Baby Pokémon are pre-evolutions of existing evolutionary chains. They can only be obtained by breeding another of the Pokémon's forms while that Pokémon is holding a specific Incense item. Baby Pokémon are all extremely weak, which is appropriate for a baby-anything. The big problem with Baby Pokémon is that they don't provide any benefit, they're just Pokémon that are a hassle to obtain; serving only as another hurdle to filling up the PokéDex. They don't learn special moves or abilities, and all they do is evolve into the same Pokémon you bred them from; and there's even one Pokémon that gets stuck in its Baby form, cursed to be a weakling forever.
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Baby Pokémon are pure fanservice, designed to make us go 'AMAGAHDITSSOOOKYOOT!' at the top of our lungs, shamelessly milking humanity's inherent obsession with cute things. Baby Pokémon should be abolished; all Baby Pokémon should be retconned into being regular parts of their evolutionary families. You should be able to encounter a Pichu in the wild, and the Pikachu-family would simply consist of three Pokémon, rather than two regular forms and a Baby. This wouldn't create any conflict because there are no Pokémon with three stages ánd a Baby form. Removing the Baby mechanism would make the game more intuitive, make more sense and even improve some currently non-evolving Pokémon by instituting a natural form progression. To be clear; all your favorite Babies will still be around, but they won't be a separate class of Pokémon anymore; just low-level versions of their families.
And by the way, my favorite Baby is Cleffa.
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