OREON - The Prissy Pokémon

1; This Pokémon loves to stash valuable items inside of its fur. Due to this, Oreons are very territorial in the mineral-rich mines they tend to call their homes.

2; These Pokémon tend to be awfully fond of the gems they store in their chest fur to the point of becoming intensely overprotective of it. If they ever lose it, they will bemoan it for decades and swear revenge.

Out of Character ask (you can keep this one private if you’d like)

It’s a simple thing, what’s your favorite Pokémon, including any that aren’t perhaps “the” favorite if there’s more than one.

I don’t a a definitive favorite myself, but I like a number of them. For a few examples, Incineroar is just an amazing Heel wresting Tiger of a Pokémon (IRL I’m definitely a cat person, having grown up with cats in my life), Buzzwole is just so absurd that I really like it (three words: Giant Muscular Mosquito), Xurkitree just clicks well with being an alien tree made of cables, Skeledirge is a cool skeletal fire croc with a fire bird (who even cleans Skeledirge’s teeth like some bird do for real crocs, which is a nice representation of IRL mutualistic symbiosis), Koraidon just works as a dinosaur dragon (plus I like red), Corviknight looks cool and is very much a strong mon, to name a few. Oh, and there’s the classic nostalgia I have for Reshiram thanks to my first Pokémon game being Pokémon Black, alongside Pokémon’s take on Blue Eyes White Dragon being plain majestic

((That's a fun question, and you have some really fun favorites!

For me, the all-time favorite is the female form of Pyroar. Random choice, I know, but I have a lot of nostalgia and good memories around one - the first Pokemon I caught in the first game I beat (Pokemon X) was a Litleo, who promptly supplanted my starter (Fennekin). I'm also, as it happens, a huge cat person!

Other than that, Lugia, Ho-Oh, and Reshiram are also huge favorites of mine, mostly for lore reasons but also Lugia nostalgia, and I adore both 'raidons to a silly extreme. Several Eeveelutions are also preferred Pokemon for me, but Sylveon is my favorite of the bunch. So much power in a little fluffy package...and I just think Luxray is super cool. Mewtwo was never a favorite of mine even though I really like it, but thinking/writing about it in the context of this blog is making it grow on me - writing about Pokemon in general tends to make me like them, a lot of my love for Ho-Oh came from that.

Incineroar, as it happens, is also a Pokemon I think is super cool :) Though, my favorite Alolan starter is Primarina, it's a close run lol. A lot of the Gen 9 Pokedex landed right for me, with some of my favorite Pokemon in terms of concept/execution including Palafin, Skeledirge, Cyclizar/the 'raidons, Maushold, and Tinkaton.))

So... Just over 4 months ago, I introduced Thunder to you guys and said he would be the last character I wanted to create for the Eeveelution Nokori Family, but... Who says I have self-control?

With that said, I invite you to give a warm welcome to Fengmi!

Some facts about Fengmi:

Fengmi is Honey in Chinese and her name pronounce as Fan-me (the mi sounds like the sound of bee)i.

She lives with Obsidian and is the smallest of them (she's 4'4 tall). Because of this, she likes to fly around so she doesn't feel so much smaller than the others. To annoy her brothers, she tends to support her arms on their heads as she flies behind them.

She has four arms, and her hands are like insects' paws, so she can climb walls and cling to the ceiling, but she has no fingers, so she needs help with many simple everyday things.

She likes to sleep in a suspended hammock filled with blankets that form something like a cocoon, where she sleeps curled up. Because she needs little space and doesn't like being alone, she shares a room with Thunder and contributes to the mess in his room, leaving her blankets unfolded and thrown on the floor.

She loves to cook sweets, but she doesn't like to eat them. Instead, she prefers to eat sour and spicy foods and is a lover of tacos and burritos.

She loves to plant flowers and her own spices, so she has a garden and a vegetable garden at the back of Obsidian's house, where she takes care of her plants very diligently and carefully. Her garden is the most beautiful in the city, but as she is so jealous of her plants, hardly anyone knows it.

She hates summer because her fur is very thick and she feels hot easily. This winter is her favorite season followed by autumn and spring.

She releases pollen smoke that stuns people afflicted by it, but as she is allergic to pollen, she only uses it in emergencies or when she gets scared.

And... That's it! I hope you all like her as much as I do!!

Nobody wanted it, but it’s here anyways. Eeveelution Tier Ranker, let’s go. (Note: I don’t hate any of these and it’s less about whether they’re good competitively and more from a design standpoint -- i.e., how well I think they represented their chosen element and were creative when doing so. It’s okay if you disagree! But don’t click if you don’t like hearing opinions that are not your own.)

S Tier Explanations:

Vaporeon: Honestly one of the more creative Eeveelutions, and it hit it out of the park on the very first gen! It’s notable because instead of simply representing the element of water, it looks like a creature that might actually dwell in the ocean depths. I love its little neck fringe and the mermaid tail and how literally everything about it (except for maybe the feets) seem changed from the base Eevee form. 

Leafeon: Probably personal bias, but I don’t care. Leafeon kicks ass. They could have gone the super cutesy route and made it like a flower-cat-dog-rabbit-thing, but they instead gave it a look of an insect that would be using leaf camouflage to sneak up on prey. I love the little bits and pieces taken out of the leaf growths, and also the cute detail of its feet being brown, like it grew out of the mud. 

Espeon: Complicated doesn’t always mean good (foreshadowing for later) and Espeon proves it. It is a beautifully simple take on a psychic version of Eevee, with no real frills. It’s a soft lavender (which, being a shade of purple, hints at mystical origins without shoving it in your face, its thin, forked tail reminds me of a tuning fork that some use to meditate, and the red gem in its head I guess makes you think of the Third Eye of the mind. It doesn’t do a bunch of crazy stuff, but it doesn’t need it. Amazing stuff.

