I hate how you can't rename traded Pokemon.

[zaussome]

I'm not too sure if this is the correct place to put this, but does anybody else absolutely hate the fact that you can't rename traded Pokemon? I traded my low-level pokemon for a level 100 Umbreon thinking I got an amazing deal, to find out that it's name is something along the lines of somebody who enjoys homosexual activities. Great. :(

[Shadowthinker]

Yeah i hate it i can't rename my migrated Pokemon

[Burgers Rule]

I totally agree. I have a few Pal Park Pokemon with pathetic names from when I was 7. I think you should be able to rename any Pokemon. But then, you could change your friend's Pokemon's name without permission and that would be a mess. Hmmm?

[Shiny Umbreon]

I totally agree. I have a few Pal Park Pokemon with pathetic names from when I was 7. I think you should be able to rename any Pokemon. But then, you could change your friend's Pokemon's name without permission and that would be a mess. Hmmm?
And he could change it back anyway. =/

[Karonte]

I totally agree. I have a few Pal Park Pokemon with pathetic names from when I was 7. I think you should be able to rename any Pokemon. But then, you could change your friend's Pokemon's name without permission and that would be a mess. Hmmm?

Why dont you just change the nickname before you transfer them?

[El Gofre]

As an example, if you adopted a child and didn't like its name would you call it pete?
I think its to show pokemon get have already been given a name and wouldn't like a new one. They are a bit smarter than regular animals.

[Virtual Headache]

I have no problem with that, because I usually don't use Pokemon I received in a trade for my team.
But if the Pokemon has an inappropriate name I'm not really happy either, I dunno why some people name their Pokemon like that :/

[MissMegano]

I also hate not being able to nickname them. Zaussome, that's really unfortunate. nothing like that ever happened to me, but my friends who I trade with always give their pokes lame names like speedy and razor. and they always wanna get on with it and won't take the time to change the names.

[dabest]

yeh, it just sucks you cant rename em.
This way you got less choise with tradeing, since you dont want one with a real stupid name.

[Michii]

Aww I think you're all over reacting. The fact that you can actually trade with people around the world makes up for the fact that you can't nickname the pokemon.

[Pokemon Professor]

No I think they're right. I'm damn sick of this nicknaming business. So what if you can change the name of your friend's Pokémon? They can change it back and if you're stupid enough to do that, you should be saying you're their friend! Also, if you migrate Pokémon then decide that Pokémon is fit for ev training or you just want to nickname them, there's no way to do it! You can't even trade it back to the GBA games making it worse than just trading on D/P with some loser who calls their Pokémon ridiculous names. Even then though, you should be able to trade and nickname! People, this is a GAME! Who cares about adopting children? Of course, that's real life but THIS IS A GAME! If you suddenly wanted to start calling your cat or dog Bob instead of Pete, who cares?! That's your decision and your problem! WE WANT NICKNAMING FOR EVERY POKéMON IN DIAMOND AND PEARL!

[Superiore]

It is idiotic.

It is stupid how you cant nickname pokemon that werent even nicknamed by the perosn you got them from too.

And it also means you cant nickname events at all which can really be annoying.

Also, I say stuff the nickname rater in real life you could just nickname your pokemon without him too.

Pal Parked pokemon really should be able to be nicknamed if anything.

[Chansey]

yeh, I am also annoyed. I have two level 100s with stupid nicknames which I can't edit :(

[GeneralGuy]

I have an Azelf that I got from the GTS nicknamed "YOUR MOM". Such an immature act.

