Espeon is Eevee's fourth evolution, and the most versatile. They are usually the smartest of the eight evolutions, and using their psychic powers they often take on a command role in battle. Their agility and psychic abilities give them a tremendous advantage over any non-Dark enemy.
Pokedex Information[]
Traditionally, an Eevee evolved into Espeon during the day when exposed to sunlight when they were very happy about something important. However, seeing as this is a very unreliable way to evolve, sometime in the past (before the time of the Eevee Elite) the Sun Ribbon was created, which on contact acts like an elemental stone and allows an Eevee to evolve into Espeon. The Sun Ribbon is not one-use like a Fire/Water/Thunder Stone, but instead can simply be left out in the sun for a week or two after being used to regain its charge from the sunlight.
Espeon lacks the ability to control any specific element, unlike the three Eeveelutions prior to it in the evolution lineup. However, it does have a huge degree of control over its own psychic powers, and with those powers an Espeon can force some natural forces to work the way he or she wants, such as diverting fire/water/lightning attacks around it, bending light rays to allow invisibility, bend space/time to allow teleportation, or defeat gravity and levitate. Espeon can also use their psychic powers to allow them to walk on water.
Their ability is shared with Umbreon, and is called Synchronize. This ability allows them to copy some kinds of negative status conditions, giving whatever status they may have to their opponent. While a good ability in theory, in practice most Pokemon are immune to whatever status conditions they cause (such as electric-types causing paralysis and fire-types causing burns) and it requires Espeon to first be stricken with a status condition, which means something is already wrong and the Espeon is probably in a place he or she should not be in. It can, however, be a good ability to use as a last resort.
Espeon's height is mid-range, at 2'11" or 0.9 meters. Its weight is a bit heavier but still midrange, at 58.4 pounds or 26.5 kilograms. This middling size means that Espeon doesn't have any particular advantages, lacking the weight of Vaporeon or Umbreon to allow more force with physical attacks, or the smaller size of Jolteon or Glaceon to allow easier evasion of incoming attacks. Luckily, Espeon doesn't really need those advantages.
Espeon's highest stat is Special Attack, which happens to be the same as Glaceon's highest stat. However, Espeon has a far superior speed, making them much more suited to mid-range attacks. They have a respectable Special Defense (also the same as Glaceon), but their other stats are very low. This leads to an Espeon being very fragile in heavy combat, especially against a Dark-type. However, if ignored or protected, an Espeon can do an incredible amount of damage with its amazing Special Attack.
Espeon in the Eevee Elite[]
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