>>714405742
No you moron. It makes the fire sword weak against anything that doesn't have fire weakness and makes the physical sword the obvious choice.

>rewards knowing the enemy
KEK! aka looking it up on the wiki.
Aside from very obvious shit like trees being weak to fire, most of the resistances are completely random.
Just look at
>>714405221
Most bosses have completely arbitrary resistances that make no sense and you can't look it up anywhere ingame.