elemental [el-uh-ment-uhl]
adjective
1. Of the nature of an ultimate constituent; simple; uncompounded.
2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles.
3. Starkly simple, primitive, or basic: a spare, elemental prose style; hate, lust, and other elemental emotions.
4. Pertaining to the agencies, forces, or phenomena of physical nature: elemental gods.
5. Comparable to the great forces of nature, as in power or magnitude: elemental grandeur.
6. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the four elements, earth, water, air, and fire, or of any one of them.
7. Pertaining to chemical elements.
EX. The core and foundation of the Pokemon video game series is, besides the elements of collection/trade, based on a strategy around elemental combat. Locked in a rock-paper-scissors system, with a constant addition of stats and variables to make the combat increasingly more complex, and varied. Its interesting to consider how easy to the elements of the starters could've been shifted for the same effects, but it is also obvious why they are what they have been for five generations. Grass (Earth), Water, and Fire (lacking wind), but the elements are an integral part of Eastern and Western mythologies.
