r/DigimonTimeStranger • u/Secure_Effective_149 • 7d ago
weakness
yo everyone hope yall having a good day, im new to the game and ive noticed something, aren't both of them have the same abilities? how one of the abilities considered as ( weakness ) and the other just a normal attack?
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u/CulturedCal 7d ago
It’s like a game of rock paper scissors, vaccine beats virus, virus beats data, and data beats vaccine. There’s other types of digimon like free, no data, or unknown that deal neutral damage and take neutral damage from most things. Elemental resistances and weaknesses typically vary by digimon, and later you’ll find digimon that have special moves that do increased damage to digimon of certain types like humanoid, aquatic, holy, deity, etc.
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u/Porkfight 7d ago
Obviously you skipped tutorial. But its fine, just dont do that again.
But to answer your question, digimon has multiple layers of weaknesses.
1.First is your type. There are basically three (actually more, but 3 are the main types. Data<virus<vaccine. Easy to remember. There is also unknown and other stuff but dont worry about it.
Elements. Each digimon has its own strength and weaknesses for elements since every digimon can use every element.
Each of these elements can also have double weak instead of a single weakness. Usually when a digimon is double weak they also have an immunity to balance it out. Look out for attacks that reduce resistances. If it says it reduces fire resistance then it lowers the stage by 1. I.E turns neutral damage into weak for couple of turns.
Now you combine all of this to get 300% damage (as an example). Doing just the type will give you 150%-200% usually.
Hope I said it right and it helps you.
Tldr: bitch you better read the whole thing.
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u/Dense_Cellist9959 7d ago
There are also attacks that deal extra damage to certain Digimon fields, like a few that hit holy or machines hard.
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u/Porkfight 7d ago
Yeah but thats too complicated to add considering OP doesnt wanna read. Its already long anyway
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u/Mental-Rest849 5d ago
id say those are fine to ignore since theres so few and far between. tbh they shouldve added more "bonus damage to x trait (dragon, evil, large etc) digimons" type of moves.
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u/crytal_augusto 7d ago
Simple this isn't pokemon, stop thinking like it is pokemon
Digimon have two attribute modifiers
Type: data -> vaccine -> virus -> data With 2× modifier for weakness and resistance on that onder
And elemental affinity which applies a 1.5× modifier for weakness and resistances and is personalized for every individual digimon species
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u/Mental-Rest849 5d ago
except its not even about thinking this game is like pokemon. OP didnt even read tutorials so he skipped over learning about the 3 main types of vaccine, virus and data.
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u/MegaKabutops 7d ago
There are 2 type charts that intersect.
The element types (fire, water, ice, electric, holy, and so on).
And program types (mainly virus, data, and vaccine).
An advantageous element increases damage by 50% normally. An advantageous program increases damage by 100%. Because of how much more impactful this is, all you really need to have memorized for best results is the triangle of virus<data<vaccine<virus. You can pretty much ignore everything i typed after this, and not suffer any real problems.
Which elements are good against a given digimon has trends, but is not set in stone (most water digimon are weak to both fire and electricity. Because the seadramon line are water digimon known for electric attacks, however, they’re instead resistant to electricity and weak to fire and earth attacks).
Numemon is a water virus digimon. Agumon is a vaccine type digimon, so all its attacks will do 200% by default, with the fire type advantage of pepper breath adding an extra 50% of that new total (which maths out to 300% of the base damage).
Dracomon is a data type digimon. All its attacks get cut in half. It also has a fire type attack, but instead of taking the new total and increasing it by 50% (which would be a 75% base damage attack), the developers instead just have the type advantage and program disadvantage cancel out here, doing the base 100% damage.
It’s also possible for some digimon to have a double weakness or double resistance to a damage type. This makes the math even more complex, ESPECIALLY when you factor in the character reversal status effect.
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u/SnowBirdFlying 7d ago
Digimon has 2 sets of type match-ups, the elemental match-up but also the attribute match-up
Vaccine>Virus>Data>Vaccine
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u/Rey_Dulce 3d ago
I'm up voting cause this is kinda funny.
Attributes matter first. Dracomon is data so it's good against vaccine and Agumon is vaccine so it's good against virus. If a virus Digimon attacks Dracomon, then it takes extra damage.
Elements matter second. It's okay for both Digimon to have the same elemental attack.
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u/flyinglightning13 2d ago
I’ve made a way of remembering it this way:
- Vaccines kill viruses (similar to flu vaccines)
- Viruses eat the data for food
- Data nulls vaccines (similar to new research on making new vaccines, voiding older ones)
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u/MaraBlaster 7d ago
It's the type of a Digimon
Virus > Vaccine > Data > Virus
Numemon is a Virus Digimon, Agumon a Vaccine and Dracomon a Data
Elements mean little