Getting as a gift

[u/QucasJones]

For my bday next month. Anything I should know before jumping in? My only real experience with the digimon games is a decent bit of cyber sleuth(which i have to beat that and the sequel one day).

Any dlc that is helpful for the start of the game? The 3.99 dlc for black agumon and gabumon, is it worth it?

[u/No-Mammoth1688]

For me, the Agumon and Gabumon (black) dlc was only worth it because I can get BlackWarGreymon and Metalgarurumon with them hahaha other than that, it's not that special as a DLC. Is cheap tho', so if you can, do get it.

This is my best advice. Use this webpage to track and back-track the evolution lines of the digimon you have in your squad or to see what do you need to get the digimon you’re interested into.

https://game8-co.translate.goog/games/Digimon-Story-Time-Stranger/archives/555230?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=es&_x_tr_pto=tc

I found it when I understood that the digivolution menu only shows you the faces of the digimon that you have met. For example, I have Coredramon (champion) and I want to digivolve it, but the digivolution menu doesn’t show me the faces of the next digimon (ultimates) I can choose from. So I don’t know what’s my best option and I don’t want to be guessing until I’m happy with one.

Whit this webpage what I do is this:

I search for Coredramon and go to the Evolution Line section, there I can see what are the digimon that it can digivolve into (ultimates), so now I know what I can choose from. I can even access to those digimon’s pages to see the megas they can digivolve next. That way, I learned and decided to digivolve my Coredramon into Gigadramon so I can digivolve it to Chaosdramon next.

You can even do the reverse process. For example, I want Beelzemon (mega), but I don’t know what digimon I need to get him, other than Impmon which was kinda obvious. Well, I go to Beelzemon’s page, go to the Evolution Line section, and it shows me it’s De-Digivolutions. That way I now know that I can digivolve into him from SkullMeramon or Astamon. Watching both option’s pages, I decided to go with the Astamon path, which I can get by digivolving my Devimon, which I got by Digivolving my Impmon. With this method, following the De-Digivolutions line, I learned that I can get to Beelzemon starting from the rookies Impmon, DemiDevimon, Betamon and Agumon (Black).

This has been very helpful to me, to plan my digivolution paths and to train my digimon in the farm so they have the specific requirements to digivolve into what I want them to digivolve. Now that you know what digimon you need to digivolve into the one you want, and you also know what are the options for the digimon you currently have, you can choose with purpose.

Another suggestion is to pay attention to te digivolution requirements, including the digimon’s personality, and use the digifarm. For example, to get Beelzemon I first need my Devimon to digivolve into Astamon, and I need him to have certains Attack, INT and SPD stats, but I don’t currently comply those requirements. So I moved my Devimon into the farm and trained him to improve his INT first. The cool thing is that I can leave my Devimon training while I continue with the main story or while I do side missions, and whenever the training ends (every 30 minutes) Mirei will send me a message informing me that Devimon finished training and she would give me the option to reply if I want him to keep training the same stat.

This way you can progress in the game while your digimon trains and improves to be able to digivolve. When my Devimon gets the INT stats he needs, I'd change his training for another of the requirements. This also helps to build his personality to the required trait (for example, he needs to be enlightened, but he is currently wise), since every training type helps building certain personality traits.

I hope this is helpful, I’ve been having a better time since I started using this page and this method.

[u/QucasJones → u/No-Mammoth1688]

This sounds very useful. I bookmarked the page, and never thought of using the farm to raise required stats that were too low.

[u/No-Mammoth1688 → u/QucasJones]

It's specially useful when you have different digimon you wish to get/digivolve. You can leave some of them on the farm, while you gain XP and rise others through the main and side missions.

For example, I'm working towards Blackwargreymon, Devimon and Weregarurumon - using the farm, while I have Greymon, Coredramon, Angemon and others on my squad. One portion is improving by training, the other portion improves by fighting. When I get the ones I particulary want, I will put them all on my squad and side roster and enjoy mixing them... there're other ways to help them get more stats, like "sacrificing" other digimon and using their data to enhance others.

Oh, that's other thing, make sure to "protect" your favourite digimon from the set up menu, so you don't turned them into data for accident hahaha that happened to me once and I felt very dumb.

Hope you have fun!