Top 10 Reasons Why Digimon Is Better Than Pokemon

The Top Ten
1 Digimon had an actual story

Though I sorta thought the Digimon transformation sequence was pretty stupid... People do have a valid point based on the ACTUAL story, character development, and relatable stories (divorce, relationships, etc) unlike, Pokemon's repetitive story arc. (Ten year old kid, travel across the region, beat gym leaders, defeat a terrorist group, save the world, Pokemon league, then do the whole thing all over again) The kids developed like how Mimi became more caring toward her friends and others when she was suppose to sing for those musical frog Digimon (too lazy to remember or google). Then, where Devimon (I think that's his name and that vampire Digimon tried to take over the world and such.

However, I feel that the world of Pokemon goes much more deeper in its own world in general and how everyone lives normally in that world. I think Pokemon writer's don't write to their greatest potential just for the kids and for the money (kids eat up the same thing over and over again)

See, this is why I commented the way I did in the "Top 10 reasons Pokemon is better than Digimon" page. I mean, just look at this page: you have a kid who probably didn't grow into his parents' hand-me-downs yet commenting that Digimon Sincerely SUCKS, and his comment gets posted publicly. So even though you have this tiny section that says, "Comments may be reviewed before being posted", that's pretty much pointless when cancerous remarks like that are being validated.

Pokémon had side plots, and for kids they could be entertaining, but they bored me as a kid. The main story of Digimon as well as the side stories I feel were more complex and intense than Pokémon's, also more relatable�"it felt really good to have things like divorce and family trouble in the series, even down to things such as death that I already understood because I had to, but I feel like it added reality to the show and something that kids really could relate to. The plot wasn't for everyone, but it was one I enjoyed and one that enhanced my own storytelling skills as a kid.

What was the plot of Pokemon? A 10 year old boy who never ages tries to be the very best trainer. Ash does the same thing every season. Battle the gym leaders, fight a criminal organization, go in the Pokemon league and lose. Same damn thing every season. And it will never end.
The plot for the original digimon series was that 7 kids get transported to another world and befriend monsters from that world and go in an adventure to save not only the digital world but there own as well. Digimon also has a new plot with every new season so it's not some rinse and repeat thing like Pokemon

2 Ash is such a loser

Okay I'm here to say that there's a pokemon fan commenting on every point on this list. Instead of giving constructive criticism, they're just insulting digimon. Their name is 'HappyEevee' and they're a dick. Don't listen to them

I think that if he wins Pokemon League, it will end the show so, that's why he has to lose.. Just like in Pokemon games, when you defeat champion, the game is completed. Unless if it has Frontier Brains and more things to do after beating Elite Four.

You know I love both franchise and I know that I love pokemon more than digimon but I got to say:sorry ash but your a loser.He keeps saying that he's going to be a pokemon master in every series but nothing happens its just a 10 year old kid wandering every region. see? annoying

And he wasn't in any of the games. Your point?

3 Digimon got dark

In Pokemon, Team Rocket killed a Marowak which is the Cubone's mother. You can see the marowak ghost in lavender tpwer and in one part there was white hand on Red's shoulder.

4 Digimon are just as cute

This is pretty much as true as it gets but even fully evolved Digimon can be cute marinangemon I'm looking at you.

Creampuffs with eyes aren't cute.
If you say Eevee, Azurill, Pikachu, Shaymin, Sylveon, Flabebe, Vulpix, Axew, Emolga, Pachirisu, Pichu, Petelil, Deerling, Togepi, Squirtle, Cherrim, or countless others aren't cuter...

You have issues.

Various digimon babies are cute along with a lot of rookie digimon

Pokemon are cute too

5 Digimon can actually talk

Digimon can talk and you can hold a conversation with them unlike Pokemon when you can only get 2 or 3 words outta them.

Digimon can talk and have just as much say as the tamers making an equal relationship. You pretty much make Pokemon your pets

Are Pokemon named after the only thing they can say...
or can they only say their name?
I don't care. I like it this way.

