Thread: Pokemon Nicknames - Yes or No?

Well, do you nickname your Pokemon? Just the ones on your main team? Just the legendaries? All of them? None?

I nickname all of them, even the ones I'll never use. In the game, they're like individual sentient creatures, right? With personalities and all. And sentient creatures must have names. That's what I think.

I also just like thinking up names.

YES!

But not idiotic ones like "Firestorm" or "Megalis", but I use names like "Freddie", "Nicole", and "Marco".

In Fire Red, I nicknamed all of my pokemon, and then this generation, I only nicknamed my starter. However, once I get a good, EV trained battling team together, I plan to nickname them all.

I don't name them only if they're for dex completion or a random shiny.

I name team members, those I'm going to mate, and the maybe resulting babies.

Yes and no.

Normally, I don't nickname my Pokemon. But the last file I played on Pearl, I went through nicknaming every Pokemon I had. It was hard thinking up nicknames on the spot, but I ended up with some pretty good ones. Example, my Elite Four team that file was:

Yggdrasil (Torterra)
Phantasm (Mismagius)
Larch (Sudowoodo)
Nosferatu (Crobat)
Kraken (Octillery)
Dotaku (Bronzong)

Most certainly yes. Every Pokémon I keep gets a name. Most of them end up being really geeky though.

I name all of the Pokemon I catch. With the starters, I usually try and think up a theme to run between them. For instance, I named my Kanto starters after ancient Philosophers.

I also name my legendaries after the Japanese word for what ever they represent. For instance, I named my Lugia Arashi (Storm) and my Ho-oh Niji (Rainbow). If they don't really seem to embody anything, I just give them something that I like for it, like Duke (Mewtwo) or Vulcan (Heatran).

For everything else, I usually try and think up something appropriate, but when I can't think of anything, I usually just give it the first thing that comes to mind. Like my Bidoof, Tina.

yes most of my pokemon are nicknamed. but I don't usually nickname legends because i use them for trading purposes.

99% of the time, no. I will sometimes name random Boxed Pokémon for identification purposes. For example, all the Pokémon I used for contests in Emerald were given their Japanese names.

I only nickname my in-game team all the Pokémon I trained except for my Blissey, Celebi, and Jirachi, Blissey coming from my FR and forgot to nickname, Celebi from the event, and Jirachi from the Colosseum pre-order disk.

I only usually nickname the ones I use, but I definitely Nick Name my pokemon. It'd feel weird to me if I didn't, lol

I've never nicknamed my Pokemon in any of the previous games.

And that stays true for my Diamond and Pearl versions.


Basically, I don't nickname my Pokemon, because Ash doesn't nickname his Pokemon. XD

(in the games, I like to copy things that Ash does, and I always end up catching/raising the same Pokemon as he does too)

I rarely end up nicknaming my pokemon, and if I do it's for some oddball reason. It was always a weird concept to me ;p

my sister loves nicknaming her pokemon though. Her piplup is actually Pochama because she loved how it sounded so much in the Japanese version x)

never. I never do.

I always try and nickname every Pokemon I catch. Either they are named after mythological gods/goddesses or names that just pop into my head.