The biggest difference between Pokémon and Digimon is the scope of what a battle means. In Pokémon, when you lose your Pokémon faints and you lose some money. You take them to a Poké center to get healed up and you try again. In Digimon, when you lose *you die.* Digimon in the digital world fight to the death, meaning you don’t get a second chance. You either win, or get eaten by a bigger, stronger Digimon. During the Digimon movie, Greymon tore off Parrotmon’s (10:18) wings because he was threatening Tai and his little sister, Kari. Even as an Agumon he tore apart a vending machine because Kari wanted something to drink, and accidentally blew up a bus stop because he thought the bus was trying to hurt her. This combined with the fact that later in the movie, the team was trying to stop a Digimon virus hybrid from taking over the United States nuclear weapon deposit and subsequently _nuking Colorado and Japan_ - kinda speaks for itself. Digimon is a different type of “intense” compared to Pokémon. This is why Tai straight up jumps Red, because while Red thinks it’s just another Pokémon battle for sport - Tai thinks Red is trying to kill his best friend.

Red thought he was doing a pokemon battle, but he literally just attacked a stranger who doesn't know what pokemon battles are, he certainly wasn't expecting to get punched in the face 😆

Did Tai blowing that whistle make anyone else tear up? Just me? Okay.

That digimon movie scene of Tai blowing the whistle, makes me emotional.

Something this battle doesn't focus on is the differences between Digimon Tamers and Pokemon Trainers. Pokemon Training is a job and a hobby where Pokemon fight for sport. Digimon Tamers usually only have one Digimon, and said Digimon is a friend, not a pet, and Digimon fights tend to be super brutal with Digimon getting killed in battle. Also, Tamers can, and will, fight alongside their Digimon, hence why Tai straight up attacked Red.

As a fan of both series I knew what was about to happen. The big difference is that pokemon trainers are essentially sports stars like mma while, while the digi destined are like war vets. They've both seen allot of combat but its a different type of combat..

I remember it was so funny when in thr comment section of the Death Battle Video people complained that Tai cheated when he punched Red. They called punchining your enemy in a fight cheating. That was so funny to me back then.

One other thing to note is that Digimon oftentimes have more than one evolutionary path, meaning that just about anything is possible. In regards to Tai's Agumon, he has at least 3 different mega forms, one being Wargreymon, another being Blitzgreymon, and his evil mega level being Machinedramon.

Fun fact: Tai was voice here, by Todd Haberkorn; who voiced Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail. Considering Natsu uses Fire Dragon Slayer Magic, it's no surprise he voiced the winning trainer.

Theee days the matchup would be more one sided. This is because Agumon has a new form called Bond of Bravery which washes Wargreymon out of competition.

So many 90s kids say that their playgrounds were spkit between Pokemon and Digimon fans but my all of the kids at my school loved both.

Congratulations! You've officially watched the very first Death Battle where they killed a minor!

This one's a classic. Fun fact, they actually did a twitch release "live view" for this episode, before KZfaq had a streaming option for content creators. It was the first time they did this I believe. The funny thing about all this is apparently they didn't see the final parts of the animation where the finisher happened, because the animator wasn't finished with it until like the day of or something. So they weren't prepared for it when it happened live.

Something that I don't see brought up a lot is how more directly involved digidestined are in fights compared to pokemon trainers. Depending on the situation they won't just let their digimon handle evrything and will (attempt) to throw down.

Yes yes yes!!! So happy you guys are watching this one!!. I'm a huge fan of both but Digimon has always been better due to its focus on trust, relationships, survival and finding yourself. So happy you guys get to experience it!!!