Some pokemon can talk!

And most of them NOT talking is less annoying, actually...

6 Digimon are stronger

I fully agree, Digimon are stronger. The worst I've seen Pokemon do when I used to watch it was one Pokemon got a few scratches and bruises... NOTHING compared to getting deleted, dying, or I don't know... getting stabbed by Piemons dagger?! ( rest in data pieces ) One Digimon had the power of ALL the strong Digimon the digidestined had defeated and Yeah... the kids died basically. Their data broke apart, scattered, yet they found a way to survive. The Digimon partners defeated the Digimon, the god of Pokemon couldn't POSSIBLY do that. Maybe I'm just sticking with my childhood favorite show, or just against my childhood enemy, Pokemon. I don't know, I'm just always by Digimon's side.

Well technically most Digimon can become stronger than most Pokemon and the strongest Digimon is stronger than the strongest Pokemon but I don't see how this matters.

Unown is stronger than those losers.
Unown used Hidden Power.
Every Digimon died.

What does this even mean?

7 Digivolution wasn't permanent

This isn't 100# true.

8 Digimon attack names sounded cooler

Yeah. Every Digimon's moves are unique to it and it alone, unless it's an attack like Trinity Force, a combo move. There's: Desolation Claw, Star Shower, Atomic Blast, Mega Barrage, Gate of Destiny, Blazing Ice, Double Typhoon, Hell Howling, Megiddo Flame, Dragon Wheel, Diamond Storm, Terra Blades, Thunder Stomp, Radiation Blade, Hand of Fate, Angel Rod, Omni Typhoon, Soul Vanisher, Bloody Tower, Crush Nail, Corona Destroyer, Double Impact, Lightning Joust, Talisman Spell, Gaoga Hound, Wild Echo, etc.

Here are a few Digimon attacks

Fist of the beast king, nova blast, time unlimited, crimson knouckle, lightning joust, final Elysian.

Since when do lasers howl?
What about Sacred Fire, Light of Ruin, Spacial Rend, Roar of Time, and much more!

Sunsteel Strike, Spirit Shackle, Moongeist Beam, Photon Geyser, Spectral Thief, and a lot of the Z-moves have cool names.

9 Digivices were more useful

How can they fit all those bytes into one tiny device? Plus, in the game, you can still custimize moves, lead a team of Pokemon, evolve your Pokemon at will, and not only does it have Google it has Google Maps, too.

HappyEevee, you're making up excuses. Pokemon can only have 1-4 moves, while Digimon can have 2-20. Digivices triggered digivolution, stored digi-eggs, were a sort of Wikipedia, lead you to your partner, etc.

There are more than 1 type of digivice like pokeballs. And it is shown in the games that you can customize digimon with 20 moves. Also when can you evolve your Pokemon at will?

The pokedex is Google in the Pokemon world and pokeballs just shrink Pokemon into spheres. While in digimon the digivice allows you to evolve your digimon at will,Let you have an army in only one digivice,and let you customize your digimon's moveset

10 The characters were relatable

You have a cast of 7 characters each with a unique personality. They each go through their share of challenges both alone and together. Some had personal problems (two characters who were brothers had divorced parents). Others faced problems along the way that were crucial to the plot (Tai wanted agumon to digivolve to ultimate level but did so with force which created Skullgreymon, an evil digimon).
Pokemon has Ash, a kid who never ages and has lack of common sense. Brock, a gym leader who tries way too hard to get a date. And Misty, possibly the only main character with a sense of logic.

The digimon characters don't look that strange from your usual anime character not to mention there not immortal.

This is true.

Digimon had sibling relationships, parent-child relationships, coming of age stories, etc.

Mugi- In pokemon, they mentioned Silver's (son) relationship with Giovanni (father) and his daddy issues.

