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Scissors Cuts Rock

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Scissors Cuts Rock	comment	Unlike actual Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors, type advantages are not the final say on who's going to win a given matchup in strategy games and RPGs — if a character (or unit) is strong enough, they can come out triumphant against somebody with even the most outlandish of inherent type advantages against them. This can be a potential Moment of Awesome for the character to defeat an expected Curb-Stomp Battle. While usually limited to games (or occasionally to other forms of media based off of them), it still has an advantage over its more widely-used cousin, the Worf Effect: You don't need to waste any time establishing the talents of your victim. If you've got a fire user you want to demonstrate the power of, you can set them loose against even a handful of water-based mooks you had show up five seconds ago, and the effect is still achieved. Often the reason people sometimes deliberately put themselves at a disadvantage, if they can win consistently in spite of their supposed disadvantage. Alternatively, if someone is a Poor, Predictable Rock and knows it, they can train specially to fend against the element that's supposed to counter them, diversifying their skills while remaining true to their art — and often providing a nasty shock for opponents who think they'll have an easy fight simply on the grounds of having the counter element. Related to Elemental Tiers, where some elements are stronger than others regardless of advantages or disadvantages; I Am Not Left-Handed, where a character who had been losing reveals to have to been playing under a handicap; Cherry Tapping, where a character defeats another character with an intentionally weak or ill-suited weapon just to humiliate them; and Immunity Attrition, where the "rock's" alleged immunity to the "scissors" could be overwhelmed given enough exposure. See also Man of Kryptonite and No-Sell.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_169f043b	comment	The "Off the Record" show (hosted by the GSL or Global StarCraft League) regularly pits top end pros against normal StarCraft players, but with absurd limitations (use only chopsticks to press the keyboard, peel 6 potatoes while playing, etc.). The pros still triumph most of the time...
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_17c7cdc3	comment	Daughter of the Lilies: Cave elves are resistant to fire. Doesn't stop Thistle from frying one's face off when it's about to kill her friend.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_187d5707	comment	In Devil May Cry, the Frosts are elite ice demons created by Mundus to be his shock troops. Their ice is colder than absolute zero, and no ordinary flame from the mortal world can melt it, not even volcanic fire. Only Hellfire like the flames of Ifrit can significantly harm them.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	In Digimon, angel Digimon possess Holy Hand Grenade powers that are particularly effective against fallen counterparts, further reinforcing the existing advantage that Vaccine-type Digimon enjoy over Virus-type Digimon. However, Fallen Angel Digimon are still consistently portrayed as being stronger than their angelic counterparts. It may be that they gain power in exchange for their corruption. In Digimon Adventure, Devimon easily dispatches six other Champion-level Digimon. Angemon is only able to defeat Devimon by both absorbing the combined powers of all the Digidestined and sacrificing himself. Digimon Adventure also features LadyDevimon, who is capable of simultaneously taking on three other Ultimates (including Angewomon), two Champions, and one Rookie in a single fight. LadyDevimon defeats Angewomon one-on-one, requiring AtlurKabuterimon to step in and save Angewomon. This happens again in Digimon Adventure 02, with LadyDevimon overpowering Angewomon in their second Cat Fight by twisting Angewomon's arms painfully against her sides, once again requiring Angewomon's allies to save her. Also in Digimon Adventure 02, SkullSatamon easily knocks out eight other Ultimates, including MagnaAngemon and Angewomon, each with a single hit.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_1af341a1	comment	Disgaea's elemental table can be totally ignored if your unit either has strong resistance, an ability that negates part of the elemental table, or you've just upgraded your unit to be such a Badass that elemental damage is otherwise unnecessary to worry about. This also can be exploited with certain classes. The Mystic Beast, Warslug, and Dragon classes in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories are immune to wind, water, and fire respectively. On a normal matchup with any other unit, a Fire Skull (for example) with +50% in his fire element will deal an additional 50% damage for what he deals in fire. If the target has a -50% fire, then it'll basically double the damage they'd receive... unless it was a dragon who could have an abysmal fire stat, but is ALWAYS immune to fire. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness was the only game in the series that played this trope somewhat straight. Every game has four main elements (Fire, Water, Wind, and Star). No unit is resistant or weak to Star, acting as a neutral element. The other three, however, are specifically labeled on your unit's element window. Whenever you create a unit from the Dark Assembly, it is always set to 50% for one element (resistant), -50% for another (weak), and 0% for the third (neutral). Later titles in the series did away with this, as Star eventually would be considered on the element tables, and eventually even weapons were included, with each class and unique character having its own resistances and weaknesses baked into the class itself rather than just random per creation.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_1cf9029e	comment	DEATH BATTLE!: In "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale", all of the turtles (other than Michelangelo, the worst Turtle by far in every relevant category) have unique strengths: in particular, Raphael holds an advantage over Leonardo (his sai are made to block and destroy swords like Leonardo's katanas), and Donatello over Raphael (his staff has the longest range of all the turtles' weapons, while Raphael has the shortest). Despite this, Raphael manages to kill Donatello when Leonardo distracts him, and Leonardo then wins the final clash due to Raphael having been exhausted by fighting Donatello for most of the fight. In the aftermath of the PokÃ©mon Battle Royale, it's noted that, on paper, Venasaur (grass), Blastoise (water), and Charizard (fire) can set each other at an elemental disadvantage. In practice, Blastoise has more than enough defensive stats to hold up against his opponents and still has enough attack power to defeat both of them. In Omni-Man vs. Homelander, it's noted that Homelander does have two of Omni-Man's weaknesses in extreme heat (via his Eye Beams) and loud sounds that could disrupt their equilibrium (via Super-Scream). Neither would have made much difference against Omni-Man, who was billions of times stronger, tougher, and faster, and the eye beams were deemed to be far weaker than the prolonged heat from a sun's surface needed to take out a Viltrumite.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: Winged units are weak to bows, but bow users usually can't attack at close range, and winged units have a Move advantage. This tends to end poorly for bow users, unless specific effort is made to get the archer to a point where they can directly counteract them. There's also times where a Pegasus/Falcon Knight will have evade high enough that the archers won't be able to hit her, literally avoiding her weakness and then counter-attacking with javelins that will hit the archers. However, this is unlikely though, as, while Pegasus Knights are quite fast, Archers are the most accurate class in the entire game. Likewise, this scenario depends on the game and the unit. For example, in Three Houses, those who develop their bow skill can equip the Close Counter ability, which allows them to counterattack adjacent units, and bow-wielding bosses can often counterattack at any distance. In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Thunder magic gets a large bonus against Dragons and Dracoknights, who also tend to be weak against magic in general, but your Dracoknights' high mobility means they will almost always get the first hit, and Haar will almost always take them down in one fell blow, as can Jill at higher levels. The trinity of