THESE AREN'T THE SAME?!?! Reacting to "Pokemon vs Digimon Death Battle" 

- Digimon FTW - Big differences between the two is that in Pokemon battles are sport while in Digimon 99% of the time they're fighting for their lives (There was death quite a bit in the series). Power wise Digimon vastly outmatch majority of Pokemon and are way more intelligent. - The anime scenes with Red are from a special Pokemon Origins. Mainly exist to promote Gen 6

Pokémon was inspired by bug catching and Digimon was inspired by Tamagotchis. They're really not that similar, but they're similar enough that I can see why some people would think that one of them intentionally copied the other.

fun fact, in a episode, Tai actually punched two Bakemon ghost digimon, and hit a third with a pipe. Kids not afraid to get violent. His sisters even worse, her digimon got into a hair pulling fight with a female devil and was yelling "punch her lights out!"

Tai punching Red was so in character, since in Digimon, the kids would punch a lot, especially Tai and Matt

The fact that Digimon could talk is what sold it for me as a kid. What's better than a Magic Fighting Dog best friend? A TALKING MAGIC FIGHTING DOG BEST FRIEND!!! Like would you rather have a Flareon or Red XIII as a best friend?

This is one of my personal favourites, even though I saw my childhood kill my other childhood.

"I though Digimon was knock off Pokemon" To this day it hurts to know that Digimon never got as popular as it could because of this mindset :( Most people never even gave it chance Digimon started as edgier Tamagochi that could battle, it was a pet raising simulator but with fights, the original name was V-Pets if I'm correct, and they were released about a year after Pokemon released in Japan, back in 1996, but they were just that, Tamagochi made to sell for boys since it was mostly popular with girls, never intended as a pokemon clone. Digimon was a pet raising game with combat. Pokemon was a monster collector RPG. However with time Digimon games evolved and now you have two variants, the RPG's where you raise a team of Digimon to battle and do quests to progress the story. And pet raising Digimon games where you have 1-2 Digimon that constantly grow old, die and come back with stronger stats. If anything, Digimon tries new concepts all the time unlike Pokemon wich in the main titles mostly stuck with what works, and honestly that's kinda ok.

“I don’t think Red is going to attack Tai.” Well, you weren’t wrong😂

To be honest while Pokemon and Digimon have a lot of cosmetic similarities, in terms of structure, power levels and plot Digimon is probably overall a better comparison to Dragon Ball Z than it is to Pokemon

Something that they glossed over for digimon is that in several of the games, digivolving restores their hitpoints and mp/mana in addition to increasing their base stats. So if they were using game logic here, Augumon would literally be healing off all damage dealt each time, making the fight even more busted.

The whole monster and evolution thing is basically the only thing digimon has in common with Pokemon. One main difference is that digimon rarely have thematic evolution lines and any given digimon could have dozens of potential evolution choices. And that’s not even taking into account fusion. Plus, as shown in the Death Battle, Digimon as a whole as a lot stronger than Pokemon.

The thing were they went "Wait he just digivolved" was a reference to the controversy Mega Evolution faced when it was first revealed for Gen 6, when people called it a rip-off of Digimon with the temporary changes to more powerful forms. While people came to love Mega Evolution calling it a digimon ripoff was very common in the months leading up to the games release.

Broomstick: He’s greeted by a bouncing pink blob that can talk. Koromon: I’m you friend! Duck: *Didn’t heard Boomstick because he was talking.* They can talk?!?

Digimon wasn't made to rip-off Pokemon, it was made to succeed Tagamotchi. They wanted to target older kids. They started as toys, like Tagamotchi. Only they added one particularity with the Digimon Tagamotchi-like toys: The ability to fight other Digimon. Once that became famous, they decided to make an anime. And oh boy! It was amazing! I hope that I got that right.

