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* Water nourishes Wood
* Water nourishes Wood


== Associations ==
=== How It Works ===
 
* '''Fire:''' Includes creatures associated with energy, like electricity, light and heat, dragons and other legendary beings, and poison. 
* '''Water:''' Includes creatures associated with the sea, lakes and swamps, ice and snow, the weather, liquids like blood, and fish and amphibians.
* '''Wood:''' Includes creatures associated with plants, lichen and fungi, poison and venom, forests, the natural environment, the wind and flying, and the wilderness.
* '''Earth:''' Includes creatures associated with the ground and underground, dirt and soil, mountains and rocks, caves, and ancient and buried things.
* '''Metal:''' Includes creatures associated with steel, light and darkness, mechanical and robotic things, psychic powers and other unnatural things, humankind, and the undead.
 
=== How it works ===
There are five options for strengths and weaknesses using the Wu Xing cycles:
There are five options for strengths and weaknesses using the Wu Xing cycles:


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* In E, an attack is weak against the element that it Generates, strong against the element that it Overcomes, weak against the element that Overcomes it and strong against the element that Generates it.
* In E, an attack is weak against the element that it Generates, strong against the element that it Overcomes, weak against the element that Overcomes it and strong against the element that Generates it.


We have gone with model A at this point:
We have gone with model A at this point.  
 
{| class="wikitable"
! tech/target !! Wood !! Earth !! Water !! Fire !! Metal
|-
| Wood ||  || 2 ||  || 0.5 ||
|-
| Earth ||  ||  || 2 ||  || 0.5
|-
| Water || 0.5 ||  ||  || 2 ||
|-
| Fire ||  || 0.5 ||  ||  || 2
|-
| Metal || 2 ||  || 0.5 || ||
|}


== Dual types/Pseudo-types ==
== Dual types/Pseudo-types ==


While the game only has five types, the existence of two-type monsters and techniques allows for different vulnerability and resistance profiles. We can therefore represent other "types".  
While the game only has five types, the existence of two-type monsters and techniques allows for different vulnerability and resistance profiles. We can therefore represent other "types". For example, Earth-Fire techniques do half damage to Earth monsters and double damage to Water monsters. Electricity-themed techniques like Electrical Storm can be given the types Earth and Fire, to reflect the idea that water conducts electricity well, but it is earthed when it hits the ground.  


For example, Earth-Fire techniques do half damage to Earth monsters and double damage to Water monsters. Electricity-themed techniques like [[Electrical Storm]] can be given the types Earth and Fire, to reflect the idea that water conducts electricity well, but it is earthed when it hits the ground.  
* Earth-Fire techniques do half damage to Earth monsters and double damage to Water monsters. ("Lightning" pseudo-type)
* Earth-Water techniques do half damage to Wood and Metal monsters and double damage to Fire and Water monsters. ("Frost" pseudo-type)
* Earth-Wood techniques do half damage to Fire and Metal monsters and double damage to Earth and Water monsters. ("Fungus" or "Toxin" pseudo-type)
* Earth-Metal techniques do half damage to Metal monsters and double damage to Wood monsters. ("Vermin" pseudo-type).
* Fire-Water technqiues do half damage to Earth and Wood monsters and double damage to Fire and Water monsters. ("Cosmic" pseudo-type).
* Fire-Wood techniques do half damage to Fire monsters and double damage to Metal monsters. ("Battle" pseudo-type).
* Fire-Metal techniques do half damage to Earth and Water monsters and double damage to Wood and Metal monsters. ("Psionic" pseudo-type).
* Water-Wood techniques do half damage to Wood monsters and double damage to Earth monsters
* Water-Metal techniques do half damage to Water monsters and double damage to Fire monsters. ("Darkness" pseudo-type)
* Wood-Metal techniques do half damage to Fire and Water monsters and double damage to Earth and Wood monsters. ("Heaven" pseudo-type).


=== Earth-Fire ===  
=== Aether ===


Earth-Fire ("Lightning") techniques do half damage to Earth monsters and double damage to Water monsters.
The Aether type is the type for [[special]] techniques for which an element is irrelevant (since they don't involve damage).  


Earth-Fire monsters take half damage from Fire techniques and double damage from Water techniques.  
It could also be used as the type for attacks that take the element(s) of its user, but this concept isn't part of the current plant.  


Example Earth-Fire monsters:
== Current implementation ==


* [[Grinflare]]
Currently, some techniques are identified as Normal or Poison type. However, it is not clear if this will continue in future versions of the game.
* [[Metesaur]]


Example Earth-Fire techniques:
== Associations ==


* [[Electrical Storm]]
* '''Fire:''' Includes creatures associated with energy, like electricity, light and heat, dragons and other legendary beings, and poison. 
* [[Surge]]
* '''Water:''' Includes creatures associated with the sea, lakes and swamps, ice and snow, the weather, liquids like blood, and fish and amphibians.
* [[Thunderclap]]
* '''Wood:''' Includes creatures associated with plants, lichen and fungi, poison and venom, forests, the natural environment, the wind and flying, and the wilderness.
 
