How Pokemon Saved the Ice Type
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Published 2023-11-25
Ice Type Pokemon have been terrible for years - but finally in Scarlet and Violet they've been given new life
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All Comments (21)
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“ And then they kissed”
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i think the way the ice type was in gen 1 made sense, it was this seemingly useless type, but is actually the only way to deal with dragon types. it was like a secret mechanic with the specific reward of having an easier time against lance
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I still think that ice and water should have the fighting/bug interaction where both types are not very effective against eachother, water resists ice and ice resists water
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One thing that always bothered me was ice types were typically restricted to late game. By the time I got access to catchable ice types I'd already settled on a team.
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Gotta love how the biggest buff to Ice Types is the fact that they can not be Ice Type
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I could watch Wolfey invent stories of game freak employees for hours
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Oh my God give this editor a raise. What a great job
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Ice types being slow and bulky reminds me that Gamefreak did this with Dark type too. They’ve always had high Attack, even in gens 2 and 3… when all Dark moves were SPECIAL.
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Even in the other major competitive format, Smogon singles, ice types are at the best they've ever been (mostly thanks to Tera, but also thanks to the snow buff) More ice types have been banned from OU in this generation than in any other: Iron Bundle, Chien-Pao, Regieleki, and Baxcalibur.
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One extra great change from Hail to Snow that wasn’t mentioned was the removal of hails chip damage. That’s huge for team building, as it means you’re not gonna be overlapping on your many weaknesses anymore.
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Ice was designed to be a Dragon Killer that was added onto other Pokemon types like they did with Flying and partially to an extent Poison. Hence why a single type Ice type didn't show up until Hoenn. As a dual type exclusive type having a lot of resistances would have been pretty powerful. Also when it was created, Steel wasn't a type so three weaknesses wasn't unusual.
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I really like that Wolfey uses chilling reception multiple times throughout this ice type video😆
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Funnily enough I think ice types in RBY were genuinely excellent. Defensively you basically only had 1 weakness to Rock which wasn't common - Fire and Fighting are atrocious offensive types. Ice resisting itself is also super valuable because of how commonly Blizzard is spammed as well as giving you an immunity to being frozen. Pokemon like Cloyster and even Lapras can genuinely make good use offensively and defensively out of their type, while fast, glass cannon Pokemon like Jynx are unsurprisingly good
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Still could use more resistances. I like the idea of it resisting electric and water and losing the rock weakness, (works for thematical and balance reasons) no need to change the offenses.
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How ICE doesn't have a resistance to WATER or GRASS I will never know. Also weak to GROUND? Frost absolutely destroys rock and ground... and freezing/slowing down Fighting types? But NOPE
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I hope they bring back the Frostbite status condition from PLA because i think it would both really help ice types, but would more importantly also be good for game balance in general
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Hey, there's one other Pokemon that can learn belly drum and a priority move: Kommo-o. Only issue is that it learns Vacuum Wave as the priority move, which doesn't use that boosted attack lol
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All these ice types and Wolfey’s still the coolest one in this video
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I think bug rework should involve certain abilities setting up a swarm to use bug attacks twice while its on the field. With vespiquen being the best bet to set up the swarm
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Fun Fact: Hydro Pump is not 85% accurate. It's 80%.
