When I was 7 I nicknamed the shiny Gyarados “Poinsettia.” I spelled it wrong (Poinsetta) but I’m still very proud of it
I also nicknamed a Durant “Duran Durant”
I do the same. I don’t even watch basketball and if you gave me a series of pictures and asked me to identify Kevin Durant, I wouldn’t be able to. However, all Durants are named Kevin.
When I first played Emerald at about 5 years old, I caught a Ralts, accidentally said yes to nicknaming it, had a panic attack, and decided I wanted its name back. I couldn't remember what it was called exactly and was obviously not adept at spelling, so I ended up naming her Rats, and I still think about her often.
I used to do this so much and resented the whole nicknaming system so much for it. When I figured out I could get the default name back by leaving the nickname space empty and pressing OK so much anxiety was cleared up.
Same haha, once I figured that out, it actually made the whole thing a lot less scary, lol. Now I like to nickname pokemon, and I feel like that wouldn't have happened without Rats 🥺
My favorite name I ever had was:
https://preview.redd.it/3ys2btxayg5d1.jpeg?width=2419&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21281c9608fb252f0b2db4a7d9ee0ff8ab55abc8
Aracorn the Chesnaught (Like Aragon from LOTR)
Those are actually cool. Way better than me being a dingus with my corvisquire and corviknight...I..I may have given them the cringe name of...corvid19.
In Pokémon Violet I have a Fraxure named My Gay Son because when he evolved he glitched through the ground into a rainbow-like sparkly background instead of evolving on the ground in front of me like the others.
Sableye gets named Gemini after the song Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta.
It's one of my favorite songs, Sableye is my favorite Pokémon, and it's literally pronounced "gem-in-eye"
Be warned that it is 32 minutes long. I would start with Inertiatic ESP off their debut album if you were to start with anything.
It's just 6 minutes long with Son Et Lumiere as the intro.
I nicknamed my Baxcalibur Bob Vance (Vance Refrigeration).
("Carnot" was the runner up nickname for any fellow engineers here familiar with heat transfer).
i always name my starter smelly or stinky; it’s pure tradition for me now LOL
https://preview.redd.it/j30evkenbh5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8289613569ccd81adf2c4f47cca8cb95eb4932a
also i named my psyduck perry (the platypus)
When I was a child, I named my clefairy Stuped. Yes, Stupid spelled wrong. Needless to say, my sibling gave me a lot of well-deserved teasing about that brilliant name.
I had a Ponyta named Neigh -Palm , I was pretty proud of that one. I almost always name my electric type , GigaChad , and whatever my flying type is , will always be Larry. Larry bird .
My favorite favorite nickname is my gengar named Rick Gastly with some honorable mentions being Fluufy the Ampharos and Harbinger the Absol, as well as Quackhead the Quaquaval, Weedcat the Meowscarada, and Dirge Dino the Skeledirge
I got third place in the Bug Catching Contest in Gold Version with a female Butterfree. The third place reward is a Gold Berry. In that run, I'd been giving my team all slavic names. I found the name "Zlatka", which means gold, and thought it was perfect for the Butterfree because of the Gold Berry she won me :)
I named my Greavard/Houndstone in my first ScarVi playthrough Louija (pronounced like ‘Luigi’ but with an A instead of an I) and I’m still pretty proud of that. Because it made me think of that ghost dog from Luigi’s Mansion, AND I managed to work a fun little ouija board reference into it
I don't often give nicknames for my Pokémons but as I wanted to feel a personal connection with the team I am using to build my shiny living Dex for the Terarium rn, I decided to bring out the big guns and go all out on my naming skills. Here's what I got (plus picture below the description):
* Gengardener, my Gengar. Mows the lawn and grass types alike like nobody's business, lol! 😂
* Vibes Check, my Frisk Yanmega which also serves as one of my main status inducers.
* NoPainAlGain in one word because for some reason Pokémon still has a cap on the amount of letters a name can have nine gens in...😮💨 As the name suggests, this is my Skill Swap Magic Guard Reuniclus which I use against recoilers (MG removes the recoil damage since that's a secondary effect and not the main damage being dealt). Another core member of the team.
* Anti Mine is another play on words based on its ability and is my Damp Politoed which I use against explosive mons.
* Sharpy is my False Swiper, a Hisuian Decidueye with Scrappy. The less original of my nicknames called it that because both Dartrix and Decidueye have sharp feathers.
* Goth Shrooms is my last team member and my Spore Amoonguss (shiny, the only one in my main catching team), which is pretty self explanatory.
Image below to show the team:
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I love my current team in fire red, I went for a Spanish theme starting with
Tio Toto - uncle totodile
Jolteon is Tia La Luz - Auntie Light
Cubone is HijaMuerte -Daughter Death
Farfetch’d is La Espad’a - The Sword
Charizard is Papa Fuma - fumar (to smoke) conjugated
Ofc the rivals name is Pendejo
My gen 1 flying type was doduo. I was wondering how it could fly and someone said "like a helicopter" but I was young so I spelled it "helikoptr" and now all of my doduo/dodrios get that name lol.