* '''Earth:''' Includes creatures associated with the ground and underground, dirt and soil, mountains and rocks, caves, and ancient and buried things.
=== Earth-Water ===
* '''Metal:''' Includes creatures associated with steel, light and darkness, mechanical and robotic things, psychic powers and other unnatural things, humankind, and the undead.
 
Earth-Water ("Frost") techniques do half damage to Wood and Metal monsters and double damage to Fire and Water monsters.


Earth-Water monsters take half damage from Fire and Metal techniques and double damage from Wood and Earth techniques.
== Other options ==


Example Earth-Water monsters:
Some of this design space has instead been filled by dual types (see above).


* [[Grumpi]]
=== Normal type ===
* [[Toufigel]]
* [[Chillimp]]


Example Earth-Water techniques:
The Normal type would be strong and weak against nothing.


* [[Frostbite]]
=== Heaven and Darkness types ===
* [[Ice Claw]]
* [[Snowstorm]]


=== Earth-Wood ===
[https://forum.tuxemon.org/thread.php?id=140 Original thread]


Earth-Wood ("Toxin/Fungus") techniques do half damage to Fire and Metal monsters and double damage to Earth and Water monsters.
Two new types would fit well into our matrix:


Earth-Wood monsters take half damage from Fire and Water techniques and double damage from Wood and Metal techniques.  
* '''Heaven:''' For flying, divine, weather-based, legendary, heroic, light, fairy and magical creatures and techniques.
* '''Darkness:''' For poisonous, evil, undead, fateful, sorcerous, shadowy, frightening and sinister creatures and techniques.


Example Earth-Wood monsters:
The two extra types would fit in as such:


* [[Coleorus]]
* Heaven is weak against Water, as rain swells the waters and wind whips it up and the Moon gives the ocean motion
* [[Cowpignon]]
* Water is weak against Darkness, as darkness fell upon the face of the deep, and the depths of the oceans are dark
* Heaven is strong against Fire, as wind and rain extinguish fire, and the Sun eclipses mere flames, and fire was a gift of the gods to humankind
* Fire is strong against Darkness, as fire lights the dark, warms the spirit and lends courage
* Darkness is weak against Earth, as it falls harmlessly on the planet every nighttime
* Earth is weak against Heaven, as the Earth supports the heavens
* Darkness is strong against Metal, as humans are afraid of the dark and metals can dull and rust
* Metal is strong against Heaven, as cold iron kills fairies, science and skepticism undermines faith and superstition and iron from meteors can be turned against the sky
* Heaven and Darkness would be strong against each other


Example Earth-Wood techniques:
With the current five types, there are a lot that fit quite awkwardly. Wood is a catch-all for nature spirits and flying things that could better go to Heaven, and Metal has abstract beings, human-like beings, corrupted or weird things, etc. It would balance out the categories too: many in Wood and Fire could go to Heaven and many in Metal could go to Darkness.


* [[Fester]]
Under my proposed system Fire (0.5 vs Earth, 2 vs Metal, 2 vs Darkness) would be very close to Darkness (0.5 vs Earth, 2 vs Metal, 2 vs Heaven). In that case, you could instead make Darkness super-effective against Wood, as living things need light, and Wood super-effective against Heaven (not sure why, though ... )


=== Earth-Metal ===
''tamashihoshi added:''


Earth-Metal ("Vermin") techniques do half damage to Metal monsters and double damage to Wood monsters.
We have the 5 elements "wood", "fire", "water", "metal", "earth"; these are natural. The natural tuxemon belong to these types.


Earth-Metal monsters take half damage from Earth techniques and double damage from Wood techniques.  
When the humans came, they brought something new ... a soul, which can behave good or evil. They have morality.


Example Earth-Metal monsters:
Soon, a new wheel of elements was added, the balance of nature was changed. "heaven" and "darkness", "good" and "bad", "moral" and "corruption" ... "cathedral" and "bazaar".


* [[Grintrock]]
Soon, artificial tuxemon were created. The natural tuxemon had to live with the changes the humans brought. Since then, tuxemon adopted the types "heaven" and "darkness".
* [[Happito]]
* [[Miaownolith]]


=== Fire-Water ===
== Secondary types ==
[https://forum.tuxemon.org/thread.php?id=81 Original thread]


Fire-Water ("Cosmic") techniques do half damage to Earth and Wood monsters and double damage to Fire and Water monsters.
All tuxemon would have a primary type, and they may also have a secondary type.


