>>45931991it's not that ice-type is bad mechanically, far from it. Defensively it has 4 weaknesses and only resists itself, and offensively it has 5 types it's good against, including more 4x effective pokemon weak to it than any other type. The result of this is that it's a type suited to fast, powerful, glass-cannon attackers.
So of course, Gamefreak plasters it onto pokemon who are slow, bulky, and often have weak or mid-range offensive stats
Thus the sterotype that Ice is weak
