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I'm a bit late to this discussion, but if you wanna be cheap AF and infuriate your opponent, this is what I use...

Umbreon @ Leftovers
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
- Payback
- Double Team
- Toxic
- Moonlight

Use double team until max evasiveness, toxic, then payback. Whenever HP is in the yellow, moonlight + Leftovers, your likely back to full HP, ready to dodge almost anything they throw at you, but if one o' their Pokémon knows Aura Sphere, sorry my friend, but you're f*****. I typically do double/triple battles, so I get rid of them ASAP with my other Pokémons. Hope this helps!

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Umbreon @ Rocky Helmet
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Toxic
- Protect
- Wish
- Foul Play

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Good. Finally, some darn decent sets.
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This is my Umbreon in Diamond. I just started getting into competitive battles at the battle tower and this works really well.

Umbreon @ Wide Lens
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 126 HP / 126 Def / 252 SpD
Careful Nature
- Toxic
- Protect
- Feint Attack
- Moonlight

I always like to start off with a toxic and then one protect, this just gives a free turn of extra poison damage. Then I'll either switch Umbreon out if it's an unfavourable matchup to save for other Pokemon or I just alternate between protect and moonlight and let the poison faint the opponents Pokemon. I only use faint attack if I'm fighting a psychic or ghost type that will only take a couple turns to faint (because that's faster than waiting for poison) or if I used protect the previous turn and my HP is close to full it just does a little of extra damage.

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Don't split ev's between defenses and hp. Run Max hp and max Special defense with 4 defense. Wish is better recovery than moonlight. Faint attack is fine, but a move like foul play will probably be more useful.

Also wide lens sucks. Run leftovers.
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Eevee @ Eevium Z
Ability: Anticipation
EVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpD
Impish Nature
- Last Resort
- Double Team
- Substitute
- Baton Pass

This set should only be used in AG, because baton pass is banned from Ubers (I think). Substitute first, then Evoboost, Baton Pass in the face of a taunter, or use Double Team and then Baton Pass. The ability Anticipation is to see if the enemy packs Fighting type moves.

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Umbreon @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
EVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA/ 252 SpD or 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Moonlight / Wish
- Substitute
- Toxic
- Weather Ball / Dig

First, set up sun with the drought ability. If not, use Wish, Substitute quickly stalls out damage and Umbreon is very tanky. Toxic can deal out damage quickly each turn, Weather Ball should only be used if you run the moonlight set. It would turn into a base 100 power fire move, which also helps damage Steel types which are unaffected by Toxic.
Recommended teammates:
Torkoal- Sets up sun
Groudon- Sets up Sun and has earthquake for poison cover, Fire type stab moves for steel cover
Watch out for:
Bug Buzz-A super effective move that bypasses Substitute
+2 252 SpA Frosmoth Bug Buzz vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Umbreon: 342-404 (86.8 - 102.5%) -- 18.8% chance to OHKO
*Note that Frosmoth is faster, and has up to two turns to set up Quiver Dance.

I've hoped I've helped!

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This only works in a drought team.
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Umbreon @ Leppa Berry
Ability: Inner Focus
EVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpD
Calm Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
- Toxic
- Mean Look
- Moonlight
- Foul Play

I like to troll non poison and steel types with this set… you already know what toxic is there for, and mean look is so that your opponent can’t flee to reset the toxic counter.
Moonlight is for healing. Foul play is to attack, as it is unwise to have a pokémon that has no means to deal damage other than toxic!

Leppa berry is to restore Moonlight PP, as the PP for that move is pretty low. I don’t know how to deal with moves like giga drain and draining kiss though. Let me know how I can solve that!

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Toxic Staller

Umbreon @Leftovers
EVs: 252 HP/ 120 SpD/ 132 Atk
Ability: Synchronoize
Brave Nature (+Atk -Spe)
-Toxic
-Protect
-Payback
-Moonlight

Toxic since this is a toxic staller set
Protect to stall time as toxic kicks in
Payback is stab and a back up incase umbreon battles a poison type which may be useful since umbreon is very slow from the brave nature
Moonlight for nice recovery

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Wish could possibly be an option over Moonlight because it gives healing to your teammates and fits with the Protect+Toxic combo. Payback on Umbreon wouldn't do much damage even with Brave and some investment in Attack, so it could be replaced by Foul Play, which punishes Physical attackers.
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Gen 9 NU Calm Mind

Umbreon @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
Tera Type: Fairy / Poison / Ghost
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 Spe
Bold Nature
- Calm Mind
- Dark Pulse
- Wish
- Protect

This is the Calm Mind set Umbreon uses in Gen 9 NU. Calm Mind Umbreon makes Umbreon not as passive. Calm Mind is used to boost Umbreon's Special Attack and Special Defense, boosting Umbreon's defensive and offensive presence. Dark Pulse is used for a Dark STAB. Wish is used to give Umbreon a form of HP recovery. Protect is used alongside Wish for HP recovery and allows Umbreon to scout for choice locked Pokemon. The Tera Types are options that allow Umbreon to resist or be immune to Fighting-type moves. Tera Fairy / Tera Poison lets Umbreon resist Fighting moves. Tera Ghost lets Umbreon have an immunity to Fighting-type moves.

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