Baby Pokémon thread! Post Baby Pokémon!

Meaning any of the 19 Pokémon this gif shows.

Cute happy baby Pichu.

Looks like this Baby Pokémon thread is already off to a great start.

Obligatory Riolu post to lure-in the furpedos

Munchlax enjoying eating a bowl of food.

>>57877343
bowls. It's always bowls with Munchlax.

cleffer

>>57872719 (OP)
Wish we got more babbymons after this lil fella

>>57878219
Even if I think that the babies in gen 2 were objectively filler and we could very well have gone without them, I've always had a soft spot for Cleffa. It's just too cute to hate.

>>57878205
Right you are.

Just what Munchlax deserve, being kept well-fed. And getting hugs too.

>>57878293
Agreed.

There should be more Baby Pokémon.

>>57878318
It's subjective what Pokémon one considers filler. So don't really feel any Pokémon is objectively filler. Some Pokémon didn't need a pre-evo, but it's nice to have anyway.

Two faces, two smiles, twice the happiness!

>>57878318
GF had a good idea with baby Pokemon in Gen 2, it just ended up being poorly implemented. Having baby Pokemon early on on your journey could've allowed you to gain access to strong Pokemon sooner that would be typically found late game - as long as you put in the work.

>>57880803
At first I was like :)
But then I was like :D

Riolu shouldn't be a baby Pokemon
It looks like a kid, but not a baby

>>57881574
>good idea
>idiotic execution
Sums up 49 percent of everything game freak has done, with another 49% being complete shit upon conception and 2 percent actually doing something right
>>57881993
And related isn’t a baby for some reason

>>57883097
Really weird

>>57883097
Based Tinkatink poster

>>57873755
SEXO

>>57878219
This art sets such a cute and nice scene. The Pokémon with the scenery.

>>57872719 (OP)
The random egg from Crystal is kino. I like hatching a 1/20 shiny out of it to see who I get.

>>57884191
Higher actually. 1/14 odds in western versions, 1/2 odds in the Japanese version.

>>57884191
Its a shame HGSS didn't have the odd egg. In the unlikely even Johto gets another game, it should return. In fact, I'd like there to be two of them, one earlier with Pichu, Cleffa, Iggy, and the Goldenrod one having Smoochum, Elekid, Magby. Tyroggue would at at the Mt Mortar but no longer locked behind Waterfall.

>>57881993
paws need to be worshiped immediately

>>57884498
Good luck keeping up with and track of them all, lol.

How many times have you found a shiny from the odd egg? I think Pichu and Tyrouge are the only two I've yet to find a shiny of.

>>57881993
Of the requirements to being a Baby Pokémon, the one that makes them most different from other NFE Pokémon is not being able to breed. So children count too. Basically representing the age-range of before being able to reproduce. Just with species instead of age.

>>57887594
But then why is Riolu considered a child that's unable to breed, while tons of other basic stage Pokemon can breed just fine? At least with some baby Pokemon, they really look babyish, but Riolu doesn't look exceptionally young.

>>57889053
you've officially thought over this marketing gimmick more than game freak ever will

>>57872719 (OP)
I guess the big issue with baby pokemon is that, for the most part they don't have an in-game reason for existing. Like I think the idea was originally that they get access to moves that the evolved form doesn't. Like pichu with sweet kiss or Volt Tackle. But as time's gone on and learning moves has been easier I feel like that aspect has fallen to the wayside. Especially since you can just breed pokemon to have good moves even without a baby form.

>>57889053
>while tons of other basic stage Pokemon can breed just fine?
Because as said already by others in this thread. Game Freak had the idea of Baby Pokémon, but didn't put in enough effort or care to implement the idea right. So we have plenty of Pokémon who are a good fit to have a pre-evo or be a Baby Pokémon but aren't. So as a result there's only actual 19 Baby Pokémon, the ones this thread's OP gif shows.

>but Riolu doesn't look exceptionally young.
Looks young-looking enough to me.

>>57891744
It's simple. There just needs to be good enough gameplay benefits exclusive to Baby Pokémon that makes them worthwhile in gameplay in site of their detriments.

how is babby formed?
how poke man get egg?

>>57895465
What is that Elekid holding?

>>57896121
brick of cocaine

>>57896121
iphone

>>57883804
Yes, sex, something you and every other underaged zoomers who unironically use the term "sexo" will never experience. Learn better lingo to express your porn addiction cumskull

>>57897892
This is nice art. I don't think we get to see Igglybuff sing as much as we do with Jigglypuff.

>>57895673
Truly one of life's great mysteries.
Not even Daycare Man knows...

>>57884498
I like how they're all behaving differently in this art.

>>57901449
Octillery's reaction to seeing what Pichu and Togepi are doing is funny.

>>57884220
Is that a Latios with them?

Yes, Mr. Officer. These toddlercons ITT.

>>57885363
That many children must be a nightmare, an adorable nightmare.

>>57901363
Good catch

>>57872719 (OP)
Why isn't baby ekans in this gif

>>57895612
precious

I hatched a Cleffa from the Odd Egg in Crystal Legacy and to my absolute shock, it had 15DVs in EVERY STAT. This is the strongest possible Cleffa. The odds of this happening (if my math is correct) is 1 in 65,536. That's eight times rarer than finding a shiny in generation 2.

>>57908652
You won the game bro, gg.