I love tai and Greymon, pokemon was cool but to me, digimon is S Tier

I think someone may have already pointed it out but battling is much different between the Pokémon World and the Digital World. In the Pokémon World, battling is something like a hobby or sport. And you typically battle to become stronger and become a top trainer. And if a Pokémon loses a fight, usually a Trainer can just take them to a Pokémon Center or use potions/revives to heal them up. In the Digital World, battling is all about survival. While in human world, Digimon are usually bonded to their Tamer with a strong friendship. Though in the Digital World, they sort of roam around and live "wild" in a sense. And losing to a stronger opponent in the Digital World means you could most likely be killed or eaten. So, on that note, Digimon are going to go all out in their battles because their use to losing possibly resulting in death. Though, there is also the difference in the relationship between human and monster in both worlds. In the Pokémon World, Pokémon have been shown to have a level of sentience that does allow them communicate in their own way with their Trainers being able to understand and communicate with them. Though mostly the relationship is that of a Master/Pet or Master/Slave though some of the canon lore did depict that in the "olden times" in the Pokémon universe, relationships between Trainers and their Pokémon were potentially much more intimate. Yes, that is actually a canon thing in Pokémon lore, but to quote a nice KZfaq series; "that's a story for another day." Still, losing a battle doesn't really mean death and since it is akin to a sport, Trainers aren't going to be jumping in to throwing hands alongside their Pokémon. In The Digital World, the bond between Tamers and their Digimon are that of a strong friendship. And the strength of their bond can make their overall power stronger as well. And since to Digimon, losing could mean death, there is a good chance their Tamers would potentially find some way to fight along with them to keep their Digimon from potentially getting killed.

Fun fact: Nathan Sharp/Natewantstobattle, does both the music for this fight and voices Red!

Interestingly if you hear the music in the background during the explanation....that's the orginal opening for Digimon song is called butterfly

Ya know... I always enjoyed Pokemon, so seeing Digimon in the past, I just figured it was a Pokemon ripoff. But I gave Digimon a chance and loved it. Both Pokemon and Digimon are great in their own ways

So a couple facts about Digimon. 1. Digimon are living packets of computer data. They are created by the data deleted off of our computers and because of that they vary wildly in design and concepts. It also means every human on earth has a potential Digimon partner of their very own. 2. Digimon can slide all over the place, and from/to any stage of growth. Sometimes they can even become different Digimon of the same level in a process called Slide Evolution. 3.Most Digimon are basically wild and feral. While there are plenty of nice friendly Digimon, there are also plenty that will kill on site, and yes i said kill.

Tai throwing punches might seem out of left field, but him and his second-in-command Matt got in fights with each other lots and taking swings was something that happened a few times. Meanwhile, Ash tried to take a swing at Mewtwo once (which went poorly) and the most he does is tackle people that he has disagreements with. Since he's comparable to Red, it's likely that he'd be unprepared to duke it out.

It's also exciting that Tai interfered and punches Red...because the characters in the Pokemon world are incredibly naive and the characters in Digimon..they were all kids who had to deal with this extreme situation and matured early because of it. Slave is the wrong term I think... it's more like a mixture of pet and employee that you use and then pack away again. But yeah Boomstick was right..

Can't wait for you to do Goro Vs. Machamp, probably the best Pokemon Death Battle so far.

The comedy was great and love how Tai just went to beat the crap out of Red but I think they made the winner too obvious too soon in this fight. Charizard was going all out already while Greymon still had 2 transformations waiting.

That is one clingy dog 😂

I agree when you have any attachment to the characters, the deaths are brutal. Especially this with kids involved. But that's the point of Death Battle and I kinda appreciate too that they stick to the format no matter what.

Would love to see some Digimon related Reactions from you two :D

The dog was like "Must. Eat. Mommy's. Ear!"

If you want to watch a friendship battle. Than I highly recommend Deadpool vs Pinkie Pie. It’s honestly really good and it was a nice thing to watch after countless deaths of your favorite character lol

In the digital world, every day fight is a life threatening situation, where if you lose you die. While compared to the pokemon world things are more tame. Thats why Tai attacked Red while the latter commented "we're not supposed to fight!".

Bethany: I don't want them to fight. I don't wanna see Charizard get skewered 😢. Lol. That's cute and understandable 😁. But to be fair, Beth. Red started it. Tai just finished it 😉

As a fan of both, this outcome was gonna happen. I mean, Digimon was the first to do Mega Evolution (even if we didn't see Metalgraymon fight (ーー;) ) but also that Tai was gonna help by punching Red since we have seen him get physical in the show.

i always prefered Digimon. Just in the fact there was a story and these kids dealt with acutal death, loss, and real life issues like divorce, depression, finding out they were adopted, and stress. The kids fought knowing they could die. I get angry when people say Digimon is a rip off.

They wanted to add Tai throwing punches at Red just to show the idea of "charizard needs a trainer", but that was hardly necessary, Wargreymon defeated threats like MetalSeadramon and MachineDramon within moments. Charizard might be awesome, but WarGreymon is on a completely different level.

