Leafeon@leftovers / life orb
Impish / Adamant / Jolly - 132 Hp / 126 Atk / 208 Def / 44 SpDef
~ baton pass
~ X scissor / Yawn
~ Swords dance
~ Leaf blade
nature: Impish / Adamant / Jolly


First off the moveset; this is clearly a baton passing Leafeon. With this ev spread and a impish nature you are put at a impressive 394 Def. With the Hp evs you get 304 hp with leftovers you recover 19 hp each turn not too shabby. Leaf blade is there for a good stab move while X scissor provides type coverage yawn could force a switch so you could swords dance or safely baton pass.

Ok let me explain this ev spread first of all with this spread Garchomp can only 2HKO with fire fang which most carry anyway this allows you to yawn him to possibly force a switch or baton pass safely or hit him with leaf blade with this se leaf blade is a possible two hit knock out on the land shark with life orb. Again I put emphasis that it might not be the best idea to leave leafeon on Garchomp due to the fact you can get OHKO by a fireblast. All in all this spread makes one bulky leafeon that can take a physical hit from the best of them. This is a trick I got from boltbeam with 44 sp.def Ev you can survive a ice beam from milotic and starmie at full health well aint that great.

Leafeon@life orb / focus sash / leftovers
Adamant / Jolly - 252 Atk / 142 speed / 110 Def.
Adamant / Jolly - 252 Atk / 252 speed / 4 Hp
Adamant / Jolly - 156 Atk / 160 speed / 194 Def.
~ Swords dance
~ leaf blade
~ x scissor
~ Aerial ace


This is a sweeper Leafeon life orb is there for the boost in attack of course if you want a semi bulky sweeper that last a while opt for leftovers I put focus sash as an option because Leafeon can survive fire fangs bu not fire blasts packed for skarmory.Swords dance is obvious while X scissor is must as is leaf blade Aerial ace is the only other physical move Leafeon can use effectively other than facade. The ev spreads are for what you want if you want to just sweep the second spread is for you.

The first spread is a bit more complex sacrificing speed for defense to make up for leafeon not being able to outspeed much sweepers in OU. The third spread is for a more balanced faster Leafeon that can take hits, although your attack isn't at it's peak in the third spread swords dance fixes that with focus sash youre guranteed to survive one turn of swords a dancing. All in all this spread focuses on setting up to sweep also best used as a late game sweeper.

Wow well lets finish with these Ev spreads shall we. On the first spread that much atk lets you put a severe dent in a lot of common things in the metagame.After one swords dance leaf blade OHKO's gengar, alakazam , Azelf takes a significant amount of damage.The speed is there to outspeed a few tanks that would otherwise be faster than you. The great think here is leafeon can switch into physical attacker quite easily. The third spread adding more speed you ca n outrun the likes of weezing dusknoir and other bulky tanks and even some gyrados which is great. Letting you 2HKO a gyrados after on swords dance is great also Gyrados threat to you with ice fang is 2hko possible 3hko with the 194 defense evs.

This can surprise a lot of common Gyras into a paralitic shock just dont let them dragon dance. Again my Ev sreads as I have explained are focuse mainly around not really outspeeding any sweepers but tanks and bulky pokemon while being able to hurt them. Also thing is Leafeon is UU so these spreds are focused around the OU metagame but they work just fine in UU.

Leafeon@choice scarf / choice band
Adamant / Jolly - 252 Atk / 252 speed / 4 hp
~leaf blade
~X scissor
~Aerial Ace
~Grass whistle / Quick attack

This is a pretty good choice scarf poke it's movepool sucks on something awful. We can still make it work though. With a jolly nature you are put at a 475 speed which is great for outspeeding base 110 pokemon with beneficial natures. Choice band makes your attack outrageously high but scarf is preferable to at least be able to attack.

This moveset works well you counter quite a few things non scarfed starter alakazams, heracross is pwned by Aerial ace. Grass whistle has low accuracy but putting the foe to sleep is great. Quick attack works wonders if its banded. This has it's walls and unfortunately it can't do much against fire. Alright let get into this spread this outspeeds a lot of common sweepers Heracross who you can grasswhistle then get out of there or Aerial ace OHKO (90% of the time >_>) him this spread put heracross in his place. Also this hits the ever common emo swellows in a wall of hurt.

