#platinumnumemon

[sufferhoe420]

Felt like doodling her!!

[kideternity]

A collection of random digimon drawings over the past few months…..

1: Was bored and wanted to draw a bunch of the different types of Numemon

2: Doodling of a digimon OC of mine, he’s a Rosemon (He/him only please)

3: Completed request for @poppliolover1 of Ghilliedhumon!

4: A birthday gift for @skydigiblogs oc Shade!

[digi-lov]

PlatinumNumemon BT14-066 by poroze from BT-14 Booster Blast Ace

[morgannox]

No. 83 - PlatinumNumemon

[cwgames]

Getting back to recruiting more Digimon into town.

[forteania]

Sorry PlatinumNumemon, we hardly knew ye… oh well time to start over lol.

[odd-lunamon-on-the-digital-line]

IF THERE ARE ANY PLATINUM NUMEMON AROUND- MOST LIKELY 3 IN A GROUPE DO NOT FIGHT THEM

I REPEAT NOT FIGHT THEM

I still didn't pay these guys plus i also still need them for training!- i learn a lot with their help or got even so far!

I would have to take ages to search for replacements! So please- by this lunamons request just send me the URL they are when spotted and i take care of them- thanks!

....also i think i accidentally took some wrong data of your farm so i send them along with this message- if it works...

NO PROMISES TEHEH! -Lunamon [???]

anyone else notice a weird amount of Numemon running around lately? Is poaching digitama a trend again??

[antirepurp]

help cyber sleuth complete edition title screen is holding me hostage because i can't decide whether to start a cyber sleuth or hacker's memory file

[komaedamizuki]

not me trying to speedrun getting mastemon with an actual good moveset and 200 ABI because I fucked up the first time

couldn't possibly be me

[clowngirlpony]

ooh btw whats ur favorite digimon design ever :3 it can be more than one!

The dorumon line is my huge fav! Dorumon and dorugamon particularly they're so doggy to me.

My other big favs are veemon the veemon line, especially the the veedramon line but I like all its digivolutions

And some individual favs I love are marineangemon and platinumnumemon. Marineangemon I just love based on its concept of being a mega level digimon but not due to power. And platinumnumemon just looks cool to me

[mathewryf]

This makes me think about the way Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth handles EXP. Like many RPGs the whole party gets EXP from every battle (that includes the 3 active mons AND the 8 backups). There are also a few Digimon who give a lot of EXP when you defeat them; PlatinumSukamon and PlatinumNumemon in particular. That said, those two Digimon I just mentioned give out that much EXP because they have an ability that doubles EXP gained.

After a certain point, though, EXP does get harder to grind out... at least that's how it goes if you're only sticking to one party all the time.

The thing about that experience-doubling ability is that if you raise a PlatinumSukamon or a PlatinumNumemon, you have access to it as long as it's one of the 3 active digimon.

What if you have 3 of either mon though?

Good news: THE ABILITIES STACK. This means the actual best method for grinding is to go out of your way to raise 3 of either (depending on what point in the game) to the point they can handle battling on their own. This way you can load up your backup slots with Digimon to level up and go to town.

There's also an item you can get that doubles experience gain: the Tactician USB. There's at least one that you can get during the late game, but the best way to get them involves using the Digifarm's Research command to make them. I won't go into the details of the Digifarm right now, but the important part is that you can get more of these USBs from it.

PlatinumSukamon can hold one item, so with 3 PlatinumSukamon with one Tactician USB each, you're earning about 6x the experience you normally would.

That's just for the early to mid game.

In the late game you want 3 PlatinumNumemon, since they're of a much higher evolutionary stage than PlatinumSukamon. More importantly, they can hold up to 3 of those Tactician USBs. Altogether, with 3 PlatinumNumemon and 9 Tactician USBs, that multiplier jumps up to 40x.

Even that isn't technically the highest multiplier. Remember that fighting an enemy PlatinumSukamon or PlatinumNumemon ALSO doubles EXP.

In the game's final dungeon you can encounter PlatinumNumemon as a rare encounter. Beating one doubles that EXP multiplier to 40x.

At that point you could raise those 8 Digimon in the back of the party from level 1 of stage 1 (Fresh) to level 99 of Stage 6 (Mega) in less than 20 minutes. Potentially faster if you use Function Call LV2 to force encounters and/or switch battle animations to fast.

To top of all off the same setup exists for grinding money, just with a different item and different Digimon. If you play your cards right you could afford to get the best Farm Goods, the best Meat for raising your Digimon's CAM (friendship), and enough to get all the research in the Digifarm for specific Digivolution items done during the midgame.

Edit: Corrected the multipliers.

It’s so funny how controversial the EXP share is among Pokémon fans as if every RPG ever doesn’t distribute EXP among your whole party. Pokémon fans would know this if they played another RPG.

