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I think maybe part of the reason water isn't thought of as a damage element is in asking...how exactly does water hurt you? Make you a little wet? Mess up your perm?

And of course, this is dumb, because the sea is massively dangerous, but it takes a whole freaking ocean to bring that kind of threat, compared to a small (by comparison) flame or a momentary lightning bolt. Part of the reason I think it's silly to count ice as separate from water. Although, the problem is also solved by including acid as part of water, which the OP also lists separately on the poll. But without those, water is just "the element of life" because "our bodies are 90% water," blahblahblah.