What is a good moveset for Vaporeon?
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Role: Rain TankVaporeon (M) @ LeftoversAbility: HydrationEVs: 252 HP / 96 Def / 160 SpDModest Nature- Rest- Muddy Water- Acid Armor- Shadow Ball
With Rain support
Tons of hp for a Hefty Leftovers boost, Rest takes you right back up to full with no Waiting in the Rain for a Hydration user,
Muddy Water gives you a chance at the ever so annoying Accuracy Decreaser, which can sometimes force a switch, while it still has good power, and Shadow ball gives good coverage, while Acid Armor builds your Defense stat to be as good as your Special defense, and then much much better.
Vaporeon (M) @ Choice SpecsAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest Nature- Hydro Pump- Ice Beam- Signal Beam- Shadow Ball
Everyone will be expecting a Wish,Protect,Toxic,Scald Vaporeon so why not surprise them?
Gen 8 NUVaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 216 Def / 40 SpDCalm NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Scald- Wish- Protect- Heal Bell / Toxic / Ice Beam / Roar
This set is similar to the one onSmogon,but with a another option that’s not mentioned and the EV spread is different. The difference is that this has more than 4 special defense EVs. 40 Special Defense EVs with a Calm Nature makes sure that you don’t get 2HKOed by a +4 Dark Pulse from Blastoise, as shown in this calc:
+4 252+ SpA Blastoise Dark Pulse vs. 252 HP / 40+ SpD Vaporeon: 196-231 (42.2 - 49.7%) – guaranteed 3HKO after Leftovers recovery
Scald is pretty good STAB that most Pokémon in the tier don’t really enjoy switching into. It’s 30% chance to burn can help with its checks that use physical moves like non Rest Guzzlord, Decidueye, and Dhelmise. Wish provides good healing for you and your teammates if they need recovery since Vaporeon has a high HP, meaning that you can give your teammates big recovery from Wish. Protect is useful for scouting moves from opposing Pokémon and can guarantee that you get recovery from Wish, and also allows you to get a free turn of Leftovers recovery. Heal Bell is really useful that cures you and your teammates of status conditions, meaning that they don’t have to be crippled with status like poisoning, burns, and paralysis. Toxic can be used for Pokemon who are immune to water moves like Heliolisk and Mantine. Ice Beam is an option to prevent grass and dragon types to come in on Vaporeon for free. Roar is another option that can stop sweepers from setting up on you, and is very useful against Sub Shell Smash Blastoise and can even threaten it with Toxic Spikes support.
You can refer to the link that was mentioned earlier, but there is one teammate I would like to mention:
Xatu is a good fighting resist thanks to its typing that can help with your matchup against Toxicroak, a Pokemon who can literally switch into Vaporeon for free. Xatu’s Magic Bounce ability is useful for catching incoming hazards and status conditions, which is useful so Vaporeon doesn’t have to worry taking chip damage from Stealth Rock. Xatu also has Teleport, which can be used to bring in Vaporeon saftley.
Gen V
Vaporeon (F) @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest Nature- Surf- Toxic- Ice Beam- Wish
The original bulky water. Use Toxic on the foe, then use Wish to stay alive and hit hard with STAB Surf and your Ice Beam type coverage to bring the foe down quicker. You have plenty of bulk, and nice Special Attack. Water Absorb allows you to heal back up by switching in on Water attacks, and Leftovers heals you.
Vaporeon (F) @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 160 Def / 96 SpABold Nature- Toxic- Roar / Aqua Ring- Surf- Wish
The idea is to Toxic something, Roar takes out another Pokemon so you can use toxic again or aqua ring to stall 1 at the time, surf for some fresh STAB, Wish for healing when needed.
Double/Triple Battle
Vaporeon (M) @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest Nature- Surf- Helping Hand- Blizzard- Hidden Power [Electric]
Surf is STAB that hits multiple foes. Blizzard hits multiple foes. helping Hand provides team support. HP Electric is coverage.
Role: Special wall on my Trick Room team
Vaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 4 Def / 252 SpDSassy Nature- Scald- Yawn- Roar- Heal Bell
Scald is for the status (burn). Yawn is to either put the foe asleep or force them to switch out. Roar is for annoying Pokemon that try to sweep my team. Heal bell for obvious reasons.
This is my first suggestion, so here goes nothing…
Vaporeon (M) @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 128 Def / 252 SpD / 128 SpeBold Nature- Surf- Ice Beam- Acid Armor- Hyper Beam
Now most people say +SpDef but I’m going with Defense as Vaporeon seems in need of some good Defense. We can always add to Special Defense in the EVs. If you plan to use Vaporeon in Double or Triple Battles, I prefer to use Muddy Water instead of Surf as it avoids friendly fire and has a +30% chance of lowering opponent’s accuracy.
Hope I did good! ^_^
Mine (Gen IV) knows:
Vaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 128 Def / 252 SpA / 128 SpDModest Nature- Surf- Ice Beam- Aqua Ring- Fake Tears
Another one of my favorite eeveelutions and water type Pokemon, Vaporeon has great HP and Special attacks anyway this moveset is gonna make Vaporeon bulky so sit back and watch.
Vaporeon @ Quick Claw / Wacan BerryAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest / Calm Nature- Surf / Muddy Water / Scald- Ice Beam- Acid Armor- Baton Pass
Modest / Calm Nature: Modest or Calm (if you really wanna make him/her more bulky against sp.atks then calm is for you but modest is great for sp.atking moves and for a trick room team Relaxed or Quiet will do the trick.)