I grew up with this show and knew it would be a slaughter. Metal Greymon alone completely outclassed Mega Charizard. Not to mention he technically had one more form they did not bring up. War Greymon can combine with an equally powerful Digimon called Metal Garurumon to become the all powerful Omni-mon. But it was a one-on-one-ish fight so no merging this time, not that he even needed to. Also, unlike pokemon trainers, the Digi Destined had no problems personally throwing down when needed.

Red is actually in his early 20’s as of today. Also canonically never speaks in the games. Probably because he was living on top of a frozen mountain for a few years but that’s neither here nor there

The digivolution levels are: - Baby (when they just born from the egg - In-training (when they slowly start developing limbs or inteligence like Koromon - Rookie (their child form like Agumon) - Champion (their adult form) - Ultimate (like a more powerfull and develop adult form) - Mega (their last stage and ultimate form) In the original japanese version they are called: Fresh or Baby Level 1, Baby Level 2, Child, Adult, Perfect and Ultimate (which makes sense If you think about It)

This episode has revealed how duck treats his friends: he’d rather them exist and not actually talk to him. (This is a joke)

"You'd think charizard would be taller than that." *RIGHT?!* even when I was younger I questioned that.

Red is the trainer you play as in the first pokemon games, he got his own little anime spinoff series called pokemon origins. it only had 4 episodes though.

Well, the Digimon anime did come out after the Pokemon anime, but Digimon is hardly a "knock-off" of Pokemon, the only thing they really have in common is the "mon" in their title (which stands for Monster) and the concept of creatures transforming into other creatures. But all in all, they are different in pretty much every other aspect. Although, i do think the argument is valid that Digimon probably partially did try to profit off of the Pokemon hype a bit, though as said, they have differenciated themselves from one another heavily. (Also, they are doing "Red" and not "Ash", cause Red is the official protagonist of the first Pokemon game, and therefore older than Ash).

Just so you know, it doesn't matter much which came first because Digimon was based on Tamagotchi. The mon in the end of their names is just an abbreviation of "monsters", and it's the only real similarity.

Something to note about Digimon. Unlike the majority of Pokemon, Digimon evolution lines branch out and overlap basic in their personality and environment. The Death Battle briefly mentioned how Greymon transformed into SkullGreymon instead of MetalGreymon, but much more than "Good or Evil" forms. For ex: Agumon can not only grow to became Greymon, but is also became a Tyrannomon (a red dinosaur), a Meramon (a human-like guy made of fire), or a Birdramon (a giant fire bird ) And each of those have like 2 to 4 have their own evolution branches.

Fun fact: this was the episode that got them thinking about making deaths that match more with the series that the characters are from rather than just being brutal

12:12 Duck... Would you rather have a Pikachu saying pika pika... or having Ryan Reynolds voice coming from him?

Pokémon were designed for competitions, Digimon were more designed for war, they literally get stronger by killing other Digimon and absorbing their data; both are great shows but there is a fundamental difference in the intended purpose behind the two (companionship vs combat)

" _Why would they pick Red and not Ash?_ " Because Ash sucks as a trainer. The only pokemon "trainer" worse than him is Rusty.

red didn't just try to catch mewtwo he caught him. as for digimon it was out in america in the 90's. I should know being a 90's kid back in the day. also the channel was called fox kids. btw next one is dante vs bayonetta.

I loved digimon as a kid and the outcome of this fight was in no way shape or form a surprise digimon are nuts. It was a really cool show.

The main difference is that in Pokemon, trainers fight for fun, where in Digimon, the kids are fighting for their lives and eventually, the whole world...

If you needed any more incentive to watch Digimon, there is a giant cactus with boxing gloves called Togamon.

