Digimon Story: Time Stranger – How to change a Digimon’s personality

One of the key parts of the gameplay loop in Digimon Story: Time Stranger is evolving and devolving Digimon, and you’ll need to do a lot of both of these things to get through the game. For the most part, this process is relatively straightforward — you need certain stat thresholds to evolve most Digimon into another specific creature, and getting there is fairly simple in the early game. 

As you get into the mid- and late-game, however, the evolution conditions are a lot more challenging. The required stat thresholds are much higher, and you might not necessarily be able to meet those thresholds. One of the ways you can change this is through your Digimon’s personality value, which is one of 16 personality types that define how particular stats grow over time. Some personality values are even required for evolution, with many Mega and all DNA evolutions requiring specific personality values on one or more Digimon. 

Changing your Digimon’s personality is possible, but it’s a slow and sometimes frustrating process. That’s why we’ve put together this guide to help you find the best approach to changing your Digimon’s personality in Digimon Story: Time Stranger. 

How to change a Digimon’s personality – Digimon Story: Time Stranger 

Changing your Digimon’s personality can be done in a few different ways, although none of them are particularly straightforward. 

The easiest way to change your Digimon’s personality is to have it as a part of your active party, where it will appear in the overworld while you’re in the Digimon World and certain dungeons and locations. After a battle, your Digimon will sometimes have a speech bubble above its head, indicating that it’s available to talk to. Doing so will usually have you answering a question that the Digimon is asking, and you can have between two and four different answers to choose from, some of which will be marked with personality icons. Answering with one of the marked answers will shift the Digimon’s personality towards one of the types associated with that personality group. 

Digimon in your box and farm can also sometimes text you with the same kinds of questions, and answering them in the same way will also result in a personality shift. This is fairly rare, though, so it can’t be relied upon, especially if you have a large amount of Digimon. 

When answering these questions, you won’t necessarily get to choose the specific personality type — there are four personality groups, and when you shift a Digimon’s personality enough for it to change, the personality type you get will be chosen from among four personality types within that group. 

One tip worth noting is that you can sometimes fudge this system a little by swapping Digimon into your active party from the box. If a Digimon has a speech bubble above their head, you can open up the Setup menu and swap a Digimon from the box into the spot that the talkative Digimon was in. When you exit out of the menu, the previously boxed Digimon will now be in their place, and will often still have the speech bubble above their head. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s a good way to grind out personality changes rapidly until you get the one that you want. 

You can also change your Digimon’s personality on the DigiFarm. When a Digimon is placed into the DigiFarm, you can opt to train it with specific Training Sets. Each of these sets takes 15 minutes of real time to complete, and shifts the Digimon’s personality towards one of the axes seen on the Digimon’s personality screen. This can be a slow and very annoying process, and can sometimes require obtaining more Training Sets to make your way over to the right personality type, but it is at least consistent and you will, eventually, be guaranteed to get to the value you want.