>>55314282well I'm going to let my autism fly here, but I always figured Water resisted Ice because water has a high specific heat. I do think it should go both ways though, where Ice should resist Water for pretty much the same reason. And as for Steel, hardly any of the Pokémon with that type are robots or mechanical like in other JRPGs. I think Steel is really just "metal minerals" the type, so it just being neutral with Electric makes more sense. I did find it wacky though that in this original type chart Steel is immune to itself, which actually makes a lot of sense, and doesn't resist a majority of types -- only Rock, Poison and Fighting of all things. And you know what its other weakness is? Fuckin Water. And offensively, it is only resisted by Electric and Water and only strong against Rock! Every other type is neutral except obviously itself, which it is immune to. I would have loved to see how the games developed if that was the type chart. I don't think Steel is as omnipresent as it once was since the changes in Generation 6, but thinking about them originally planning Steel as NOT a defensive type but something more like Dragon that's just fairly neutral across the board is absolutely wild. I think it would have made a huge huge difference in how we use that type today and passively it would have pretty much allowed Normal and Psychic to stay massive threats in conjunction with the beta version of Dark type being weak to the former and only resisting the latter