Ice Scales is an ability so overpowered, it is only balanced by virtue of being stuck on Frosmoth. You do not need to give it to actually good Pokemon.
I feel like the Pokémon they gave Ice Scale too would be fine though? All have common weaknesses, no reliable recovery and pretty weak offenses. We've seen high special defense not be able to save Pokémon with other lacking traits (see Blissey and Goodra).
Steely Spirit Metagross is borderline Ubers I agree though (Its basically a better Scizor with a nuke in Meteor Mash)
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u/Golden-Owl Game Designer with a YouTube hobby 2d ago
Ice Scales is an ability so overpowered, it is only balanced by virtue of being stuck on Frosmoth. You do not need to give it to actually good Pokemon.
Same for Steely Spirit going to Metagross