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[Sirus]

You'd definitely have a solid mix of attack and defense types. Not sure how well their stats compete.

[Reudh]

I tried running an Eeveelution team competitively. It's possible, but the moment I came up against a Garchomp my only check for it was oneshotted with iron tail.

Looking at Marriland's Team Builder:

Flareon+Umbreon+Leafeon+Glaceon+Vaporeon+Jolteon

As a whole, the team has a weakness to ground, fighting and fire, all common types, and resists Ice (Vaporeon, Flareon, Glaceon).

[Korbac]

Switching out Flareon for Espeon lowers the Fighting weakness and can help defeat the low Sp. Def ground types.

[Reudh]

However it does open me up even more to bug types.

[Heron TSG]

True, but even Scizor rarely carries a bug move outside of Volt-Turn cores. (In which case it's generally U-Turn.)

Someone over on the Smogon discussion thread brought up a good point:



The Eeveelutions match up to their pre-gen-4 type colors, for the most part. Leafeon is more beige, but is still in the green color group and covered in leaves. The red and blue on the ribbons look a lot like the red and blue of the Dragon icon. Dragon is also the only pre-gen-4 Special type left to make an Eeveelution for. Also, if you look at the CoroCoro page, the name Ninfia (ニンフィア) is written in giant font in the exact color scheme of that icon.

That's not a bad point, I'd just think that it would look more ... dragon-y at first glance.

A tiny group of people say dragon because they're willing to completely ignore the pokemon's appearance and name because of their desire for pattern completion.

That is a downside to the theory, that it doesn't look very draconic. Well, a lot of the dragons don't. Behold!

Spoiler: The equine xenomorph, Dialga! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The armored sphere, Shelgon! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The desert dragonfly, Vibrava! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The cloudy ave, Altaria! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: And one can never forget the fiery dragon, Reshiram! (click to show/hide)

Dragon seems to be a type that they slap onto a Pokemon to make it special. That makes sense, because Dragon is arguably the best type in the game, rivaling Steel. There is only one more special type to do, and they'd have to do a dragon eeveelution anyway if they were doing all the types. Most new eeveelutions show up in pairs. This one is alone, which makes it different. It would be very difficult to make Eevee look draconic, but this one does look remarkably different from the others in shape. I'm not saying it's guaranteed to be dragon type, but you can't really deny that it's a significant possibility. At least in the same order of likeliness as normal or flying.

As for the name, it's hard to say what Ninfia is supposed to represent. Eifie is the Japanese name of Espeon. At first glance, it doesn't look like much, but is apparently a pretty easy portmanteau of esupaa (esper) and fiiru (feel). Umbreon is called Blacky, and Flareon is called Booster. Until we get an English name, it's basically impossible to call.

[Mech#4]

It looks like a normal type eevee to me. With the bows and colour it reminds me of Skitty or Chansy, so my guess will be it's an evolution of Eevee that occurs when it has a high cuteness rating.

[Reudh]

Regarding fiiru, that could explain the 'fia' part. nin I'm not so sure about.

If we're going with nin 人 as in person, there's any number of meanings:

Character, person, personality, adult, messenger, thing of talent

It's a long shot, but it could be 'messenger - feel', and messengers are 'normal' and fast moving. I'm putting it down that it has very good speed, because none of the Eeveelutions besides Jolteon have nice speed.

[Furtuka]

The new Eevee's localized name has been revealed as Sylveon which could be taken as evidence of the flying idea due to it's cues to the word Sylph, except there has also been a teaser video in which it is shown primarily using normal moves. Also it's fur is actually white, the cream color has turned out to be a trick of the light. So much fanart will have to be redone now

[Korbac]

I kind of wander why they have a DRAGON type, to be honest. Dratini doesn't look much like a dragon to me either. It seems to be a moniker applied seemingly at random.

[Furtuka]

Um well actually Dratini does have some elements of Eastern dragons. Just a tiny little baby one.

[UltraValican]

Eh, I don't really like Ninfia, then again I don't really like any of the Eveelutions. It looks like a like Skyla though.

[Reudh]

The new Eevee's localized name has been revealed as Sylveon which could be taken as evidence of the flying idea due to it's cues to the word Sylph, except there has also been a teaser video in which it is shown primarily using normal moves. Also it's fur is actually white, the cream color has turned out to be a trick of the light. So much fanart will have to be redone now

Other languages suggest that 'Ninf' was 'Nymph'. Which explains it's English name. Doh.

[Korbac]

Um well actually Dratini does have some elements of Eastern dragons. Just a tiny little baby one.

I suppose it does, yes. WHERE'S MAH GIANT WHISKERS THO

Did Gen 2 eschew a dragon in favour of the beast that was Tyranitar?

[penguinofhonor]

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[Furtuka]

New Trailer for the Mystey Dungeon game coming out in America next month. Too bad the game doesn't have the complete set of mons