>>13831992Give it resists.
No, it does not need another SE advantage.
No, Hail buffs do not need to become synonymous with mono-Ice.
No, Freeze buffs will not save the type because you assume it's going to be exclusive in the same way Toxic is exclusive to Poison types, Burn to Fire types, and Sleep to Psychic/Grass.
It wants more resists to help all currently existing Ice types. Losing weaknesses would help any type, but what it craves are resists. Adding 2-3 resists to it would do so much to help the type out.
It also wants new Ice types to be designed upon its strenghts: fast sweepers, not bulky tanks.
The new Ice/Rock fossil is
almost doomed to failure because of it's likely stat spread.