So, how do you choose who you want to be on your team?

[Calamity]

is it just me who just went with the original digidestined team?

[Mr. Death]

Nope! It's not just you! A friend of mine did the same.

Me, I base it all on how cool I think they look.

[Asatsuo]

I just went with what I knew at first haha, after that whatever looks cool/hard to obtain XD

[Lynx]

A mix of nostalgia and looks if I am playing casually. If you intend to play on Hard you absolutely have to use INT or DEF piercing/ignoring attacks. Lilithmon/Beelzemon/Rosemon BM all have that. Abilities are also very important. Some are so powerful it is a no-brainer to bring them. The AI in Hard can downright cheat, and using nostalgia-mons won't get you far. Not unless you reset millions of times, have a well trained full team, and tons of spare healing/power up items.

[Justice]

I went with mons I think are really cool, then I found out about INT or DEF piercing attacks.
And three of the mons I wanted anyway already have those. Beelzemon/Lilithmon/Gallentmon is my team. It's pretty good, with Lilith to nuke groups or heal, and Gallent and Beelze to do good damage.
I also got Lilith and Gallent to have Character Reversal, to counter the "Whoops all Viruses" aspect of this team.

[Player 2]

Style factor. If your look doesnt please me, you're getting digivolved in another direction

[KarmaTheAlligator]

At first, I used the ones I knew. Then I wanted to use some that looked cool that have attacks that hit everything, because I thought it'd save time with random encounters. Then I went for good looking ones that had INT or DEF penetrating attacks, because I didn't want to deal with enemy stats. And Mastemon, because that one is OP for boss fights where the boss has a lot of HP.

[Volfogg]

I used to gather Adventure and Tamers mix of a team, but eventually some digimon started to fall off to a degree, MegaGargomon is probably the worst offender, at least Sakuyamon has buff canceling signature move and Duke/Gallantmon doubles as Royal Knight. WarGreymon has very nice signature attacks, ditto with MetalGarurumon. Imperialdramon line feels like a must for Function Call lvl.2 for grinding.

[T-kun]

I just stick to PlatNume & PlatSuka for EXP, managed to use them in boss battles and reach Chapter 11 so far..