Eevee's other evolutionaries have become extinct - Yay or Nay?

[Rockapheller]

Eevee's Pokédex entry for the Yellow version of Pokémon games says:

Its genetic code is unstable, so it could evolve in a variety of ways. There are only a few alive.


Is that supposed to mean that Eevee maybe had all types of evolutions in the past, and there are only a few left?

 

[Jersey Jimmy]

That... actually may be an interesting idea. Maybe as time goes on, more Eevee are bred and people gradually discover the evolution methods to bring back some of the extinct evolutions.

 

[Peridorito]

I'm pretty sure it says this because Eevee is very rare (you can only find one in the game after all) but this theory is really cool regardless.

 

[jackatlasred]

I'm not sure how evolutions would go extinct tho, I mean the creature itself can go extinct, but it's evolutions?

I'm sure that the ways to evolve eevee have disappeared, such as the leafeon and galceon ways to evolve since there is a lack of area.

I think this just makes it easier for eevee to actually get a new way to evolve.

 

[ocelotlrama jaguar]

That could explain why we have no Dragon-type Eeveelution.

 

[godiego]

"There are only a few alive" is clearly a reference to Eevee itself. after all, you cannot find Eevee in the wild in RBY.

 

[Like_Fahrenheit]

A Rock type Eeveelution that is a fossil Pokemon...is what this got me thinking about.

As far as the dex entry, GF has clearly retconned it (if it was to be taken seriously to begin with).

 

[AwokenArceus]

From all the games we can say Eevee is going extinct in Kanto but not Unova, but more importantly Eevee being the epitome of evolution, the description isn't saying per say its going extinct more so that it is evolving so much that there are few of the originals left, which is technically good because the goal of evolution is to improve and as animals evolve they modify and the archetypes are lost but the species is in a way still there