Levels,Ignored

YggdrasilKing Drasil — the host computer — savers

• Yggdrasilthe system itself, with no body at all
• King Drasilthe humanoid form it takes in Savers, once arguing stops working

The Digital World runs on it. Yggdrasil is the administrative system that hosts the setting, and its decisions are structural rather than tactical: in X-Evolution it responds to overpopulation by issuing the X-Program and deleting most of the species alive. It is off the scale because administering a world and fighting in one are different jobs, and it only takes a body when the first has already failed.

• Digimon X-Evolution · 2005 · shown

  Issues the X-Program to cull the Digital World's population, deleting most species.

• Digimon Savers · 2007 · shown

  Presented as the god of the Digital World, taking the King Drasil form to act directly.

The D-ReaperA deletion program that outlived its purpose — tamers

Written before the Digital World as a garbage collector: if the network ever overgrew, this would delete it back. It woke up, decided the condition had been met, and began deleting — then came through into Shinjuku and started on the physical city. It has no level and no evolution because it is not alive; it expands, and the expansion is the attack.

• Digimon Tamers · 2001 · shown

  A program built to delete the Digital World if it exceeded its bounds, which activates and spreads into the real world.

HomeostasisThe thing that picked the children — adventure

A balancing process for the Digital World that chose the Chosen Children and speaks by borrowing one of them. It never fights, never has a form, and never accounts for itself, which is why it is here and not ranked. It is on the page at all because almost everything the heroes accomplish happens because it arranged for them to be there.

• Digimon Adventure · 1999 · shown

  Speaks through Hikari to direct the Chosen Children, identifying itself as a force maintaining balance.

ZeedMillenniummonSealed, never beaten — games

• Millenniummonthe original fusion, already distorting space where it stands
• ZeedMillenniummonthe final form, and the one the time claim is attached to

Its profile credits it with the power to destroy time, and its story is the only one in the franchise that never resolves into a defeat: Ryo cannot kill it, so it is bound instead, and it spends the rest of the games leaking out of the seal. Contested, and honestly so — this is the most `stated` entry in the top tier, and it is ranked first on a claim, not a scene.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Described as possessing power capable of destroying time itself.

• Digimon Adventure 02: Tag Tamers · 2000 · shown

  Millenniummon is contained rather than destroyed, and persists across subsequent games.

LucemonOfficially a Rookie — frontier

• LucemonRookie level on the record — and the form the seal actually held
• Chaos Modereached only after release, by absorbing two Royal Knights
• Shadowlord Modethe state Susanoomon is assembled to answer

This is the entry the page exists for. Lucemon's official level is Rookie — the same rung as the small creatures the heroes start with — and he once governed the entire Digital World, fell, was sealed in the Dark Area, and in Frontier requires the combined spirits of all ten Legendary Warriors to put down. The Reference Book has never corrected the level, because the level was never a measurement.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Lucemon's level is given as Rookie, and as one of the Seven Great Demon Lords.

• Digimon Frontier · 2002 · shown

  Final antagonist; defeated only after the ten Legendary Warriors' spirits combine into Susanoomon.

ApocalymonAssembled from everything that failed — adventure

Everything that ever died badly in the Digital World, pooled. It is made of the data of Digimon that failed to evolve and were discarded, and it arrives with their grievance intact. Before the fight it destroys the Crests outright — the entire power system the series had spent fifty episodes establishing — and the Chosen have to win without it.

• Digimon Adventure · 2000 · shown

  Formed from the accumulated data of Digimon that failed to evolve and were deleted.

• Digimon Adventure · 2000 · shown

  Destroys the Chosen Children's Crests, removing their evolution mechanism before the final fight.

OgudomonAll seven at once — games

The Seven Great Demon Lords are seven of the strongest things in the setting and Ogudomon is what they are when they stop being seven. It carries a leg for each sin and a defence that cancels any attacker carrying malice, which is most of them. Contested because it lives almost entirely in game and card material rather than a series, so most of what supports it is profile text rather than a fight anyone watched.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Described as the union of the Seven Great Demon Lords in a single body.

• Digimon Battle Terminal 02 · shown

  Appears as a final boss, well above the Mega-level roster.

AlphamonThe Royal Knight who does not turn up — games

• Alphamonthe standing form
• Alphamon Ouryukena Jogress with Ouryumon, who becomes the blade

Held in reserve. Alphamon is the Royal Knight the others do not call unless the situation is already lost, and the profile is explicit that it appears only at times of crisis. What it can do is well attested; how often it has needed to is the actual argument for it being this high.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Named among the Royal Knights and described as appearing only in times of crisis.

• Digimon X-Evolution · 2005 · shown

  Acts against Yggdrasil's culling programme rather than for it.

OmnimonOmegamon — two characters in one body — adventure

The franchise's flagship, and its most awkward ranking problem: Omnimon is not a character but two of them, fused. What it did is not in doubt — it is what stopped Diaboromon with a global clock running and a live missile in the air. It stops at this rank because every appearance since has established it as the answer that gets sent, not the question nobody could answer.

• Digimon Adventure: Our War Game · 2000 · shown

  Formed from WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon and destroys Diaboromon before the missile lands.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Listed among the Royal Knights.