Fire-Water monsters take half damage from Metal and Wood techniques and double damage from Water and Earth techniques.
''Leo suggested:''


Example Fire-Water monsters:
* Repair
* Elemental
* Error


* [[Seirein]]
''Sanglorian suggested:''
* [[Yiinaang]]


=== Fire-Wood ===
* Psychic feeds Ghost
* Ghost inspires Fighting (e.g. spirit ancestors)
* Fighting can't reach Flying/Wind
* Wind blows futilely against Rock
* Rock is repelled by the forcefield of Psychic


Fire-Wood ("Battle") techniques do half damage to Fire monsters and double damage to Metal monsters.
* Psychic controls Fighting
* Fighting breaks Rock (like a strike that breaks a block)
* Rock entombs Ghost
* Ghost follows Wind
* Wind ducks around Psychic


Fire-Wood monsters take half damage from Wood techniques and double damage from Metal techniques.  
I'll be the first to admit that it lacks the simplicity and obviousness of the original Wu Xing! And we probably don't need Earth, Rock AND Metal.


Example Fire-Wood monsters:
== Technique-only and monster-only types ==
[https://forum.tuxemon.org/thread.php?id=81 Original thread]


* [[Tikoal]]
You could have a Poison move type despite no tuxemon having the Poison type. It could be super-effective against Wood and Earth and not very effective against Metal and Water. That would reflect that many attacks are poisonous, but having a poisonous attack doesn't make you immune to other poisons.
* [[Tikorch]]


=== Fire-Metal ===
* Sound - x2 vs Water, 1/2 vs Metal (sound waves are amplified by water; metal is a type of music)
* Electric - x2 vs Water, 1/2 vs Earth (conductivity, grounding)
* Wind - x2 vs Wood, 1/2 vs Fire (wind often topples trees, but only fans flames)
* Psychic - x2 vs Metal, 1/2 vs Water (psychics bend metal spoons, but water draws them when they dowse for it)


Fire-Metal ("Psionic") techniques do half damage to Earth and Water monsters and double damage to Wood and Metal monsters.
Or you could have Flying type tuxemon, but no Flying moves. They might have 1/2 from Earth moves but x2 from Fire moves.


Fire-Metal monsters take half damage from Earth techniques and double damage from Fire techniques.  
[http://telefang.wikia.com/wiki/Habitat_types Telefang 2] is an example of a game with technique types (Fire, Machine, Wind, etc) that are different to the mosnter types (Grassland, Mountain, Sky, etc).


Example Fire-Metal monsters:
== Subtypes ==
[https://forum.tuxemon.org/thread.php?id=81 Original thread]


* [[Embazook]]
''Alchemist observes:''
* [[Angrito]]
* [[Ouroboutlet]]


Example Earth-Fire techniques:
Metal, for example, also encompasses Undeath and psychic powers. How would one understand that for mechanics and lore purposes, the zombie, wizard and tank are all the same element? What is there to bridge that gap? That's not to say it can't be done, but it is tricky. Careful attention to secondary types could do it- for example, ALL undead are also part poison?  But then, this means that all undead-themed teams would have to be monotype, which limits design space.
 
* [[Amnesia]]
* [[Bubble]]
* [[Sleep Bomb]]
 
=== Water-Wood ===
 
Water-Wood techniques do half damage to Wood monsters and double damage to Earth monsters
 
Water-Wood monsters take half damage from Water techniques and double damage from Earth techniques.  
 
Example Water-Wood monsters:
 
* [[Conifrost]]
* [[Sharpfin]]
 
=== Water-Metal ===
 
Water-Metal ("Darkness") techniques do half damage to Water monsters and double damage to Fire monsters.
 
Water-Metal monsters take half damage from Metal techniques and double damage from Fire techniques.
 
Example Water-Metal monsters:
 
* [[Hydrone]]
* [[Sadito]]
* [[Vivitrans]]
 
=== Wood-Metal ===
 
Wood-Metal ("Heaven") techniques do half damage to Fire and Water monsters and double damage to Earth and Wood monsters.
 
Wood-Metal monsters take half damage from Water and Earth techniques and double damage from Metal and Fire techniques.
 
Example Wood-Metal monsters:
 
* [[Katapill]]
* [[Neutrito]]
* [[Spycozeus]]
 
== Aether ==
 
The Aether type is the type for [[special]] techniques for which an element is irrelevant (since they don't involve damage).  


== Alternative systems ==
What if the five primary elements were like central element schools, with subtypes for creatures beneath that?


* [[Other element systems]]
So, a trainer of the Wood school could use animals and plants, and plant-animals and wind-plants. The "Animal" type would be it's own thing, as would the "Plant" type and "wind" type, and they could mix. But at their core, they are part of the Wood type and have some things in common. Maybe they all share the same resistances, but the weaknesses of the subtypes differ?


== List ==
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