Pokemon BDSP Player Beats The Game With A Team Of Babies

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Pokemon games don't have difficulty settings, something that has been a point of contention almost as long as Pokemon games have been a thing. However, there are fanmade difficulty settings players can impose on themselves should they so choose. Whether it be completing a nuzlocke or becoming a Pokemon Hall of Famer using nothing but babies.

SouthWheel shared their accomplishment on Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl's subreddit. The trainer made it all the way through the remake and beat its Elite Four using a team of six baby Pokemon. As highlighted in the replies to their post, that was not easy and the path was likely littered with frustrations and times when SouthWheel had to grind as if their life depended on it.

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SouthWheel clarifies what any of us who have played Pokemon games likely assumed, that all six were used as fodder at various times so others could be revived and healed. None of them made it all the way to level 100 either as the trainer confirmed at the start of the battle with the Elite Four Piplup had been leveled up the most at 81, Riolu was the lowest at 63, and the other four members of their baby team fell somewhere in the 70s.

Now, the controversy. Like me, some of you may be looking at SouthWheel's team of six and saying aloud, “yes that's impressive, but that's not a team of baby Pokemon.” To you I say yes, sort of, but hold your Ponytas. While Riolu fits the classic definition of a baby Pokemon, everyone else on SouthWheel's team technically does too. Piplup and the gang aren't your typical baby Pokemon like Pichu and Cleffa, but they're all the lowest form in a family chain and can all evolve at least once. Plus, they can all