>>56150328I mean, that still goes back to the type chart, though, doesn’t it? Four weaknesses, only resisting itself, four types it’s super effective against, and four types resisting it does not lend itself to a sturdy, unmoving glacier of a tank, it lends itself to a speedy, rolling avalanche that sweeps everything in its path. If they want to make big, bulky ice-type tanks, then ice needs at least three more resistances.
The biggest problem that it suffers from is that too many ice-types are designed to do the thing that it’s worst at. The fact that the type is so heavily dependent on hail/snow to bring up defense and activate abilities to increase speed or evasiveness is directly a consequence of how the type is balanced, in particular the fact that it can’t actually take a hit, and thus needs to either avoid moves or bring down an attacker first. Better ability variety would be nice, but it wouldn’t change the fundamental fact that the type is defensively inadequate at best, despite most of the Pokémon in the type being designed around defending.