My friend for the longest time was like everyone else who thought Digimon was a rip off till i showed her Cyber sleuth and lost her mind. Really only thing they have in common is the mon in their names. Also pokemon has one cannonical god and it's three children while digimon has whole pantheons, it's crazy how much they can do with their monsters and designs

They never have been the same. I was sold on the franchise as soon as I heard they were able to talk.

pokemon can talk to - you just need subtitles to understand them ;/ just doesn't matter much when you beat them senseless and force them into tiny little balls :P mfg Olli

Some of the Pokemon clips used in this were from Pokemon Origins, a small series on RU-vid based off of The Pokemon Red and Blue games

in Digimon, there are death counts on both the monsters and human. Not sure about Pokemon thou. When Digimon fights, its often a fight to the death, and the "partner" (aka trainer) are physically involved in the fight too sometimes and had to literally fight alongside their digimon. I think that's what put Digimon on higher level than Pokemon (story-wise).

Digimon did technically come first, i the form of a Tamagotchi spinoff known simply as "Digital Monster."

Digimon came first, as a digital pet.

02:20 "Why are they doing Red and not Ash?" The poor man. He has no idea...This video is going to be amazing. 12:02 - 12:13 Kyle is against Digimon rights confirmed.

Duuude, I can't believe you've never watched Digimon, you're missing out..haha, the first two series were classics. The third series, Tamers, was amazing too, it got super dark for a kid's show. Series 4 was a bit meh, and series 5 was good imo but nearly killed the show since it was unpopular in the US..lol, and the reboot they're doing now is pretty amazing, as were the sequel movies to the original series.

"Two in a right!" XD Congrats, dude! Let's hope this is the new streak!

Fun fact: Wargreymon isn't even Agumon's strongest form. If he fuses with his rival Metalgarurumon they form Omnimon, who outclasses Wargreymon so much it's not even funny.

Digimon will always be my favorite between the two. I loved this video to show just how the skill range is way different between the two

Yeah, this was tough to see Charizard lose but I was always a Venusaur kid who liked Digimon. I mean this was the franchise where you could have a talking cat that became an angel... who had to have inspired Victoria's Secret Runways, rained down celestial light and got into a literal catfight with LadyDevimon lol. I think the franchises spoke more for what kids may want. Pokemon is about wanting to be the best and collect all these cool creatures. Digimon though was more about facing the world with a friend who you grew stronger with over time to the point the third season, Tamers, involved unlocking mega forms by having the kids combine with their partners. The crazy thing is that, over the last few years, Agumon has gotten even crazier in forms. Aside from the Omnimon digivolutions, we also have Metalgreymon''s Alterous mode, BlitzGreymon and a weird form of Machinedramon. Then there's last evolution where we see Agumon's final form which is on the same power level as Omnimon if not more.

2:20 "Also Why are they doing Red and not Ash?" Because Ash is terrible. He can master an entire region and then step foot onto another and lose to a level 3 bird he never saw before. Ash has no strategy, he just slowly memorizes every pokemon until he knows how to counter. Anything new destroys him.

Honestly they also undersold a few of Agumon's feats. A Champion mind you is basically equivalent to ANY fully Evolved Pokemon. At most, a LOW TIER Ultimate is equal to any Legendary in Pokemon in terms of destructive force. Agumon (the 'standard' form) by end of Season 1 could beat some Champions (Standard+1 Form) and knock around upgraded/enhanced Champions during Tri. During the OVA (the part with little kid Tai and his sister) Greymon was already capable of nuking a Parrotmon - an ULTIMATE (albeit, this isn't entirely fair as it doesn't retain this power during the series proper and the OVA was retconned into the anime canon). WarGreymon's Dramon Killers do SEVERE upgrades in damage, WarGreymon could slice through any Mega Level Dragon-type (even if they were machine based like Mugendramon/Machinedramon) with RELATIVE ease. They ain't vorpal (guaranteed kill), but the moment WarGreymon came out it was beyond overkill. Also, not mentioned but is canonically part of Agumon's 'evolution line', it has 2 unmentioned FURTHER Mega Forms, through Combination (Gattai) Digivolution. Omegamon/Omnimon and Omegamon Alter-S/Omnimon Alter-S, which the former contain the power to slightly read the future, the Omega/Omni inFORCE, and thus predict any of their foe's actions while drawing out his full combat potential. The later presumably has it too as it's noted to have all the capabilities of the original Omnimon. To note, it says Agumon survived fighting 1 million of a digimon (which is a Mega Level) and was lucky to take out a handfull. Omnimon wiped out hundreds of thousands of that digimon in a single swing, to give you an idea of the power difference.