Lances, Axes, and Swords in general counts; while the combatants get bonuses or penalties to their damage and accuracy depending on whether or not their weapon trumps the other, a powerful enough character (like, say, Frederick) can go up against a weapon they're weak against and still win without much trouble. The General class is especially capable of this, which is why they're often bosses, and why they're called Generals. In The Binding Blade lances are so bad and swords so good a match between users of both has a good chance of ending better for the sword user, despite losing the Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors. Lances got a much needed buff the next game and swords a slight Nerf. Axes and fire magic have a similar problem in Genealogy of the Holy War due to their extremely high weight, and swords can sometimes beat lances due to weighing about a quarter as much. Some games feature "reaver" type weapons, which are specifically designed for this trope, reversing what the wielder is usually strong or weak against (so a swordsman with a Lancereaver is strong against lances but weak against axes). Other weapons have more specific advantages. For example, a swordsman would be at a disadvantage against an armored Knight with a lance, but if said swordsman has an Armorslayer, the Knight will likely be at greater risk. In the opening cutscene to Fire Emblem Fates, Ryoma, a swordmaster, is shown wiping the floor with a bunch of Nohrian lancers in rapid succession. Not only is Ryoma the crown prince of Hoshido and one of its strongest warriors, but he wields the divine blade Raijinto, whereas his opponents are Mooks. Fire Emblem Heroes: A B-slot skill called Cancel Affinity allows its user to negate weapon triangle advantages and reverse part of or all of the default one if the enemy uses Triangle Adept (amplifies the bonuses and penalties of the WT by a certain percentage). In the early days of the game, Reinhardt was so OP that up until the he was ousted from the meta, the first question asked by the community whenever a new green unit (who would have a Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors advantage against him) was released was 'Can it survive Reinhardt?'
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_26562243	comment	UFO: Aftermath features the Collapsible Machine Gun. The ammo type on it is Hard, so it's on paper good against armored targets but not so much against soft-tissued enemies, but the dakka it spews out is so high, it'll wreck everything in its path. The only drawback is that you need a very strong and agile soldier to handle the weight of both the gun and the Powered Armor (that collapsible guns demand to even be equipped) without being overburdened into a snail's speed.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_2830490c	comment	Bloons Super Monkey 2 has various weapon types (Darts, Boomerangs, Explosives, Fire/Lightning Magic, and Energy Tech), each of which are completely ineffective against a certain type of Bloon (Lead, Lead, Black, Ceramic and Glass respectively). Skill upgrades from Research can allow every Nth shot from a weapon type to affect its corresponding Bloon weakness, where the minimum for N is 7 (so every seventh Tech shot will harm a Glass Bloon, for example). If your Research and Weapon levels are high enough, even a Bloon type that's normally a weakness isn't as hard to defeat as they would have been without Research.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_2d9d17d6	comment	Smogon's "Monotype" metagame is centered around this concept. Trainers can only use PokÃ©mon of a common type. If you can't check your team's elemental weaknesses, you just locked yourself into Poor, Predictable Rock.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_2f203125	comment	Shin Megami Tensei is well-known for making elemental affinities a core part of the battle system; exploiting weaknesses can easily turn the tide of battle often through Extra Turns, and hitting an enemy who is immune to the element used can result in losing multiple or all turns. However, some games in the series have a passive skill called Pierce that allows physical attacks to ignore physical resistance, immunity, and abosrption, although those attacks can still be repelled. Shin Megami Tensei IV introduces piercing passives for elements besides physical. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse introduces multiple ways to ignore elemental resistances, such as temporary piercing buffs that last until the end of the party's turn, attacks that naturally pierce resistances, and a late-game passive that allows all of the protagonist's attacks to ignore resistances; furthermore, the same game buffs elemental pierces to go through repels too.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Colonel Mustang vs Lust. Lust breaks a water main and soaks Mustang, to prevent him from using his fire powers against her. Except that Mustang's power doesn't involve some classical elemental model of fire, he controls oxygen and hydrogen. Though getting him wet kept him from making a spark to ignite them, all he has to do is borrow his lieutenant's cigarette lighter to alchemically break down all that water into its' component gases before collapsing them again to make even more fire.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_40c543a4	comment	Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest: When fighting the berserk Water Dragon God Mercphobia, the dragon easily shrugs off Gray freezing his water and turns it back into liquid without much effort. Then the Fire Dragon God Ignia interrupts the battle and shows off that his flames are so intense that Mercphobia can't easily put them out. And then when Natsu reluctantly eats Ignia's flames, the resulting temporary Power-Up to his Dragon Force lets him blast through and turn Mercphobia's water attacks into harmless steam to defeat the Dragon God. In the Wood Dragon God arc, the God Seed Metro uses his wood powers to absorb Juvia's water attacks and Juvia herself. Unfortunately for him, he underestimates Juvia's emotions just like Gray once did and ends up boiling from the inside when she gets worked up, weakening him enough for Gray to get Juvia back out and set up the finishing blow. In the same arc, the God Seed Aldoron creates leaf and wood-based attacks resistant to flames to pummel Natsu around. It's only when Natsu closes the power gap by activating Dragon Force that he starts burning them again.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_4ddcf970	comment	Early on, during the first fight between Recca and Tokiya in Flame of Recca, Tokiya's Ensui, which is a rapier made of water, easily extinguishes Recca's flame-based power. Later on however, Recca manages to quite literally increase the heat of his flame such that Tokiya's water blade boils and becomes steam, thereby defeating him.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_552538c3	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold (Fanmade): Gold's Quilava is an immensely strong Fire-type with an innate advantage over the Bug-types in Bugsy's gym. But Bugsy's last PokÃ©mon, Scyther, is so blindingly fast that Quilava simply cannot hit it. Scyther defeats Quilava without taking a single hit, forcing Gold to bring out his other PokÃ©mon for once. As a Ghost-type PokÃ©mon, Silver's Gastly is immune to Normal-type moves, letting him walk all over the Normal-type trainers of the Goldenrod City Gym. Then he gets to the Gym Leader, Whitney, whose Miltank flattens Gastly with a single use of the Rock-type move Rollout.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_55c20cb5	comment	Overlord: Ainz/Momonga, the titular Overlord, is an undead skeletal lich, which means he has a boatload of resistances and racial abilities but also racial weaknesses, mainly holy magic and the fire element. It is established early on that his armor set provides him with a 100% Fire resistance to counter the latter. In his battle against a brainwashed Shalltear, he switches his armor to provide Holy resistance instead of Fire, knowing that Shalltear is a Holy Valkyrie. However, he bluffs her into thinking that he still has a 100% fire resistance and no Holy resistance to discourage her from using Fire spells. By the time he reveals the bluff, Shalltear is soundly out of mana. Hell, his entire Momon schtick (going around as an armored Dual Wielding One-Handed ZweihÃ¤nder\|s warrior) is only possible thanks to his being so overleveled, having hit the level cap back in Yggdrassil. He's able to crush a human's spine with a single arm despite being, well, nominally a Squishy Wizard (though it's repeatedly noted that he has zero techniques).
