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For example: Lets find the DPS value of [[Vaporeon]]:
{{:Why Vaporeon has a base Attack stat of 186. Vaporeon can only learn [[Water Gun]] as its basic attack. Water Gun is 10 power and has an attack interval of 500ms. You can attack twice per second with Water Gun(1000ms/500ms). The effective power is now 20 but Vaporeon also gets a STAB boost since it is Water-type. This brings Water Gun up to 25 effective power (1.2520). Multiply his attack 18525 = 4555. This puts Vaporeon's DPS at 7th highest. Combining this with the fact Vaporeon has one of the biggest health pools and a decent defence makes him the top pokemon by far at the moment It's no coincidence you see Vaporeon at the top of many gyms. So why does evolving my [[Evee]] into a Vaporeon make it so much stronger than [[Flareon]] or [[Jolteon]]? Jolteon, like most electric-types, relies on his speed. As discussed earlier, this hurts his base stats which is why you will see an Evee that turns Vaporeon having 25-30% more [[CP]] than an Evee with the same CP that turns Jolteon. That extra CP is an indication of the extra [[HP]] that Vaporeon is getting which is roughly double that of Jolteon's. On top of this, Jolteon's only basic attack [[Thunder Shock]] has a base DPS literally half that of. Theoretically if they were to fight a Vaporeon should walk away with over half his health remaining after trashing a Jolteon! Similarily, Flareon's [[Ember]] deals similar DPS to t-shock (11.9). Luckily for Flareon his evolution comes with extra Attack(238), which still isn't valued as highly as HP, but better than Speed. Although slightly higher attack than [[Arcanine]], his other stats are lacking in comparison. Compared to Arcanine's much higher HP and DEF paired with his 15 DPS [[Bite]] which would do similar damage to an Ember vs Super-Effected targets, Flareon with a dps value of 2833 can barely even compete against top-tier pokemon with fire moves as lacking as they are. The only seemingly semi-viable [[Fire]] pick is [[Charizard]]. And that's only when you use him with [[Wing]] Attack, a [[flying-type]] move! So how do we counter this monster of a mon Vaporeon? Well, right now you do.. The only pokemon that can even come close would be [[Venusaur]]. But thanks to 1.25x0.8x effectiveness, Venusaur boasting a respectable 3808 [[grass]] DPS value with a decent Defence, just barely loses to an equal Vaporeon because of Vaporer,. HP advantage. [[Exeggutor]] can also come close, but lacks the grass-type basic move to seal the deal. Personally, I can't wait for trainer battles to come so we can have nothing but 6v6 Vaporeon battles! Is Overpowered}}
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