I get that Dragons needed a proper weakness, but why Ice specifically?
Dragons are similar to reptiles, which are cold-blooded and can't handle low temperatures.
>>26579952
Dragons are traditionally reptiles, who aren't adapted well towards cold weather.
Or because lol gamefreak
ice age killed the dinosaurs
Ice is cooler than dragons
>>26579952
>Dragon needs a weakness.
>Ice murderfucks everything else, why not one more?
>>26579971
>>26579981
this basically
>>26580006
Kek
>huge
>dragon
>belly
>>26579999
Quads of literal truth
>>26579999
fuck off arnie
>>26579999
Checkem
>>26580227
Chill
>>26579952
Thicc
>>26579999
About that... its time we had a talk son. The cold didn't kill the dinosaurs it was me. I killed them. Every single one.
>>26580227
cool party
Ice I can understand. Fairy I cannot.
>>26581992
Badass dragons are afraid of cutesy faggy fairy bullshit.
>>26581992
Dragons being weak to fairy is hard enough to justify, but Fairy being IMMUNE to dragon is just silly.
>>26581992
In fairy tales the evil dragon is defeated
>>26581992
Fairy is to dragon like somehow like ghost is to normal.
It's just normal doesn't get super effective hits on ghost.
>>26581992
dragons are weak to magic or something
>>26579952
All these dragon rage users have no chill
Dragons are niggers and fairys are cops with gun
/Thread
>mfw learning about Fairy type
It's my 2nd favorite type after grass just because it makes Dragons BTFO.
2 Gens of dealing with Specs Draco Meteor and Choice Banded Outrage and suddenly the press 1 button to win strat stops in it's tracks? Based GF.
>>26581992
In fairytales the dragon is always slayed or some shit line that
>>26582064
Pretty much this dont get what so hard to understand. Its just logic. What i dont get is how theyre immune to dragons. Im guessing its just to give em an upper hand
>>26582549
What
because all the real world dragons were wiped out in the ice age.
>>26579952
Maybe dragons are cold blooded, so perhaps the dragon's blood would freeze.
>>26583277
That's some flimsy-ass bullshit logic. Fairies are universally associated with magic of some form, and even though Pokemon hasn't dipped into the *real* history of fairy/fae lore where they were scary-ass motherfuckers, they still brought in a bunch of the magical elements.
If any type deserves to be strong against a dragon it's something magical.
>>26579999
The dinosaurfag in me hates this so much
>>26581992
How dumb are you people? Has no one realized what all 3 types its strong against have in common? They're all hyper aggressive, in direct contrast to fairies being playful, charming, and passive-aggressive. Fairy soothes them and gets them to stop fighting.
dragon was the "congrats on fishing in the safari zone for no fucking reason" type, so it was supposed to give you a 'mon that resisted all the starter types (water/fire/grass and electric bc idk pikachu or something), and could only be defeated by itself.
it was the last type added and was introduced pretty late, as evidenced by the fact that a) it's the last in the type index and b) all its interactions are shoved at the end of the interactions index, while everything else is more or less sorted in neatly.
so it's not a stretch to imagine that its weakness to ice is literally just completely arbitrary. they probably figured dragonite would be So Dominating that it needed to be able to be defeated by something that wasn't another dragonite. ice was also kind of late to the game (second-to-last index, whereas Bird's ninth or something), though not as much as Dragon, and it's got kind of weird distribution and was shaping up to be a good uncommon-but-effective attacking type, as well as...not being as aggressively weird flavor-wise as some other options (bug? fighting?). so it was just another coverage item for ice, and dragons could have an odd weakness that could cripple them so they wouldn't be too out of control.
of course, this is the game where they forgot to actually give dragon any fucking attacks and then gave ice beam and blizzard to every fucking thing so it also could have been a code monkey fucking with people because at the time it was just the one evolutionary family and it didn't really matter.
fairy vs dragon is just gamefreak trying to nerf dragons. didn't they say that explicitly? i think i remember some dev conceding that point.
>>26580031
Because everything murderfucks ice?
Probably because they had problems with play tests against Dragonite. They probably wanted to give it something that flying was weak to, to get that 4x SE and allow people to OHKO/THKO Dragonite.
>>26583265
>not being able to deal with Draco Meteor and Outrage without immunities
Holy shit, I love Fairies but now that they exist you'll never git gud.
>>26579999
Pretty sure a giant fucking rock from space did
>>26581992
Its literallyjust for balance
>>26580227
Fuck off Mr.Arnstein
>>26582004
Dragon babby mad af
>>26584506
Were you there?
