Question

What is the best eeveelution for each main series Pokemon game?

Comments

This is for singleplayer, right? If it is, Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Espeon are generally better because of their higher special attack. It also depends on how easy it is to evolve each of them, because stone locations and friendship mechanics are different in different games.

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How would you define best? Best for what? Gym battles?

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I dislike these "what's the best ______ for every game" because people always fail to define what defines "best." Rarely do people take anything more than gym battles and the elite four + champion into consideration, and if they add anything more it's usually just rival battles or something. Should "best" take into account other trainers? Wild Pokemon? Surely best is also dependent on the other Pokemon on your team, right? Are we also taking into consideration how much time you might spend in each part of the game? What defines a part of the game? It would be easy to divide it into 9 parts for each of the gyms and the elite four, but are those parts equal?

Can we please define these factors first, before trying to answer this question, as well as any other questions?

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RBYFRLG: Vaporeon is best because surf is a HM, and it also learns ice beam and blizzard.
GSC: Espeon is better than the other Eevee evolutions (it's still not great) because evolution stones are stupidly difficult to get in these games.
Pt: Either Vaporeon or Jolteon. They're easy to evolve, have high special attack, and their good moves aren't too difficult to get.
HGSS: Vaporeon is now better than Espeon because water stones are easier to find and psychic TMs are more difficult to find.
B2W2: Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Espeon are all pretty good.