Quote Originally Posted by Tavrobel View Post
Hidden Power is only kind of cool.
Hidden Power is only cool when you can hack IVs to guarantee that it will be useful. Like my Jolteon with 70 Power, Ice type Hidden Power.

Quote Originally Posted by Ouch! View Post
Ice type pokemon could use a buff. They're only resistant to their own type (why the hell doesn't ice resist water?) and have limited usefulness beyond killing dragons. They're also weak to many popular types, which makes them virtually unusable. On that note, nerf dragons. It was fine when there were like... maybe six dragon types, but there's a -ton of them now, and they're just obnoxious.
If you throw some water onto an ice block, the block doesn't get bigger. If anything, depending on the temperature of the water, the ice might even melt. The water might even be salt water, which will cause all Hell to break loose. There's only so many empirical situations where a type could beat another type. The converse is that if you throw some ice at a cup of water, the water will simply displace, but ultimately not change shape unless the distribution pattern was disruptive enough to break the container: i.e, if you throw it hard enough so that flies everywhere.

Which brings me to another point that I'm sure some people have heard before: why in the smurf does Psychic beat Poison?
All fair points, but as you point out, the type arrangements aren't necessarily based upon empirical situations. Aside from the psychic/poison disjoint, there's also the question of how exactly bug gains offensive bonuses against psychic and dark types. I mean, it kind of sort of makes sense. Ice only has one type resistance while being weak to fire, steel, rock, and fighting, all of which are frequently used. Given that ice is really the only guaranteed means of countering dragon types, you'd think they'd allow them to not be so easily countered.