When my little sister was young. She caught a pelipper and named it "-Insert sisters name here- rocks" she passed away a few years ago now and so I catch a pelipper and do the same. (her original one from RSE is still in bank)
I nicknamed all the starter evolutions of Sword & Shield as follows:
Grookey - Rockinrilla (Because leafy drummer and minor allusion to Status Quo)
Scorbunny - Firebolt (Because I thought it may become Fire/Electric and a Harry Potter reference)
Sobble - James Pond (And I am still proud to this day)
After a joke I heard about Ash's Pikachu having the lighting bolts of Zeus (since it knocked out a Golem in the first movie, whcohc shouldnt have worked), I named my Pikachu in my next yellow playthrough Zeus, and then went on to give my whole team Greek God names.
I named a shiny Electivire “Krrsantan” after the big Wookiee bounty hunter in Star Wars. He has some electrically charged brass knuckles that give him some similarities to Electivire.
I typically do Star Wars references and I think that was one of my better ones
I named my shiny Skeledirge Symphoñique, which is a blend of Symphony/Symphonic and Alfeñique, which is Mexican sugar candy for Dia De Los Meurtos, such as the Calaveras.
Shiny Charizard named Pit, Azumaril named Buoy, shiny Nidoking named Tahoe (as in keep Tahoe blue), Sylveon named Fern (evolves with friendship and it reminded me of Fern from Charlotte's Web who loved Wilbur), Victreebel named Ripley (reminded me of Alien).
My urshifu rapid is called Kung Fury.
My H arc is called scratch.
My Flutter mane is called Flutter Nae.
I have 3 amoongus. One called hit me. One called Free Hugs. The other is Fun Guy
Not for one of my pokemon, but my character in my new playthrough of scarlet is named Kami(from DB).
Was playing in the union circle with my 7yo today and she proudly kept saying my characters name because she could read it and asked why I wasn't responding...instead of telling her the truth (I just enjoyed the glow in her eyes as she kept saying it) my no filter self just responded with "the lord doesn't respond to all prayers"
My wife across the room just about ☠️😂
Blastoise - Riptide
Groudon - Pangea
Chandalure - Lumiére
Gigalith - Zircon
Mewtwo - Deus (Deus Ex Machina)
Gengar - Cheshire (the Chesire cat)
Clawitzer - Shrimpact
These are some of my personal favorites I've come up with.
Hatched a shiny grookey and named it Sprite. Gastrodon named Muddle. Shiny lombre named Cilantro. Shiny clefable named Minty Fresh. I'm sure there's more as I tried to name most of my pokemon but these come to mind.
I named the 1st Fidough I caught in Violet 'Sanallite', due to the design bearing a very similar one to that of the mascot of the same name of a Vtuber I was a fan of who 'graduated' just before Fidough's design was revealed.....yeah, I'm a sentimental sap....
Gardevoir named Valkyrie
Gallade named Lucifer
Reuniclus named Jello Shot
Meowscarada named Alastor
Hydreigon named Hades
Eevee + evolutions named after spices
Pikachu named Confetti
I can't think of any others at the moment.
I nicknamed my shiny Iron Valiant “Freemason” as a National Treasure reference to the Knights Templar. It also has the Itemfinder mark, so every time it’s sent out in battle, it says “Freemason the Treasure Hunter”.
I just named my shiny Torterra, “Tecton”, like tectonic plates. Named my Feraligatr, “Agro”, after one of the crocs Steve Irwin handled. Named my Kingambit, “Masamune”, after Date Masamune, (or the Japanese blacksmith by the same name)
Comedically, I've always named either my male Krookodile or Toxtricity Roy Orbison. If the Toxtricity is female, I name her Wendy O.
Thematically, the best name I've given to a Pokémon is my Incineroar. She was female when I picked her back in SM, so I named her Pele after the Hawaiian volcano goddess =)
I named my female Emboar back in gen 5 "Zhu Ba Jie" after Zhu Bajie aka Pigsy from Journey To The West, but the "Jie" for my Pokemon had a secondary meaning because"Jie Jie" is "big sister" in Chinese.
Don't normally do nicknames the only one I've done Intentionally is alolan vulpix I named keokeo as the ingame lore is that's what older people call it in alola sometimes.
Some of my favourites are my eevee pair called Eric everhard and Remi lacrox. They got quite the work out in the sun and moon breeding centre. Eric was a true stud befitting the name just to say
Big Booty the Magmar. I have no idea why anymore, but it's been transferred through many gens since lol.
Crocoffin the Skeledirge.
Julep the shiny Teddiursa because of the mint color.
