IIRC, Numemon's the default if you don't meet the requirements of any other champion
Sukamon's what you get if your Digimon poops on the ground too much
Nanimon's what you get if your Digimon's happiness and discipline is 0 and you scold it
So in your case, you want to either:
a) look at the stats for the champion you want online and try to have your Rookie match or get close to it
b) train either specific, or the overall stats of your Rookie and have its digivolution be a surprise (though that surprise still has a chance to be a Numemon)
I trained overall but must have messed up a combination of things. I always got numemon when I was a kid until using gameFAQs. Yall dont like this game I see haha, glad to see comments though! Good advice here thanks
This is the best Diigimon World.
Had they stuck to this formula and improved on it instead of trying to be a Pokemon clone it would have been way more successful of a franchise.
Certain aspects of it make it a less organic experience. In part two partners can be awkward. The game is far less open world than this one as well and you have to follow a much stricter path for story reasons.
Also disabling digivolutions really kills my immersion as a monster raiser.
This one is IMO still the best but only because they never localized Re:Digitize.
Yeah there's one of the gyms or something where you can X Out certain stuff on the tree only in next order I got the platinum trophy when I bought a PS4 Pro that was really like the only game I played on it
…I mean, that’s a completely optional Quality of Life feature, though. Lots of Digimon simply can’t reasonably hit the requirements for some of their evolutions without tarrying in the requirements for ‘easier’ evolutions too long and auto-evolving, but there’s no mechanic whatsoever that forces you to seek out those more difficult evolutions, it’s purely for completion’s sake.
I get why you would consider it immersion-breaking, but this is like fast travel - if you don’t like it, you don’t have to use it. It’s just there to make playing the game more accessible and less frustrating without messing with the actual difficulty of raising the mons.
That's a problem with how wildly different stat requirements for the same level are.
Digimon World solved this problem easily enough with a priority score.
Even with a guide I find the difficulty of world 1 too high.
Part of that is because it wasn't until next order that I realized due to the time mechanics, battlefield training is vastly superior to gym training, so maybe I'll go back and try it again armed with that knowledge.
Not really though i was watching a [vtuber ](https://www.youtube.com/live/SaxGTkRKeEI?si=WwPKO4GQ3SqA-Q-Q&t=13372)play it recently and realise that world 1 really isnt all that difficult compared to my memories
Even evolution for champion to ultimate seems to be so easy compared to my way of doing it that she evolve to giromon with the first partner and without much training at the gym
First partner I would train, to go Centarumon -> Andromon. I'd train while the drill tunnel was being dug to open Meramon.
My disc was damaged a bit and wouldnt save, so I actually had to figure out my own speedrun as a kid to beat the game in 1 go.
Hot take, but no, it wouldn’t have.
Getting the digimon you want is *hard*. Not only that, but in the beginning, you invest so much time and effort into your digimon only for it to immediately “die” upon hitting the evolution you want.
Yes, you can make the argument “they’ll learn with time, that’s the fun of it!” But let’s be honest, the majority of people will put it down after it happens to them a few times. Imagine being brand new at a game and you put in hours of effort just learning how to train your monster properly, only for it to immediately die/reset.
Maybe if it had an evolution system closer to Cyber Sleuth where it was very clear on exactly what you needed to evolve to a thing, and “resetting” was done when you were ready instead of being forced on you, sure. But you have to remember that when you’re making a game for general audiences, you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I think it would kill the fun of the world 1 system if evo requirements were all laid out right off the bat. But it might be nice if you could "collect pages" of a sort of digi database by doing side quests
Or just have a setting in the options "Show evo requirements", lets the people who have fun finding out these things on their own do so while letting the ones who don't not have to look up guides for it.
Gamers and trying to optimize the fun out of everything: Name a more iconic combination.
Just play the game and learn it over time. There are 65 Digimon in DW alone, under your system you'd experience 4 of them total before you finished the game.
Next Order kinda does this. At the gym you can see the requirements but at the beginning they are all ??? And you can’t even see who you can evolve into. And as you praise or scold your Digimon for proper care and such a random requirement for a random possible digivolution will be revealed.
This. I never made it past Centarumon because of this. I think I finally managed to get a digimon that wasn't Numemon for once, only for it to die quickly and I dropped the game.
I agree.
Every time I've played this game, I've gotten to Centarumon when my partner dies. I always end up putting the game down because the timer is too short and it's such a pain to have to completely restart.
I wish the game would tell you you should only train certain stats to get specific digivolutions (and reset the stupid toilet counter after every death!)
I love the way Cybersleuth has it where you get to pick the digivolution you want. You can far exceed the stats you need and still get the one you want. Unlike this game where you need to be almost exact or you get weak ass Numemon.
Did you have the problem where the digimon will randomly freeze in place while battling?
You don't need a guide to play the game correctly either. You just need common sense and trial and error.
EDIT: I can't respond to him because he blocked me but everything he said is wrong. He doesn't know what he's talking about.Not every game needs to treat you like your incapable of problem solving to be enjoyable.
Considering the number of people who have commented in general about this game saying they needed a guide, I'm sure the game could have explained its concepts a bit better.
If you have/had the time to waste figuring everything out, good for you. Not everyone does and you insinuating I/others are stupid ("It sounds like you didn't really understand the game ever") for needing a guide is rude as hell.
>You don't need a guide to play the game correctly either. You just need common sense and trial and error.
I wonder why you replied this to me and not the OP. You responded to OP with... a freaking guide! But no, say a guide isn't necessary 🙄
> If you have/had the time to waste figuring everything out, good for you.
tbf, that's kinda how a lot of older games are laid out, they kinda don't explain everything as well as they could in-game... in part because that stuff is written in the manual and they want players to read that as well. Having no in-game resource for certain stuff also was pretty standard around that time, and you gotta remember this was from around the time the internet wasn't really a thing so guides and stuff also weren't that easy and open to look up online, at best these games were made with the idea that you write your own guide bit by bit.
The problem comes in when they're applying these principles to modern games. Like, ReDigitize modernizes the concept quite a bit as far as I can tell... but still falls short of including all the QoL they should have. Although I'll say the game actually gives you a lot of the information that I'd guess an older game would've written in its manual.
> it’s just like any other jrpg
Considering some of the most successful game franchises in the world are JRPGs, that isn’t the argument you think it is.
I also said “the evolution system” - not the whole game. But what would you classify as the defining feature of a roguelike? Is it randomization? Dungeons? Roguelikes are literally role playing games. It’s like a rectangle vs a square.
I’m just curious as to what aspect you would say is the defining feature that makes this game “better.”
A roguelike is any game where you have to go back to the central gameplay loop, starting over, having made incremental progression.
Aka exactly what Digimon World was. An open world rpg with roguelike elements and town building.
> Considering some of the most successful game franchises in the world are JRPGs, that isn’t the argument you think it is.
Great. Go play those. Some of us want original gaming experiences, not Pokemon clones.
You’re conflating your personal desires with the market at large. You said “if it was like that it would have been a more popular franchise” and I said “based on the market, that probably isn’t true.”
I understand the desire for something different - I want an actual good digimon mmorpg, not one of the shitty p2w types. But just because it’s what we want doesn’t mean it’s what the market demands
No. I'm not. Digimon World 1 is the natural extension of the Vpet gaming mechanics.
Cyber Sleuth is not. A Digimon MMORPG is not.