You need to start watching Digimon, this reaction is priceless 😂

I feel old cuz Dante vs Bayonetta was the most recent DB when i got into it 😣

"i don't like digimon can toalk"it's literally what makes them better than all Pokemon. they are living beings with feelings and emotions that interface as humans with whom they grow and help them grow. they are not animals

Why are they using Red and not Ash? Red: 1: a canonical champion 2: Protagonist of the first game 3: secret boss of Pokemon gold and silver(very hard) 4: Was made even harder in the remakes 5: a reocurring post main game boss 6: Canonical strongest trainer 7: Defeated and caught Mewtwo Ash: 1: Notorious for losing repeadedly 2: forgetfull (forgets typing, weaknesses and all his skills and tricks with almost every new season) 3: has a poorly optimized team with weaker pokemon than red 4: known for not defeating champions 5: featured only in one pokemon game(technically) 6: His Charisard won't obey him 7: failed to defeat Mewtwo

In Digimon the human characters and their Digimon partners had to go through life and death situations throughout the show plus they had to face some very powerful enemies Hell in the 4 season of digimon the main enemy was named Lucemon who is basically a digimon version of Lucifer.

Pokemon is about sport, Digimon is about bringing balance to the force in isekai setting, also Red is what Ash wants to be so hes far better trainer and Ash`s bond is strongest with Pikachu who doesnt wanna evolve and is just one of strongest pokemon at his level EDIT: now might be perfect time to react to Digimon series :D

Pokemon: A battle royale between trainers and the Pokemon Gyms. Digimon: 7 kids get transported to a new world and meet their Digimon partner. These 7 kids must learn to overcome their differences, put aside their traumatic backstories, and learn to cooperate with one another in order to defeat the ultimate evil threatening to enslave the Digimon and also threatening to destroy the human world.

Glad to see you back on the right track Kyle

Ah Digimon, the show was so cool, which was licensed to Fox Kids back in the day, the memories, and Ash was based on Red who is the OG trainer in Pokémon, when you fight him in the sequel, it's a big deal.

My favorite part is you learning about these franchises

People are really underselling ash just because they pick out a couple of moments in black and white or whatever whilst ignoring his unorthodox improv strategies that throw opponents off, the fact he had a Mythic & ultra beast and fusion

That pokemon anime that is mostly shown here is 90 minutes long special (4 episode in separate) that tells the story from Red and Blue games, and mix together the current state of pokemon with mega evolutions. Character red is the original trainer name for some of the early pokemon games.

Oh, the black guy is Torrian and he was the show's only 3D animator until season 6 when the SFM team came along.

The next episode will feature * Lackluster research * Botched verdict * ...and possibly the 2nd or 3rd best animation the show ever had

If you want to experienced Digimon, there is the Digimon Adventure 2020 (which is the reboot of the first anime) and is recomended watch on sub since is better to understand and there is no dub anyway.

The Pokémon series they used is called Pokémon origins, it a pretty small series following the character red from the Pokémon games as far as I’m aware

Thinking about it now, I would have loved it if instead of tai, it was Marcus… it would have been a much shorter but much funnier fight, since marcus would just immediately start wailing on Charizard and then once agumon digivolved, Marcus would just move on to red and kick his ass too

In almost every situation a digimon that's allowed to digivolve will beat a pokemon that's allowed to use everything a pokemon has, Gigantamax and all. There are some outliers like Babamon just it's just a rule of thumb.

I never thought about it until fairly recently, but technically yeah, Digimon is an Isekai anime. And the first three seasons of it are much better than any season of the Pokemon anime IMO. It can get surprisingly dark for an anime meant for kids, especially in the third season.

