Fairy (type)

Fairy redirects here. For the Egg Group, see Fairy (Egg Group).

Types

Normal

Fire

Fighting

Water

Flying

Grass

Poison

Electric

Ground

Psychic

Rock

Ice

Bug

Dragon

Ghost

Dark

Steel

Fairy

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The Fairy type (Japanese: フェアリータイプ Fairy type) is one of the eighteen types. Notable Trainers that specialize in the Fairy type include Valerie of Laverre City.

The Fairy type was introduced in Generation VI. As well as introducing new Pokémon with the Fairy type, a handful of Pokémon including Jigglypuff, Marill, Gardevoir, and Mawile were retconned to be Fairy-type.

Battle properties

Offensive			Defensive
Power	Types		Power	Types
2×			½×
½×			2×
0×	None		0×

Pokémon

As of Generation VI, there are 34 Fairy-type Pokémon, or 4.5% of all Pokémon (counting forms and Mega Evolutions that change typing as different Pokémon), making it the rarest of the eighteen types.

Pure Fairy-type Pokémon

# Name 035 Clefairy* 036 Clefable* 173 Cleffa* 175 Togepi* 209 Snubbull* 210 Granbull* 669 Flabébé 670 Floette 671 Florges 682 Spritzee 683 Aromatisse 684 Swirlix 685 Slurpuff 700 Sylveon 716 Xerneas

Half Fairy-type Pokémon

Primary Fairy-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 176 Togetic* Fairy Flying 468 Togekiss* Fairy Flying

Secondary Fairy-type Pokémon

# Name Type 1 Type 2 039 Jigglypuff* Normal Fairy 040 Wigglytuff* Normal Fairy 122 Mr. Mime* Psychic Fairy 174 Igglybuff* Normal Fairy 183 Marill* Water Fairy 184 Azumarill* Water Fairy 280 Ralts* Psychic Fairy 281 Kirlia* Psychic Fairy 282 Gardevoir* Psychic Fairy 298 Azurill* Normal Fairy 303 Mawile* Steel Fairy 439 Mime Jr.* Psychic Fairy 546 Cottonee* Grass Fairy 547 Whimsicott* Grass Fairy 702 Dedenne Electric Fairy 703 Carbink Rock Fairy 707 Klefki Steel Fairy

Characteristics

Defense

The Fairy type is extremely useful defensively. It has key resistances to the common Dark and Fighting types, as well as the less seen Bug type and immunity to the mostly useful Dragon type. Its only weaknesses are to the otherwise rare attacking types, Poison and Steel.

Offense

Fairy is also useful for having three strengths, being Dragon, Fighting and Dark. However, it also has three resistors and all three are common. It is key to note that the Fairy type was added to balance out the overused Dragon type and the underused Poison type, earning its use in the meta game.

Moves

Gen	Move	Category	Contest	Power	Accuracy	PP	Range	Description
VI	Baby-Doll Eyes	Status		000—	100100%	3030 (max 48)	Normal	The user stares at the target with its baby-doll eyes, which lowers its Attack stat. This move always goes first.
II	Charm	Status	Cute	000—	100100%	2020 (max 32)	Normal	The user gazes at the target rather charmingly, making it less wary. This harshly lowers its Attack stat.
VI	Dazzling Gleam	Special		08080	100100%	1010 (max 16)	1 Other	The user damages opposing Pokémon by emitting a powerful flash.
VI	Disarming Voice	Special		04040	000—%	1515 (max 24)	1 Other	Letting out a charming cry, the user does emotional damage to opposing Pokémon. This attack never misses.
VI	Draining Kiss	Special		05050	100100%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user's HP is restored by over half of the damage taken by the target.
VI	Fairy Wind	Special		04040	100100%	3030 (max 48)	Normal	The user stirs up a fairy wind and strikes the target with it.
VI	Geomancy	Status		000—	000—%	1010 (max 16)	Self	The user absorbs energy and sharply raises its Sp. Atk, Sp. Def, and Speed stats on the next turn.
VI	Misty Terrain	Status		000—	000—%	1010 (max 16)	All	The user covers the ground under everyone's feet with mist for five turns. This protects Pokémon on the ground from status conditions.
VI	Moonblast	Special		09595	100100%	1515 (max 24)	Normal	Borrowing the power of the moon, the user attacks the target. This may also lower the target's Sp. Atk stat.
II	Moonlight	Status	Beauty	000—	000—%	055 (max 8)	Self	The user restores its own HP. The amount of HP regained varies with the weather.
VI	Play Rough	Physical		09090	09090%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user plays rough with the target and attacks it. This may also lower the target's Attack stat.
II	Sweet Kiss	Status	Cute	000—	07575%	1010 (max 16)	Normal	The user kisses the target with a sweet, angelic cuteness that causes confusion.
All details are accurate to Generation VII games. For details that have changed between generations, please see an individual move's page. Target data assumes user is in the lower left.

Trivia

• As the Fairy type was introduced after physical and special became attributes assigned to individual moves rather than types, it is the only type without an associated damage category.
• Out of the three types that have been added since Generation I (the other two being Dark and Steel in Generation II), more Pokémon were retroactively changed to Fairy, with 23.
  • It is also the only one out of the three to completely change the types of Pokémon from previous generations; changing several previously Normal type Pokémon to Fairy (such as Snubbull).

In other languages

Language Title Japanese フェアリー Fairy Mandarin Chinese 妖精 Yāojing Dutch Fairy European French Fée German Fee Italian Folletto Korean 페어리 Fairy European Portuguese Fairy Spanish Hada Thai เทวดา or นางฟ้า