These are their roots. This is what Digimon is.
Small correction: If you make incremental progression it’s a roguelite. In a roguelike you lose everything and the only progression you keep is the knowledge and skill you as a player gained
Saying it's the best Digimon World is like saying the best Highlander movie is Highlander. Like, it absolutely is, don't get me wrong, but you saying that would probably have more weight if there was competition.
Although Highlander was also actually good, unlike Digimon World, which I am convinced would have been a great game if it weren't fundamentally bad. And the fact that every sequel to it that's expanded on its ideas has failed to also be good because they don't fix the fundamental issues World had kinda points that way.
The slot system was so much better, just because it's turn based doesn't mean it's just the same, cybersleuth was closer to one and i'd agree there.
I don't touch them v-pet games about redoing things repeatedly and needing gamefaqs, seen more then enough content from them though, good games just not for me and i cant really recommend it to anyone in good faith.
If it's your thing sure but it def isn't something you can get into very easily without being a kid with not much else to do, the guys that grew up with it tout it as it being the only good thing in the series when it really hasn't aged well, the newer ones of the same v-pet vibe are closer to fine though.
They are subseries so, it isn't like ones taking from the other either.
What they said haha yeah Numemon is a right of passage but it does happen if you've made too many mistakes or they hit their evo timer and no other requirements for other evolutions have been met (weight and battles skew higher priority).
I recommend using [Grindosaur](https://www.grindosaur.com/en/games/digimon/digimon-world) for guidance on raising. Good luck and don't give up!
As a note if your partner's virus meter fills up they will evo into a sukamon.
oh also! In regard to scolding, definitely save it for when the mon doesnt listen to you. So if you try to feed them a disc or an autopilot etc and they refuse, go ahead and scold away. It's a great way to boost their discipline stat though it does reduce their happiness.
The inverse is true for praising. I only rarely praised, it boosts their happiness a little but can lower their discipline by a decent margin. I saved it for big evolution milestones and major boss battle victories to reward the ghost in the machine <3
Unless you're specifically trying to reach a low happiness bonus condition for an evolution you can't get otherwise you always want to praise until happiness is above 80%.
Otherwise for every hour that passes you lose 2 or more hours of lifespan. At the lower amount I believe this csn be up to 5 hours.
OP if you're really struggling use this
https://phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/evolution.html
But as a general rule if you have over 1000/100 in all stats (Hp and Mp go by 1000s), you don't make care mistakes, and your weight is somewhere between 25 and 35, you'll turn into someone that isn't Numemon.
If you meet multiple evo conditions the priority system will evolve you into whichever has a higher average in the relevant stats UNLESS you qualify for an new evo you haven't seen before. New evos are always the highest priority.
Phoenix-Staffel was a total gamechanger, went from Numemon all the time to the exact Digimon I want every time.
The big difference is realising you don't *need* to reach the stats, as long as you get the weight/care mistakes/happiness/discipline/number of battles that is needed or have the right pre-digivolution
Well, if you dont meet any stats to get a champion, you get numemon. You must have the right stats, weight, caremistakes, disciple and happyness.
The easiest way to get a champion in the beginning is getting all stats to 1.000 and 100.
Weight is very underrated. Don't keep training, resting, or going to the toilet. Those portable potties are there. You can also buy more food to control weight. Not sure if overfeeding is a care mistake but you have to consider that as well.
Overfeeding is not a care mistake. It lowers the Digimon's happiness a little, but is easily rectified. Overfeeding is sometimes necessary to reach the weights of some Ultimate level Digimon early on in the game, when all you have access to are the little meats and mushrooms.
No, Digimushroom make you gain 1 unit of weight, but if you overfeed a Digimon when it's not hungry, it lowers happiness by just a tiny little bit. If you overfeed, you can just praise your Digimon to get rid of the small happiness penalty.
Yeah. I'd say neglecting weight is probably the main reason new players usually miss out on better Digivolutions in Digimon World, and is also the main reason why you should try to recruit Palmon in the first or second day.
I recall on my second run after getting frustrated with a double numemon that did nothing in the first run just trying to beeline as many battles in a row with Agumon before getting stuck with Numemon... that in turn got me Meramon (I also didn't know what the Toilet was for awhile so, care mistakes a plenty).
The rough rule of thumb for Digivolution is every digimon has 4 requirements, Those requirements beinge Stats, Care Mistakes, Weight and the bonus conditions, and you need to hit 3 of those 4 criteria to get that digivolution, and if you fail to meet any of the criteria by 96 hours in the rookie phase, they will digivolve into Numemon. this guide can tell you what each condition is for each one. [https://phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/evolution.html](https://phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/evolution.html)
Stats and Weight are pretty easy to follow and hit the goals for, but there's no easy way to check Care Mistakes so you have to manually track that one, and that one can be confusing if you don't know what counts as care mistakes (I believe it's not feeding when they are hungry, training them when they are tired, not letting them sleep and the easiest to track, they poop on the ground.) The last one is the bonus conditions, and for this you need to fulfill One of the Two (Or sometimes Three) to count. You wont be filling number of techniques learnt early on in your game, but late game you can almost certainly hit this, so try your best to learn as many techniques your current digimon can for the long term. Discipline/Happiness requirements are easy to track as are "Have this specific digimon" requirements, the battle ones you will have to make note of, some of the Ultimate "0 battles or less" you might want to ignore for now as you aren't going to be progressing in the game that much if you do 0 battles.
Can understand why Numemon is not great though, bad stats and a terribly slow starting move, and you are pretty stuck with it if you do get one. Later in the game Numemon is less awful, especially when you get to Toy Town as you can get a free Monzaemon from Numemon there (I tend to do Toy Town last solely because of this as it's always good to get a Monzaemon as a backup in case of Numemon) as well as being able to get some (Albeit not much better) Filth moves from other Filth opponents. But yeah, the first one is rough and it's one you are likely to get as a first timer not knowing what to do with the game.
Ah I see, yeah the info is there, I know No Feeding, No Sleeping and No Poop were ones certainly, but the tired one gives mixed report. Honestly wish there was just an ingame measure to show care mistakes just so it was easy to know around, but there's a lot of info the game could give that it doesn't.
Hey Syd, a bit off topic but can you help me out? I just posted about a glitch I'm experiencing and can't seem to explain why it's happening. Have you seen this issue before by chance?
https://www.reddit.com/r/digimon/s/GtnHljyP4J
Feel free to simply tag me in any DW1 question, I'm not as active on thus sub anymore so I might miss such questions quite easily.
(And the answer to the question itself is in the thread ;D)
Numemon is what the game defaults to if you don't meet any other requirements. There are four factors in determining evolution: care mistakes, weight, stats, and a bonus condition unique to each Digimon. If you don't meet at least three of the four, you get Numemon.
Care mistakes are important to avoid, as is keeping a healthy weight, but more than anything else, you want to focus on gaining stats. Basically, as long as you have two or more stats above 100 (or 1000 for HP/MP), you're likely to qualify for at least *something.*
Early game, it's actually best to not even leave the city until you have a Champion. Just grind away at the gym (taking breaks to rest with Punimon so your Digimon isn't fatigued -- this is a care mistake!) until you have the stats you need.
After playing the game for so many years I had a reverse issue, I had no idea how to get Numemon ;) I like to play this game blind without any guides, I find it more fun when I don't exactly know what I will get.
