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That, or more likely, they'll come up with a method of their own that utilizes some new mechanic.GameFreak could call it whatever they like. They could even choose not to add any Eeveelutions this generation like how Gens 3, 5 and 7 missed out on Eeveelutions.
Why Sleep? What about Paralysis, Burned, Frozen... Oh! because it has Eeveelutions of those types. Um... Well, Sleep could be a Normal type condition, but Eevee is already a Normal type, so that could be useless compared to it's elemental evolutions. Then again, a couple of moves like Sleep Powder are grass type moves that could put it to sleep, but we already have Leafeon. You know, maybe they could break a pattern and have Eevee get two new evolution methods in one generation instead of two evolutions that only have one difference.
I still wish they'd retcon all the evolutions to evolve multiple ways though. There are plenty of stones, use them. There are plenty of biomes, use them. They say Eevee evolves to adapt to its environment. So why don't they all evolve like Leafeon and Glaceon? The basic answer is because of game mechanics. But then why wouldn't they all be simple like the stones? Idk. I think it would be nice to evolve Leafeon either by stone, OR in a forest area. Same for the others. Espeon and Umbreon get a little weird there, so I think they'd just use the stones and/or the day/night friendship, and sylveon use a stone plus it's normal method. It kinda makes them seem like the "domesticated" evolutions.