SusanoomonTen warriors, one body — frontier

Frontier spends a season establishing that the ten Legendary Warriors are the Digital World's original defence, then has all ten become one thing to deal with Lucemon. Its final act is not a blow but an administrative one: it deletes the Digital World and writes it again, which is the only successful reboot on this page.

• Digimon Frontier · 2003 · shown

  Formed from all ten Legendary Warrior spirits, defeats Lucemon and reformats the Digital World.

FanglongmonThe fifth, at the centre — games

Four Sovereigns hold the compass points and this holds the middle, which the material presents as authority over the other four, not a fifth share of it. Its own demonstrated record is thin — the Sovereigns delegate almost everything — so it sits on stated seniority, and it is marked contested for exactly that reason.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Described as the centre of the Four Holy Beasts and their superior.

• Digimon Tamers · 2001 · scaled

  The Sovereign system it heads is established as the governing power of the Digital World — though Fanglongmon itself never appears.

Imperialdramon Paladin ModeWhat Omnimon becomes a sword for — adventure

• Imperialdramon Fighter Modethe standing combat form
• Paladin Modeafter Omnimon becomes its sword

A fusion that then absorbs a second fusion: Omnimon gives up its own form to become the blade this carries. It is the state the Adventure continuity reaches for when Omnimon alone is established as insufficient, and it ends Armageddemon, which had already beaten everything else on the field.

• Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon · 2001 · shown

  Becomes Paladin Mode using Omnimon's power and destroys Armageddemon.

DaemonThey could not beat him, so they moved him — adventure

One of the cleanest feats on this site, and it is a loss for everybody else. The Chosen Children cannot defeat Daemon. What they do instead is open a gate to the Dark Ocean and push him through it, and the series never brings him back to settle the question. A threat that has to be relocated rather than removed is making a stronger claim than most victories do.

• Digimon Adventure 02 · 2000 · shown

  Cannot be defeated by the Chosen Children, who seal him into the Dark Ocean instead.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Named among the Seven Great Demon Lords.

DiaboromonDoubling — adventure

Its attack is arithmetic. Diaboromon copies itself across the network faster than anything can delete the copies, and by the time anyone understands the problem there are too many to fight — so it launches a nuclear missile at Japan and lets the clock do the rest. Beaten, but the thing that beat it had to be assembled specifically.

• Digimon Adventure: Our War Game · 2000 · shown

  Replicates across the internet beyond any capacity to delete it, and launches a missile at Japan.

BeelzemonThe one that actually killed somebody — tamers

• Beelzemonafter taking the Devas' data
• Blast Modethe form he reaches once he is fighting the D-Reaper instead

Tamers is the series that let a death stand, and this is who caused it. Beelzemon kills Leomon in front of his partner and the show declines to undo it for the rest of its run — the loss drives the back half of the season. Ranked on the demonstration rather than the tier: as a Demon Lord he is outranked here by his own colleagues, and he is the only one of them with a named body.

• Digimon Tamers · 2001 · shown

  Kills Leomon, a death the series leaves permanent and builds its final arc around.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Named among the Seven Great Demon Lords.

BelphemonRage Mode — savers

• Sleep Modethe millennium of dormancy
• Rage Modeawake, and the state everything is measured from

Sloth as a mechanic: it sleeps for a thousand years and everything it is owed comes due at once when it wakes. Savers builds its finale on the waking rather than the sleeping, and Rage Mode is the result — a Demon Lord operated, briefly, as somebody's instrument, which is the detail that keeps it in this tier rather than the one above.

• Digimon Savers · 2006 · shown

  Woken by Kurata and fought as the series' principal Digimon threat in Rage Mode.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Named among the Seven Great Demon Lords, dormant for a thousand years.

MaloMyotismonBelialVamdemon — the third try — adventure

• MyotismonAdventure, and the form that kills Wizardmon
• VenomMyotismonthe first escalation
• MaloMyotismonAdventure 02, and the peak

Two seasons of escalation ending in a form built out of everyone else's wishes — it attacks by trapping its opponents inside what they want. The character underneath it is the one who killed Wizardmon in the first series, which is the death Adventure never took back and the reason this entry carries a body at all.

• Digimon Adventure · 1999 · shown

  As Myotismon, kills Wizardmon during the assault on the Chosen Children.

• Digimon Adventure 02 · 2001 · shown

  Final form traps opponents inside illusions of their own desires.

Gallantmon Crimson ModeDukemon — tamers

• Gallantmonthe standing Mega form
• Crimson Modereached once, against the D-Reaper

Reached once, against the D-Reaper, and not repeatable — the form depends on a bond rather than a level, which is Tamers arguing with the ladder in the most direct way the franchise ever did. It fights a program that is eating a city and it makes progress, which almost nothing else on the field manages.

• Digimon Tamers · 2002 · shown

  Reaches Crimson Mode during the D-Reaper conflict and engages it directly.

AzulongmonQinglongmon — one quarter of the sky — adventure

A Sovereign, which in this franchise means a landlord more than a fighter. Azulongmon turns up in Adventure 02 to explain the setting and hand back the power the Chosen had lost, and that is most of the record — enormous standing, very little of it ever cashed. Last in the ranking because authority and demonstration are different columns and this page only counts one.

• Digimon Adventure 02 · 2000 · shown

  Appears as one of the Four Sovereigns and restores the Chosen Children's lost evolutionary power.

• Digimon Reference Book · stated

  Named as one of the Four Holy Beasts governing the Digital World.