Seven categories named by collection achievements
Steam includes one “Chaser” achievement for capturing all members of each named category.
- Fire
- Aether
- Water
- Plant
- Rock
- Thunder
- Neutral
What elemental affinity confirms
The official store describes elemental affinities as one of the inputs to strategic auto-battles, alongside equipment and abilities. It does not publish a complete chart, damage multiplier or immunity list.
Why Soot stays separate
Soot appears in the story language, Rift achievements and a Soot Medal. The public creature-category achievements use Neutral instead. Until the current build exposes a creature category or battle label directly, this page does not merge those two concepts or claim an eighth type.
How to build a trustworthy matchup chart
A future chart needs the attacking move or effect, both creature categories, the feedback shown by the game and the build version. A familiar fire-water-plant triangle is not enough evidence by itself.
Collection categories and combat rules answer different questions
The seven Chaser achievements tell players how Steam groups collection completion. The store’s reference to elemental affinities tells players that category relationships influence battle. Neither source alone supplies the direction or size of a matchup advantage. A creature can therefore be safely labeled by an official Field Guide category while its offensive and defensive matchups remain unknown. Keeping those fields separate prevents the type table from quietly becoming an invented strategy chart.
What the first Stackpedia profiles add
Official material now supports individual examples across six verified categories: Flowf for Plant, Gralit for Fire, Platy for Water, Waxindle for Aether, Pomball for Rock, and Frogow, Toadox, Cahopp and Pinpaca for Neutral. These profiles establish identities and types, not full rosters. Thunder still has no individual profile that passes the current name-plus-type evidence gate, so the table leaves that example unfilled rather than guessing from card color or artwork.
Record both sides of every affinity observation
For a reproducible matchup note, capture the acting creature, target, both visible type labels, move or ability, on-screen affinity feedback, damage or status result, equipment and build version. Repeat the same interaction before generalizing. A single high-damage event may reflect level, equipment, a critical event or ability text rather than type. Testing the reverse direction is equally important because the game may not express every relationship symmetrically.
Use medals as goals, not proof of the chart
Plant, Rock, Fire, Water, Aether and Thunder appear as both collection-category names and medal names. That alignment is useful for navigation, but winning a medal does not disclose the leader’s team, route or type multiplier. Soot strengthens the reason for caution: it is a medal and story term while Neutral is the seventh collection category. The site links the concepts where official wording overlaps and leaves the rest unclaimed.