A rival to Pikachu’s popularity has been lurking just behind it since the first game, gradually gaining more fame thanks to an equally cute design and much more impressive set of evolutions. Eevee and its evolutions, now numbering eight in total, have become a wildly popular part of the franchise. Eevee even managed to join Pikachu as one of the title Pokemon for Pokemon Let’s Go! The only problem fans have with them is that there aren’t Eeveelutions for every element yet, something Pokemon’s ninth generation could work towards.
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Why A New Eeveelution Should Come To Gen 9
Adding a new Eeveelution in the next generation of Pokemon games seems like a no-brainer for Game Freak. The Eevee family is wildly popular, and fans are so rabid to see more of it that they’ve already made their own takes on every remaining type. Currently, only nine of the eighteen types are part of the Eevee family. The official designs always go over well with the community, so seeing the remaining nine types officially adapted into the Eevee template would be a delight.
Frankly, some types could really do with a new “mascot” Pokemon to rally around. Even if a new Eeveelution or two were just added to Generation 9 to fill out the roster a bit, they would immediately make whatever typings they land in feel more valuable. Also, the lack of new Eeveelutions in Generation 8 broke a trend in Pokemon: adding a new Eeeveelution in every second generation. The streak has already been broken, so there’s no reason not to just add them whenever it’s convenient.
How Pokemon’s Generation 9 Can Add a New Eeveelution
How Pokemon’s Generation 9 adds these new Eeveelutions is another matter entirely. They could be organically worked into the game like past ones were, just being owned by some trainers and accessible if players knew how to get them. However, with how popular Eevee has become, that almost feels underwhelming at this point. A more interesting way to implement the remaining half of the Eevee family is to add a regional variant of Eevee that evolves into the leftover types.
This Eevee could start as a “neutral” type like Fighting or Flying instead of Normal, and its eight evolutions can fill things out from there. Evolution requirements can parallel the existing eight Eeveelutions through a variety of items, special locations, and simple methods.
Of course, Generation 9 wouldn’t need to add every Eeveelution at once. One or two more would be just fine, with room for more in the future. Ultimately, it just feels like the Eeveelutions are an outstanding idea that fans would really like to see pushed to its logical conclusion. If Game Freak can add any more to the next generation of Pokemon games, it absolutely should.
A new Pokemon main series entry is rumored for release in 2022.
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