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ALL EEVOLUTIONS
>pivoting moves that complement their stats
>eevee learns nasty plot and recover
>stat rearrangements to complement the niches they can possibly fill in the meta
FLAREON
This mon fills 2 archetypes: specially defensive pivot or all out attacker
>specially defensive: swap hp with attack or spatk. being a defensive fire type with a powerful stab is a good niche
This pokemon was obviously designed to for the role all out attacker, which it will inevitably fail at bc it doesnt have a broken ability/move that can enable it to break the the defensive cores of OU. The only way to salvage it is to
>reaarange its stats so it can be Darmanitan but better
VAPOREON
>give it a more useful ability outside of water absorb/hydration like regenerator
>better movepool to pressure switchins like rillaboom, sun teams, like a pivot move that uses its spatk instead lol
>imagine a toxapex but can deal a bajillion while pivoting out and giving you a free turn
JOLTEON:
>buff Aurora Beam and make it learnable by a select electric types
>give it a movepool that rivals that of zeraora (moonblast/focus blast/aura sphere/calm mind/energy ball or whatever)
ESPEON
>swap magic bounce with magic guard
>make it faster than zeraora or horse or at least give it a stronger movepool to be a good scarfer/specs. most of the time sigilyph is a superior pokemon to this.
UMBREON
>to compensate for its horrible typing, swap its ability with unaware or magic bounce
LEAFEON
>make Leaf Guard an actual ability lol
>rock and fighting type coverage so it can make bulky sd sets work for sun teams (its only niche outside of being an inferior tangrowth)
GLACEON
>necessitates huge buffs for an entire typing
Other than that its beyond salvageable. Ice body shenanigans died after the weather nerf
SYLVEON:
Perfect mon imho, but after losing HP Ground it just cant touch Heatran, one of the best pokemon right now
>give it coverage so it doesnt lose to spdef Heatran, like Aura Sphere or FBlast
