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Haha no they're not robots, those digimon specifically just look like mechs.
That's like me saying all Pokemon are acutally just pokeballs just by looking at a few pictures of Voltorb.

There is a difference, and a pretty big one. There is one Voltorb, and there are a shit-load of giant mech-like Digimon.

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It doesn't matter whether you include God pokemon in this or not. If Digimon and Pokemon face off ( regular vs regular or god vs god) Digimon will win about 6 out of 10 times.
This has to do with damage capability because in general digimon can hurt pokemon more than pokemon can hurt digimon.

Listen to yourself, you sound like a toothpaste commercial. Brand X is reccomended because 9 out of 10 doctors use it.

We need proof. Scientific, detailed, logical proof. Not bullshit statistics. Don't just plop "because god" or "because robots" and leave it at that.

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There is a difference, and a pretty big one. There is one Voltorb, and there are a shit-load of giant mech-like Digimon.

What about magnemite's evolution line, or that thing made of gears (i havent been into the later ones). What about porygon? Pokemon has machines too, they're just isnt any classification for them so they usually go under steel or a steel hybrid.

There are a few pokémon which look like they're made of metal (and in many cases they are) but they are all clearly different from one another and some effort has gone into making them look organic. Ask yourself what kind of toy you would make any particular poké/digimon into - a soft cuddly one or a hard plastic one. I contend that magnemite makes a wonderful cuddly toy but the digibots would only work in plastic. They have no souls.

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There is a difference, and a pretty big one. There is one Voltorb, and there are a shit-load of giant mech-like Digimon.

That's because you get machine type digimon lol.
@Zed stop hating on Digimon lol. You know nothing about them lol.
@Hewitt It's not easy to compare digimon and pokemon stats because they are relative to different universes. Pokemon hp and attacks are like in tens while digimon hp and attacks are in hundreds.
If you've played each franchise's games.

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Psh. My first wish shall just be something along the lines of "I wish there were only up to 385 Pokemon in the world."

You realize that the list of pokemon isn't something that occurs in nature right?

What's to say Dialga, Palkia and Arceus among the FIRST 385?

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Pokemon hp and attacks are like in tens while digimon hp and attacks are in hundreds.

The pokémon designers had to factorise the numbers to make them fit on the screen. In the real world pokémon have millions of hitpoints and do millions of points of damage, but it would have looked silly to put all those zeros on.



This thread should clearly be moved to the debate section.

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@Hewitt It's not easy to compare digimon and pokemon stats because they are relative to different universes. Pokemon hp and attacks are like in tens while digimon hp and attacks are in hundreds.
If you've played each franchise's games.

Lol. Then why are you declaring facts like its so easy.

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This thread should clearly be moved to the debate section.

There's not enough intelligent people on the digimon side to propose a proper argument.

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What about magnemite's evolution line, or that thing made of gears (i havent been into the later ones). What about porygon? Pokemon has machines too, they're just isnt any classification for them so they usually go under steel or a steel hybrid.

I was referring more to BigOmniFighterMechmon and his ever huge family of lookalikes.
I'm not 100% bashing at Digimon, but this big Robo knight Digimon stuff just bugs me. If you were to leave Pokemon for a few years and come back in, some of the legendary Pokemon you'd have a decent idea of which does what. Do the same for Digimon and pointing out every "Royal Knight" and all the similar ones, they'd need about 4 seasons worth of memory jogging.

The thing is, if a mon has the capacity to be defined as a machine/cyborg/machine-hybrid/whatever, then it makes much more sense that it would BE a digimon instead of a pokemon. Digimon are essentially DATA so they can be whatever the fuck they want. If they were DIGItally assimilated to be robo-knights then that's what they're gonna be. Where the fuck did "Machine" Pokemon come from? How and why do they biologically exist? It's much more odd and off-putting.

There's a fruit-fly which has evolved pictures of ants on its wings. I think the pokémon world can evolve a magnemite, given the starting point of some animal successfully evolving steel armour.

This is becoming Tedious.
@Zed -It matters not, hitpoints and attack damage stats are only relevant in the games, why would you even relate it to the anime? So unrealistic. You don't see Ash saying: "Pikachu go and strike him for millions of damage!" Nigga Please :( Secondly I don't take back what I said about Digimon being more powered than pokemon. Whether you want to use stats to argue this or not, In both the series and games, digimon attacks are way more intense. Digimon have more 4 evolution forms where most pokemon only have 3. I mean the 3rd form of squirtle is blastoise, pin him against a 3rd form digivolution digimon like MetalGreymon. He'd use like a mega water cannon or something, which would probably tickle and then MetalGreymon would just nuke him with a missile. Even if you can somehow prove that Blastoise would pwn MetalGreymon, he has a 4th evolution Wargreymon who can literally spawn a Supernova spirit bomb as hot as the sun and roast Blastoise alive. I'm not hating on pokemon at all here. I just find digimon more interesting as an anime than pokemon. While pokemon indiviual episodes are great, the overall plot is repetitive and not as interesting as Digimon.

@Charry - The only time that digimon completely look like mechs is in the latest season of Digimon(which I don't like) I'll give you credit there.
But "BigOmniFighterMechmon" is wrong. Omnimon is not at all mechanical, like all of the knight digimon he's just armoured due to some kind of special digivolution. He's a fusion of MetalGarurumon and Wargreymon, 2 digimon who are both metallic(but not mechs okay so calm your tits), so his appearance may seem mechanical because of that but the royal knights in no way resemble mechs. That's just stupid, and like Hewitt said, digimon are digital monsters. they are comprised of digital fragments and so if their data buildup is machine type then they will be mechanical. (E.g Andromon) but if you have a problem with certain digimon looking mechanical then that's your own preference and there's nothing I can say to persuade you that digimon are not megazords.

This being said, I'm not going to debate or argue over this anymore, I've said what I want to and I know it's true.
@Zed you don't even know that much about Digimon whereas I have knowledge of both series, but you're just letting your own bias dictate this argument because you don't like Digimon and therefore your one sided view can't be taken seriously. So yeah I can't really prove anything to you either because you once tried to argue that pokemon is better for the small reason that all digimon's names end in "mon". So what? Who cares?

Most of the people in this thread think that pokemon is better and there's no point debating this after the most of the people interested in the topic have voted already. It won't change anything, so I am done with this topic

Final statement: I enjoy both Pokemon and Digimon but Digimon's plot is more interesting and they are more diverse creatures with more diverse evolutions compared to Pokemon and they are more powerful. Do not try to argue against this I will reject it as I'm tired of this debate. (And also because I have more comparative knowledge of both franchises than you do. Unless you're Hewitt lol)

Thank you all for your time and effort.

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There's a fruit-fly which has evolved pictures of ants on its wings. I think the pokémon world can evolve a magnemite, given the starting point of some animal successfully evolving steel armour.

Steel isn't a naturally recurring resource. Animals can't evolve it organically

Maybe they eat spoons.

Other pokémon appear to have skin made of rocks. Presumably they evolved to be able to eat rocks and then excrete it through their pores to form armour. Some of these rock-metabolising pokémon must have tried cutlery one day and found they could do it with that too, although some pokémon - the ones who still use rocks - either don't like the taste or don't have quite the same capacity. It also explains how Onix evolves into Steelix (I'm not going to look up the spellings). All he needs to do is change his diet and bam. Superarmour.

Actually, the evolution of Steelix is because the outer layer of Onix becomes hardened after years. It becomes like a snake changing it's skin. I read this from Pokemon Adventures manga though. Not sure if it's right or wrong.

Pah. I bet the manga writers have never even studied an onix in the wild. They're probably just making their science up as they go along.