Question

Is umbreon really worth it for someone who isn’t doing as much competitive as they should be doing to have a umbreon on their team?

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What format? Is it in-game?

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What do you mean what format

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What do you mean by 'worth it'?

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Gen 2-7, yes, gen 8, no. Umbreon is good at stalling with the move set of, toxic, protect, Wish, and heal bell, but that only works in gen 7 down. In gen 8 Umbreon can no longer learn toxic.

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“Is umbreon really worth it for someone who **isn’t doing as much competitive** as they should be doing to have a umbreon on their team?”
So this is for in-game.

Honestly pretty much anything can work in-game.

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What are you going to do with it? The Battle Tower, online battling, or just the game?

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Maybe both

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“The Battle Tower, online battling, or just the game?“
“Maybe both”

Congratulations, you confused me.

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I was thinking both but I don’t play pokemon enough to do it because I want to do other things when I play

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If a Pokémon is good competitively, it is nearly always good casually. And... Like, all Pokémon are good casually, except like, Ledian, or Magikarp? Sense I am not allowed to answer your question, I am gonna say, yeah. It is definitely worth it.

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Also if this is about the Mimikyu we talked about, you really just have whatever you want. It doesn’t matter.

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In SwSh, anything that is not Inteleon or Excadrill is not worth using.
@Marill DPPt Milotic and HGSS Skarmory are good examples of Pokemon that are good in competitive and absolutely suck in-game. Milotic is just so ridiculously rare that it probably takes more time to find a Milotic than it takes to beat the game with a Lumineon, but competitive players don't care about rarity. Skarmory's main roles in competitive are using spikes (in-game trainers rarely switch) and tanking hits (which is a much worse use of your time compared to level grinding, which you can do in-game but not in competitive).

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This is Casual.

Answer 1

In-game, Umbreon is okay. It’s a decent Dark type, but it’s outclassed offensively by things like Bisharp and Pangoro, and its inclination to the defensive side just isn’t as useful in-game, where attacking is key. It can also be a pain to level up an Eevee during the night with high enough Friendship, so that’s another thing you should take into consideration. It of course works, like most things in-game, but I recommend a different Dark type, like the aforementioned Pangoro and Bisharp. If you must use it, here’s a set.

Umbreon @ Leftovers
Ability: Synchronize
- Throat Chop
- Quick Attack
- Confuse Ray
- Pretty much anything else

Hope I helped!

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Thx I actually was asking this mostly to know if I should swap umbreon with Mimikyu

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Mimikyu is definitely a better choice in-game, but it can be a little hard to get.

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Hard isn’t a word where I come from
Wait yes it is....

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Umbreon will most of the time will be worse than Mimikyu, competitive or not.