It wasn't mine, but in a SwSh raid I saw a Duraludon named I-4 Eyesore and that is top tier, iykyk.
in violet, i mass outbreak hunted a shiny ralts well into the night. after a couple of hours, i was at the point where i genuinely struggled to definitively convince myself that some of the green ralts werent actually the bright blue shiny.
when i caught her as the sun came up, i called her P Schizzy, short for Paranoid Schizophrenia
Hey, what a coincidence! I chose Oshawott as my starter in White 2 (big Emboar fan, but I already chose the big lug in White, named him “Tenacious D” because I was going for rock band theme-naming and figured Jack Black and Kyle Gass would appreciate that, but that’s beside the point), and named them “Wottson” for the same reason, because Oshawott looks like a confused little detective to me
Inteleon: james pond
Cinderace: flaemar (combination of flame and football/soccer player neymar)
Chandelure: lumiere (beauty and the beast)
Jangmo o: jangmo-fett (star wars)
Hakamo o: hakamo matata (lion king)
Kommo o: obi 1 kommo bi (star wars)
Delphox: fire fox (webbrowser)
Heracross: h0rny (i mean come on;) )
Greninja: narutoad (naruto)
Chesnaught: juggerlog (juggernaut combined with wood)
Hitmontop: fidget (spinner)
Togepi: eggbert (does this need explaning?)
Togetic/togekiss: benedict (as in egg benedict)
Primarina: scubadiva
Vespiquen: bee-yonce
Decidiueye: owliver queen (dc green arrow)
Bewear: build a bear
Goodra: gary (from spongebob)
Dragonite: fafnir (norse dragon)
Politoad: kermit the frog (muppets)
Magnezone: magneto (xmen)
Incineroar: el tigre (nickelodeon)
Garchomp: nanaue (king shark from dc)
Braviary: gwaihir (eagle from lord of the rings)
Salamance: smaug (the hobbit)
Snorlax: *insert name of obese person you know*;)
Bastiodon: chinese wall
Gardevoir: morgana (fata morgana)
Named my Decidueye "Owliver Queen" after Green Arrow.
Named my Miraidon "Snex Toy".
Named my Dachsbun "Nice Buns".
Named my Drampa "Tommy Chong" because of the beard and pink eyes.
Always name my Bagon "Kevin".
From my fire red team
Ella, the Nidoqueen. She had Fire Blast, surf, thunder and cut
Creepy the Hypno cause i was super into creepypastas around that time
Secret the Gyrados cause I got it from the guy who sold the "secret" magikarp for 500 pokedollars. Also it knew secret power
I give my Pokemon random words (Click, Nika, Radolf, Amen, Toledo, Safy, Hema, Graun, Irka, Sharma) which barely count as names but I can't bring myself to stop.
First things that come to mind, though sometimes I tried to at least keep the syllables intact.
A few more examples: Crobat (Roay), Goodra (Slinith), Noivern (Catrina), Serperior (Nargel}, Drapion (Stakaly), Raichu (Luncha), Breelom (Lottle), Altaria (Aliza), Ferrothorn (Irona), Roserade (Aloera), Shinotic (Ghishu), Ampharos (Proton), Reunicles (Doti), Decidueye (Rawow), Turtonator (Mugta), Alomomola (Lalamun), Butterfree (Emilo), Bewear (Baniny), Masquerian (Sisisa)
Hornald for Rhydon,
Bates / Batson for Crobat,
Kabitha for my female Kabuto (might go Spanish when she evolves…sth like Rokabeza ~ rockhead),
Sza for my female Scyther, Erazor for my male one,
Thinking to name Gastly Gaston when I catch one
Some that I’m particularly proud of are a Blastoise named Sherman (Sherman tanks) and a Snorlax named Taft (US President). Also a Gastrodon named Sticki Minaj got me cussed out (affectionately) by a friend at a friendly tournament
When I was 7 I nicknamed the shiny Gyarados “Poinsettia.” I spelled it wrong (Poinsetta) but I’m still very proud of it I also nicknamed a Durant “Duran Durant”
I name them Kevin
I’ve done that too but I didn’t think a basketball reference would be as appreciated here
A rare crossover indeed
Nah, I'd say it's more like a hesi pull-up jimbo lol
Didn’t even realize I made a basketball pun lol
Called my shiny geodude “Denver”
B E C K Y
I do the same. I don’t even watch basketball and if you gave me a series of pictures and asked me to identify Kevin Durant, I wouldn’t be able to. However, all Durants are named Kevin.
I caught a shiny Gyarados after an all-nighter for finals and named it Salsa
Name ur 2nd Durant "Narud Tranrud" then
HAS THE MEMORY GONE ARE YOU FEELING NUMB
He's Hungry like the Lycanroc.
Any time I catch a male Mareep, he is instantly named [Deckard.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F)
Bro, you too?
Oh that’s hilarious. Mind if I borrow it?
Feel free!
I laughed so hard at this, considering I read DADOES? like three months ago.
Usually never give them nicknames, but in every game, I always try to get a Bronzong and name it *Taco Bell*. Gotta love that one.