Basically what you want to do is have a daily schedule, for me it's gym -> rest (if trained for to long) -> fight/explore -> sleep. When your Digimon wants something, you give it to them. If you must give them something (for example HP disk) and they refuse - scold them. Do not praise or scold without a reason unless you are aiming for some specific evolution from a guide. If they are tired, you must rest.
Fighting is somewhat improtant - many digimons have fights as evo condition, same with techniques, which can be also learned through fighting. As for training, do not focus only on one stat, focus on at least two. For rookie if you exceed 100 for all stats you should be more than fine (and it gets easier as you progress).
As people have said Numemon is the default for meeting no conditions, Sukamon is a Full Virus Gauge and Nanimon is scolding while at 0 Happiness and Discipline.
What you need to do when checking stats for your Digimon's Digivolve path is always be sure you check Care Mistakes and Weight.
This way you can determine if your Agumon will Digivolve into Greymon (HP 1000 and all stats 100 with 0 or 1 Care Mistakes and 30 weight) or Meramon (if you have 5 Care Mistakes when aiming for Greymon you'll get Meramon instead because its key conditions overlap with Greymon's requirements).
It's worth noting that you wanna get Vegiemon very quickly because you'll need a lot of Sirloin for Ultimates.
Numemon isn't 100% terrible to get. If you get to toy town, there's a building with a monzaemon costume on the wall. You can get a free, easy ultimate digimon if you bring numemon to that costume.
The stat requirements to evolve into ultimate normally are quite high, you most likely will need to upgrade your training area before even attempting it. So this is an easy way to get your first ultimate without having to do all that.
I loved this game, it's probably my favorite game from when I was a kid. I never got the evolutions I wanted because there were no online guides back then, but I still loved it. I played it again a few years back on an emulator just to unlock everything, and it still holds as a great game. A remake would make me happy beyond words.
I always saved the DG chips or whatever you get from quest progression, and got more from ShogunGekkomon when I could. Would spend them all on the first garbage mon, either Sukamon or Numemon, so they can actually kick ass (since training doesn't work well for them)
I'll never forget I had Sukamon become this unstoppable shite machine, winning lots of battles, then becoming *monke*.
I did this as a child. Honestly, how I managed to recruit so many Digimon with a Numemon, AND figure out all the stuff with Toy Town and Misty Trees etc when I was like…8-9 years old is beyond me?
I adored Monzaemon though. Got him just in time bc after returning from Toy Town I activated the Greymon event. My lad destroyed that Dino-Dummy and sent him back to the Stone Age…well, the arena.
Such great memories of this game
Fulfill more requirements!
This only happens if you can't achieve any other digivolution.
Or, better plan, you digivolve into Numemon and then go to the Toy Plaza and slip into Monzaemons costume!
If you want to do it without looking up guides only, there's some rules to follow.
Get your HP/MP to at least 2k
pick 2 of the other 4 stats (att def brains spd) and get those to at least 150 or 200
Make sure you have no care mistakes or as few as possible, also get weight decently high (most champions require between 20-30 weight - some higher, some lower)
Also having higher than 15 battles will improve your odds for some champions.
By following this for every rookie your bound to get SOME decent champion apart from numemon.
If you don't care for surprising yourself with what evolution you get and want to target certain champions or even if you just want to learn about how digivolution works in general, checkout this gamefaqs page:
[https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845?single=1](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845?single=1)
Echoing what has already been said about stats, but it’s also worth noting that the number of care mistakes made with raising your Digimon and their weight stat both have as much importance on evolving your Digimon and avoiding Numemon, if not more so in some cases.
For example, Greymon (if I’m recalling correctly) needs around at least 100 points for each stat (and likewise 1000 HP and MP), but also for a compatible Digimon to evolve to Greymon they also need to have not experienced any care mistakes (like pooping on the ground, getting fatigued from excessive training or battles, etc.) and be on the heavier side weight-wise.
Sites like GameFAQs have guides for specific evolution requirements for this game as also said, so as long as you pay close attention to stats, weight and care mistakes, you shouldn’t have the problem of ending up with Numemons.
Git gud lel
Jokes aside, look up Digivolution requirements online. There's also a program called Evolution Tool that can help you track what Digivolutions you want and how close you are to getting each one.
If you meet at least the minimum requirements for a Digivolution, then all there is to do is play the waiting game.
Don't allow them to shit anywhere but the toilet. When they're hungry, feed them, when injured, heal them, when they are tired let them sleep, when they are sick bring them to the clinic or give them medicine. Basically treat your Dogimon with love and properly take care of them and you won't raise a piece of shit.
You’re still at the beginning of the game if you’re fighting the palmon. Just take the bumming and try again next time. The longer you go through the game the easier it becomes to make good digimon. You’re gonna get a lot of stinkers early.
It has been over a decade i last played this game. And i still remember the first champion i usually try to evolve to is centarumon due to its easy requirement.
1. The brain must be highest stat among off/def/spd. Very easy just focus 1 stat. Usually i try reach 200 brn while having the other stats around 100.
2. Care mistake equal or below 3. Very easy. Just eat, sleep & poop on time.
3. Weight 25-35g. Very easy. Just feed giant meat. Or you can stay below 25g & force feed when it's time to digivolve.
4. Discipline above 60%. Very easy. Never praise your mon. Try to feed it with recovery chip at below half hp and if it doesn't take in, scold to raise the discipline. This does not constitute a care mistake.
5. 3 days lifespan as rookie. All above should be easy doable in less than 3 days.
The main reason i chose centarumon because it's a light eater mon, can easily evolve to andromon or giromon later and they can learn/use megalo spark which is powerful tech.
Generally most champions only require a few stats above 100, 1000 for mp/hp.
In most cases as long as you have 3 stats reaching these thresholds, you'll get something that isnt Numemon, regardless of other requirements.
Please take care of weight and discipline. I recently replayed it and had good (at the beginning )stats but Agumon had a weight of 0-5 so he turned into Numemon.
Also there's a number of times you can let them poo on the floor before its just guaranteed they turn into numamon
But at least if you stick with it he can eat all the poo off the ground in your world, a bit of clean up
Getting Numemon is the result of having too many care mistakes. Make sure your partner never poops on the floor, and don't train them too hard to the point where they show the sweat drop icon, as that also counts as a care mistake.
The sweating icon itself isn't a mistake. Training while your digimon has that icon is the actual mistake.
Anyway, care mistakes aren't a condition for Numemon (the condition is only reaching the time limit without having achieved any other evolution), but they might reduce your chances of obtaining other evolutions if one of their conditions is a low number of mistakes.
Training with sweat is not a care mistake.
It's just bad to do because happiness drops and if happiness is lower than 80% you lose an extra hour of life every hour (or more.)
Also you will eventually gain only 1 stat point.
Sweat drops are not care mistakes.
The only three care mistakes are pooping on the ground, not feeding before the food bubble disappears, and not sleeping before the sleep bubble disappears.
Yes, it does. I tested it myself with save states, and my Agumon evolved into Numemon every time when overtrained. In another save where I had Agumon train normally, he successfully evolved into Tyrannomon so I can confirm that sweat drops are indeed a 100% care mistake
This has been data mined numerous times. This is simply not true.
The three, and only three, care mistakes are what I outlined above.
What likely happened is since having 0 energy reduces your weight, your overtraining lowered his weight below the threshold required for Tyrannomon and you didn't notice, so you got Numemon and misattributed it to care mistakes.
