I'm glad its profile is all about it being a monstrous force of nature. A truly terrific design, standing on its own. Amazing.
Some statistics:
- Hydramon is the 75th entry for the Reference Book this year.
- This brings us on an average of roughly 2,3 entries/Digimon a week.
- It has been 27 days (almost 4 weeks) since the last update/entry, marking the longest gap between the updates of this year. The second longest gap this year was 14 days (which occured 4 times).
- August is usually on the low end of updates/entries, compared to other years.
- This is the 3rd time this year when an update happened on a tuesday. The other times it gave us Komondomon (through the Anime) and Shroudmon (Vital Bracelet, also sharing the 'unknown unlockable' boss-motif with Hydramon).
- The other moments of updates have been on mondays (6 times, with a total of 12 entries, mostly for Digimon introduced or featured in the Anime), wednesdays (7 times, with a total of 21 entries) and fridays (13 times, with a total of 39 entries).
So, what are the patterns? What can we expect? It's obviously hard to pinpoint, but here are some factors which might come into play:
- August hasn't come to an end yet, and there will be a Digimon Profile update on next week's wednesday which might (or might not) bring us something new.
- The Adventure series will be wrapping up somewhere in september, possibly giving us a new (antagonist) design or two. This presumably means no Anime-related update for at least a few weeks.
- There's a big chance the upcoming Dim-card (Dynasty of the Evil) won't feature any new design, as there are a lot of options for this particular stand-alone Dim-card already.
- We probably won't get Ghost Game (Anime + Vital Bracelet) related updates until it has launched somewhere around october.
- This presumably leaves us with updates consisting of 'legacy'-Digimon for at least a few weeks, if we're lucky and updates actually happen.
- Further updates this same week could be possible, as this happened after the other two tuesdays, as well. Komondomon was followed by an update on the friday afterwards consisting of Namakemon, Runnermon, Exermon and Bulkmon (all Vital Bracelet related), while Shroudmon was followed by an update on the friday afterwards consisting of Great King Scumon (contest-related 'legacy'-Digimon).
- An update two days in a row is a rarity not seen this year yet, so this pretty much disqualifies tomorrow (wednesday). It only happened like 2-3 times the last decade or so.
- October's V-jump magazine might hold a surprise (or not), for the franchise as a whole, and/or the Vital Bracelet, or nothing. We'll know in a day or 2-3.
My personal guess? Maybe an update this friday and next week on either wednesday or friday, consisting of these 'legacy'-Digimon.