Pokemon and Digimon, the same thing?

So no one can argue that Pokemon has one of the biggest fan bases of all time whether you are a fan of the Anime, Manga, games or just everything, you would expect that Pokemon would be classed as one of the best things ever, which in my opinion it is. However you cannot count Digimon out . Yes. the fan base is a lot smaller than that of Pokemon and the series isn't still going but please just take a moment to realise how awesome it truly was.

Starters 
To start with I'm going to look at the similarities and differences of Pokemon and Digimon when it comes to the starter partners that each character in both series has. With both Pokemon and Digimon you get a starter whether it's Ash's Pikachu or Tai's Agumon, everybody in both series has one. The difference is that in Pokemon you have the option to collect more Pokemon and add them to your team (which most people do) where as in Digimon you stick with your digital monster throughout and you both remain loyal to each other. Although both seem to be loyal to their trainers/friends, Digimon seem to be more determined in protecting their partners from any incoming danger, defending their human counterpart willingly compared to Pokemon who are made to be battled.

Evolution
Whether Pokemon evolve into something awesome such as Magikarp to Gyarados or Feebas to Milotic the evolution in pokemon is effectively always better for the trainer.  Also the permanent change ensures that the trainers pokemon is the best it can be (not including EV training). The difference with Digimon is that the effects aren't permanent and they return to their original state after battle. 
Another difference between the two series is the amount of evolutions Pokemon or Digimon can have. Discounting Eevee, Pokemon have a maximum of three stages of evolution. An example of this is Bulbasaur evolves into Ivysaur and Ivysaur evolves into Venasaur. This is not the case however since Digimon can have a number of evolutions along with the digi-egg evolutions as well. The picture below will show you all of the possible stages of Agumon.


Attacks
When attacking an opponent, Pokemon can have a variety of moves (limited to 4 moves in the game) at their disposal in order to beat their rival where as Digimon appear to be limited to one, maybe two, moves per evolution. Although they have very little variety in the offence that they use, Digimon appear not to suffer from type disadvantages where as Pokemon do. So an example of this is if a Gyrados used thunder against Gabumon, it would do now more damage than if it used Hydro Pump which would put Digimon at an advantage if the two series went to war (which would be awesome :3)

So as you can see from reading this blog is that Pokemon and Digimon are definitely not the same thing, even if one or two have similar looking monsters in their arsenal they are totally different which makes it more enjoyable for fan of either series or especially both.

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