Common defenders, vaporeon

And today the time has come for vaporeon.

Vaporeon pretty much defines the game. With eevee easy to access just about everyone should have access to a couple of quality vaporeon. It also comes with a very high max CP.

This is yet another pokemon that hasn't been stuck with legacy moves. However, for all practical purposes, Water Pulse and Aqua Tail changed places with each other.

There's only one primary move. Water Gun, which is a low damage, fast attack, best used for attacks. As such vaporeon completely lacks a high quality primary move for defence.

The charge moves are Water Pulse, Aqua Tail and Hydro Pump. While Hydro Pump has the highest dps, by far, it's slow enough to be dodged, combined with an animation that's easy to see.

Water Pulse is almost as slow as Hydro Pump, which makes it the worst move of all three.

While Aqua Tail doesn't pack that much of a punch, it's fast and slams into the attacking pokemon again and again and again.

Your defending vaporeon should, preferably, have Water Gun and Aqua Tail.

Hydro Pump is a perfectly servicable secondary option. However, you might want to have that high CP Hydro Pump vaporeon available for attacking into gyms.


Vaporeon comes with a bit over 200 HP, giving it the bulk to be a prime defender. While it's weak against electricity and grass attacks, if your vaporeon has Aqua Tail it'll tear into the poor bulk of jolteon, which is likely to be the most commonly used attacker.

When the attacker is an exeggutor with Bullet Seed and Solar Beam you can wave goodbye to your vaporeon. Those are, however, not as easily gained as jolteon.


Vaporeon can be used in any gym. It's one of the top five defenders in the game.