Tag: eevee

So my sylveon got out in the middle of the night, and well, got my neighbors umbreon pregnant. My neighbor couldn’t take care of the eggs nor the Pokémon so she gave them to me, which is fine but one of the eevees is Melanistic. Now he’s absolutely gorgeous but im wondering if there are any differences in the way I would take care of the other eevees compared to him?

Actually, no, anonymous! In fact, unlike albinism, melanism isn’t tied to any negative health conditions. Rather, it’s actually a favored trait among many pokémon, as in some cases, particularly among species with naturally brown pelts (such as eevee), the added pigmentation allows them to blend in better with their natural habitat, enabling them to become better hunters, foragers, or, well, hiders from predators. Additionally, melanin protects the skin from ultraviolet light, and some studies suggest ties between higher concentrations of melanin in pokémon skin and disease resistance. (Take Alolan rattata, for example. While it’s true that the rattata population adapted to urban life, some studies suggest that part of the reason why rattata in the Alola region are able to coexist with Alolan grimer is because they adapted higher levels of melanin in their pelts shortly before Alolan grimer finally adapted lower levels of bacterial growth themselves. In other words, the rattata that survived long enough to adapt to urban life in Alola were the ones that grew black pelts, rather than the ones that grew purple ones.)

Getting back to your eevee, though, there’s very little difference in the care you’ll need to give your melanistic eevee compared to the rest of its litter. If anything, you may need to keep an eye out for any aggression from the other eevee or other pokémon in general towards your melanistic eevee (as occasionally, members of the same litter that display different coloration—especially shininess—may experience bullying), but this is really only a distant possibility in terms of what might occur while raising your pokémon.

In other words, chances are you should be fine. Best of luck, anonymous!

Hello Bill! I’ve got an eevee drama. Recently, my neighbour has gifted an eevee egg to me (my friends says he has a crush for me, but he’s a kid, it’s impossible right?), and it’s the most adorable little thing you’ve seen. The problem it’s that there is no eevee formula in the pokemart because Customs problems and giving her raw miltank milk can cause intolerance. The recommended me to give her formula from another pokemon within the same egg group. Would she be allright with it? I’m from Alola

Strange. As eevee are actually native to Alola (and abundant on one of the islands, at that), you shouldn’t have any trouble finding eevee-specific formula. Moreover, formula is not typically an item seized by customs, as if processed correctly (that is, not laced with lead-based pigments, as some countries with less scrupulous quality control tend to do), formula contains nothing that would be considered harmful to the Alolan ecosystem or population. You may wish to ask again or look in larger supermarkets. If all else fails, try shopping on Akala Island, where eevee tend to thrive in the wild.

That having been said, using different formulas for baby pokémon tends to be trickier than using generic kibble for adults. Babies require a very precise balance of nutrition that varies greatly by species. However, if you absolutely must, you can give your eevee formula from a different species of pokémon, but (and this is a very important but), it can’t simply be formula for a member from the same egg group. Try to match up the other species with eevee as much as possible. Your target species should be a carnivore, preferably a canine, as these will have the same nutritional requirements (or as close to the same as possible) that your baby eevee will have. Rockruff or vulpix may be your best choices.

Good luck, and congratulations on the new addition to your family!

hey bill! recently I got an eevee that I plan on evolving into jolteon. however when I try to introduce him to thunderstone I have for him, mai, my alolan raichu, snatches the stone and hides it. it takes me hours to find it each time >:( I don’t know why shes doing this can u help

Pay close attention to the body language of your eevee, anonymous. Mai, as an Alolan raichu, is half-psychic and highly empathic as a result. Thus, it’s likely she’s picking up on your eevee’s anxiety about evolving (at all or into jolteon specifically) and trying to stop you from forcing your eevee to evolve against his will. Communicate with your eevee and make it absolutely clear to him that evolution is his choice, including and especially when it comes to the topic of what he wishes to evolve into. If he seems hesitant at the idea of becoming a jolteon, ask him if he would prefer a different form or if he would wish to stay an eevee. Be sure to go over all of his options carefully so he can make the decision on his own. If you absolutely must have a jolteon, you can try convincing him, but do so in a way that makes it clear you have his interests at heart.