>>57908652
that's incredible
congrats, anon

>>57908652
It's in the top percentage of Cleffas

>>57910616
Thanks.
>>57911288
It became a monster of a Clefable. A fantastic wall and a perfect counter for psychic types.

>>57908652
>>57908683
>>57910616
>>57911288
So I'm an idiot. Apparently Crystal Legacy changed the Odd Egg so that it's guaranteed to have perfect DVs unless if it's shiny.

>>57913952
that better go right up on the refrigerator where it belongs when this masterpiece is finished

>baby pokemon thread
what are you all? women??

I only played crystal once and had no idea there was any shiny gimmick with the odd egg. My first shiny was a friggin unown lmao

>>57917105
So many cute Pichu variations!

>>57917856
Have we ever seen this depicted in any canon sources?

>>57913952
That Cleffa can clearly draw very well!

>>57912013
Could this be what is meant by Cleffa arriving on shooting stars?

>>57878293
I will get hate for saying this, but
Cetoddle should’ve been a baby pokemon

>>57924549
I can't think of a single reason why it shouldn't be so why not?

>>57897752
I am 40 and I already had sex. Kill yourself, fast.

>>57924188
>>57924515
She's a very energetic baby!

>>57917150
>scrapped 3 separate times
Why does GF hate her?

>>57922706
>>57932534
I like this fairy baby trio.

>>57934931
I hope whoever first made and encouraged people to start ruining their art with those giant watermarks gets brain cancer

stealth pedo thread

>>57949404
Stealth projection comment

>>57915614
Babies are cute to regular functioning men and women.

>>57904172
>toddlercons
>>57949404
>pedo
These are perversions of the regular natural feeling.

>>57884125
It would be better without the Ursaluna.

>Gen 2
you get a baby pokemon right after the first gym
you can obtain a second baby pokemon right before the third gym
>gen 3
you get a baby pokemon right after the third gym
>Gen 4
1% chance from Honey trees, dex filler that requires rare held items, an egg you obtain at the 6th gym leader
Why does this gimmick keep going backwards. GSC somehow is the one that did it the best and it was still mishandled

>>57955232
GF consistently doesn't follow through or keep stuff in or build on gimmicks they add, unfortunately.

>>57953283
pretty

An official Pokémon short about some Baby Pokémon being cute:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOEbbZ-NLc

>>57954556
The ursaluna is the entire point, cleffa is a sweet little baby offering the big scary bear a tiny flower because she's too pure to be scared

>>57924188
>>57924515
lol, this is precious :)

>>57956928
lol that waddle

>>57963824
aww, cute!

>>57970795
cute ribbon!

>>57970795
>>57971742
A cute detail is that specific Ribbon is the Best Friends Ribbon, only for Pokémon that get max Friendship.

>>57972499
That's adorable

A lot of people dont realize it, but in gen 2 quagsire, donphan, and ursaring can be found on kanto but not their first evolutions. Making them baby pokemon in that region. I think in crystal you can trade with someone in kanto for an xatu so if you count that natu would also be a baby.

>>57974809
That's not how it works. None of those Pokémon are Baby Pokémon as they don't fit the criteria for being of that category.

>>57975691
If you were an NPC in Kanto during Gen 2, you could technically aquire Donphan, Quagsire, Ursaring, and Xatu. But not their first evolutions unless you bred and hatched them from an egg.
And based off their small infantile designs, they too are in a way baby pokemon.

>>57872719 (OP)
for me? its cleffa

>>57954497
cute!

>>57956931
man just look at him slurp it all up!

>>57878219
aww, so sweet <3

What new baby pokemon would we like to see?

>>57974444
Well deserved quads for a cute baby fish!

>>57983730
I bet Gold got him that skateboard and cool sunglasses. Raising that Pichu right at a young age!

>>57983738
They should make baby Kangaskhan a Pokemon already, same for a baby Tauros/Miltank

>>57983738
Oranguru

>>57985584
Wonder why this never happened.

>>57986228
Kangaskhan and Tauros were deemed not marketable enough.

>>57986262
GF should've tried harder.

>>57983738
Bring back all the scrapped gen 2 babies.

>>57983738
This lil' cutie please!!
He didn't deserve to be scrapped!!

This baby is dancing.

>>57883097
Tinkatard

>>57991553
how is he already hitting his moody teenager stage when he's still a baby

>>57991136
why do I suddenly feel this overpowering urge to dance too...

>>57955263
on one hand, it gives a certain gen a degree of freshness without becoming overly bogged down everything from the previous gens included
on the other hand, it sucks to see concepts often abandoned or severely cut back with each new game, only to be replaced with something new that won't get the attention/development it deserves before being cut for the next game

>>57993512
The horror involved someone shaving his head

>>57995299
Well how would you feel if someone came along and just shaved off all your hair? You'd be horrified, too!

>>57997517
Babysitter Lucario hates her job

>>57956928
Pichu arriving to see what's going on.

>>57983738
Baby Heatmor

>>57999020
He should've stayed behind cover

Baby pokemon get a bad rap. I like tricking them out and playing the Little Cup like I'm a street racer in The Fast and the Furious with a souped-up Honda Civic.

>>57997690
The lil' kiddos are a handful, for sure. The only thing getting this Lucario through the day is the bottle of wine waiting at home.

The Fairy baby trio are looking happy.

And that makes the final image. Thanks for the many brilliant contributions for this thread from the anons here. With this thread going since the beginning of June to now the middle of July, it made June like a month of Baby Pokémon, and then some.

>>58002745
why is cleffa brown