Digimon 101: Fields

[@SpiritOfSpite]

I assume Greymon has all those fields because they lumped In the fields of It's variants, like, I can see Xros Greymon being a part of Metal Empire and Deep Savers, Virus Greymon being a part of Nightmare Soldiers and then Data Squad Greymon being part of Virus Busters and maybe Nature Spirits, leaving Og Greymon with Dragon's Roar and a second one.

[@miguelangelconderana6586]

Not really, that's is just base Greymon. The thing is that agumon(and his line, and agunimons line for that matter) was added as a secret connection unlockable in the first wave of the Pendulum Z vpet (Nature Spirits, Deep Sabers and Nightmare Soldiers), so that's just Bandai having no regard for what it will do to its field categorization. This tends to happen a lot with the TCG's btw, Cyberdramon is said to not be affiliated with Virus Busters....yeeet he is one because he is in the first TCG. You have to exert an exercise of checking the source to judge if this digimon is really X field, or just shenanigans

[@relicking9207]

The way I heard the difference Dark Area and Nightmare Soldier explained is that Nightmare Soldier is Hallowe'en town, and Dark Area is Hell(or adjacent)

[@inkchariot6147]

Ah... Digi Racism. That's how Digimon Frontiers got started. And X Evolution.

[@heartlessnobody1143]

"metal within, metal without" huh, iron warriors quote on my digimon, net.

[@jeremyberner5164]

Good lesson The main flaw of field are the choice for certain species. The field can be a good tool for create a stronger bond in a multipath digimon line

[@empireyouth5791]

Honestly I feel like field should be use JUST as name for an environment rather than a designation for a digimon. it would make overlap feel a lot more natural because animals inhabiting different Zones constantly without making these dictations Feel completely redundance when is single digit one has like five of them and you go “ well this feels nonsensical”

[@acadow4619]

I will never get over how VenomMyotismon is Metal Empire. It's like...what's this? I don't even.... It's not even a machine...

[@ApprenticeOtaku]

There was a theory where Digimon that have superintelligence or no intelligence would fall into the metal empire field.

[@miguelangelconderana6586]

Okay so, this one in specific tilts me so freaking much: VenomMyostismon is Metal Empire because when Bandai did the revision of the Pendulum v5 vpet, they changed Machinedramon from the roster to VenomMyotismon so the device could have WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon and VenomMyotismon in the same device,for anime publicity reasons

[@Leonardovideogoes]

Fiel It was created to organize digimon and evolution. But the producers listened to Mr. Volcano's phrase: leave the system bugged so we can make the digimon evolve into anything.

[@siobhannoble8545]

Don't the fields, or species, of a digimon determine it's strengths and weaknesses? The actual chart seems to change with every game, but I'm pretty sure there is one.

[@The_digiologist]

They may in certain games but most recent ones go for an attribute (virus, data, vaccine) or basic element chart

[@thewalken6610]

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[@zebio]

I'm looking forward to the Digimon 101 on Subspecies. The various types such as Piddomon for Angemon or Psychemon for Gabumon.

[@twarnold14]

I agree that these don’t really matter, but I have some answers as to why they are like this. V-pets! The first wave of pendulum v-pets focused on fields and created the 6 first fields: nature spirits, deep savers, nightmare soldiers, wind guardians, metal empire, and virus busters. Note that bugs were put into nature spirits and plants were put into wind guardians. Later, the pendulum progress came out and added dragon’s roar and jungle troopers. That’s why bug and plants are sort of in 2 fields. As for deep savers Greymon, that would be the pendulum Z. Agumon and Gabumon were guest slots on those devices, with Agumon appearing on the wave 1 devices and Gabumon on the wave 2 devices. As such, Agumon technically showed up on a deep savers device, so Wikimon lists him in that field. And that right there tells you that the list of fields is more about which v-pet they’ve been on than anything scientific. I think the fields do help, but have to be taken with a grain of salt. And no, I don’t like dark area. It overlaps too much with nightmare soldiers and seems to be just “official antagonist” compared to the more generic “creepy.”

