The free training and breeding service for all Pokémon trainers!

Welcome to the GoldenrodPress Daycare! We have noticed an abundance of websites which charge Pokémon players ridiculous amounts of money to trade hacked battle ready Pokémon to their games.

But what do you get when you cross players who enjoy breeding with a website dedicated to serve the competitive Pokémon community? That’s right, completely free, hand bred, battle ready Pokémon!

We understand not everyone has enough time to personally breed each and every Pokémon they wish to test with online, or use in a live tournament which is where we come in!

Ladder Legends #4 – 0.null.0

Welcome to our fourth installment of Ladder Legends! In this article series we take a look at teams used in the higher echelons of the Pokémon Showdown ladder for VGC 2020! As always, whilst we’ll stick as close to the original team’s items and move sets, our featured teams won’t contain the exact EV spreads of the originals; instead, we’ll provide sample spreads so you can copy & paste your way to the top of the ladder and tweak as you go!

Your fourth Ladder Legend is 0.null.0 who took a very offensive version of Milotic into the mid 1700’s on the ladder!

Shining In the Sun – Espeon’s Meta Breaking Adventure!

Espeon has been my favourite Pokémon ever since its debut in Pokémon Gold & Silver – back in those days leaks surrounding new Pokémon titles were far from common making a completely blind first playthrough very possible. Not knowing Eevee had acquired two new evolutions, you can imagine my surprise at eight years old watching my Eevee randomly evolve into a psychic cat of destruction!

At least once every format I attempt to make my favourite Pokémon viable; ironically 2016, in a format full of big, scary cover legendary Pokémon, was the last time Espeon displayed it’s potential in competitive play with its ability to bounce back Dark Voids from Smeargle and Trick Xerneas’ Power Herb away. Naturally, I took full advantage of this surprise viability by featuring Espeon in my 2016 nationals team and that, I thought, would be it for this fabulous Pink creature…

That is, until, the new Dynamax feature was unveiled for VGC 20 which promised to be a mechanic in which all Pokémon would be given a chance to shine in competitive play. How could I resist giving Espeon another shot at the realms of competitive play?

Mimicking the Meta! Ryan Coverdale’s International Challenge Squad!

Ryan Coverdale is a competitive VGC player from the United States and has penned a report on a very interesting team featuring Ditto which was used in May’s International Challenge!

*featured image was created by Chewy-Meowth; check out the rest of their artwork by following this link!*

Ladder Legends #3 – Luxiobro

Welcome to our third installment of Ladder Legends! In this article series we take a look at teams used in the higher echelons of the Pokémon Showdown ladder for VGC 2020! As always, whilst we’ll stick as close to the original team’s items and move sets, our featured teams won’t contain the exact EV spreads of the originals; instead, we’ll provide sample spreads so you can copy & paste your way to the top of the ladder and tweak as you go!

Your third Ladder Legend is Luxiobro who reached a more than respectable 1797 rating with an old favourite of the website…

Click this link for the full Poképaste!