[Gοяκнaвоii]

:D well, i luv the japanese nicknames... even though i cant read them, i dnt care if its rude in jap... :D cuz i cant understand, and KanJi looks sXc :D

[Burgers Rule]

Youre right, the friend could just change the name back. It is really annoying you can't change the name of Wi-Fi recieved Pokemon because I have a Japanese Weavile and its SO annoying! You're all right. He he.:tired:

[Gilgαmesh]

No I think they're right. I'm damn sick of this nicknaming business. So what if you can change the name of your friend's Pokémon? They can change it back and if you're stupid enough to do that, you should be saying you're their friend! Also, if you migrate Pokémon then decide that Pokémon is fit for ev training or you just want to nickname them, there's no way to do it! You can't even trade it back to the GBA games making it worse than just trading on D/P with some loser who calls their Pokémon ridiculous names. Even then though, you should be able to trade and nickname! People, this is a GAME! Who cares about adopting children? Of course, that's real life but THIS IS A GAME! If you suddenly wanted to start calling your cat or dog Bob instead of Pete, who cares?! That's your decision and your problem! WE WANT NICKNAMING FOR EVERY POKéMON IN DIAMOND AND PEARL!

In that case, you should really tell Ninty that, and there's also no need to exaggerate.

Nicknaming is stupid, in my opinion. I only do it when I have really nothing better to do, and if I feel creative.

I mean, it's just dang names. What purpose do they really serve other than the proper identification of (pokemon here)?

If you got a pokemon that's nicknamed off the GTS, then there's the simple thing of rebreeding it and training it again. It's not hard, really. D:

If it's legends, with the exception of manaphy I suppose, then you're on your own, I guess.

[bloo14]

i got a german alakazam ev trained

his name is simsasala 0_o

[Happiny]

I do think you should be able to rename traded Pokemon. I have had a few trades in the past where I wished I could rename a Pokemon. I don't know, I don't think it would be hard to implement. You can nickname and rename your own Pokemon, why not others?

[Disintegration]

Aww I think you're all over reacting. The fact that you can actually trade with people around the world makes up for the fact that you can't nickname the pokemon.

Even in previous games, you still could not change the nickname of a Pokémon received via trade. So it's not like the feature makes up for this inconvenience.

[Ninetales]

As an example, if you adopted a child and didn't like its name would you call it pete?


Well, you're not likely to change your child's name even if he/she isn't adopted either.

I HATE that silly rule. I nickname absolutely all my Pokemon, but when I get Pokemon in trades, they don't come with a nickname, so I'm stuck with the species name as the "nickname". Keeping a Pokemon with its species name as its nickname is a very strange concept to me...

Not to mention the fact that a person could play a trick on someone by nicknaming their Pokemon really disgusting or offensive names before trading. Or if the person nicknames Kyogre Mew before trading it, you can't use that Kyogre in official battle competitions (you can't have nicknames that are other Pokemon's names) and are stuck because you can't change Kyogre's nickname.

See why it's a stupid rule? In my opinion, trainers should be able to change the nickname of the traded Pokemon, but the nickname the original trainer gave it still is listed on its Summary. ("Original Nickname")

[Tortured_Soul]

lol, definately. I have a Shiny Absol named ANDREW and a Shiny Aggron named Daniel.... o.0;

~M51

[Khayn]

Fairly annoying actually, my friend got a Munchlax in a trade, and it's named "obeasity".. it's not even capitalised or spelt right!
Rebreeding it isn't really an option because he said it's female, and it's bred to have a move he doesn't wanna lose.

[Gilgαmesh]

Fairly annoying actually, my friend got a Munchlax in a trade, and it's named "obeasity".. it's not even capitalised or spelt right!
Rebreeding it isn't really an option because he said it's female, and it's bred to have a move he doesn't wanna lose.

That's why Ditto is there to help. The baby will have the same move the parent has, right?

[Goldenhammerhead]

my friend was an idiot..,,i swear the pokes in his game had to make the entire list of words you cant say on tv...xd

[Waker of Chaos]

A Pokémon's nickname is a reflection of the OT who nicknamed it/him/her. So if you have a Blissey nicknamed "Obesity", the OT either had a sick sense of humor, or was completely stupid.

And since it's not your Pokémon, you have no right to give it/him/her a new nickname.

