Yes, I plan put my team's names using.... food! EX: "Go Cake!". It's recurring theme in my style of playing pokemon games. It's 'mah thang. Now, would you kindly... answer your own questions? :D
So as the title would poorly indicate...
What do you nickname your pokemon?
If you come up with your team before playing, do you also pre-select their names?
Why did you name your pokemon this?
How do you feel about traded pokemon with nicknames selected?
If you don't nickname your pokemon, wynaut? xD
And anything else you can come up with!
Sure thing.
I nickname my pokemon based on their appearance, moveset, abilities, etc
Yes I do pre-select my names, along with my team :)
Pokemon Emerald Team all Lv. 62 currently
Gem/Swampert In my hack, a "gem" is something different, I won't go into detail however xD
Feather/Swellow Feather, bird, flying, speaks for itself xD
Natural/Breloom Mushrooms come from nature xD
Guardian/Flygon The Desert Guardian, as it guards the desert, I think that's what the pokedex says is one of it's names xD
Voltage/Pikachu Umm, voltage? Means electricity, you know where I'm going with this
Shadow/Absol The Valley of the Shadow of Death, idk, seemed right for a pokemon that shows up to witness disasters, no it doesn't cause them, just comes to watch xD
So long as the traded name isn't something dumb like trollface, or a bunch of symbols %&$& I can mostly deal with traded pokemon, in-game trades have derpy names as KantoSwag said.
I nickname all my pokemon, sounds weird, but I feel more attached to them this way xD