>>51908723The problem with type matchups is due to the state of the element. Anything loose or malleable by state is going to have better resistances.
Solids while hard are also in a lot of cases brittle where one crack fucks up the whole mass. Ice and rock are UNFORTUNATELY solids vs their ground/water counterparts. The issue I have is that Ice shouldn’t just be “frozen water” it needs to be just pure cold. But that would mean Pokémon’s matchup system would have to change depending on species.
Imagine an ice slugma, instead its body is liquid nitrogen or something. Technically it should resist more physical based attacks, so fighting resist, ground resist etc
If they threw in species specific type matchups it would make way more sense. The only issue is that it would be stupidly complicated for a kids game.