Knowing both franchises really sells this battle as someone bringing a knife to nuclear warfare and having the pokemon fans cheer on the guy with a knife

Bethany's hair: *exists* Pup: Finally. Some good freakin' food.

Digimon is just on a different level of power. Even the most powerful pokemon have stats that can be quantified and weaknesses that can be exploited. Digimon are more like characters of myth and lore, they can beomes unbelievably powerful and can't really be measured. Its a lot like comparing Dragon Ball characters to DC characters.

As someone that has grown up with both, I was gonna win and lose no matter who the victor was. It did sting me seeing my favorite Pokémon die like that, but at least my 2nd favorite Digimon won. (The Guilmon line being my absolute favorite) But hey, it’s all in good (morbid) fun of Death Battle. And I know you didn’t ask about it, so I’ll just state this as a bit of trivia regarding the relationship between the 2 franchises. Way back in the day, Digimon started out as like a Tamagatchi toy in Japan. Tamagatchi being these little devices that show little creatures you can take care of like a real life pet (play pretend basically). Meanwhile, Pokémon games and eventually anime came out a little bit after, and became a Worldwide Phenomenon. Digimon eventually did as well when it’s own anime came into being, but unfortunately, it just didn’t get a big enough following as Pokémon did, to the point where people just called it a Pokémon-ripoff. Thankfully that died over the past 2 decades, but Pokémon is obviously still going strong as a worldwide brand, while Digimon has had some rough spots here and there. Digimon may not be as popular as Pokémon, but I believe Digimon outshines Pokémon in a lot of aspects. Like story and characters mostly. If you want to make reaction videos (or just check out on your own time) to look deeper into these franchises, then I suggest KingK for Pokémon games and Billiam for Digimon anime as they have retrospectives for them.

When I first heard this battle was going to yo allow Agumon to go all the way to mega I just laughed so hard. There's just no comparison. Your average Mega level could destroy continents. For comparison ,weak Ultimates can level mountains.

The one with the power of friendship won!

Comparing a series where you ensl*ve monsters who can't talk and put them in container for competitions and a series where monster and human have to fight to death to save two worlds are unfair itself lololol

Puppy heard death battle and accepted the assignment 😂

First DB when they killed a pet and a kid all in one episode 😭

Yeah honestly anyone whos seen Digimon and Pokemon knew this was no contest Digimon are on a whole other level. Heck some at the Rookie/child stage like Agumon could probably take down a fully evolved Mega Charizard, and I don't mean Agumon just a Digimon at that level. Lucemon being the obvious reference

The funny thing is Wargraymon isn't it's final form while red and charizard lacked any real bond to go the extra mile Even if they were equally matched it would have gone the same way, Digimon are immortal and will fight to kill, when Digimon die they're reborn with a few small changes so no fear of death

God I remember being so hyped from the digimon movie, tai blowing the whistle, the music kicking in... badass I like to think Pokemon Manga Red would have a better shot... but he uses Venasaur so would still probably use, but he'd at least punch Tai

Frankly I found Digimon more adultish or frightening...cause in se 2 there is a scene where a powerful Digimon returns and the first thing that sicko does is tests his telepathy and torture his minion...in Japanese the talk is darker than English dubbing

Tai punching someone is something that actually happens more time than I wish to remember. If I remember correctly, there's one episode Tai huge heavy stick to fight other Digimon to protect..... Mimi?? TK?? It was way too long ago. I may be mixing things up.

Man I couldn't watch the video at all! I was too distracted by the hyper doggo trying to eat both of you guys 😂

Digidinosaurs and digipeople do get along sometimes.

Cute doggy btw and great video btw

i heard mr picolo voice when red was geting punched saying "DODGE"

Yeah little did Red know Tai also knew Mega Punch lol

I would love you guys to watch the first part of the digimon movie where Tai is a young child with Kairi. It's so cute. the second part that takes place after the original series takes place is good too, but it would be better to watch the original series before that part to get context. It's not a long segment. But you will definitely get an idea of how different Digimon is compared to Pokemon tone wise.

You guys should totally give Digimon a watch I would start with the first,second and third season and maybe give the 4th and 5th season a watch

Digimon will remain above any other anime for me ❤ They are literal digital code and human emotions infused within them. Digimons are your partners not your pets and their energies comes from trust and bond you have within them. When a digimon dies its over in a batte thus the amount of levels it can go to. I am glad it didn’t got to the point that Tai had to digivolve it to Omnimon. Imagine the wreck it would have caused.

