>>34640598Ice as a type is only balanced because of its defenses; as Moves themselves have no defensive proprerties, giving Ice-type moves to non-Ice Pokemon has always been a huge imbalance in the system. The risk/reward of using Ice type moves is gone when given to a Pokemon with a less volatile typing, most frequently Water. The end result is that Ice types are made practically irrelevant because any Ice move is always better on a non-Ice Pokemon that doesn't need to deal with Ice's defensive liability.
All that being said the meta is probably the same except with more Weavile and Mamoswine running around as Dragon-killers. Only fast Ice types, or ones with access to Ice Shard, will ever be any good.
