>>49028169The only change I would make would be:
>Ice resists GroundGround is already such a strong offensive type and Ice is such a weak defensive type that it'd help give Ice types at least something of a niche. Ice is good offensively but pretty much every Water type and their grandmother can learn Ice Beam or Blizzard which makes it hard for Ices to stand out even with STAB.
Other ideas I had but I'm not 100% sure about:
>Ice resists FairySimilar to Ice resisting Ground because Fairy is really strong and Ice is really not, but I can't think of as much of a logical connection there as I can with Ground (Ice already beats Ground, so there's precedent for it being superior in the matchup).
>Ice resists WaterIce wouldn't become super effective against water, just a not very effective loop sort of thing, kind of like with Normal and Ghost but without the immunities. Ice attacks would melt on contact with the warmer bodied Water types and Water attacks would freeze on contact with the chilly Ice types. I'm not 100% about this one because while Water is strong, it's not really THAT strong offensively so I don't think it would do much in the grand scheme of things, especially when something like Scald would probably be turned into a reverse-Freeze Dry to combat it.
>Def/Sp.Def boost in HailAlready been done with Rock types and Sandstorm, but I feel like it could be really overbearing. Something like A!Nintetales + Aurora Veil + Snow Warning sounds awful.
If they were to rebalance Ice, I think it'd be best if it was just one single small buff instead of anything drastic because usually when drastic type chart changes happen, the benefactors become pretty overbearing (see Steel and Fairy). Something like removing multiple weaknesses or adding new super effectives just seem like they'd be overkill, especially when Ice is already pretty good offensively. I dig
>>49028210's idea of removing Frozen though and making something that isn't just "sleep but worse".
