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Digimon Story Time Stranger Best Digimon

This is a tier list of the best Digimon in Digimon Story Time Stranger. Learn the best Digimon from vaccine, virus, and data attributes, as well as the best Mega Digimon!

Best Digimon
Best Digimon Best Team Best Early Digimon

Best Digimon Tier List

Best Mega and Mega+ Digimon Tier List

Tier Digimon
SSSS Tier
SS Tier
A TierA Tier
B TierB Tier
C TierC Tier

Tier List Criteria

SS The SS tier has the best Digimon that can all carry an entire team by themselves. These Digimon have amazing Signature Skills and can help you mow through the game if built properly.
S Digimon in the S tier are Digimon that have amazing Damage or Support capabilities, have amazing consistency, and are easy to build and function with minimal difficulty.
A Tier A Tier is for Digimon that are tech options that can fill up a slot in their team, but can pull their own weight. These Digimon are usually used as flexible members to make any team workable.
B Tier B Tier consists of mostly Damage Dealers that need teams to be built specifically around them to shine. They're great, just needs some effort on your end to make them the best.
C Tier C Tier consists of Damage Dealers that have the ability to clear, but the lack of diversity in their Signature Skills hold them back from reaching higher tiers.

Signature Skills with Extra Effects are Valued Heavily

Digimon with Signature Attacks that can Deal Damage on top of giving buffs, debuffs, Status Ailments, or healing are the qualities we look for when placing these Digimon in their Respective Tiers.

Team Synergy and Flexibility is Considered

Digimon that can work with multiple team compositions are placed higher on the list. Naturally, Supports and Healers will be more prevalent as these Digimon are needed for higher difficulties.

Stats and Damage are Not as Valued

Due to the availability of Load Enhancements and the DLC Outer Dungeons, even an In-Training Digimon will be able to clear the game.

But you can only do so much with buffing, Cross Arts, and healing items before you face up back to back against the entirety of Olympos XII.

Best Digimon Progression

Best Early Game Digimon
Best Mid Game Champion Digimon
Best Mid Game Ultimate Digimon
Best Late Game Mega Digimon
Best Post Game Mega Digimon

Best Team

Best Digimon For Early-Game

Digimon Attribute | Evaluation
Coronamon Image Coronamon
Has a Signature that Ignores Resistances.
Access to a lot of good Digivolutions.
Needs Disks and Loading for Type Diversity.
Hyokomon Image Hyokomon
Has a Signature that Ignores Resistances.
Needs a good amount of Digivolving and Dedigivolving to get to.
Ryudamon Image Ryudamon
Earliest you can get Acceleration Boost.
Moves have high Crit Chance.
Low base attack.
Guilmon Image Guilmon
Amazing Support Skills.
Access to a lot of good Digivolutions.
Functionally just a Virus Attribute Agumon.
Dracmon Image Dracmon
Has a Signature that heals itself.
Would prefer to get to Beelzemon due to its ATK Growths.
Impmon Image Impmon
Easy to obtain at the start
Would prefer to get to Lilithmon or Mastemon due to its INT Growths
Lunamon Image Lunamon
Learns a lot of Healing and Magic Moves.
Access to a lot of good Digivolutions.
Needs CDs and Loading for Type Diversity.
Huckmon Image Huckmon
Synergizes well with Physical oriented teams.
Needs a good amount of Talent to get to its final Digivolution.
Patamon Image Patamon
Best starter choice if invested into.
Access to DNA and Armor Digivolutions.
Veemon Image Veemon
No innate Attribute Weaknesses and Resistances.
Access to DNA and Armor Digivolutions.

Every Rookie Digimon is pretty balanced when it comes to their Attacks, mainly focusing on just dealing damage. We recommend getting more Vaccine Attribute Digimon at this point in the game as most of the bosses will be Virus Attribute.

