Happy JPR Friday! Who is your favorite Eeveelution?

If Umbreon was originally Poison-type and the poisonousness/toxicity was close enough to darkness, it explains why Karen had Vileplume

Crazy to think that Eevee, a simple dog/fox/cat hybrid that could split into three different evolutions at first, would go on to have absolute dominance in lots of media, but it’s well deserved if you ask me. The Eevee family tree is incredibly likable

There used to be a Gold Espeon, yet they made Espeon's shiny Green... We could've had a Yellow/Gold Shiny Espeon 😢

Glad to see more people understanding Eevee is just a mammal,and not a specific species
This little creature has been my hyperfixation for years

11:35 Makes me wonder how many new Pokemon and evolutions were scrapped because of fanart looking very similar to Game Freak's design.

With the amount of fan designs out there, they can't make new eeveelutions if they aren't allowed to resemble one.

9:32 Glaceon also has that distinction, as in Legends Arceus, Leafeon and Glaceon can either evolve from the Leaf/Ice Stone or leveling up near the Moss/Ice Rock.

I love eevee because it’s quite literally the foil to pikachu. While poor Raichu is forgotten by pokemon it’s almost expected you evolve your eevee asap.

4:56 Putting footage of Umbreon using Curse while talking about Umbreon’s stats and how Flareon’s stat distribution is a curse is 👌

I love the idea of a normal type eeveelution named eeveeon partly for the memes but also to have a more “normal” evolution type for it to go through, have it be a simple level up evolution and have it be a fast physical attacker.

I feel that as far as mascots goes, Eevee does a better job than Pikachu in that department. Not to discredit the electric mouse as he’ll always be the face of Pokemon but when it comes to Eevee, it and the many evolutions it gets all get an equal amount of love and treatment in terms of representation and promotion. Eevee itself is always highlighted but the devs never misses a chance to remind us about the endless possibilities with its many evolutions. It gotten into the point that the fans develop the term “eeveelution”. It’s like they are actively encourage you to try one of its many forms. Not to mention they are all immensely popular, nearly all of them beat Pikachu in popularity polls every time.

Pikachu’s evolution line, on the other hand, only seems to get something if they are lucky enough such as learning Volt Tackle as a signature move. Pikachu overall just overshadows his evolution into the point the anime actively antagonized it, making it some kind of opposing force against Pikachu. That’s not to say Pichu and Raichu always get nothing as seen with the latter’s Alohian form but don’t get me started on the sheer amount of exclusivity such as Pikachu’s costumes and the moves it can learn in Gen 6, the Light Ball, etc.

As far as favorite Eeveelution goes, mines is Espeon.

I’m hoping we get a Eeveelution in legends ZA
Since Sylveon was revealed in the last kalos game, they could reveal a new evolution in the newest kalos game

Flareon has always been my favorite Eeveelution because it's the only one that properly conveys what element it is while still maintaining every physical element that makes me love Eevee so much in the first place (long ears, neck poof, fluffy tail!) so I guess it does make perfect sense that Eevee's original designer also tackled Flareon and not much else.

Another nod to Umbreon’s origins as a poison type is it being one of the few non-poison types to retain Toxic after the distribution nerf. Honestly, considering poison is part of its lore in the final product, I don’t think learning Toxic should be TM dependent for it.

Also, other people have mentioned the icy rock in Legends Arceus, but I don’t blame you for either not knowing or remembering; I didn’t know it existed until I beat the game myself, it’s pretty easy to miss lol.

Also, my favorite is Sylveon

My favourite Eeveelution is Flareon because it's so FLUFFY

I'm surprised that haven't shifted Umbreon, Espeon, and Sylveon's evolution methods to needing to use the Dusk, Sun, and Shiny Stone respectively like they did with Glaceon and Leafeon.

Tekken developer Harada actually made a post on social media that a game developer seeing fan art makes it much less likely for the concept to appear in an official game for the sole purpose of avoiding lawsuits. Harada is one of the only Japanese game devs that posts on social media in English and is basically the only one who is willing to explain rules and complications of game development/publishing that the public can otherwise only speculate about.

I'm a big umbreon fan. Toxic, protect, moonlight, faint attack was a nasty strategy that got me some amazing wins in colosseum

Shocking that Eevee being so immensely popular doesn’t have an evolution of all types already. They probably want to avoid having to port the whole evolution line everytime they want to include Eevee in a new regional dex.