What Do You Name Your Pokemon?, 'Cause I can't find a topic like this already Options

[Crystal Talian]

I was just curious. I always nickname my Pokemon when I play, I like to know what other people name their Pokemon. I also like to know if anyone who plays the games nowadays even bothers (especially people around my age). I couldn't find any topics about this already, so I decided to make my own!

Anyway . . .

Do you name your Pokemon? What do you name them? Why? Any names you really like?

I'll go through a few of my nicknames - I just started some new game files.

I have a charmander named Pepper. I usually name my charmander Firestorm, but this one was a girl so I decided to change things up a bit. I named my chimchar Firestorm instead.

I named my pikachu Jupiter. 'Cause the Roman name for Zeus is Jupiter . . . and he throws lightning bolts!

I totally blanked and ended up calling my mudkip Pisces. Yeah. The fish constellation.

The only other one that comes to mind right now is Artemis, my poochyena. I named it that because it's a dark-type and I associate dark-types with the moon . . . and Artemis is a moon goddess. She's a hunting goddess too, so that works great for poochyena.

[Katie]

Over the years, or at least, ever since Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, I've laid off on naming Pokémon in a serious sit-down game, but if it's one that I'm feeling whimsical or basing off of a character, then I'll either name every one I catch or just the important ones. I stopped naming after in one of the R/S/E games when I named my Torchic something dumb, it evolved into Blaziken and I changed it so many times (the only one I remember being Kaziblen) that I think I eventually just changed it back to Blaziken. Too much trouble for its own good, and such a good Pokémon!

For example, anyway, in my current SS file, I'm attempting to base my future team off of a character I made once. Ony two 'mons in my entire game are nicknamed! They would be:

Wren the female Fearow (Spearow being a small bird, the original Wren was a stuck-up, prissy, jealous Spearow who constantly pick at her feathers).
and Arak the male Ariados (obviously taken from SpinARAK, I imagine an actual Spinarak's dialect consisting of a variations of hisses, clicks of pincers, and "arakakakak"s. Arak is supposed to be a trouble-maker who never listens to his trainer but eventually comes to obey him).

The others on that team would eventually be:

Jersey the female Venusaur (Jersey is a green color. Bulbasaur is green, ha-cha-cha. First 'mon who adores her trainer, is very bubbly, but very naïve).
Cecile the female Misdreavus [haven't decided whether to evolve her or not] (Cecile was just a pretty name at the time. Cecile was one of those "crush on her trainer" Pokémon who'd do anything for them).
Spike the male Cacturne (Obvious name reasons. Trainer was running out of creativity, I guess. Spike was always very devious and quiet, but always did as he was told. Secretly, though, he planned to flee from his trainer to get stronger 'cause he's a jerk).
Volc the female Camerupt ('Cause there's volcanoes… in their humps. Yeah. Volc is that slow, Land Before Time Spike 'mon, but quick in battle).

Others I'm either too lazy to look up or forgot. c:

In HG, I will most likely end up naming everything something French, because I'm cool like that.