Best Early Game Digimon

Best Digimon For Mid-Game

Champion Level Ultimate Level

Champion Level

Digimon Attribute | Evaluation
Raptordramon Image Raptordramon
Signature attack, can lower the opponent's DEF as you attack..
Learns Attack Field and Critical Field for more support.
Firamon Image Firamon
Has amazing paths for Digivolutions making it a worthwhile investment.
Gets Acceleration Boost ffor Physical Attackers and Shine Burst II for your Magic Attackers.
Deltamon Image Deltamon
Of all Champion level Digimon, Deltamon has the highest ATK stat.
Gets Guard Bind to lower bosses' DEF stat.
Coredramon (Green) Image Coredramon (Green)
Signature attack nullifies unfavorable compatibility.
Gets Mental Break for your Magic attackers.
Can go down to Dracomon and swap to Coredramon (Blue) if you need a Vaccine Attribute.
Witchmon Image Witchmon
Of all Champion level Digimon, Witchmon has the highest INT stat.
It mostly learns Level II Spells, which can be shared around your team, or used by itself.
Kyubimon Image Kyubimon
If you're planning to run any Magic Attackers, has the best Skills to pick up like Mental Break and Spell Boost.
Gets Reset Body which can clear any buffs from enemies.
Guardromon (Gold) Image Guardromon (Gold)
Can turn into a Damage Sponge with Hate Charge along with its' Free Attribute meaning it has no Attribute weakness.
Can also get both Acceleration Boost and Spell Boost if you need a Support.
Has a high SPI which makes it a great Healer if you need one.
Halsemon Image Halsemon
Train it up to Level 40, you can get X-Aura as early as Agent Rank 3.
SPI too low to make efficient use of it.
Lobomon Image Lobomon
It gets a lot of good Support and Attacking Skills.
The earliest you can get Safety Guard at Level 40, granting you access to the Digi-Egg of Miracles.

Before Agent Rank 3, you will be mostly using Champion Level Digimon. Notable ones like Raptordramon already have the best Attack effect in the game, which is to inflict debuffs while also dealing damage.
List of Champion Digimon

Ultimate Level

Digimon Attribute | Evaluation
Angewomon Image Angewomon
Second Highest INT Stat of all Ultimate Levels.
Synergizes well with LadyDevimon and you will have early access to Mastemon's Skills.
Duramon Image Duramon
Signature attack can lower the opponent's DEF as you attack.
It mostly learns Level II Attacks, which can be shared around your team, or used by itself.
Mistymon Image Mistymon
Signature attack, can increase its DEF and SPI as you attack. This makes it an amazing tanker slot for any team!
Gets Reset Body to prevent an enemy from stacking too many buffs.
LadyDevimon Image LadyDevimon
Synergizes well with LadyDevimon and you will have early access to Mastemon's Skills. If you're planning to run any Magic Attackers, has the best Skills to pick up like Mental Break and Spell Boost.
Sirenmon Image Sirenmon
Has access to SPI Shred, DEF Shred, X-Heal, and Status Barrier, which consolidates a lot of support roles by itself.
Amazing INT means it can dish out decent Damage if need be with Symphony No.3 or Gale Storm II.
Crescemon Image Crescemon
Has access to healing, support, and damage, plus pre-evolutions that can give it amazing Skills like Terriermon line and Renamon line.
Amazing all rounder that can slot into any team.
Paildramon Image Paildramon
While functionally the same as Dinobeemon, Paildramon has the edge as it can further evolve into more powerful Digimon.

After Agent Rank 5, you will now have access to Ultimate Level Digimon. At this point, your team should have specific Digimon of certain roles that you can feely switch in and out depending on the situation.
List of Ultimate Digimon

