[Pokémon] The Nursery: Baby Pkmn Club

SwSh are the first games where I started breeding seriously.
I could not be bothered before that point, but there were so many QoL improvement and changes to how breeding works that I started doing it.
For example: if two Pokemon of the same species are in the daycare and 1 knows one or multiple egg moves and the other has open move slots, sticking them into the nursery for a while will see the egg moves passed on to the Pokemon of the same species that had open move slots. The biggest shocker for me was learning in BDSP that this even applied to same gender Pokemon, which I used to get 4 egg moves onto Volbeat which would've been impossible otherwise. This also works in SwSh, but I didn't know it until BDSP.

Anyway Nursery is just a Daycare overhaul to me, but I'll go with the Nursery anyway.
For Picnics I haven't had enough interaction with breeding yet tbh, can't really judge it accurately yet, but I can see some pros to the new method due to how eggs bunch up, meaning you can go idle for a long time and then return and accept like 12 eggs in a row. I'm not a fan of just having to sit around tweedling my thumbs awaiting the eggs though.

I am not really sure between nursery and day care, but I am probably going with day care. So, the main problem with day care is that it can become expensive and that while your Pokemon level up, they also learn random moves. Back in gen 4 and some others, it could have been time consuming to make the levelled Pokémon forget the move and then teach them the desired one.
On the other hand, it's pretty useful that while you're breeding a Pokemon, the other ones are gaining exp. It's better to have this option rather than only the nursery, which wouldn't allow the player to leave Pokemon to level up.
I wouldn't be against having both nursery and day care in one game. I think this couldn't have been done in early gen games, but now that maps are bigger, it could be done.
I have done IV breeding in Pokémon SW and it was a great experience.
I tried breeding with picnic, but honestly I don't like it. I think without powers it just takes too much time.

I never really have taken Pokémon breeding too seriously, I've always seen it as something fun to do. Thus, I can't quite say I have an overly strong opinion on this topic of discussion. I kind of like the nursery and daycare the same! I will say I certainly miss having the nursery/daycare feature in Pokémon Scarlet/Violet. I was so confused on how to breed initially! I hope the daycare/nursery system makes a return in future games!

Hi Pokemon fans! There's a youtube channel called Pokemon Cries. They have uploaded recordings of cries for pokemon generations 1-8 so far. I decided to share all the baby pokemon sound files, and ask which one makes the most impression on you?

My favorite is Riolu. I am dog fan, and think the developers did a really job communicating the sound of a puppy barking.

i think Igglybuff has a nice one too. It sounds sweet and childlike like this evolutionary line's temperament, also is very musical, the way this diva should sound.

Elekid is kinda cool too, you hear plenty of static, and it makes sense because this an electric type.

Why does Wynaut's sound so ominous and way too heavy for such a small thing....

Budew has my favorite cry from these, but Happiny also sounds adorable.

Which baby pokemon do you think would be the best pokemon to have as a pet in real life?

A cautionary tale- Choose wisely, sometimes our favorite mons wouldn't necessarily be the easiest to live with. As much as Muchlax is my favorite baby pokemon, he wouldn't be my first choice to bring home, because he would eat everything, haha!

I think I will go with riolu, because dogs are wonderful companions. To me a house is no fun without them, and this would be a super puppy with higher intelligence than most humans, one who also is a cool telepathic mood ring.

Which baby pokemon do you think would be the best pokemon to have as a pet in real life?


Wynout because why not? Lol sorry, nevermind.

Yeah, it seems like a cool Pokemon to have around. My other choices would be Manytke and Chingling, but they wouldn't make great companions in real life because Manytke would need water and Chingling would be pretty noisy!

Gonna rule out Smoochum immediately as the thing kisses everything rofl
Was gonna go with Happiny, but upon closer inspection of it's Dex entries... it can throw a tantrum and is like a pet walking in front of your feet making you stumble and trip if you don't keep an eye out. Never happened to me, as I tend to look down a lot, but still.

I'll go with Cleffa. Don't really see anything alarming in it's entries. It can observe the stars through the window and maybe we could even stargaze together.

