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For those making their first dive into the world of Digimon, Digimon Story Time Stranger provides the best entry point into the world of Digimon Games. Despite this, being thrown into a journey across time with dozens of fresh gameplay mechanics to learn can be overwhelming for veterans and newcomers alike.
To be the best agent you can be, you’ll want to know how to make the most out of your adventures through the digital world and the city of Shinjuku. Our bespoke guide to Time Stranger will give you the best tips and tricks to starting your adventure, including the best digimon to start with, how to best explore the digital world, and top-tier battle tips.
- There are 3 different Digimon you can start with: Gommamon, Patamon, and Demidevimon.
- Your Digimon can be strengthened in a variety of different ways, from evolution and devolution to attachment skills.
- Mastering combat comes down to understanding the symbiotic relationship between Digimon attributes and elemental affinities.
- Agent skills make your Digimon stronger inside and outside of battle, making it easier than ever before to bring the best out of your Digimon
Digimon Story Time Stranger starters – How to choose your partner
There are 3 Digimon that you can choose to start your adventure with: Patamon, Gomamon, or Demidevimon. The choice you make between which of these three will be your first companion is important, and all three have their merits and drawbacks.
Gomamon is a vaccine type with a focus on water element skills. This makes it great for fast early game progress, as the first handful of bosses are all weak to vaccine digimon. However, while it starts incredibly strong, its evolutions can be easily overshadowed by other powerful players in the later game.
Patamon is a data type Digimon with a focus on light-element skills. It’s a great choice for those who want to have a strong late-game player. Despite this, some high stat digievolution requirements and bosses who resist the data attribute mean you will be waiting a while to see its true potential.
Demidevimon is a virus-type Digimon with a focus on dark-element skills. It has strong skills and easy access to some of the strongest digievolutions, making it a solid all-rounder for your adventure. Keep in mind that if you’re going for Demidevimon, your damage numbers will be neutral unless you provide it with some proper investment in its personality and attachment skills.
Digimon Story Time Stranger evolution lines – How to digivolve like a pro
Digievolution and de-evolution are the main ways that your team will grow stronger, making it a crucial part of their success. Every Digimon has access to its own specific variety of evolutions; you’ll not only need to master digivolving, but dedigivolving, too.
Digivolving requires reaching a specific agent rank and leveling up your digimon until they meet particular stat requirements, which means leveling them up in battle and reaching specific stages in the game. Some Digimon will have low evolution requirements, such as Ikkakumon’s evolution from Gommamon. Others, like Lucemon, will take a much greater investment due to its high intelligence stat requirement.
De-Digievolution increases their level cap and adds on 10% of their previous stats, making it easier to evolve them into more powerful versions of their digievolutions. You can also carry over specific attachment skills from their previous evolutions, meaning you’ll want to keep in mind which of their previous evolutions provide the most beneficial attachment skills.
To speed up this process, you can load other Digimon’s data into a single Digimon using the load enhancements feature. Through this, you can sacrifice Digimon that you have materialized to make another Digimon stronger by giving them extra experience to level up faster. The higher the level and stage of Digimon. This is an excellent way to get rid of unwanted monsters.
Materializing Digimon at 200% increases their HP and level cap, greatly speeding up this evolution process. You’ll want to be mindful of the evolution requirements when digivolving and dedigivolving, and consider how your digimon will reach the strength they need to evolve once more when dedigivolving.
Digimon Story Time Stranger Digiride – How to travel in style
During your adventure, many of the digimon you’ll befriend will be willing to take you along for a ride. Once you get to the digital world during the quest “The Untrodden World”, you’ll unlock the ability to ride on any rideable digimon that is in the front 3 slots of your team.
While you are riding, your Digimon automatically performs Digiattacks without the need to press an extra button. This makes it easier to take down digimon weaker than your team or to get the first hit on your opponents.
Remember to analyze the environment along the way, as this can reveal more obstacles to break with Digiattacks and hidden treasures within the environment. The extra advantages of rideable Digimon, combined with faster map traversal, mean having at least one rideable Digimon on your team is a huge benefit. A total of 173 Digimon are rideable in-game, so there’s a good chance one of your favourite digital pals will take you along for the ride.
