Another resistance for Ice-types?

I would put Dark as a resistance, as a play on sundogs (the rainbows beside the sun)
Here's a pic:

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Sundogs are created by ice in the air, right? And rainbows are clearly not dark.
We just need more Ice-Type Pokémon in general. Pokémon like Froslass, Articuno, Kyurem, and Alolan Ninetales are so beautifully designed! We need to see more of that.
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I think the hail one could be done no problem. But having played a lot of gen 6 competitive, I don't think that ice really needs a big boost. There isn't a glass type (yet), so instead of glass cannons, we get ice cannons. Ice moves generally have a lot of power, and a few moves with pretty nice effects. It is a neat speculation thing, but I feel almost like Ice Types would become a little broken if they buffed them by too much.

 

Dark Resistance made me think about "Dark Ice", sounds really cool! haha.
And I must say that they are so beautiful designed. Makes me want to be an Ice Type Gym Leader

I agree. Ice Types are really Strong and Pokemons like Kyurem make you think twice about its set configuration. Its not pretty common to see them since many players are afraind about Fight Type Moves that often open a hole in modern teams.

Everything is a matter of balance. Knowing the meta will allow you to pick certain Pokémon by their type but there are often unbalanced combinations that could

make some times be out the current meta. Ice Types have their moment with Pokémon like Mamoswine and still make the difference.

Darkest Ninja was here

 

I think if anything, ice should resist water. It always confused me that water was able to resist ice and not the other way around.

 

Well, Water can move Icebergs but Icebergs do not affect Water's nature. I had the same question too and I found this logic.

@[member="Mandriel"] I like your point

 

I haven't played Pokémon in a coon's age, but logically Ice should resist Electricity, Flying, Grass at the very least. Ice is a poor conductor of electricity, it puts foilage into a state of dormancy so there is should be both super effective and resist and same with Flying there are very few birds that like cold weather and even fewer of those birds actually fly considering most of them are various species of penguin. In terms of super-effectiveness I never really understood why Ice is super effective against Dragon type seeing as there are several instances where a dragon isn't just a fire-breathing sterotype including the existence of ice dragons and water dragons which shouldn't carry neutrality to ice due to their dragon sides. With that said I'd replace that super-effective with steel as when metals become colder they become more brittle ergo even though metal should maintain it's super-effective over ice, ice should have an advantage over it as well. Additionally in the water vs ice debate I'd give Ice super effective over water as when water becomes cold it turns into ice, I realize that ice floats and melts but you have to consider that ice represents the element of cold not just frozen water per say so dumping some supercooled solid into water will most definitely freeze it and putting a starter ice into water will help freeze water more quickly as the water cools while heating the ice trying to form that equilibrium of a uniform temperature throughout the system so should the surround air be cold enough to freeze the water introducing the ice will give said surrounding freezing temperatures an easier time in terms of changing the water's temperature.

IMO
Resist - Electricity, Grass, Flying, Water
Super Effective Against - Grass, Rock, Flying, Steel, Bug, Electricity
Weak Against - Steel, Rock, Fire, Fighting

Electricity - Poor conductor of electricity ergo since ground is Super Effective and takes no damage because it resists electricity a poor conductor should take reduced damage while still being super effective.
Grass - puts in a state of dormancy and it doesn't grow ergo shouldn't affect it and should be weak to it
Flying - Birds migrate ergo super effective and resist
Water - With cold water freezes ergo IMO ice should trump water.
Rock - Water in rock that freezes accelerates erosion in the rock thus should take super effective damage however ice can be broken by a rock striking it thus taking super effective damage as well.
Steel - Cold causes steel to weaken but like rock steel can break ice.
Bug - Winter removes bugs
Fire - Fire melts ice
Fighting - Ice being struck breaks

 

I agree with the logic in here. Now that I think about it ice should be effective on steel because of the brittle effect

 

I think that ice types should not be affected by bug types at all since ice usually kills bugs completely. Also, they should pick either rock or ground for it to be immune to since ice usually can cover the ground and coat over it.

 

The ground doesn't really freeze solid, it gets a bit harder in the winter for the temperatures, not really sure they decide that based on what it can cover by that logic you can start a fire on the ocean if you wanted to. Then poison includes oil and such according to Pokédex entries on Grimer and Muk so based on that Fire should be super effective against poison. As for insects it sends them into dormancy not outright kills them and there are bugs that can survive temperatures as low as -54C things like ants go underground in the winter and survive just fine. IMO there is absolutely no reason Ice should have an immunity of any kind.

Pure water conducts no electricity at all so should water have an electric immunity instead of being weak to it? After all that's why Ground is immune to electricity is that it's "grounded". Conducting o electricity at all is pretty much by definition being unaffected by it. Electricity can start a fire so shouldn't fire be immune to it as well?

 

It always bothered me how ice is super effective towards ground but NOT rock.

I'd make ice resist rock and ground and be super effective towards both, but it's really unlikely GF would change a super effective type match up to a resistant one.

 

When you put it that way, it makes sense. I suppose this is also the case since hot water can melt ice, but that might be a bit of a stretch. All the same, water's the most logical resistance I can think of.

 

Thinking about this issue, I wish Ice was resistant to Grass and Bug. Both Grass and Bug are already weak to Ice attacks, which is entirely logical, and it's worth considering that some other type match-ups will have one type be super-effective against another offensively, and that one type will resist that other type defensively (e.g. Grass is super-effective against and resists Water).

 

I'm not an expert on typing and the balance of them but i've always had this impression that ice was the kind of type that was included not to be a widely used thing that can tackle everything, but rather that its the kind of type that's used as a wildcard to upset someone like a dragon player who doesn't statistically expect to see someone using that.

 

I feel like ice types should be able to resist water, just going off of the fact that ice is frozen water.