If I had my way, Super Ultimates would just be considered a top pinnacle amongst all Ultimates. There is nothing higher, and at most, Super Ultimates can only Mode Change between one another though still being in roughly the same league. I felt that Cyber Sleuth kinda got it right by making all Super Ultimates have the same stat totals and Memory requirements, but yeah, classifying Omegamon as one seems really iffy. I mean, aside from the fact that it's been curbstomped in all kinds of media, it can be upgraded further into Imperialdramon Paladin Mode, and now Omegamon Merciful Mode (though MAYBE Paladin Mode could be justified as just Omegamon lending Imperialdramon its power, sorta like OmegaShoutmon..... Cyber Sleuth itself got around this by just making the Omega Blade be an item required for evolution). And really, it's not as if the Royal Knights aren't already some apparent higher tier of Ultimates while not (all) explicitly being Super Ultimates, so it should've been fine if they just recognized Omegamon as just a regular Ultimate that happens to evolve from other Ultimates, like Chaosdramon.
should note that these recent red cards make bt1 tai even more viable. and to a lesser extent st1 wargrey
We're really just talking about my personal head canon at this point, but I did acknowledge Mode Changes (or Slide Evolutions, or Mutant Evolutions) being possible between other Super Ultimates. And really, the only reason something higher being made is even a possiblity is because the anime (and occasionally other media) feel the need to constantly up the stakes...... and upping the stakes lazily, I might add. Rather than having a clash between two (or more) beings of roughly equal footing, having to strategize around factors like attribute/elemental advantage or special skills, or utilize the field or assistance from allies, the solution seems to always be "evolve to next form, overpower" (for both the villains and the heroes). Not that it really matters in the long run, because after debuting as "teh strongest Digimon evar!!!!!", that Digimon goes on to appear in other media (or even later in the same media) with its strength severely hampered from how it was previously portrayed, to the point that it seems no different from any other Digimon of its respective level (remember when Diablomon seemed strong enough to actually warrant Omegamon coming into existence?).
For what it's worth, I think Armaggemon was only recently identified as a Super Ultimate in Hacker's Memory. Prior to that, the franchise could never seem to make up its mind on whether Armaggemon's supposed to be an evolution of Diablomon, or just an alternate evolution of Infermon (or a mass fusion of Kuramon).
Yeah i forgot about that... so i guess CS is a case of just random decisions. But still it does seem that 7th evolution level is just something that exists sometimes- and it'd be nice for it to be more standardized i feel. Just like Omegamon is a Jogress- some of the time, like he uses the jogress mechanic but he's only a jogress when 'ultra' or some respective counterpart exists. Otherwise he's as tentomon explained back in YH "A fused digimon" Which is simply due to jogress technically referring to the combinign of 2 digis to reach a higher level since Omegamon is often still a mega =/= jogress at least by 02 standards.
Uh huh....
Blast Mode's situation is kinda odd in general. In some respects, he doesn't seem like a straight upgrade so much as vanilla Beelzebumon seeming like an imperfected form of what he's supposed to be. This rings all the more true when you consider Beelzebumon's early design, and a lot of the video games at the time had Blast Mode only, no regular Beelzebumon at all. My guess is that he was always intended to have wings, and he was being implemented in a lot of media as such, but somewhere down the road, they decided to relegate it to a Mode Change instead. And within Tamers, Beelzebumon Blast Mode doesn't look all that special compared to all the other Ultimates. Granted, that may just be because D-Reaper was just that dangerous of an enemy (even with Dukemon, it's not like he went on to give a total curbstomping as soon as he went Crimson Mode..... he did do that to Parasimon in the movie, though). You've also got the opening movie to Digimon World 3, and I think some promotional art of the time IIRC, further suggesting the idea of Blast Mode being an equal to Dukemon (NOT Crimson Mode)..... but ironically, Digimon World 3 also required you to level up Dukemon in order to even access Beelzebumon BM (probably doesn't mean much, considering that game doesn't have a standard evolution system anyway).
He's also bigger
it's made very apparent with that shot of BM next to grani gallantalso not getting into fusions only sometimes being a higher level than the two digis
