4th Gen Glaceon; Worth it or not?

[Haunted_Angel]

Glaceon being one of Eevees evolutions of course.
But is he/she really worth putting on your team?

I've been thinking about this and as far as I'm aware vaporeon can learn ice type moves, and doesn't have the weaknesses Glaceon might come up against. For example a speed Staravia with a decent attack and Close combat. Or something similar.

I'm not arguing that Glaceon is completely useless, but for a team battle wouldn't Vaporeon be much better?


I'm asking this because I'm currently training up a team of Eevees evolutions, and I don't know whether to go with Vaporeon or Glaceon, because you can't really replace any of the others because of the type variations.

 

[FalconJoker]

Well, if you got Hail going, Glaceon has a chance to evade any attack coming it's way. Though Vaporeon is definitely bulkier. Since you're going with an all Eevee team it seems, then I guess it just depends. If you're willing to get it to learn and use Hail, Glaceon isn't a bad choice.

Personally, I'd use Vaporeon over Glaceon.

 

[Haunted_Angel]

see I can see that reasoning, and I agree with vaporeon over Glaceon, although I think if I ever have to go up against dragon types Glaceon would be better, with icicle plate or nevermeltice.

Type advantage and power up and all that =P

 

[FalconJoker]

Maybe, but most Dragon types are 4x weak to Ice, meaning you don't really need type advantage and all that to put them out in one hit. The only ones that aren't one hit KO'd are Giratina, Kingdra, Latias, Latios, Palkia and Dialga and five of those six are legendaries. :)

 

[Haunted_Angel]

Garchomp only has a 2x disadvantage to ice I think maybe it was dragon type I should check that, but there are some dragon types I'm sure.
Kingdra, flygon maybe?
I'm sure there are others xD

 

[FalconJoker]

Nope! Besides the legendaries and Kingdra (who is Water/Dragon) the rest are either Ground/Dragon or Flying/Dragon. Both ground and flying x2 weak to Ice. Combined that with the Dragon weakness and they're pretty much toast after an Ice attack.

 

[Haunted_Angel]

Yeah. True =P
Just trying to look at both sides of the coin xD

It's good to know these things for Battle tower and the likes :P in case I ever come up against any of those pokemon I'll know to use glaceon as opposed to vaporeon

 

[FalconJoker]

Ah. Battle Tower. Totally forgot about that thing. Once I beat Platinum, I just got right into my competitive battling mode. XD

Well, good luck anyways with your Eevee team. :)

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

It's up to you if you want to put it in your team or not. We can't make the decision for you.

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