Only a fool would think Legendary Pokemon can throw hands with Mega Digimon

The little doggy looked like a baby goat for while. XD

If you guys want a truly difficult to predict deathbattle, Deadpool vs Pinkie Pie. That and Deadpool vs The Mask. All the characters are so bizarre that the fights are genuinely difficult to guess. Other good (maybe more predictable) fights include Voltron vs Power Rangers, Hulk vs Broly, and the Megaman Battle Royale.

This episode really hurts your soul lol But something digimons reach the “It beats Goku” level. An idea for a Death Battle that has been around for a while is “Gogeta vs Omnimon”, and Omnimon is the fusion between WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. Just to give an idea of the power levels here.

If your looking for more Ark content there are some battle videos where people put creatures from different mods against each other. They often have custom animations and so are really cool to watch! Kumama games is the best channel for that.

great video. but i never understand why they change the soundtrack back in the days. even we in germany got the original soundtrack, just with german Lyrics

Great video, I was on side of Digimon too! Try that DB with Satan (from Dragon Ball!) vs that other guy, who's name I can't remember! It was super funny!

Digimon also works with Neoplatonic Emanationism. What does Neoplatonic Emanationism mean? The adopted concept of Platonism is that there is a higher reality, a true abstract existence that is responsible for all that is individual to exist. The concept of emantionism is that there are in fact innumerable layers of reality, one more abstract than the other, but in the end with all arising from a single higher and absolute layer.According to Emanationism, Creation occurs by a process of emanation - "out-flowing". The entire cosmos, and even all the gods and godheads beyond the cosmos, have come about through emanation. Just as the ocean forms its surface into waves, so the absolute forms create successive manifestations, successive entities. And these in turn create - or rather, emanate - further entities, and so on, with all these entities combining and interacting in the extraordinary network of existence. Emanationism is an idea in the cosmology or cosmogony of certain religious or philosophical systems. Emanation, from the Latin emanare meaning "to flow from" or "to pour forth or out of", is the model by which all things are derived from the first reality, or principle. All things are derived from the first reality or perfect God by steps of degradation to lesser degrees of the first reality or God, and at every step the emanating beings are less pure, less perfect, less divine. One could think of the relationship between each of these levels as being like "body and soul", "spirit and matter", or "creator and creature", in that each higher level is the soul, spirit, and creator of the level immediately below it; and the body, matter, and creature (created being) of the level immediately above it. The inhabitants of the higher worlds act like the souls of those in the lower worlds. (imgur.com/a/60iJBPJ) Basically the structure of existence is divided into several layers with a physical and metaphysical difference between the layers.To each level of existence, there is a higher level with this physical/metaphysical difference. Our physical bodies have souls, souls have other souls (I will call it the second soul), the second soul has a third soul, and so on. Digimon follows the same cosmology, the world is structured in a multi-layered hierarchy.When it comes to Digimon's cosmology, the worlds are not simply side-by-side of each other (or all over the place). Digimon goes by a world hierarchy (that have been called layers, levels, etc), meaning the worlds go vertically, up and down. The Human World for example is a part of that hierarchy, and it happens to be at the very bottom. The worlds of the Human World would be side-by-side, horizontally. With the worlds of the Digital World also existing horizontally within its layers (the DW is made up of various layers), but the entire Digital World itself is beyond the Human World (all of them) because it's in a hierarchical position superior to it. Due to the Human World being at the very bottom, any world that's a part of the hierarchy (layers beyond the HW) would be beyond the Human World. This can start before even touching the Digital World. The Human World is your classic infinite multiverse. Every possible world has emerged in a multi-layered way...and the worlds quite similar yet different to one another lie side-by-side. ( imgur.com/a/rTO5DYx ) In short, it's nothing akin to universes in parallel to one another, which a superficial knowledge of all this stuff would lead to, nor is it the difference in between the Real and the Virtual/Digital, posited by the V-Pets and by anything following the lore of the V-Pets, but the relationship between a higher plane of existence and the one that's emanated from it. It's vertical, not horizontal. The Digital World is a plane of existence in which the otherwise poorly defined "soul", or the essence, of humans can take physical form. I've used this example elsewhere but I guess I can use it here as well. This example uses "threads" and "posts" on sites.Imagine each thread to be a layer (such as this one), with the posts within each thread being universes. The layers are a part of the world hierarchy. They're obviously many threads on the first page, with each one being a layer with universes within them.The lowest thread would be the lowest layer, equivalent to the Human World. Each post within this thread (layer) would be universes/timelines. This layer alone is basically your classic infinite multiverse. It would be the lowest, smallest, etc, layer.Each thread (layer) is superior to the last. So the second to the last thread would be superior, and the one above that would be superior to everything below it. This goes on until the very top. You might be able to see each "page" as another collection of worlds, such as the Homeros' Digital World, the third Digital World, possibly Witchelny, etc. These worlds should be in a similar position to Yggdrasill's Digital World, which transcends the Human World (so Yggdrasill's DW would be beyond a HW, Homeros' DW would be beyond a HW, etc). In fact, according to Re Digitize (Decode), they're a variety of Digital Worlds, and all of them transcend the Human Worlds (each should have a Human World below them). We don't know how many layers would make up those worlds though (we don't know much about these worlds in general. Most worlds we've seen have been a part of Yggdrasill's DW).I believe verses like Umineko and the Dark Tower use similar logic with layers.

