Originally Posted by Tavrobel
And as far as new elements for starting Pokemon games, what three elements works in a rock/paper/scissors styles like Fire/Grass/Water? The closest thing you can get is Psychic/Dark/Fighting, but they aren't meant to be started with, because Dark is immune to Psychic, and the stats of the original three were balanced against each other, and all three of their elemental attacks were special, while they started with Normal attacks. Darks gets wrecked by physical attacks, Psychic is too fast, and Fighting would be rigged/severely gimped against the lower level starting Pokemon (of which are mostly Normal/Flying).