Rush HM story to get NG+

[Lusqe]

So i finished CS and got all the achievements. Now i was wondering if it's worth to just rush through HM story first and get NG+ so i can transfer the digimon and complete everything taking my time on the second playthrough?

i'm going to 100% both games and i really wish i didn't have to grind 100h+ again this time on HM

[V]

Personal opinion: you don't have much of a choice in rushing through. After a certain point you'll get bogged down in battles if you haven't maxed out your digimon's levels or at least get them above level 70~80 at Mega and trained them at least for the 100 extra stat points, if not for the 150 for which you'd need to max out the ABI. But certain evolutions have ABI requirements anyway and for you to be able to be able to level them up sufficiently so as to not get bogged down, you'll have to end up doing the Tactician USB farming at a minimum even if you avoid going through the whole P.Numemon ordeal. And even then, rushing through means avoiding the HM equivalent of taking cases and that means less-earned overall EXP. So you'd have to farm for some EXP with repeated random encounters anyway.

The only reasonable way I can see someone rushing through either game is if they have already grinded their way into optimal stats and digimon with a NG+. You can somewhat reduce the amount of committed grinding you'll do on your first play, but probably not enough that it's worth doing if the whole purpose is to grab your digimon from CS.

If we are talking about reducing the 100h+ to something along 30~50 hours and you find those numbers satisfactory enough to be worth the trouble of a NG+, then yes, "rushing through" should be manageable.

[Lusqe]

Thank you so much for your opinion. I think what you said makes sense.

I saw someone do a speedrun (9h more or less) and thought about taking some notes to reduce de grind overall (i saw they used at least 1 P. Numemon and anyway 2 Ouryumons). I think i'll probably take a few days off, especially because college, and start my HM playthrough soon while enjoying the story.