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_56fa0ea4	comment	In Civilization V, spear-type units (Spearmen, Pikeman, Lancers) gain a hefty damage bonus against Mounted units (Horsemen, Knights, Cavalry, Lancers). This advantage is useful at similar tech levels, and completely meaningless in a match between Classical-era Spearmen and Industrial-era Cavalry.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, Vaarsuvius is able to almost defeat an enemy wizard who's tailored not just his spell preparation, but his entire build specifically to counter V's evoker blaster-caster tactics. V notes that Zz'dtri (the wizard in question) used his surprise round to disable Haley, the party's archer, instead of getting an easy shot on his nemesis, and subsequently deduces that his singular focus on countering casters has left him vulnerable to more mundane ranged fire. V then proceeds to dominate an enemy crossbowman and bring Zz'dtri down with a hail of bolts, though a careless mistake at the end of the fight prevents V from truly winning.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_588fba49	comment	As Day9 likes to point out, in RTS games in general and Starcraft: Brood War in particular, although there are elements of Tactical Rock-Paper-Scissors present, this is countered by a player who can create a strong economy, and therefore field a larger army (even an army with a poor composition). In other words, paper beats rock, but three rocks will beat a single paper.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3, after Chidori dies, Junpei gains a new persona and blasts Jin with a fire spell. Jin reflects fire everytime you have to fight him as a boss.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_59303db8	comment	A Certain Scientific Railgun: During the Sisters Arc, Frenda Seivelun made the mistake of underestimating Level 5 Electromaster Misaka Mikoto by using ceramic, the strongest insulator of electricity, against her. Unfortunately, however, ceramic doesn't take heat very well. Similarly, in the finale of the Level Upper arc of Railgun, the AIM Burst uses an insular shield of some sort to prevent Mikoto from harming it. Mikoto just amps up the electricity to the point that the resulting heat cooks the thing alive. Big Bad Therestina makes the same mistake out of overconfidence in the data they collected on Mikoto's abilities by assuming that their Mecha is completely impervious to electricity, only for Mikoto to deliberately take one of said Mecha's rocket punches and then amping up her electric discharge until the poor thing exploded from all the resulting heat... then Mikoto had Kuroko teleport one of the bigger masses of debris from the air to her to serve as ammo for a much bigger version of her usually-coined-based Railgun attack and proceeded to one-shot the aforementioned Mecha. Moral of the day: In reality, there's no such thing as a perfect insulator. Mikoto later faces Yasumi Usukinu, who emits a field that prevents electricity from flowing. Mikoto eventually generates enough electricity to overpower the field.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_5c600b17	comment	Digimon Adventure also features LadyDevimon, who is capable of simultaneously taking on three other Ultimates (including Angewomon), two Champions, and one Rookie in a single fight. LadyDevimon defeats Angewomon one-on-one, requiring AtlurKabuterimon to step in and save Angewomon.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_5e733985	comment	During the first level of Der Langrisser, a horseman commander named Laird takes on an army of spearmen, which normally wouldn't end well at all, but Laird is the right-hand man of the elite imperial general Leon, so that spearman squad is pretty much doomed unless you can end the battle early.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_5f6f0132	comment	This also can be exploited with certain classes. The Mystic Beast, Warslug, and Dragon classes in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories are immune to wind, water, and fire respectively. On a normal matchup with any other unit, a Fire Skull (for example) with +50% in his fire element will deal an additional 50% damage for what he deals in fire. If the target has a -50% fire, then it'll basically double the damage they'd receive... unless it was a dragon who could have an abysmal fire stat, but is ALWAYS immune to fire.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_610a694a	comment	PokÃ©mon Adventures: In the fifth chapter, when Red's Pikachu is able to take out Brock's Rock/Ground-type Onix with a well-placed Thundershock.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_640d9be1	comment	In The Binding Blade lances are so bad and swords so good a match between users of both has a good chance of ending better for the sword user, despite losing the Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors. Lances got a much needed buff the next game and swords a slight Nerf.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_64776522	comment	Yggdra Union has a weapon advantage triangle-inside another triangle, which can easily be rendered irrelevant with activation of various Cards (such as Oblivious Dawn, Revolution, Sanctuary, or Crusade). Knowledge of invoking this trope inside the game is practically necessary, since the Big Bad has a weapon that screws over the usual triangle.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_67ce5a04	comment	In the opening cutscene to Fire Emblem Fates, Ryoma, a swordmaster, is shown wiping the floor with a bunch of Nohrian lancers in rapid succession. Not only is Ryoma the crown prince of Hoshido and one of its strongest warriors, but he wields the divine blade Raijinto, whereas his opponents are Mooks.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_684cc26a	comment	In Ghost Rider (2007), the titular character confronts Wallow, a demon who can control water in a swamp. Wallow tries to drown Johnny, but Johnny uses his hellfire to boil the water and Wallow ends up evaporated.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_69a51847	comment	Ghost Rider: The Ghost Rider manages to defeat water-based powers with his fiery abilities. Justified, as his Hellfire is supernatural and can't be put out by water.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_6a8ce345	comment	The elements of Avatar: The Last Airbender don't have any kind of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, and even advantages you might guess from the physical materials won't necessarily make a difference: Despite Earthbenders controlling the most solid and dense element, Airbenders can make wind with enough force to stop even large boulders, and Firebenders can essentially blow up most of what Earthbenders can make. Firebending can also evaporate or dissipate Waterbenders' attacks much of the time.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_6b5435fc	comment	Some of the unique units in Age of Empires II are designed especially to counter whatever their unit type gets countered by. For example: There is a Byzantine Unique Unit called the Cataphract. Their extremely good armor combined with an attack bonus against Infantry means they actually have the advantage against Pikemen one-on-one, despite being cavalry. Paladins also beat unupgraded Pikemen one-one-one, though in this case it's a Pyrrhic Victory at best since the Paladin will still come out heavily weakened and they're much more valuable than Pikemen are. Where infantry units usually get countered by archers, initially moving faster before Squires even gets researched and picking them off at a range where most infantry don't have high pierce armor, the Goths have the Huskarl. He moves really fast, has a high pierce armornote Although the Goths lack the Imperial Age armor upgrade for infantry, this really isn't necessary since as is an elite Huskarl would absorb enough that even Bracer-augmented arrows do only 1 damage per shot and has a bonus against archers and buildings, including towers and castles. The Forgotten brings us the Italians, which have two. Their Castle unique unit is the Genoese Crossbowman, with an attack bonus against cavalry. Their other unique unit is the Condotierro, an anti-gunpowder infantry unitnote for clarification, Hand Cannoneers have a bonus against infantry, though Janissaries and Conquistadors don't that civilizations on its team can train in their barracks.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Volume 31 offers an example that relies on an Indy Ploy and reckless courage rather than power superiority. Guts and Schierke are fighting Wizard General Daiba of the Kushan Empire in the harbor of Vritannis. Daiba is controlling the Kundalini, a magical serpent which generates a colossal coiling body made of water and manipulates water at will. It does its best to drown Guts with powerful waterspouts and currents, and also shoots a concentrated jet of water under such high pressure that it can Clean Cut a huge wooden ship in half. At the same time, Daiba is invulnerable as long as he hides inside the watery body of the Kundalini, which neither Guts' BFS nor Serpico's wind sword can cut through. Because the Wheel of Flame spirit that Schierke summoned before can't use its full power while the enemy is over water, they instead use its power to superheat the blade of Guts' sword. Guts launches himself at the Kundalini while using the sword's heat to vaporize the incoming water jet and cause its body to flash into steam on impact; Daiba and the serpent's physical body are left vulnerable as they fall out of the air, allowing Serpico to cut off the creature's head with Razor Wind. Thusly, fire beats water if you focus it in the right place.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_705a60cf	comment	A non-advantage example: In the Bastard!! (1988) anime, Dark Schneider faces a fire elemental without an elementally advantageous spell, and so destroys it with a very powerful fire spell.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_72f19882	comment	The Flash has a Logical Weakness against cold-based attacks; coldness is down to molecules lacking movement, so freezing the Flash robs them of their speed. Captain Cold, his sister Golden Glider, and her partners Chilblaine have all weaponized this, but the Flash still often ends up on top. This is due to Barry Allen often outsmarting them, or in the case of his Legacy Character, Wally West, outfighting them using his determination and sheer power. In fact, despite Chillblaine being basically a Man of Kryptonite, Wally would treat him like a Joke Character because they were never very smart and usually, Glider only picked them (there was more than one) because she thought they were hot.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_73b74949	comment	In the Borderlands series, nothing really stops you from using a weapon of the "wrong" type to destroy a target resistant to it. Especially if you get a particularly strong elemental gun. The Helfire incendiary submachine gun, for example, laughs in the face of shielded armor, which compounds two elements that resist fire damage.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_747a18bc	comment	This can happen fairly often in Battle for Wesnoth, given how time-of-day, terrain, applications of mobility, and special abilities like charging or magical attacks can easily turn the tables as to what counters what. Simply selecting the correct unit types is not enough to ensure victory.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_74c5b2f3	comment	Air units in Nintendo Wars are mobile enough to avoid the attack range of ground-based Anti-Air, even attacking indirect-fire units with impunity. In Advance Wars if a Bomber strikes first, it can neutralize Anti-Air guns and Cruisers while taking minimal damage in return. Not the case in Super Famicom Wars, where units fire simultaneously (both will be crippled).
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_76e1ae72	comment	In the CatDog episode "Flea or Die" When CatDog gets infested with fleas and Cat refuses a flea dip, they're given a flea collar to share that only works to fully rid one brother of fleas when they wear it up around their waist rather than in the center of their body. Their bickering over who gets to wear the belt results in the fleas having more and more openings to multiply on the unprotected brother until there's so many of them that the belt as no effect whatsoever and they end up having to take the flea dip anyway.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_79ffa674	comment	Azure Striker Gunvolt Series Gunvolt occasionally goes up against Adepts whose powers can counter his. In the first game he fights Carrera, whose magnetism not only counters his electricity, but also acts as a Power Nullifier against Adepts in general. The second game has him fight Milas, whose water powers can short out Gunvolt's own Required Secondary Powers that protect him from his own electrical attacks. Gunvolt wins both fights. In the audio dramas for the first game, Viper utterly trounces a rival Adept gang member with Hydro Pressure.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_83c239c	comment	Green Lantern: The Animated Series: Invoked in one episode, when Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan get into a fight. Guy quips about making it a game of rock, paper, scissors and creates a construct shaped like a rock that he hurls at Hal. Hal responds by creating a construct shaped like a pair of scissors that cut the rock in half.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_87173599	comment	This happens on occasion in Ashes of the Past. As discussed in-story, for experienced trainers, the type chart is just another challenge to overcome. It's established that Brine or using salt water in Water-type moves can neutralize Electric moves, by means of short-circuiting the electricity back into the user. And that's just one of the anti-Electric tactics with water that Misty has come up with. Pikachu can shock Ground-types by means of sheer power. It's eventually established that it's a new Ability that Pikachu has which lowers the breakdown voltage into something that can be overcome, which Dexter dubs "Zappy" (like the "Scrappy" Ability that allows Normal and Fighting-type moves to hit Ghost-types). Lampshaded in this conversation in Chapter 199 between Ash and Noland:
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_88aef33b	comment	In Omni-Man vs. Homelander, it's noted that Homelander does have two of Omni-Man's weaknesses in extreme heat (via his Eye Beams) and loud sounds that could disrupt their equilibrium (via Super-Scream). Neither would have made much difference against Omni-Man, who was billions of times stronger, tougher, and faster, and the eye beams were deemed to be far weaker than the prolonged heat from a sun's surface needed to take out a Viltrumite.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_8da0ea80	comment	Since Brock, the first Gym Leader of Generation 1, specializes in Rock types, it's a good move to choose Squirtle or Bulbasaur as the starter since the PokÃ©mon you can catch beforehand are mostly Flying and Bug types. However, the remakes FireRed and LeafGreen make the unprecedented move of having Charmander naturally learn Metal Claw at level 13, with which it can easily take down Brock single-handedly as seen here. Even without other types of moves, it is possible for a moderately powerful Fire-type to take down or at least cause considerable damage to a Rock-type with a strong Fire move, since most Rock-types, despite their natural resistance to Fire, have subpar Special Defense (When Sandstorm isn't pumping it up, which is purely situational and only increases special defense from generation 4 onwards) and most popular Fire attacks (like Fire Blast and Flamethrower) are Specially-based, leaving a solid dent on the Rock-Type and making it difficult to be effective later in the match. Many experienced and competitive players know this particular handicap and choose Water- and Dragon-Types as better defenders against Fire-Type PokÃ©mon.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_8dfd1fb6	comment	In Darken, the red dragon Garganon — a being of primal elemental flame who's Immune to Fire — is absolutely gobsmacked when Gort is able to burn him. Granted, Gort uses Hellfire and a set of powerful Amplifier Artifacts to do so.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech features specific types of armor that protect against certain attack types. For instance, reflective armor will cut all energy weapon damage by half. This reduces many energy weapons down to dealing mere Scratch Damage... except for such heavy hitters like the Clan ER PPC or the Heavy PPC, which still deal enough damage to often blow off a considerable amount of reflective armor regardless. This same logic is applied to reactive armor against big guns like the Gauss rifle or Autocannon-20. This all goes out the window if you start including artillery and bombardment-level weapons, at which point no amount of reflective armor is going to help against a three-thousand-ton particle cannon.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_959e314b	comment	Fire Emblem Heroes: A B-slot skill called Cancel Affinity allows its user to negate weapon triangle advantages and reverse part of or all of the default one if the enemy uses Triangle Adept (amplifies the bonuses and penalties of the WT by a certain percentage). In the early days of the game, Reinhardt was so OP that up until the he was ousted from the meta, the first question asked by the community whenever a new green unit (who would have a Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors advantage against him) was released was 'Can it survive Reinhardt?'
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, the League of Villains attack the USJ and bring a Nomu designed to absorb All Might's attacks. All Might points out that the Nomu is not designed to nullify All Might's strength, so he just hits the Nomu repeatedly at full power, eventually sending it flying. The League is actually boggled that this happened and run away immediately afterwardsnote Unfortunately for All Might, this victory screws him over in the long term, because he burned through his Quirk's waning reserves a lot faster.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_9cc9639	comment	Disgaea: Hour of Darkness was the only game in the series that played this trope somewhat straight. Every game has four main elements (Fire, Water, Wind, and Star). No unit is resistant or weak to Star, acting as a neutral element. The other three, however, are specifically labeled on your unit's element window. Whenever you create a unit from the Dark Assembly, it is always set to 50% for one element (resistant), -50% for another (weak), and 0% for the third (neutral). Later titles in the series did away with this, as Star eventually would be considered on the element tables, and eventually even weapons were included, with each class and unique character having its own resistances and weaknesses baked into the class itself rather than just random per creation.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece Luffy, being a rubber man, is immune to Enel's electricity-based powers. However, Enel finds ways to hurt Luffy anyway by applying electricity indirectly, culminating in his tossing Luffy overboard with a gigantic gold sphere attached to his wrist serving as an anchor. Luffy defeats Enel as soon as he gets out of the mess, but Enel did turn what should've been a Curb-Stomp Battle into one where he had the edge. A far more straightforward example is his first battle with Kaido. Being rubber as mentioned, Luffy is also nearly impervious to blunt force trauma. Kaido's opening move is to smack Luffy with a huge club, channeling what appears to be lightning through it for good measure. Down goes Luffy. It's later revealed that Kaido was actually infusing his club with Conqueror's Haki, which made his attack devastatingly powerful.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_9edddc9a	comment	Ever Oasis uses a Rock-paper-scissors type for the other three races (Serkah, Lagora, and Drauk) in which they are all strong against certain types of monsters, encouraging you to swap them out on paper and giving them some form of balance since they can't change their weapons. However, Lagora attack the fastest out of all the three, so if their weapon attacks are resisted, they can just make up the difference by hitting them so fast that the damage adds up. As a result? It's very hard to drop a Lagora party member — a Drauk can do roughly the same damage (but with fewer hits) but they can't make up the difference like a Lagora can.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_9f89a5f0	comment	In the aftermath of the PokÃ©mon Battle Royale, it's noted that, on paper, Venasaur (grass), Blastoise (water), and Charizard (fire) can set each other at an elemental disadvantage. In practice, Blastoise has more than enough defensive stats to hold up against his opponents and still has enough attack power to defeat both of them.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_a04210b3	comment	In Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, the Bug status ailment reverses the usual Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors of Vaccine > Virus > Data > Vaccine. A Vaccine-type Digimon who is inflicted with the ailment will be weak against Virus, but strong against Data. One boss in particular, Ebemon, has a boss-only move where it can inflict this ailment without fail, and can even use it on itself to instantly reverse your team's type advantages.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_a34863aa	comment	In "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Battle Royale", all of the turtles (other than Michelangelo, the worst Turtle by far in every relevant category) have unique strengths: in particular, Raphael holds an advantage over Leonardo (his sai are made to block and destroy swords like Leonardo's katanas), and Donatello over Raphael (his staff has the longest range of all the turtles' weapons, while Raphael has the shortest). Despite this, Raphael manages to kill Donatello when Leonardo distracts him, and Leonardo then wins the final clash due to Raphael having been exhausted by fighting Donatello for most of the fight.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order Assassins normally deal half damage to Casters while receiving double. Semiramis's second skill, Double Summon, changes it so she deals and receives neutral damage to Casters for three turns. Assassins also take 1.5x damage from Alter Egos while dealing neutral damage. Kama's third skill, Mara-Papiyas, changes it so that she deals double damage to and receives half damage from Alter Egos for three turns. Pretenders deal 0.5x damage to Casters while taking neutral damage from them. Hephaestion's skill, For He is Another Iskandar (Fake), changes it so that she deals double damage to and receives half damage from Casters for three turns.