Exaggerated "Flareon needs a friend" post or something xD
Ok.
Let's see more closely what we got:
1st gen:
-classic elemental trio: water,electric and fire
-evolve through use of evolutionary stone (water, thunder, fire)
So, it's 3 pokémon. A trio right? In the 1st gen games absolutely
130/65/60/110/65
65/65/60/110/130
65/130/60/110/65
(special was one stat back then)
so they have 65/65/60/110/65 base stats + replace one 65 for 130 which are 3 possibilities. Perfect.
But with the game mechanics evolving and new features added, this changed. In particular that are the special stat split and addition of abilities. Base stats from gen II on:
130/65/60/110/95/65
65/65/60/110/95/130
65/130/60/95/110/65
Doesn't look that simple anymore ):
Vaporeon and Jolteons stats only difference is their hp and speed swapped, while flareon also got swapped sp.atk and sp.def... the 1st 2 are more similar.
What about their abilities?
Water absorb
Volt absorb
Flash Fire
See where I'm going? The 1st 2 have abilities with the same effect for their type: getting healed when attacked by their type. Flareon gets stronger when attacked with fire.
I'm aware that's just 2 small things which make Flareon stand out a bit...
2nd gen:
-daytime duo: psychic and dark
-evolve through high friendship on different times of the day
65/65/60/130/95/110 synchronize
95/65/110/60/130/65 synchronize
Sun and Moon stone would have been SOOOOOO perfect, but no they decided to not make any evolutions which should have been possible before (I mean that you have moon stone and eevee in gen I f.e.). But everythings cool. Their stats are totally mixed..........
One could have expected A new eeveelution to show up in gen III, which would evolve via a new elemental stone and would be a duo with flareon because, esp/umb have 130 in a special stat, vap/jolt in the different stat(hp/spe), and flareon having atk 130, while theres no physical def 130 eeveelution.
4th gen:
-climate dependent duo
-evolve on level up near a special rock (moss, ice)
65/110/130/60/65/95 leaf guard
65/60/110/130/95/65 snow cloak
with espeon and umbreon the 4 remind me of the 4 seasons (:
They needed 2 generations for those? ):
Ok, I see they created the missing def 130 one. And it's Grass. That would have fitted perfectly as counterpart to Flareon. So why Glaceon? q_Q
Oh, right, it would only fit if it evolved with leaf stone, which in GF logic sadly isn't possible.
If one compares stats of all 7 eeveelutions now, there is no pattern to find anymore or anything other... It's just a "give it a different combination of the same numbers" now if I'm not mistaken.
So that was an analysis or something, now about new types of eeveelutions.
Left types:
normal, fighting, flying, poison, ground, rock, bug, dragon, ghost, steel.
-A regular eeveelution will not be of the normal type that's obvious.
-There will never be a flying eeveelution, because that's a secondary type. Unless you are ok with a normal/flying eevee, it won't happen.
Some people say, they can't use a type which attacks were physical till gen IV and therefore assume that there is gonna be an dragon eevee. Well IMHO Eevee should not evolve into a type that drastically changes it's "species". It can become an rabbit (or whatever mammal it represents) that gains some fins on it's body, but it won't change into a fish. Remember, all Bug Pokémon are in the bug egg-group aka, they are insects, not mammals. That's why I believe there is never going to be a BUG type eeveelution. Same for dragon type. If when I tell you Bug eeveelution, you can imagine it, it probably looks like eevee with some incetoid details, while remaining a mammal with all the 4 legs and such. This could maybe be a ____/bug pokémon but not a real primary typed bug. Ghost is also something that would be impossible to make and not stand out of the eeveelution crowd and at the same time be a real ghost pokémon.
Left acceptable options: fighting, poison, ground, rock, steel
I won't be surpiresed if the next eeveelution will be one of those types, but still 2 would need alot of great imagination to not stand out: steel and fighting.
MY/left final options: poison, ground, rock
I think these are doable while not going to far from the eevee originality.
Now for the end let's see which one would make the most sense as a Flareon counterpart for the sake of "completing" the above speculation about it.
water<-electric
psychic<-dark
grass<-ice
fire<-____
As you see the 1st is always weak to it's counterpart.
fire<-ground or rock
What else would it require to be capable of taking this role?
-an ground or rock like ability variation of flash fire (That's no problem as abilities can always be invented).
-EVOLVE VIA EVOLUTIONARY STONE D=
The only innovative new evo. stone I had ever imagined in the past is the "Sand stone". lol
By the way here's my version of it
Litheon
Ok, everyone, go on with the talk about flying eeveelution or ghost or something D: