Digimon Up: How to Pick the Best Starter Digimon

Choosing your first partner is one of the first major decisions you’ll make in Digimon Up. For fans of the franchise, they would naturally wonder who’s the stronger or better starter. Is it a close fight between Agumon, Gabumon, and Veemon?

Or is there someone better?

Fortunately, the answer is much simpler than you might expect. So, how exactly do you pick the best starter Digimon? Let’s take a look.

How to Pick the Best Starter Digimon in Digimon Up

Unlike most monster-collecting RPGs, there’s really no “best” starter in Digimon Up in terms of gameplay alone. That’s because every starter is essentially the same in terms of stats.

This means your choice won’t affect your ability to clear content. As of the current version of the game, all starter Digimons have pretty much the same battle performance.

Although each Digimon belongs to a different evolution line, they share the same overall stats and progression. So, whether you begin with Agumon, Gabumon, Patamon, Veemon, or any other available partner, you won’t gain a combat advantage.

In other words, you don’t really need to worry about picking the “wrong” Digimon or falling behind other players because of your starter.

However, your starter Digimon will determine its appearance and Digivolution line.

As of now, there are 15 partner Digimons you can choose from, and these include members of the original DigiDestined, Digimon Adventure 02, and Digimon Tamers cast.

Although each line evolves into different Champion, Ultimate, and Mega forms, those differences are almost entirely visual. Their combat effectiveness remains the same.

For example, if you pick Agumon, you can progress through the Greymon evolution line. Meanwhile, if you pick Veemon, it will eventually lead to Imperialdramon, and so on.

So my advice is, choose whichever evolution family you enjoy seeing the most since you’ll spend plenty of time raising it.

Some Things to Consider

One of Digimon Up’s key features is that your first partner isn’t permanent.

Once you have fully raised your first partner to its Mega form, you can unlock additional partner Digimon. These will inherit your existing progression instead of forcing you to start from scratch.

Battle types, passive skills, and overall Mega-form progression are shared between partners. This makes unlocking a new partner feel more like changing your Digimon’s appearance than creating an entirely new character.

Also, you don’t need to worry if you somehow choose the “wrong” starter, as you can change it later on.

But to do so, you first need to raise your initial Digimon all the way to its Mega form before swapping becomes available.

That said, reaching Mega takes a considerable amount of time, so it’s still worth choosing a Digimon you’ll enjoy looking at during your early progression.

Conclusion

Long story short, there’s really not much of a difference regardless of which Digimon you choose as your starter in Digimon Up.

Every starter shares the same stats, combat capabilities, and progression systems. Just go for the one whose Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega forms you enjoy the most.