The Contenders
11 There was character development

Tai went from trying to have the most power to relying on his friends to get through challenges. Gatomon went from a servant of an evil digimon and trying to kill the chosen children to befriending and becoming the digimon partner of the new eighth chosen child. Joe went from being scared to face a challenge to a brave, strong kid.
The only character development in Pokemon were the Pokemon. Ash and his friends hardly changed at all throughout the series (though ash now has visible teeth in xy).

I liked characters in Digimon more than Pokemon, I feel like they were more useful. Brock is funny few times but, he falls in love with ALMOST every girl! Also, Ash is not bad but, I still think Digimon characters are better than Pokemon. Unless if you are talking about Pokemon Adventures manga, the characters on that manga are better than anime and game.

Yeah. Henry went from not wanting Terriermon to fight because of his fear he'd digivolve by accident, but eventually he learned there are plenty of battles that can't be run away from or talked out of, but there are battles, physical and internal, that just have to be fought.

Ash never loved Dawn or Misty or
May or Iris or Serena cause he hates
Them.Rika and Ryo expressed their
love for each other and they love each other and Ryo called Rika
Pumpkin!

12 The antagonists aren't idiots

Ok, I do think Yamaki was kind of a retard in the beginning, not knowing ripping open the sky would allow the Devas access to the human world, but when you think of it most of the time anime villains are dumb in the beginning anyway. Team Rocket is a group of lowlives that creep on a bunch of 10 year olds for an electric rat with the same retarded idea and, of course, get electrocuted away 7,893 times and yet continuously do it expecting to win with horribly weak Pokemon. Digimon you try to attack Pajiramon and she pins you to the ground and shoots at you with a crossbow.

Team rocket always gets blasted off away. Other criminals use horribly weak Pokemon and expect to win. And every single antagonist in Pokemon thinks way too highly of themselves.
In digimon, myotismon killed several of the chosen children's friends. He turned into a giant monster which threatened an entire world and took millions of other chosen children worldwide with their digimon partners to take myotismon down. This is nothing compared to the manga in which entire universes are destroyed

All zero did to Girantina was drain its power using a machine to get to the reverse world and have control.He didn't destroy an entire dimension he just crashed into things and destroy parts of it there was hardly damage done ash just woke up Girantina and stopped him easily, it ends with him getting pulled out of the ice and decides not to be evil anymore. That's child friendly

Especially the Dark Masters and Apocalymon. MetalSeadramon killed his minions for failure (Scorpiomon) then down right murdered Whamon by shooting him in the head. Puppetmon Puppet Pummeled Cherrymon just because he said his master might lose, then killed his last RedVegimon to keep him from coming with him. Machinedramon's voice when the Hagurumon questioned him implied fatal punishment, he shot off WaruMonzaemon's arm because of his whining, had his minions blow the whole city up just to eliminate the DigiDestined, and murdered the Numemon. Piedmon killed Chumon, who despite being kind of a jerk when the Black Gear was removed from him, was at least loveable. Apocalymon literally has the first and middle letters of Apocalypse in his name.

13 It's fan base isn't made up of ignorant people

I have nothing against pokemon fans but most of them like happyeeve criticize it and give meaningless excuses to why pokemon is better or digimoon is better (and they haven't watched digimon). I played the games of pokemon and digimon, they were both good. I only wayched the digimon anime and movies and watched a couple of episodes from pokemon. I preferred Digimon, but both shows has their ups and downs.

I see it on nearly every forum. People saying that Pokemon is better without real reason other than that. At least some people are honest and say it's because they never watched digimon and/or they grew up with Pokemon.

I am part of both, and I can tell you the worst a Digimon game will treat another Digimon fans is normally like a weirdo, but the worst
A Pokemon fan will treat another Pokemon fan is about equal to how trump, and Hillery supporters treat each other.

Google Pokemon vs digimon. Every page you click on will have at least one person say that Pokemon wins because it's better, or because of Mewtwo, or because it's still going. Never are these claims backed up with facts.

