Eevee

Eevee (Japanese: イーブイ Iibui) is a -type Pokémon introduced in Generation I. It's well-known for being the Pokémon with the highest number of evolution possibilities (8), due to its unstable genetic makeup. It is the Version Mascot and Starter Pokémon for the game Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee!. It can also Gigantamax into Gigantamax Eevee.

Physiology
Eevee is a small, mammalian creature with bushy, brown fur. Its muzzle is very cat-like, with a small, black, triangular nose. It has a fluffy cream-colored ruff around its neck and a short, bushy, fox-like tail with a creamy tip. Eevee has round, deep-brown eyes, long rabbit-like ears, and pink paw pads on its little feet. Its paws are small with three toes and no visible claws.

Eevee, as well as its evolutions, possesses traits from different animals. Eevee shares most traits with the fennec fox. However, it is also based on dogs, cats and rabbits. Eevee is said to have an irregularly-shaped genetic structure, enabling it to evolve into multiple Pokémon.

As Gigantamax Eevee, its body becomes larger. The fur collar grows longer and fluffier with several triangular furs pointing straight up. The right ear has three red clouds surrounding it like a circle. As the fur becomes fluffier and more luxurious, any enemies caught in it will lose the will to fight due to being enamored by its presence. Eevee's behavior also appears to be more playful and rambunctious when Gigantamaxing, desiring to play with its opponent and often unintentionally crushing them with its size.

Gender differences
As of Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee, male partner Eevee have a zigzag pattern at the end of their tail, which was once for universal genders. With female partner Eevee, they now have a heart-shaped pattern at the end of their tail. In non-partner Eevee, these gender differences do not exist. This was likely meant to counterpart how female Pikachu have heart tails.

Habitat
Eevee is a Pokémon found mainly in cities. But it is possible that they live anywhere because they evolve to suit their surroundings. Eevee can mostly be found in Kanto but is also found in Johto, Sinnoh, Unova, Central Kalos and Alola.

Natural abilities
Eevee can have either the ability Run Away or Adaptability. Run Away is an ability that will allow the user to run from any wild Pokémon battle, negating the effects of moves that prevent running away like Mean Look and Block. Adaptability increases the users STAB from x1.5 to x2.0. Eevee's Hidden Ability is Anticipation, which lets Eevee sense an opponent's dangerous moves.

Eevee are Pokémon with unstable genetic codes. This gives them the ability to evolve into eight different evolutions triggered by the environment, time of day, friendship levels, or the usage of the evolutionary stones Water Stone, Thunderstone, and Fire Stone.

Partner Eevee is also capable to learning special moves: Bouncy Bubble, Buzzy Buzz, Sizzly Slide, Glitzy Glow, Baddy Bad, Sappy Seed, Freezy Frost, Sparkly Swirl, and the Partner Power, Veevee Volley.

Z-Moves
Eevee is one of the few Pokémon in Sun and Moon which have a special Z-Move dedicated to them.

The Z-Move Extreme Evoboost is Eevee's signature move. The move is activated by the Z-Crystal, Eevium Z. Its base is Last Resort. Extreme Evoboost can be learned only by an Eevee with Last Resort, and becomes unusable if Last Resort is forgotten or if the Eevee evolves into one of its evolution.

Gigantamax
Eevee is one of the few Pokémon in Sword and Shield that can Gigantamax by having a special member from it species.

Gigantamax Eevee is the only known Pokémon capable of using the G-Max Move, G-Max Cuddle.

Evolution
Eevee can evolve into one of eight different forms with different types. These forms include:
 * Jolteon by use of a Thunderstone;
 * Flareon by use of a Fire Stone;
 * Vaporeon by use of a Water Stone;
 * Espeon when leveled up with high friendship during the day;
 * Umbreon when leveled up with high friendship during the night;
 * Leafeon when leveled up in Eterna Forest, Pinwheel Forest, Route 20 in Kalos, Petalburg Woods, Lush Jungle or wherever there is a Mossy Rock;
 * Glaceon when leveled up on Route 217, Twist Mountain, Frost Cavern, Shoal Cave, Mount Lanakila or wherever there is an Ice Rock;
 * Sylveon by knowing a -type move, while leveling up and playing with Eevee through Pokémon-Amie (Gen VI) or Pokémon Refresh (Gen VII) and earning at least two affection hearts.

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Anime
Eevee first appeared in The Battling Eevee Brothers. A little boy named Mikey was hiding the Evolution Pokémon from his three older brothers because they wanted him to evolve it. However, when Mikey's Eevee single-handedly defeated Team Rocket, they were able to accept the fact that Mikey wanted to keep his Eevee just the way it is.

Virgil had an Eevee acting as a helper to Team Eevee.