Best Digimon For End-Game

Digimon Attribute | Evaluation
Kentaurosmon Image Kentaurosmon
AoE Ice Resistance Shred.
Access to a lot of good moves like Lethal Blizzard III and Frozen Bullet III.
ShineGreymon Image ShineGreymon
Gets an ATK Buff everytime it uses its Signature Attack.
Access to a lot of good Single-Target moves.
Burst Mode is not as good despite the higher stats.
Venusmon Image Venusmon
Shred opponent's ATK and INT by a lot.
AoE Debuff Cleanse.
Amazing healing skills like X-Aura and X-Revive.
Ceresmon Image Ceresmon
AoE Fire Resistance Shred, Deadly Poison, and even Instant Death.
Amazing healing skills like X-Aura and X-Revive.
Jesmon Image Jesmon
Best Counter attacker of all Digimon.
Gets amazing Support Skills like Critical Field and Attack Field.
Lotosmon Image Lotosmon
Serpent Ruin can lower both DEF and SPI.
Can dish out amazing damage after debuffing enemies.
RustTyrannomon Image RustTyrannomon
AoE DEF Debuff.
Learns amazing Physical Skills and Magic Skills that can be passed on to other Digimon.
KingEtemon Image KingEtemon
Fully shreds opponents' ATK and INT with Taunt.
Learns amazing Physical Skills and Magic Skills that can be passed on to other Digimon.
Gaiomon Image Gaiomon
Fire Resistance Shred unaffected by ACU.
Can also Apply Injury with Will-O'-Wisp Slash.

After Agent Rank 7, you will now have access to Mega Level Digimon. You should focus on honing your team, fully planning out their strengths, and covering their weaknesses against the final stretch of the game.
List of Mega Digimon

Best Digimon For Post-Game

Digimon Attribute | Evaluation
Jupitermon Image Jupitermon
Punish Judge will reduce Electricity Resistance and DEF.
Wide Plasment will deal more damage to any Digimon below Mega.
Chronomon HM Image Chronomon HM
Holy Flare will deal damage along with an AoE Buff removal.
Chronos Crop ignores attribute and type resistances.
Chronomon DM Image Chronomon DM
Chrono Devolution can lower ATK, DEF, INT, and SPI along with dealing increased damage to enemies above half HP.
Holy Flare ignores attribute and type resistances.
Aegiomon Image Aegiomon
Can access multiple Aegiochusmon Digivolutions which are amazing supports that can shred their respective elements.
Needs CDs and Loading for Type Diversity.

You should finish the game by atleast Agent Rank 8which will give access to both forms of Jupitermon and Chronomon, try to finish up the Arena Battles and finish any sidemissions you may have missed or you can also start a New Game Plus with these digimon in your party.
List of Mega+ Digimon

Best Vaccine Digimon

Digimon and Tier Attribute | Evaluation
Chronomon HM Image Chronomon HM
SS Tier

Holy Flare removes stat buffs.
Chronos Chop bypasses Attribute disadvantage.
Post-Game only
Jupitermon Image Jupitermon
SS Tier

Punish Judge reduces Electricity Resistance and reduces DEF.
Wide Plasment deals extra damge to Digimon below Mega Attribute.
Post-Game only
Aegiomon Image Aegiomon
SS Tier

Can get equipment that can turn him to any Aegiochusmon at the start of battle, no need to waste Digivolutions.
Can apply different Elemental Resistance Down depending on Aegiochusmon equipped.
End-Game only
Jupitermon WM Image Jupitermon WM
S Tier

The strategy is to apply Immobilization with Dios Thunder then follow-up with Keranuos Divide.
Synergizes well with another Jupitermon.
Signature attacks Single Target and Electicity Type only unless given other skills via disks.
UlforceVeedramon Image UlforceVeedramon
S Tier

The Ray of Victory deals AoE damage and reduces their ACU.
GraceNovamon Image GraceNovamon
S Tier

Synergizes well with Ceresmon as it can apply status conditions and reduce Fire Resistance.
Eclipse Finger deals a lot of damage on its own.
Kentaurosmon Image Kentaurosmon
S Tier

Odin's Breath deals AoE damage plus reduces Ice Resistance.
Learns Mental Break and a lot of great Magic Attacks.
Venusmon Image Venusmon
S Tier

Can remove all debuffs from allies.
Peace Fantasia will reduce an enemy's INT and ATK while also dealing damage.
Neptunemon Image Neptunemon
S Tier

