Pokemon: Scyther and Its Evolutions Turn ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ on Its Head

From the Trading Card Game to the several generations of video games, Pokemon fans all around the world have had to learn and study the defining structure of every Pokemon battle: type matchups. This concrete ruleset of a water type having an advantage over a fire type and so on has often been compared to the gaming structure of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’. Depending on its type, every Pokemon can either be the paper for victory, or the rock doomed to fail. The Pokemon Scyther, however, takes this formulaic comparison quite literally.