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BlackGarurumon : The Black Growling Monster

BlackGarurumon

General Information

First Appearances

Level

Attribute

Type

Champion ¹

Virus ¹

Beast ¹

Début

Card Début

Anime Début

Starter 3

St-140

S5 : Episode 6

Toei Picture

Bandai Picture / Available Picture

LCD

Fields

US Attacks

Japanese Attacks

Common Attacks

Fox Fire ¹⁰ / Howling Blaster ⁹
Freeze Fang ¹⁰ / Subzero Ice Fang ¹⁴
Ice Wall ⁴ / Wall of Ice ¹³
Garuru Trust ¹⁰
Wolf Cry ¹² / Howling Wolf ⁴
Ice Cannon ¹⁰

Misc. Attacks

Common Attacks

Fox Fire ¹
Freeze Fang ¹
Ice Wall ⁶
Garuru Thrust ⁸
Wolf Cry
Ice Cannon ¹¹

Misc. Attacks

Profile

Weapons / Shields

Subspecies

Dictionary

Digimon Dictionary

English

Not available yet

Japanese

Not available yet

Championship

Digimon Championship

English

A Beast Humanoid Digimon that digivolved into a Virus Garurumon. Its vicious nature has colored its fur black. Many have fallen to its attacks. (This profile is from North American release of Digimon Championship) (Garmmon)

Japanese

Not available yet

Battle Chronicle

Digimon Battle Chronicle

English

A Garurumon which evolved to become Virus attributed. It reliably brings down any opponent it aims for, and is more ferocious compared to Vaccine or Data attribute Digimon. The blades on its shoulders cut anything they touch. (Garmmon)

Japanese

ウィルス種に進化したガルルモン。ワクチン種、データ種に比べて獰猛で、狙った相手は確実にしとめる。肩のブレードはさわったもの全てを切り裂く。

DVR

Digimon V-Tamer Residence

English

This Garurumon evolved into the Virus attribute. It is more ferocious when compared with the Data and Vaccine-attributed variants and it'll reliably kill the opponents it aims at. The blades on its shoulders cut through everything they touch. (Wildermon)

Japanese

ウィルス種に進化したガルルモン。ワクチン種、データ種に比べ獰猛で、狙った相手は確実にしとめる。肩のブレードは触れるモノ全てを切り裂く。

- NA -

Garurumon
Garurumon (X)
Gururumon

Evolution

Evolves From

BlackGabumon ¹

-or-

Floramon ⁶
Gabumon ¹⁵
Gaomon ⁷
Gazimon ¹⁵
Impmon ⁸
ShadowToyAgumon ¹
Strabimon ⁶

Evolves To

ShadowWereGarurumon ¹⁵

-or-

BlackRapidmon ¹⁵
WaruMonzaemon ¹⁵

Warp Evolution
BlackMetalGarurumon ³

Evolves From (Anime)

Elecmon ²

Evolves To (Anime)

- NA -

Name Origin

US Name

BlackGarurumon ⁴ / Garurumon ⁵

Etymology

English and Japanese. Black. Garuru is the sound of a growl.

Japanese Name

BlackGarurumon / Garurumon ^Note-1

Etymology

English and Japanese. Black. Garuru is the sound of a growl.

References

Citations

Notes

¹ St-140
² Season 5 : Episode 6
³ Digimon Battle Chronicle
⁴ Digimon Rumble Arena 2
⁵ Season 5 : Episode 6 (Dub)
⁶ St-738
⁷ Da-265
⁸ DM-71
⁹ Digimon World Championship
¹⁰ Digimon World Data Squad
¹¹ Digimon Savers Another Mission
¹² Digimon Rumble Arena 2 (Shared attack used by Garurumon)
¹³ Digimon World DS (Shared attack used by Garurumon)
¹⁴ Digimon Digital Card Battle (Shared attack used by Garurumon)
¹⁵ Digimon Championship

^Note-1The viral Garurumon first appeared in Starter 3 of the Digital Monsters Card Game Hyper Colosseum where it was named 'Garurumon'. It would appear once more in Starter 8 and still under the name 'Garurumon'. It then appeared in the fighting game Battle Chronicle under the name 'BlackGarurumon'. The American release of the fighting game, released as Rumble Arena 2, called it BlackGarurumon. Much later, the new card games called Card Game Alpha and Battle Terminal continued to call this Digimon 'Garurumon'. This Digimon also appeared in the an episode of Digimon Savers and in both Japan and America it was called 'Garurumon'. Most recently, In second set of Digimon Jintrix Card Game, the viral Garurumon was called 'BlackGarurumon'.

Bandai of Japan continues to go back and forth on how they name these black variants. BlackWarGreymon being the best example. First released in Starter 3 of the Digital Monsters Card Game Hyper Colosseum where it was named 'WarGreymon'. It later appeared in D3 Ver. 1 and Digimon Zero Two as BlackWarGreymon. The cards continued calling it 'WarGreymon'. but all games would call it BlackWarGreymon. BlackWarGreymon would not get its own card until SPa-2 and has since been referred to as BlackWarGreymon in all media.

Another example of Bandai's inconsistent naming policies is the Digimon Dictionary; where the viral Agumon is called 'Agumon (Black)' and the viral WarGreymon is called 'BlackWarGreymon'. A new card game, Digimon Jintrix, seems to be finally settling on a name for these black variants. The viral MetalGarurumon, long called 'MetalGarurumon' in the card game is called BlackMetalGarurumon.

Credits

- Toei picture was created by TK
- Bandai picture was created by the Card Terminal
- LCD picture was created by the DVR site
* Name meaning provided by Grace Anderson, aka Megchan.