If he actually does want to evolve into a jolteon, then the other possible issue at play here is Mai’s worry that you’re getting another electric-type to replace her on the field. If this is the case, then be sure to reassure her that she will always be valuable to your team and that you by no means intend on retiring her.

Of course, there is also the possibility that neither of these are Mai’s concerns, at which point you’ll need to communicate with Mai as much as possible to figure out what it is that’s troubling her. Take her aside, sit her down, and ask her about her concerns. Keep reassuring her that you only want what’s best for your entire team, but you’re willing to be perfectly flexible to meet their needs.

Best of luck, anonymous!

I always wondered if the eeveelutions are considered omnivores what specifically do their diets consist of? And does it differ on the specific eeveelution?

Eevee and its evolutions lean more toward (for the most part) carnivorous lifestyles, actually. While, like most pokémon, they can eat nuts, berries, grains, root vegetables, and so forth, much of their diet should be meat and protein of some kind.

That having been said, the answer to your second question depends. In captivity, the eevee family can actually be fed the exact same diet, regardless of what evolution each individual takes, with no real consequences so long as their trainer keeps in mind that they should be fed a balance of foods.

In the wild however, absolutely, it depends on the evolution.

Eevee tend to have the most balanced diet (as one would expect) and will eat whatever it can find in its immediate environment.

Flareon often stick to slower animals and pokémon, and its favored food sources tend to be small mammals. It will also display the unusual behavior of roasting their food with the intention of cooking it before eating. (Trainers should be aware that tamed flareon also display this behavior and should only be fed in fireproof environments.)

Vaporeon, being aquatic pokémon, will eat mostly seafood, including fish, amphibians, turtles, jellyfish, and aquatic mammals (such as seals). It tends to avoid shellfish, likely due to the difficulty in getting them open, but it will also hunt for larger meat sources (such as walruses, dolphins, and even sharks) in packs.

Jolteon, being faster and gifted with electrical attacks, often hunt for birds and forage for eggs. It’s also the one eeveelution that prefers pokémon meat over animal meat, as bird pokémon tend to be larger targets than their animal “counterparts.”

Espeon and Leafeon both tend to eat more of a herbivorous diet than their cousins. This does not mean that they are strictly herbivorous; simply that they forage more often than the others. Espeon tends to hunt for insects and other animals with lesser cognitive functions thanks to its psychic abilities. Leafeon, meanwhile, avoids insects (due to its plant biology) and consumes largely rodents, rabbits, frogs, and anything else it can find in its forest habitat. (Leafeon also photosynthesizes whenever a food source isn’t readily available.)

Umbreon, meanwhile, is much more of a carnivore than its cousins in that its diet consists almost entirely of meat. As a nocturnal, forest-dwelling pokémon in nature, it will often hunt for small, ground-dwelling pokémon and animals, particularly diurnal ones. It has no qualms raiding the nests of sleeping prey, in other words.

Glaceon will often consume whatever it can find in its colder, more arctic environment—usually seafood (for polar glaceon) or rabbits (for mountainous). Glaceon may also share territory with vaporeon, sometimes even hunting alongside them to take down larger prey (such as seals and even walruses).

Finally, Sylveon, like eevee, will eat whatever it can find in its environment but typically chooses prey it can lure into dark corners of its habitat and then devour.

I have a 3-legged Eevee who has been a companion of mine for years. However, she recently seems to want to battle. She has never battled before, and I’m worried that she won’t be able to handle training, but on the other hand, I don’t want to crush her dreams. What should I do?

Allow her to train anyway. If she’s used to running on three legs, she should have no trouble on the battlefield. Just be aware that, yes, you will have to take into consideration the fact that she may not do things the same way as fully able-bodied eevee do. Be aware of how she uses her body normally and construct training regimens to accommodate her disability. Consider also teaching her a few distance moves (such as Shadow Ball and Swift) that she can use if she pushes herself too hard with physical moves.

If she seems like she’s struggling on just three legs, it might also be worth it to look into obtaining a prosthetic for her. There are certain companies out there—Silph, for example—that can make 3D-printed pokémon prosthetics which are actually quite inexpensive.

Best of luck to you and your eevee, anonymous!