14 The characters age

Not just their age, but also their personality. In Digimon Tri, Taichi became more reluctant to fight because he now realized Digimon fight in real world caused a real damage, and really endangering people's life, someone could be dead.

Not to mention this interview made.In the interview the directers of Pokemon straight out said that they're keeping Ash 10 on purpose.I guess they think kids these days are dumb and don't know that the past existed and aren't curious enough to look on those old seasons.I mean,they're STILL around on Netflix ad floating around the internet.

In Digimon the characters changing age,personallity,etc. is what made Digimon better in my opinion.

15 The digimon had cooler designs

Seriously, Digimon isn't just taking an animal and strapping bombs, missiles, armor and knives to it. For example, MarineAngemon is an undeniably adorable sea angel with a Holy Ring around its neck, with no weapons, yet it is a Mega level. On the other hand, it's a Vaccine type, who are supposedly the friendly whose power is hidden under their appearance. Other Vaccines like WarGreymon look like war machines, but that is because that is WarGreymon's fate. They are simply of different families. MarineAngemon, like Cutemon, is a Vaccine destined to heal and to comfort. WarGreymon is a Vaccine there to protect and assist. It's all under simple anatomy on what Digimon hide their power and what Digimon use it to battle. They aren't all just savage and powerful. They are protective and unwaveringly loyal, no matter what they look like or what others judge them as.

Both shows had cool designs but the ones of digimon were better. Don't say that they take an animal and add weapons to it because that's not true. The number of digimon without weapons is far greater than the number of them with weapons like agumon, biyomon, tentomon, patamon, veemon, gabumon, tentomon... and sure they add armor and sometimes weapons, but that is what made them cooler. Pokemon are just plain no weapons/armors (I think not all but mostly all)

Three cool Digimon saberleomon, Dukemon, and Kabuterimon.

Three cool Pokemon mega rayquaza, Lucario, and scyther.

I like both but I side with Digimon on this one.

Both Digimon and Pokemon had cool designs and bad ones.

16 Every action in the series was for a greater cause

In digimon the chosen children had to face many life threatening challenges. Every battle was fought for survival. Their every action was to save the digital world and the human world from evil digimon who were trying to take both worlds over. Some didn't even want to take it over, they just wanted to outright destroy the world.
Ash just wants to be the best trainer in the world. That's it. Sure there's team rocket and a new organization every new season but their true intentions are nowhere near as crazy as in digimon.

And stopping various villainous teams from doing things like creating another universe, releasing all the Pokemon, destroying all the water, etc. AREN'T great causes?

Yep,stopping a giant devil monster from conquering the world is a greater cause,.But in all seriousness that's pretty much true.

Stopping a giant Elvis impression loser from destro
ying the world.I can think of 3 things wrong with that.

17 They don't enslave the Digimon

Everyone says that Pokemon that are caught just become friends and not slaves. I say no to that because how would YOU like it if a 10 year old had someone beat you up and throw a balls at your head, removing most of your free will to make you do there bidding, and either be shoved into a PC forever or be forced to beat up potential friends and family members!? As a Pokemon trainer, in game and anime, almost NOBODY even try's to think about the family's of Pokemon that there splitting apart. They don't care that they could be forcing the Pokemon to beat up there own mother, as long as you get that sweet EXP. But this is just how I see it

In Digimon, the Digidestined had their Digimon pre-chosen, depending on what characteristics they had, and in Pokemon, Ash and the others just go around taking poor Pokemon from their homes, with no reason but to "catch them all".

"They don't ENSLAVE" I didn't realize Pikachu's facial expression said he was being enslaved. Did you even watch pokemon?