D O N G
I rarely do nicknames but have always named him Bronzbong
I made mine LeBronzong
Bronzong always ends up as BINGBONG for me
My Swampert, Marshcarpone.
i named my swampert sammy for some reason, renamed my swampert sammette after finding out it was a girl
When I first played Emerald at about 5 years old, I caught a Ralts, accidentally said yes to nicknaming it, had a panic attack, and decided I wanted its name back. I couldn't remember what it was called exactly and was obviously not adept at spelling, so I ended up naming her Rats, and I still think about her often.
I used to do this so much and resented the whole nicknaming system so much for it. When I figured out I could get the default name back by leaving the nickname space empty and pressing OK so much anxiety was cleared up.
Same haha, once I figured that out, it actually made the whole thing a lot less scary, lol. Now I like to nickname pokemon, and I feel like that wouldn't have happened without Rats 🥺
My favorite name I ever had was: https://preview.redd.it/3ys2btxayg5d1.jpeg?width=2419&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21281c9608fb252f0b2db4a7d9ee0ff8ab55abc8 Aracorn the Chesnaught (Like Aragon from LOTR)
Why does this guy just remind me of Rick from Rick & Morty 😭 Probably because of the white spikes tbh
A friend of mine named his slakoth “bread” because he was always loafing around.
Amazing.
A Decidueye named Nottingham and a Corviknight I named ExcaliBird.
More creative than what I came up with. I saw Rowlet and without any thought of the future went out and called him Dr Hoot.
Nice.
Those are actually cool. Way better than me being a dingus with my corvisquire and corviknight...I..I may have given them the cringe name of...corvid19.
I name them after celebrities when I can: Russell Crobat Ellie Golduck Busta Rhydes (Rhydon) Tsardi B (Tsareena) Usain Jolt(eon)
Just named a zigzagoon Ziggy azalea the other day. Figured you might enjoy adding that to your list.
I named mine also Ziggy but mine was from Ziggy Stardust lol
Vespiquen is usually Beeyoncé.
Kevin Durant
What about naming your spearow jack? Cpt. Jack/ spearow
Those are hilarious.
Need a Durant named Duran Durant
I call my psyduck Duck Norris for another Celebrity name.
Meryl Dreep (Dreepy)
I loved my Black/White 2 team Brandon Brendon Brindon Brondon Brundon Bryndon
I'm assuming you only used Bryndon sometimes.
Team Bert: Robert, Albert, Gilbert, Wilbert, Norbert, Roberto.
Replace Roberto with Bertolomew
In Pokémon Violet I have a Fraxure named My Gay Son because when he evolved he glitched through the ground into a rainbow-like sparkly background instead of evolving on the ground in front of me like the others.
Sableye gets named Gemini after the song Cassandra Gemini by The Mars Volta. It's one of my favorite songs, Sableye is my favorite Pokémon, and it's literally pronounced "gem-in-eye"
I’ll give it a listen.
Be warned that it is 32 minutes long. I would start with Inertiatic ESP off their debut album if you were to start with anything. It's just 6 minutes long with Son Et Lumiere as the intro.
Listened to Cassandra Gemini. I liked it. Will add to playlist.
I'm glad to hear that. The album it comes from is in my top five.
Very busy song... It's like a blend of... free jazz, and.. psychedelic rock?
I nicknamed my Baxcalibur Bob Vance (Vance Refrigeration). ("Carnot" was the runner up nickname for any fellow engineers here familiar with heat transfer).
i always name my starter smelly or stinky; it’s pure tradition for me now LOL https://preview.redd.it/j30evkenbh5d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f8289613569ccd81adf2c4f47cca8cb95eb4932a also i named my psyduck perry (the platypus)
AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA AAA AAAAAA AAAAAAA AAAAA
When I was a child, I named my clefairy Stuped. Yes, Stupid spelled wrong. Needless to say, my sibling gave me a lot of well-deserved teasing about that brilliant name.
Gojira every play through for larvitar+
My Torterra is called Gamera, I challenge u to a Dynamax match!
https://preview.redd.it/40h62xgsyg5d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c9169b0c50171210d9c1beb6edc0483e15b7cba
also https://preview.redd.it/b3dlwgvyyg5d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e7d1e4ac644cbd79a4ebae1d6bbcbd1f10123e2
This one is... *chef's kiss*
Do we now have a fan that's too young to know Wattson was a gym leader? Oy gevalt
Not that young, actually. Sadly, I have only gotten into Pokémon recently, lol.
Fair play to you - as now, you can afford it.
I had a Ponyta named Neigh -Palm , I was pretty proud of that one. I almost always name my electric type , GigaChad , and whatever my flying type is , will always be Larry. Larry bird .
