Digimon always had more interesting monsters and evolutions than Pokemon. I've never really understood why Pokemon beat Digimon.
Edit: Nearly forgot that Digimon even had devolving as well.
Pokemon had the games
Digimon had (and still does, though they're way less frequent than Pokemon games) fantastic games. Digimon world 3 (while grindy) was one of my favorites growing up.
Digimon always had more interesting monsters and evolutions than Pokemon. I've never really understood why Pokemon beat Digimon.
Edit: Nearly forgot that Digimon even had devolving as well.
Pokemon had the games
Digimon had (and still does, though they're way less frequent than Pokemon games) fantastic games. Digimon world 3 (while grindy) was one of my favorites growing up.