[B2/W2] What did you name yourself,your rival and your pokemon?Why?

[Za_Destroyer]

Myself: Star
My Rival: Exodus

I don't usually nickname my Pokemon...

[Enma00]

I called myself Enma, i think it's a nice name for the female trainer
And my rival it's Max, i called him like that because when i was starting my game i was with my friend max bothering me and i decided to put that name to bothering him back xD
I nickname my pokemons based on other games characters like Catherine, .Hack// and Eternal Sonata.

[Revgadon]

Named myself Orion to resemble the star constellation.
Named my rival Thunder because of his personality and hair.
Now, for my 6 pokemon in my current team..

Samurott - Zelott (Dunno why, just came out with that name at the time)
Raticate (HM Slave) - Fatslave (Why not? ;D)
Unfezant - Vexis (Came up with the name)
Umbreon - Nevis (Came up with the name)
Flygon - Dragbaws (as in, Dragon Boss. :3)
Lucario - Rokusho (Medabots reference xP)

[Syncai]

I named my character danika (real name) though I wish I hadn't as the memory link is a bit weird haha.
Rival; hugh because I am a lazybutt
My current team;
samurott - Callahan (aw yea for giving girls guy names and it is a kickass name)
Black kyurem - Tsallo (play on 'Sallow')
Garchomp - Czello (I love cellos and the 'cz' prefix)
Latios - Brent (love the name)
and i couldn't name genesect and zoroark.

Not sticking with this team though, will swap it all around when I get my team from black!

[Brendino]

I named my character Brendan, just like I have in all of the other games since it's my actual name. I also kept the trend of giving my rival their default name (Hugh, in this case). I chose Snivy as my starter and nicknamed it Tarja, as that's the second half of it's Japanese name. I try to nickname all of my Pokemon aside from legendaries, but I've only recently started, so I only have my Snivy at this point.

[PiemanFiddy]

I named my character Rene (my irl name) as weird as it is XD

I kept my Rivals default name (Hugh) since I think it fits him, and he's a really cool guy :D

As for my Pokemon Team (I play White 2):

Serperior (Ivy) - Yeah totally an original name XD.
Weezing (Gassy) - A Tribute to one of my favorite 'creatures' on youtube.
Wailmer - No nickname because he was given to me in a trade. :3
Gigalith (Adamantium) - Yet another tribute to a movie I love. (X-Men)

I still plan on getting an Axew and a Litwick on my team. Don't know what I'll nickname them yet, but that's all I've got

[Detwak]

Myself: Dude my nickname on another Forum.
Rival: Ele a friend of mine from another Forum

Female Sewaddle: Jamez cause well its Jamez
Male Mareep: PorkChop, ooh the irony
Male Riolu: Naruto cause he looks like Naruto and a Ninja
Male Magby: Super M, named after the legendary cooldrink

[haxorusraxorus]

I named myself Ethan, because well that's my name. I named my rival Hugh because I was lacking ideas and profane nicknames died in...oh who am I kidding they're still kinda funny. My pokemon had no central theme, but my Samurott was named after my past water-starters, my Sawsbuck was Bambi, my female Grumpig was Ms. Piggy...pretty much the only notable nicknames.

[The_Consumer]

Myself: I named myself Thomas because that's my name.

Rival: ...Newman? I don't fully know why xD I think I saw that name somewhere and thought, yeah, that's a great name for my rival in the new Pokemon game!

Pokemon: I don't usually give Pokemon nicknames because I like the original names better :p when I do give nicknames though they're usually something that will have some kind of affiliation with what the Pokemon looks like i.e Ghost for Dusknoir, etc. Also maybe just aaaaa or something like that if I'm getting Pokemon I'll hopefully never use.

[JayTheKing]

I really love all your unique name guys.
I want to update mine:
I added:
Umbreon-Lunyx(Luna-moon in latin nyx-night in latin)
Roselia-Alice(I really love that name)

[SuperChobot]

Name: Josh (IRL name)
Rival: Hugh
Pokemon nicknames:
Samurott: AquaKnight
Gengar: Phasma
Flygon: Draco
Arcanine: Franklin (Because "Why not?")
Scrafty: Piledriver
Metagross: Beast (Wish I could change it)

[Twilight-kun]

Myself: Mei/Kyouhei
Rival: Hue
Pokemon: Named after book characters

[synerjee]

I named myself with my both own name (White 2) and Kyouhei (Black 2), my rival always as Hugh and my Pokemon:

Samurott: Mizu - Japanese for 'water'.
Lucario: Aura with a star symbol behind it - It's an aura user and it is my star Pokemon.
Hydreigon: Hydra - Well, a hydra has many heads, and so does Hydreigon.
Darmanitan: Darmi - Couldn't find a better name for it lol.
Crobat: Sora - Japanese for 'sky'.
Eelektross: Elexa - I just liked the sound of that name, plus I had not many name ideas as well.

Yeah, very original names there huh? Haha. There were just 5 characters for renaming in the Japanese version; not much to fit in there.