Wave of Depth deals AoE damage plus reduces Ice Resistance.
Meant more as a support, but can work as a mixed type Attacker.
ShineGreymon Image ShineGreymon
S Tier

GeoGrey Sword will deal damage then will snowball into dealing more damage thanks to the ATK boost.
Depite the stat boost, going into Burst Mode is not as recommended when you can just max stats out easily.
Varodurumon Image Varodurumon
A Tier

Can remove buffs from all enemies with Aurora Undulation.
Heals all allies of Status abnormalitiers and gives you protection from it.
Needs investment in Personality Skills like Fortifying Charge and Great Embrace.
Chaosmon Valdur Arm Image Chaosmon Valdur Arm
A Tier

Aurora Blaster will remove any buffs from enemies.
Marsmon Image Marsmon
A Tier

Corona Sanctions ramps up a lot if you have any buffers.
Endless Surge ignores any Attribute disadvantage.
Eaglemon Image Eaglemon
A Tier

Mystic Break deals AoE damage and lowers all enemies' SPI.
MarineAngemon Image MarineAngemon
A Tier

Ocean Love removes any status conditions on all allies.
Needs investment in Personality Skills like Fortifying Charge and Great Embrace.

List of All Vaccine Digimon

Best Virus Digimon

Digimon and Tier Attribute | Evaluation
Chronomon DM Image Chronomon DM
SS Tier

Chrono Devolution applies Crystallization and has a chance to lower ATK, DEF, INT, and SPI.
Holy Flare bypasses Attribute disadvantage.
Post-Game only
Plutomon Image Plutomon
S Tier

Hell's Gate deals a ton of damage on top of reducing DEF.
Haggard Cluster deals AoE Damage with a chance to apply Crystallization.
Merukimon Image Merukimon
S Tier

Spiritual Enchantment deals damage, reduces DEF, and has a chance to apply Injury.
Thousand Fists can increase its damage if you have a SPD buff.
RustTyrannomon Image RustTyrannomon
S Tier

Rust Breath reduces all enemies' DEF.
Terrors Cluster deals damage and applies Immobilization, synergizes well with Plutomon.
Gaiomon Image Gaiomon
S Tier

Will-O'-Wisp Slash deals damage and has a chance to apply Injury.
Phosphorus Fire Attack deals huge damage plus reduces Fire Resistance.
Lilithmon Image Lilithmon
S Tier

Phantom Pain Inflicts AoE Damage on top of applying the Deadly Poison and Injury status conditions.
MaloMyotismon Image MaloMyotismon
S Tier

Crimson Mist Inflicts AoE Damage on top of a chance to apply the Deadly Poison and Injury status conditions.
Can also deal damage with Pandemonium Flame.
Barbamon Image Barbamon
S Tier

Death Lure reduces SPI by a lot and can apply Chaos.
Gets Attack Reflect and Character Reversal for better support.
PlatinumNumemon Image PlatinumNumemon
S Tier

Platinum Excrement deals AoE damage and lowers their INT and SPI.
Platinum Burp lowers a Single Target's ATK and DEF.
Geared more towards support, doesn't deal much damage unless invested heavily into.
AncientWisemon Image AncientWisemon
A Tier

Elder Sign deals damage and has a chance to lower DEF and inflict Immobilization.
Can't make use of its own debuff.
Megidramon Image Megidramon
A Tier

Meggido Flame's ATK buff will snowball if the enemy likes to summon weak Digimon as allies.
Hell Howling deals damage, can apply Crystallization, and can reduce INT
Belphemon RM Image Belphemon RM
A Tier

Lampranthus deals damage to all enemies and reduces their SPD.
Eternal Nightmare deals AoE damage and can also apply Deep Slumber.
More debuff oriented than Rage Mode.
Belphemon SM Image Belphemon SM
A Tier

Lampranthus deals damage to all enemies and reduces their SPD.
More damage oriented than Rest Mode with Gift of Darkness.
KingEtemon Image KingEtemon
A Tier