18 Digimon games had more interesting stories
19 The company that made it is better than GameFreak

Saban owns Power Rangers, a show almost as big as Pokemon, so if Digimon died out, it wouldn't be that big a deal because it would be taking a big hit, but it has a show with a huge fandom--Power Rangers-- and if Pokemon suddenly failed, since it's Game Freak's only massive fandom, it would go bankrupt and the company would fail. besides, Bandai, another sponsor of Digimon, is the fourth largest producer of toys (looking up what bandai made) after Mattel, Hasbro, and the LEGO group. so it wouldn't be a big deal if Digimon when out. So what I'm saying is that Digimon's company has so many other hits that it would be sustained. Pokemon is the only thing people like about Game Freak, so if it disappeared, judging by some people these days, they would think the rest of Game Freak is crap and it would run out of business, while Bandai sits there clapping sarcastically at them.

Well if you take Digimon and Pokemon from their companys what happens? I don't think gamefreak has had any other big games other than Pokemon, so they would probably go under, and bandi will take a big hit but they will survive. And to that one guy that said that Pokemon will destroy Digimon. It's almost been 20 years and we are still here what makes you think tomorrow will be any different.

Bandai created digimon games. Saban created the anime. Digimon is not the main franchise of either of those two companies. GameFreak's only good franchise is Pokemon, and that's why they're still alive.

Yes. Digimon is made by a huge corperate company, so they never spend indivisual time with 1 game like Gamefreak does.

20 Digimon can take many different forms

Digivolution is closer to actual Darwinian evolution than Pokemon's evolution. Sure they both happen far faster, and to individuals and not the species as a whole, Digimon all have to digivolution trees, so they can change into different things given the circumstances, Pokemon are confined to one line, much more like metamorphosis.

What other Pokemon can do that eevee but that's it while every digimon can do that

21 Digimon had more mature themes

Some of the Pokémon episodes were not for kids let me list them off Beauty and The Beach not for kids because of sex. Cyber Soilder Porygon not for kids because of Pokémon shock. Finally we have The Legend Of Dragontinia not for kids because of guns and hitler costumes. So pokemon has mature moments to.

Exactly. And that's why I favor serious stuff like Digimon over funny stuff like Pokemon.

Pokemon was made for children. CHILDREN. We do not need mature themes, thank you.

Ah yes Digimon rarely talked down to kids in like Pokemon.

22 Pokemon is constantly recycled

Great, now even Pokemon is recycled like the New SpongeBob.

Well for the most part this is true.

23 It beat Pokemon in a Death Battle

Sure, there might be some Pokemon that can be strong enough to beat Digimon. But let's face it. Charizard could only outmatch the power of Agumon and Greymon. Mega Charizard X could have beaten those forms, but the higher forms of Metalgreymon and Wargreymon are claimed to be made of a metal that not even most Digimon can destroy, not just Pokemon. Finally, even if Tai interfered with Red, Mega Charizard X was RECHARGING from using Blast Burn. It wasn't just unaware of what it had to do. Blast Burn clearly leaves the user having to recharge. Still, at least Red and Charizard fought hard and showed that Pokemon aren't that weak to be defeated quickly.

If you thought that battle was completely bias well I got something for you
1. no charizard wouldn't have killed agumon
2.tai hitting red wouldn't change the outcome
3.charizard's attacks were completely ineffective
4.This battle was an iconic Pokemon vs an iconic digimon

That's just what Screwattack did! That doesn't count, that's just fan-based!

Pokemon lost to Digimon for the same reason Goku lost to Superman.

24 Digimon can't die

To whoever said that villains die, Nope they don't. They are reuploaded, like patamon when he defeated Devimon.

Reincarnation for the win.

They can only die if they are deleted with the exception of tamers

I can see this fake post being deleted because the villains do die

25 Pokemon started ripping off digimon

- HappyEevee,
Ok, I see you are loyal to Pokemon with all your heart, Whatever. I love Digimon so you can stop going against whatever someone says that is for Digimon. I don't care what your opinion is. You are acting like my worst enemy, criticizing everything we say.

Now, let's all think: Who became more successful in the end?

Mega evolution, monsters fusing, becoming a monster yeah sound familiar well that is because digimon did it first

Didn't Pokemon exist before Digimon?

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