Togekiss, What?
So Fairy Wind wasn't added, and there's no current Fairy Quick Move for our boy Togekiss to get. It's a hatch Pokemon with a super low catch rate and the shiny is already released, so a Community Day is pretty unlikely.
Is Togekiss just consigned to its fate of mediocrity? And does this mean further waiting before we get a pure Fairy-type attacker? Thoughts?
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I'm not expecting all of the evolutions from Gen1-3 pokemon to be in the first wave of Gen4 pokemon. If the first wave fits with the Halloween event like Gen3 last year, then probably only Honchkrow, Mismagius, Gliscor, Weavile, and Dusknoir.
I don't know why Niantic has not done anything about fairy moves yet, but I expect there is still time to at least add Fairy Wind before Togekiss becomes available.
How useful do you think fairy types, in particular Gardevoir, would be with a fairy fast move?
Answer: Not much more useful than now. Machamp is a much better counter to dark, Confusion is likely the best possible fast move against fighting and dragons out-DPS fairies against dragons by a mile. Gardevoir with a fairy fast move would still just be a fighting counter and a lower DPS tank counter to dragons with dragon moves, just like it is without a fairy fast move.
If fairy wing's not added, it will hae the same fate as gardevoir, hard machamp counter in raids and gyms. If given satisfactory flying moves, it could become a good bug coutner with its double resistance. But yeah....looks pretty bleak for togekiss
I think its more lilely to get a fairy wind togekiss CD than a massive game altering Ralts fairy fast move CD
Before we knew of the rework, Togekiss had more potential as a defender than an attacker. 225 base attack is a bit low, most top DPS mons are a fair bit higher. In comparison the good bulk with double resistance to fighting and dragon seemed tailor-made for the defender meta. But all bets are off now that we don't know what the meta will look like after the rework.
I really don't think a pure fairy-type attacker is that important to have anyway, because other types cover all of its targets better. You'd need a fairy with very good stats and a good moveset for it to make any actual meta waves.