Unless you give Red Arceus scaling, Tai still beats him easily.
Yeah, I said "might not be as big of a stomp nowadays".
Although, I'm surprised how big of a tiering gap we have between Arceus & The CT, even if I suppose it makes sense.
I guess Akari/Rei has a better chance against Tai.
Also, if by "easily" you mean "needs WarGreymon" to get past CT scaling. (At least, with the ratings currently on the profiles.)
Taichi "Tai" Yagami and Agumon are main characters from Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Adventure Tri. The original "Goggle-Boy" duo, Tai and Agumon serve as the de facto leaders of the DigiDestined, fighting side-by-side through thick and thin. Taichi is the older brother of...
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Tier: High 8-C |
6-C | At least
High 6-C | At least
High 6-C | At least
5-B,
1-C via Power of God |
1-C
Key: Agumon |
Greymon |
SkullGreymon |
MetalGreymon |
WarGreymon |
Adventure 02 and TRI
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Tier: 9-B.
2-B, likely
2-A with preparation |
High 7-C | At least
7-A | At least
7-A |
2-B, likely
2-A
Key: By Himself |
Pokémon Team (Celestic Town) |
Pokémon Team (Team Galactic HQ) |
Pokémon Team (Distortion World) |
Pokémon Team (Gen 7)
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Tier: Low 1-C |
1-A
Key: Avatars |
True Form (The Heart/Original Spirit)
Also, your "Unless" conditional, I presume, only refers to how easily the Agumon Tai has wins; The only Arceus a Pokemon trainer can get is an Avatar in Pokemon: Legends Arceus, IIRC.
So if we're going by our ratings, unless True Form Arceus got involved on behalf of its Low 1-C Avatar, 1-C WarGreymon (But not its lower forms.) still wins, anyway, yeah.
Though any member of the Creation Trio (Palkia, Dialga, Giratina.) or anyone who scales to US/UM protagonists can beat WarGreymon that lacks the Power of God or is pre-02/Tri.
By our standards, anyway.
In theory, it might get involved because of DB's "The fight doesn't end until all combatants have used their strongest forms" rules, so shrug.
But yeah, unless Akari/Rei gets access to an Arceus form they never have access to (The True Form.), they aren't a match either.
Also, Akari/Rei wouldn't be as good a thematic match for Tai, anyway.
Both Red & Tai often promote over-promoted mons like Charizard/Pikachu & the whole Agumon line.
Akari/Rei is a time traveler & the one who canonically has to & does catch an entire regional dex to make the first Pokedex.
Are there any Digimon characters who did something like that?