In this subseries, I will analyze the potential origins of the Pokemon in order to discover hidden details and potential. As part of a recently revealed trailer, we saw several Pokemon revealed including Alcremie.

At first glance, Alcremie may look similar to Slurpuff. Both are Fairy-type Pokemon based on sweet food. This could be an intentional pairing, relating to sweets made in England/Galar and France/Kalos.

Slurpuff is based on the meringue, a French dessert made from an egg and often topped with whipped cream and fruits.

Alcremie seems more related to whipped cream and cakes. The Pokemon website states:

Alcremie can produce whipped cream, which becomes richer the happier Alcremie is feeling. Desserts made using this cream are invariably delicious, so many pastry chefs strive to have an Alcremie as their partner. When attacked by an opponent, Alcremie will throw sweet-scented cream to distract them or temporarily blind them, giving itself time to escape. The cream it uses for this purpose has an incredibly powerful soothing effect, and any opponent that tries to eat the cream will rapidly lose the will to battle.

You can see it’s not just whipped cream, but it has two objects in its hair that resemble strawberries. We can get a better idea of Alcremie’s full design by taking a look at its revealed Gigantamax form.

In many ways Alcremie is a representation of the shortcake, a style of cake that has its origins from the sixteenth century in England. More specifically, there is a strawberry shortcake, which is a cake that is topped off with whipped cream and a strawberry.

Its Gigantamax form could also be a large wedding tower cake. Wedding cakes have been influenced through the years by British culture. Queen Victoria’s white wedding dress was the first to use white as a symbol. The idea of a “Bride’s cake”, or modern tiered cake, began in 1882 with the marriage of Prince Leopold.

Pastry baking has been a big part of British culture, often influenced by French pastry making. It would be interesting to see if there were any in-game mentions of the relationship between Slurpuff and Alcremie.

Is Alcremie going to evolve, or is it an already evolved Pokemon? This is not clear. Being an evolution would give a Slurpuff analog, which could be a simpler pastry with British relevance such as a gingerbread character.

Alcremie has a Gigantamax form. Right now the only Pokemon with this form are it, Corviknight, and Drednaw. There will certainly be more, although right now the rules for this form are not clear. Do Pokemon with a Gigantamax form have no more evolutions? We will have to wait and see.

The other slightly mysterious part of the Pokemon is its name. The Bulbapedia page for Alcremie suggests its name is a combination of “alchemy” and “creamy”. How may it be related to alchemy? Does it have something to do with the cream that it produces?

I look forward to learning more about Alcremie and how it may be used in the game.