Umbreon
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Names:
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Name Meaning:
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Japanese: Burakki
German: Aquana
French: Aquali
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Umbra(as in Water Vapor)
+ Eon
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Type
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Height:
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Weight
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Dark
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3'3" (1m)
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59.5 lb (27 kg)
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Species:
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Trait(s):
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Moonlight
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Synchronize
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EXP. to Level 100
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1,000,000
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Medium Fast
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45
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Gender Ratio
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+2 SDef
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87.5% Male / 12.5% Female
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Egg Group
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# of Steps to Hatch from Egg
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Ground
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8,960 Steps
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Base stats
95 HP / 65 Atk / 110 Def / 60 SAtk / 130 SDef / 65 Spd
Weaknesses:
Fighting (x2), Bug
(2x)
Resistances: Dark (x1/2), Ghost
(1/2x)
Immunities: Psychic
Movesets
( Look up any words you don't know in the Battle
Dictionary)
Trap-Passer
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Moves
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How to obtain
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| 1)
Mean Look |
Level 57 |
| 2)
Baton Pass |
Level 36 (Eevee
only) |
| 3)
Wish |
Breed
male Togetic with female Skitty, then breed the
male Skitty child with female Eevee. |
4)
Taunt
OR
Toxic
OR
Charm |
Level 36 (Eevee
only)
TM06
Breed with Buneary,
Glameow, Pachirisu, Phanphy,
Skitty, Snubbull, or Teddisursa
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| Trait: Synchronize |
Nature: Bold (+Def,
- Atk) or Calm (+SDef, - Atk) |
| Item: Leftovers |
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def /
6 SDef |
Strategy:
Umbreon's strategy of trapping the opponent with Mean
Look and Baton Passing to an opponent has remained virtually unchanged
since the Advance generation. Use Mean Look to trap the opponent
and use Baton Pass to transfer the trapping effect to another Pokémon
on your team.
Being a team supporter, Umbreon is great with healing moves and
Wish is one of the best. Not only does Wish heal itself, but it
can also be used to heal other Pokémon on the team. You don't
even need to Baton Pass it. Simply switch out after using Wish and
it will automatically heal the next Pokémon that you switch
in.
You have a few options to choose from for the last move. Taunt is
there because any Pokémon with Roar or Whirlwind will screw
up Umbreon's Mean Look + Baton Pass strategy. Taunt prevents the
opponent from using non-damaging moves like Roar/Whirlwind for up
to five turns, giving you plenty of time to finish setting up and
Baton Pass away. Next we have Toxic, which can work with Mean Look
to gradually weaken a trapped opponent. Finally there's Charm, which
will sharply lower your opponent's Attack and allows you to pass
more safely to your teammate.
For your EVs, always max out its HP. Then choose one of the defensive
stats to focus on depending on your nature. If you're using Bold,
you can max out its Defense EVs and if you're going Calm, you may
decide to focus on Special Defense EVs.
Curse
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Moves
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How to obtain
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| 1)
Curse |
Breed with |
| 2)
Payback |
TM06 |
| 3)
Baton Pass |
Level 36 (Eevee
only) |
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4)
Wish
OR
Taunt
OR
Mean Look
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Breed
male Togetic with female Skitty, then breed the
male Skitty child with female Eevee.
TM12
Level 57 |
| Trait: Synchronize |
Nature: Careful (+SDef,
- Atk) |
| Item: Leftovers |
EVs: 252 HP / 6 Def / 252
SDef |
Strategy:
Besides Mean Look, Curse is another Baton Passing option for
Umbreon. Use Curse to boost your Attack and Defense. The drop in Speed
doesn't matter since Umbreon is already slow anyways. Once you have
enough boosts, pass to a physical sweeper on your team that doesn't
mind the Speed drop.
Payback is an option here because an Umbreon with one
or two Curses can actually do some pretty serious damage with this
move. While normally a weak 50 base power move, Payback achieves 100
power if the opponent attacks Umbreon beforehand. Since Umbreon will
almost always go last with this set, it will usually get the power
boost. This lets it beat most opponents with weak Defense and also
gives it an offensive move against enemies that try to mess up your
strategy with Taunt.
Again, your fourth move depends on what's more important
to you. Wish is very important for keeping Umbreon alive, especially
if it has taken a lot of hits while Cursing. Taunt is for those pesky
phazers (Whirlwind and Roar will always go last, so you can Taunt
them no matter how slow you are). Mean Look can help trap an opponent
that won't do much damage to you, allowing you to Curse without fear
of facing any super strong moves.
Though we're talking a lot about Defense, you still shouldn't neglect
its Special Defense. Use a Careful nature and max out its HP and Special
Defense EVs. With a total of 394 in both HP and Special Defense, almost
no special attacker will defeat it.
Other options: Pursuit
(Level
15), Moonlight (Level 71), Yawn (breed with Bidoof,
Dunsparce, Hippopotas, Slakoth, or Wooper),
Screech (Level 64), Fake Tears (breed with Mawile or
Teddiursa), Tickle (breed
with Aipom), Swagger (Emerald Move Tutor), Psych Up
(Emerald Move Tutor), Protect (TM17)
Umbreon has almost no offensive attacks
worth using. The only one besides Payback that might work is Pursuit,
which can be useful to strike Psychic and Ghost types like Alakazam
and Gengar if they switch out. Don't expect an OHKO though. Umbreon's
Attack stat is really low.
It's Umbreon's movepool that really shines. There are a wide variety
of moves that Umbreon can use to either help itself or cripple
the opponent.
Moonlight is a nice instant healing move. However,
the reason Moonlight isn't as good as Wish is because it can't
heal other Pokemon on your team, has low PP, and it gets in a
Sandstorm (which is a very common weather effect).
Yawn
is Umbreon's only way to put an opponent to sleep and will more
often than not force them to switch. But if you trap them with
Mean Look, there's no way for them to avoid falling asleep.
Stat-lowering moves like Screech, Fake
Tears, and Tickle can also be used.
Screech lowers your opponent's Defense by two stages, Fake Tears
lowers by Special Defenses two stages, and Tickle lowers Attack
and Defense by one stage. These moves can help make your enemy
easier to defeat.
The Swagger + Psych Up combo
is a rather interesting and pretty risky move. First use Swagger
on your opponent then copy the Attack boost with Psych Up. Afterwards,
Baton Pass to one of your physical attackers. Be careful not to
use Swagger against a physical opponent or else you'll actually
be helping them out.
Protect rounds out Umbreon's list of options.
Protect can have three uses - ensure that Wish heals you on your
next turn, stall for a turn to heal some HP with Leftovers, or
check what moves your opponent is using.
How to counter Umbreon:
Since this Dark Eeveelution has almost no physical power,
just about every Fighting type can safely switch
into Umbreon. Heracross, Hariyama,
and Machamp get special recognition since they
have the Guts ability, allowing them to get an Attack boost should
they switch into a Toxic. Breloom is another great
counter. With Poison Heal, it benefits from Toxic and can put Umbreon
to sleep with Spore, preventing it from doing anything else.
Besides Fighting types, plenty of other Pokemon have no problem
with Umbreon. Gyarados and Tyranitar
are faster than Umbreons that don't invest in any Speed EVs and
can use the oppurtunity to shut it down with Taunt before setting
up with Dragon Dance. Other Taunt users can also
foil its strategies. Metagross is immune to Toxic
and Charm and can deliver a powerful blow with a Choice Banded Meteor
Mash.
Substitute blocks just about everything Umbreon
can throw at an opponent, including Mean Look. Even worse is when
the opponent packs Focus Punch to hit from behind a Sub.
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