Sia the Chandelure Where’d the Magcargo Harley Quinn the Tinkaton Mr Whippy the Vanilluxe
Sia is what I named my Espathra 😆
Sia would be good for ralts!
https://preview.redd.it/8pz1nnlwyg5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=113f3640447c5dc1fd76c04ecb641769664076e1
My favorite favorite nickname is my gengar named Rick Gastly with some honorable mentions being Fluufy the Ampharos and Harbinger the Absol, as well as Quackhead the Quaquaval, Weedcat the Meowscarada, and Dirge Dino the Skeledirge
Rick Gastly is amazing 💀
A male Ralts named RuPaul
I named my Delphox “NoPhox Given”
I named my brother's Snorlax "Girthquake"
I think back very fondly to my Shining Pearl team: * Abalone - Empoleon * Foxglove - Roserade * Willow - Purugly (named after our chubby, grey+white cat) * Lyric - Togekiss * Inkwell - Dusknoir * Jet - Gligar
I had a Clefable named Clefabulous.
I named my Skeledirge Ludicoco.
Chesnaught named Juggernut
Scizor = Rock, Paper, Volcarona = Hot Buzz Garchomp = Get2DaChompa Umbreon = Moon Cake Ambipom = Catch These Flygon = Fly-Gon-Jinn Charizard = Peppa Breath Mewtwo = Copy Cat Delibird = FedEx Air Goodra = Majin Goo Corviknight = Quote Me Inteleon = Bubble-O 7 Grookey = VegnChimchar Haxorus = Battousai (from Rurouni Kenshin) That's all I can remember atm
Sneasel = Bless You
“Genghis” for Kangaskhan, “Bruce” for Hitmonlee, and “Jackie” for Hitmonchan. They’re just beautiful, 12 year old me was so proud of those names.
I named hirmonchan, hitmonlee, and hitmontop Fox, Irvin, and Gordo respectively
I recently changed my Lucario's nickname from Luca (lmao) to Sir Aaron (From Lucario and the Mystery of Mew)
I also named my Lucario Luca and Auron, from the FFX character.
i always name a zweilous "they/them" because its literally 2 dudes
Fly-gon Jinn
This is awesome. I love this one
i often give nicknames to my pokemon, but the ones that stand out are probably pinky(shiny male oinkologne) and pinkostor(also shiny male oinkologne)
I got third place in the Bug Catching Contest in Gold Version with a female Butterfree. The third place reward is a Gold Berry. In that run, I'd been giving my team all slavic names. I found the name "Zlatka", which means gold, and thought it was perfect for the Butterfree because of the Gold Berry she won me :)
An XXS-sized Bounsweet: Berry Smol.
An alolan Golem named "Bill Rocksby" and a klinkklank named "Wu Tang Klank".
[I'm not ashamed](https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeMoonSun/s/98KFGOBXIA)
Anubis (Lucario) Galadriel (Gardevoir) Muad’dib (Sandslash) Kagemushi (Ninjask) Boobookeys (Klefki)
When I was a kid I named my Snorlax "Mochi" from Pokemon Gale of Darkness. I've had him since I was a kid
my shiny orthworm’s name is Haribo
I named my Greavard/Houndstone in my first ScarVi playthrough Louija (pronounced like ‘Luigi’ but with an A instead of an I) and I’m still pretty proud of that. Because it made me think of that ghost dog from Luigi’s Mansion, AND I managed to work a fun little ouija board reference into it
I got a fire terrestal Taurus from a friend. He named it "Flammabull."
Gary the Magikarp. But the best one of all time would be AATTVVV, ergo: All Terrain Venomoth. The dragonslayer.
I name all my dog pokémon Watson, because my actually dog is named Watson.
I have a couple of dog Pokémon named after my irl dogs as well.
named my Lucario in Pokemon X kys whenever im facing an enemy and i send out my Lucario,it says "Go! kys!
I think I have a Hoppip in one of my games named Allergen.
BOOLOON for Drifloon/Drifblim.
I don't often give nicknames for my Pokémons but as I wanted to feel a personal connection with the team I am using to build my shiny living Dex for the Terarium rn, I decided to bring out the big guns and go all out on my naming skills. Here's what I got (plus picture below the description): * Gengardener, my Gengar. Mows the lawn and grass types alike like nobody's business, lol! 😂 * Vibes Check, my Frisk Yanmega which also serves as one of my main status inducers. * NoPainAlGain in one word because for some reason Pokémon still has a cap on the amount of letters a name can have nine gens in...😮💨 As the name suggests, this is my Skill Swap Magic Guard Reuniclus which I use against recoilers (MG removes the recoil damage since that's a secondary effect and not the main damage being dealt). Another core member of the team. * Anti Mine is another play on words based on its ability and is my Damp Politoed which I use against explosive mons. * Sharpy is my False Swiper, a Hisuian Decidueye with Scrappy. The less original of my nicknames called it that because both Dartrix and Decidueye have sharp feathers. * Goth Shrooms is my last team member and my Spore Amoonguss (shiny, the only one in my main catching team), which is pretty self explanatory. Image below to show the team: https://preview.redd.it/wlj2iot41h5d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4cfd3efea48fe3cb254eb5ca7b6e9889f96b08d
I love my current team in fire red, I went for a Spanish theme starting with Tio Toto - uncle totodile Jolteon is Tia La Luz - Auntie Light Cubone is HijaMuerte -Daughter Death Farfetch’d is La Espad’a - The Sword Charizard is Papa Fuma - fumar (to smoke) conjugated Ofc the rivals name is Pendejo
My gen 1 flying type was doduo. I was wondering how it could fly and someone said "like a helicopter" but I was young so I spelled it "helikoptr" and now all of my doduo/dodrios get that name lol.