[Goldenhammerhead]

A Pokémon's nickname is a reflection of the OT who nicknamed it/him/her. So if you have a Blissey nicknamed "Obesity", the OT either had a sick sense of humor, or was completely stupid.

And since it's not your Pokémon, you have no right to give it/him/her a new nickname.

acually....when i was breeding i could not get a bold blissey....so on the 80th egg i decided to quit and named it EGGHEAD in anger...IT WAS BOLD and i havent changed it...lol

[Tortured_Soul]

That's why Ditto is there to help. The baby will have the same move the parent has, right?

No, because the Male Parent passes on the moves, not the female...

~M51

[Team Poison]

No, because the Male Parent passes on the moves, not the female...

~M51

It's like mutation the male carries the mutant gene.

[Pokemon Professor]

Nicknaming is good. It makes your pokemon unique to al he others of the same species in the world. With this new wifi trading online in DP, the nickname idea has changed. I mean, in th past, you're usually trading with a friend and so it's pretty easy to get what you want. What if you wat to search wifi for a perfect natured pokemon so you trade off dozens of bidoofs for starlys and get good natures. Now you can't nickname it.

You can't even nickname your own pokemon that were migrated from GBA games. That's the stupidest part. Like I said already, it's worse than anything else because you have a definite 0% chance of trading it back. Not possible. So Nintendo needs to fix it.

Who cares about respect for the retarded OT? If you get a Pokémon, you want a name for it that you want, right? I mean, if someone traded me a good natured Lickitung and called it PooHead, I wouldn't go "Oh, I should start ev training it now! I don't want to change the nickname! It would be disrespect for the OT!" in fact I would say something more like this: "Damn this retard! I finally get a pokemon fit to be ev trained and it has the worst possible name in the world! If I battle friends with this, they'll think I'm a loon!"

ウールフ the world doesn't just revolve around breeding off pokemon. What if you got a pokemon with 1 or more stats with perfect ivs and the pokemon was a good nature? And then you saw that the nickname was HomoMan. See my point? And if you breed with the retarded ditto, who's to say you will get the same nature and ivs and gender and whatever? And you call yourself a Pokémon Master! You didn't even know that the baby pokemon inherits the father's moves and not the mother's! It inherits the mother's species and 1 or 2 of the father's moves.

Can a moderator maybe add a poll to this topic please? Then we could vote and show how we really feel. We might get somewhere then instead of arguing over which is best. Although honestly, if you could nickname any pokemon, you don't have to. If you want to keep the nickname or have respect for the OT then you don't have to change it's nickname! It's just a feature that's there in case. That's what most of us want. If you DON'T want it, don't use it.

[Monty Kensicle]

I haven't had any problems with the nicknames of Pokemon I've received in trades, some of the names are thoughtful like, Cordelia the Ralts, and Pikachika the Pikachu.

But recently I did receive a Manaphy named, "POOP!"


With all due respect,

~Monty Kensicle

[Pokemon Professor]

Yea, sometimes nicknames are ok e.g. I got a Glameow off the GTS the first time I used GTS and it was nicknamed Paris. But when you decide to change their names or what not, you expect to be able to do it. It's only a game anyway. Like I said before, you should have the means do to it if you do so wish and if you don't agree with it, don't do it. Simple. Plus it's only a game. It's not like real life so who cares about people's names or animal's names in real life? It's a game! You can even change your nickname on some websites and most chatrooms too!

[Gοяκнaвоii]

=] just live with it.
The only thing that buggs me, is the rude nickname people sometimes give their pokemon... the WiFi trade center should have a "censored Nick Remover" so that rude names are reset to their pokemon names =[

and; like, you can view the pokemon summary (i think) before you take the pokemon from WiFi, so well, be smart and check b4 you trade =]

~Gοяκнaвоii (http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=70872)
NekroBoi

[Pokemon Professor]

You're a real genius - not. You CANNOT view the summary of a Pokemon on the GTS making it EXTREMELY ridiculous because its pretty much pot luck. You say just to live with it? You can't be a proper fan... Proper trainers would definitely agree that this feature should be included. In fact, it's more work not letting you nickname every Pokémon!

