I have a question about elements in fiction

[Ymadthepirate]

This one is about elements

 

[farmer]

There are five (major) hidden villages in naruto: sand, cloud, stone, mist, leaf

These hidden villages lead are in 5 different elemental lands and led by 5 different elemental kages, based on the 5 element they have in the story: wind, lightning, earth, water, fire. This list should be the one you use.

I like it because it goes full circle when it comes to which element wins against which. There's a sense of game-like fairness to it, like a cooler rock-paper-scissor and. It makes it feel like any element you pick is fine because you'd have enemies you'd be strong or weak against.

Avatar's 4 elements is classic, but even though they'd say fire is the opposite of water, I can't get it out of my mind that water absolutely wins against fire and never the other way around. It feels like there's no advantage to picking fire because you'd have something you're weak against but nothing you're strong against. Except fire is probably the strongest element in avatar.

Other stories feature a bunch more elements, which is logical because it's weird to divide everything in the world in just those 4 or 5 things. But I feel that I've never found anything as 'neat' as naruto's circular elemental system.

 

[Daitengu]

I had to go ying-yang. According to the ancient philosophy light and dark in different mixtures make up the other elements.

Basically pick this one and you can get em all.

 

[ABCGUY]

I dont care what you say but Pokemon has clearly the best Elements

 

[Deleted member 58005]

I dont care what you say but Pokemon has clearly the best Elements

Bah, there's no air element

 

[Layenlml]

Bah, there's no air element

Isn't flying the same as air?

 

[CupcakeNinja]

This one is about elements

Slime girls are supreme so thats the only element you need

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

You forgot the eastern elements Earth>Water>Fire>Metal>Wood
Wood holds earth drinks water quenches fire melts metal cuts wood
Which also has the bonuses Wood^Fire^Earth^Metal^Water
Wood fuels fire(ash) enriches earth(ores) harbor metal drips (dew)water grows wood.

 

[Xerluc]

Isn't flying the same as air?

I always thought that pokemon should have a separate elements of “air” or “wind” instead of just “flying.”
But musing further, I think pokemon types are more used to describe the characteristics of the pokemon, and not really about their attacks, which I guess is why there’s no “air” type — “air” doesn’t exactly describe something that someone can be.

 

[Lloyd]

You got the naruto elements wrong! They are fire, water, earth, lightning, and wind
Also yin and yang plus all the element combinations

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Do what sounds like the most fun to you, and someone else will also love it!

 

[Cipiteca396]

Do what sounds like the most fun to you, and someone else will also love it!

Oh. I was sure you were going to ask where the option for Yu-Gi-Oh elements is.

 

[Ymadthepirate]

Slime girls are supreme so thats the only element you need

Tf?

Oh. I was sure you were going to ask where the option for Yu-Gi-Oh elements is.

I love yu-gi-oh
Inter

There are five (major) hidden villages in naruto: sand, cloud, stone, mist, leaf

These hidden villages lead are in 5 different elemental lands and led by 5 different elemental kages, based on the 5 element they have in the story: wind, lightning, earth, water, fire. This list should be the one you use.

I like it because it goes full circle when it comes to which element wins against which. There's a sense of game-like fairness to it, like a cooler rock-paper-scissor and. It makes it feel like any element you pick is fine because you'd have enemies you'd be strong or weak against.

Avatar's 4 elements is classic, but even though they'd say fire is the opposite of water, I can't get it out of my mind that water absolutely wins against fire and never the other way around. It feels like there's no advantage to picking fire because you'd have something you're weak against but nothing you're strong against. Except fire is probably the strongest element in avatar.

Other stories feature a bunch more elements, which is logical because it's weird to divide everything in the world in just those 4 or 5 things. But I feel that I've never found anything as 'neat' as naruto's circular elemental system.

esting

 

[PeacefulMyst]

none of them are good as the semen element doesn't exist in em

 

[Ymadthepirate]

none of them are good as the semen element doesn't exist in em

Facts

 

[Cipiteca396]

none of them are good as the semen element doesn't exist in em

Pokemon has that, it's just hidden in the Bug type. "String Shot."

 

[Ymadthepirate]

Why tho

 

[BearlyAlive]

Most just default to either the five chinese elements or the four alchemical base elements, so just take whatever you want/need out of those and mash it with whatever elements (pun intended) you need.

The naruto elements are just variations of the basic chinese ones, btw.

 

[TheTrinary]

What's the question?

 

[Ymadthepirate]

What's the question?

There's a poll and I want to know your favorite so its not a question tbh