User blog:Shiramu-Kuromu/How to digivolve DemiDevimon into Devimon in Digimon World DS

Introduction:
In Digimon World DS, for DemiDevimon to be able to digivolve into Devimon, it requires a Level of 28, but a Friendship stat of 20 or lower. Doesn't sound hard, right? Wrong. By default, when you DigiConvert a Digimon, it starts at 1/3rd of the way to maximum friendship, which would translate to around 33-34 friendship when you first acquire it. What does this mean? This means that, other than leveling DemiDevimon to Level 28, you need to lower its friendship to around 20 or lower. So how do you go about doing this?

Key Steps to getting DemiDevimon ready to digivolve into Devimon:

 * The first step is to ensure you have a Digimon with you in your party which is capable of winning a random encounter battle, but also has a means in which it can allow for DemiDevimon to get attacked and knocked out before it proceeds to win the battle.
 * The next step is to train DemiDevimon to where its Stress stat is around 90-100 stress, preferably at 100 stress. Considering the movepool of VenomMyotismon and MaloMyotismon requires a lot of MP, I recommend the Pyramid Farm Good, since that has the MPCoreChipD which boosts Max MP by 8 upon success and increases stress by 10 points per use.
 * Every time you evolve DemiDevimon into Devimon and then hit Mega Level with either VenomMyotismon or MaloMyotismon, and you want to degenerate to DemiDevimon to raise Aptitude with, immediately go back to the DigiFarm to train DemiDevimon to max out its stress stat again.
 * To count as being knocked out in battle in-order to decrease friendship, the battle must be won, meaning if you somehow get your whole party to wipe, then it won't count.

Recommended Training Areas:

 * Lava River (requires Gold Tamer)
 * Core Field (requires Platinum Tamer)
 * Destroyed Belt (requires Quest #60 to be started and or cleared)

Other useful notes:

 * Also worth noting is that the above steps can be repeated at any point should you need to degenerate down to DemiDevimon, but I only recommend degenerating all the way down to DemiDevimon to increase Aptitude. By degenerating from Mega down to Rookie, you'll earn 15 additional levels to your Aptitude stat.
 * Myotismon requires 2,500 Dark Species Experience in addition to Level 32 to digivolve from Devimon, and VenonMyotismon requires a total of 99,990 experience from any given source to digivolve from Myotismon, as well as being Level 56. MaloMyotismon requires you have an second DemiDevimon on hand in addition to a level requirement to digivolve Myotismon into it, as well as being Level 45. Remember these differing requirements wisely when training this Digimon line.
 * If you want to train DemiDevimon or its digivolutions to have a high amount of experience quickly as to acquire VenomMyotismon with, you can equip Experience Rings which can be bought from the shop to boost the amount of experience you gain in a battle; though do note, however, that this only works effectively when battling stronger Digimon rather than weaker ones from earlier parts of the game.
 * To acquire DemiDevimon's digivolutions without having to worry about digivolving them from DemiDevimon, you can get Devimon's Scan Data at Drain Tunnel, Myotismon's Scan Data at Chrome Mine, and VenomMyotismon's Scan Data at the very last segment of Destroyed Belt.
 * After clearing 30 Favor Quests (50% Completion), Myotismon offers a quest which requires you to get Herb Tea. However, this ALSO requires you to have a Numemon in your party to get the necessary item from which to complete the quest with. As Numemon is a DigiEgg only Digimon, it is not recommended to complete this quest as soon as you can unless you have a means of which to breed for DigiEggs as to acquire Numemon with.