Espeon is still the same offense as before, he gained an ability that he can't properly execute as it relies on prediction when you have things like steelix, golem, golurk, piloswine and even miltank like regular rock setters, nidoqueen could be added here. . if he's on defense with eq which makes putting espeon on a wrong prediction waste a lot of unnecessary health (I've managed to see espeon go into a rock setter and eat too much damage due to a bad prediction) and even get weaker, such Perhaps the problem is the screens, but its speed is less than that of electrode, unlike this, espeon is slower than the most used mon of the level (blaziken scarf) or others with similar speed, perhaps the biggest problem is not power to use defog, but well, at the time electrode or serpereor was used on Nu, they taunted them so that in the same way you couldn't use defog calmly, plus feraligatr left and was one of the best took advantage of screen abusers