I thought I would post a challenge to the baby pokemon lovers out there, a foot print exhibition. A feature I always really liked about the Sinnoh game was visiting Dr. Footstep. It's a subtle thing that a lot of players may not even remember, but it added some texture the world, being able to tell details about a pokemon's identity, and how they relate to you just judging by their footprint, the way handwriting experts can find out information about people. I thought it was both an endearing and original concept, and I definitely spent some time going to this gentleman, and receiving footprint ribbons for my beloved companions in Pearl and Platinum. It has inspired me to put together all of the known foot prints of baby pokemon. There are 17 total. One baby pokemon, mantyke, doesn't leave foot prints, and another one, might leave them, but because this little critter came along a little later into the pokemon universe, we don't know what it's foot print looks like yet.



I was wondering if there was any foot print here that you are drawn to design-wise? Bonus if you can recognize the baby pokemon that the foot print belongs to. I will reveal who is who later on.

I looks the most interesting to me... who has spikes like that... Magby?

This is a very fun game! I had fun playing that on pmd back to the day.

Most of them are pretty similar. I'm gonna bo with my memory and say that A is Riolu, L is Munchlax and D Azurill. B and P I think are probably just the same. I'd say Budew is one of them. I also agree with Rekoil

Good detective work folks! I am going to make this image a drop more colorful by adding the sprite of the baby pokemon beside their footprint, whenever someone guesses the identity of a pokemon who left their foot print at the scene.

ReKoil said:

I looks the most interesting to me... who has spikes like that... Magby?

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Good eye! That is Magby, claws on all! To me that's a first class footprint because it's hard to forget!

_confused_piplup_ said:

This is a very fun game! I had fun playing that on pmd back to the day.

Most of them are pretty similar. I'm gonna bo with my memory and say that A is Riolu, L is Munchlax and D Azurill. B and F I think are probably just the same. I'd say Budew is one of them. I also agree with Rekoil

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That sure is Riolu, love that one, because it looks like a real dog foot print- or so my hounds tell me. L is Munchlax, it's my favorite foot because it looks the most cartoonish! I have a munchlax plushie so that foot is very familiar to me. D is actually not Azurill, believe it or not, but you get a 3 out of 4 because B is for Budew! I agree some of them look the same, maybe resized or from different angles, but supposedly they are slightly different. ;)

I have revealed the identity of each footprint. Who would have thought Pichu would have such giant feet?

Today's topic: Abandoned Babies aka: beta content.

It can be interesting to see video games in their beta stage of development, before they become the products we see today. Ever taken a look at some of the sprite designs from the Gold and Silver demo games that featured at Space World in 1997? If you are curious there are many things to see, including baby pokemon, both alternative designs for the pokemon we know and love, as well as some ideas for potential baby pokemon that never were released.

The images here came courtesy of the gaming fan site The Cutting Room Floor. They also translated the demo, allow some playability with a debug menu, shared maps, early trainer sprites, pokemon moves and the protypes of more gen 2 pokemon. I'll just be showing off the baby pokemon though!

Your thoughts about our lost children? My favorite is Meowsy, the Meowth pre-evo, I would totally want this super cute lil thang! I also think Puddi the baby growlithe was adorable, it just needed a better name and I think it would be good to go.





Sorry if the pics are a bit small, I couldn't upload more than 15 individual images, and then when I put them all together into one cluster the file was too big to be allowed, so I had to scale it down, but I think the text can be read if you zoom in. I can edit though if it's still hard to see.

I like that beta Tyrogue more than the one we ended up with tbh. They did definitely improve Elekid and Smoochum's design though imo.
I like Beta Pichu, but it feels unrelated to Pikachu/Raichu. I do also like the Pichu we ended up getting though.
That early Mime Jr. is pretty cute but looks completely unrelated to Mr. Mime (probably for the better lol).
Beta Igglybuff just looks like a cursed version of Igglybuff to me lmao

Kinda wondering why that Vulpix prevo is Water type despite having clearly visible flames lol
Baby Meowth is cute, but I don't really feel like Meowth needs one. Same for baby Growlithe.
The Doduo prevo would've been nice to have, but I feel like they should scrap a head to make that work. Otherwise it would start with 3 heads, lose a head with Doduo and then regain it with Dodrio lol

I really like meowsy!
I think that most of them are quite not necessary, especially minicorn and trifox. I like beta magby and gohng is retty interesting too, despite being too similar to teddiursa too.
Grimey is cute, but i really think the grimer line doesn't need anything more.
On the other hand, golppy would have been amazing to have! Goldeen and Seaking tend to be pretty forgotten. I think that a baby pokemon would have helped.

I am quite fond of Ballerine. What a cute little guy! Pupurin is another design that I find myself particularly drawn to. Simple, yet adorable nonetheless.