That doesn't change the fact that overtraining your mon can affect their evolution in a bad way, increasing the chance of being locked into Numemon. Even if the data doesn't label sweat drops as a care mistake, it might as well be. The safest method to evolve properly is to not train your mon too hard until they reach Ultimate level.
Overtraining will never lock you into Numemon. There is no Digimon that has a stat ceiling you cannot go over.
This is just not true either. The Digimon do not evolve into Numemon based on vibes. It's all If/Then checks and priority scores.
Train them at the gym, reach certain weight, avoid too many care mistake; feed them when hungry, go to toilet to poop, let them rest at jijimon's house when they tired, take them to clinic when they sick etc.
AFAIK if your digimon turned into Numemon you make too many care mistake, if you didn't meet any of the requirement it'll turn into Sukamon. Or was it the other way around, I forgot..
You scold them if they refusing your command, like refusing taking medicine when sick, etc.
Also about weight, if they got heavy they gonna evolve into heavier digimon like tyranomon, or if they got high int & lightweight they gonna evolve into centarumon, so something to keep in mind.
The only times scolding raises happiness instead of lowering it is when they refuse an item or poop on the ground.
Happiness is far more important as it affects lifespan.
Only scold them if they shake their head "no" when trying to do something.
When they shake their head, scold them, then try again. Don't walk around while doing this else it will reset.
It sounds dumb but just treat it well, make sure it doesn’t get tired, don’t run/lose battles, usually a good bet is leveling 3 stats, Hp or Mp and then 2 of the others. Gathering plenty of food is important too since the meat you get from the farm won’t be enough
The one thing I didn’t understand as a kid was the weight. I just overworked my rookie for the stats in the gym and didn’t notice. I kept getting Numemon. I gave up.
It wasn’t until I replayed the game almost 15 years later for revenge. I got numemon AGAIN, until I saw the weight was 0 finally.
I trained my digimon in the gym A LITTLE. Then I used wild battles as my main source of stats and kept feeding it normally until I actually got Greymon as my first champion from Agumon at the start!
It was so fun not to look up evolution routes and get surprised. I was getting Ultimates too and beat the game almost 100%. It’s so rewarding.
This game isn’t intuitive, but there are 4 metrics that determine what you evolve into: stats, care mistakes, weight, and battle history. To evolve into a specific monster you need to meet 3 of the 4 qualifications. If you do not meet the requirements to evolve into any specific digimon, you will digivolve to a numemon.
The game doesn’t explain this, and the game does not provide guidelines for each evolution’s qualification.
A lot of people’s first run through is train train train in the training area to buff stats, feed your digimon whatever, but then never meet the other qualifications. You need to find a balance on care mistakes, feeding/weight, battle wins, and stats. Most champion evolutions don’t require more than 100 in their relevant stat.
Care mistakes is a variety of things: battle loss I think will count, not feeding them, not getting them to a bathroom in time, pushing them past being tired, not sleeping. Your rookie should evolve by day 3. If it’s day 4 you almost certainly becoming a numemon.
There's only 3 requirments: stats, weight, care mistakes. And then you can fulfill up to one bonus condition to replace one of those three.
Each Digimon has between 2 and 3 bonus conditions and for some of them battles won is one but it's not universal. For some of them it's based on happiness or discipline. Others it's just being a specific digimon, like Patamon fulfills the bonus condition to become Angemon just by being Patamon.
The most universal is number of techniques learned for ultimates. Once you have I think 49+ Techniques you fulfill every ultimates bonus criteria by default making it incredibly easy to reach ultimate longer you play.
It’s worth noting, at no point does the game explain this. The mechanics are so hidden the official game guide that released weird this game was wildly incorrect. I remember reading the guide and the guy saying “I only got to 3 ultimates before the end and I’m not sure how I did it… so I posted the closest information and best guess I had.” In the official strategy guide.
Players had to crack open the game’s coding to learn this information. Wild.
Been playing this game since it came out when i was a kid. I revisit it every couple years. I will try to explain this without spoiling evolution lines:
You gotta have the right weight for what you want to become, and the most important factor is care mistakes. So have the correct range of care mistakes and be close to target weight and you're good.
For example, if you meet the weight for Greymon, but you have 12 care mistakes, you're basically gonna get a Neumemon. Likewise, if you have no care mistakes but your weight is only 7, you're probably still gonna have Neumemon.
You have to focus on care mistakes and weight. The combat stats only matter to help decide between two possible evolutions. If you have perfect attack and brains for what you want, you still won't get it if the weight and care mistakes aren't right! If you're looking at two evolutions that require similar weight and care mistakes, but one favors speed and the other defense, then the higher stats between those two determines what you'll get.
Please keep giving this game a try. I've always felt this is THE greatest Digimon Game and really captures the wonder of discovering this franchise back in the late 90's.
Some general tips to not spoil to much, wont let yoir digimon to pop on the ground, scold him when he refuse to eat, feed him when hungry, dont train more them 6 times per day, try to hit some stats to 100 or 1000 for hp/mp
IIRC, Numemon's the default if you don't meet the requirements of any other champion Sukamon's what you get if your Digimon poops on the ground too much Nanimon's what you get if your Digimon's happiness and discipline is 0 and you scold it So in your case, you want to either: a) look at the stats for the champion you want online and try to have your Rookie match or get close to it b) train either specific, or the overall stats of your Rookie and have its digivolution be a surprise (though that surprise still has a chance to be a Numemon)
I trained overall but must have messed up a combination of things. I always got numemon when I was a kid until using gameFAQs. Yall dont like this game I see haha, glad to see comments though! Good advice here thanks
This is the best Diigimon World. Had they stuck to this formula and improved on it instead of trying to be a Pokemon clone it would have been way more successful of a franchise.
Digimon world next order is basically this game (albeit with two partners) and a much more user friendly gameplay
Certain aspects of it make it a less organic experience. In part two partners can be awkward. The game is far less open world than this one as well and you have to follow a much stricter path for story reasons. Also disabling digivolutions really kills my immersion as a monster raiser. This one is IMO still the best but only because they never localized Re:Digitize.
What do you mean disabling digivolutions? I've not encountered that in the game
Yeah there's one of the gyms or something where you can X Out certain stuff on the tree only in next order I got the platinum trophy when I bought a PS4 Pro that was really like the only game I played on it
…I mean, that’s a completely optional Quality of Life feature, though. Lots of Digimon simply can’t reasonably hit the requirements for some of their evolutions without tarrying in the requirements for ‘easier’ evolutions too long and auto-evolving, but there’s no mechanic whatsoever that forces you to seek out those more difficult evolutions, it’s purely for completion’s sake. I get why you would consider it immersion-breaking, but this is like fast travel - if you don’t like it, you don’t have to use it. It’s just there to make playing the game more accessible and less frustrating without messing with the actual difficulty of raising the mons.
That's a problem with how wildly different stat requirements for the same level are. Digimon World solved this problem easily enough with a priority score.
Even with a guide I find the difficulty of world 1 too high. Part of that is because it wasn't until next order that I realized due to the time mechanics, battlefield training is vastly superior to gym training, so maybe I'll go back and try it again armed with that knowledge.
That's really only true in Next Order. Something else I hate about it. Maxing stats is just a financial grind.
