VaporeonWater StoneJolteonThunder StoneFlareonFire Stone
Is Vaporeon Good in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Playthrough?
Vaporeon brings Water coverage with enormous HP and solid Special Attack. Handles Blaine and Giovanni, tanks hits from Lorelei, and stays useful through the Champion fight. One of the best Eevee evolutions for a story playthrough.
Brock's typing presses Eevee's defenses.
Eevee trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Eevee trades roughly evenly with Lt. Surge's team.
Erika's team hits Vaporeon's weaknesses hard.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Erika:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Koga's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Koga:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Sabrina:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Blaine's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Blaine:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Giovanni's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Giovanni:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Lorelei's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lorelei:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Bruno's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Bruno:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Agatha's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Agatha:
Vaporeon trades roughly evenly with Lance's team.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Lance:
Vaporeon has the type edge here and should clean up Trace's team.
This is the Let's Go Pikachu team. In Let's Go Eevee, Trace brings Raichu Lv 57 in place of Jolteon Lv 57.
Your evolution path matters here. Pick a branch to see how it fares against Trace:
Catch Eevee
Catch Eevee on Route 17 (walking, Lv 33-38).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 33)
- LV 33NormalDouble-EdgePower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 33NormalTake DownPower 135Accuracy 85%PP 20
- LV 33NormalSwiftPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20
- After Brock
- TMNormalHeadbuttPower 105Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Misty
- TMGroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TMNormalFacadePower 105Accuracy 100%PP 20
- TMSteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15
- TMGhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
Evolve Eevee to Vaporeon
Eevee evolves into Vaporeon with a Water Stone. You can pick up the Water Stone in Route 12. 1 other location is also available.
Recommended Moves
- After Misty
- TMWaterScaldPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- TMGroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- HMWaterWaterfallPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15
- TMNormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- TMGhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 31WaterHydro PumpPower 165Accuracy 80%PP 5
- After Erika
- HMWaterSurfPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Sabrina
- TMIceIce BeamPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10
Evolve Eevee to Jolteon
Eevee evolves into Jolteon with a Thunder Stone. You can pick up the Thunder Stone in Power Plant. 1 other location is also available.
Recommended Moves
- After Brock
- TMNormalHeadbuttPower 70Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Misty
- TMGroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TMElectricThunderboltPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- TMNormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- TMSteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15
- TMGhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- TMNormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20
- LV 31ElectricThunderPower 165Accuracy 70%PP 10
Evolve Eevee to Flareon
Eevee evolves into Flareon with a Fire Stone. You can pick up the Fire Stone in Pokémon Mansion. 1 other location is also available.
Recommended Moves
- After Misty
- TMGroundDigPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 10
- After Lt. Surge
- TMNormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5
- TMSteelIron TailPower 100Accuracy 75%PP 15
- TMGhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15
- LV 31FireFlare BlitzPower 180Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Erika
- TMFireFlamethrowerPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 15
- After Blaine
- TMFireFire BlastPower 165Accuracy 85%PP 5
- After Giovanni
- TMFightingSuperpowerPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 5
How to Get Vaporeon in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee
Vaporeon doesn't appear wild. Catch Eevee instead, it shows up at moderate rates. Evolve it through a special method to get Vaporeon. The 2-stage line is mapped in the step cards below.
Catch Eevee at any of these 1 spot to eventually evolve into Vaporeon.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
- 1Catch Eevee
- 2Evolve VaporeonUse Water Stone
Badge 4How to Obtain Vaporeon in Let's Go
- Step 1Catch Eevee
- Step 2Vaporeon ✓
How to Get Shiny Vaporeon in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee
In Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee, the strongest route to a Shiny Vaporeon is Catch Combo, which reaches about 1 in 274 at full boosts. Shininess carries through evolution, so hunting an earlier stage and evolving it counts too. Pick a method and tune your setup below to see live odds. Compare Shiny Vaporeon odds across every game
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Shiny Vaporeon Calculator
2 MethodsThe best route is Catch Combo at full boosts, about 1 in 274 on each try. Tune it below.
Catch Combo: Catch one species back-to-back. A Lure stacks on top of a 31-plus combo.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters |
|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 29 |
| 25%one in four | 79 |
| 50%coin flip | 190 |
| 90%very likely | 630 |
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Want exact numbers for your session? Calculate your shiny odds in Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee with Vaporeon preloaded.
Vaporeon Weakness
Type-wise, Vaporeon takes extra damage from Electric and Grass. The Water typing picks up 4 resistances to work with. Vaporeon's special bulk (base 95 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Electric, Grass |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Fire, Water, Ice, Steel |
What is Vaporeon Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Vaporeon
Vaporeon Evolutions
Vaporeon is one of 3 ways Eevee's chain can end. This one takes the Water Stone path, while the siblings go different directions. Vaporeon and Jolteon share the same 525 total stats, but they're distributed differently. Check the comparison below to see where each one specializes. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Let's Go Vaporeon Best Moveset
130 HP and 110 Sp. Atk behind Water TermStab. Without AbilityWater Absorb granting Water immunity, the moveset takes Water hits at neutral instead of healing from them. Still, 130 HP at 110 Sp. Atk hits hard and outlasts most opponents. The raw stat package carries without needing anything extra.
Best Build
Mild raises Sp. Atk and lowers Defense. Madam Celadon sets this nature when you pick Blue, then Yellow. It costs 10,000 Pokedollars and lasts for the rest of the day.
Candy for Vaporeon
Eevee Candy
Health Candy
Health Candy L
Health Candy XL
Eevee Candy raises every stat, but only Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon and Flareon can eat it. The stat candy that goes with Vaporeon is Health Candy (HP), and any Pokemon can eat it; Health Candy L needs level 30 and Health Candy XL needs level 60 or higher.
Master Trainer
Yue battles with one level 75 Vaporeon that knows Shadow Ball, Toxic and Rest. It takes extra damage from Electric and Grass moves. Win to earn the Vaporeon Master title. Find Yue in Celadon City.
Moves List
The level-up pool tells the story here. Vaporeon learns Hydro Pump naturally, plus enough variety that TMs feel like bonuses. Normal and Fighting coverage and more extends the reach beyond that.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
All 18 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
Its cell structure is similar to water molecules. It melts into the water and becomes invisible.
Game Availability
Present since Red & Blue, Vaporeon appears in 22 games spanning 9 generations. Gen 1 originals like Vaporeon have the longest track record of availability in the series.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RBDebut
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
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