Well, there is this article on Smogon that does a good job of going into detail about Ice's problems and how they can be fixed. It's a little outdated, since as I said earlier Gen VIII came with a number of indirect buffs to the Ice type as well as a couple of Pokémon that live up more to Ice's...
The reason Water resists Ice, or at least my interpretation, is the difference in enthalpy between the two substances. Basically, you need twice as much ice as liquid water for the water to freeze, any less and the ice would melt. It's pretty cool that a thermodynamic concept has an influence in...
Ice types struggle offensively since they're resisted by the two best defensive types. They're mostly good for hitting things for 4x weakness, but that just means that non-Ice types with Ice coverage often outcompete Ice types. Ice does have good neutral coverage when combined with Ground, Dark...
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