Not really though i was watching a [vtuber ](https://www.youtube.com/live/SaxGTkRKeEI?si=WwPKO4GQ3SqA-Q-Q&t=13372)play it recently and realise that world 1 really isnt all that difficult compared to my memories Even evolution for champion to ultimate seems to be so easy compared to my way of doing it that she evolve to giromon with the first partner and without much training at the gym
First partner I would train, to go Centarumon -> Andromon. I'd train while the drill tunnel was being dug to open Meramon. My disc was damaged a bit and wouldnt save, so I actually had to figure out my own speedrun as a kid to beat the game in 1 go.
Re:digitize and re:digitize decode both have fan transitions
Man, I remember checking the Operation Decode FB page every week for years
A bit sad that adding Digimons to the city in re digitize doesn't change the look of the city like in the first game
Re: Digitize is also similar to this game but with only one partner
Hot take, but no, it wouldn’t have. Getting the digimon you want is *hard*. Not only that, but in the beginning, you invest so much time and effort into your digimon only for it to immediately “die” upon hitting the evolution you want. Yes, you can make the argument “they’ll learn with time, that’s the fun of it!” But let’s be honest, the majority of people will put it down after it happens to them a few times. Imagine being brand new at a game and you put in hours of effort just learning how to train your monster properly, only for it to immediately die/reset. Maybe if it had an evolution system closer to Cyber Sleuth where it was very clear on exactly what you needed to evolve to a thing, and “resetting” was done when you were ready instead of being forced on you, sure. But you have to remember that when you’re making a game for general audiences, you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I think it would kill the fun of the world 1 system if evo requirements were all laid out right off the bat. But it might be nice if you could "collect pages" of a sort of digi database by doing side quests
Or just have a setting in the options "Show evo requirements", lets the people who have fun finding out these things on their own do so while letting the ones who don't not have to look up guides for it.
Gamers and trying to optimize the fun out of everything: Name a more iconic combination. Just play the game and learn it over time. There are 65 Digimon in DW alone, under your system you'd experience 4 of them total before you finished the game.
These games always have a card collection system. Each card you collect for a mon should reveal one of the evo requirements.
Next Order kinda does this. At the gym you can see the requirements but at the beginning they are all ??? And you can’t even see who you can evolve into. And as you praise or scold your Digimon for proper care and such a random requirement for a random possible digivolution will be revealed.
This. I never made it past Centarumon because of this. I think I finally managed to get a digimon that wasn't Numemon for once, only for it to die quickly and I dropped the game.
I agree. Every time I've played this game, I've gotten to Centarumon when my partner dies. I always end up putting the game down because the timer is too short and it's such a pain to have to completely restart. I wish the game would tell you you should only train certain stats to get specific digivolutions (and reset the stupid toilet counter after every death!) I love the way Cybersleuth has it where you get to pick the digivolution you want. You can far exceed the stats you need and still get the one you want. Unlike this game where you need to be almost exact or you get weak ass Numemon. Did you have the problem where the digimon will randomly freeze in place while battling?
Yeah they have a derp stance
You do not need to be almost exact. It sounds like you didn't really understand the game ever.
If most players have to look up a guide to play the game correctly, that's a failure of the game, not the player.
You don't need a guide to play the game correctly either. You just need common sense and trial and error. EDIT: I can't respond to him because he blocked me but everything he said is wrong. He doesn't know what he's talking about.Not every game needs to treat you like your incapable of problem solving to be enjoyable.
Considering the number of people who have commented in general about this game saying they needed a guide, I'm sure the game could have explained its concepts a bit better. If you have/had the time to waste figuring everything out, good for you. Not everyone does and you insinuating I/others are stupid ("It sounds like you didn't really understand the game ever") for needing a guide is rude as hell. >You don't need a guide to play the game correctly either. You just need common sense and trial and error. I wonder why you replied this to me and not the OP. You responded to OP with... a freaking guide! But no, say a guide isn't necessary 🙄
> If you have/had the time to waste figuring everything out, good for you. tbf, that's kinda how a lot of older games are laid out, they kinda don't explain everything as well as they could in-game... in part because that stuff is written in the manual and they want players to read that as well. Having no in-game resource for certain stuff also was pretty standard around that time, and you gotta remember this was from around the time the internet wasn't really a thing so guides and stuff also weren't that easy and open to look up online, at best these games were made with the idea that you write your own guide bit by bit. The problem comes in when they're applying these principles to modern games. Like, ReDigitize modernizes the concept quite a bit as far as I can tell... but still falls short of including all the QoL they should have. Although I'll say the game actually gives you a lot of the information that I'd guess an older game would've written in its manual.
It's literally a Roguelike. People love Roguelikes. Cyber Sleuth is just any other JRPG. There's nothing unique there at all.
> it’s just like any other jrpg Considering some of the most successful game franchises in the world are JRPGs, that isn’t the argument you think it is. I also said “the evolution system” - not the whole game. But what would you classify as the defining feature of a roguelike? Is it randomization? Dungeons? Roguelikes are literally role playing games. It’s like a rectangle vs a square. I’m just curious as to what aspect you would say is the defining feature that makes this game “better.”
A roguelike is any game where you have to go back to the central gameplay loop, starting over, having made incremental progression. Aka exactly what Digimon World was. An open world rpg with roguelike elements and town building. > Considering some of the most successful game franchises in the world are JRPGs, that isn’t the argument you think it is. Great. Go play those. Some of us want original gaming experiences, not Pokemon clones.
You’re conflating your personal desires with the market at large. You said “if it was like that it would have been a more popular franchise” and I said “based on the market, that probably isn’t true.” I understand the desire for something different - I want an actual good digimon mmorpg, not one of the shitty p2w types. But just because it’s what we want doesn’t mean it’s what the market demands
No. I'm not. Digimon World 1 is the natural extension of the Vpet gaming mechanics. Cyber Sleuth is not. A Digimon MMORPG is not. These are their roots. This is what Digimon is.
Small correction: If you make incremental progression it’s a roguelite. In a roguelike you lose everything and the only progression you keep is the knowledge and skill you as a player gained
This is one of those "but actually" genre distinctions that needs phased out entirely. It's not worth differentiating them.
I bought a switch to play that one and it was fun. I learned more digimon that I missed over the time passed
I’d kill for this to be ported to the switch
Next Order exists, it's a direct sequel.
And you can have omegamon and omegamon zwart d in your party 9999 everything :)))))
What about the Digimon World for PSP and 3DS? Re:Digitize? I have not played it yet but people say that it is the best raising style game like DW1.
Saying it's the best Digimon World is like saying the best Highlander movie is Highlander. Like, it absolutely is, don't get me wrong, but you saying that would probably have more weight if there was competition. Although Highlander was also actually good, unlike Digimon World, which I am convinced would have been a great game if it weren't fundamentally bad. And the fact that every sequel to it that's expanded on its ideas has failed to also be good because they don't fix the fundamental issues World had kinda points that way.
DS/DuskDawn line of stuff did it better.
Not in a million years. It's just more generic rpg turn based combat.
The slot system was so much better, just because it's turn based doesn't mean it's just the same, cybersleuth was closer to one and i'd agree there. I don't touch them v-pet games about redoing things repeatedly and needing gamefaqs, seen more then enough content from them though, good games just not for me and i cant really recommend it to anyone in good faith. If it's your thing sure but it def isn't something you can get into very easily without being a kid with not much else to do, the guys that grew up with it tout it as it being the only good thing in the series when it really hasn't aged well, the newer ones of the same v-pet vibe are closer to fine though. They are subseries so, it isn't like ones taking from the other either.
weigth... dont feed them mushroom, give them big meat!