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_a5f7e04e	comment	The whole design Philosophy of the B-17 and B-29 is "Bomber beats Fighter". They do this by attaching a hell of a lot of guns on all sides of the aircraft, giving them the nickname "flying fortress". German pilots are more afraid of a B-17 than an enemy fighter, and since B-17s usually come in massive numbers for large-scale strategic bombing, there's usually more machine guns in a group of B-17s than there are in an usual Antiaircraft battery. Said guns are also usually closer to the fighters. There was even a brief experiment intended to exploit this with the YB-40, a modified B-17 which carried no actual bombs instead mounted even more machine guns. This proved to be a failure because the YB-40 wasn't fast enough to keep pace with B-17 formations, but the turrets designed for it were incorporated into the next model of standard B-17s. Of course, later advances in technology makes this strategy moot, but for a WWII era bomber, it is incredibly effective.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_a9055b10	comment	The One Who Eats Monsters: Ryn is a perfect ambush predator with her entire body designed for stealth and fast kills. For her power level, she's a Fragile Speedster, and her healing is specifically pointed out to be sub-par. The key phrase being for her power level. She never meets anyone who even approaches her power, allowing her to curb-stomp a regenerating Mighty Glacier Stone Wall in a direct fight.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b11626d	comment	Paper Mario: The Origami King has a "Paper Breaks Scissors" example where Paper Mario has to go up against a sentient pair of scissors, who can and will one-shot Mario if he so much as touches his exposed blades. Mario beats him by attacking the handles and dodging his lethal attack.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b373a206	comment	The Green Lantern Corps have repeatedly defeated Sinestro and his organization, despite the Green Lanterns being weak to the colour yellow and the Sinestro Corps' ability to generate yellow objects. (Though this is more about the emotional side of the spectrum: Yellow means Fear and Green means Willpower. If a Green Lantern's Willpower is stronger than their Fear, they circumvent the weakness the Green Lantern rings have against Yellow. Being able to overcome the Yellow weakness is basically a rite of passage for Green Lanterns, so for the most part only newbies would be completely helpless against a Sinestro Corp member.)
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b387b675	comment	In the flash game Stormwinds, the Spread Machine Gun is intended to be balanced by having its spread of machine gun shots deal very weak damage that the Damage Reduction of enemy armor will mitigate. However, simply upgrading its damage twice will allow each shot to go over the armor's damage reduction threshold for Scratch Damage... at which point the Spread Machine Gun will ruin armored foes via Death of a Thousand Cuts. Pairing that with a few Damage Buffers just makes it overkill against any enemy.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b63ff180	comment	In the fangame PokÃ©mon Prism, there are three attacks that fit this trope; Boilnote a Fire-type attack that is super effective against Water-types, Crystal Boltnote an Electric-type attack that can damage Ground-types and Steel Eaternote a Poison-type attack that can damage Steel-types.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b67b702b	comment	Baki the Grappler: Played literally when Baki and Yujiro have a bout of rock-paper-scissors over who will do the dishes. When Baki plays rock to Yujiro's scissors and thinks he's won, Yujiro promptly uses his scissors to twist Baki's fingers until his rock turns into paper. He then quotes the trope by pointing out how there are scissors in this world that can cut through rock.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: When Noir/soon-to-be-named Diablo is tasked by Rimuru to bring in High Wizard Razen, the wizard upon seeing Noir No-Sell a powerful magic spell summons a War Gnome, a Superior Spirit of Earth in the form of a large knight. Noir notes that on paper, relying on the Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors between demons, spirits, and angels (Demons < Spirits < Angels < Demons) would be the correct choice. However, Razen made the mistake of assuming Noir is simply a Greater Demon (due to Noir intentionally masking his power) when summoning that Superior Spirit, when in reality Noir is not only an Archdemon, but a Primordial Demon. Noir casually destroys the spirit with one hand (even more insulting since magic is considered a demon's first weapon rather than physical attacks), and then bites through its core while lamenting it was a mindless brute too young and inexperienced to bode any threat to him. A similar situation plays out during the war between Tempest and the Eastern Empire when Major General Farraga, in a last-ditch effort to defeat Ultima, the now-named Violet Primordial Demon serving Rimuru, joins his power with that of the fifty mages onboard their flagship to summon an Ifrit, a Superior Spirit of Flame and the same class as the spirit that was bonded to the Hero Shizue Izawa. Ultima mocks both Farraga and the Ifrit as being far too weak to bode any threat to her before freezing the latter solid and shattering it to pieces with the ease of breathing.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: Natsu is able to withstand any of Totomaru's fire spells as he devours fire. Totomaru reacts by using a special fire that smells like garbage. During the same battle, Natsu manages to beat Totomaru's flame control out of sheer will. Gray has occasionally fought enemies who will try to use fire against him, using the obvious logic that fire melts ice. However, Gray is Natsu's perennial rival and notes that the fires others use against him are never as strong as Natsu's, and so are barely worth noticing. When Gray fights Juvia, at one point it looks like he gets the advantage thanks to the obvious logic that ice freezes water. However, Juvia ends up getting so mad (due to a misunderstanding) that her water body and spells start boiling, thus melting through his ice.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In "A Flea in Her Dome", when Sandy's treedome was invaded by fleas, she tried to keep them away from her, SpongeBob and Patrick by tying a flea collar around the three of them. However, the fleas were quickly multiplying and produced so many offspring that they were numerous enough to overwhelm them and simply eat the collar.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_bdcd318c	comment	Son of the Sannin: During the Fourth Ninja War arc, Konan faces Edo Tensei Hanzo of the Salamander. Hanzo uses a fire jutsu, which she counters with her paper shurikens. She wins.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_c3e63db7	comment	The Zombie Knight: This can happen if a high-level servant gets into a fight with a servant that has a power that is particularly useful against theirs. For example, Harper had a lot more trouble with Conall and Tessa than expected because they used reflective barriers(Which his laser attacks couldn't penetrate) and destruction to keep him back. His response was to enter an absurdly powerful hyper-state, which let him kick everyone's butts, and move at lightspeed.