IF you want a "friendly" Death Battle try Pinkie Pie vs Deadpool

For all you Pokémon haters in the comments… Pokémon🤝Digimon

It would be amazing if you guys watch pokemon origins. Its 4 episodes long and its red’s whole journey as a pokemon trainer

Ken: “Where’s the friend battle? Where’s the friend making one?” Me: *having flashbacks to Deadpool vs pinkie pie.

The major difference between Pokémon and Digimon are that Pokémon are animals, while Digimon are capable of civilization and society, ranging from tribal to sophisticated. That and most Digimon vastly overpower most Pokémon.

Fun video as always. Who's the new puppers?

Finally a digimon reaction. I wish you two react to Digimon evolution...... all of 'em.

Pokemon series/seasons end with a big tournament. Digimon series end with a life or death battle against an apocalyptic foe trying to destroy one or both worlds *Digital and Real worlds*. Apocalymon, MaloMyotismon, The D-Reaper, Lucemon, Belphemon *merged with a genocidal human*, Bargamon, *OVA: we had a conflict between Yggdrasil and Harmony (two programs) resulting in existential horrors and a giant naked woman called Ordinemon trying to expand the Digital world into the human world through force, and then the reboot used Milleniummon (like the Manga did ages ago), and the current series...is still on-going but every other Digimon is trying to kill people or something so still guesses who the final FINAL foe will be.

Pokemon will always be more popular but Digimon will always be better as a series.

I expected such reaction, coz difference is huge! Everything starts from age rating: Pokemons have max 15+, but Digimons - 20+! Pokemons are just like sportsmen only! They don't know much about how to survive or protect their homes! They also don't know what to do without a trainer! And if they die, they will not comeback. But Digimons know who to do it, and when digimon is dieing, they will be turned into digi egg to be revived again! Digimons are more warriors than Pokemons! They are more like humans than pokemons. They can talk, eat, cook, dance and etc. like humans! They have access to all languages, so they can speak freely! For example, Floramon like French more than the others, coz she thinks it is most lovely and beautiful language. So, having a Digimon it is like you have another sister or brother from other world! Will be cool if you will start watching Digimons with eng subs, coz dub is not very good! Plus. You can also play in Smash or Pass or you can make a Tier List, especially for DigiWaifus!😊

I mean a possible tangent you could do is react to a compilation of the show openings(granted this may be easier said than done, as it’s hard to find a compilation or playlist that is up to date and subbed to include Adventure-Ghost Game). And by comparison, Digimon has not really been dubbed fully, hence why I’m recommending the originals for a somewhat scale. Aside from that, my personal recommendation would be a compilation of Digimon Vital Brace commercials(here’s a playlist that focuses on that and includes the trailer for a novel series). With the Vital Brace essentially being tamagotchi mixed with a Fitbit. Though the Vital Brace does have a counterpart for the franchise as the Digivice V for Ghost Game and the VB BE model is used for the novel depiction.

Digimon will always be cooler than Pokemon because they're not afraid to kill monsters in their show

12:22 words no one that has seen Digimon would ever say.

That whittle white puppy is just a little guy, so cute, I’m more of a dog person myself

Bethany had the same reaction as most people. This battle ends in such a gruesome way that almost no other battles have captured (no pun intended) 😂

Next y'all have got to react to the killua vs misaka one

What's important is that today we learnt about true friendship, through explicit murder of kids 😅

12:50 Liked for puppy.

