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I understand that a similar question has been answered before, but my specific questions weren't satisfied in the chosen response.
Are there logical reasons as to why:
Water resists steel?
Bug resists fighting?
Poison resists fairy?
Fighting resists dark?
Steel resists fairy?
Electric resists steel?
Any light shed on these questions would be greatly appreciated.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8IW4kWWZg58

There's a pretty good video on the subject, explaining why each type is weak to whatever types it's weak to. There might be swearing, but Im pretty sure it's beeped out.
^ that's for weaknesses though, this is for the resistances

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Water resists Steel: Steel equipment cannot damage water. If you drive a chainsaw into a pond or try to fire a bullet into the ocean, you'll see what I mean.

Bug resists Fighting: Fighting refers to martial arts mostly. Bugs are mostly small and karate-chopping them is kinda hard. From a more logical perspective, bugs have hard exoskeletons (unlike most vertebrates, which have little to no exoskeleton and stronger endoskeleton). If they are as big as say Heracross, then physically harming them from the outside would be pretty hard.

Fighting resists Dark: Fighting here is martial, or uniform arts while Dark (Evil type in Japan) refers to dirty, or untrained, play. Martial artists train their bodies and attacks to be able to counter those who aren't trained, and are hence more durable and powerful against them.

Steel resists Fairy: In the olden/fairy tale days, there were loads of superstitions about iron being anathema to mythical creatures like fairies. To put it simply, metal is strongly disliked by fairies to a point it doubles up as a weakness.

Poison resists Fairy: Fairies, in most cases, are displayed as nature spirits. Since poison contaminates the environment, fairies will want to be as far away from poison as possible. Again, like with steel, this strong dislike doubles up as a weakness against it.

Electric resists Steel: Again, steel equipment fazes right through electric currents. When steel comes in contact with the current, the current flows through it and the equipment conducts it without complaint (mostly). No harm is done to either, but a current strong enough may burn through a conductor.

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Just a thought, but by the logic that driving a chainsaw into a pond doesn't do jack, punching a pond hardly does anything either. Yet Water dun resist fighting does it. ;>?
Well because martial artists also drink water :>? Oh and then there's always that guy who meditates under a waterfall.
Lel such logic
But then water was involved in the making of steel in medieval times ;>? And there's always that guy who washes his steel implements under water ;>
You mean quenching of steel? The sole purpose of that is to cool the metal, and although I don't know how the metal is damaging the water at all I can say that this is more of a heat vs water scenario.

As for the implements the water isn't getting damaged, it's just getting dirty :>
Because the guy meditating under the waterfall totally is getting damaged ;> The force of the water as a result of gravity is the same as the waterfall on the martial artist which produces force as a result of gravity ;>

Humans drink water solely for survival. .: Water shud be super effective on martial artist because martial artist need water but water dun need martial artist ;>?
That was meant as a joke lol. I didn't mean it :P. (Anything with the influence of gravity can damage a person save for your 2 cubic mm cotton ball. I could have said that psychic type is actually what represents gravity, and well psychic > fighting, but I'll leave that out cuz #farfetch'd).

Also water is consumed by martial artists (presuming them as human here). It takes some 7-9th grade biology to know what happens to consumed water; most of it is just absorbed into the human while excess of it is given out as sweat or just excreted out (very roughly). H20 can't do much to stop that from happening now can it :>?
Ofc it can ;> all the H2O in the world can flee and all humans dun goof ;>
Naw we'll chase and chug it down riding on kangaroos and camels :>
The kangaroos and camels will chug it down first ;>
Point being water cannot escape :>
Ofc it can ;>