2:00, No that's not Godzilla, that's the Rhedosaurus from 'The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms', the movie that directly inspired the creation of Godzilla

"Why start with Red and not Ash?" Well you see, you gotta start with the original. Red came before Ash. The game came before the show. The main character of pokemon Red was well... Red.

I love this video it's so funny for me who grew up with both to see someone like you react :D Now I want you to react to the original Digimon show :D

1) red should have already stopped when he noticed greymon already had a trainer óO - he went full team rocket there... 2) look up the japanese or german digimon intros to cure you from this trauma :P - I thought it was a joke when I found a video once comparing the intros for different languages and all (germany/japan,etc) had for each season a unique intro and fighting theme and all you got is that "jingle"... every season... 3) they skipped metal greymon - well technically there were a lot of other forms too and fusions and stuff so red got lucky to only getting vaporized :P mfg Olli

Digimon came out in 97 and Pokemon in 96. Both played on Fox kids in the 90s and aired at the same time.

This one is one of my favourites. The kill was so brutal. While I'm a fan of both now, I'll still always prefer pokemon so I can't deny it still hurts, but it was such a good fight. I remember that I left one of the many salty comments on there. It was on an old account that I don't remember the name of so I can't find it, but I do wonder how many people have seen it and cringed at it. I know I certainly would.

Lol imagine if it was Red vs vs tai(2020). red would get stomped literally

If I wanted to make a game, I'd get on Dreams and make one, the only hard part is watching all the tutorial videos

This is late but that song towards the latter end of the fight you liked was Uncontrollable from Xenoblade Chronicles X. Very cool song.

so the fun thing with digimon is that they aren't heavily censored most of the time like yugioh and pokemon. (look up deputymon) This leads to quite a few of the human main characters getting into scraps. Heck there is one protag who literally punches multiple enemy digimon while being 100% human.

In regards to Digimon, I can only speak to the first 4 seasons, which are each different series. Season 1, I'm not the biggest fan, but it's good. Season 2, I remember being more invested, but I never finished it because the airing was all over the place by the time I got into the series as a kid. Season 3, fantastic. Many who like digimon cite this season as the best, and I'd say it deserves it, especially with its plot and characters. Season 4, my introduction to the series, and I'd say I prefer it to the first two seasons, but 3 is still superior to me. There's, like, 5 other seasons, I think, but I know none of them.

Also if you watched digimon you'd know tai isn't afraid to throw hands

Digimon Adventure (series 1) was aired on Fox Kids from 1990-2000 and was on repeat all the time. This was followed by a direct sequel Digimon Adventure 02 (series 2) which ran from 2000-2001, also on Fox Kids. They both also had like 4 movies. But the translators for the English dub spliced the first 3 movies (which were completely different) into one long movie and release it in theaters as Digimon The Movie. It was kind of a big deal. Digimon are fully sapient life forms with their own goals and desires, most are as smart as, or smarter than humans. Many have built societies, living in cities or towns within the digital world, and many even have jobs. They even have their own folklore and religions, featuring multiple divine figures and devils/demon lords. Talking is honestly the least impressive thing about them, most speak multiple languages.

I feel sorry for any Pokémon only fans that watched this match because all of us that watched both know how massive the power gap really is. Tai and Agumon winning this was no surprise to us it was an inevitable. Seriously the first 13 episodes of Digimon are better than every season of Pokémon combined except for Pokémon Chronicles those were actually good stories of the Pokémon world and would have made me start watching Pokémon again is they had kept making them.

The Japanese music score for Digimon is so so good. I get, that the English localization wakes a lot of nostalgia for people, but as I grew up with the German version, which kept the original music, I can't help but find the Digimon rap a bit cringe inducing. Either way the series is worth a watch and most the games are worth looking into as well. Most people outside the fandom probably don't even know that Digimon is getting a revival atm with new seasons/roboots and games out or on the horizon.

