History ElementalPowers / VideoGames

** Shadow is a pseudo-type that, so far, only exists in the ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' games. Technically it is the only element that is a temporary one as well as potential for Pokémon to have a third possible "type", but in certain circles, it still counts as a type in and of itself.

* ''VideoGame/DragonCity'' has fifteen elements: [[DishingOutDirt Terra]], [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[MakingASplash Sea]], [[GreenThumb Nature]], [[ShockAndAwe Electric]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]], [[CastingAShadow Dark]], [[LightEmUp Light]], War, Pure, Legend, Primal, and [[BlowYouAway Wind]]. Each element has a habitat. A dragon can have a maximum of four elements and can be placed in one of the habitats corresponding to an element it has. There are also six [[BizarroElements Ancient Elements]] found in the Ancient World: Happiness, [[EntropyAndChaosMagic Chaos]], Magic, Soul, Beauty and Dream.

** [[BlowYouAway Wind]] is represented with the color green, and emerald quartz, and uses windstorms to blow enemies around, improve allies' movement and agility, or spread the effect of another art over a wide area (i.e., AoE versions of single-target arts of other elements tend to require a small amount of Wind quartz in addition to the other element). [[ShockAndAwe Lightning attacks]] also fall under the purview of wind.

* ''VideoGames/DragonCity'' has fifteen elements: [[DishingOutDirt Terra]], [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[MakingASplash Sea]], [[GreenThumb Nature]], [[ShockAndAwe Electric]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]], [[CastingAShadow Dark]], [[LightEmUp Light]], War, Pure, Legend, Primal, and [[BlowYouAway Wind]]. Each element has a habitat. A dragon can have a maximum of four elements and can be placed in one of the habitats corresponding to an element it has. There are also six [[BizarroElements Ancient Elements]] found in the Ancient World: Happiness, [[EntropyAndChaosMagic Chaos]], Magic, Soul, Beauty and Dream.

* "VideoGames/DragonCity" has fifteen elements: [[DishingOutDirt Terra]], [[PlayingWithFire Flame]], [[MakingASplash Sea]], [[GreenThumb Nature]], [[ShockAndAwe Electric]], [[AnIcePerson Ice]], [[ExtraOreDinary Metal]], [[CastingAShadow Dark]], [[LightEmUp Light]], War, Pure, Legend, Primal, and [[BlowYouAway Wind]]. There are also six [[BizarroElements Ancient Elements]]: Happiness, Chaos, Magic, Soul, Beauty and Dream.
* The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series has most of the basic elements but divides them up based on character class or type. [[BlackMage Wizards]] only get fire and ice magics, while [[WhiteMage clerics]] get wind and dark magics. The hero is associated with lightning. In fact, only the hero and the hero class can learn lightning magic. Of the standard four elements earth is extremely uncommon. Offensive light magic as a counter to dark is also pretty rare though the role is partially taken up by the lightning element.

** [[DishingOutDirt Geo Buster]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' and ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':

** Green -- [[GroundPound Earthquakes]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'' series, there are several weapons related to elements and magics. In total we had:
** [[ShockAndAwe Thunder/Darkness]]: Dark blue, used with [[CoolSword Raizan, Buraitou]] and [[DoubleWeapon Raisen]].
** [[PlayingWithFire Fire]]: Red, used with [[{{BFS}} Enryuu, Rekka Ken]] and [[WhipSword Enja]].
** [[BlowYouAway Wind]]: Green, used with [[DoubleWeapon Shippu and Senpumaru]].
** [[AnIcePerson Ice]]: Light Blue, used with Hyoujin Yari and [[EpicFlail Hyousai]].
** [[DishingOutDirt Earth/Magma]]: Orange, used with [[DropTheHammer Dokotsui]] and Chigo.
** [[LightEmUp Light]]: Yellow, used with [[DualWielding Tenso]].
** [[RazorWind Sky]]: Teal, used with [[EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana Kuga]].

