Does being part Fairy make Gardevoir a better Pokemon?

Let's do a rundown of what happens to Gardevoir as a result of the added Fairy type.

+ Loses weakness to Dark and Bug.
+ Gains immunity to Dragon
+ Takes even less damage from Fighting, which is helpful somewhat with her low defense.
+ Gains Moonblast; a super effective attack against dark types that is stronger (with STAB) and more accurate than Focus Blast (aka Focus Miss). Also has the added bonus of being super effective against Dragons.
- Now weak to Poison types, which will not switch in on her for fear of STAB Psychic attacks unless it's Drapion
- Now weak to Steel types, which she never could reliably beat before anyway.

With all that I'd have to say that yes the part Fairy does make Gardevoir better.
 
On top of that, Steel and Poison are not good offensive types, better designed for defense. Both are rarely used offensively. On top of that, Poison-types are generally low in the stats department, making them fairly weak on their own. Fairy on its own is a fairly balanced type, both offensively and defensively, making it a great multi-purpose type. Gardevoir's only real threat now is Ghost, which is a multi-purpose type on its own to begin with. So, yeah, Fairy has given it a major power boost.
 
Steel_Justice couldn't have said it better, gardevoir loses 2 common weaknesses and gains an inmunity. The only real threat is steel (in case gardevoir brings shadow ball and you can attack first) since I don't remember gardevoir has a move to counter steel types. I can be wrong too.
 
White Crow said:
Steel_Justice couldn't have said it better, gardevoir loses 2 common weaknesses and gains an inmunity. The only real threat is steel (in case gardevoir brings shadow ball and you can attack first) since I don't remember gardevoir has a move to counter steel types. I can be wrong too.
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It can learn Focus Blast to counter Steel Types but it has an unreliable 70% accuracy. And yes Fairy typing does help Gardevoir alot but also makes it weak to one of the most common priority moves: Bullet Punch wich combined with its low defense it means it will severely damage it or outright OHKO it. But overall it helps it much more than it hinders it.
 
Yes, before this change Gardevoir was just another Psychic type that couldn't stand out from the others as much as it does now.
Now it's the best option for a Psychic/Fairy-type, and it's a good combination; Fairy defeats Dark and covers the trouble Psychic would have, Psychic defeats Poison and covers the trouble Fairy would have. Adding Moonblast to the movepool increases coverage, the lost weaknesses/immunity overweigh the new weaknesses. The type change and Mega made Gardevoir viable again, just in time before ORAS; it also gave it a secondary typing to stand on par with Gallade; that was some good timing.
 
Zexy said:
Yes, before this change Gardevoir was just another Psychic type that couldn't stand out from the others as much as it does now.
Now it's the best option for a Psychic/Fairy-type, and it's a good combination; Fairy defeats Dark and covers the trouble Psychic would have, Psychic defeats Poison and covers the trouble Fairy would have. Adding Moonblast to the movepool increases coverage, the lost weaknesses/immunity overweigh the new weaknesses. The type change and Mega made Gardevoir viable again, just in time before ORAS; it also gave it a secondary typing to stand on par with Gallade; that was some good timing.
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There's no net gain in Gardevoir's type weaknesses, no losses to type resistances, and a new immunity outright. You trade in Bug (bleh) and Dark (big one) for Poison (which Psychic hits) and Steel (new use for Focus Blast). The pre-existing Fighting resistance is much improved now and Gardevoir also has a Dragon immunity. Any immunity is always handy.

Has the Fairy type improved Gardevoir? Unquestionably yes, and I haven't even discussed the offensive benefits!
 
yep. gardevoir's new fairy type turns it from some random psychic type into something good even in competitive. especially that mega
 
Zexy said:
Now it's the best option for a Psychic/Fairy-type
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Anyway, yeah, Psychic/Fairy is probably the best offensive type that is resisted by Steel, and even then you could run Focus Blast or HP Fire to break through the common ones. Many Psychic types suffer from being able to invite Dark types in for free and die to Pursuit trapping; Gardevoir is a cut above most of them in that regard.
 
In every single way, yes. There was literally no cons to the adding of Fairy to Gardevoir - only pros. Less weaknesses, more offensive power. Gardevoir was already in my top 10 favorite Pokemon, but since Gen VI is has easily become top 5.
 
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