Caring for your Digimon has never been more fun than in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth games. These digital monsters range from adorable to incredibly cool, and it's hard not to get attached to them after so much use in battles.
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One nice thing about them is that just like Pokemon, the Digimon in this game have individual personalities. While they don't affect stat gain when leveling up like they do in Pokemon, they do have some mechanical effects in the games – and can even be changed at your whim!
Updated November 4, 2025: We've quickly updated this article to add some recommendations on the best personality types to use for your teammates!
Digimon Personality Overview
They exist in the Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth games eight individual personality typesand every Digimon will have one of them. They are key to use DigiFarms.
These are digital storage devices that allow you to interact with your Digimon by feeding them, setting training regimesor set them tasks.
Each DigiFarm is named a Digimon leader. Personality types of both the head of DigiFarm and every single Digimon will affect the results of these tasks.
Details in the table below how personalities affect DigiFarm commands.
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Personality |
Effect |
Effect as a leader |
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Personalities that influence 'The Train' |
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Resistant |
Get a bonus to your HP gains. |
Give everyone on DigiFarm a bonus to HP gains. |
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Live |
Get a bonus to your SP gains. |
Give everyone on DigiFarm a bonus to SP gains. |
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Fighter |
Get a bonus to ATK gains. |
Give everyone on DigiFarm a bonus to ATK gains. |
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Defender |
Get a bonus to DEF gains. |
Give everyone on DigiFarm a bonus to DEF gains. |
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Witty |
Get a bonus to INT gains. |
Give everyone on DigiFarm a bonus to INT gains. |
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Agile |
Get bonus to SPD gains. |
Give everyone on DigiFarm a bonus to SPD gains. |
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Personalities that influence 'Develop' |
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Builder |
It reduces the time required to complete the current development. |
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Personalities that influence “Investigate” |
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Seeker |
Reduces the time it takes to complete the current search. |
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When you know, you can plan perfect DigiFarm listings for your goals. For Develop and Investigate quests that have full Builder or Searcher Digimon lists, respectively, will reduce quest time 20 minutes each.
Remember that a Digimon can only gain a number of stat points through training equal to the number of points half their ABI plus 50. So a Digimon with 16 ABI could theoretically gain 58 stat points through DigiFarm training.
Use this knowledge, plus the existence of limiter chips that lower trained stats, to build your Digimon to your standards.
How to change a Digimon's personality
There is a way to change your Digimon's personalities. You do it through special patches.
These can drop from some enemies, but it's much easier to simply purchase them. This can be done in Entrance to EDEN an area that is visited in the second chapter. They all cost ¥2,500.
The variety of patches available will increase as you progress through the story:
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Fixes available in the second chapter |
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Development patch |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Builder. |
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Patch for search engines |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Seeker. |
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Patches available in Chapter Seven |
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Resilience patch |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Resistant. |
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A living patch |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Live. |
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Patch for fighters |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Fighter. |
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Fixes available in Chapter 12 |
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Patch Defender |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Defender. |
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Brainy Patch |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Witty. |
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Nimble Patch |
Changes the Digimon's personality to Agile. |
The best personalities for your Digimon
While personalities dictate how your Digimon will gain stat bonuses from DigiFarm training, their main strategic purpose is to determine where the final +100 bonus Digimon stat points are applied.
A fully built, competitive Digimon can only allocate these 100 bonus points to one stat category. You must use the appropriate personality patch (Fighter for ATK, Brainy for INT, Nimble for SPD, etc.) before starting the final training process.
The table below provides the most details common roles for Digimon and which personality is the optimal final choice to maximize their utility in battle.
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Role |
Personality |
Justification |
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A physical attacker |
Fighter |
It maximizes physical damage exit. |
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Special Striker |
Witty |
It maximizes magical damage exit. |
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Support |
Speed |
It ensures that Digimon's support moves fire earlier in the bike. Especially useful for healers. |
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A physical wall |
Defender |
It maximizes damage reductionuseful for Digimon who have naturally high health. |
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Hybrid wall |
Resistant |
Maximizes HP so Digimon can be absorb all kinds of attacks. Good for Digimon with skills that reduce max HP. |
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