05-21-2004, 03:50 AM
Something you need a tinity to explain... it's sort of like this:
Virus is concerned with power, therefore a Digimon who is simply supposed to be powerful would fall in easily as a Virus type. Viral digimon can be generally personified as being the "chaotic" alignment out of Digimon, the self-serving ones who care about power over order. As such, they don't form very good teams, because they work on the principle of individual progress.
Data is like the "neutral" political alignment in D&D (The political alignments being Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic), meaning they're as likely to work well with a team as to work well alone, and will be fairly concerned with the well being of the team for purposes other than their own safety. They are, perhaps in a sense, undecided, and could possibly be swayed either way. [This is demonstrated in my "Digimon: TtLG" when Kenmon (Data) becomes a Viral Coyotemon].
Vaccine is like being a "lawful" character in D&D, meaning that in general they're about order and rules and following the rules.
Now these types don't touch on the good-evil scale, or the "moral alignments". We do see some Viral Digimon who in spite of their Chaotic nature are Good heroes (Stingmon, Guilmon) and we also see at least one Vaccine Digimon who in spite of being Lawful is clearly Evil (Lucemon).
As far as strengths, think of it like Paper/Scissor/Rock, but instead make it Virus/Vaccine/Data -- A Virus will almost invariably lose to a Vaccine of the same level in a fair fight, while a Virus will easily defeat the "undecided" Data type. On the other hand, because Vaccines are unlikely to attack something that isn't an obvious threat to order, they are likely to hold back against Data types, resulting in Data winning over Vaccine.
Citing the above example of "Eternal Darkness", you might place the VARIABLE type which is used by Hybrids in the center -- because it's type is EQUAL to the opponent when it evolves, it has no strength or weakness to them. Alternately you could use the No Type as the fourth, because Variable is, well, Variable.
So...
Is sort of how it works... I guess. I can make a quick layout of how it would play out in Photoshop, and I'll post that later on today... Wish I had my canner though, for those pages of Lost Light...
Ah well.
Virus is concerned with power, therefore a Digimon who is simply supposed to be powerful would fall in easily as a Virus type. Viral digimon can be generally personified as being the "chaotic" alignment out of Digimon, the self-serving ones who care about power over order. As such, they don't form very good teams, because they work on the principle of individual progress.
Data is like the "neutral" political alignment in D&D (The political alignments being Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic), meaning they're as likely to work well with a team as to work well alone, and will be fairly concerned with the well being of the team for purposes other than their own safety. They are, perhaps in a sense, undecided, and could possibly be swayed either way. [This is demonstrated in my "Digimon: TtLG" when Kenmon (Data) becomes a Viral Coyotemon].
Vaccine is like being a "lawful" character in D&D, meaning that in general they're about order and rules and following the rules.
Now these types don't touch on the good-evil scale, or the "moral alignments". We do see some Viral Digimon who in spite of their Chaotic nature are Good heroes (Stingmon, Guilmon) and we also see at least one Vaccine Digimon who in spite of being Lawful is clearly Evil (Lucemon).
As far as strengths, think of it like Paper/Scissor/Rock, but instead make it Virus/Vaccine/Data -- A Virus will almost invariably lose to a Vaccine of the same level in a fair fight, while a Virus will easily defeat the "undecided" Data type. On the other hand, because Vaccines are unlikely to attack something that isn't an obvious threat to order, they are likely to hold back against Data types, resulting in Data winning over Vaccine.
Citing the above example of "Eternal Darkness", you might place the VARIABLE type which is used by Hybrids in the center -- because it's type is EQUAL to the opponent when it evolves, it has no strength or weakness to them. Alternately you could use the No Type as the fourth, because Variable is, well, Variable.
So...
Code:
VACCINE
/| ^\
/ | H | \
/ V | \
VIRUS --> DATAIs sort of how it works... I guess. I can make a quick layout of how it would play out in Photoshop, and I'll post that later on today... Wish I had my canner though, for those pages of Lost Light...
Ah well.