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_c489a759	comment	Also in Digimon Adventure 02, SkullSatamon easily knocks out eight other Ultimates, including MagnaAngemon and Angewomon, each with a single hit.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_c94bade0	comment	In EndWar, Helicopter beats Tanks, Tanks beats Transports, and Transports beat Helicopters. The first one can be defied by equipping your tanks with Anti-air missile. A well-timed special attack can also avert the usual result.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet's Terastalisation mechanic allows trainers to change their PokÃ©mon's type to a different one, allowing, for example, a Water type to become a Fire type and both resist and deal super effective damage to the Grass types it would normally be weak to. While this isn't played entirely straight here (as this is effectively changing Scissors into Paper), a straighter instance of this trope can also occur with Terastalisation due to the fact that Terastalised PokÃ©mon can still use moves of their base type(s) and gain a Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB), allowing for that Fire type PokÃ©mon to still use powerful Water attacks to deal with the Ground-types that would threaten a regular Fire type. Some of the gym leaders will use this to their advantage— for instance, Grass-type gym leader Brassius' ace is a Rock-type Sudowoodo that he Terastalises into a Grass type, but which can still use Rock-type attacks with STAB to deal with weaker Fire type PokÃ©mon.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_cd2291d2	comment	Legendarily Popular: Ash tests whether he's ready for the PokÃ©mon League, by beating Giovanni's Ground-type gym with an all-electric team.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	This happens a lot throughout PokÃ©mon: The Series; as it's a Long Runner chock full of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, this is perhaps unsurprising. It often involves a trainer being creative enough to not simply use a weaker move directly. This heavily becomes a Gameplay and Story Segregation once certain moves attack PokÃ©mon who are immune to such attacks. Ash's Pikachu is able to affect Ground-types with its electricity due to "sheer training", despite that this feat is virtually impossible to duplicate in the games. This was first shown during Ash's second gym battle against Brock, easily defeating Geodude with one electrical attack and damaging Onix. The same thing happens to a Geodude 2 generations later against Roxanne. The early episode "School of Hard Knocks" has Misty defeat a schoolboy's Grass-type Weepinbell with her Water-type Starmie because hers is several levels higher, meaning the type advantage is irrelevant (even though Starmieâ€™s Psychic type is also super effective against Weepinbellâ€™s Poison type, meaning that Starmie and Weepinbell are tied when it comes to type advantage), much to his shock. Just to drive the point home, Misty's Starmie is subsequently beaten down by the resident Alpha Bitch's dual-type Rock/Ground Graveler. Ash then manages to uphold the Rule of Three by beating said Alpha Bitch's Ground-Type Cubone with his Pikachu. Another early episode trainer, AJ, put his Sandshrew through Training from Hell to make it resist Water attacks despite being Ground-type. In "The Bridge Bike Gang", Chopper curb-stomps Ash's Grass-type Bulbasaur with his Rock/Ground Golem. However, Ash's Fire-type Charmander defeats the Golem by igniting it with Fire Spin despite its own disadvantage against both Rock and Ground-types. "PIKACHU! THE HORN!" Apparently, an Electric attack can be used to take out a Ground-type Pokemon, completely immune to electricity, as long as it's correctly aimed. It passes the real-world logic test but blatantly contradicts the games. Pikachu later defeats another Rhydon by firing a Thunderbolt into its open mouth, which is clearly not protected from electricity. While not a type advantage, Ash used his Pikachu to defeat Lt. Surge's Raichu, its evolved form. In their first match Raichu wiped the floor with Pikachu, but in their rematch Pikachu won by focusing on outmaneuvering the slower Raichu rather than fighting it directly. The theme of that episode was that technique trumps power. Ash once set up his Squirtle against Blaine, the gym leader of Cinnabar Island's Ninetails. The Ninetails one-shot Ash's Squirtle using a basic Flamethrower. In "The Mandarin Island Miss Match", Ash's Pikachu gets curb-stomped by Lorelei/Prima's Water-type Cloyster. In the episode "Hot Matches!", Miki trained her Skarmory to be able to defeat Fire-types despite being a Steel-type. In Ash and Gary's showdown at the end of the Johto arc, their last PokÃ©mon were Ash's Fire-type Charizard and Gary's Water-type Blastoise. Charizard managed to win by getting in melee range, since Blastoise's water cannons couldn't aim that close to itself. Ash's Taillow/Swellow, was able to take Electric-type attacks better than the average Flying-type. At the very least, it's treated In-Universe as an anomaly. For some reason, the show producers forgot that Poison attacks do not harm Steel types. This has happened multiple times, including Jessieâ€™s Seviper smacking Brockâ€™s Forretress hard with Poison Tail, a Croagunk Jessie used that would later on be captured by Brock KO'ing a trainerâ€™s Scizor with a Poison Jab, and Jessieâ€™s Seviper knocking a wild shiny Metagross off a cliff with Poison Tail. Cynthia's Garchomp, full stop. During the battle with Paul, Paul chose Weavile to go against Garchomp since ice moves (Blizzard and Ice Beam) deal 4x Damage against Garchomp's Dragon/Ground. Combined with the giant level gap between Weavile and Garchomp's current level, Garchomp easily shrugged off Blizzard, followed by Garchomp doing one attack and easily defeating Weavile. Although Ice Beam and Blizzard come off Weavileâ€™s poor special attack stat, so in-game this is reasonable. In A Pyramiding Rage!, Brandon's Regirock is able to destroy Paul's Electabuzz's Protect with Stone Edge. Bulbapedia has it listed as an error, stating only Feint and Phantom Force are supposed to destroy Protect. Ash's Oshawott handles this in a more practical and visually consistent manner: he uses a shell to deflect Electric and Grass attacks, which would otherwise be devastating to a Water-type like him. A common factor with Cilan's Pansage, who has faced PokÃ©mon with weakness in check and won, most notably Chili's Pansear and Morana's Abomasnow. Wild Joltik draining the electricity of a Pokeball that contained Stunfisk dry and worn out. This shouldn't be possible, given that Stunfisk is also a Ground-type, though it can also be presumed that Joltik was using Absorb, a Grass-type move. James's Yamask is nost notably known for this, due to being a Ghost Type and using Ghost-Type attacks. Yamask used Night Shade on Minccino, which shouldn't work at all. The same goes for Minccino using swift on Yamask, though since it was combined by Pikachu's thunderbolt, it is presumed that the thunderbolt hit Yamask. Iris' Dragonite takes a barrage of Ice attacks without flinching or showing any sign of damage. (To clarify, Dragonite's dual-typing of Dragon and Flying makes it doubly weak against Ice). What could be said about this is that Iris caught a Dragonite levels beyond what she can control. Averted in Thrash of the Titans! when Dracovish takes out Dragonite with an Ice Fang after Dracovish had caught Dragonite in its mouth with Fishious Rend. Ashâ€™s Froakie-Frogadier-Greninja had many battles with Sawyer's Treecko-Grovyle-Sceptile