Thread: VG Weekly Poll #28 Do you nickname your Pokémon?

I don't nickname any of my pokemon. I just like to call pokemon by their names. (Besides, I'm not creative enough!)

Always. It's an interesting and fun little part of the game and it makes me feel more attached to the Pokemon.

Only my team members. I don't care enough about any others to name them.

I nickname most Pokemon I intend to use.

I used to nickname every Pokemon I caught, but these days I mostly save it just for my personal favorites or the ones I intend to use.

Some of them would be:
Milotic- Narcissa
Starmie- Aquarius
Metagross- Titanium
Hydreigon- Abaddon
Chandelure- Wicca
Volcarona- Seraphi
Espeon- Ailura
Mienshao- Shao-Lin
Togekiss- Bisou
Skarmory- Hecate
Arcanine- Shisa
Roserade- Fleur
Dragonite- Kaiba
Gengar- Lovecraft

When I first started playing back in the GS days I always nicknamed my team, but I stopped doing that in Gens 3 and 4. Since my second playthrough of Black I've started nicknaming my team again. I don't bother naming anything not on my team since I'll never use them anyway.

Most definitely yes, if I'm using it competitively. I don't nickname all the failure mons I hatch for perfect IVs, that would be tedious.

I don't name them but I probably should. I play the game in a too computerized (for lack of a better word) fashion for me to feel comfortable naming my pokemon.

I normally don't nickname my mons. Trying to come up with something unique for everything I catch would be a rather daunting task. However, I did think it would be kinda nice to at least nickname my Black party, with all of them being references to something.

Emboar -> Pigfrit (pig + Ifrit, as in the fire-elemental Final Fantasy summon, and because I am terrible at puns)
Zoroark -> DARKNESS! (because Ansem thinks that darkness is almost as delicious as scenery)
Unfezant -> The Word (which is what the bird is equal to or greater than)
Zebstrika -> Ixion (seriously, I cannot be the only person who's done this)
Carracosta -> Crush (duuuuuude)
Gothitelle -> Henrietta (named after the goth girl from South Park, and I did in fact have to look up what her name was)

Yes but only on the occasion that I have more than one Pokémon species sort of like 2 Snivy's one will keep its original name while the other gets a nickname.

I nickname almost all of my pokemon exept for legendaries, i only nicknamed one legendary (Thundurus) and nicknamed him "Zues"

I love nicknaming my Pokémon based on whatever capitalization standard is present in the generation.

My SoulSilver pals
QUILAVA » Flareburst
NOCTOWL » Insomniac
FLAAFFY » Zaptail
TOGETIC » Lucky Ace
LEDIAN » Starlight
GLACEON » Serenity

Those nicknames are nice, aren't they? :P

I give them funny nicknames, see my signature for those!

Usually only my main team members. My team's names are:

Samurott = Church
Hydreigon = Caboose
Scrafty = Grif
Volcarona = Simmons
Braviary = Washington
Excadrill = Sarge

If anyone gets the reference in those names, I'll give them a cookie. Or at least a picture of a cookie I got from google images.

P.S. @Floris Tyranitar isn't that big of a troll. You can take him down easy with one fighting move :p

Never on the first playthrough. Not naming them the first time makes it easier for me to judge which are worthless. If I nicknamed them, I would be more inclined to use them even if they sucked.