Thread: Red's Espeon?

Originally Posted by Ryuutakeshi

You are actually given a Lapras as a gift in Pokemon Yellow.

In that case I stand corrected. It's been over ten years since I've played Yellow.

He can still own Espeon but have Lapras in his party right? He's probably put Espeon in his PC to see if Lapras will work better in his team. Also both are gift pokemon.

Originally Posted by Ryuutakeshi

You are actually given a Lapras as a gift in Pokemon Yellow.

And unlike Eevee, Lapras was a major plot point if you consider the preceding event you needed to finish to obtain it (Beating Team Rocket).

Really, if you think about it, all his Pokémon weren't just gifts in HgSs, but Pokémon he needed to encounter. Pikachu and the starters was just to not pick a specific canon (as Red wasn't called Red in Yellow and in Japan, the default name was Blue for the rival rather than GSC/HgSs' "Green", if that's your logic) and you needed to fight at least one Snorlax, and do the event to obtain Lapras in the games. Eevee was just incidental.