Offensive Matchup – Overview

Tempered metal slices Ice, drills Rock, and dispels Fairy enchantments, yet heat, surf, current, and identical alloys resist its edge.

Super-Effective

• Ice – Blades cleave frozen barricades.
• Rock – Drills bore through stone.
• Fairy – Cold iron breaks fae charms.

Not Very Effective

• Fire – Heat softens blades.
• Water – Waves corrode slowly.
• Electric – Current grounds harmlessly.
• Steel – Equal alloy meets equal alloy.

Defensive Matchup – Overview

Furnaces, hammers, and earthquakes bend steel, but armor deflects nearly every other force: normal hits, leaves, cold, feathers, mind waves, bugs, stones, dragon breath, and fairy charm, while poison has nothing to corrode.

Weak To

• Fire – Smelters melt metal.
• Fighting – Martial hammers dent armor.
• Ground – Quakes topple steel structures.

Resistant To

• Normal – Bare skin cracks on iron.
• Grass – Vines can’t pierce plate.
• Ice – Steel stays solid in cold.
• Flying – Feathers versus iron is futile.
• Psychic – Thoughts bounce off helmets.
• Bug – Mandibles break on metal.
• Rock – Stone chips on contact.
• Dragon – Even dragonfire struggles.
• Steel – Alloy meets alloy.
• Fairy – Folklore: iron nulls fae magic.

Immune To

• Poison – Toxins cannot corrode ironclad skin mid-battle.