Elemental types

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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 WoW Borderlands / TTW
UNTYPED Basic attacks without any element Normal Neutral Neutral Bludgeoning / Piercing / Slashing 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 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, gems, energy crystals Rock Crystal
LOGIC Intelligence, mental skill, telepathy, astral projection, psychic ability Psychic Mental Psychic
MYSTIC Living supernatural (wizards, fairies, pixies) Fairy Arcane
CHAOS Madness, randomness, disorder, unpredictability, insanity
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.