How do I approach to an eevee that I recently saved from an abusive trainer?

Cautiously, anonymous.

The most important thing to remember about eevee abuse is that it normally stems from the unfortunate but not entirely uncommon thought among extreme eevee otaku that eevee are collectible objects, rather than living, breathing beings that have basic needs for survival. Sometimes, “affection” given to an abused eevee may come in the form of dressing it up, violating its personal space, and, yes, even violence, especially if the eevee in question had been bred or obtained specifically for the contest circuit. Of course, while knowing exactly how your eevee was abused helps, this doesn’t change the fact that even if yours had received an entirely different form of abuse (such as, for example, physical abuse, which can be common among house eevee), the process is by and large the same.

Start off by making sure your home is comfortable. Provide all the basic necessities—the higher the quality, the better. Make sure your eevee has a comfortable place to sleep, with a nice bed and the thermostat adjusted for its personal optimal temperature. (If your eevee is shivering or looks overheated, change the temperature accordingly as soon as possible.) Also be sure to stock your eevee’s area with plenty of fresh food and water, as well as a clean place for relieving itself, and also provide it with plenty of toys and distractions.

Once you’ve provided its basic needs, here is where the difficult part comes into play. You need to give your eevee plenty of space—literally, I mean. Don’t handle your eevee too much or too roughly for the first few days and gauge from its body language whether or not it’s comfortable with you. Try to assume non-threatening poses whenever you’re around it, and only touch it when it’s relaxed and ready to receive affection. Allow your eevee to come to you whenever possible, but always speak softly and reassuringly to it in order to establish that it can feel comfortable around you.

What may also help is asking the shelter, center, or breeder your eevee had come from about their routines. Feeding, cleaning, exercising, and putting your eevee to bed at the same time they had every day will help ease the transition from the shelter to your home, which in turn will reduce the stress your eevee goes through and allow it to open up to you more readily. The more you can mimic the first humans who were kind to it, the easier it will be for your eevee to begin to trust you.

Above all else, though, have patience. Take care of your eevee as best as you can and do everything you can to maintain a low-stress environment and day for it. Don’t begin battling or pokémon training right away. (You may train your eevee, but stick to the basics, such as paper training and training it to trust you and adjust to its environment.) Work up to that slowly until it feels comfortable enough with you and its new home to engage in aggressive physical activity. And always keep in mind that it’s very difficult for fresh psychological wounds to heal. It may take your eevee a month or few to begin trusting you, and that’s perfectly normal. Just keep showering it with kindness and being open to it, and eventually, it will be able to grow and love once more.

Best of luck, anonymous!

Bill, I’m sure you’re the best person to ask about this, how does Payday not ruin the economy?

Contrary to popular belief, Pay Day does not generate money from thin air. Rather, it generates meowth charms from thin air. These meowth charms are not technically money but may be sold back to pokémarts for a certain amount, depending on the quality of the charm, the karat of the gold, and the seller themselves. Ultimately, however, the amount a charm can be sold for goes for less than ¥100, so while some young or unlucky trainers may be desperate enough to sell these charms, they’re more or less trivial little trinkets to anyone else but meowth aficionados, as the effort to generate and cash them far outweighs the payoff.

For those wondering how generating anything out of thin air that may be sold to an ordinary pokémart doesn’t ruin the economy or bankrupt a mart, also note that the charms can then be sold to local meowth afficionados, who are as numerous as they are gifted with vast disposable incomes. There are entire online communities dedicated to meowth fanatics’ vast collections of Pay Day-generated charms, with users from all over the world. Apparently, every charm is unique in color, texture, quality, luster, and so forth, and many forums are dedicated to the sharing and discussion of meowth charm flaws. Some meowth fanatics even travel from region to region, visiting pokémarts in a dedicated search for charms to add to their collections.

Of course, as tempting as it would be to judge, I’d advise you not to do so. There are certainly communities of species-specific pokémaniacs that are a bit more avid in their collecting habits than this.

