10 Problems With Pokémon Gold & Silver Nobody Wants To Admit

Now I'm willing to gift Togepi a free pass since it was given to you in an egg and you didn't need to run around trying to breed one to fill in a page in the Pokédex. But Baby Pokémon, pre-evolutions of existing creatures, are poorly conceived and were even more poorly executed. They're far weaker than average and can be a struggle to evolve, but if introduced to the player's party early enough can grow with the player and evolve to occupy a valuable spot in the team.

WELL GUESS WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN?

In Gold & Silver you need to breed for every Baby Pokémon introduced, with the aforementioned exception of Togepi and Tyrogue. But the latter still doesn't become available until late in the game, at which point he is too weak to be useful without every trainer's favourite past time of grinding. By the time you get to obtaining the toddler forms, you'll already have their evolutions and so are only working to fill in a page in the Pokédex.

In later generations it became more common to find baby Pokémon in the wild. If this had been done in Gold & Silver, we could have caught and raised them when they were on par with the rest of our squad, and been it would have been a smart way to cross the new generation of Pokémon with the old early on whilst exposing us to the new friendship mechanic.

Well that didn't happen. So screw the babies.