Vaporeon (Pokémon)

Vaporeon シャワーズ Showers

Artwork from FR/LG

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Vaporeon (Japanese: シャワーズ Showers) is a Water-type Pokémon.

It evolves from Eevee via Water Stone.

Biology

Physiology

Vaporeon is the result of an Eevee's exposure to the radiation of a Water Stone. Vaporeon is a composite creature sharing physical traits of dogs, cats, and fish. Vaporeon's body is light-blue and has a white collar. Vaporeon has yellow ears made of webbing and has a fin on its head resembling its ears. Vaporeon has blue ridges that run down the length of its spine and on to its tail-fin. Vaporeon's molecular structure is close to water, and its body glitters when sunlight hits at certain angles because of it.

Because it's a fully evolved Pokémon, it can learn Hyper Beam and Giga Impact.

Gender differences

None.

A Vaporeon melting into water molecules.

Special abilities

Vaporeon are highly adapted to aquatic life. Unlike its pre-evolution, it has the ability to breathe underwater. As stated previously, they have a unique molecular structure. They have the ability to "melt" into a body of water and disappear completely from view. They can also manipulate water molecules, giving them the ability to learn Water-type attacks their previous evolutions could not.

A Vaporeon running on the water.

Vaporeon also have the ability to walk on water.

Behavior

Vaporeon are very difficult to observe in the wild, as they are somewhat uncommon. When they are in the water, they are virtually impossible to see. While they are much easier to see while they are resting onshore, they possess the ability to rearrange themselves on a molecular level, causing themselves to "melt" into the water. It is likely that many mermaid stories were spawned by Vaporeon sightings, as their tails resemble those of mermaids.

Habitat

Urban Pokémon

Vaporeon are always found close to water, and prefer large, clean lakes.

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Galea's Vaporeon from On Olden Pond.

Vaporeon first appeared in The Battling Eevee Brothers, under the ownership of Rainer.

Ash battled against a Vaporeon in the Pokémon League Entrance Exam.

In Mewtwo Strikes Back, a Vaporeon owned by Fergus was one of the Pokémon that were captured and cloned by Mewtwo. The Vaporeon clone is seen again in Mewtwo Returns.

Vaporeon was also seen under the ownership of one the Kimono Sisters in Trouble's Brewing and Espeon Not Included.

An old woman named Galea owned a Vaporeon in On Olden Pond.

Vaporeon made a small cameo in the beginning of Giratina and the Sky Warrior together with an Eevee and the other six Eeveelutions.

In the manga

Pokémon Special

Red temporarily controlled a Vaporeon, which was actually his Eevee switching between its evolved forms. It soon evolved into an Espeon, which disallowed any further switching.

In the TCG

Main article: Vaporeon (TCG)

Game data

Pokédex entries

Game locations

In side games

Base stats

Type effectiveness

Learnset

Vaporeon is capable of learning the following moves in Generation IV.

• Moves in bold are damaging moves to which STAB applies.

Moves in Italics aren't STAB for Vaporeon, but are for some/all evolutions.

By leveling up

By TM/HM

By breeding

By tutoring

Side game data

Pokémon Pinball
	Acquisition: Evolve
Pokémon Trozei!
	Rarity: Rare
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: Evolve	Friend Area: Transform Forest
Phrases
51%-100% HP	My body's made of water!
26%-50% HP	It's not good. My health is down to half.
1%-25% HP	I'm out of power... It's hopeless...
Level Up	Leveled up! I feel the power of water surging!
Pokémon Ranger
Group:  Water	Loops: 15	Minimum Experience: 75
Poké Assist: ( Water )	Field Move: (Soak ×2)	Maximum Experience: 89
"Vaporeon is a key to the Fiore Temple's mystery. It attacks with a rainbow ray."
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
Body size: 1	Recruit Rate: -12%	IQ Group: F
Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia
Group:  Water	Poké Assist: ( Water )	Field Move: (Soak ×3)
"It attacks by letting loose blobs of water and bubbles from its mouth."

Evolution

	Unevolved	→ Water Stone	First evolution
	Eevee  Normal		Vaporeon  Water

Sprites

Gen	Game
I	Red	Blue	Yellow	Red (Ja)	Green	Back
II	Gold	Silver	Crystal			Back
III	Ruby	Sapphire	Emerald	FireRed	LeafGreen	Back
	File:Spr 3r 134 s.png		File:Spr 3e 134 s.gif
IV	Diamond	Pearl	Platinum	HeartGold	SoulSilver	Back
				NO SPRITES AVAILABLE
			File:Spr 4p 134 s.png

For other sprites and images, please see Vaporeon images on Bulbagarden Archives.

Trivia

• Vaporeon is tied with Umbreon and Leafeon for tallest Eevee evolution.
  • It is also the heaviest Eevee evolution.
  • Both of these facts make it the largest Eeveelution.
• Vaporeon has the highest HP base stat of the Eeveelutions.
• Vaporeon is the only Water-type that appears in field section of Pal Park.
• Vaporeon's Pokémon Red and Green sprites show a fin running down the full length of its back and fins on the back of its legs. These do not appear in later games.
  • The Generation I backsprites also show the back of its ears to be black, as opposed to the yellow-ridged ears in later games.
• Despite being described as the "Bubble Jet Pokémon", Vaporeon can not learn Bubble or BubbleBeam.
• Vaporeon is the only Eeveelution that does not share any weakness with another.
• Despite being a Water-type Pokémon and having a tail, the only way it can learn Aqua Tail is via move tutor in Platinum. It shares this trait with Buizel and Floatzel.

Origin

It has traits of foxes, cats and a number of aquatic mammals.

Name origin

Vaporeon's name is derived from vapor. Its Japanese name probably refers to rain showers. The -eon suffix, common to all Eevee evolutions comes from Eevee's prototype English name. The French and German names are based off of the word aqua.

In other languages

• German: Aquana - From aqua. Ends with -a like every Eeveelution in German.
• French: Aquali - From aqua. Ends with -li like every Eeveelution in French.
• Korean: 샤미드 Syamideu

External links

Notes

This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon as a species.