Ishambard@ishambard@cupoftea.social
What is not to love about the design of Eevee? They are super cute with a big bushy tail, pointy ears, and a little furry ruff. They just look super cuddly, and I want one or maybe ten.
Ahem, anyway. Besides being so cute that I would invade a micro-nation at their behest, it is a shame that within the context of the game, it's a bit mediocre. Being a first form Pokemon, I wouldn't expect it to have stats to shout about.
Being quite old school Pokemon, I am surprised it can learn attacking moves outside the normal type. But there isn't anything worth picking up to try and transfer to a different form, passing the grass move trail blaze (grass type physical move) to Flareon has some potential, but that's all I can see.
Sadly, it feels like Eevee, within the game, has the purpose of plugging type gaps in your party... We could really do with a normal type evolved form to champion the Normal type! Outside the game, I don't think I could evolve an Eevee, unless I had multiple.
(2/10)
Ishambard@ishambard@cupoftea.social
So, why don't we go sequentially through the Eevees.
Which means today, let's talk Vaporeon.
I love Vaporeon!
No. Not like that.
Being one of literal hundreds of water types, I myself quite often default to Vaporeon as my go-to water type due to them being reliable. It is incredibly tanky being in the top 21 for the highest base HP in Gen IX and having really decent special defence. Shame it is let done by middling defences, but the high HP means it is tough to take out in a single hit. It also learns acid armour to mitigate that.
Out of the Gen 1 Eevees, Vaporeon has my favourite design, turning the ruff into a webbed frill, the ears being more like fins, and the wide flat tail, optimal for swimming. This feels like an Eevee that has specifically evolved to be a marine animal.
Did I mention that it can also learn some ice moves? Back in the early generations, that was super important for dealing with the Dragon types!
(3/10)
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