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Cerberus87 February 8th, 2013 2:46 PM

I"m horrible with nicknames, so I don't really bother.

Caelus February 8th, 2013 11:36 PM

Up until Platinum I never named my starter Pokemon. I always preferred their original name and I didn't want them to go by anything else, but I was in a mood to give my chimchar a nickname in Platinum so I named it Inferhoss, a combination of Infernape and hoss.

RenegadeClyde February 9th, 2013 8:29 AM

I'm pretty bad when it comes to give nicknames to pokémon 'cause I'm not that creative (only sometimes). But I NEVER catch a pokémon without nicknamin' it. (Even the ones I catch just to complete the pokédex) I feel strange when I have a pokémon with its original name (Especially in my party, I feel like I don't like my pokémon. :3 Yep, strange)

I usually use simple 'n fast names, nothing extraordinary. In my first time playing Platinum, I have nicknamed my turtwig "Leaf". '-' In my second time playing it after a year or so, I've nicknamed my turtwig "Leaf 2.0"(I can't choose any other, turtwig is so awesome. :3) I did the same thing with my starly, "Raptor 2.0". '-'

In GSC/HGSS, I've chosen Cyndaquil. In HGSS, It was a female, so I nicknamed it "Cinnamon" XD In GSC, It was a male, so I named him "Xplotaro", a reference to Gold's Cyndaquil/Typhlosion.

JohnnyJ773 February 9th, 2013 11:41 AM

My starter for Heart Gold was Cyndaquil, I named him Nova.

pokemanmdj February 9th, 2013 12:10 PM

I always try to nickname my Pokemon. I love coming up with names.
Named my Chimchar Aaron (Part of some kind of inside joke I honestly don't remember.), my Tirtwig Biosuar, and named my Totodile WetTowel for some reason.

Mr. Whiscash February 9th, 2013 3:21 PM

Named everything Turtwig, including my Piplup, during a FAILED HORRIBLY Nuzlocke run of Platinum.

EvilTotodile February 9th, 2013 5:07 PM

I use nicknames if i can think of a good one. i wouldnt use a bad one for the sake of using a nickname

my first ever pokemon was Fireball the Infernape

Treecko February 10th, 2013 2:59 AM

I never really nickname my starter in Pokemon game cause I prefer keeping it's original name. This was with the exception of my Turtwig in my current Diamond run. It's name is Twigleaf, haha. But other that case and changing the capital letters to lower case, I haven't nicknamed my starter.

RainbowHeart February 10th, 2013 6:13 AM

I named my Turtwig "Leaf" and my Cyndaquil "Fire". :)

Seth Rollins February 10th, 2013 9:27 AM

only my chimchar i nicknamed him "FM" it means fire monkey.

ISNorden February 19th, 2013 11:48 PM

All my Pokémon get nicknames, if only to tell two members of the same species and gender apart. :-) My current team in Pearl, for instance:

  1. Sheldon, a 20th level Grotle who evolved from my starter Turtwig
  2. Spark, a 12th level Shinx captured outside Oreburgh City
  3. Crusher, a 10th level Geodude found on the Ravaged Path
  4. Kiai Dude,an 8th level Machop captured on the road outside Oreburgh
  5. Rosalind, a 7th level Budew spotted in the grass of Floaroma Meadow
  6. Allegretto, a 6th level Starly also found in the meadow


Most of my starter-nicknames are predictable, as you can see from Sheldon's example above...I've named a Torchic "Hot Wings" and a Chikorita "Old Green" in earlier generations. :embarrass But nicknames for my later finds are more inspired--sometimes by the moves they used on me, sometimes by the moves I hoped to teach. (Allegretto, my Starly, was ford of Quick Attack; Crusher's move list consists of Defense Curl and three offensive Rock-type TMs.)

Twiddle February 22nd, 2013 2:15 PM

Yep. Actually, I nickname all of my Pokémon, and the starters are no exception. In my Pokémon Blaze Black 2, my Serperior is called Retrag because Garter backwards.

Inky February 22nd, 2013 2:48 PM

I think I nicknamed my Piplup 'Pingu' once. I'm not a huge fan of nicknaming Pokemon - and it was annoying that I couldn't cancel it!

Jirachi504 February 23rd, 2013 7:36 PM

When I nicknamed pokes I just picked random named like "Jared".

IsaacTwentySeven February 23rd, 2013 7:43 PM

Only Pokemon that I've nicknamed are my Togepi (Heartbreak), Gyarados (VEANGEANCE), and Stantler (FATASSDEER).

Shayminlover123 February 25th, 2013 6:26 PM

Nope. I really liked thier normal names,and im not that creative with names.

StinkomanFan February 25th, 2013 6:29 PM

Of course! I named my Totodile "Napoleon", starting my trend of historically named companions.

PowerArmor34 February 25th, 2013 8:07 PM

I have a tenancy to name my starter something stupid or generic like a name my nickname for my charmander in my first pokemon game was flame :D


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