Ice should do neutral damage against fire. Ice types have been too under powered since gen 2 with the introduction of steel. Fire just got a resist to fairy, so ice should revert back to neutral damage. Almost no one plays ice types head to head because of their horrible defensive typing, but it makes sense because of their glass canon nature, therefore they should be more offensive. It also just makes no fucking sense that ice melts into water and does low damage to fire types.

Pokemon really isn't that great of a competitive game, and Game Freak is never going to change this because they live in their own world (they can't even make half decent single player experiences any more). In competitive pokemon you always see the same 30 pokemon, with the same move pool, and the same stat spread, it gets old fast.

Blaze black was flawed, but a good step in the right direction. Pokemon would be a better game if we balanced the pokemon better, changed abilities, increased move pools, boosted stats, etc... but their are so many purists that think this is a bad idea, solely because they would have to change their team that they got from googling "best showdown team".

Also, why is pokemon still so focused on single battles? Don't get me wrong, they have their place, but triples always fall to the wayside when they are fundamentally much more tactical. Single battles can be interesting in a hack like blaze black, but competitively the meta game for singles is too narrow and limited.

Game freak needs to stop letting their children write the dialogue and story for pokemon. Compare the dialogue and story to Mother 2 or Chrono Trigger, or really most other jrpg's out there and you'll notice how grating it is. Everyone is tired of the same magma/galaxy/plasma bullshit, the story of you overcoming your own challenges and going to the pokemon league are always more interesting. If they had some better writers I would allow it, but currently i've read soup labels more interesting.