>>724530819
>I remember in 01 how frustrating it felt that Takeru almost never evolved, like Patamon was always lagging behind everyone.

Yeah but whenever he evolved he was like a tier above everyone else. Every time he manages to solo someone who just brought down everyone else combined. Devimon just beat up everyones champion forms combined, poof, Angemon takes him out. Piedmon takes out everyone (2 Mega + 5 ultimates), MagnaAngemon nearly solos him. Even in 02, he manages to nearly solo Black Wargreymon, who was on an unstoppable warpath up to that point.

So I could dig that he evolved slowly because you knew that whenever he managed to evolve, shit just got serious.

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