Consistent Physical Pokemon trinity?

[Tim]

It's just that I'm curious about it, in light of the Grass > Water > Fire Special Trinity in the games. Unfortunately, these are the only ones that I know of.:banghead:

So anyways, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Flying > Fighting > Rock
Bug > Ground > Poison

In addition, please feel free to add anything missing.

 

[llxwarbirdxll]

Fighting<Psychic<Dark
Flying<Thunder<Ground

 

[Tim]

Fighting<Psychic<Dark
Flying<Electric<Ground

Fixed.

Dark, Psychic, and Electric are classified under "Special".

Physical: Normal, Ghost, Fighting, Rock, Steel, Ground, Bug, Poison, Flying

 

[paperfairy]

Well, they used to be; but as of today, types no longer have special/physical alignments.

 

[Kthleen]

I don't think Bug is strong against Ground, or at least it wasn't the last time I remember.

I think there's only one such physical Pokemon trinity. I don't know if it's just me, but I can't find any other completely physical mixtures, single or double types or a mixture thereof, that have such a balance. Everything is "X > Y <> Z > X," or "X !> Y > Z > X," or "X !> Y <> Z > X," or "X > Y > Z !> X," or even "X >> Y>> Z > X," or something along those lines, but not "X > Y > Z > X" like you're asking for*. Maybe someone might have better luck than I....

In the case that there are no other purely physical trinities (or in light of the above post, either ignore the "special/physical" talk or pretend that the post is untrue for the sake of discussion), my questions are:
1. What such trinities (physical, special, or mixture thereof) are at all possible?
2. Which are possible with only the 3-stage Pokémon (where all the ones in the trinity are so) that we have so far?
3. In a slight variation of the above, which are possible with only the 2-stage Pokémon (where all the ones in the trinity are so) that we have so far?
4. What would people like to see from the above?



*Explanation:
> = double weakness (Rock against Flying)
>> = quad weakness (Fighting against Rock/Steel)
<> = weakness both ways (Rock/Ground vs. Steel)
!> = no special effect (Normal against Flying, and vice versa), a resistance (Rock resists Poison damage), or no damage at all (Fighting against Ghost)

 

[Tim]

Kthleen, yeah, I was actually referring to Bug's resistance to Ground-type attacks, Ground's resistance to Poison-type attacks, and Poison's resistance to Bug-type attacks. My bad. ^^;

In addition...

1. As long as Super effective ATK recipients & resistance are similar, then, that would be considered a "trinity" by my book, a la Grass > Water > Fire Special Trinity.

2 & 3 Other than the starters, well, I can't think of any.

4. It's up to them to find out.

Well, they used to be; but as of today, types no longer have special/physical alignments.

:banghead: So, there can be a specific trinity of our choice?

Example: Anti-Psychic

Bug > Dark > Ghost

 

[Crystal Walrein]

I can come up with Fire < Rock < Steel, Ground < Ice < Steel, Ice < Rock < Grass, Bug < Poison < Psychic, and Water < Electric < Ground.

 

[llxwarbirdxll]

If I recall, poison attacks are no longer strong against bug pokemon.