The eevee fan communities, for example, compare shades of non-shiny eevee fur. —LH

Which are a vast spectrum of different but equally fascinating shades! —Bill

They’re brown, Bill. Also, do you really need sixteen threads dedicated to that? That’s what a sticky is for! —LH

My eevee is certain that she wants to evolve as she loves to battle and wants to get stronger, but is not sure which evolution she wants to become. I don’t want to decide for her I want it to be HER decision, but I want to help out any way I can in choosing which would fit her. What can I do?

Ah, the one question that plagues the minds of both eevee and eeveemaniacs alike.

If you know anyone who trains eeveelutions, consider allowing your eevee to speak with them—the eeveelutions, I mean. Think of it like a mentoring relationship, wherein the eeveelution offers advice on their branch and why they chose what they did. If you can connect with all eight known eeveelutions, this would be ideal, but the more you can have your eevee speak to, the better. After all, no one knows what it’s like to be each eeveelution better than another eeveelution.

If this isn’t feasible, then communication between you and your eevee will be of the utmost importance. Try to teach her about each eeveelution yourself. Explain to her what each element can do and show her information about each possible branch. You can certainly do this without influencing her decision; it’s simply a matter of providing objective facts on each branch. For example, you can tell your eevee about how flareon can breathe fire and how its fur coat keeps it warm even in the coldest temperatures, even if you’re not fond of flareon yourself. By providing her with information, you can help her become informed.

Beyond that, I would also suggest allowing her to battle against pokémon that share elements with her evolutions. For example, allow her to battle against a vulpix, pikachu, and staryu. While these aren’t eeveelutions (or even remotely related to eevee), they’re adept at using the same elements flareon, jolteon, and vaporeon wield, and thus, your eevee has plenty of opportunity to see her future elements in action. (You can do the same with pokémon that share elements with her other evolutions as well. For example, try battling girafarig to expose her to the psychic element, poochyena to expose her to dark, roselia for grass, swinub for ice, and clefairy for fairy. Also note that you don’t have to battle these specifically; these are just examples. Any pokémon of these eight elements will do.)

If, after all of this, she still can’t quite decide, let her know that there’s no rush to make a decision at all. Offer her an everstone and continue to expose her to information about her evolutions until, one way or another, something resonates with her.

Best of luck, anonymous! May this help your eevee do what feels right to her.

Have you ever seen a melanistic eevee, Bill? Do you know what exactly causes this effect? I have a melanistic umbreon that was given to me by my father, his coat is entirely black, and the area where his rings would be, doesn’t glow either. His eyes are a very lovely shade of copper instead of the regular red, as well.

Ah yes, melanistic eevee. It’s actually quite interesting, to be honest. Melanistic eevee are more or less akin to albinos of the same species: not shiny but rather pokémon with melanin levels that differ from the norm. However, unlike albino pokémon, melanism in pokémon can be an adaptational advantage and—in the absence of melanism-related disorders such as ocular melanosis—often is.

That’s important to clarify because melanism is a genetic condition. In laymen’s terms, it’s caused by a mutation in a pokémon’s genetic code that causes them to have one extra copy of a specific sequence that controls melanin production. However, whether or not that mutation is expressed is a recessive trait. As such, pokémon may either carry it and pass it to their young or, well, be melanistic themselves.

As for the reason why this mutation occurred in the first place, as mentioned above, it’s often an adaptational advantage. For example, while non-melanistic umbreon use their rings’ glow as an intimidation tactic, umbreon that can’t glow at all are less likely to be detected in the first place and are therefore actually more effective hunters. (The glow helps, of course, to stun faster prey, but glowing umbreon lack the stealth non-glowing umbreon have.) Additionally, melanin protects the skin from ultraviolet light, synthesizes vitamin D (which in turn is vital to the immune system), and may be associated with viral resistance, all of which in combination allow melanistic pokémon such as your umbreon to be hardier than their normal counterparts. As such, there is some “survival of the fittest” at play here as well.

Finally, as for whether or not I’ve ever seen them in person, I have indeed. While melanism is rare in the wild, domesticated eevee are often bred specifically for those traits due to the fact that besides being ideal traits in the wild, they’re actually more aesthetically pleasing to eevee enthusiasts. However, I must admit I’ve never owned one myself, but I’ve met my fair share of eeveemaniacs with at least one on their team. They’re quite beautiful indeed—so you’re very lucky to own one!