Bayleef resembles a pale yellow sauropod dinosaur, or a lizard, with leaf-like growths sprouting in a ring around its neck. A large leaf shaped like a scythe protrudes from its head. It has red eyes, and has one large toenail on each foot. It also has a small tail.
Gender differences
None.
Special abilities
The aroma wafting from the leaf-like growths around its neck has a spicy scent, and all nearby Pokémon who inhale it become excited and want to fight.
Behavior
Bayleef are calmer than their previous stage, Chikorita. However, the scent that wafts from their leaves serves to make people excited and can cause them to want to fight.
Ash's Chikorita evolved into Bayleef in Current Events. Ash's Bayleef still had the same personality it had when it was still a Chikorita, but it soon mellowed out.
Bayleef, the Leaf Pokémon. The evolved form of Chikorita. Bayleef emits a spicy aroma from the leaves around its neck and its Razor Leaf is extremly powerful.
In the manga
In Pokémon AdventuresCrystal's Chikorita evolves into a Bayleef while defending his trainer against an attack from an old foe, an impish wild Larvitar. Although it had been such a short while since it had evolved that it didn't know how to restrain the Sweet Scent it gave around it (causing wild Lickitung to gather around it), it evolved with its fellow (and newly reawakened) starters in the fight against Lugia in the Whirl Islands. Its only apperance after the GSC arc was in the Emerald chapter, where it uses its newly learned Frenzy Plant attack to destroy the giant, fake Kyogre that Guile Hideout summoned using Jirachi.
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Bayleef is the tallest of any of the second-stage evolutions of the starters.
In Generation II front sprites, the hole in its leaf is at the top. In later generations, the front sprites change this to be in the bottom of the leaf. Only the front sprites are affected; the back sprites always show the hole on the same side of the leaf.
However, the way the sprite is positioned means that the perspective could be showing the underside of the leaf.
Like Chikorita, Bayleef's Pokémon Gold and Silver sprites show it having a peach body while its official artwork and later sprites show it having a yellow body.
Bayleef's "necklace" is also consistently described as having a spicy aroma, while real bay leaves have a bitter and herbal taste, similar to thyme.
Even though the leaf on its head looks like a scythe, it cannot learn Leaf Blade.
This Pokémon article is part of Project Pokédex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each Pokémon species, as well as Pokémon groups and forms.
Miracle Seed (100%)
For other sprites and images, please see Bayleef images on Bulbagarden Archives.
