I mean… you say Espeon is your favorite. What does that mean?

I said Espeon was my favourite of Eevee’s evolutions.  My favourite Pokémon is Vileplume.

What I mean, though, is that I just like Espeon the best.  I have no coherent or defensible reason for liking Espeon the best, and it really comes down to my personal taste.  I try to keep that out of my analyses as much as I can – I’ll often think that a Pokemon is objectively well-designed even though I don’t really like it, because I can understand why it would appeal to other people with different tastes (Swampert, for instance); other times I’ll decide that a Pokémon is just badly thought-out and boring even though I myself have a certain affection for it (a lot of Grass Pokémon, like Lilligant, provoke this response, as well as Glaceon, whom I’ll be covering tomorrow).

Does that clear things up?