>>38332521to be fair ice is a simplified conveyance of the idea of cold subjects.
Cold and cold stuff =/= water.
Nor are all ice or frozen materials water. Dry ice for example is cabron dioxide. Still ice.
It also conveys that it is a brittle and fragile solid state of a liquid or gas, rather than just being "cold" type which could convey metals rather than freezing temperatures.
Anyways, on to OP
>>38332307>water resists fireWater actually can store heat energy incredibly well, and while heat energy from pokemon may be incredibly high, there is no visible indicator of just how much water is magically compressed inside a water type, nor what they are made of (water types likely have a heat-resistant layer so they aren't losing it to evaporation constantly).
>>38332604Water does not disperse the electrical current as well as steels, you need a LOT more electricity to electrocute something inside steel armor. You can google search evidence for this.
>>38332615every other RPG technically has it wrong plus more than half of them don't even include water as an element which is the true issue. Water beats fire via suffocation and cooling, but the suffocation is more important than the cooling. There's no reason for ice to beat fire since fire types have their own gigantic heat source.
