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All Digimon belong to one of 3 types: Virus, Vaccine, and Data. Each type has different skills that are available. A balanced amount of each Digimon type will be encountered throughout the game. Types have a large influence on DNA Digivolving.

Type	Themes of techniques	Guard Team	Starting Digimon
Virus	HP and MP drain. Poisoning attacks.	Black Sword	Demidevimon
Vaccine	Assist abilities to heal allies and their themselves.	Gold Hawk	agumon
Data	Attacks that cause negative modifiers like stat reductions or poison.	Blue Falcon	patamon