Digimon Story Time Stranger enhancement systems – How to make your pals stronger
In Time Stranger, there are three main ways to boost your team’s power. Each Digimon has an individual personality that provides it with an extra skill and extra development in two of its stats.
You can shift Digimon personalities in favorable ways by answering your Digimon’s messages, talking to them outside of battle, and training them up in the Digifarm.
Attachment skills are a trump card that make Digimon stronger and even more versatile. These provide them with extra attacks of different elements and can be equipped or unequipped from your digimon at will. By choosing the right skills, you can cover for your Digimon’s elemental weaknesses and help them stand up to enemies that may have otherwise resisted their signature attacks.
These skills can be acquired by purchasing them from shops and by progressing through the story, where you’ll gain access to sidequests that reward you with extra attachment skills and new shops that provide access to even stronger skills. You’ll want to complete as many of these side quests as possible before continuing the main story to reap their rewards.
Digimon Story Time Stranger combat – How to clean up in battles
To deal the most damage possible in battles, you’ll want to keep in mind their attributes and the elemental affinities of their attacks. Digimon each have one of seven attributes: Virus, Vaccine, Data, Free, Variable, unknown, and none. The three main attributes, Virus, Vaccine, and Data, have a rock-paper-scissors-like relationship with one another. Vaccine is strong against Virus, Virus is strong against Data, and Data is strong against Vaccine. This chart provides a simple way to understand this relationship.
The other attributes have no weaknesses or strengths when pitted against each other. This makes Virus, Vaccine, and Data the most important attributes to remember.
What brings the most out of these attributes is the elemental affinities that each Digimon has. Each Digimon has its own different elemental affinity and weakness, which have their own symbiotic relationship with a Digimon’s attributes. When your Digimon’s attribute and the elemental affinity of their attack are both strong against an enemy, the damage you deal is increased to 400%. For example, Angemon, which is a vaccine type that has a light-type special skill, will be four times as powerful against Raremon, who is a virus type that is weak to light-type skills.
The higher their speed stat, the faster they will get these attacks in. Keep these attributes and their speed in mind, and you’ll find that you’re sweeping through enemies at the speed of an Ulforceveedramon.
Digimon Story Time Stranger Agent Skills – How to boost Digimon based on personality
Agent skills are powerful buffs unlocked by spending Anomaly Points obtained through progressing the main story or the previously mentioned side quests. Agent skills provide powerful, direct boosts to Digimon stats, their strength in battle, and the amount of experience they earn in battle, to name but a few of the buffs on offer. As you can imagine, Agent Skills can massively streamline Digimon growth.
Agent skills fall into five types of bond categories – Valor, Philanthropy, Amicability, Wisdom, and Loyalty. Here is an easy overview of which bonds enhance Digimon of which personalities.
| Type of bond | Personalities they boost |
| Bonds of Loyalty | All personalities |
| Bonds of Valor | Brave, Zealous, Daring, and Reckless |
| Bonds of Philanthropy | Adoring, Devoted, Tolerant, and Overprotective |
| Bonds of Amicability | Compassionate, Sociable, Friendly, and Opportunistic |
| Bonds of Wisdom | Astute, Strategic, Enlightened, and Sly |
By bonding with your digimon and spending your points on skills that complement the personalities of the digimon on your team, you can bring the best out of your team.
It may feel like a lot to remember, but the more naturally you help your Digimon grow, the less Digimon Story Time Stranger will feel like a stranger to you. Keep these tips in mind, and you’ll be able to make the most of your time in the digital world.
FAQs
How many hours is Digmon Story Time Stranger?
Digimon Story Time Stranger is roughly 45 hours long. This includes doing side quests alongside the main story.
Who is the best starter Digimon?
We consider the best starter Digimon to be Demidevimon. However, it all depends on what you’re looking to get out of your team.
Is Digimon Story Time Stranger like Pokémon?
Time Stranger uses a similar turn-based combat system and elemental weakness mechanics to Pokémon. However, it relies less on leveling up and much more heavily on its various enhancement systems.
Is Digimon Story Time Stranger turn-based?
Digimon Story Time Stranger is a turn-based RPG.
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