Building powerful Digimon in Digimon Story Time Stranger isn’t just about leveling up or evolving fast. It’s about understanding how bonds, personality types, and stat stacking work together to create truly strong digital monsters. This guide explains how to make your Digimon stronger step-by-step — from increasing bond levels to aligning personality types and optimizing your digital loop.
Step 1: Focus on Bond Level (The Foundation of Power)
Before you start worrying about stats, weapons, or evolutions, you need to raise your Digimon’s bond level. A strong bond allows your Digimon to retain and stack stats every time you Digivolve or De-Digivolve — a process often referred to as the digital loop.
- Minimum bond requirement: 10%
- Ideal bond level: 100%
At 10% bond, you’ll start seeing stat retention after Digivolving. The higher your bond, the greater your Digimon’s long-term growth.
Step 2: How to Increase Bond Fast
There are two main methods to raise your bond:
1. Slow (Free) Method
- Battle with your Digimon in the active party (+1% bond).
- Talk to your Digimon after battles (+1% bond).
It takes around three to four battles before the dialogue option appears again, but this method costs no money.
2. Fast (Paid) Method
- Use the DigiFarm and feed your Digimon food items bought from the theater shop.
- If your Digimon loves the food, you’ll see a heart icon, granting +2% bond instead of +1%.
While this speeds things up, it can become expensive if you’re pushing toward 100%.
If you want to make money faster, consider the Money Dungeon or use the Millionaire USB from the Public Safety Suit bundle — it doubles your income and makes bond training more affordable.
Step 3: Align Personality Type
Strong Digimon don’t rely only on stats — their personality type determines how effective their abilities and skills are.
Each Digimon’s personality impacts their growth focus (Attack, Defense, Support, etc.). For example:
- Adoring Personality: Ideal for support or tank Digimon since it improves healing and survival.
- Philanthropy Personality: Boosts recovery skills for healers.
To change personality:
- Train your Digimon in the DigiFarm.
- This process takes real time but can also slightly boost your stats passively.
- If you want to speed it up, you can invest money to shorten training time.
Properly aligning personality to your Digimon’s skill set ensures optimal performance in battle.
Step 4: Stack Stats Through the Digital Loop
The Digital Loop — Digivolving and De-Digivolving repeatedly — is the key to long-term stat growth. Each time you loop, your Digimon retains a portion of their previous stats. Over time, this cumulative stacking makes them significantly stronger. Here’s how it works:
- Once you reach 10% bond, stat retention starts to apply.
- Continue looping your Digimon through evolutions and devolutions to grow their cumulative stats.
- Repeat until your key stats reach your desired targets (some players aim for the 9999 cap).
This isn’t just for min-maxing. It’s the best way to strengthen your Digimon naturally while playing the game.
Step 5: Load and Level Efficiently
When you reach high bond and talent levels, you can begin loading other Digimon into your main one. This process transfers a portion of experience and stat power, helping you level faster without grinding battles endlessly.
- Use rookie or higher-level Digimon as load material.
- Focus on feeding your main Digimon to boost their stats and overall power.
This is a time-consuming method, but it’s the key to unlocking top-tier strength later in the game.
Step 6: Final Preparation and Optimization
Once your Digimon reaches max bond and talent, you’re ready to focus on the final polish:
- Fine-tune personality type for maximum synergy with their moveset.
- Keep looping evolutions to further enhance cumulative stats.
- Continue using the load function to increase level efficiency.
At this point, your Digimon will be able to handle high-level battles, bosses, and late-game challenges with ease.
Making strong Digimon in Digimon Story Time Stranger comes down to three things — bond, personality, and stat stacking. By combining these steps, your Digimon won’t just evolve — they’ll dominate. Remember: Rush to 10% bond first. Align personality with your Digimon’s role. Keep looping evolutions and loading to boost stats over time. Follow these steps, and you’ll soon have digital monsters capable of taking on any challenge the Digital World throws your way.