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champagnepapi January 19th, 2011 4:44 PM

Do you value nicknames?
 
Since the Pokemon games came out, we had the ability to nickname our catches,
giving them a more personal feel. What is your take on nicknames? Does the nickname feature make you feel more attached to your pokemon, which are really just data, or do you find it childish and unecessary? Personally, I've lost zeal for it, I usually nickname my two best Pokemon with something generic like "Blaze" or "Slash", unless it's a special occasion like a Nuzlocke Challenge.

vaporeon7 January 19th, 2011 4:46 PM

I only do nicknames if I feel like it. I always use nicknames when I'm doing a challenge.

Christopher January 19th, 2011 4:53 PM

I'll nickname my Pokemon if I feel the need to,though I usually end up with 1-2 nicknamed pokemon and the rest of my party just has species names.If the urge strikes me to nickname my entire party I most generally have a theme I.E Characters from Movies,Books,Video Games or Mythology.

Spacial Sage January 19th, 2011 4:57 PM

Always. It makes me feel closer to them and less like they're mindless drones.

Sydian January 19th, 2011 4:59 PM

I name everything and I love all my names. Like Pants the shiny Arbok. She's great. :D

mikey January 19th, 2011 5:06 PM

I hardly ever nickname my Pokemon to be honest, only once in awhile.

Hoppip January 19th, 2011 6:01 PM

I rather like nicknames, they make me more attached to my Pokemon.

NightOfRemorse January 19th, 2011 9:58 PM

I used to nickname all of my Pokémon when I first got Ruby. I've since stopped doing that, but when I decided to open my old file again and just look at my Pokémon, guess what I found? A Rhyhorn with the nickname "Horny". I was like WTF IS THIS??? I can't believe I seriously named it that. Oh gosh. xD

Sydian January 19th, 2011 11:24 PM

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I used to nickname all of my Pokémon when I first got Ruby. I've since stopped doing that, but when I decided to open my old file again and just look at my Pokémon, guess what I found? A Rhyhorn with the nickname "Horny". I was like WTF IS THIS??? I can't believe I seriously named it that. Oh gosh. xD
GURL I HAD ONE TOO OMG. I had a Rhyhorn named Horny on my Sapphire looog ago in 6th grade (so I was like 11?) and my friend was looking through the boxes in my PC and she was like "SYD DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS" I was so embarrassed. I renamed the Rhyhorn Conifer...she's (yeah...a girl named Horny, it was great) on my Emerald now. But eeee I'm glad I'm not the only one who did that. v_v

Lord_Storm January 20th, 2011 7:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Sydian (Post 6408283)


GURL I HAD ONE TOO OMG. I had a Rhyhorn named Horny on my Sapphire looog ago in 6th grade (so I was like 11?) and my friend was looking through the boxes in my PC and she was like "SYD DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS" I was so embarrassed. I renamed the Rhyhorn Conifer...she's (yeah...a girl named Horny, it was great) on my Emerald now. But eeee I'm glad I'm not the only one who did that. v_v

LOL. I opened up my platinum this morning and went into the box, remembering I was trying to make my boxes filled with a live pokedex, and found 'Horny' the Heracross, 'Horny' the Rhydon and 'Horny' the Vespiquen, (Dont ask about the last one).

Morgnarok January 20th, 2011 9:14 AM

I have never liked giving my pokemon nicknames and i don't think i will ever give one a nickname.

champagnepapi January 20th, 2011 9:55 AM

@all the horny people.
I used to give any Pokemon I recruited on Mystery Dungeon, and never got around to using, some childish name or
a random scramble of letters. One day I was looking through the Chimecho Assembly, and found some Pokemon like "Stinkyguy the Phanphy",
"Abcdelfoop" the Regigigas, etc. I found a Rhyhorn as well and my eyes widened when I found it's nick to be "Horny".
A few moments later, I realized it was named "Honry" and that I spelt it wrong, I lol'd for about an hour.

Haberdasher January 20th, 2011 4:59 PM

I nickname all of my Pokemon, though many of them are generic or uninspired. I'm pretty sure I've had a Rhyhorn named Horny myself back in the day.

GlitchCity January 20th, 2011 5:20 PM

You will find nicknames really rare on my games. I believe the last nickname I gave my pokemon was to an Electrike. I named it Bluerike because it was my first shiny pokemon and I felt that it deserves a nick name :D

PlatinumDude January 20th, 2011 5:48 PM

I don't value nicknames as much because I don't nickname my Pokemon. I might nickname them when I get B/W.

NightOfRemorse January 22nd, 2011 7:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Sydian (Post 6408283)


GURL I HAD ONE TOO OMG. I had a Rhyhorn named Horny on my Sapphire looog ago in 6th grade (so I was like 11?) and my friend was looking through the boxes in my PC and she was like "SYD DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS" I was so embarrassed. I renamed the Rhyhorn Conifer...she's (yeah...a girl named Horny, it was great) on my Emerald now. But eeee I'm glad I'm not the only one who did that. v_v

LOL. My friends like to tease me about it too. But it seems many people here also named their Rhyhorns Horny xD Poor Rhyhorn. All the other Pokémon make fun of him/her for being horny.

Eurydice January 22nd, 2011 7:17 PM

i really like nicknames but alot of times i cant think of anything good to name them so i wait. the only one i really like is my pidgeot named saljane

solarowl January 22nd, 2011 8:05 PM

I like nicknames, but I don't find myself giving nicknames much. :/

Purple Materia January 22nd, 2011 8:22 PM

I love nicknames, but I lack originality and the ability to give good ones, so I just don't even bother.

saint paxton January 22nd, 2011 9:36 PM

I always want to nickname my pokemon, but I have trouble thinking of good names.

I used to have a Ralts named kyle.

FrostPheonix January 23rd, 2011 1:10 AM

i dont care much for nicknames. I keep them the name they have, or if their names suck, then i just put the name of them in another language.

JackGamer January 23rd, 2011 2:56 AM

Nicknames make me feel 'closer' to my Pokemon, I love it ^__^

Kikaito plush January 23rd, 2011 3:21 AM

I only nickname my in-game team and online battling team.

I don't really like nicknames much

Daydream January 23rd, 2011 3:42 AM

I generally do nickname my Pokemon, I prefer that more personal touch it adds to my game. Sometimes they relate to the species/type e.g. "Marsha" the female Feraligatr (I thought I was clever) or other times they 're just completely random, e.g. "Mabs" the female Clefable. o_o

Futachimaru January 23rd, 2011 4:07 AM

Um, I have a Ryperor called Horny girl, she has horns and she is a girl so therefore is she a horny girl =p. I used to name my Poemon after the girls I had a crush on =p


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