Welcome to today’s review of Umbreon Prime from Undaunted. We’ll start with off with its stats: a nice Darkness typing will let it hit Gengar SF for weakness as well as (ab)use Special Dark Energies, 100 HP doesn’t provide much survivability and evolving from Eevee will give it some nice support from the other “Eeveelutions.” It has a x2 Fighting Weakness, which I consider to be one of the worst Weaknesses to have, considering Promocroak, Machamp (SF and Prime) and Donphan all hit you for twice the damage. It also comes with a nice Psychic Resistance which furthers its usefulness against Gengar. Finally, Umbreon Prime has an average retreat cost of one.
Umbreon’s Poke-Power, “Cloud-Covered Moon,” should remind you of Toxicroak G’s “Leap Away” as they both do the exact same thing. However, Umbreon Prime, unlike Promocroak, its attack isn’t nearly as useful nor can it abuse Energy Gain to help it get powered up more quickly.
“Evoblast”, Umbreon’s sole attack, isn’t amazing in the slightest. For DCC, you will be hitting for 50 plus 10 additional damage for each “Eeveelution” you have in play. “Evoblast” has the potential to be hitting for bit damage. However, in order to do so, it requires quite a bit of set up that probably isn’t worth the reward. One nice edge it does have, though, is being able to use Double Colorless Energy to help speed it up a bit, but that will prevent you from wanting to use more than one Special Dark Energy per Umbreon, limiting its attack power.
Right now, I believe that Umbreon is too slow and fragile to be a competitive deck. However, next format, when SP is hopefully out and new cards have been introduced, I think that Umbreon Prime will have a much better shot at seeing play.
My recommendation: Don’t play it now, try it out next format.
Rating 2.25/5
