History Main / ElementalRockPaperScissors

** The main 4 elements are a circle, Fire beats Water, Water beats Wind, Wind beats Earth, and Earth beats Fire with the other way also working for resistance, ** Holy and Shadow as well as Holy and Undead beats each other but are also weak to each other, however, they are mostly neutral to the main 4 elements, or resist them.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'' and ''IV'' both feature a card game called Vantage Masters. Although the game doesn't do much to make it obvious, the Vantage Masters card game has an elemental aspect to it. Your main attacking cards are called "Natials" and each Natial has a different element - either Earth, Fire, Water and Heaven. These cards all have numbers that represent their attack power and will normally attack for that amount of damage. However, Earth does more damage to Water but takes heavier damage from Heaven, Fire does more damage to Heaven but takes heavier damage from Water, Water does more damage to Fire but takes heavier damage from Earth and Heaven does more damager to Earth but takes heavier damage from Fire. Each player also gets a "Master" card which has no element and therefore is neither strong nor weak against any element type. Finally, there are also Magic cards, which don't deal direct damage, but instead provide special effects, such as buffing another card's attack, reducing the value it costs to play a card, or dealing a large amount of damage one time. Magic cards don't have elements, but sometimes have effects which can be affected by the elements when applied to particular cards.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Meltdown", Mr. Freeze reappears halfway through the episode decked out in a new set of bulletproof PoweredArmor, and displays a more powerful [[FreezeRay freeze gun]] than the ones he used before that's built into the suit. However, he ends up on the wrong end of elemental rock-paper-scissors, [[CurbStompBattle as he gets by Blight (Derek Powers)]] (who easily shrugged being encased in ice) [[TheWorfEffect in order to demonstrate the strength of the new]] BigBad (thanks to Freeze's vulnerability to heat vs. Blight being [[WalkingWasteland a walking nuclear meltdown]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Meltdown", Mr. Freeze reappears halfway through the episode decked out in a new set of bulletproof PoweredArmor, and displays a more powerful [[FreezeRay freeze gun]] built into the suit. However, he ends up on the wrong end of elemental rock-paper-scissors, [[CurbStompBattle as he gets one-shotted by new villain Blight]] [[TheWorfEffect in order to demonstrate the strength of the new]] BigBad (thanks to Freeze's vulnerability to heat vs. Blight being [[WalkingWasteland a "walking meltdown"]]).

** The Stellar type introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'' complicates things even further. For one thing, it only exists as a Tera Type, meaning that no Pokémon have it naturally. For another, it's meant to be an InfinityPlusOneElement. It grants a boost to moves of any type, but only once per type per battle. The two moves that can be Stellar-type themselves (Tera Blast and Tera Starstorm) are neutral against all types, and super effective against any Terastalized Pokémon.

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has ''eighteen'' ([[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver formerly seventeen]], [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue even earlier fifteen]]) types. A super effective damage (deals double damage or more) occurs when the attack's type is good against the other's type while a not very effective damage (dealing half the damage or less) occur when the opposite happens. As for how type weaknesses work, most of them are pretty standard like Water beats Fire and Grass beat Water, there are some with clever but more subtle logic like [[ColdIron Steel beats Fairy]], and there are some unusual ones like Bug beats Dark and Psychic beats Fighting, which are probably an attempt at balancing at the expense of logic, though fans still try to make sense out of it anyway.

* ''Webcomic/DemonThesis'' has this to an extent, as elemental spells will affect each other differently. The creator of the game made a cheat sheet that lays out all the effects, as well as some other nuances. (For example, if a character standing on a grid that was frozen by an ice spell and you attempt to hit them with a fire spell, the ice and fie will cancel each other out, since the ice melts and the fire never get a proper chance to burn anything, and the character will be undamaged).

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is based on the four [[WordOfGod among others, ancient Buddhist]] elements, represented by the four nations. Although in 'real life' no element is shown to be particularly stronger than the others, they do have their own ''literal'' ElementalRockPaperScissors, as in [[http://screenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/214/080.jpg a game]] (earth beats fire apparently). It was also somewhat parodied in one of the [[http://screenshots.avatarspiritmedia.net/017/008.jpg chibi shorts]], where they spent the episode arguing over "what beats what".

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' introduced [[Franchise/Pokemon Pokémon Trainer]] and [[SwapFighter his three available Pokémon]], and much like their home series, they're mildly vulnerable to certain types of elemental effects: fire-type Charizard taking more knockback from water, water-type Squirtle being weak to grass, and Ivysaur being weak to fire. This mechanic would be scrapped in future games for the fighters (Charizard as a standalone fighter in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'', and the whole trio in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'') due to criticisms of being perfunctory at best (the only source of "grass-type" moves in the game is another Ivysaur, and water doesn't even do damage in ''Brawl'', strictly providing a {{knockback}} effect), ludicrously unbalanced at worst ([[KryptoniteIsEverywhere fire/explosive damage is abundant]] in ''Brawl'', making life ''rough'' for poor Ivysaur).

* In ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'', elemental attacks don't deal increased or lowered damage against a defending element, but instead can buff (resisted), debuff (weak), or even change the defender's element into another one. For example, an Air-type hit by a Fire-type move gains an [[SingleUseShield air shield buff]], a Fire-type hit by an Air-type move gets an extinguished debuff which lowers their offenses, and an Ice-type hit by a Fire-type move will turn into a Water-type.

* ''VideoGame/RaidShadowLegends'': Magic is stronger than Spirit which is stronger than Force which stronger than Magic. The forth element Void has is resistant to the other three affinities.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': Ryuukitsu Koushu easely [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] Ryuu kan since, on top of the difference of level between them, her [[MakingASplash water powers]] have a neat advantage over his [[PlayingWithFire fire powers]].

* Compared to the games, the anime version of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' actually downplays this. While type advantages are acknowledged to exist InUniverse by the characters, it isn't uncommon for Trainers' Pokemon to be able to overcome them completely with the right strategies, moves, and brutal training. This was especially egregious in the Kanto arc where Ash's Pikachu could harm Ground-type Pokémon with Electric attacks (in the games Ground is completely immune to Electric).

* ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' and ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory'' have two systems; Types and Attributes with the former falling under TacticalRockPaperScissors (because the game's BlindIdiotTranslation switched the names). Attributes are a system of eight elements consisting of two rock-paper-scissors-style trios and one pair with MutualDisadvantage. Digimon that are weak to a specific element take 1.5 times normal damage, adding to the damage multiplier from [[TacticalRockPaperScissors Types]]. One trio is water [[IceMagicIsWater (which includes ice)]] > fire > plant form one trio. The other is lightning > wind > earth. Light and darkness are mutually weak against each other. Unlike with Types, there are no elemental resistances and individual attacks have elements instead of the Digimon's entire moveset.

* In ''LightNovel/KazeNoStigma'', fire mages can't be harmed by fire and can even stand on lava.