Completely sheds all enemies' ATK and INT and can redirect enemies' attacks to itself.
Needs DEF and SPI investment to be a complete wall.
Leviamon Image Leviamon
A Tier

Can deal a ton of damage with Biting Crush.
Can instantly kill enemies if they have a DEF debuff.
Biting Crush has low ACU, relies heavily on UlforceVeedramon.
ZombiePlutomon Image ZombiePlutomon
A Tier

Hell Slicer deals AoE damage that ignores Attribute resistance and can apply Chaos.
MetalEtemon Image MetalEtemon
A Tier

Can lower an Enemy's SPD and apply Immobilized.
Bacchusmon Image Bacchusmon
A Tier

Self-sustaining damage dealer.
Party of the Heavens can apply Immobilization to all enemies.
Junomon Image Junomon
A Tier

Needle Hive deals damage and applies Deadly Poison.
Counter DPS.

List of All Virus Digimon

Best Data Digimon

Digimon and Tier Attribute | Evaluation
Ceresmon Image Ceresmon
SS Tier

Burning Blood Shell has an AoE Fire Resistance Down.
Can Inflict Status conditions like Curse with Island Freefall and Deadly Poison with Famis.
Learns amazing support moves like X-Aura, Restore, and X-Revive.
Ceresmon Medium Image Ceresmon Medium
SS Tier

Burning Blood Shell has an AoE Fire Resistance Down.
Can Inflict Status conditions like Curse with Island Freefall and Deadly Poison with Famis.
Learns amazing support moves like X-Aura, Restore, and X-Revive.
Lotosmon Image Lotosmon
S Tier

Flexible unit that can be slotted to any team thanks to its healing and support capabilities.
Serpent Ruin can lower DEF and SPI.
Serpent Ruin and Serpent Cure are both single-terget only.
Gankoomon Image Gankoomon
S Tier

Table Flip inverts the Stat Buffs the target has into debuffs.
Table Flip can also invert debuffs into buffs.
Sakuyamon Image Sakuyamon
A Tier

Can remove buffs from all enemies with Amethyst Mandala.
Can deal respectable damage with Izuna if you Crit.
PileVolcanomon Image PileVolcanomon
A Tier

Diamond Fist deals damage and lowers an enemy's DEF.
MetalGarurumon Image MetalGarurumon
A Tier

Freezing Breath can reduce an enemy's Ice Resistance.
The combo is to use Freezing Breath on an enemy then follow up with Ice Wolf Claw.
Dianamon Image Dianamon
A Tier

Good Night Moon decreses SPD and can also apply Deep Slumber.
The combo is to use Good Night Moon on an enemy then follow up with Arrow of Artemis.

List of All Data Digimon

Best Digimon from Other Attributes

Digimon and Tier Attribute | Evaluation
Armageddemon Image Armageddemon
S Tier

Black Rain deals huge AoE damage plus reduces Dark Resistance.
Ultimate Flare is best for a nuke build.
Nuke Build requires you to get hit and tune your Digimon's Speed so the healer acts after it.
EmperorGreymon Image EmperorGreymon
S Tier

Pyro Dragons deals huge damage plus reduces Earth Resistance.
No Attribute weakness, but also no resistance.
Agumon (Bond of Bravery) Image Agumon (Bond of Bravery)
A Tier

If you have the Ultimate Edition, can be obtained as early as the start of the game.
Red Reamer deals damage as well as reducing Fire Resistance.
Pretty late-game if you don't have the Ultimate Edition.
Apocalymon Image Apocalymon
A Tier

Always reduces all enemies' HP by 20%

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10 Anonymous Anonymous 19 days

so what makes platnumemon S-Tier? i know it used to give exp buff in Cyber Sleuth but i cant find any reference to that happening in Time Stranger. Am i missing something or is it being S-Tier just a nostalgia meme?

9 Anonymous Anonymous 20 days

Where's MetalSeadramon?

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