Ilima owned an Eevee who prefered not to have it evolve, just like Mikey's Eevee. It used Charm on Team Skull's female members who accompanied their male members that wanted to get revenge on Ilima, who unknowingly had ruined their lives in their childhood past for being popular than them, and used its exclusive Z-Move Extreme Evoboost to summon all of its evolved forms, blasting off Team Skull from threatening Ilima and the Pokémon School.

An upbeat Eevee with a closed banged messy hair, nicknamed "Sandy", appeared in the third season of Sun & Moon series, debuting in the first "Where are you going, Eevee?" short episode tie-in of "Lillier and the Staff!", and properly in "We Know Where You're Going, Eevee!", in which Lana caught it with her Dive Ball then gave it a newer haircut. Lana's father was the first one to see Sandy when he was on his boat witnessing the said Pokémon with his old friend Mantine.

Games

 * Pokémon Yellow: Is the rival's starting Pokémon.
 * Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!: As one of the starters of the player character's Pokémon
 * Pokémon Conquest: As the starter of the player character's Pokémon.
 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red/Blue Rescue Team: Must be naive nature and female gender to become this Pokémon as the player character.
 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky: Must be jolly nature and female gender to become this Pokémon as the player character.

Pokémon Adventures
In Pokémon Adventures, Red was in possession of an Eevee which had been experimented on by Team Rocket. As a result, it could transform back and forth from the three evolutions: Vaporeon, Jolteon, and Flareon along with its base form, allowing it greater tactical ability in fighting other Pokémon. Eventually, it evolved into an Espeon, losing its special ability to interchange abilities.

Electric Tale of Pikachu
In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga, the character Mikey (who appeared in the anime episode: "The Battling Eevee Brothers") made an appearance with his own Eevee and within the chapter that he appeared in, Mikey attempted to prove to his brothers that he didn't need to evolve his Eevee to win battles.

Trivia

 * Eevee and Pikachu are the only Starter Pokémon in the canon RPG games that deviates from the usual, , and -typings.
 * So far, Eevee is one of two to have three or more evolutions, and is the only Pokémon that has four or more.
 * The only other Pokemon with more than two evolutions is Tyrogue.
 * Eevee was the first Pokémon that had a different evolution depending on the time of day.
 * Its name is a palindrome, meaning its name is spelled the same backwards as it is forwards. Only three other Pokémon share the same trait: Ho-Oh, Girafarig, and Alomomola.
 * Eevee, Poliwhirl and Gloom are the only three Pokémon that can evolve into more than one Pokémon using multiple elemental stones.
 * An Eevee will be bonded to the player character in Pokémon Conquest.
 * Eevee is the Pokémon with the most evolutions using elemental stones so far, being three.
 * In the Eeveelution chain, all Pokémon evolving from Eevee have "eon" at the end of their names.
 * It was the first Pokémon to be able to evolve by happiness in night or day, leveling up near the Mossy Rock or Ice Rock, and having 2 affection hearts in Pokémon-Amie and knowing a -type move.
 * Eevee is the only -type Starter Pokémon so far.
 * Eevee is one of the few Pokémon to evolve in a certain location (near Mossy Rock of Frozen Stone). The others being Magneton, Nosepass, Charjabug and Crabrawler. However, Eevee is the only one of them that has more than one evolution.
 * Similarly, Eevee is one of the ten Pokémon that evolves upon knowing a move. In this case, it needs to know a -type move.
 * Despite requiring a -type move to evolve into Sylveon, the only Fairy-type moves Eevee can learn are Baby-Doll Eyes and Charm through leveling up.
 * Also in Pokémon Sun and Moon, once the Eevee evolves into Sylveon, it can learn Fairy Wind.
 * Eevee is so far the only Pokémon that didn't originally have a gender difference but received one in a later generation/game.
 * Up to Generation V, all generations include at least 2 versions where NPCs will give the player an Eevee.
 * In Pokémon FireRed, the Japanese Pokédex claims that Eevee have 3 evolutions while there are actually 5 in Generation III.
 * The reason may be the lack of time system in the game, which are necessary to evolve Eevee into Espeon or Umbreon.
 * In Super Smash Bros., Eevee is one of the Pokémon that can be freed from Poké Balls. During this time, it uses the move Take Down.
 * Not only does it have physical characteristics of felines, Eevee and its evolutions always show feline behavior in the anime.
 * Eevee's English name was originally going to be Eon.

Origin
Eevee has traits of cats, foxes, and rabbits. It could be based on a cabbit, a fictional animal hybrid which often appears in Japanese media as a generic "cute" animal.

Etymology
Eevee's name likely comes from the letters E-V, an abbreviation for the word "evolution". Its Japanese name, Iibui, literally means "evolve". Eevee's original name, Eon, is simply the word eon (a long period of time).

Names in other languages

 * English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish: Eevee
 * French: Évoli
 * German: Evoli
 * Chinese: 伊布 / 伊貝 (HK)
 * Korean: 이브이

Gallery
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