Elemental types

The Intryon universe has 19 distinct elemental types which can be used anywhere that a type chart/table is required. They can be used to group different types of creatures as well as weapons or attacks.

Each elemental type has 3 strengths, 3 weaknesses, and one immunity, both when dealing and receiving damage. The only exception is Untyped, which does not have any strengths or weaknesses.

Type chart

Defenders >>> Attackers VVV	UNTYPED	EARTH	WIND	FORCE	FLAME	WATER	FROST	SHOCK	ORGANIC	TOXIC	LIGHT	SHADOW	METAL	PLASMA	CRYSTAL	LOGIC	MYSTIC	CHAOS	DEATH
UNTYPED
EARTH			0x	0.5x	2x			2x	0.5x	2x			0.5x
WIND			0.5x	2x	2x	0.5x	0x	0.5x						2x
FORCE			0.5x				2x	0.5x			0.5x	0x					2x	2x
FLAME		0.5x	2x		0.5x	0.5x	2x						2x	0x
WATER		2x			2x	0.5x	0.5x	0x					2x	0.5x
FROST			2x		0.5x	0x			2x		0.5x	0.5x			2x
SHOCK		0x	2x			2x		0.5x		0.5x				0.5x	2x
ORGANIC		2x				2x	0.5x			0.5x		0.5x					2x		0x
TOXIC				2x					2x			2x	0.5x		0x			0.5x	0.5x
LIGHT				0.5x					0.5x	2x		2x	0x			0.5x		2x
SHADOW				0.5x					0x	0.5x	2x					2x		0.5x	2x
METAL		2x			0.5x		2x							0.5x	2x	0x	0.5x
PLASMA						2x		2x			0x		2x				0.5x	0.5x	0.5x
CRYSTAL		0.5x			0x		0.5x	2x			2x					0.5x			2x
LOGIC		0.5x		2x						2x					0.5x	0.5x	0x	2x
MYSTIC			0.5x						0.5x	0x		2x		2x	0.5x				2x
CHAOS				0x							0.5x		0.5x	2x		2x	2x		0.5x
DEATH									2x		2x	0.5x			0.5x	2x	0.5x	0x

Equivalent types in other franchises

The table below shows roughly equivalent types in other series of games.

	Concept being captured	Pokémon	TemTem	Palworld	DnD / Pathfinder	WC3	WoW	Borderlands / TTW
UNTYPED	Basic attacks without any element	Normal	Neutral	Neutral	Bludgeoning Piercing Slashing	Normal Piercing	Physical	Non-elemental
EARTH	Creatures in mountain ranges, dry/arid environments, caves	Ground	Earth	Ground
WIND	Air currents, wind, flying, noise	Flying	Wind		Sonic
FORCE	Immense power	Fighting	Melee		Force			Explosive
FLAME	Fire and flame	Fire	Fire	Fire	Fire		Fire	Incendiary
WATER	Water	Water	Water	Water
FROST	Ice and frost	Ice		Ice	Cold		Frost	Cryo
SHOCK	Electricity	Electric	Electric	Electric	Lightning			Shock
ORGANIC	Forest creatures, bugs, plants, nature	Grass Bug	Nature	Grass			Nature
TOXIC	Acid, corrosion, poison, damage over time, generic debuffs	Poison	Toxic		Acid Poison			Corrosive Radiation Slag
LIGHT	Good, virtuous, holy, rays of light, brightness, positivity				Radiant Positive/Vitality	Hero	Holy
SHADOW	Evil, satanic, murky, unpleasant, shadows, darkness, negativity	Dark		Dark	Negative/Void		Shadow	Dark Magic
METAL	Metallic objects, robots, artificial life, man-made creatures	Steel	Digital
PLASMA	Solar plasma, fire-breathing monsters, dragons	Dragon		Dragon
CRYSTAL	Rocks, boulders, gems, energy crystals	Rock	Crystal			Siege
LOGIC	Intelligence, mental skill, telepathy, astral projection, psychic ability	Psychic	Mental		Psychic
MYSTIC	Living supernatural (wizards, fairies, pixies)	Fairy				Magic	Arcane
CHAOS	Madness, randomness, disorder, unpredictability, insanity					Chaos
DEATH	Dead/undead supernatural (ghosts, zombies, mummies, skeletons)	Ghost			Necrotic

The Intryon typing table has been ported over to rom hacks of Pokémon Emerald and Pokémon Rutile Ruby. The normal method to handling the inexact type alignment is to retype Normal as Chaos, and to retype Bug as Light.

Trivia

• Metal type was previously known as the Construct type.
• Untyped was previously known as the Mundane type.
• The first iteration of the type table only had 16 types. Force, Logic and Chaos were added later in order to make the typing of some things easier.
• The elemental types were originally desired for Ginever TD to try to encourage variety in tower typing. The intention was that, assuming the enemy types are unknown, no single type of tower should be necessarily better or worse than any other, but the player would be in a better position by having many different tower types.
• Untyped damage is functionally equivalent to chaos damage in the original TD.