[@metageek7878]

There was a weird period in Digimon games where the type effectiveness was based on these fields In Digimon World Data Squad Digimon do extra damage to their opposite field. Dragons Roar and Nature Spirit Wind Guardian and Jungle Troopers Metal Empire and Deep Savers. Virus buster and Nightmare soldier. Then in dawn/dusk they also sorted them into species that had different names but directly matched the fields plus having an associated element. Dragon - fire Beast - earth Bird - wind Insect/plant - electric Machine - metal Aquan - water Holy - Light Dark - Dark(element)

[@chaoslacky1585]

While I can see what they were going for, the lack of a consistent standard and the fact that many of the games likely assigned them for sake of game mechanics resulted in alot of Digimon being assigned fields that they really shouldn't have been. Also I think the V-Pets that a Digimon debuted on influenced the field. It would be nice to get an updated list (maybe with a few fields added to fit in some that don't belong in the other categories). I guess the first issue is separating out Nature Spirits, Wind Guardians, Jungle Troopers, and Deep Savers which all can have animal-like Digimon (as well as others). All the aquatic and cold-themed ones obviously can go into Deep Savers. insects (as well as plants) go into Jungle Troopers, flying animals that are not insects go into Wind Guardians and Nature Spirits kind of get what is left over with the idea of being "beasts". If they were to make a new field separating plants and insects would be the most obvious thing to do. Dragon's Roar gets all the dragons and dinosaurs as well as heat\fire themed Digimon. Metal Empire obviously gets robots and cyborgs. Virus Busters gets angels, knights, priests\priestess, and other "good" themed Digimon. Nightmare Soldiers consists of demons, vampires, and other "Halloween" stuff. I think Dark Area was just meant to be a lore thing for pure evil Digimon while Nightmare Soldiers were the less evil ones. Unknown was meant for garbage, excrement, and other junk stuff as well as Digimon that evolve from them (like Etemon). Basically rejected data. Admittedly it is still kinda messy and there are some Digimon that may not fit into any of the categories easily. The fact that Digimon can be so diverse makes it hard. Might be why newer released are ignoring fields. Some Digimon could easily fit into more then one field so maybe while a species of Digimon can be of more then one Field each individual Digimon could only have one field. Like one Metalgreymon could be of the Dragon's Roar since it lives with other similar Digimon while another one could be Metal Empire since it lives in a city.

[@Dracomata]

I am doing a digimon thing and in that thing there are groups of tamers based on the fields, with wind guardians and virus busters being fused together. Right now the idea for "they this person has a digimon that fits multiple fields" is that the leaders of those groups have to figure out which field the digimon is MORE. Like Pomumon would be a dragon rawr and jungle trooper conflict which would likely be resolved by the leader of jungle troopers pointing out that even though it is a dragon/dino, it is too fruit related and they live in forests, not volcanos.

[@dragonlord52b]

At one point in the old card game guilmon was part of the deepsavers field

[@StarkMaximum]

I think FIelds do matter, but not in the way a lot of people might assume. I think they've fallen off a bit in recent years when it comes to being used (I think it's a total missed opportunity that Digimon doesn't have a Field mechanic like Yu-Gi-Oh's Attribute system, just to give you another thing to build your deck off of), but I really like having these general broad categories to put Digimon into. I think _for the most part_ they all hit a good, specfic niche, but if I had to nitpick them, I think having both Nature Spirits and Jungle Troopers is really dumb. Everyone always says "well Nature Spirits is mammals but Jungle Troopers is plants and bugs", and first of all, no they're not, a ton of bugs and plants are also in Nature Spirits because it feels weird to not put them there. Second of all, _plants and bugs are also nature, why not just have them all under the same umbrella._ I also think it's a little unfair to say "fields don't matter because look Greymon has so many" when Greymon (and Agumon) are basically Digimon's main character. Like yeah, it's weird that he's a Deep Saver because of one random card in the TCG that was only printed in Japan that has the Deep Savers background and honestly looks like it could've been a misprint, but that happens when you have a Digimon you want to put into as many different categories as possible. I don't think that's a failure of the Fields, I think that's just Greymon being Greymon. I think people getting into a franchise like Digimon will usually have an aesthetic they favor, and having these Fields that say "okay well if you like this vibe, here's a _bunch_ of Digimon you'll probably like" is a big help. I actually wish they mattered a little bit more, like I don't want them to start making a Pokemon weakness chart, I think the Vaccine-Virus-Data triangle is all we need, but I dunno, there's gotta be something that can be done with it. I like to use Fields as a way to connect evolution lines together and see if I can make a weird, neat chart while still staying connected within the Fields.