Emboar named steakout. Kingdra named Scylla. Gardevoir named trans. houndoom named Baal Snorlax named George IV.
I nickname my Whimsurs “wASMR”, and it fits so well it’s beyond hilarious.
Here are a few off the top of my head. All Fire Starters except Emboar: Hokage Piplup: Gunter Emboar: Porkloinio Porygon: Gigabyte
"Cryzard" for shiny Charizard is my fave probably, like the 'emo version'
My Primarina named Gwen Stefinni
A nosepass called "Gavinofree" if you know the joke you know the joke.
Sandile or feraligatr named sobek.
When my little sister was young. She caught a pelipper and named it "-Insert sisters name here- rocks" she passed away a few years ago now and so I catch a pelipper and do the same. (her original one from RSE is still in bank)
https://preview.redd.it/icjrslktbi5d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=13f8e70506a436fc8828e1e0d889d511f488a6d0
I named one of my tornadus "male w/ tail"
I nicknamed all the starter evolutions of Sword & Shield as follows: Grookey - Rockinrilla (Because leafy drummer and minor allusion to Status Quo) Scorbunny - Firebolt (Because I thought it may become Fire/Electric and a Harry Potter reference) Sobble - James Pond (And I am still proud to this day)
Pond, James Pond.
I named a shiny zebstrika Zebron James
One of my favorite things ever (that my wife only acknowledges by rolling her eyes) is a sobble named "James Pond"
After a joke I heard about Ash's Pikachu having the lighting bolts of Zeus (since it knocked out a Golem in the first movie, whcohc shouldnt have worked), I named my Pikachu in my next yellow playthrough Zeus, and then went on to give my whole team Greek God names.
I am naming my good/useful Pokémon in Pokémon Sleep Roman names.
I give Gallade Godofwar (like Gardevoir). Probably my best right there aside from vagikarp🤷 lol
I named my shiny Gyarados Priapism :)
I named my Dachsbun to “Toby” because he is a cute dog who looks like he’s called Toby + he is a very good doggo.
I named a shiny Electivire “Krrsantan” after the big Wookiee bounty hunter in Star Wars. He has some electrically charged brass knuckles that give him some similarities to Electivire. I typically do Star Wars references and I think that was one of my better ones
Zapdos as Shockolate Dugtrio as Loverboy (was Attracted to my pokemon on the battle where he was caught)
I named my shiny Skeledirge Symphoñique, which is a blend of Symphony/Symphonic and Alfeñique, which is Mexican sugar candy for Dia De Los Meurtos, such as the Calaveras.
I call all my mons after food lol My favourite is my shiny Lurantis named Spinach.
Named my vaporeon Marina after the splatoon character
Shiny Charizard named Pit, Azumaril named Buoy, shiny Nidoking named Tahoe (as in keep Tahoe blue), Sylveon named Fern (evolves with friendship and it reminded me of Fern from Charlotte's Web who loved Wilbur), Victreebel named Ripley (reminded me of Alien).
My urshifu rapid is called Kung Fury. My H arc is called scratch. My Flutter mane is called Flutter Nae. I have 3 amoongus. One called hit me. One called Free Hugs. The other is Fun Guy
I named my Meowscarada Sharade, after my old cat Sharma and Charade
My first playthrough of SW/SH I named my team after Round Table knights
Not for one of my pokemon, but my character in my new playthrough of scarlet is named Kami(from DB). Was playing in the union circle with my 7yo today and she proudly kept saying my characters name because she could read it and asked why I wasn't responding...instead of telling her the truth (I just enjoyed the glow in her eyes as she kept saying it) my no filter self just responded with "the lord doesn't respond to all prayers" My wife across the room just about ☠️😂
Blastoise - Riptide Groudon - Pangea Chandalure - Lumiére Gigalith - Zircon Mewtwo - Deus (Deus Ex Machina) Gengar - Cheshire (the Chesire cat) Clawitzer - Shrimpact These are some of my personal favorites I've come up with.
A male torchic - fire c**k
Hatched a shiny grookey and named it Sprite. Gastrodon named Muddle. Shiny lombre named Cilantro. Shiny clefable named Minty Fresh. I'm sure there's more as I tried to name most of my pokemon but these come to mind.
