One of the only non-feral Nuclear Pokémon. It's theorized that its bond with its trainer when it was an Eevee allows it to stay in control.
Biology[]
Physiology[]
Nucleon is a quadrupedal digitigrade Pokémon that has a sleek gray body with four slender legs, each with a green three-toed paw. It has three light-blue eyes. Its muzzle and underbelly are white, and its tail and ears are slender, green, glowing triangles detached from its body. It has an ionizing radiation symbol on its chest, with three detached, glowing, green triangles, somewhat giving it the appearance of a bow-tie.
Special abilities[]
The symbol on its chest can fire out gamma rays, which it defeats its opponents with.
Behavior[]
Nucleon remembers the bond it had with its trainer, and thus, does not go feral upon evolution from an Eevee.
Habitat[]
They are usually only found in urban areas under the care of trainers, though they can be occasionally seen roaming near irradiated landscapes.
Eevee's evolutions have different priority levels. One must remove items required to evolve an Eevee into Leafeon, Glaceon, or Sylveon from an Eevee in order for it to evolve into a Nucleon.
Nucleon does not share the same stat spread or base stat total with the other Eeveelutions. It has a base stat total of 530 (as opposed to 525), and its stat spread is 70/55/85/115/115/90 (as opposed to some combination of 60/65/65/95/110/130).
Nucleon has the highest base Special Defense of all naturally Nuclear-type Pokémon.
Nucleon is the first Nuclear Pokémon listed in the PokéDex, as Nuclear forms are not listed.
Ironically, it is impossible for Nucleon to be the first Nuclear Pokémon a player has interacted with besides trading - Theo only acquires one after Vinoville Town, and the player cannot have a Nucleon without first catching another Nuclear Pokémon themselves.
Nucleon is also the only Nuclear-type capable of having a Hidden Ability, as the other pure Nuclear-types lack one, and the corrupted Nuclear-types cannot have their Hidden Ability.
Design Origin[]
According to Motofumi Fujiwara, a key person at Game Freak, Eevee was based on a vague childhood experience he had, He described seeing an "indefinable creature" and that Eevee was based on a drawing of all that he could remember of it.
Each one of Eevee's evolutions are based on the same design but are made to resemble their type. Nucleon has a third eye on its forehead, a characteristic mutants are often depicted with in fiction.
Name Origin[]
Nucleon comes from nuclear, nucleus (the center of an atom), or nucleon (one of the particles found in the nucleus) as well as Eon (an immeasurably long period of time, presumably in reference to the concept of evolution). Eon is also a suffix shared by all Eeveelutions and was Eevee's prototype English name.
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