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HP: 65 | ATK: 130 | DEF: 60 | SP. ATK: 95 | SP. DEF: 110 | SPD: 65 | TOTAL: 525
While Flareon was pretty good in the last generation due to its fairly high Special and Attack, its now brand new Special Attack isn't particularly amazing. Its pretty respectable Special Defense is kinda outweighed by its low Speed, Defense and HP, so it's a weird mismatch of various stats that don't gel towards what Flareon wants to be: a physical Fire attacker. While we'll be waiting a couple generations for that to become an actual reality (and then even longer for that), let's see what we've got now.
Every eeveelution should be evolved before or at level 16 so you can get an early STAB move, cause otherwise you'll be waiting an annoyingly long time for something else. And from there? Uh, not all that much, especially physical moves. You'll get Bite and then eventually Flamethrower at high levels, but you have Smog to look forward to on the physical side. So off to TMs we go and at least there we have some options: Shadow Ball, Iron Tail, Return. So that works out pretty well, but there won't be any STAB and you have to wonder if other members of your team deserve it more. But aside from that, Flareon works well enough, it just struggles against Game Freak's idea for it and how they actually put it into practise. I'm fine with them doing stuff like this, but you need to give it the moves to actually work effectively. Oh well, least it looks great.