So I was procrastinating and decided to take an hour to map out all of the "canon" evolutions of Impmon and... it ended up looking more chaotic than I expected.
It seems like Bandai wanted to make up for Beelzemon not having a thru line in tamers, but then couldn't decide what they wanted it to be so over the years they slapped it with like a hundred different lines.
It's funny how its possible for Impmon's mega to be one of two demon lords, a royal knight, two different alternate forms of something from the Guilmon line, one of the ten legendary warriors, and various spooky guys.
Even though its lines are mostly viruses, Impmon's digivolutions are still accidentally so diverse, and I think that's neat.
I feel like it's a good candidate for the age-old tradition of showing non-digimon fans/Pokemon fans how crazy digimon lines can get.
(Oh, and by 'canon' lines, I meant anything on the wiki and any canon material that made a line for Impmon specificly, like the Chinese app game and liberators. Weirdly, the wiki didn't have Punkmon and the Dijangmon line listed for Impmon, but I think it's because they only count things that you physically see in shows and games cutscenes digivolving. I also might have thrown in a couple of lines that are widely expected by the fandom, but I didn't come close to every single line it's done in games and stuff ever, or it would even more unreadable and that's what the wikia is for)
{{Woo boy. This isn't even all the options for how Impmon can digivolve. And some of the Ultimates can digivolve into others on the list but to keep that simple I just have them as a one to one deal. There are a few things that I took a little liberty with. Like substituting Pixiemon digivolving into BanchoLilymon rather than Rosemon.
While not depicted here, I also thought of a possible “Dark Digivolution” line.
{{ So this is what I think I’ll have as Impmon’s “Dark digivolution” line. Like with other Dark digivolutions it could result from a few different thing. Bad mental state from itself or someone its close to, forced digivolution, abusive tactics. And in exchange for power, Impmon loses its self control.
Recover from it would depend on the severity (what level it gets to) and exact causes. If a bad enough case, Impmon might have to be reborn as a digiegg to recover.
