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mikey December 14th, 2016 9:53 AM

Umbreon and Espeon!
 
In the second generation of Pokemon games, a ton of brand new mechanics were introduced. Two of these new features included the Day & Night feature, and evolution by happiness.

Two brand new eeveelutions were introduced as well! The extremely popular Umbreon and Espeon. You can obtain Espeon by leveling up a happy Eevee during the day, and you can obtain Umbreon by leveling up a happy Eevee during the night.

So, which do you prefer? The sun Pokemon Espeon, or the moonlight Pokemon Umbreon?

I love both, but Umbreon would be my favorite. It is actually my favorite Pokemon out of all of them today! I love the design, and have fond memories of raising one in my original Silver version long ago :3

PsyMaster December 14th, 2016 10:22 AM

Out of the two I prefer Espeon. One for it's really majestic design that I find fascinating and mysterious. Two because it's the psychic type.

Desert Stream~ December 14th, 2016 5:25 PM

Really like them both, but Umbreon is better.

blue December 15th, 2016 6:39 AM

Both are great in their own way, but I think I've always slightly preferred Espeon's design.

BlazingCobaltX December 15th, 2016 12:03 PM

I always preferred Umbreon's design, but in terms of moveset I prefer Espeon. I've been training for either for a long time now in Silver but it feels like I'm getting nowhere. OP, how long did it take you to evolve Eevee?

DestinedMoon February 11th, 2017 9:24 PM

Love both! Espeon is beast but Umbreon is my favourite of the two

Radiating February 11th, 2017 9:28 PM

I always prefer pokemon with darker colors, and since I already had a lugia (Psychic), I evolved my eevee to Umbreon. The fact that it evolved at night made it more of a cool mystery to me.

I love it, great simple design (specially the shiny), and it's a great tank with good defence and special defence.

Rivvon February 12th, 2017 8:09 AM

It was very clever and appropriate to utilize the day/night system and friendship "stat" by giving Eevee new evolutions to align with it. While I do like Umbreon (there isn't an Eevee evolution I dislike), Espeon is my favorite Eevee evolution out of all of them.

LyokoGirl5000 February 12th, 2017 11:26 AM

Umbreon for sure. I raised an Umbreon in Crystal and I loved it. I like Umbreon's design much more than Espeon. Don't get me wrong, Espeon's cool and all, but I can use Espeon in competitive in ORAS and I can't do that with Umbreon.

Florges February 12th, 2017 11:40 AM

Both are fantastic, but I prefer Espeon so I can hit Pokemon harder and move on with the plot.

Lycanroc February 12th, 2017 12:13 PM

I prefer Espeon - I prefer the Psychic typing, and I just find it cuter. Espeon's design is really nice i want seven to cuddle and it's not half bad in battle, either. Umbreon is cool and all, and it, too, is viable, but at the end of the day, Espeon is actually just one of my all-time favorites and is going to rank pretty high in my book.

yashiro February 12th, 2017 4:43 PM

Of course umbreon don't you worry thrust me umbreon more powerful than espeon

Cool_Porygon February 12th, 2017 8:03 PM

I like both! I voted for Umbreon, because it looks cool and I like the dark type

Schizii February 21st, 2017 12:26 PM

I prefer Espeon. Design looks sleeker and overall just a much more pretty pokemon. Umbreon's tail and ears kinda wigged me out, since they reminded me of cocoons.

Sirfetch’d February 21st, 2017 4:28 PM

Both are super cool, but I think I like Espeon a bit more. It was definitely more fun to use due to how strong of an attack Psychic was on it.

Neither of these mons had a great movepool though...

pkmin3033 February 22nd, 2017 4:07 AM

I wanted an Umbreon something awful, and I was quite upset when I found it to be pretty useless when I finally did get it...but then, there weren't any good offensive dark-type moves back in Gen II, so it was to be expected.

I don't mind Espeon, but that shiny colouring, my god...

-Nonsense- February 22nd, 2017 5:24 AM

Espeon's my choice. Watching Eevee evolve into this when I was younger was such a great surprise and it's been my favorite ever since. I even like it's Shiny..

Charlie Brown February 23rd, 2017 6:15 AM

I think they both have really great designs. tbh I haven't used either of them that much in battle (nor did I catch either of them in GSC), but Umbreon has always fascinated me more with its design and the fact that it's one of the few Dark-types. It also has a great shiny version. So out of the two, Umbreon would be my favourite.

Dragon February 23rd, 2017 7:29 PM

I adore these two; though I think I ended up using Espeon a lot more frequently, because casually Espeon would hit a lot harder than Umbreon. Not to say Umbreon isn't a great pokemon too; I think I used one to give Sabrina run for her money, ohoho.

colter519 February 24th, 2017 12:31 AM

Eevee evolutions are fantastic and I love them both (like everyone else on here it seems) but I prefer Umbreon because of its cool design and I love dark types. Especially after finding that Psychic types were so op in gen 1. It's been hard for me to let go of some of those biases from the original games (still have a hard time convincing myself that poison types are good, but after several poison monotype runs I'm finding I like them more and more too)

Twilight-kun March 10th, 2017 12:26 AM

I adore Umbreon's design, but the Dark type was so poorly implemented it was basically useless besides being a Toxic-user who could stall for a day and a half

Meanwhile, Espeon continued the tradition of Psychic being ridiculously overpowered with great speed and special attack stats and became a key member of my Crystal Crew

Denrew March 10th, 2017 5:49 AM

I like both, but I prefer Espeon. Tho I can't resist the nightly elegance
of shiny Umbreon compared to wasted mossy shiny Espeon...

Radiating March 10th, 2017 9:52 AM

I chose umbreon, I prefer the sleeker darker design.

Raffy98 March 10th, 2017 12:49 PM

I really like them both, but overall I prefer Umbreon because of his majestic look and darker design.

Ho-Oh August 7th, 2017 7:47 PM

Always team Espeon. I used to play competitively. I didn't like stall. Therefore, Umbreon was useless to me.

With that said though Espeon was always the favourite since I started these games. Except for its shiny. Ugly. Umbreon wins there!


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