Any reason to hold off evolving a Kirlia with good IVs?
I've been holding onto a Kirlia with 100% IVs for a while. Is there any reason to think they may introduce a Fairy fast move for Gardevoir, maybe through a Community Day?
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Gadevoir's also unable to learn any other fairy moves aside from misty terrain which is a status move. And converting moves like drain kiss or disarming voice into fast moves would affect a huge number of pokemon movesets (meta irrelivent or not, they are still existing movesets that would need to be considered). Not to mention opening to door to people wanting other pokemon to get the same fast move treatment.
A pure novelty move seems more likely to happen, or maybe getting future sight
I dont think gardevoir will get a fairy fast move, like Foul play tyranitar is seems like a pipe dream
The nly remaining fairy 'attack' gardevoir's elibible for is misty terrain, a status move. Status moves have only ever een given out to pokemon that required it as some part of their history in the main series games. Examples being Magikiarp learning splash because its whole point is being a useless fish, and slaking getting Yawn as a way of adding its ability Truant to the game. Gardevoir doesnt have something akin to that with misty terrain.
Fairy wind was the hope for it, but it cant learn it in the main games, and disarming voice or draining kiss being made into fast moves would change a lot of movesets of pokemon, meta irrelevent or unevolved ones or not they are still movesets that are in the game and changing the movesets of 10-15 pokemon only to give a move to a single one doesnt seems likely, either that it could result in drainkiss/drain kiss movesets or disarming voice/disarming voice If kept as charge moves while a fast move variant is made. All of those scenarios do not seem likely and especially the move altering ones have no precedent in game.
But all of that is largely meaningless, as even with a fairy fast move, gardevoir would still be an irrelevent dark counter because of how good machamp is, its only hope against dragon's would be againt a double dragon set in cloudy weather and evne with playing around with hypothetical movesets (creating a fairy fast equivalent of confusion) garchomp and dragonite edge outDPs against dragons like palkia Gardevoir would see a benefit as a machamp counter in clody weather due to having its fast and charge move benefit, but being an improved machamp count is all gardevoir would get if it does get a community day. And on defense...Oh hi Meteor mash metagross and Togekiss
TL;RD, its not likely to get a fairy fast move, even if it does it wont make it any more relevant than it is now (which is actually quite small). The only real hope for kirlia would be if gallade gets any of the fighting moves found in the code and those moves allow it to compete or surpass the DPS of machamp, which doesnt seem likely but definitely more so than gardevoir receiving a specifically converted charge move, as we have a very recent precedent for new generation pokemon receiving better movesets than older pokemon or identical movesets with better stats.
Its not the kind of news people want to hear, but dont shoot the messenger.
