! Ya'll called me crazy!

 

[suntt123]

...Fairy type? Really?
FAIRY?

Does anyone know if that is, perhaps, a word that should have been translated differently? Because, I mean, really. Fairy. Next we'll have Unicorn type, right?
Other than Dragon type, it's mostly been stuff that somewhat makes sense. But what, exactly, is "fairy"? "Dragon" isn't as bad, they're tough, rare, borderline legendary without being actual unique legendaries, stuff that one could then tie in to dragons as a whole, regardless of the culture they come from. (Although the later gen ones are pretty bad.)
But... Fairy? Are they all going to be sparkly? Tiny? Glowy? Use none-physical attacks? Sit on toadstools? What is going to be the overriding "theme" or "feel" to this typing- or is it just going to be "OOSA CUTESY WOOOOO" and nothing more? (Well hey, look at Sylveon I guess.)

In short... I'm not best pleased. If it had made more sense I would probably go "ehhhn, we'll see how it plays out". Although if they're retroatively adding it onto older Pokemon, maybe I should just shut up and hope that some of the decent older ones are available. (The amount of times I've ranted about Gallade to my fiance makes me wonder how I still have one...)

I don't see what the problem with fairy being a type is. Dragons are mythical creatures too and they're a pokemon type. Fairy and Dragon are direct enough that we know what it means and what to expect, but vague enough that they can still be at least somewhat creative with the designs. Unicorn- type would be too specific XD.

And did you even see the trailer?
Basically the cute round pokemon of old like jigglypuff and marill are going to have the fairy type as well as gardevoir. So we can expect at least some of them to follow these themes. Plenty of cute, but also some more elegant ones. Hopefully this makes them more relevant competitively.

Also, new dragon pokes are where it's at. Salamence, Haxorus, Hydreigon, etc. There were exactly 2 fully evolved dragons in the first 2 gens and they were Kingdra and Dragonite...

 

[Mirrorknight]

There are many types of faires. Not all of them have rainbow wings and sparkle.

Redcaps and ogres for example.

Whether Nintendo actually takes those darker fairies and make them pokemon is yet to be seen, but I wouldn't mind a redcap based Pokemon.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I don't see the big deal with redditing some of the current Pokemon that will become part Fairy type. I mean when Gold and Silver introduce Metal and Dark type, Magnemite and Magneton were Electric in Red and Blue were reedit to be part Metal type making that Pokemon more useful. Still I kind of associate Fairy as being grass type or related to grass (you find fairy in a forest).

Also ha, good luck trying to explain scientifically why Fairy is effective against Dragon type (dragon don't like pixie dust?).

Also hell yes to Pokemon aime!!! That's one features from the cartoon (interating your Pokemon outside the Pokeball to bound with them) that I always wanted to see in the game (I wonder when we will no longer get turn based but get real time voice command battles like the show?).

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

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We have three new Pokemon courtesy of Pokebeach [http://pokebeach.com/], a seahorse, a bird and a hermit crab,
they don't know the names yet.

 

[Gatx]

Also this needs to be asked - why isn't Clefairy going to be a fairy type?!

I'm fairly sure it will be, I think they only released a small list of Pokémon that will have the typing because it seems a bit silly to mention all of them, especially as you would want to make a few of them. There will possibly be around 20-30 maybe? I'm not sure how many of each type there are already but they would need to make enough to warrant the new type.

Hopefully, though the last time they retroactively changed types it only affected one Pokemon (then again it WAS only when two generations existed) so not sure how far reaching it'll be.

If they do do Clefairy, I think it'd allow for some interesting fleshing out of the Pokemon world since we know that a new Fairy type attack has moon in it's name, Jigglypuff and Clefairy evolve using moon stones. Maybe they'll tie into some of alien stuff that's been in previous games.

 

[recruit00]

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We have three new Pokemon courtesy of Pokebeach [http://pokebeach.com/], they don't know the names yet.

The top right one looks to be an evolution of the robin bird pokemon.

The bottom two seem to be lobsters or cambrian/fossil pokemon.

 

[Zepherus14]

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We have three new Pokemon courtesy of Pokebeach [http://pokebeach.com/], a seahorse, a bird and a hermit crab,
they don't know the names yet.

Oh that hermet crab looks rather nice. Might use that as a water type if it is early on.

 

[Terminate421]

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We have three new Pokemon courtesy of Pokebeach [http://pokebeach.com/], a seahorse, a bird and a hermit crab,
they don't know the names yet.

That lobster looks awesome. Seriously.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I thought we already had fairy types. Clefairy, Clefable, Chancey, the Jigglypuff dudes... what's this new type thing about? Are they just rounding up girly Pokemon and declaring them a type on their own?

 

[SD-Fiend]

I thought we already had fairy types. Clefairy, Clefable, Chancey, the Jigglypuff dudes... what's this new type thing about? Are they just rounding up girly Pokemon and declaring them a type on their own?

They were normal types. fairy was just an egg group till now

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Gonna have to use that new rubbing feature on my Metapod. Maybe it will use String Shot.

 

[suntt123]

I wonder how many pokemon we can catch in this game. Most trailers have a lot of oldies so that's a good sign, I think.

Gonna have to use that new rubbing feature on my Metapod. Maybe it will use String Shot.

It has to already know harden first.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I think people are getting a little too hard on the fairy aspect of the type. if you have a type that's dragon that encompasses multiple cultural dragons (both of the eastern and western variety) it stands to reason ther ewill be multiple cultural fairy types and not all of them are cutesy. LoZ fairies 9at least the great fairies) were hardly the cutesy sit on a toadstool type (especially the one in OOT), and of course those who played the persona game are aware of Oberon the fairy king, as well as the Jack brothers who you can definitely say are fairies in design.

Will they likely be primary sp. atkers and Support, probably, but whats wrong with that. Fighting was defined as the physical bruiser who didnt really do much else except give phys hits and take them. Some types have special niches they fill. i actually realy hope to see a dark/fairy type soon.

other then that... Noivern kinda surprised me. Till I saw it bigger I thought it was a bat in design (which it is still) but I was expecting a dark/flying type. dragon's alright, though I wish they would have went with dark/dragon instead (even if it invites the unwanted comparison to Hydregion). I will say though, I'm not getting excited for it cause its looking like its going to be based on the sound gimmick (with others like chatot and the whismur line being in this same type of thought) and so far none of the sound gimmick types have been very good.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I wonder how many pokemon we can catch in this game. Most trailers have a lot of oldies so that's a good sign, I think.

Gonna have to use that new rubbing feature on my Metapod. Maybe it will use String Shot.

It has to already know harden first.

Thankfully my Metapod is always hard.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Does this mean we'll see Nac Mac Feegle pokemon?

 

[Foolery]

Aw yeah. I'm going to make an all fairy type team. Because why the hell not. I think it fits in just fine with Pokemon. I'm pretty psyched for these games.

 

[Launcelot111]

My mind is slightly boggled by this whole Pokemon-Amie thing. How much animation work did they have to put in for all 700-odd pokemon to be happy or angry or whatever as you feed them? For such an inessential feature?

Beyond that, I'm all for new types, and fairy could have some very cool designs. Those pesky dragons have had their day in the sun for far too long.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Oh that hermet crab looks rather nice. Might use that as a water type if it is early on.

That lobster looks awesome. Seriously.

If that crustacean Pokemon proved to be useful (I already like the look of it unlike Corphish especially its evolve form) I am so nicknaming it Zoidberg!!!

Spoiler: Front view of that Pokemon