Okay, let me walk you through how I figured out the whole “what is ice type good against” thing. It wasn’t super complicated, but it took a bit of trial and error, you know?
My Ice Type Journey
So, I was messing around with my team setup in the game. I’d just caught this pretty cool Ice-type Pokémon, and I really wanted to use it effectively. Thing is, I wasn’t entirely sure where it shined, like, which opponents it would just wreck.
My first thought was kinda obvious, maybe? Like, ice puts out fire in real life? Nope. Tried that in a battle, didn’t work out so well. My poor ice buddy got melted pretty quick. Okay, so fire was a no-go. Lesson learned.
Then I started thinking about what ice does. It freezes water, sure, but that didn’t seem like a direct advantage in the game mechanics I was seeing. It covers the ground, makes things brittle.
So, I decided to just jump into some battles, specifically targeting different types to see what happened. I kept my ice Pokémon in the lead slot and just went exploring.
- Against Grass types: This felt logical. Frost kills plants, right? Threw an ice move at a Grass Pokémon… Bingo! Super effective. Okay, noted that down. Grass is weak to Ice.
- Against Ground types: I thought maybe ice could freeze the ground, make it unstable? Gave it a shot against a Ground-type. Wham! Another super effective hit. Nice. Ground is also on the list.
- Against Flying types: This one was less obvious to me at first. Maybe like, hail knocking birds out of the sky? I found a Flying-type trainer. Used an ice attack… and yep, super effective again! Cool, Flying types too.
- Against Dragon types: Dragons always seem tough, legendary, you know? I wasn’t sure if ice would do much. But I remembered some lore bits about dragons being vulnerable to ice. Found a Dragon-type… It worked! Super effective. This was a big one to learn.
I also tried it against other types just to be sure. Water types? Normal damage. Rock types? Not great. Steel types? Definitely resisted it. Fighting? Normal. It took a few battles, getting knocked out sometimes, switching Pokémon around, but eventually, I got the hang of it.
So, after all that experimenting and getting my Pokémon healed up a bunch of times, I had my answer, learned through actually doing it:
Ice types are really good against:
- Grass
- Ground
- Flying
- Dragon
Now when I see those types, I know my ice buddy can jump in and lay down some serious hurt. It made building my team and planning strategies way easier. Just took a bit of hands-on practice, really.
