OK, this is a comprehensive prediction of what will happen with the fairy type. I will include all the known information and the rest I'll be trying to make up, but hoping to hit the mark in some cases. Are you sitting comfortably? Who cares, I'm starting anyway.
Characteristics
Offensive
Offensively the fairy type is obviously extremely useful for its ability to deal super-effective damage to the dragon type. However, like it does with many types steel resists its STAB, as do grass and poison. Its special attack stat is generally pretty high and its speed is among the best of all types, but its physical attack is almost unusably bad, meaning it is valuable as a special sweeper but encounters problems against pokemon with good special defense. It has a good range of moderately powerful to very powerful special moves, but fairy types do not tend to be able to learn moves from many other types. One positive with its moves, however, is that they can often target multiple opponents in double and triple battles. Fairy/fire offers good coverage, as does fairy/ground, but there are no confirmed plans to produce pokemon with either of these typings. Fairy types are popular as the best counters to dragon-types and as reasonably good special sweepers, but they face real problems.
Defensive
Defensively it is not a terribly good type. Its special defense is moderately high, but its defense is on the low side. Its battle properties are also less than favourable defensively, as it takes super-effective damage from normal, fire, poison and rock types, while only resisting grass and dark type moves. Because of the innate weakness of the fairy type defensively, many people use fairy moves but not fairy-type pokemon.
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