* The original ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' started out with just [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and [[AnIcePerson ice]] plants, [[ElementalRockPaperScissors whose effects cancel each other out]], meaning they couldn't be used effectively together. PVZ also has the unique case of Blover, who can literally BlowYouAway. One of the first plants introduced in [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime the sequel]] is the [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Reed]], who hits zombies with weak ChainLightning. By ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare Garden Warfare 2]]'', there are plants encompassing quite a few elements, most notably the different elemental versions of Peashooter. There's [[AnIcePerson Snow Pea]], [[PlayingWithFire Fire Peashooter]], [[PoisonousPerson Toxic Pea]], [[DishingOutDirt Rock Pea]], [[ShockAndAwe Electro Pea]] and [[CastingAShadow Shadow Peashooter]].

* ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'' does have elemental attacks, though the actual elements are Smoke, Metal, Plastic, Meat and [[spoiler:Sugar]]. A few parallels are made, like Metal being earth and Smoke being air, but that's about the extent of it. [[WidgetSeries It's an odd game]].

** The series has tons of different spells across its whole library, with two different games almost never having the same set of available element spells. There are four element types almost universally present in recent games, however: [[PlayingWithFire Fire (Agi)]], [[AnIcePerson Ice (Bufu)]], [[ShockAndAwe Electric (Zio)]], and [[BlowYouAway Wind (Garu)]] / Force (Zan) [[note]]Garu and Zan can be hard to differentiate, with both typically using a green spell icon with wind-like graphical effects. Generally, mainline SMT games use Zan while the ''Persona'' subseries uses Garu.[[/note]]
** Two other common elements are [[LightEmUp Light (Hama)]] and [[CastingAShadow Dark (Mudo)]].[[note]]Also sometimes called Expel and Death, respectively, especially in earlier titles.[[/note]] These two elements mostly consist of attacks that [[AwesomeButImpractical deal instant death, but are very inaccurate]]. ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' expanded on these spells with Kouha and Eiga, which do standard damage instead of instant death.[[note]]''Persona 5'' also refers to these elements as Bless and Curse, names formerly used for certain types of healing and ailment spells. Element type naming in SMT can get....complicated.[[/note]]
** Another very common spell type is [[NonElemental Almighty (Megido)]]. These spells can almost never hit enemy weaknesses, but also do loads of damage on their own and are very rarely resisted. In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'', this element borrowed the names Zan and Gry for single-target and group-target spells, respectively.

** [[DishingOutDirt Earth (Kongo, lit. Adamant)]]: produces small quakes to extend the range of the attacks and make more combo attacks. Earth users include [[BoobsOfSteel Naotora]], Katsuie and Kagekatsu.

* In ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series, both Raziel (and Kain in ''Defiance'') can obtain elemental power ups for the Reaver. Raziel started with the Spectral/Material reaver and could gain: [[CastingAShadow Darkness]], [[LightEmUp Light]], [[PlayingWithFire Fire]], [[BlowYouAway Air]], [[AnIcePerson Water]] and [[GravityMaster Earth]]. Discarded Reavers include [[MakeMeWannaShout the Sound Reaver]], [[DishingOutDirt the Stone Reaver]], [[LightEmUp the Sunlight Reaver]] and the [[SoulPower Ariel Reaver]].

** [[BlowYouAway Air]] is represented by Wrastor. The sub-elements are [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] (Absa), steam (Elliana), and [[MusicalAssassin music]]/[[MakeMeWannaShout sound]] (Pomme).

* In ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' series there were different elements, each with a determinated power and effect and a fancy japanese name. It affects weapons, but also some characters are more incline to determinated elements than others, and often changes from game to game. Furthermore, some characters have elemental attacks involving [[LightEmUp Light]], [[MakingASplash Water]] and [[MakeMeWannaShout Sound]]. Most of these elements also appeared in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''

** The series has tons of different spells across its whole library, with two different games almost never having the same set of available element spells. There are four element types almost universally present in recent games, however: [[PlayingWithFire Fire (Agi)]], [[AnIcePerson Ice (Bufu)]], [[ShockAndAwe Electric (Zio)]], and [[BlowYouAway Wind (Garu)]]/[[MakeMeWannaShout Force (Zan)]][[note]]Garu and Zan can be hard to differentiate, with both typically using a green spell icon with wind-like graphical effects. Generally, mainline SMT games use Zan while the ''Persona'' subseries uses Garu.[[/note]]