through out the XY run, most of which it won despite the latter grass type having the advantage over its water typing. Its greatest feat is when it defeated Sceptile in its Mega Evolution. Oddly enough, though, it never beat Alain's Charizard despite having a type advantage over it. Granted, it did Mega-Evolve all three times, which did give it an extra Dragon type. Several of Ash's PokÃ©mon know moves that allow them to counter some of their weaknesses. Notably, his Krookodile is weak against Fighting PokÃ©mon but Ash taught it Aerial Ace specifically to work around this. Because XY introduces the Fairy-type, all episodes prior to XY that contained Dragon-type attacks against the now-Fairy-type PokÃ©mon becomes Early-Installment Weirdness. The trend would continue in Sun and Moon, where we have a Crabrawler, a Fighting type, using the Water-type Bubble Beam to block an attack from the Grass/Flying Rowlet. And later in the same season, we have the Rock-type Rockruff handily beating a Ground-type Mudbray. Offscreen in Sun and Moon, Turtonator's Mighty Glacier status is furthered when we learn Kiawe earned his Firium Z by pitting him against Olivia, the Rock-type Kahuna, and winning. In Journeys, Ash's Dracovish is able to beat Cynthia's Roserade and Leon's Rillaboom despite both of them being part Grass-type. After the battle with Rillaboom, Dracovish is beaten by the Fire-type Cinderace though this is due to the damage Dracovish took from Rillaboom and the fact that Cinderace has its Hidden Ability Libero which changes the PokÃ©mon's type to whatever move it's using.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_dc217e32	comment	Both played straight and discussed in PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines. A sidestory has Falkner's father Walker say to a trainer that "a scissor can cut a rock if it's sharp enough", establishing that it takes more than type advantages to beat a Gym Leader, and some ways to counteract it are having dual-type PokÃ©mon or teaching moves to counter their weaknesses. Another has Skyla's grandfather Miles teaching her about this; since a Gym Leader specializes in a specific type of PokÃ©mon, he or she can have an idea of what the challengers might bring against them, and thus can prepare countermeasures to face it.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_e54c7622	comment	Spiral Knights often falls victim to this, as the strengths and weaknesses of most monsters are not modified by the environments that they spawn in or the elemental types that they appear to be. For example, a Silversap (an icy-looking Lumber) will still be susceptible to Freeze damage and Shock damage, or a Smoking Howlitzer can still be taken down with ease using an immolating weapon.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_f858847a	comment	Then there's Inverse Battles, a mechanic introduced in PokÃ©mon X and Y that takes this literally by turning weaknesses into resistances and resistances into weaknesses.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_f8705c18	comment	In Hellsing, Alucard is far and away more powerful than any other vampire in the series, and none of the usual vampiric weaknesses do anything to him. Whether it's holy blades, having his heart pierced, or his head removed, he just comes right back from it like it was nothing. At one point he calmly takes a plane over a body of water in broad daylight, just to show off how powerful he is (by contrast, Seras, a neophyte vampire who hasn't completely turned yet, must make the journey housed inside her coffin the whole way). It's eventually revealed a big part of this is because he has millions of souls stored inside his body that he uses to take the damage for him.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Yusuke fights Suzaku, who zaps him a few times with his Shock and Awe powers. Yusuke puts his rubber soled shoes over his hands as a shield, but Suzaku's sidekick Murugu laughs and points out Suzaku's lightning is strong enough to tear through rubber like tissue paper. Yusuke knew that and just wanted to lure Suzaku in close so he could blast him with his Spirit Gun point blank.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_f953dbb1	comment	In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, the antagonists are a group of criminals that have Anti-Magic abilities that require our heroes to use specialized equipment in order to fight them. The sole exception to this is Hayate, who threatens the group by using a powerful ice spell that could easily go through their defenses. She would've succeeded too, if the group's leader didn't arrive and shank her from behind.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Thunder magic gets a large bonus against Dragons and Dracoknights, who also tend to be weak against magic in general, but your Dracoknights' high mobility means they will almost always get the first hit, and Haar will almost always take them down in one fell blow, as can Jill at higher levels.
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Scissors Cuts Rock / int_fc46f1b5	comment	Touhou Galaxy: In Chapter 18 of Odyssey, Natsu goes up against Esdeath to hold her off while everyone else escapes to the Odyssey. Despite his best attempts, she either freezes or No Sells his attacks and surrounds herself in an ice shield when he uses a Lightning Fire Dragon Roar. Esdeath is ultimately able to freeze Natsu except for his head with him being saved when Sakuya arrives and uses her knives to pincushion Esdeath.
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Age of the Ring (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Bloons Super Monkey (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Choice of Magics (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Devil May Cry (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Digimon Survive (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
EndWar (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Ever Oasis (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Fire Emblem Warriors (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
In Stars And Time (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Mega Man: The Power Battle (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Mental Omega (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Nintendo Wars (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Pokémon Brown and Prism (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Summoners War: Sky Arena (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Vantage Master (Video Game) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
NU: carnival (Visual Novel) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Tears of Themis (Visual Novel) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Pokemon Battle Royale (Web Animation) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
PokÃ©mon Generations (Web Animation) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
PokÃ©mon Gold (Fanmade) (Web Animation) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
PokÃ©mon Red (Fanmade) (Web Animation) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Starter Pokemon Battle Royale (Web Animation) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Pokémon Friendlocke (Web Video) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Daughter of the Lilies (Webcomic) / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Green Lantern: The Animated Series / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock
Vixen / int_e92c4e92	type	Scissors Cuts Rock

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