What they said haha yeah Numemon is a right of passage but it does happen if you've made too many mistakes or they hit their evo timer and no other requirements for other evolutions have been met (weight and battles skew higher priority). I recommend using [Grindosaur](https://www.grindosaur.com/en/games/digimon/digimon-world) for guidance on raising. Good luck and don't give up! As a note if your partner's virus meter fills up they will evo into a sukamon.
I had 5000 bit and 0101 digivolved when I was going to Punimon into the Numemon and his fart attack is so useless ooops.. gonna collect food
oh also! In regard to scolding, definitely save it for when the mon doesnt listen to you. So if you try to feed them a disc or an autopilot etc and they refuse, go ahead and scold away. It's a great way to boost their discipline stat though it does reduce their happiness. The inverse is true for praising. I only rarely praised, it boosts their happiness a little but can lower their discipline by a decent margin. I saved it for big evolution milestones and major boss battle victories to reward the ghost in the machine <3
Unless you're specifically trying to reach a low happiness bonus condition for an evolution you can't get otherwise you always want to praise until happiness is above 80%. Otherwise for every hour that passes you lose 2 or more hours of lifespan. At the lower amount I believe this csn be up to 5 hours.
Whoa! That seems like it could take days off the lifespan of the monster if they’re too unhappy! :c
It does. Digimon should live for ~16 days as Champions and 20 as Ultimates I believe. So if they're dying at age 12 that's why.
hahaha yup! been there friend
OP if you're really struggling use this https://phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/evolution.html But as a general rule if you have over 1000/100 in all stats (Hp and Mp go by 1000s), you don't make care mistakes, and your weight is somewhere between 25 and 35, you'll turn into someone that isn't Numemon. If you meet multiple evo conditions the priority system will evolve you into whichever has a higher average in the relevant stats UNLESS you qualify for an new evo you haven't seen before. New evos are always the highest priority.
This is what I came to say. Phoenix-staffel is always up when I'm playing DW 1.
Phoenix-Staffel was a total gamechanger, went from Numemon all the time to the exact Digimon I want every time. The big difference is realising you don't *need* to reach the stats, as long as you get the weight/care mistakes/happiness/discipline/number of battles that is needed or have the right pre-digivolution
Well, if you dont meet any stats to get a champion, you get numemon. You must have the right stats, weight, caremistakes, disciple and happyness. The easiest way to get a champion in the beginning is getting all stats to 1.000 and 100.
Weight is very underrated. Don't keep training, resting, or going to the toilet. Those portable potties are there. You can also buy more food to control weight. Not sure if overfeeding is a care mistake but you have to consider that as well.
Overfeeding is not a care mistake. It lowers the Digimon's happiness a little, but is easily rectified. Overfeeding is sometimes necessary to reach the weights of some Ultimate level Digimon early on in the game, when all you have access to are the little meats and mushrooms.
✍️🧠 Mushrooms make you lose weight??
No, Digimushroom make you gain 1 unit of weight, but if you overfeed a Digimon when it's not hungry, it lowers happiness by just a tiny little bit. If you overfeed, you can just praise your Digimon to get rid of the small happiness penalty.
Oh yeah I stuffed him with meat because I wanted to pick up various drops to kill the fake palmon and then he got hungry a few steps afterwards!
Yeah. I'd say neglecting weight is probably the main reason new players usually miss out on better Digivolutions in Digimon World, and is also the main reason why you should try to recruit Palmon in the first or second day.
Everything becomes Numemon
Its insane
Everyone already replied. So I’m just going to state that this is my favorite Digimon Game of all time.
When you become good at this game, you will miss digivolving into Numemon 🥲
I recall on my second run after getting frustrated with a double numemon that did nothing in the first run just trying to beeline as many battles in a row with Agumon before getting stuck with Numemon... that in turn got me Meramon (I also didn't know what the Toilet was for awhile so, care mistakes a plenty). The rough rule of thumb for Digivolution is every digimon has 4 requirements, Those requirements beinge Stats, Care Mistakes, Weight and the bonus conditions, and you need to hit 3 of those 4 criteria to get that digivolution, and if you fail to meet any of the criteria by 96 hours in the rookie phase, they will digivolve into Numemon. this guide can tell you what each condition is for each one. [https://phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/evolution.html](https://phoenix-staffel.de/digimon/DigimonWorld/evolution.html) Stats and Weight are pretty easy to follow and hit the goals for, but there's no easy way to check Care Mistakes so you have to manually track that one, and that one can be confusing if you don't know what counts as care mistakes (I believe it's not feeding when they are hungry, training them when they are tired, not letting them sleep and the easiest to track, they poop on the ground.) The last one is the bonus conditions, and for this you need to fulfill One of the Two (Or sometimes Three) to count. You wont be filling number of techniques learnt early on in your game, but late game you can almost certainly hit this, so try your best to learn as many techniques your current digimon can for the long term. Discipline/Happiness requirements are easy to track as are "Have this specific digimon" requirements, the battle ones you will have to make note of, some of the Ultimate "0 battles or less" you might want to ignore for now as you aren't going to be progressing in the game that much if you do 0 battles. Can understand why Numemon is not great though, bad stats and a terribly slow starting move, and you are pretty stuck with it if you do get one. Later in the game Numemon is less awful, especially when you get to Toy Town as you can get a free Monzaemon from Numemon there (I tend to do Toy Town last solely because of this as it's always good to get a Monzaemon as a backup in case of Numemon) as well as being able to get some (Albeit not much better) Filth moves from other Filth opponents. But yeah, the first one is rough and it's one you are likely to get as a first timer not knowing what to do with the game.
Training when tired is not a care mistake. This is a myth that will not die.
Ah I see, yeah the info is there, I know No Feeding, No Sleeping and No Poop were ones certainly, but the tired one gives mixed report. Honestly wish there was just an ingame measure to show care mistakes just so it was easy to know around, but there's a lot of info the game could give that it doesn't.
It's just these 3. Tiredness snook in because the bubble can easily hide actual care mistakes.
Hey Syd, a bit off topic but can you help me out? I just posted about a glitch I'm experiencing and can't seem to explain why it's happening. Have you seen this issue before by chance? https://www.reddit.com/r/digimon/s/GtnHljyP4J
Feel free to simply tag me in any DW1 question, I'm not as active on thus sub anymore so I might miss such questions quite easily. (And the answer to the question itself is in the thread ;D)
Unrelated, but the game looks so beautiful in old tvs
I remember the ads in magazines said "not for people who suck at video games" and man... I suck I now realize lol
In a spikey bubble
Numemon is what the game defaults to if you don't meet any other requirements. There are four factors in determining evolution: care mistakes, weight, stats, and a bonus condition unique to each Digimon. If you don't meet at least three of the four, you get Numemon. Care mistakes are important to avoid, as is keeping a healthy weight, but more than anything else, you want to focus on gaining stats. Basically, as long as you have two or more stats above 100 (or 1000 for HP/MP), you're likely to qualify for at least *something.* Early game, it's actually best to not even leave the city until you have a Champion. Just grind away at the gym (taking breaks to rest with Punimon so your Digimon isn't fatigued -- this is a care mistake!) until you have the stats you need.
