Highlights

  • Fans love creating baby Pokemon designs, expanding the possibilities for creatures that hatch from eggs.
  • Baby forms for legendary beasts like Raikou and Suicune are highly popular among Pokemon enthusiasts.
  • Game Freak's introduction of baby forms of existing Pokemon in Generation 2 paved the way for fan-made designs and creativity.

A creative Pokemon fan has come up with adorable baby forms of the legendary beasts Raikou and Suicune. Pokemon fans love designing baby forms for those that don't really have them, showing the world other possibilities for creatures that come out of their Eggs in their mature stage.

Nearly 30 years in, the Pokemon series has breached the 1,000 milestone with a total of 1,025 different monsters over nine generations in existence. Some Pokemon have baby evolution forms, and if each of the over 1,000 who don't have them were to get one, the total would likely double. It's also worth noting that Legendary Pokemon don't really have baby forms, even if some of them have adorable and cutesy designs.

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Redditor rc1246, who has also previously designed baby forms for other Legendary Pokemon, shared their cute designs of infant versions of mythical Generation 2 icons Raikou and Suicune, the Thunder-type and Water-type beasts, respectively. Baby Raikou looks a lot like a kitten with rounder and softer versions of its typically lithe features, while little Suicune looks like a puppy in the same style. Fellow fans expressed how cute the designs were, and as for the missing third Gen 2 Legendary Entei, rc1246 has said that their take on it will come very soon.

Pokemon fans apparently love the idea of baby forms for pretty much all the monsters, with player-made designs being very popular on r/pokemon. Game Freak itself has opened up this design space by retroactively creating baby versions of existing Pokemon as early as Generation 2. Rc1246 themselves had already posted this baby Suicune, along with infant forms of other Gen 2 Legendary Pokemon Ho-oh and Lugia. Other fans like to come up with baby versions of various Pokemon, exploring how established creatures would grow from their young versions to their more well-known selves.

With so many variants that Game Freak has introduced into the Pokemon world, it's no wonder that fans like to design different forms. Other than baby forms, fans also like to come up with Paradox Pokemon designs as well as regional variants, mirroring how animals in real life can have many different variations depending on breed and habitat. Like real-world evolution, the possibilities are endless, and it's safe to assume that with the constant innovation in the Pokemon games to keep people coming back, the developers will find new twists and gimmicks to freshen up the creatures that loyal series fans have come to know.