This could be rectified by adding resistances to Water and Flying-type moves. RELATED: Which Pokémon Rival Has the Strongest Team?Īnother of the problem types, Ice suffers from weak defenses. This would propel Bug-types into viability, and it isn't too far of a leap to imagine a giant insect beating a dainty fairy. Instead of Fairy resisting Bug, Bug should resist Fairy and deal super-effective damage to it. Neither of those are known for being good offensive types, so rather than balance the type chart, Fairy effectively supplanted Dragon as the most powerful option.Ī good place to start rebalancing the type chart without abandoning the logic that helps determine that, for example, Fire is weak to Water would be to bring the strongest and the weakest types more in line with one simple change. While it was added to counter the then-overpowered Dragon-type, Fairy is immune to Dragon and only weak to Poison and Steel. Unfortunately, the latest addition created as many problems as it solved. Pokémon seemed to recognize the blatant inequalities of its type chart, introducing the Dark and Steel types in Generation II and the Fairy-type in Generation VI to try and balance things out.
Its attacks are also much more potent since few Pokémon can reduce the incoming damage. Dragon, on the other hand, can switch into battle with more confidence thanks to its impressive defensive spread. Its weaknesses are also very common, making it perhaps the worst type in the game. Being resisted by seven types means that Bug is countered by nearly half of the roster.
That might not sound like a huge difference on paper, but in practice, the disparity is enormous. Contrast that with Dragon, which has three weaknesses and four resistances, but only one type can resist Dragon moves and another is immune to them. Defensively, the Bug-type has three weaknesses and three resistances, while on the offensive side, it hits three types for super-effective damage but is resisted by seven. It's understandable why the developers wouldn't try to make Bug-types remotely as powerful as Dragon-types, and that's reflected in the type chart. Not every type is created equal, and to some extent, this is intentional.
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