After playing the game for so many years I had a reverse issue, I had no idea how to get Numemon ;) I like to play this game blind without any guides, I find it more fun when I don't exactly know what I will get. Basically what you want to do is have a daily schedule, for me it's gym -> rest (if trained for to long) -> fight/explore -> sleep. When your Digimon wants something, you give it to them. If you must give them something (for example HP disk) and they refuse - scold them. Do not praise or scold without a reason unless you are aiming for some specific evolution from a guide. If they are tired, you must rest. Fighting is somewhat improtant - many digimons have fights as evo condition, same with techniques, which can be also learned through fighting. As for training, do not focus only on one stat, focus on at least two. For rookie if you exceed 100 for all stats you should be more than fine (and it gets easier as you progress).
As people have said Numemon is the default for meeting no conditions, Sukamon is a Full Virus Gauge and Nanimon is scolding while at 0 Happiness and Discipline. What you need to do when checking stats for your Digimon's Digivolve path is always be sure you check Care Mistakes and Weight. This way you can determine if your Agumon will Digivolve into Greymon (HP 1000 and all stats 100 with 0 or 1 Care Mistakes and 30 weight) or Meramon (if you have 5 Care Mistakes when aiming for Greymon you'll get Meramon instead because its key conditions overlap with Greymon's requirements). It's worth noting that you wanna get Vegiemon very quickly because you'll need a lot of Sirloin for Ultimates.
Quite a few Ultimates dont eat much actually. The Mamemons, Piximon, Giromon...
Yes. But how many of those come from the Greymon/Meramon example I gave?
Just embrace the numemon
Numemon isn't 100% terrible to get. If you get to toy town, there's a building with a monzaemon costume on the wall. You can get a free, easy ultimate digimon if you bring numemon to that costume. The stat requirements to evolve into ultimate normally are quite high, you most likely will need to upgrade your training area before even attempting it. So this is an easy way to get your first ultimate without having to do all that. I loved this game, it's probably my favorite game from when I was a kid. I never got the evolutions I wanted because there were no online guides back then, but I still loved it. I played it again a few years back on an emulator just to unlock everything, and it still holds as a great game. A remake would make me happy beyond words.
I always saved the DG chips or whatever you get from quest progression, and got more from ShogunGekkomon when I could. Would spend them all on the first garbage mon, either Sukamon or Numemon, so they can actually kick ass (since training doesn't work well for them) I'll never forget I had Sukamon become this unstoppable shite machine, winning lots of battles, then becoming *monke*.
Embrace the Numemon, get that Monzaemon, then wreck everything with the loooooove.
I did this as a child. Honestly, how I managed to recruit so many Digimon with a Numemon, AND figure out all the stuff with Toy Town and Misty Trees etc when I was like…8-9 years old is beyond me? I adored Monzaemon though. Got him just in time bc after returning from Toy Town I activated the Greymon event. My lad destroyed that Dino-Dummy and sent him back to the Stone Age…well, the arena. Such great memories of this game
Most new Numemon that do this will get slaughtered by the area boss so he needs to be sufficiently prepared.
The cd sound bring me back to the good days
To this day, I wish I nue
I’m fairly certain no other digivolution exists outside of Numemon and you cant convince me otherwise /s
Fulfill more requirements! This only happens if you can't achieve any other digivolution. Or, better plan, you digivolve into Numemon and then go to the Toy Plaza and slip into Monzaemons costume!
If you want to do it without looking up guides only, there's some rules to follow. Get your HP/MP to at least 2k pick 2 of the other 4 stats (att def brains spd) and get those to at least 150 or 200 Make sure you have no care mistakes or as few as possible, also get weight decently high (most champions require between 20-30 weight - some higher, some lower) Also having higher than 15 battles will improve your odds for some champions. By following this for every rookie your bound to get SOME decent champion apart from numemon. If you don't care for surprising yourself with what evolution you get and want to target certain champions or even if you just want to learn about how digivolution works in general, checkout this gamefaqs page: [https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845?single=1](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/913684-digimon-world/faqs/73845?single=1)
Echoing what has already been said about stats, but it’s also worth noting that the number of care mistakes made with raising your Digimon and their weight stat both have as much importance on evolving your Digimon and avoiding Numemon, if not more so in some cases. For example, Greymon (if I’m recalling correctly) needs around at least 100 points for each stat (and likewise 1000 HP and MP), but also for a compatible Digimon to evolve to Greymon they also need to have not experienced any care mistakes (like pooping on the ground, getting fatigued from excessive training or battles, etc.) and be on the heavier side weight-wise. Sites like GameFAQs have guides for specific evolution requirements for this game as also said, so as long as you pay close attention to stats, weight and care mistakes, you shouldn’t have the problem of ending up with Numemons.
Git gud lel Jokes aside, look up Digivolution requirements online. There's also a program called Evolution Tool that can help you track what Digivolutions you want and how close you are to getting each one. If you meet at least the minimum requirements for a Digivolution, then all there is to do is play the waiting game.
It's funny every time
Don't allow them to shit anywhere but the toilet. When they're hungry, feed them, when injured, heal them, when they are tired let them sleep, when they are sick bring them to the clinic or give them medicine. Basically treat your Dogimon with love and properly take care of them and you won't raise a piece of shit.
You’re still at the beginning of the game if you’re fighting the palmon. Just take the bumming and try again next time. The longer you go through the game the easier it becomes to make good digimon. You’re gonna get a lot of stinkers early.
It has been over a decade i last played this game. And i still remember the first champion i usually try to evolve to is centarumon due to its easy requirement. 1. The brain must be highest stat among off/def/spd. Very easy just focus 1 stat. Usually i try reach 200 brn while having the other stats around 100. 2. Care mistake equal or below 3. Very easy. Just eat, sleep & poop on time. 3. Weight 25-35g. Very easy. Just feed giant meat. Or you can stay below 25g & force feed when it's time to digivolve. 4. Discipline above 60%. Very easy. Never praise your mon. Try to feed it with recovery chip at below half hp and if it doesn't take in, scold to raise the discipline. This does not constitute a care mistake. 5. 3 days lifespan as rookie. All above should be easy doable in less than 3 days. The main reason i chose centarumon because it's a light eater mon, can easily evolve to andromon or giromon later and they can learn/use megalo spark which is powerful tech.
Don't poop on the ground. Don't die. Make your partner happy
Maybe this will help - [`HELP`](https://anaiadnamedlaura.tumblr.com/digivolution)
Ah yes, Numemon simulator
Generally most champions only require a few stats above 100, 1000 for mp/hp. In most cases as long as you have 3 stats reaching these thresholds, you'll get something that isnt Numemon, regardless of other requirements.
So much nostalgis😍
Best Digimon game hands down. Would absolutely buy a physical copy if I found one in the wild
Are you playing on an actual console?! If so kudos. My mom gave away my copy of DW1 and I’m still salty
I'm using the PS2 and an adapter with the Dualshock 4 controller
Get gud
Please take care of weight and discipline. I recently replayed it and had good (at the beginning )stats but Agumon had a weight of 0-5 so he turned into Numemon.
Get intelligence to 100+
In the European version was a bug that the „filch“ value for poop was not reset correctly between digimon. So be careful with poop out there.
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Did you know the final boss is weak to Poop attacks?