[FiyahKitteh]

Characters
~ Myself: kitteh - My name shortened
~ Rival: Rucky - Used to be my 'friendly rival'. His name is actually Lucky, but I always called him Rucky


Pokémon
I named all my Pokémon after friends of mine and picked them according to personalities.
They obviously evolved, but I wrote down what they started out as. The gender-signs are actually part of the names! =O

Main Team
~ #001 - Bisasam / Bulbasaur: Slimmie - My BF SlimKirby
~ #016 - Taubsi / Pidgey - BstlyNima - My dearest friend ThePastaKing
~ #058 - Fukano / Growlithe - Scoots - My best friend PraisedScooter
~ #131 - Lapras - Thomal - My friend Thomal9
~ #133 - Evoli / Eevee - Mega - My buddy MegaFreak400; evolved to #135 - Blitza / Jolteon

"Interchangables"
~ #010 - Raupy / Caterpie - Cendril - After my buddy Cendril89
~ #019 - Rattfratz / Rattata - Ceptor - After RCCeptor5665
~ #025 - Pikachu - Kyoji - After my friend KyojiK
~ #035 - Piepi / Clefairy - MissAuty - After my friend GaiaCrusher9
~ #074 - Kleinstein / Geodude - D-Pat - After my buddy XxDragonballZx4X
~ #083 - Porenta / Farfetch’d - emcee - Actually named DUX, but inofficially named after my friend McGooglian
~ #092 - Nebulak / Gastly - Nerdsi - After my special friend NerdsRI (We always say he is my son)
~ #095 - Onix - Mr. Eric - After my buddy ShadowMarioXLI
~ #096 - Traumato / Drowzee - Popo - After my buddy DarkMindedSith
~ #107 - Nockchan / Hitmonchan - TK - After my best friend OnlyToukleth
~ #143 - Relaxo / Snorlax - Eshi - After my friend BountyHunterAquxDP
~ #138 - Amonitas / Omanyte - IceBergR - After my friend IceBergRedux
~ #144 - Arktos / Articuno - SN - After my friend SN (No channel yet)
~ #145 - Zapdos - PTM - After my friend PowerToMario
~ #147 - Dratini - Tamirel - As wished by my friend BadOmenProphet

[Serperion]

Me: Tython (I can't fit in Tythonicus so meh...)
Rival: Blue (Always the rivals name never changed)
POKEMON - I name all my pokemon after one of their moves
Serperior: Giga Drain
Arcanine: Fire Blast
Lucario: Aura Sphere
Jellicent: Surf
Unfezant: Fly
Krookodile: Earthquake

[Plasma Prince N]

I always nickname myself Danny, since that's my actual name. My rival is nicknamed Eddie, after my boyfriend (he did the reverse in his game- named himself Eddie and his rival Danny). Just sort of a fun thing we decided to do.

My team is named after different Greek names, since I wanted to go with a theme for their nicknames. My team is-

Emboar "Erebus"
Lucario "Antaeus"
Ampharos "Theia"
Sigilyph "Aether"
Haxorus "Cronus"
Hydreigon "Kratos"

The names themselves don't make much sense, but they kind of fit in their own way. I enjoy coming up with different themed nicknames, haha.

[Zozma]

My main Pokemon character is always named Scarlet. I already forgot what I named the rival, honestly. And my pokemon are all named One - Whatever the last number is that I caught. (So my Oshawott was named One, my Sewaddle Two, etc). Except the Nincada I caught in the Dream World. I named him Ninki because my Nincada is always named Ninki.

[Pokestick, good times.]

Myself: Mei (because to hell with Rosa)
Rival: Hue (again, going with the Japanese name, hahaha)

Samurott: Kensei (means swordsmanship master; I ended up thinking a lot about nicknames in this game I guess. Gotta make all interesting and fitting)
Lucario: Reiki (aura-related shizz)
Aggron: Smasher (because hell yeah Head Smash)
Crobat: Nightwing (probably the weakest name in the bunch. It doesn't even know any dark attacks. Though it's a better name in of itself than AcroBat)
Flygon: Sirocco (because hell yeah desert stuff)
Chandelure: Lumiere (can't use accents in Pokémon games. :( )

[Lumenos]

Self: Allen (Name IRL)
Rival: Eric (My cousin's name)
Pokemon:
Motochika the Samurott
Hideyoshi the Darmanitan
Masamune the Braviary
Kiyomasa the Haxorus
Ranmaru the Lucario
Motonari the Lilligant

All of them are named after the Warlords in Pokemon Conquest which they have a Perfect Link with, except for Darmanitan (but Hideyoshi is the only major Fire-type Warlord) and Liligant (same with Motonari, only main Grass-type Warlord)
Generally, my nicknames follow a pattern or theme. I am always Allen, rival is always Eric, and Pokemon have Asian-themed nicknames.

[SagaTheTrainer]

I named myself Saga ( It´s a me! o3o )
I named my rival Drakan ( It´s an old, childhood friend )
I named my Snivy "Oregano" cause it´s tasty and flavorish!

[ThatIceman]

Myself : Ethan DONT ASK WHY

Rival : Kanto [idk i just love kanto]

Pokemon : Tepig name : PIGGY reason : i love pigs :3

[Eurydice]

in my white 2 game:
My name: Eury
Rivals name: Black
and i dont have nicknames for my pokemon i might give them nicknames later but i doubt it.

[HaloSonic]

I named my female character Mei, my rival Hugh, and my tepig Pokey. why Pokey? why not?

[ThatSuperHappyCloud]

name: Raven(the name i use for everything BUT PC)
rival: Crow(another bird)

team:
midnight the umbreon, obvious
starbright the espeon, again obvious
Gasman the weezing, obvios but also a name from a book that has a guy who farts alot :3
Sparklez the ampharos, after the ampharos in the anime
Nel the flygon, its eyes remind me of the goggles of a anime charecter called Nel
mr pringle the male jellicent, it looks like the pringle guy to me

[Rewy]

Player name: Wyn
Rival name: Ivan

Snivy - Verde
Riolu - Kia
Trapinch - Gem
Vulpix - Nova

I didn't name my last 2 pokemon, because I use them quite often

Walrein - Sif is my usual default for it, since I end up with a female...
Drapion

For hilariosity's sake my boyfriend named his Black 2 characters like this
Player name: Sergei
Rival name: Andrei

_{(Reference to 00Gundam...)}