Was Wigglytuff being given the fairy type in LGPE a good buff?

Question

Basically, I just want to know if Wigglytuff being given the Fairy type in LGPE is a gamechanger, a good buff, or something detrimental.

BTW, the tag for Wigglytuff didn’t show up for some odd reason.

Edit: To make things even clearer, I want to know whether the LGPE Wigglytuff is better than Gen 1 Wigglytuff based off of typing, stab, e.t.c.

Comments

I’m talking about LGPE

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personally, I’d say that in terms of STAB and typing, Wigglytuff got a great buff. Normal-Fairy cancels out the fighting weakness, and only adds two new ones (poison & steel), as well as a new immunity (dragon). Overall, the new fairy typing is one of the better buffs it could have received.

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Oh, cool! Thanks a ton.

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I gotta get home from school, then I’ll put this into a full answer. Glad I helped!

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Answer 1

Alright, let’s start with Wigglytuff’s stats, movepool, and typing in RBY.

RBY:
Typing: Normal (Weak to Fighting, Immune to Ghost, resisted by Rock because Steel doesn’t exist yet)

Movepool: Level-up movepool is terrible (only counting Wigglytuff not Jigglypuff, which does make some use out of body slam and double-edge) , but most TMs are available for its use, which are actually quite diverse? (Psychic moves such as Psychic and Psywave help against its fighting weakness).

Stats:

• 140 HP (monstrous)
• 70 Atk (subpar)
• 45 Def (fragile as my ego)
• 50 Special (In RBY, this is SpA and SpD as one stat, but not 25 in each stat)
• 45 Spe (Slow as a brick)

Basically, a HP tank but with these subpar defenses it won’t be doing you any favors.

LGPE:
Typing: Normal-Fairy (Immune to Ghost & Dragon, weak to steel and poison (fairy has a fighting resistance, cancels out), STAB is resisted by rock, steel, poison and fire, resists bug and dark.

Movepool: Again, terrible outside Jigglypuff and TMs (beautifully diverse, like a rainbow!). Dazzling Gleam and Hyper Beam (please don’t hate me) round out some nice STABs, and coverage on all types through its TM usage.

Stats:

• 140 HP (monstrous)
• 70 Atk (subpar)
• 45 Def (greater than power-tricked shuckle at least)
• 85 SpA (okay, but not pretty good as the other attacking option is base 70)
• 50 SpD (unexpectedly bad)
• 45 Spe (slow as a brick that needs to keep cementing itself)

Okay, kind of a special attacker now with extreme HP and terrible defenses? What kind of thing is this (admittedly better than RBY)?

Summary: From RBY this thing was destined to be an HP wall and nothing more. No defenses, subpar attacks, bad typing, but a great movepool? Wasted potential. Gen 6 gave this, shudders thing a nice typing buff, and paired with Fairy STAB made it somewhat usable in-game (not me though, only the finest Xerneas :)). LGPE didn’t really do much on its own, so my answer is that Wigglytuff had a great buff after Gen 6 (not really LGPE but still applies), but with its subpar overall stats it stays a mediocre-bad Pokemon. Glad I helped, took me quite a while to type on a phone.