I've already talked about my disinterest of changing the type chart to balance weaker type, but of all of the more popular proposed changes, I believe Ice has no business resisting Water. I'm not talking flavorfully, because you could bend the type chart in all sorts of ways if you use real life (Fire could vaporize Water, Steel could cut Grass, etc.) I'm talking purely for gameplay. Oh neat Ice can switch into Water types now? Guess what? Water resists Ice too. Now the game is stallier than it already is. Freeze-Dry exists? Not for Physical Ice mons, and of the Special Ice mons with it, a handful of them already resist Water, and a bunch of the remaining ones are junkers. Plus as we've seen in Gen 8, Game Freak is not afraid of tossing out established moves like Pursuit and Return to shake up the meta, so Freze-Dry is never safe. I only say this because every time I get into this topic, the (many) proponents for this change are staunchly grounded on this buff being nothing but positive for the game when I really don't see it. What am I missing here? I wanna give the benefit of the doubt, but it just feels like their opinion is "WolfeyVGC said this Ice buff would be good, so it must be good."
