SunScales 
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sachirin@SunScales It's like a dragonfruit! 😭💕 Is it grass type? (Do Digimon have types?)
@sachirin Yeah exactly! it's a little birdy dragonfruit, I love it 😊
Digimon *sort of* have types? It's a lot more loose and depends on what the media they're in wants to do with it. But you don't usually see fire attacks doing more to plant monsters or anything like that. In the card game it's sort of whatever they feel like saying it is for a specific card, so you could have one card that says "plant" type and another that says "vegetation", for hair-splitting rules basically. So that doesn't matter so much.
There is a sort of rock/paper/scissors thing where it'll be either a data/vaccine/virus type. It's not always used but typically it's set up like:
data < virus
virus < vaccine
vaccine < data
A lot of villains are virus types, a lot of heroes are vaccine, and data's sort of in between - but none of that is guaranteed.
(sorry that was way too long for what you asked 😭)
@SunScales Pomumon so cute 😭 And that was really informative, thank you! I'm sorry I just didn't go ahead and look it up like a normal person 💀 The data/vaccine/virus part is quite intriguing but I can see how it can be challenging. I mean I still can't get the hang of typing in Pokemon so I feel like a lot of this will be hard for me to grasp.
@sachirin You're good! I feel like the real answer is a lot of the digimon stuff isn't set in stone the way pokemon is. Pokemon has had a lot of success with one game formula, but digimon hasn't, so they tend to just throw stuff at the wall to see what works and a lot of stuff will just be based on what you're looking 😅
Do you have one of those type charts for Pokemon? I printed out and laminated one a while back because there's some I just can't ever remember, haha
@SunScales I think part of what keeps me from trying Digimon is how some of the evolved designs are really out there, like I don’t know if I’m even remembering correctly but in the 02 anime I think one of the characters had an actual human-looking creature with wings? 🤔 But I’m intrigued enough to try a game sometime in the future, just to see how it plays.
And I do have a type chart saved on my phone but I keep deleting it whenever I offload photos 😂 I have a new problem on top of that which is I can never remember if a move is physical or special!
@sachirin haha there's way too many Pokemon attacks to remember them all 😂 At least in the more recent games it tells you during battle but yeah I have a hard time with that too
Yeah a lot of Digimon designs eventually become human, especially main characters. I prefer the ones that stay monsters too. Something that's nice about digimon is they all have evolution trees, so if you have one that eventually becomes human-y, it probably also has something else it can turn into that you'll like more. Tho some games also are limited on what your "best" final form is ☠️
Something that's sort of helped me accept it is that digimon really are more "people" than "pets", which pokemon are closer to pets. They're friends you can have a conversation with that also happen to be battle monsters 😆 But if you look around enough you can prob find some you like that stay monsters - biyomon has a mid/late evo that's human-y but then turns to phoenixmon after which is just a big cool bird.
@sachirin if you do eventually look to try a game, I think Cyber Sleuth might be a good place to start? I think it's on Switch (and other consoles/PC). I'm not very far in it yet but it's a fairly typical turn-based rpg iirc
A lot of Digimon games are all over the place and do totally different things from each other. I like a lot of them, but there's a lot that would be hard to recommend for someone completely new to the series 😅
Digimon Survive was a lot of fun, if you're okay with the kids being able to die in that (I didn't know that and was shocked 😥). It's a visual novel with strategy combat gameplay (like Disgaea or Fire Emblem but way less complicated), written a lot like the anime, and the characters come into it not knowing what digimon are and that's part of the mystery.
@SunScales Thank you for the recs! The physical versions of both games are much cheaper than on the eshop, not sure if there’s just a sale going on or something, but I could pick up one (or two??) of them the next time I’m at the mall 😆 There’s also this one called Digimon World Next Order which seems to be more expensive than the other ones 🤔
@sachirin Yeah def get them for cheaper I'd you can! I had Cyber Sleuth on my steam wishlist forever and it went on sale for a good price recently
the deal w/ Next Order is it was on PSP a long time ago, and recently was ported to other systems. it's a spiritual sequel Digimon World, which is *my* fav game, but it's not one I would rec as a first digimon game.
The original game I always describe as a tomagotchi with an adventure around it - you raise a digimon that lives for a while, then dies and is reborn and you start over. you have to get food (you have a daily allowance for free but it's often not enough at the start of the game, so you'll buy/find food too), and learn where bathrooms are otherwise your digimon will poo on the ground and be unhappy for it 😅
Next Order works the same but you get two digimon instead of one. I'm not very far in it yet but I'm not quite as enamored with it as I was with the first one, maybe I just need to get further but something feels like it's missing.
@SunScales Okay that other one sounds pretty stressful, tbh (I never had a tamagotchi but in game form I’m sure I’d be intense about tasks and wouldn’t handle pet “death” all right) 💀 I’ll stick to your first 2 recs! Yay! 🙏🏼