ESPEON! The sun friendship evolution of Eevee. Our first eeveelution covered here! Its graceful but is it good in competitive play? Join False Swipe Gaming in this brief overview of Espeon in competitive Pokemon.
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Notice I said POPULAR formats, meaning a format where there is a significant amount of people who compete in it for tournaments and so on and so forth. Now Popular does not mean official even though two of the formats I will be covering were official formats being Japan Nintendo Cup and VGC, but it is an indicator of what a good portion of competitive players thought was “optimal” at the time. Also sometimes the Pokemon Battle Historia doesn’t provide enough information to talk about certain Pokemon so I add Smogon analysis to make sense of it. This is pretty rare though.
To the people asking why I don’t cover Smogon Singles for Gens 1 and 2: It wouldn’t really be a history video if I covered those because online Smogon gen 1 meta to my knowledge wasn’t actually played until late 2000s. I wanted to cover tournaments/competitive battling that was actually played during the early years of Pokemon (late 90s).
To the people asking why I cover Smogon at all for singles: To my knowledge, Smogon was the most popular format for Gens 3-5 and held a number of tournaments throughout the years. As for Gen 6, I am not covering Battle Spot Singles because there is more information and explanations about sets being used relative to their own meta on Smogon. In other words, there are few written analyses about Battle Spot Pokemon besides the Top tiers and I would like to avoid theorycrafting because it may have a hint of bias (though I theorycraft if I REALLY couldn’t find information on a certain Pokemon). The keyword here is explanations. Though I did find statistics of most Pokemon used and most moves used, there wasn’t really any explanations on why. Also the few Pokemon I did find analysis of for Top Tier Battle Spot Singles had very similar move sets to the Smogon OU sets anyway.
For the record, I do not care what rules or formats people play their battles by nor am I saying these formats are the only formats that should be played. The way you play Pokemon is between you and your opponent and I will not fault you for using evasion or whatever, I just like examining popular tournament formats.
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I always used my Espeon as a fast anti status punisher, timid nature, max speed and special attack, life orb with the moves Dazzling Gleam, Shadow Ball, and both Psyshock and Psychic.
My favorite pokemon 🙂
do delphox next
My favorite pokemon is espon she is pretty and my favorite color is perpol and she is perpol
Magic bounce = broken
Fight me!
Smogon are a bunch of crybabies that will throw a tantrum if faced with any strategy that isn't the same boring 6 meta pokemon everyone uses, which is why GF laughs at them as the crybabies they are.
Baton pass isn't op you morons are just babies that need to get good
I've been using Espeon in stall teams and it's a total monster there, bouncing hazards and statuses, passing wishes and demolishing fighting stall breakers.
It kinda like Mud Slap on this mon to be honest.
So espeon IS so strong it broke the game? That must be why it's my favorite
I’m making a competitive espeon in ultra moon so wish me luck
Espeon Deserves a better move learning
This is BIG brain time
These days Espeon has a place on my Gen 8 National Dex AG team on Showdown and works as a Special Sweeper with assistance from Venomoth who's able to take a few hits and has focus stash to make sure that Venomoth can get atleast one Quiver Dance in before Baton Passing to Espeon. Espeon can sweep with just a single Quiver Dance and the only things that stand a chance against it are a few legendaries like Mega Rayquaza. But, if Venomoth manages to Baton Pass two Quiver Dances it's game over for everything. The other members of the team being Greninja for setting up hazards and ruining set ups with Haze, Mega Charizard X and Serperior for easily sweeping through teams and good for putting a huge hole in teams before Espeon gets set up to finish the destruction and the final member of the team is Clefable, mostly as a counter for Mega Rayquaza as it can easily tank hits and destroy it with two hit KO Moonblast while also running Thunderbolt for the ever annoying flying types that the team didn't have another counter for with its final use being Healing Wish usually used to set Venomoth ready to set up again if it decided to assist the other sweepers, mostly Serperior, with their set ups.
Who here besides me think Eevee could've evolved into Espeon with a Sun Stone instead of the time-consuming friendship evolution?
I have no clue about competitive I just like eevee and eeveelutions
Even though liking Espeon makes me look like a furry, still my favorite Pokemon of all time.
Can we get a deoxyz
Sometimes nerfs just make the game more predictable and add less variety in sets.
Like the ban in this video for example.
Smeargle inflicted tons of nerfs in certain moves and pokemons. Still feel bad about Darkrai nerf
Sylveon. Now. Right Now.
Espeon is best eeveelution fight me 😌✨
Espeon is pretty strong nowadays
At first I thought that Espeon was an okay pokemon I mean it is my fav eeveelution but now if only it's power could be unleashed I'm sure Espeon can be so much more