Digital Monster Battles
Below you will find all the matchups for the Digital Monster. This data was extracted directly from the device, and contradicts the official magazine guides that were published. The contradictions largely seem to stem from the programmed scenarios not triggering properly, so while it was certainly intended for Monzaemon to be the strongest Digimon, it unfortunately does not have any advantage over the other Stage V Digimon. In fact, Mamemon is technically the strongest, but only by a very small amount. Anyway, here's how to read the chart:
- Chance: The numeric values that make up most of the chart are the chance of victory out of 16. So for exmaple, a Betamon fighting a Seadramon will have a 3/16 chance of victory.
- Hex: This is the identifying value that is passed when connecting. This is what you see when using a COM device.
- Slot: The slot ID assigned to the Digimon by the old official guides.
- V1: An example of which Digimon the slot refers to from the Ver.1.
- Initiator: You may notice that the values in this chart are not mirrored. For example, a Greymon fighting a Greymon has a 9/16 chance of winning, but shouldn't it be 8/16 since they are the same Digimon? Unfortunately not, whomever initiates the battle by pressing the button will decide how the matchup is determined. Sometimes the initiator has an advantage, like when fighting the the first six Stage IV Digimon against any other Stage IV Digimon. Other times the initiator is at a disadvantage, such as when a Stage V fights another Stage V. When using this chart, read it from left to right, looking up the initiator against the opponent. Also to keep things fair when battling other devices IRL, always make sure both sides initiate an equal number of times, and never do just one battle! If the device that initiates is not another original Digital Monster, it is the other device that will do the calculations, meaning this chart will likely not apply (it definitely doesn't apply when a modern device initiates).
- Boost: A pretty complicated number, this is the formula to evaluate it:
floor(max(min(overdose, 4) + strengthHearts - min(careMistakes,4), 0) / 2)
overdose is the number of times that you have fed 4 protein, and has a maximum value of 4, so once you have fed 16 protein you have maxed out there. strengthHearts is of course how many strengthHearts you currently have, and careMistakes is how many careMistakes you have, also capped at 4. Stated in English, the value is your number of overdoses plus your number of strength hearts minus your number of care mistakes (or 0 if that results in a negative number), divided by 2 and rounded down. If you fed 12 proteins, have 3 strength hearts, and 1 care mistake; that would be a value of 2 for boost. After all that, the boost value of the opponent is subtracted from the initiator's boost, and then added to the chance value below. So let's say your Tyranomon has that 2 boost and the opponent's Meramon has 1 boost. Tyranomon normally would have a 9/16 in that matchup, but the boost difference increases that to 10/16. On the other hand, let's say that Meramon had 4 boost. This would result in the difference being -2, so your chance to win becomes 7/16. The boost difference cannot reduce your win chance below 1/16, so it will remain 1/16 if would have gone below that. Chance to win can however be increased to 16/16 when the boost difference is applied, meaning a 100% chance of victory is possible, only for the initiator. If your win chance would evaluate higher than 16, it will simply return as 16.
- Fun fact: The highest chance of victory you can have against the Digimon Pendulum Original is 2/16, which is only achievable with a Stage V Digimon that has 4 overdoses, full strength hearts and 0 care mistakes. In any other scenario, the chance against a Pendulum Original is always 1/16.
- Credit: This data was collected by ripping into many sacrifical devices, done by several talented fans. That data was then combed through and interpreted primarily by Kurozatou, without whom this page could not exist. All I did was convey those findings in my own way and present it to viewers like you.