They could easily send out a patch on WiFi via Myster Gift or something to fix it. Now look at this. To let you nickname every pokemon, the game has to execute code that will do this: Check selected pokemon to be nicknamed, ask if you want to rename, if yes, go to name enter screen.

Simple, eh? But what if it was to stop you from nicknaming pokemon that didn't match your trainer ID and secret ID (which you obviously can't naturally find out the secret ID). The code would do this instead: Check selected pokemon to be nicknamed. If trainer ID and secret = player trainer ID and player secret ID, ask if you ant to rename, if yes, go to name enter screen.

Now that may sound weird but I don't know what programming language they do Pokémon in and I can gurantee I won't know it so I can't really write that out as proper code plus I don't know what THEIR variables are.

Anyway, that's it. If they remove the 'if' parts for checking to see if the trainer and secret IDs match the current player's IDs, the problem is solved. It's that easy and I doubt they've made it much more complicated.

FINALLY, like I've said lots already. Stop complaining. If we want it, we have a right to want it. If it was patched, you don'thave to take advantage of the patch. Use it if you want, don't use it if you're not happy with using it. That way, it's available if you want it but if you don't want it, you're not spoiling it for evryone else who wants it because it's in the game - you just don't have to use it!

[Pieandcowz]

I'm not too sure if this is the correct place to put this, but does anybody else absolutely hate the fact that you can't rename traded Pokemon? I traded my low-level pokemon for a level 100 Umbreon thinking I got an amazing deal, to find out that it's name is something along the lines of somebody who enjoys homosexual activities. Great. :(

I know what you mean.. Their are a lot of pedophiles/homosexuals who play this game trying to lure children over the game to go to their there house to to have them go to theirs. Its scary.

[Pokemon Professor]

Er... I guess you could say that. I mean, people do all sorts of things with it - I guess some total sickos might have those ideas...

[Burgers Rule]

This gives me a thought. I have an Electivire called Thunderguy, a Wailord named Bob, and a Moltres named Flames. Sheesh.

[shalashaska]

i have a miltank called moo-moo, but usually im not a big fan of nicknaming pokemon or trading for nicknamed pokemon

[kohei]

I don't mind nicknamed Pokemon myself.
If it's a trade, I'll simply ask for a nickname change before the trade, and if it's the GTS, I search for "normal" trades.
(From my experience, unbalanced trades are usually done to annoy people by sending them hacked Pokemon with bad names.)

I myself send Japanese nicknamed Pokemon on GTS, and feel happy when I get an English nicknamed Pokemon in return.

[KNIGHT_OF_ARCEUS]

You're not the only one who hates that

[Color Me Evil]

Agreed, especially since I got traded a Castform nicknamed Ink Fart. >.<

I hate nicknaming them. I used to do it in R/B/Y but then I realized how annoying and irritating it is since you can't see them in the boxes like in later generations.

[KNIGHT_OF_ARCEUS]

I think some of the name of the ingame traded pokemon are annoying

[EmpoleMew]

Lol, I'm pretty sure someone out there who has my Vespiquen and Weavile is wishing for a name change. Most of my nicknames are lame, but I still do it because every Pokemon deserves to be called something other than its species name.I'm pretty sure those two people are hating "HoneyBuggy" and "Dark Ice". However, when people go around on GTS with names like "YOUR MOM" and something that should be censored, its annoying. The nickname/EV training predicament doesn't apply to me as I'm one of those people who don't EV train, but I'd gladly forget about any Pokemon that had a bad nickname. AS much as it'd pain me, I'd even release a rare event Pokemon like Manaphy if it had a very inappropriate nickname. If you ask me, the GTS should have that filter program that reverts any inappropriate nickname back to species name. I don't care how difficult it may be, its neccesary.

