It hasn't been mentioned yet, but i have to say that umbreon has been an absolute beast on any team that i have used it on so far. It has extremely good defenses as well as wish/heal bell so it fulfills the role as cleric extremely well. Stab foul play is nothing to laugh at either, as with it umbreon beats pretty much any and every physical attacker that doesn't resist it. For the sake of brevity here is a list of common pokes that it can beat 1v1 (assuming that you run an umbreon with max def, which i do because abusing foul play is the best thing that it can do): Charizard X, Aegislash, Non mega Garchomp (It beats mega after stealth rocks), Talonflame, Dragonite, Both latios and latias (the former if its not running specs, the latter... is more difficult for umbreon to beat but it CAN outstall it), Haxorus, Kyurem B... like i said, ANY physical attacker that doesn't resist foul play umbreon and doesnt have super effective on umbreon, it can beat simply because its strategy is taking the other pokes attack and using it against it, just with better defenses. Mandibuzz may seem to be better at using foul play due to its higher physical defenses, but stealth rocks, more weaknesses in general, and a lower special defense stat all need to be taken into account and in addition you have to remember that umbreon's primary role is as a cleric, unlike mandibuzz's role as a defogger (correct me i'm wrong here, i haven't used mandibuzz). Also status'ing umbreon is a bad idea due to synchronize+heal bell. With less fighting types in general this gen, umbreon is actually a monster when it comes to taking on physical attackers. Also, even if it doesn't get to do any real damage with foul play or healing with wish, you can always use it to soak up damage and baton pass on your opponents predicted switch to their lucario or terrakion (if they have a justified user its pretty obvious who they will be switching to) Baton pass in general is just a really good move as it has the same advantages that voltturn has, just it doesn't do damage, which honestly is not that bad as in the example of volt switch, it doing damage can actually prevent you from using the move entirely (ground immunity.) Really umbreon's biggest issue is its slight 4mss as you really want all of BatonPass, Wish, Foul Play, Heal Bell, and Protect, but you can only have 4, most of the time choosing between either protect or heal bell. I say it should be in B tier as it does check a very large amount of physical attackers, and can support the team very well, but can be setup bait for things that resist it (namely azumarill, one bad switch-in and... ouch.. Once again, i say that it would be best just bring it in to bait out lucario/azumarill and baton pass on their switch to get the switch initiative. So really just dont foul play if they have a lucario/terrakion/azumarill, but baton pass instead) IMO its an absolute beast if used correctly... But let me here what you all think of umbreon as an anti-physical attacker / cleric.
