Beautifully implemented: I love how you separated them by generations (Neutral B has Flareon/Vaporeon/Jolteon, Side B has Glaceon/Leafeon, Up B has Sylveon and Down B has Espeon/Umbreon

With how much TPC has been pushing Eevee as the secondary mascot of the series, I genuinely see them as an evergreen pick that could hold us over in case Winds/Waves won’t be ready soon enough for Smash 6 to reference (& Gen 9’s odds already have one foot in the grave). But even in this scenario, I would fully expect Gen 10 to eventually get a playable character via DLC.

As for Sylux, I’m not too optimistic on his chances since the one person who is constantly gone to bat for him has already retired. So his long-term future is up in the air after MP4 underperformed in all respects.

completely random aside, but if the Z-A and Scarlet/Violet footage is from your own files, you give your Pokemon some awesome nicknames

Make Pokopia Ditto as the next option in your Challenger Poll

Being so obsessed with Pokopia, I'd love to see humanoid Ditto. Their transformations are a great way to get more rep in and I love their design!!

It’s not that we have too many Gen 1 reps, it’s that Jigglypuff sticks out as being at the right place and the right time with being easy to base off Kirby during the time of Smash 64. However Puff is the most expendable in my opinion out of the Original 12, every other character minus Luigi is the face of their franchise. People will defend Puff with saying Scream Tail should be its gimmick an updated moveset but funnily enough they had two chances (Smash 4 and Ultimate) to give Puff Fairy Type moves and they still didn’t do it so that tells us how much the devs actually care about Puff. I still think Eevee would represent Pokèmon better with the jack of all trades concept.

As great as having all Eeveelutions playable would be, I think having Eevee be based on the Partner one from the Let's Go games where it has signature moves themed around the other Eeveelutions would be for the best. That way it'll still utilize the Eeveelutions' move traits despite not evolving.

5:51
Oh my god, THANK YOU for pointing this out, Delz! 😭😭😭
For YEARS, people were very pushy about playable Eeveelutions without questioning about reality or assuming Sakurai is always a miracle worker whenever people question about the possibility of other characters. (Like, YEAH, he says no to a few choices then comes back when he DOES figure a path to the workable playable pitch. We heard the same story about Villager, Ridley, Inkling and Little Mac)
Even if you resort to a neutral base moveset/animations for all the Eeveelutions or limit it to 3-5 Eeveelutions, it's already a  development nightmare for the official team to work with, in terms of priority, and, most importantly, chomp down A LOT of development time.

HECK, even you just say "modders will do it", they can BUT imagine how many years of free leisure it will take to do a successful custom character within a Smash title or a 3D platform fighter. Like im gonna be playable a fully realized Eevee mod in 2030 or 2035 by then. 😭😭😭
If you think that wait is ridiculous, i have a few echo fighter ideas waiting for someone to realize in Ultimate modding since release day.

I know it's fine to dream about characters, i personally want the BotW Champions to be a 4-in-1 fighter in a future Smash game, but even i know it's already a head scratcher for a professional team to do on limited time. You gotta balance out every aspect of the fighter, follow character guildlines, finish on time, and etc. it's HELL while it's a sugar cookie to think about!!!

Correction @ 4:12 - Other than Pikachu Libre, female Pikachu is also represented in the 7th slot. She's wearing the hat of the Sun/Moon female protagonist.

Eevee should replace Jigglypuff. Change my mind.

This is SOOOO creative! I feel like I say something like this every time but it’s cuz you do such a good job of being creative, make we want these characters in, but also keep it realistic and seemingly balanced (which is obviously impossible to tell without them actually being in the game) such a good job!

From the thumbnail, I expected this to go all in on Tera types like Shulk’s attribute wheel. Each type could either alter stat or move properties (like electric boosts speed, but fire boosts damage)

If Eevee was to evolve mid-match, we'd need Brawl's Final Smashes back.
That's probably never going to happen again.

Watching Eevee rise up the ranks from a Pokeball Pokemon to playable would make very proud. LOVED that you went with the Let's Go Eevee style elemental moves instead of implementing real time evolution. Well done!!

Think about doing Void Kong from Donkey Kong Bananza as a Challenger Poll option

Only thing I'd theoretically add is an Evoboost nod (outside of the Final Smash)... Maybe every time you deal damage using an elemental Special, a coloured icon appears around Eevee's face in the UI. If you collect all 8, you get a short but extreme power boost, sending your knockback and KO power through the roof and giving a slight defense buff as well.

This gives this all-rounder a unique game plan: Combo into as many specials as possible and try to rack up all 8, to set yourself up for easy kills. It would be easy enough to get the first few, but when your opponent sees that you only have 1 or 2 remaining, that's extremely predictable and they can avoid them more easily. The Espeon counter might need a tiny, low-damage hitbox just to make this theoretically possible against non-projectile characters.

Once you achieve this buff, the icons remain but are greyed out, indicating that you have already gotten that benefit and can't get it again. However, when you lose a stock, all icons disappear... Causing you to start over, BUT, also meaning you can use it again if you succeeded in using it already.

You can still play Eevee "normally" if you prefer, but if you pay attention to these, it starts a little minigame: Can you hit with all 8 elemental specials in a single stock?

5:29 Umbreon erasure shall not be tolerated

2:04 I feel like that dex entry has the implication that, after RBY/FRLG, Protective Regulations/Pokémon Breeders have allowed them to grow in numbers all over the place, similar to Lapras' Moon dex entry.

I'm hoping winds and waves gives us a Flying and Dragon Type Eevee at some point.

20:08 Only inaccuracy in this video. Smash always uses the Pokémon cries from the anime (or at least based on the anime version). So instead of making its in-game noise, Eevee's Hyper Voice would sound something like: "EEEEEEEEEEE~VEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"