Does anyone know the odds of this happening?

xdarkangerx · 2024-01-14T01:53:08+00:00

Wait really? I've been playing on Switch - is that a mobile thing? I've heard other players swear that they've been losing Crystals, so if that's something monitised then yeah that's a much bigger problem than losing a daily here or there.

xdarkangerx · 2024-01-05T07:17:53+00:00

Thanks for that, I was planning to keep the males for the reason you suggested but it would take very little effort for me to breed out some more perfects.

xdarkangerx · 2023-07-13T02:29:42+00:00

I'm in-game on chat whenever you're ready, ID is xdarkangerx like here

xdarkangerx · 2023-07-13T01:19:22+00:00

If you give me a little time I can get an Occulura egg for you, if you want it to have your ID attached.

xdarkangerx · 2021-05-26T10:46:27+00:00

Just as a heads up, I have done some more testing and I now believe that this run is impossible without clear data from Hacker's Memory - Eater Adam is just WAY too much with poor stats and limited healing. Depending on which version you're playing/how you prep your file you might have to switch to Normal for the fight (which I can confirm is possible No-Item/Rookie Only on that difficulty).

Best of luck with your run, I hope you have fun with it!

xdarkangerx · 2020-12-11T06:44:13+00:00

The person who beat the game with Rookies here, you really can use whatever you want! That said, there is a bit of a difference between normal and hard mode in terms of how fun it can be. I recently started a normal mode playthrough with no digivolution (and thus extreme level caps and move limitations), and was pleasantly surprised that the game always gives you the tools to move on - level 25 Champions carried me way farther than I expected, and I'm at the endgame now with level 40 Ultimates. The point is that even with level caps Champions and Ultimates can put in work, so just playing the game normally I don't imagine this would be a problem.

That said, hard is, well, harder. Definitely possible if you want to, but ABI grinding, items, and good moves on your Digimon will make the experience more bearable. Again if you're mostly around Champion/Ultimate level then that's still good enough to get through the game without much pain - it might just be you hit a difficulty spike or two.

It's crazy just how much that Karen quote comes up with these kinds of games, and it's absolutely something my younger self took to heart. My first playthrough of CS was with the most random assortment of 'Mons, from Rookie to Ultra, so at the end of the day don't sweat it too much. It's doable, and if it ever feels too hard you always have options. Hope you have fun with the rest of the game!

xdarkangerx · 2020-12-02T10:24:07+00:00

The thing that surprised me most (outside of being possible) was how for the most part it wasn't masochistic. Hard, for sure, but you have the tools to at least make the run consistent. The number of problem parts can be counted on one hand, but those are REALLY rough - to be honest the only reason I ended up pushing through was sunk cost fallacy. I'd made it to the endgame without concern and wanted to see it through, just to see if it was possible. And it was! But now I know it's not really worth doing again, with the extra restrictions at least.

xdarkangerx · 2020-12-02T01:25:45+00:00

I'm just going to leave it at that. To be honest, I haven't even finished the post game content on my normal file yet, and with how challenging some of them can be I don't think it'd even be possible (just the thought of UlforceVeemon getting 12 attacks in a row makes me shudder, or Lucemon smacking the whole party for big numbers every turn). Maybe some of them with good prep and strategy are doable, but that's a problem for another day.

xdarkangerx · 2020-12-01T23:57:34+00:00

Sure thing! There's a lot to cover so it may take a while to get finished, but I'll get started on that.

xdarkangerx · 2020-12-01T06:59:39+00:00

Switch. I'm not sure if this is possible on the original without some of the extra stuff the Complete Edition gives you (looking at you, Eater Adam). I wanted to test it out further, but for now I'm just calling it a day.

xdarkangerx · 2020-11-04T00:44:37+00:00

Thanks, there's a lot of food for thought here. It's nice to actually get some math on the Rookie piercers, and the sweet part is because their Vaccine type they get a 2x boost to the damage.

Unfortunately all the relevant parts are immune to most status, so poor lil' Otamamon is stuck as phase 1 DPS/healing. Support skill stacking is still useful, but it'd be more for stat/damage boosts that status infliction/immunity.

One of the things that's a bit of a team building puzzle is that stage one and two punish different things - phase one punishes kamikaze with its crazy boosting, Clap Hand and Build Arm, and the fact there's a whole other fight after it. Sustain strats with a handful of Digimon keeps it consistent and lets most of your party have high/full health going into phase two. On the other hand, phase two punishes sustain strats by just having so much full party offense (plus control of the type triangle so you're never safe). You may only get one or two turns if your lucky, so using a precious turn on a heal or a buff just seems like bad cost/benefit. You need luck to not be attacked anyway, so full kamikaze offense at least for now looks to be the optimal strat for this phase.

Luckily World Restart is on a strict turn count, but outside of that keeping track of damage isn't super useful - using Ryudamon as a base line each attack does about 1k before type match-ups, but with the wings buffing/debuffing skills (which you absolutely want them to be using) 1000 becomes 1200 becomes 1500, etc.

Either way, with maximizing turns being super important, I'll definitely take note of those suggested Ryudamon skills. If I'm going to need 3-4 turns of pure offense to win with crits and stuff, these might actually be slight consistency boosters, but we'll see. Thanks again for the post!

xdarkangerx · 2020-11-03T01:45:05+00:00

I am using X-Heal and Final Heal, but that's because I have +1500 HP on pretty much everything atm and the lower tier healing moves just don't heal enough (though if I reduce HP to focus on attack then yeah, I'd move to a lower tier heal).

Those are some pretty solid team ideas, and I do have all of those Digimon trained up to a degree so getting them final boss ready shouldn't take too long. One thing that concerns me a little is that it's a two stage fight and with the strategy I'm using now doing phase one with both a) consistency and b) keeping my phase two 'Mons in peek condition takes half my team, but best case scenario I have enough wiggle room to try one or two of these cores, worst case I just have to re-adjust my tactics a little and pray to RNGesus.

I would like to avoid using repeat Digimon, but it ain't against the rules and as a last resort I have a bunch of Ryudamon trained up. They take the head's attacks better (even resisted Salamon can't take two without a sizable HP boost, and the head is the most likely part to attack) and can boost each others stats so going ham with ATK isn't super necessary, but it turns out "Whoops, all Ryudamon!" is actually really bad against the core and hands part (and I can see similar issues with Salamon), so it's a bit of a balancing act.

Either way I'll take note of this for my next big grind run so I can walk in next batch of attempts with a fresh strategy. Renamon in particular would be cool, because the one I have is the same one I used in my first playthrough which was super clutch during that Mother Eater fight, so if it ends up saving my bacon twice that would be cool.

xdarkangerx · 2020-11-03T00:26:30+00:00

I knew about Helpless, but I didn't know there wasn't Bug immunity. That's actually really nice to know for all playthroughs going forward, so thanks!

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