Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1514283-20140910145817

I suppose it's mostly a non-issue and more about organisation than anything, but would anyone be opposed to having a standard system of how we chronicle nature types for characters with multiple types?

The elemental cycle explained to us goes: Fire > Wind > Lightning > Earth > Water

To which we can then add Yin > Yang > Yin-Yang

My suggestion is that for characters that have all the elements we go by that cycle, and for characters with an affinity we start from that cycle.

Naruto currently has all basic elements, Lava, Magnet, Yin and Yin-Yang, and | this is how is infobox looks
 * Wind (affinity)
 * Lava
 * Magnet
 * Fire
 * Earth
 * Lightning
 * Water
 * Yang

I find that very disorganised, especially when compared to other characters that also have multiple elements. My suggestion would be to start with his affinity and then go from there in the cycle, like | this.
 * Wind (affinity)
 * Lightning
 * Earth
 * Water
 * Fire
 * Lava
 * Magnet
 * Yang
 * Yin-Yang

For characters with non-specified affinities that have all the elements, we should just go in the natural order, like Nagato and Kaguya already have.

For characters that don't have that many elements and have a Kekkei Genkai, like Hashirama, Lava Release users, etc. I suggest we keep with what we've been doing with
 * KKG element
 * nature types

e.g. Hashirama


 * Mokuton
 * Earth
 * Water

e.g. Kurotsuchi
 * Lava Release
 * Fire
 * Earth

e.g. Mei
 * Lava Release
 * Boil Release
 * Fire
 * Earth
 * Water

Again, I know it's just mainly for for appearances, but I think it's worthwhile doing this as a rule to make things look organised.  