Why Pokemon's Newest Type is a Total Failure

Pokemon recently added a 19th Type - the Stellar type - and players thought it would take over the game. But somehow, Stellar is one of the worst types - here's how it happened.

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[gavanator]

You don't use stellar tera type because it sucks. I don't use stellar tera type because I don't have the DLC. We are not the same

[myhairhasamindofitsown]

To be fair, the stellar type is not a new type. It's a gimmick within a gimmick, marketed as a new type to generate hype and expectation.

[dblaze]

Its such a failure, that i had no idea it existed before this video.

[ajbeasley]

Stellar isn’t even really a new type it can only be used when in Tera form that’s like saying mega Pokémon are entirely new Pokemon

[drugerrv]

The true stellar type was the incineroar we found along the way

[Ice_Trey]

It won’t matter in one or two years when gen ten throws terastilization out the window with z moves and dynamaxing.

[thibaud]

"What's the point ?"
Marketing.

[Wolfie]

I think that Ditto works well for it. The problem with picking a tera type for a ditto is that you don't know what pokemon you are going to become until you switch out the ditto, so your prediction of a type could go to waste due to it either not having a move that matches your offensive tera type or being a better type combo than your tera. Ditto also doesn't have alot of hp so it won't always last as long as you may want. With the stellar type, you don't have to mess up your typing, and you can get in a few really strong hits before fainting. Keep in mind I am not an expert in Pokemon, especially competitively, so if you can prove me wrong, do it.

[bagthecadran]

It took me way too long to realize this wasn’t an April Fool’s joke and I’m just out of the pokemon loop

[Saivenie]

Worth noting, Stellar form Terapagos is not a Stellar type; it's still considered a Normal type that is Terastalized into Stellar. Funnily enough, because the type of Tera Starstorm changes, this actually means that it loses the STAB boost and gets slightly weaker, which is why on Showdown you sometimes see Terapagos running moves like Tri Attack alongside or instead of it.

[footman]

It feels like they had a cool idea for stellar type, and then decided they had to nerf it into the ground so it wasn't too good for competitive, but in the process made it absolutely terrible.

[Whimsykit]

how to die tutorial: take a shot every time he says tera type

[Deathnotefan]

I choose to believe that stellar type was made super effective against terastalized Pokémon because Game Freak saw all the memes about Tera electric Shedinja with air balloon and panicked

[danielcm]

And to think that Masuda removed the Azure Flute event back in D/P/Pt because he thought it would be too difficult for players to understand it...

[chaosinc.]

I miss Megavolving. That shit was awesome.

[kibabissal]

"Fairy type was a chaos"
Fairy type balancing the overpowered types such as Dragon, Dark and Fight which not only had the best pokemon by stats, the best moves, but also types that were weak to slightly uncommon things, such like Bug or Flaying (exception: psychic against Fight): 🤡

[emdal]

Wolf : I think all of you are stellar !

me : does that mean you think we are all total failures ?

[smeatar]

This is like the embodiment of everything I dislike about modern Pokémon, they just keep adding these one off, barely realised mechanics that don’t feel connected to the broader game.

[samwise]

Pokemon Company: "The Stellar tera is great! It boosts all of the Pokemon's moves for a single use! The only way this could be bad is if you would want to use your Pokemon's strongest move more than once. But how could that go wrong?"
Protect: "Observe"

[gabrielgoes]

The main problem with terastalization is not that it doesn't work or something, it's that it looks ugly and stupid af. I hate it because of that