[crystalelemental]

Cyber Sleuth! I haven't been talking about it much, but have been playing constantly. I'm around...45 hours in? Or so? And great news! I have only 37 mons left before the whole database is filled, and I think am very few away from having everything that doesn't require Hacker's Memory to complete!

"Wait, you're not at Hacker's Memory yet? How...how far in are you?" Chapter 13. ...look, I got distracted, Avalon server was a good place to level so that took like a full day but I needed to alter natures before I could get some others and Chapter 13 gave another good grinding spot and I could buy the patches so we're doing round 2 now. It's fine.

I mention all this for context and as a warning. Everything I say must be filtered through the lens of me objectively playing the game wrong.

See, Digimon feels very distinct from other monster catching games, in that the sense of collecting all of them seems to be outright the wrong thing to do. Sure, Pokemon has similar issues, but more because of version exclusives, obtuse evolution methods involving trades, and the horrors of actually catching a legendary Pokemon. Digimon approaches things a bit differently.

In part, this difference is due to two stats: CAM and ABI. CAMaradarie is a measure of friendship. You increase it by 1 every battle they frontline, and can feed them Digimeat which is exorbitantly expensive for the shit amount of CAM it provides. It caps at 100%, and some evolutions require varying amounts, usually 10% for low levels, 50% for mid-tiers, and 80% for later tiers, but 100% is needed for two monsters that fuse together.

ABIlity is a measure of...uh...evolution? It goes up when you evolve up or down, with more points being added every increment of 5 levels. ABI requires 20, 40, or 80 in most situations, though there's the rare occurrence of 100 and 120 for really high-tier stuff. Mostly your solution is to evolve up then back down repeatedly to generate ABI, because it is not getting where it needs to go off a straight shot.

As someone who has spend [REDACTED] hours grinding levels for evolutions, these two scores are the bane of my goddamned existence. ABI feels like it's the significantly harder number to work with when playing normally, because the values are incredibly small, and 80 is a tall fucking order when you've reached endgame and have like 37 points on your starter (thing that happened to my wife). When you grind, however, CAM is your mortal enemy. Man, I am not rotating around who's in the front, I have PlatinumNumemon x2 and Angewoman for we can maximize EXP yields while still having someone who can fight good. Everything else is in the back. CAM sucks ass, because it's stupid slow if you don't already have the numbers working in your favor. Needing two at maximum then fusing them together is extra frustrating.

But even worse than that is the stats demanded of some evolutions. To some degree, I understand this. There are clear evolutionary paths. Lunamon -> Lekismon -> Crescemon -> Dianamon is a very clear bunny promotion in the same vein as most other monster catching games. However, given the wild branching of Digimon evolution, you can jump ship to another form along the way, should your stats be good enough. At times, this results in just needing to level more, while at others, it is outright impossible to achieve without training. This is sometimes understandable, but without any means of showing what else evolves into the thing you're missing, it's basically impossible to tell what the intended path is at times. Like...I forget what it became, but I had this little egg with legs mon that, with enough SP and INT, could evolve into something I didn't have. Eggmon is not good at either thing, but it came close at level 99. The only means of getting to that evolution would be finding something else entirely that somehow loops to it, or forcing the issue with training.

Problem: training is incomprehensible to me. At best, I understand a few factors that influence how Digimon train. See, to train, you put up to 10 Digimon in your Digifarm, and set them to train. They are unusable during this time, though you can interrupt to swap them out.

Step 1: set the level of training. Basic takes TWO HOURS and doesn't give a ton, but it's neutral otherwise. Because the harder training also drops CAM. So god help you if you need both stats and CAM.

Step 2: Set your Farm Equipment. You can boost how much stats go up when you train by setting equipment that boosts a particular stat. This equipment is fucked expensive.

Step 3: The equipment is basically useless unless you're already training that stat. See, it ups numbers, but does not determine what everyone trains. No, they train potentially two stats at once. The first is whatever the stat of your Leader is. If the Leader has, say, Lively, great news! Egg digimon is training its SP! But this also means that even with HP boosting equipment, your Infermon you needed to get a little more HP out of won't gain fuckall unless your leader has Durable. But wait! There's another means of training a stat, and that is by your own nature! Yes, it will only train the stat you are already good in, and the stat of your designated leader! Nothing else. As far as I'm aware. Nevermind that my wife somehow managed to evenly train a ton of stats, I'm assuming that's because they were Searcher or Builder.

Step 4: come back after half an hour and losing all your CAM to find that your stats stopped increasing anyway. Yeah, turns out your bonus stats are capped based on your ABI. At 200 ABI, which is a fucking disgusting number by the way, you get the maximum of 150 bonus points. Less ABI, less bonus stats. So unless you also farmed the ABI, those bonus stats may well not even apply anyway!

If it's not clear, I despise this system. It's excessively irritating and creates multiple obtuse roadblocks to finishing the database. Systems pull back and forth at each other and nothing feels like it'll stay done when you have so many areas of need.