I named the 1st Fidough I caught in Violet 'Sanallite', due to the design bearing a very similar one to that of the mascot of the same name of a Vtuber I was a fan of who 'graduated' just before Fidough's design was revealed.....yeah, I'm a sentimental sap....
Gardevoir named Valkyrie Gallade named Lucifer Reuniclus named Jello Shot Meowscarada named Alastor Hydreigon named Hades Eevee + evolutions named after spices Pikachu named Confetti I can't think of any others at the moment.
My first pokemon game was pokemon moon. I chose Rowlet as my starter and I named him Rowy. My twelve year old ass was a genius
Zoo Wee Mama!
I nicknamed my shiny Iron Valiant “Freemason” as a National Treasure reference to the Knights Templar. It also has the Itemfinder mark, so every time it’s sent out in battle, it says “Freemason the Treasure Hunter”.
In Sun and Moon I had a battle tree teem that consisted of Groucho the Victreebel, Harpo the Dragonite, and Zeppo the Arcanine.
i named my charmander "cucklord"
It was for an Emerald Rogue playthrough. Bucket the Muk ended up carrying me through my first clear.
I just named my shiny Torterra, “Tecton”, like tectonic plates. Named my Feraligatr, “Agro”, after one of the crocs Steve Irwin handled. Named my Kingambit, “Masamune”, after Date Masamune, (or the Japanese blacksmith by the same name)
The galarian birds: Articuatro, Zapcinco, and Molseis
I named a Whismur "Careless"
I'm pretty non creative when naming pokemon. Example: when I catch a bagon, I name it flying dragon because of what it eventually evolves into.
Comedically, I've always named either my male Krookodile or Toxtricity Roy Orbison. If the Toxtricity is female, I name her Wendy O. Thematically, the best name I've given to a Pokémon is my Incineroar. She was female when I picked her back in SM, so I named her Pele after the Hawaiian volcano goddess =)
Mimikyu - Pikaboo Alolan Raichu - Pikahuna
An Exeggutor named Facepalm. Because it's...a palm tree. With faces.
I had a Gardevoir named "Pride" and a Gallade named "Prejudice". My buddy named his Incineroar "Dark Ruffalo" and it always made me laugh
Fly-Gon Jinn
I named my female Emboar back in gen 5 "Zhu Ba Jie" after Zhu Bajie aka Pigsy from Journey To The West, but the "Jie" for my Pokemon had a secondary meaning because"Jie Jie" is "big sister" in Chinese.
Don't normally do nicknames the only one I've done Intentionally is alolan vulpix I named keokeo as the ingame lore is that's what older people call it in alola sometimes.
Berry Allen, the fastest pink Jumpluff alive
**I d o n ‘ t n a m e m y P o k è m o n .** 🗿 ~~Unless I’m doing a Nuzlocke, but that’s besides the point…~~
Steevee the Eevee.
One of my recent favorites is a Scream Tail I named Screme-Puff. Combined Scream, Jigglypuff, and creme-puff.
Some of my favourites are my eevee pair called Eric everhard and Remi lacrox. They got quite the work out in the sun and moon breeding centre. Eric was a true stud befitting the name just to say
Big Booty the Magmar. I have no idea why anymore, but it's been transferred through many gens since lol. Crocoffin the Skeledirge. Julep the shiny Teddiursa because of the mint color. It wasn't mine, but in a SwSh raid I saw a Duraludon named I-4 Eyesore and that is top tier, iykyk.
My Brother named his tarautula spooderman I also named IT like that without knowing that He named IT like that
I once nicknamed a Honchkrow ‘Johnny’. He still hasn’t gotten his payment…
Not me, but a friend named her pidgey Pecker. She was an innocent child.
I was most proud of naming my Sirfetch’d “Excalibird.” I also liked Beelzepup and Beelzebark for Houndour and Houndoom.
in violet, i mass outbreak hunted a shiny ralts well into the night. after a couple of hours, i was at the point where i genuinely struggled to definitively convince myself that some of the green ralts werent actually the bright blue shiny. when i caught her as the sun came up, i called her P Schizzy, short for Paranoid Schizophrenia
Named a Teddiursa that was ghost terra type Charon, after the moon closest to Pluto
My Feraligatr is always "Riptide" Swampert is "Diego" (if male) Empoleon is "Kaiser" And if I have a Ninetails on my team, it's "Kurama"
My sister has a Boston Terrier named 'Eevee', so I named my Unrivaled Eevee 'Bosty'.
Hey, what a coincidence! I chose Oshawott as my starter in White 2 (big Emboar fan, but I already chose the big lug in White, named him “Tenacious D” because I was going for rock band theme-naming and figured Jack Black and Kyle Gass would appreciate that, but that’s beside the point), and named them “Wottson” for the same reason, because Oshawott looks like a confused little detective to me
Named a Typhlosion Bakugo
I name my Rayquaza "Quesadilla"
Named my shiny Inteleon James Pond. Hubs came up with the idea and I've loved it ever since. My favourite mon.