They made it more even for the coolness factor, but Metalgreymon would have been enough, realistically. Charizard is pretty much comparable to Greymon, the only advantage it has is flight.

0:03 Aw! A Puppy!

Yeah. A pokemon is never gonna beat a digimon.

The ending reminded me of Genshin travail: "The victor will shine brightly while the loser will turn to ash."

the reason they did the Charizard getting BLOODY DESTROYED. I think its a punch to the gut against the American/English localization of Digimon. If you... Search Digimon stuff directly from Japanese, you get the thing unfiltered, and it is very deep and dark. While the American version... is Dumbed down and censored SO MUCH for Children to the point that is almost an insult (really) Small example: Wargreymon´s Claws, they are called "Dragon Killers" Literally. But in the American translation they are called "Dra-Mon Destroyers"... which is Uuuuhhggg, why? Also other stuff like one scene where Wargreymon cuts a digimon in Half and in English Agumon says "You´ve been cut like Tofu!" And in the Japanese Original Version he says "Ill never loose, Because I have Tai and Kairi... and all of my friends on my side!"

Pokemons were mostly designed and built for battles while almost every kind of mega level Digimons were designed capable of mass destruction. Also, Death Battles' results were made of by votes, so they're not that accurate, whoever had more fan wins.

This was a good reaction and I grew up watching Digimon so I was routing to Graymon.

Iirc the animator for this fight went into a podcast later and introduced himself saying "I killed Charizard"

THAT DOG IS SO CUTE

What a fight o-o

like watching an episode of Digimon again... and also Red and Charizard were there, LOL. one of my favorite eps. have you guys seen the Samurai one yet?

The power difference that Digimon has over Pokemon is ridiculous. Most Mega level Digimon are god level in power There are groups of Digimon who are all Mega levels like The Royal Knights The Olympos 12 The Seven Demon Lords For example Lucemon who is the Demon of Pride is based off Lucifer from the bible. Oh and Agumon's Mega level Wargreymon is not the only Mega level he can achieve his evolution line can branch off into unique and different Greymons. The Angumon evolution line has some of the most powerful mega level Digimon and one of them is a Royal Knight Digimon.

in fact the number of evolutions of both sides are the same: charmander > charmeleon > charizard > mega charizard x. on the other side we have: agumon > greymon > metal greymon > wargreymon. they seems ignore charmeleon since once a pokemon reach a peak of evolution they not return to previous form except for mega evolutions, the same does not happen to digimon (at least not digidestiny, all others digimon once digievolved stay in that form util they die) and since you guys don't seems to wanted that none die i will leave one more information. a digimon only can die for 3 forms: they are delete (it's possible since they are simple bunch of data arquives but only somes fews digimons knows moves that can do that), in second possibility they die if their battle go beyond of leave them unconscious, in that case they will return to their form of egg (the form before of koromon in case of agumon) aka digitama, once that happen if you destroy the digiegg you will be effectively killing them, the last is the same case of before but in a specific region of digital world knows as dark area, the digimons killed there does not turn in digiegg/digitama, they die. so if in the scenary of this video for that red can win he has to keep agumon alive since he was trying to capture him.

I used to watch Digimon X-ross it's was the best memory as a kid.

I think they should have used either Ryo or manga!Tai, both of whom have that whole memetic awesomeness that Red has, and Tai Kamiya lacks. Ryo has many partners depending on the point in time- and usually he can’t Digivolve them, until Cyberdramon, who is kind of batshit and made up of two Digimon who hate eachother and can only agree that they love Ryo. And manga!Tai is an actual strategist, who directs Zeromaru (his partner). Zeromaru is fully sentient, of course, but he’s dumb so Tai ended up directing him- I only got to volume 2, so maybe he improves? Maybe not, though; Tai ended up getting a watch that let him and Zeromaru communicate telepathically, which would make it easy for Zeromaru to remain dependent on Tai for everything. Edit: also Tai Kamiya has never given information in a battle of anywhere near the level of usefulness he gave here, usually it’s just vague encouragement.

I love Pokemon, one of my favorite franchises of all time, you guys should check it out some more. Unfortunately Digimon are wayyy too powerful.

Love this fight but the end always breaks my heart 😢😢