Problem is with some sweepers like Gengar alakazam and Aerodactyl you dont outspeed them because they are commonly wearing the scarf. It's great that this thing outspeeds the Adamant garchomp and does a 2HKO but after the first hit it's best to switch into something that resist fire fang and laugh at Garchomp. Weavile is threat to this set if it's scarfed which isn't that common but theyre out there. So the point

Leafeon "Shuffle" @Leftovers ** Credit goes to Boltbeam
Impish - 252 HP / 212 Def / 46 SpDef
Leaf Guard
~ Leaf Blade
~ Roar
~ Rest
~ Sleep Talk

This set accomplishes 4 things. First of all, it gives your team an excellent phazer. Two, it makes a rather nice Gyarados counter. Three, it can absorb status for the team. Four, it makes an excellent spikes shuffler. Sleeptalk + Roar negates the priority modifier of Roar allowing you to go first against slower foes and rack up huge damage if you've got 3 layers of spikes down. Leafeon is the second fastest Sleeptalk-Roarer after Zapdos and in my opinion the only practical physically based one.

With no Speed EVs this outspeeds Bulky Gyara so you can get in a 2 Leaf Blades if it uses Taunt. 44 SpDef EVs allow it to survive Milotic/Starmie's Ice Beams at max health and allows him to to hit them hard with Leaf Blade. Obviously this is best paired with something that learns spikes (I'd pair this with Forry seeing as how Forry can Spin and this can phaze).

Leafeon@leftovers *credit goes to Boltbeam*
ev:spread working on it
Leaf Blade
Wish
Roar / Swords Dance
Baton Pass / Protect / Toxic

Explanation working on it

I am currently working on fixing my syntax , and my rhetoric in my analysis please bear with me, thank you



Other options : Flail, fake tears, facade, dig, baton pass, substitutes.Leafeon has a couple he can be a lousy full blown tank alhtough fake tears will cause switches he can run facade. He also has dig his only means to counter fire. He isn't a bad poke it's his movepool just isn't up to par. He can baton pass substitutes although his base health doesn't make that a good option. Funny little tid bit leafeons ability leaf guard reads the same as hydration but leaf guard cant cure sleep which sucks on something awful

>.> Change the 214 EVs on my set to 212.

Letting a topic rise from the depths of the end, eh?

In Leafeon's case, having more HP will actually let Leafeon take less damage (percentage-wise) from Physical moves, and at the same time Special moves. The Attack and Power here are hypothetical, but still gets the point across.

300 attack vs 318 defense, 90 power, 334 max HP: 18.56% - 21.86%
300 attack vs 348 defense, 90 power, 304 max HP: 18.42% - 22.04%

The top one is the one where the HP EVs are maxed and the Defense EVs are the leftovers, the bottom one would be luis' spread. Surely, .14% is less than .18%. >_> And with the added HP, you won't need extra SpDef to survive a Starmie/Milotic's Ice Beam. Unless I'm completely missing something here, it would be better to give more HP EVs than Defense EVs, no?

Thanks although I took your spread into consideration I need to work some things out as with what you're suggesting I am wasting 1.5 ev's. I need to work that out as im anal about wasting ev's.

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This is a sweeper Leafeon life orb is there for the boost in attack of course if you want a semi bulky sweeper that last a while opt for leftovers I put focus sash as an option because Leafeon can survive fire fangs bu not fire blasts packed for skarmory.Swords dance is obvious while X scissor is must as is leaf blade Aerial ace is the only other physical move Leafeon can use effectively other than facade. The ev spreads are for what you want if you want to just sweep the second spread is for you. The first spread is a bit more complex sacrificing speed for defense to make up for leafeon not being able to outspeed much sweepers in OU. The third spread is for a more balanced faster Leafeon that can take hits, although your attack isn't at it's peak in the third spread swords dance fixes that with focus sash youre guranteed to survive one turn of swords a dancing. All in all this spread focuses on setting up to sweep also best used as a late game sweeper.Wow well lets finish with these Ev spreads shall we. On the first spread that much atk lets you put a severe dent in a lot of common things in the metagame.After one swords dance leaf blade OHKO's gengar, alakazam , Azelf takes a significant amount of damage.The speed is there to outspeed a few tanks that would otherwise be faster than you. The great think here is leafeon can switch into physical attacker quite easily. The third spread adding more speed you ca n outrun the likes of weezing dusknoir and other bulky tanks and even some gyrados which is great. Letting you 2HKO a gyrados after on swords dance is great also Gyrados threat to you with ice fang is 2hko possible 3hko with the 194 defense evs. This can surprise a lot of common Gyras into a paralitic shock just dont let them dragon dance. Again my Ev sreads as I have explained are focuse mainly around not really outspeeding any sweepers but tanks and bulky pokemon while being able to hurt them. Also thing is Leafeon is UU so these spreds are focused around the OU metagame but they work just fine in UU.