And with that, POW! I'm gone!

[Burgers Rule]

When you do Pal Park, it's very annoying to recieve a Pokemon with a horrible nickname, and what kind of fool nicknames a legendary. Also, I got a Japanese Weavile and I wish I could turn its name to English. It's sort of annoying.
Another thought is if you could rename your trainer. If you give the game away, maybe the person wants a new name. Plus, I know people who nicknamed their trainer (and rival) words I'd get banned here for repeating...

[Drakorn]

I don't mind it. It prevents people nick naming it when you're not on your DS. That is my opinion anyways. I do understand the hating of the nicknames since you can't change it once it has been traded to you.

[smile!]

In Johto I think, a man said that you can't change the name of traded Pokemons because it reflects the owner's feeling for that Pokemon. But yeah, Mimien is not a good name, and so's not Mahit.

[deco11]

the ingame nicknames are quite bad in my opinion.

i got an azelf called CREFFOLET, and a mesprit called CREFADET.
i just like the species names.

i dont mind a piplup called PINGU but HAIRY the heracross annoys me

[Rekhyt]

Meh, I got a Lugia named 'Angasso', whatever that means... I don't mind, really, all it is is a dislpay name... It's not a crisis if you can't rename traded Pokemon...

It's also to stop theft, I think... If you were to steal your friend's game in the olden days of B/R/Y/G/S/C/R/S/E, you could trade your friend's Pokemon to your game, and without a nickname there would no proof that you took it.

[The Overlord]

If this really matters, use Action Replay with Pokesav and walla! :D

[deco11]

yeah but it changes the OT to ? ? ? ? ? i think.

but it really doesnt matter that much to me.

[sims796]

A Pokémon's nickname is a reflection of the OT who nicknamed it/him/her. So if you have a Blissey nicknamed "Obesity", the OT either had a sick sense of humor, or was completely stupid.
Well, I wouldn't be as bold to say a "sick" sense of humor. It's a game. They don't take it as seriously. Stupid sense of humor, maybe. Immature would be a better word.

And since it's not your Pokémon, you have no right to give it/him/her a new nickname.

Not my pokemon? No right? It's a game! Not real life. Just bits of data. I enjoy nicknaming my pokes. When I got a great Miltank from Samson, I was upset to realize I couldn't rename it, as it was on my original team.



In that case, you should really tell Ninty that, and there's also no need to exaggerate.
She wasn't really exaggerating. That's something that eats up at a person.
Nicknaming is stupid, in my opinion. I only do it when I have really nothing better to do, and if I feel creative.

I mean, it's just dang names. What purpose do they really serve other than the proper identification of (pokemon here)?

If you got a pokemon that's nicknamed off the GTS, then there's the simple thing of rebreeding it and training it again. It's not hard, really. D:

If it's legends, with the exception of manaphy I suppose, then you're on your own, I guess.

I enjoy nicknaming. It isn't so hard to allow me to nickname traded pokes.

Besides, not everyone likes breeding. Or is able too. That Miltank I have has Ice Punch.I can't pass that off in breeding. & They shouldn't have to breed. They paid their 30-something dollars just like everyone else.


Aww I think you're all over reacting. The fact that you can actually trade with people around the world makes up for the fact that you can't nickname the pokemon.

Not at all. That wasn't a great feature- it's one that they NEEDED to add. They dang well better give us wifi. Or else it isn't really worth buying. And this isn't a hard feature to make, renaming traded pokes. It was just an oversight.


As an example, if you adopted a child and didn't like its name would you call it pete?
I think its to show pokemon get have already been given a name and wouldn't like a new one. They are a bit smarter than regular animals.

Once again, it is a game. You cannot compare it with an actual adoptive child. It's a video game that cost around $30, that I can return for Gamebucks when I'm bored. No, they are not smarter, since it is a game..

[Narumaru]

It's is the worst thing in the game to me.

[Lumine]

I agree and they better fix this for the next gen (if they're making one)