>>35276622>Baby Pokemon from Gen III onward do have one purpose aside from dex completion. They all have exclusive egg moves that their evolved form cannot obtain.Fucking moron. They can just add egg moves to old pokemon like they've been doing for the last 20 years. You think they're up in their offices going "oh, we can't give Wide Guard to Onix as an egg move because it doesn't have a pre-evolution! I guess we have to scratch Power-Up Punch from everything too unless we want to design new baby forms for all these pokemon!"
Pokemon like Azurill and Pichu are especially egregious because their evolved forms are already totally believable as the young forms. If you wanted to make a pre-evo for Mr. Mime or Snorlax, fine, I can see how it might be weird to have a baby Snorlax but why the fuck did Chimecho need one? Who
