Do you give your Pokemon themed nicknames?

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Sean Hollyman

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I mean, do you give them nicknames based on other characters that suit their looks or abilities. I have quite a lot of JoJo Pokemon!

Reuniclus- D4C. The rabbit-like look, and it's use as the Trick Room guy on my team seems to fit nicely.

Panogro- Jotaro. He kind of reminds me of Jotaro so I named him it.

Machamp- Star Platinum. Again, just seemed to fit. And whenever he uses Dynamic Punch I can imagine him shouting ORAORAORAORAORA! In my head.

Tyranitar- Wham. Powerful, bulky and causes Sandstorms.

Garchomp- Yoshikage. Destruction, pure and simple.

Dusknoir- The World. It floats, and looks quite muscular. Best fit I could find!

Blaziken- Magicians Red. It's a flaming, fighting bird!




Also:
Excadrill- Gurren Lagann
Scizor- Ryuko
Greninja-Senketsu
 

go-10

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currently in my team:

Blaziken - Nukebird
Mewtwo - Carrots
Lucario - Potato
Luxray - Starfruit
Garchomp - Grapes
Kangaskhan - Burger

I think I mostly name them after food for some reason... I love food, it tastes good :)
 

Aerosteam

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How did you fit some of those names you gave when there is a ten character limit of pokemon nicknames?

Anyway, as someone who catches every single species you can encounter in the games owned and give all of them a nickname while trying not to have doubles, I'll be here writing a post for ages. I'll just give you the nicknames of the pokemon in my team of the games I've completed everything I could in.
Sceptile - Woodzy
Gardevoir - Diantha
Breloom - Peach
Flygon - Xander
Salamence - Iris
Gyarados - Airman
Blastoise - Donnel
Vaporeon - Blue
Dragonite - Flair
Articuno - Mordecai
Zapdos - Raiden
Moltres - Marcus
Samurott - Revolver
Excadrill - Cave
Eelektross - Watson
Archeops - Archie
Darmanitan - shofu
Zekrom - Rom Hack
Typhlosion - Cindy
Togekiss - Cirrus
Jolteon - Tesla
Lapras - Ness
Dragonite - Lancelot
Lugia - Ryujin
Empoleon - Linux
Lucario - Lucas
Garchomp - Mayhem
Glaceon - Dimitri
Rotom - Edison
Giratina - Tartarus
 

Artina89

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Here is my current Soulsilver team:

Feraligatr: Vezina
Pidgeot: Tretiak
Gengar: Dryden
Raichu: Esposito
Venusaur:plante
Poliwrath: P Roy

The theme I have gone for are players in the hockey hall of fame, my current party are named after famous goalies. My team in Pokemon Y are named after the New York Rangers 1994 Stanley cup winning team:

Blastoise: Leetch
Delphox: Kovalev
Snorlax: Richter
Gyrados:Norstrom
Talonflame: Messier
Lucario: Zubov

It is probably pretty dumb, but that is my current theme at least.
 

Scarim Coral

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For me it's basically cool sounding names (in my view) that is somewhat related to that Pokemon like eg-

Tyranitar- Tyrant
Greninja- Shinobi
Typhlosion- Wild Fire
Feraligatr- Gator

Ok granted not all of the cool names are related like also eg-
Garchomp- Nemesis (I based Tyranitar more from Tyrant from Resident Evil so Nemesis is from Resident Evil 3.)
Scizor- Striker
Tyranturm- Emperor (originally it was Grimlock but several people used that nickname already so I wanted to nicknamed it "King" but not the word king itself.)
 

Sosa Star

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I only tend to give mt grass type starter a flower name, but I will admit that the first time I played Pokemon Blue, my sister and I giggled as we named Cubone 'Boner'.
 

Lilani

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I named my charmander starter Frosty. I also named my female gyarados Honey. I like a bit of irony in my nicknames.
 

Foolery

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I'm awful at naming Pokemon. My Bulbasaur was named Garlic, because I think it looks like he has a garlic bulb stuck on his back. I named a Squirtle, Shark Bait, and a Mankey, Ape Shit.
 

Jolly Co-operator

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I usually try to do puns. The cornier, the better. Seriously, I want people to literally groan when they read them.

Koffing = Chernoball

Skarmory = Excalibird

Etc.

If I can't think of a pun, try to pick names based on a trait listed in the Pokemon's Pokedex entry. I used to do mythological figures, but I've started to feel that that's a little impersonal, since the names are so ubiquitous . . . yes, I'm weird like that.

Now that OP has mentioned that Pangoro looks like Jotaro, I can't un-see it! (0_0)
 

Blow_Pop

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It's really whatever I'm feeling when I start the game. I did a game for Yellow that I wanted to be as immature as possible with names so you can imagine what my pokemon were (I honestly can't remember all of them at this point).

With Black 2, all my pokemon either have names of the elements or of red vs blue characters. And I named my starter after one of my best friends just because.
 

Fiz_The_Toaster

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But of course!

In Black 2 I named all my Pokemon after Firefly characters, and then promptly weep a bit when one of them gets knocked out of a battle.

At the moment, all my Pokemon in X are named after some of my bros in the Brovengers chat. Daystar being my starter, Delphox, Andy Shandy is Charizard, TimeLord is Fearow, EeveeElectro is Kadabra, Sassafrass is Gogoat, and Binnsy The Funslinger is Lucario.

When I eventually play the remakes of Ruby and Sapphire I will probably name them something else. Don't really have a clue yet.
 

NeutralDrow

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My entire run of Black 2 was a Negima reference. Starting with my character and the rival being named after Chao Lingshen, and ending with pokemon named

Setsuna (Samurott)
Asuna (Excadrill)
Ayaka (Lilligant)
Kuu Fei (Lucario)
Kotaro (Umbreon)
Negi (Audino...and yes, he always has Attract)
 

Guffe

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I usually make a theme when I decide to have a runthrough and nickname the mons.
Last time I gave them LiverpoolFC player names, sometimes it's foods, colours or maybe close friends names.
Nothing very exciting.