Surf hits almost all opponents in double battles and has good power and accuracy and is STAB, Muddy Water is okay and it has the same power as surf and is STAB and has the chance of lowering the targets accuracy which makes up for the opponents moves missing but has a little lack of accuracy for the move its self so its devastating for it to miss and then, we have Scald which has STAB has slightly less power but still good and I think it has a 20% of burning the target, Ice beam I for coverage against grass types and has a 10% chance of leaving the target frozen, Acid Armour is to raise defense by 2 stages so use this two times and vaporeon is bulky against physical attacks and baton pass is to pass Acid Armour to Pokemon who have a lack of Defense. The Quick claw is used so Vaporeon has a little of a chance attacking first and wacan berry lowers the damage against electric type moves but can only be used once and here’s a little tip of how to use its Water Absorb, so if your Pokemon are attacked by water type moves then quickly switch to vaporeon and its HP will be restored and will gain immunity to that type.
Vaporeon (M) @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpeTimid Nature- Hydro Pump / Scald- Shadow Ball / Hidden Power Ground]- Aqua Ring- Ice Beam / Hidden Power [Ice]
*If you are going to put Hidden Power on your Vaporeon, you can’t have both HP Ground and HP Ice. You must choose between one of them.
Vaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest Nature-Scald-Aqua Ring-Ice Beam-Protect / Mud Slap
Scald is for STAB, Aqua Ring + Lefties gives you a good bit of HP back per turn, Ice Beam is grass coverage andwith Protect you get more healing with Leftovers + Aqua Ring, with Mud-Slap you get Electric coverage + lower accuracy on your opponent.
Vaporeon (M) @ Big RootAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 248 HP / 8 Atk / 252 SpAMild Nature- Scald- Ice Beam- Return- Aqua Ring
Vaporeon (M) @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 4 SpA / 252 SpeTimid Nature- Substitute- Surf- Aqua Ring- Baton Pass
What we are gonna do here is set up an aqua ring and a substitute then after that we will use surf if we want to, or a baton pass to keep aqua ring going I raised speed instead of Atk because I only need the Sp atk because I only have surf
I just came up with this on Pokemon Showdown and this is super new but ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Vaporeon @ LeftoversEVs: 252 HP 252 / 252 SpA / 4 SpDModest Nature- Aqua Ring- Laser Focus- Hydro Pump / Surf- Blizzard / Ice Beam
Aqua Ring to give it extra life if you need it with the Leftovers, Laser Focus to hit hard with powerful moves PLUS the crit bonus, so goodbye to fire, grass (One of its weaknesses) flying, rock, ground and dragon type Pokemon
Vaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpDBold Nature- Scald- Wish- Protect / Toxic- Flip Turn
Wish passing taken to a whole new level. Flip Turn isn’t as good as Teleport, but with the amount of Pokemon that get it, and the niche part of being able to break sashes (unlike Teleport) is decent as well. Scald for standard STAB plus burn chance. Wish for health restoration. Protect to safely get a wish onto Vaporeon, although you could use Toxic for chipping bulky waters (like Milotic) if you are really bold. Flip Turn is the gimmick that allows Vaporeon to wish pass safely, due to the low speed Vaporeon has.
Eevee @ Eevium ZAbility: AnticipationEVs: 252 HP / 200 Def / 56 SpDImpish 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.
Vaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: HydrationEVs: 252 HP / 252 SpA / 4 SpDCalm Nature- Scald- Rest- Rain Dance- Acid Armor
First, Set up with a Rain dance for later on.Second, Start using Acid armor consistently until your stats are maxed or your low.Third, If at any time you get low and your rain dance is still up use rest so you can heal up, your Hydration ability will cure the sleep.Fourth, Make sure your rain dance is always being used once all turns are doneFifth, after your done setting up use scald against your opponent, Scald has a 30% chance of burning the target
This set up is one of the most stalling set I could think of!
Gen 9 NU Substitute + Calm MindVaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbTera Type: DarkEVs: 12 HP / 144 Def / 252 SpA / 100 SpeTimid NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Substitute- Calm Mind- Stored Power- Surf
At first, I thought Vaporeon wouldn’t be as good due to it losing Utility moves like Scald, Toxic, and Heal Bell. However, someone passed me this set, and after using it, I realized Vaporeon can be a dangerous wincon due to its good bulk and special attack. This is Substitute + Calm Mind set.
Substitute allows Vaporeon to dodge status conditions that could hinder it, such as Paralysis and Sleep. Calm Mind boosts your Special Attack, allowing Vaporeon to tank special hits better while boosting its offensive presence. Stored Power is useful coverage and gets more powerful the more you use Calm Mind. Surf is used for a powerful Water STAB.
Gen 9 NU Physically DefensiveVaporeon @ LeftoversAbility: Water AbsorbTera Type: SteelEVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpeBold NatureIVs: 0 Atk- Surf- Ice Beam / Haze / Calm Mind- Wish- Protect
Vaporeon lost access to Scald, Toxic, and Heal Bell, so this is the Physically Defensive set it uses in Gen 9 NU. Surf is used for the Water STAB since Vaporeon doesn’t have Scald in Gen 9. :( Ice Beam provides coverage against Dragon- and Ice-types such as Goodra, Oricorio-Pom-Pom, Oricorio-Sensu, and Drifblim. Wish is used to give you and your teammates recovery. Protect works well with Wish so you can get your HP recovery. Protect is also useful for scouting opposing Pokemon. Haze can be used over Ice Beam so you can deter HO teams and setup sweepers from setting up. Calm Mind can be used to boost your Special Attack and Special Defense to allow Vaporeon to become a potent wincon. Tera Steel allows Vaporeon to resist Goodra’s Draco Meteor.
