Question about "discovering" new baby Pokemon.

[stigy]

I mean REALLY. Is it just for the sake of slightly powering up its evolutions (in most cases)? Why do they have to "discover" new baby Pokemon. I mean, shouldn't they discover the baby Pokemon ALONG with its evolution? Why don't they "discover" it as soon as their wild evolutions? Like how come Munchlax has only been recently "discovered", when it should have been "discovered" as soon as they breed two Snorlax, which should have been around the same time as the first gen.

WTVR. Pokemon is screwy.

 

[The Organizer]

WTVR. Pokemon is screwy.

Yes you are correct pokemon are screwy, and i dont know why there "discovered"

 

[Dragonfree]

Well, see, the guys have explained it pretty darn well because the methods through which a new Pokémon can be obtained are always newly discovered, too. In R/B/Y, nobody was breeding two Pokémon in captivity - they just caught them in the wild. In G/S/C, after people started doing that, they realized there were baby Pokémon that never really came out in the wild so they had never been seen before. Then in R/S, it was discovered that an incense calming the Pokémon down could cause a baby Pokémon to be produced rather than a smaller version of the adult Pokémon, because those Pokémon have the ability to produce more adept young under stress such as when they've been battling for a trainer, etc., while when they're safe and calm, they can afford to have weaker, more helpless offspring because they can watch over them when they're young and weak, in exchange for more flexibility when the child grows up. In the fourth generation there will most likely be some other discovered method that causes Snorlax to give birth to a Munchlax instead of another Snorlax.

 

[stigy]

Okay, I understand the second part (about new ways of breeding), but I still don't understand the first part. I always thought that RBY/GSC/RSE existed at the same time, and so if the GSC region had breeding centers and knew about breeding, why didn't the RBY region have breeding centers, or know about breeding? Wouldn't you think that it would be important enough information to spreed to other regions?

 

[Dragonfree]

No, G/S/C at least happens three years after R/B/Y as mentioned numerous times in the storyline (Team Rocket was disbanded three years ago, etc.), and I think there was something about R/S/E happening five years after G/S/C although I don't remember where that was exactly.

 

[jellsprout]

As far as I know, this is the timeline:
R/B/Y, R/S/E and possibly Colloseum are at the same time
G/S/C happens three years after R/B/Y
XD happens five years after Colloseum

I'm not certain if Colloseum is at the same time as R/B/Y and R/S/E, since XD and Colloseum both have the same trading machine instead of a Time Capsule, but XD happens five years after Colloseum.
But it is pretty much confirmed that R/B/Y and R/S/E are at the same time.

And why Kanto didn't know about breeding while Hoenn and the Sevii Islands did?
I just think that Kanto is very primitive compared to Johto, Hoenn and the Sevii Islands and that only the highest people in rank know about the other Pokémon and breeding capibilaties, like Oak, Bill, the Elite Four, the topman of Silph Co. and Giovanni.
Either that or the people do know about the other 235 Pokémon, but that they only talk about the Pokémon available in Kanto and that they just act like the other Pokémon don't exist.

Anyway, to answer your main question:
Out-game, the people didn't think about the baby Pokémon at first and just thought them up later on.
In-game, people keep finding out that under special conditions, some Pokémon give birth to other Pokémon instead of the normal Pokémon that would come out of the egg.

 

[absol attacker]

the way i see it, baby pokemon are like prematurely born pokemon. in the wild, a baby would not survive very long, so the mother would keep the egg in the incubating phase for as long as possible, until the baby develops (evolves) into basic stage and becomes too large for the egg. in captivity, a trainer keeps the egg away from it's parents, so the baby is free to hatch before it is fully developed. as for finding basics with lower levels than babies, wilds would consume more yolk than captives, causing them to develop at a faster rate. the "discovery" of new babies is actually the result of hatching more pokemon from their eggs prematurely. to all those babies-only trainers: you're using a squad of fetuses.

 

[Metal Force]

Well it's just something new & they didn't think of it before & they neede new pokemon so they didn't bother making all new pokemon out of nothing so they made some that are pre-evos of old ones that's it .

 

[pharaohguy530]

Discovering them. Well pokemon weren't really breeded together until the GSC series. So they had no idea a whole new kind or types of pokemon existed. As for the other babies, they need to come into reality when a pokemon holds a special item. You are right though, they are a little screwy....

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

Two Azumarills can make a Marill or an Azurill. and two Wobbuffets can make a Wobbuffet or a Wynaut. Could this mean that a Snorlax, Mr.mime, Sudowoodo, etc. could make two different types of offsrping?

 

[wcgold]

Two Azumarills can make a Marill or an Azurill. and two Wobbuffets can make a Wobbuffet or a Wynaut. Could this mean that a Snorlax, Mr.mime, Sudowoodo, etc. could make two different types of offsrping?

They pretty much have to. They already produce baby Snorlax/Mr. Mime/Sudowoodo/Mantine in the current games, and if they were to make Munchlax/Bonsly/Manene/Tamanta eggs by normal means in D/P, then it would contradict past generations.

 

[Akerin]

*nods at what Wcgold said* We'll probably... no I'm sure we'll definitly have to attatch a new type of item that doesn't exist in the previous games to Snorlax/Mr.Mime/Sudowoodo to get the baby forms from the eggs.

*continues hoping there wont be any more baby Pokemon*