But this is where we have to talk about why I'm playing the game wrong. See, again, Digimon is not much of a monster catching game. It's a RPG with a massive rotating cast. Their intent, I assume, is to just use the ones you attach to and beeline toward higher stages. If something requires high ABI, well, that's for NG+. You can loop back around that way if you'd like. But you're not, I don't think, supposed to sit here grinding for ages to boost up your ABI. You're supposed to look at Lilithmon as something unattainable without NG+ to build up ABI and stats. Because yeah, Lilithmon is one of those with stats legitimately too high without training.

In essence, if I had been playing this game correctly, I would've taken my Palmon, Lunamon, Renamon, etc. and just pushed them up the evolutionary paths, accepting whatever I got along the way, and only doubling back if the next step up had an ABI block or I didn't like the look of that route. It's a little more streamlined that way, and you're less likely to encounter the three-hour progress annihilator I hit.

See, evolution and de-evolution sets your level to 1, and regardless of how much of anything you built up, without bonus stats, you are still very much level 1. For much of the game, being high tier enough offsets this. But eventually you'll hit a boss that can't be hurt badly enough and you learn that you apparently haven't saved in three goddamned hours and lost a ton of progress OOPSIE DOODLES

It's also...probably supposed to be a measure against what I do, which is try to get coverage. Like okay, Palmon's main line is all Plant stuff. But! If I go up MudFrigimon -> Meteormon, I can get a magic Ground type attack, and that's Coverage. Which...does not matter. As it turns out. The Data/Vaccine/Virus designation is significantly more important than the type matchup. There are typeless mons that aren't in that triangle, and I guess that's when the element comes into play, but it feels largely like a waste. I'm also just kinda unimpressed with buffing broadly? Like, it's fine, but is a 10% off your base stats. Which is not very much most of the time, as it turns out! So mostly, all you need is one good attack (and a lot of final forms have signature moves of a different type than their main, so you'll have two anyway), some good heals/revives, and...that's kinda it. So yes, I am willing to admit I wasted my time "optimizing" some favorites for combat.

On the plus side, the story's pretty good. Yuuko is my favorite, to no one's surprise. Really wound up liking both Arata and Nokia, too. Suedou is hilarious, kinda love this dude. And now that the Digimon are present, I'm kinda here for the conflict with the Royal Knights and everything they've got going on. I think that's a lot of fun, in the same way it was a lot of fun when Nexomon had things like the Tyrant Wars or the Abyssals.

I should get back to story, but...I gotta get these mons in the dex. I gotta. I'm so close, you don't understand. It's like right there, I gotta do it.

[digi-lov]

Hi! Would love to see platinumnumemon and other numemon cards :0D

Yes!

PlatinumNumemon is going up today!

You can find more Numemon cards already on my blog under the tag #Numemon

[forteania]

Totally forgot I had PlatinumNumemon in my Digivice lol. Changed the batteries this morning and had this little poop angel smiling at me.

[inioranackatori]

To belabor the point -

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This is Holy PlatinumNumemon. This is a Mega-level (translation: could bust a skyscraper by yawning) Digimon. Its special attack is throwing poop. Literally. It throws poop.

It was both freeing and horrifying to realize Batman and take-your-pick-of-Robin meeting one of these guys would cause Batman to just… shrug. Because canonically, this is - literally! - not the weirdest shit they’ve ever run in to.

I just finished reading the 2016 Batman run for funsies and I haven’t had the time to touch it yet.

Bruce;

falls from the moon (and survives)

goes through hundreds of dimensions to fight The “Joker” that Makes Other Jokers

gets shot near the heart at least 4 times, gets his hand cut off, stabbed through the chest, all while barely even functioning and still kicking ass

f ights alternate versions of his rogues gallery (and some of his friends) all of whom are more insane/mentally broken/venomed tf up. Again, while barely functioning

Utilizes a bat uniform from The Dark Knight Returns Universe, the utility belt of Adam West’s Batman, and uses shark repellant against a giant shark with joker paint on it that’s devouring the concept of Gotham.

I’m not even touching the failsafe comic intricacies where he gets blasted into another dimension, nearly all of his buddies get their shit rocked by robots made a suppressed alternate personality of himself made in case Batman went too far and killed someone (it was staged. Copplepot died). And so much more.

The very rough notes I gave were summarizing 10 total comics.

When I tell you that literally anyone from the DC universe wouldn’t bat an eye at Danny’s history, stories, rogues gallery, the fights he’s had, everything. I mean it

They’d absolutely be devistated a kid had to do so much at so young and deal with that much pressure as a child. But they damn sure wouldn’t be shocked. This is simply them doing the rounds of figuring out a new hero and their motivations

[elecmon]

ALMOST FORGOT TO POST MY FAVE RECENT PURCHASE

some FLARE added to my digimon water bottle courtesy of @smackins !!!!!

can find this and others on her redbubble!!!