[@CantusTropus]

Ah yes, Digi-racism

[@viniciuspiazzetta5920]

the fields make more sense on the original idea of digimon, is the habtat of the digimon. If it change it's habitat the data he colects is diferent causing a change in the digivolution. On the first release the manual explains this

[@Guilhermeandrade-sc4zo]

please do a digi-ecology about paildramon or dinobeemon

[@thewalken6610]

It's not just their habitat and on the continents folder

[@miguelangelconderana6586]

The video is very cool, but yeah fields tend to be a mess, mainly because Bandai has very little regards for them. They are an incredible tool for what they were made for: Cataloguing vpets. Fields exist to get a grasps of what digimons were in the Pendulums vpets so the kids where able to pick which one they like the most. They could be great, but they get muddied by Bandai's choices, especially the various TCG's they have made in the 25 years this franchise has existed, and other...things. That's why I usually first check if the source of that digimon being x field is somewhat "trustful" to my standards i.e not TCG, and not connection unlocks from Vpets. EDIT: Also, Virus Buster is just principally anime protags, that's why they made the Pendulum ZERO vpet

[@noctusdoesthings]

40k Digimon crossover when? Two primarchs per field, before half getting corrupted by the Dark Area.

[@deonlatchman3283]

Nice video

[@ApprenticeOtaku]

I once heard that the fields express the types of Digimon it could evolve into. That's why Agumon and Greymon have vast options of what they could become.

[@Zero_Unit]

Fields? Oh boi, I can't wait for the X hours long video talking about each of the 161 individual types of Digimon. XD

[@screechingtoad2683]

Leomon is also virus busters

[@kingtyrone3769]

Great vid everyone watch please 🙏 thank

[@PyrotheFlareon]

Fields are similar to Pokemon's Egg Groups, no need to think about it too much more.

[@yuvalhuck1]

Important lesson, even if the topic is convoluted

[@duskbringer4583]

Yeaah Fields get tricky. (But, can be fun to use in concept when working on custom creations.) Also, good luck trying to do digiecology about Parallelmon.

[@Leonardovideogoes]

burnegreymon is a savior from the depths savers

[@nicholase82]

Honestly i think fields is an outdated concept designed to sell toys based on a theme.

[@chimera763]

Feel like the Traits on the card game are a better version of the fields

[@VirtuesOfSin]

Aren't Fields just locations in the digiworld and their fields are where they can be found?

[@user-jl8td7tb9y]

When sometin's strange, in the neighborhood, who you gonna call? VIRUS BUSTERS!!!

[@RomHunterBlueSilver]

Ehhh I feel like we need em cuz we have different taste of digimon that we want for our team like for example I love machines so gimme either metal empire or any digimon involve cyborg. But come of think of it, most new digimon doesn't have fields at all.

[@VScorpio-oc4ei]

Yeah fields doesn't matter

[@Miksy51]

Do fields matter? My answer is Kinda!

[@AminHarith-qg2ni]

Hey if you guess think ryudamon should be next then like this comment.

[@harikiranv8580]

What abt free type digimon? Aka attributes associated to them!

[@inkchariot6147]

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[@mochie9360]

Hey sensei i think Fields are more similer to the genes in our dna so it usually informsthen possible digivolution