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.

[Mizukithepanda]

Yeah, so I mentioned this in the other thread, but this time around I've decided to name all of my pokemon after Gundam characters. Of course, it's not just random either. I deliberately name a pokemon after a character that either suits them or has way too many references to pass up.

So, here's a list of the names I've used so far. The series the original character appeared in are listed in parentheses:

Amuro the Victini (MSG, ZG, CC)
Lalah the Munna (MSG)
Frau Bow the Herdier (MSG, ZG)
Hayato the Tympole (MSG, ZG, CC)
Kai the Scraggy (MSG, ZG)
Kamille the Dewott (ZG, ZZG)
Paptimus the Liepard (ZG)
Jerid the Timburr (ZG)
Beltorchika the Venipede (ZG) - due to character limit, is spelled Beltochika instead.
Haman the Sigilyph (ZG, ZZG)
Sarah the Yamask (ZG)
Beecha the Trubbish (ZZG)
Chan Agi the Pidove (CC)
Shakti the Sandile (VG)
Domon the Throh (G Gundam)
MasterAsia the Darumaka (G Gundam)
Duo the Blitzle (GW)
Lucrezia the Dwebble (GW)
Loran the Sewaddle (Turn A)
Sochie the Swoobat (Turn A)
Dianna the Petilil (Turn A)
Kira the Solosis (GS)
Cagalli the Emolga (GS)
Miriallia the Patrat (GS)
Yzak the Pansear (GS)
Marina the Maractus (G00)
Liu Mei the Roggenrola (G00)
Feldt the Minccino (G00)
Setsuna the Audino (G00)

What's especially fun about this is that it becomes more of a search for the pokemon who will become that character rather than just scraping my brain for a nickname that I haven't used a thousand times. Like, Char is reserved for a Zorua/Zoruark should I ever get one, and Emma is reserved for a female Empoleon.

There are so many characters across all of the Gundam metaseries chances are I won't run out of names for a long time to come. :D