Well than how about Digimon Adventure for your next reaction series? (just don't watch English dub, they put so much unnecessary jokes in the dialog, it's sickening) I am sick and tired of people saying that Digimon was a cheap knock-off! Yes, they both end with Mon, becouse that simply is the short term for Monster! Poket Monsters. Digital Monsters!

"I thought Digimon was knock-off Pokémon" Ok, Jeff, #throwanotherbanjoonthefire

I would love you to react to the digimon adventures[OG] version-it's interesting to see just what inspirations it took from pokemon since both were created around the same time.

Welp, time for you to react to Digimon Adventure Abridged (yes its a thing)

Does- Does Kyle not know that 75% of legendary Pokemon can talk?

The anime of Red (the game protagonist of Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow) that they based this Death Battle off of was Pokemon Origins, a more direct adaptation of Generation 1 than what Ash's side of things did. He battled Blue, collected the badges of Kanto, defeated Giovanni, all that. But since it was around the time of Generation 6, when Mega Evolutions were introduced, Origins just decided to give Red's Charizard his Mega form. You CAN catch Mewtwo. Any Pokemon, you can catch it. Even God. Even Satan. Yes, God and Satan are Pokemon from the Sinnoh region. Isekai is that genre you're thinking of. EEH-suh-kai. And yeah, this was around the time that I actually started watching Death Battle as it came out. I remember when this came out, it blew my MIND. Hope you're excited, Season 3 might have some of my favorites. Flash v Quicksilver looms ever closer, my precious baby...

What I will say about Digimon that I thought was much better was that aside from Adventure 02(which I hated except for Blackwargreymon) each series followed new protagonists and potentially took place in a different world. For instance in Tamers(3rd season) Adventure and Adventure 02 are just supposed to be shows and Digimon a game however both in the season and in the season movies they have crossover with characters from Adventure(introducing a multiverse aspect).

"Why Red and not Ash?" Three simple reasons; 1: Red was first, as the only player character of the first games, 2: is more commonly connected to Charizard than Ash is, and 3: Has access to Mega Evolution.

I'm a bit late, but Digimon was an anime commercial for Bandai's second Virtual pet line: Digimon - Digital Monsters, which predated Pokémon, but gained popularity alongside Pokémon at the same time. Yes they remade Pokémon. Also, new Digimon VPets, TV shows and Video Games are still made to this day. The story of Seasons 1 and 2 were finished with a movie series, the final movie of which was released last year.

Also Digimon technically came before Pokémon.

In Digimon they have stages starting from In Training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and Mega

And there are many just as or even more Diginom out there in the series'. If you liked Mega Charrizard's color sceme and coolness, you'd probably love Beelzebumon (motor bike or winged mode are both cool and powerful)

Yes they made a small series called pokemon origins that they showed for the death battle intro there

That clip shown in the beginning was not Godzilla, it was (with dramatic flair) The BEAST from 20,000 Fathoms! An early creation from creature effects pioneer, the legendary Ray Harryhausen! Harryhausen used stop-motion animation(taking a picture of it, moving it, taking another picture and repeating the steps until you have something that appears to move on its own) to create many memorable monsters!

The pokemon tv series is called pokemon origins which of I recall is only four episodes and regarding red being in the games, red was the protagonist in the first pokemon games although the player can name him anything they wanted at the beginning of every playthrough, red is his canonical name.

Oh boy, my favorite death battle...this is gonna be fun (?)

Duck is learning I am so happy 😭😭

Digimon has actually hopped channels quite a bit, it sued to be on Fox Kids, eventually it aired on Disney's Jetix before it became Disney XD, and it's even been on Nickelodeon with Nicktoons and I think also CW being the last channels to air it

I think the next episode is dante vs bayonetta? I know nothing about either of them but just know that it's another one of death battle's best fight animations like... ever. So that's worth being excited about even if you know as little about the combatants as I do.

it's available on the pokemon official channel, I think the series is names Pokemon Origins