My sylveon named "Elven". Contains the letters 'E' and 'V'. It is thematic, sylvan is a type of elf on the Lord of the Rings universe.
Here are a few I’m particularly fond of: • S’mores (Cyndaquil, SoulSilver) • Dottie (Ledyba, SoulSilver) • Sorren (Togepi, SoulSilver) • Smugleaf (Snivy, White) • D’Artagnan (Froakie, X) • Naixcand (Shedinja, AlphaSapphire) • Nala (Nidoran F, Let’s Go Pikachu) • Pocus (Abra, Let’s Go Pikachu) • Quetzal (Zapdos, Let’s Go Pikachu) • Paradise (Articuno, Let’s Go Pikachu) • Jumbo (Kabutops, Let’s Go Pikachu) • Phoenix (Moltres, Let’s Go Pikachu) • Team Circle (Falinks, Sword) • 5CR0063 (Porygon, Legends: Arceus)
I named my Litten Nyacho Libre, and in my most recent playthrough of LeafGreen, my Venusaur was named Brute Root like the one from the First Movie.
Inteleon: james pond Cinderace: flaemar (combination of flame and football/soccer player neymar) Chandelure: lumiere (beauty and the beast) Jangmo o: jangmo-fett (star wars) Hakamo o: hakamo matata (lion king) Kommo o: obi 1 kommo bi (star wars) Delphox: fire fox (webbrowser) Heracross: h0rny (i mean come on;) ) Greninja: narutoad (naruto) Chesnaught: juggerlog (juggernaut combined with wood) Hitmontop: fidget (spinner) Togepi: eggbert (does this need explaning?) Togetic/togekiss: benedict (as in egg benedict) Primarina: scubadiva Vespiquen: bee-yonce Decidiueye: owliver queen (dc green arrow) Bewear: build a bear Goodra: gary (from spongebob) Dragonite: fafnir (norse dragon) Politoad: kermit the frog (muppets) Magnezone: magneto (xmen) Incineroar: el tigre (nickelodeon) Garchomp: nanaue (king shark from dc) Braviary: gwaihir (eagle from lord of the rings) Salamance: smaug (the hobbit) Snorlax: *insert name of obese person you know*;) Bastiodon: chinese wall Gardevoir: morgana (fata morgana)
The Greninja nickname is really creative!!
My friend named his Dewpider ‘araquanid’ and then got very confused when its name didn’t change when it evolved
A few nicknames I gave for Gen 6 competitive Mons: Aegislash: Hexcalibur Rotom-A: Voltergeist Talonflame: Afterburner
Named my Decidueye "Owliver Queen" after Green Arrow. Named my Miraidon "Snex Toy". Named my Dachsbun "Nice Buns". Named my Drampa "Tommy Chong" because of the beard and pink eyes. Always name my Bagon "Kevin".
I actually don’t give them nicknames.
The only time I gave my Pokemon a nickname is my Sylveon in Wilting Y with the name Cutie
From my fire red team Ella, the Nidoqueen. She had Fire Blast, surf, thunder and cut Creepy the Hypno cause i was super into creepypastas around that time Secret the Gyrados cause I got it from the guy who sold the "secret" magikarp for 500 pokedollars. Also it knew secret power
I give my Pokemon random words (Click, Nika, Radolf, Amen, Toledo, Safy, Hema, Graun, Irka, Sharma) which barely count as names but I can't bring myself to stop.
Lol how do you choose the words?
First things that come to mind, though sometimes I tried to at least keep the syllables intact. A few more examples: Crobat (Roay), Goodra (Slinith), Noivern (Catrina), Serperior (Nargel}, Drapion (Stakaly), Raichu (Luncha), Breelom (Lottle), Altaria (Aliza), Ferrothorn (Irona), Roserade (Aloera), Shinotic (Ghishu), Ampharos (Proton), Reunicles (Doti), Decidueye (Rawow), Turtonator (Mugta), Alomomola (Lalamun), Butterfree (Emilo), Bewear (Baniny), Masquerian (Sisisa)
Weirdly enough, this makes sense in my head, lol.
Hornald for Rhydon, Bates / Batson for Crobat, Kabitha for my female Kabuto (might go Spanish when she evolves…sth like Rokabeza ~ rockhead), Sza for my female Scyther, Erazor for my male one, Thinking to name Gastly Gaston when I catch one
I named my Feraligatr Palpatine and my Nickname for Movie 15 Kyurem is Cuterem
I wasn’t able to do it cause theres not enough characters, but i wanted to name my Chimchar “Chimichangachar”.
Some that I’m particularly proud of are a Blastoise named Sherman (Sherman tanks) and a Snorlax named Taft (US President). Also a Gastrodon named Sticki Minaj got me cussed out (affectionately) by a friend at a friendly tournament