>>11984958
>rivalry
Didn't really exist, it's just that digimon would constantly get compared to Pokemon because of the "mon".
I remember watching Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon religiously as a kid, but never really thought of them in an adversarial context.
I think Yu-Gi-Oh and TCG are more rival like then Digimon and Pokemon ever really were.
Digimon has always been more like SMT than Pokemon.