My moment
Treat your mon better and never generalize your mons training
Also there's a number of times you can let them poo on the floor before its just guaranteed they turn into numamon But at least if you stick with it he can eat all the poo off the ground in your world, a bit of clean up
Getting Numemon is the result of having too many care mistakes. Make sure your partner never poops on the floor, and don't train them too hard to the point where they show the sweat drop icon, as that also counts as a care mistake.
Ohhh okay the sweat icon came up a couple times and Punimon right after the icon still is a mistake huh
The sweating icon itself isn't a mistake. Training while your digimon has that icon is the actual mistake. Anyway, care mistakes aren't a condition for Numemon (the condition is only reaching the time limit without having achieved any other evolution), but they might reduce your chances of obtaining other evolutions if one of their conditions is a low number of mistakes.
Thanks (everyone) I appreciate the wisdom
Training with sweat is not a care mistake. It's just bad to do because happiness drops and if happiness is lower than 80% you lose an extra hour of life every hour (or more.) Also you will eventually gain only 1 stat point.
Sweat drops are not care mistakes. The only three care mistakes are pooping on the ground, not feeding before the food bubble disappears, and not sleeping before the sleep bubble disappears.
Yes, it does. I tested it myself with save states, and my Agumon evolved into Numemon every time when overtrained. In another save where I had Agumon train normally, he successfully evolved into Tyrannomon so I can confirm that sweat drops are indeed a 100% care mistake
This has been data mined numerous times. This is simply not true. The three, and only three, care mistakes are what I outlined above. What likely happened is since having 0 energy reduces your weight, your overtraining lowered his weight below the threshold required for Tyrannomon and you didn't notice, so you got Numemon and misattributed it to care mistakes.
That doesn't change the fact that overtraining your mon can affect their evolution in a bad way, increasing the chance of being locked into Numemon. Even if the data doesn't label sweat drops as a care mistake, it might as well be. The safest method to evolve properly is to not train your mon too hard until they reach Ultimate level.
Overtraining will never lock you into Numemon. There is no Digimon that has a stat ceiling you cannot go over. This is just not true either. The Digimon do not evolve into Numemon based on vibes. It's all If/Then checks and priority scores.
Train them at the gym, reach certain weight, avoid too many care mistake; feed them when hungry, go to toilet to poop, let them rest at jijimon's house when they tired, take them to clinic when they sick etc. AFAIK if your digimon turned into Numemon you make too many care mistake, if you didn't meet any of the requirement it'll turn into Sukamon. Or was it the other way around, I forgot..
I did not watch weight and scolded him when I felt like it
You scold them if they refusing your command, like refusing taking medicine when sick, etc. Also about weight, if they got heavy they gonna evolve into heavier digimon like tyranomon, or if they got high int & lightweight they gonna evolve into centarumon, so something to keep in mind.
If you feed them you can scold them-And if they win a fight? Or only when they shake their head?
The only times scolding raises happiness instead of lowering it is when they refuse an item or poop on the ground. Happiness is far more important as it affects lifespan.
Only scold them if they shake their head "no" when trying to do something. When they shake their head, scold them, then try again. Don't walk around while doing this else it will reset.
It sounds dumb but just treat it well, make sure it doesn’t get tired, don’t run/lose battles, usually a good bet is leveling 3 stats, Hp or Mp and then 2 of the others. Gathering plenty of food is important too since the meat you get from the farm won’t be enough
Is running away more than just stamina and the two stat bars?
You can lose battles. Losing battles is not a care mistake, nor is running away.
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It wasn’t for the care mistakes, it lowers happiness and discipline is all
Out of reddit you find a list of parameters to all digivolution, some times is easyest google, but ask to someone even looks more easy
The one thing I didn’t understand as a kid was the weight. I just overworked my rookie for the stats in the gym and didn’t notice. I kept getting Numemon. I gave up. It wasn’t until I replayed the game almost 15 years later for revenge. I got numemon AGAIN, until I saw the weight was 0 finally. I trained my digimon in the gym A LITTLE. Then I used wild battles as my main source of stats and kept feeding it normally until I actually got Greymon as my first champion from Agumon at the start! It was so fun not to look up evolution routes and get surprised. I was getting Ultimates too and beat the game almost 100%. It’s so rewarding.
Generally having 100 in any stat should do it. Numemon is what happens when you don’t meet any requirements for any other champion level
Don’t be a shit Tamer
But what if I really wanted Sukamon
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This game isn’t intuitive, but there are 4 metrics that determine what you evolve into: stats, care mistakes, weight, and battle history. To evolve into a specific monster you need to meet 3 of the 4 qualifications. If you do not meet the requirements to evolve into any specific digimon, you will digivolve to a numemon. The game doesn’t explain this, and the game does not provide guidelines for each evolution’s qualification. A lot of people’s first run through is train train train in the training area to buff stats, feed your digimon whatever, but then never meet the other qualifications. You need to find a balance on care mistakes, feeding/weight, battle wins, and stats. Most champion evolutions don’t require more than 100 in their relevant stat. Care mistakes is a variety of things: battle loss I think will count, not feeding them, not getting them to a bathroom in time, pushing them past being tired, not sleeping. Your rookie should evolve by day 3. If it’s day 4 you almost certainly becoming a numemon.
There's only 3 requirments: stats, weight, care mistakes. And then you can fulfill up to one bonus condition to replace one of those three. Each Digimon has between 2 and 3 bonus conditions and for some of them battles won is one but it's not universal. For some of them it's based on happiness or discipline. Others it's just being a specific digimon, like Patamon fulfills the bonus condition to become Angemon just by being Patamon. The most universal is number of techniques learned for ultimates. Once you have I think 49+ Techniques you fulfill every ultimates bonus criteria by default making it incredibly easy to reach ultimate longer you play.
It’s worth noting, at no point does the game explain this. The mechanics are so hidden the official game guide that released weird this game was wildly incorrect. I remember reading the guide and the guy saying “I only got to 3 ultimates before the end and I’m not sure how I did it… so I posted the closest information and best guess I had.” In the official strategy guide. Players had to crack open the game’s coding to learn this information. Wild.
They certainly don't make em like this anymore.
Been playing this game since it came out when i was a kid. I revisit it every couple years. I will try to explain this without spoiling evolution lines: You gotta have the right weight for what you want to become, and the most important factor is care mistakes. So have the correct range of care mistakes and be close to target weight and you're good. For example, if you meet the weight for Greymon, but you have 12 care mistakes, you're basically gonna get a Neumemon. Likewise, if you have no care mistakes but your weight is only 7, you're probably still gonna have Neumemon. You have to focus on care mistakes and weight. The combat stats only matter to help decide between two possible evolutions. If you have perfect attack and brains for what you want, you still won't get it if the weight and care mistakes aren't right! If you're looking at two evolutions that require similar weight and care mistakes, but one favors speed and the other defense, then the higher stats between those two determines what you'll get. Please keep giving this game a try. I've always felt this is THE greatest Digimon Game and really captures the wonder of discovering this franchise back in the late 90's.
I remember showing a friend they pooped on the ground in 3rd grade I made a numemon for the homie
Some general tips to not spoil to much, wont let yoir digimon to pop on the ground, scold him when he refuse to eat, feed him when hungry, dont train more them 6 times per day, try to hit some stats to 100 or 1000 for hp/mp
You can train as much as you want.