A Tier Explanation:

Umbreon: I feel like I want to like Umbreon as a concept more than I actually do. On paper, it’s pretty promising. The name Umbreon itself is a very clever play on the Umbra of a shadow -- the darkest part of it. The rings all over its body makes you think of an eclipse. But that’s... Really it. It has cat like pupils...? Which does set it apart from the other Eevees, and is also fitting of its reputation as a night lurker, but that’s really it. I think the biggest problem with Umbreon is its overall shape. The silhouette doesn’t really change between it and Eevee a whole lot, and not in a way that would make you think of its chosen element. To put it another way, if Umbreon was color-shifted to be, say, a bright orange, would it still look like it represented darkness to you? That’s the best way I can explain it, but I do have to acquiesce that it’s just a hard element to design for in general. They did the best with what they had and I respect them for that.

B Tier Explanations: 

Glaceon: Literally the only reason it’s here is because of the Ushanka-shaped hair do / ear flaps. It’s enough to communicate “this is something you’d encounter in cold weather!” while also being relatively creative about it instead of giving it an icicle for a tail or something. There’s also the subtle diamond-shape to its ears, fur flaps, and tail, kinda making me think of a snowflake in a way? But the rest of the body, other than its fur color and patterns barely changes at all. They even get rid of the fluffy neck scruff, which seems a bit counter intuitive since this is a COLD weather Pokemon, but I digress. It’s something all of the post-Gen-1 Eeveelutions have in common for some reason.

Eevee: Basic can be good! Eevee doesn’t really do anything super extraordinary to me, other than be cute. TBH when I look at it, I don’t really see a “Pokemon that can adapt to any climate” -- it just looks like a cute fox cat dog thingy. But that has its place in the world, too.

C Tier Explanations:

Jolteon: It feels like a sin to have two Gen 1 Pokemon as the sole C tier tier holders, but they fall so short of Vaporeon in my honest opinion. I do like their designs! They’re cute! But they’re not super transformative to me, and that’s their cardinal sin. Jolteon is the Lightning Eeveelution so... It’s Yellow. And they made it spiky like it stuck its paw in an electric socket. Done and done! That’s not very creative to me, though I do rate it as a half step above Flareon just because they basically got rid of its tail. That at least distinguishes it from the Eevee profile pretty well.

Flareon: It’s literally just “Eevee but Hot Cheetos Flavored”. If you color shifted it to Eevee’s base colors, you’d barely be able to tell the difference between them and that’s a problem to me. Yeah, the neck fluff, tail and head fluff kinda resemble flames I guess, but that’s just really lazy in my opinion. If it wasn’t literally the embodiment of fire, it looks like it would overheat in the exact environments it’s supposed to inhabit. Definitely deserves its spot here.

D Tier Explanation:

Sylveon: So I know what you’re thinking. “Mittens just hates anything they didn’t grow up with / thinks the Fairy typing is lame!” No. Absolutely not. Fairy is probably my favorite type, and I was psyched for Mega Evolution, Dynamaxing, and basically any gimmick the later games came out with. Nostalgia is a factor with me, but I make a concerted effort not to let it cloud my judgement. I don’t even hate that we got a Fairy Eevee before getting a Dragon one. My dislike of it is 100% just the way it’s designed. It’s the laziest take of “Eevee, but Fairy Type!!!” imo, and I have similar complaints about Galarian Rapidash. Like what about it says “Fairy”??? The fact that you gave it a cute lil bow and ribbons and made it soft pink and white and stuff??? Lazy! I kind of don’t like the assumption that “Fairy Type = uwu cutesy girly shit” and not because I don’t like the girly shit, but because I feel like that sort of stuff shouldn’t JUST be relegated to one or two typings (Normal type tends to also be kinda guilty of this imo but at least there’s WAY more diversity there). That’s why Klefki, Grimmsnarl, Mawile, and Shiinotic are some of my favorite Fairy Types of all time. Because they do something that both pays homage to the lore they’re taking the Fairy typing from and also making something genuinely original with it. (And it’s also why Mienshao is probably my favorite fighting type Pokemon! Because it’s this situation but just in reverse!) Sylveon just feel like something they banged out with a day or two of brainstorming. “Yeah, just make it pink and cute and shit. Good enough. Let’s go get lunch.” And unlike the first Gen, which I can forgive for being a bit unoriginal because this was still a very new concept for them, for them to bang out something THIS substandard in the 6th gen just makes me kinda mad. Sylveon deserved better and it should have been cooler, more creative, and played with its theme way more. It was cheated. But! that’s just my opinion.

At the end of the day tho, the Eevee line is probably one of my favorite families in the Pokemon universe and all of these Pokemon are super cute and I’d cuddle them in a heart beat. I just think some could have been designed a bit more creatively, but that’s just me! I’d love to hear your opinions. And I might make something like this for Dhimani too (either also doing the Eevees or doing something like rating all bug Pokemon and stuff.)

3, 30, aannnnddd 31?

3. Most people outside of Tandor tend to think of Nucleon (for the rare few that have been seen) as domesticated pokemon. However in Tandor, commonly named as their home region, people due to recent events have biased towards them being as feral and dangerous as any other nuclear type.30. With a trainer, they are friendly towards most pokemon, particularly towards other nuclear types. Before the cure to feral nuclear pokemon, using hazma was found, it was common practice to leave a trained Nucleon to calm down other nuclear types.31. In the usage of trainers, particularly competitive battling, Nucleon hate pokemon with abilities such as soundproof or lead skin, as they completely stop their powerful attacks from doing anything. In the wild, they are aggressive towards anything that enters their territory, particularly other eeveelutions. Whether this is simple territorial instinct or jealousy is still being investigated.