Anyone else think that water typs should be more vunerable to ice type attacks

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because i mean if you hit water with and ice type attack its frozen...

maybe a higher risk of being frozen
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normal effectiveness

something along those lines is good if you ask me thoughts?
 
Using logic in Pokemon will not work about 50% of the time...give or take the situation. While yes it would sound like a good thing to have water weak to ice, but then again I don't think we know what the Ninendo/GameFreak people were thinking when making up the weaknesses and resists because Normal only has Fighting as a weakness and that always bothered me.
 
i think they should be as weak to an ice type attack as they are to electric type attacks
 
I always thought that water should be weak to poison. because, if you poison water, everything in it dies. plus, it would make poison attacks better.
 
Maybe they were thinking more in the context of "Throwing a chunk of ice at a pond." That wouldn't do much...

idk, GF is crazy sometimes.
 
Stuntology said:
I always thought that water should be weak to poison. because, if you poison water, everything in it dies. plus, it would make poison attacks better.
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Water dilutes poison, so logic can be reversed to make them resistant.
 
Ice is supposed to freeze water. AND water melts ice faster. I guess both should be SE against each other.
 
I think water should be weak to fire because fire boils water

Sarcasm aside, maybe they did it balance the game.
 
As mentioned above there was probably an issue with the balancing of the game and they needed to make it... well, not be weak to Ice.
 
Stuntology said:
I always thought that water should be weak to poison. because, if you poison water, everything in it dies. plus, it would make poison attacks better.
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You could argue that poison kills anything it comes in contact with, making it super effective against all organic based pokemon. That wouldn't really fly.

Anyway, Ice and Water are really two forms of the same thing which can be interconveted. I don't think there should be a weakness one way or the other, but I do think that Water should resist Ice attacks, and Ice should resist Water attacks.
 
I kept mistaking the two in the past...
Most water-types do learn ice-type moves naturally, and there's a lot of sea-life even in cold climates.
I guess water-types just have a natural resistance to ice, and in the Pokèmon-world, may even be closely related.
 
actually it makes more sense if ice has a weakness to water. Just grab some snow/ice from the outside, and put it in some cold water. Eventually it'll melt away.

Stuntology said:
I always thought that water should be weak to poison. because, if you poison water, everything in it dies. plus, it would make poison attacks better.
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I agree, which can be made clear from my own type chart.
 
mijzelffan said:
actually it makes more sense if ice has a weakness to water. Just grab some snow/ice from the outside, and put it in some cold water. Eventually it'll melt away.
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As long as its inside it will melt wherever you put it (unless your house is really cold.. but if its THAT cold, good luck finding water anywhere). Not to mention water is always hotter than ice, otherwise it turns into... well ice!

Take it back outside and everything freezes. Trust me I know.. I have a rabbit who lives outside and his water becomes bottom-solid a couple of hours after I give it to him in the winter.
 
When water freezes, it still remains water.

Compare it to when you freeze a plant. The plant is damaged by the freezing process. It doesn't turn back to a healthy plant when you unfreeze it. If you unfreeze water, it's as if nothing happened at all.

As for poison. Water dilutes the poison and reduces its effectiveness.
 
mijzelffan said:
Fish be in tank. Poison be added to tank. Fish die.

it's as easy as that. Why else do you think leaked oil into the ocean is such a problem?
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I guess in that logic EVERY Pokèmon should be weak to poison..
Any animal would die of you poison them (what can be called "poison" depends on the species, heck for dogs chocolate is poisonous.)
Same with fire, every animal dies if you put it on fire, not every Pokèmon is weak to it.
Any non-water dwelling animal dies if you try to drown them, yet normal types aren't weak to water-types (heck to be fair even Buizel should be capable of drowning as its a mammal).

Heck most offensive attacks in the Pokèmon world have the potential to kill nearly anything if they try hard enough.
 
why is everyone using the logic that poison water kills you cant do that with pokemon you have to use nature elements as an example

what happens to water when poison is added nothing its just mixed with a new substance and will turn to normale when it rain or rain many times

what happens when a street thug fights a trained martial artist the thug will normaly loss this is why normal types are weak to fighting types

as for water and ice there the same thing this is why they resiste one another
 
mijzelffan said:
Fish be in tank. Poison be added to tank. Fish die.

it's as easy as that. Why else do you think leaked oil into the ocean is such a problem?
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That's if water was the environment. Look at it in another perspective. Water is used to cleanse and dilute things. Water Pokemon obviously have large stores of water in them, so it is natural to assume that if poison gets into their bodies, they'd be more dilute in concentration then let's say, a grass Pokemon. The lower concentration of the toxins within their bodies allows it to be filtered out much readily.
 
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