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Do you give your pokes nick names

do you nickname pokes

  • yes

    Votes: 54 60.7%

  • no

    Votes: 35 39.3%
  • Total voters
    89
I usually don't like to give nicknames, but on Pearl I decided to name some after the characters in my stories. xD I try to get matching genders too. There are 10, and also split by elements, like Whassidiah who is the Electric Sovereign etc, soo right now I just have...

Luxray - Whassidiah
Empoleon - Laviennie
Staraptor - Drimorien
Roserade - Kristelina (supposed to be Kristellina but no space... xD)

Nicknaming is fun, but I remember when I used to absolutely hate it and think it useless. I still do, in a way, but I'm nicknaming anyways!
 
TheGreatMothim said:
I love to name mine. its like giving a Dog or cat a name. You just have to.

Mothim - Artemis
Venomoth - Mothra
Dustox - Lance
Scizor - Blade
Masquerain - Terrance
Ninjask - Sasha
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I totally agree!
I give them "real" names that I like, and that suit the individual pokémon.
I like the name Sasha, btw, and Mothra is a great one for a Venomoth! XD Actually, all of yours are nice. I like god/goddess/mythological names as well.

Like, the 3 in my signature I named for my 3 favorite Harry Potter characters because I like those names, and they suit the pokémon. Severus is the black serpent "Sev"iper. Bellatrix is the dark and beautiful Umbreon. And Narcissa is the glamorous, proud, *blonde* Ninetales. x3
Naming just comes naturally to me...if I have 20 fish at any given time, you can bet that each one has its own well-chosen name and that I can tell them all apart! Well, except for the neon tetras. xD

I wanted to share other pokemon names of mine, and why I chose them. Other than the 3 Harry Potters, the ones I'm most proud of are:

Carnivine: Audrey and Petey. (Two guesses! Audrey is a nod to Little Shop of Horrors, and the Audrey II man-eating plant. Petey refers to Mario's pal Petey the Piranha plant. Both remind me of Carnivine and vice versa.)
Manectric: Razz and Citron. (I love Manectric! These two are named for the species' colors. Razz is short for "blue razzberry," a play on blue raspberry, referencing the bright turquoise body. Citron is for the other parts of the body, which can be a yellow-green color, like lemon-lime. I LOVE those colors!)
Jolteon: Taigan (a dog breed that I like, but it's so rare that the name could be used as a name for a beautiful, graceful dog pokemon!)
Glaceon: Tasy (see Jolteon, Taigan)
Suicune: Inga (Dunno why, just like the name and thought it suited the lithe, water-purifying, aurora pokemon who's an incarnation of the northern winds!)
Swalot: Rex (Swalot strikes me as a short, jolly little King--of Diamonds, naturally. Rex is Latin for King.)
Vileplume: Raffi (short for Rafflesia, the plant it's based on)
Tangela: Frykin (obvious reasons, lol)
Vaporeon: Marina
Flareon: Amber
Mantine: Raymond (Ray...get it?), and Mobi (the Manta Ray is part of the genus Mobula)
Houndoom: Lucifer (obvious again)
Whismur: Annette and Evelyn (With the pink body and bands of orangey-yellow it looks like that fish from Spongebob, you know? The one that Larry calls Annette in the lifeguard episode, but that Spongebob calls Evelyn in Band Geeks? Yeah, that one. So I used those names!)
Duskull: Yorrick (Inspired by Hamlet! The thing reminds me of the skull Hamlet holds while saying, "Alas, poor Yorrick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy!" and all that. In the Kenneth Branagh film Yorrick is a really weird-looking guy, so the weird-looking skull is just...perfect.)
Phanpy: Parcheesi (He looks like the blue elephant game pieces in a popular version of this board game.)
Porygon2: Petunia (My favorite flowers are the petunias striped with white and a very vivid hot pink. The hot pink is like the bright fuchsia on a Porygon2, contrasting nicely with its royal blue.)
Glameow: Roxi and Rollie (named for the two Lisa Frank kitties that Glameow kinda reminded me of)
Snover: Daikon and Fir (the type of Radish it's based on, and also the tree it resembles)
Abomasnow: Evergreen (boring..but it's like a snow-covered evergreen tree, so...)
Cresselia: Crescenza (pretty name similar to its own)
Octillery: Tomato (Lolz...just named for the reddish-orange color)
Xatu: Totem
Natu: Fwooper (for the magical bird that comes in bright pink, green, yellow or orange plumage)
Bayleef: Anise (a strong-scented plant/herb)
Regice: Crystal
Whiscash: Channel ('Cause he's a catfish an' I adore catfishies :3)
Torterra: Gardenia (First thing I came up with to express the idea that the environment on its shell is like a little portable garden, with a shady tree and soil and grass and mountain-like rocks and such. Love it.)
Shellos: Carlotta (another convoluted one that does make sense, to me at least. Shellos, and Gastrodon, are based on nudibranchs. One type of nudibranch, seen in Finding Nemo, is a "Spanish Dancer." In one I Love Lucy episode, Lucy fears that a Spanish dancer named Carlotta Romero is going to steal Ricky from her. Hence, I name Shellos, Carlotta.)
Sceptile: Hans (Doesn't it just look like a Hans? ^^;)
Gorebyss: Aquata (One of Ariel's sisters, suitable for a water-type with a mermaid seashell bra!)
Ludicolo: Pinata and Ananas. Ananas is French for pineapple. I didn't know what to call these sombrero-wearing, pinata- and pineapple-looking ducks...so I settled for those. xD
Gardevoir: Solange (French name)
Spoink: Piglet
Cacturne: Selena, & Gordon (I needed a name that captured, for me, some of the stuff that Cacturne makes me think of: scarecrows, cornfields, autumn, pumpkins, apples, the Goosebumps "Scarecrow Walks at Midnight" book, the Are You Afraid of the Dark? Tale of the Silent Servant episode, etc. etc. etc. The only thing I could turn into a name was gourd-->Gordon. :p Selena, just fits a Dark-type.)
Articuno: Windrunner (reference to a somewhat similar creature from The Future is Wild)
Dragonair: Aurore (inspired by the pretty card with the northern lights)
Altaria: Skye
Koffing: Violet (purple...)
Sandshrew: Pangolynne (So silly...it reminds me of a cool animal called a pangolin, so I turned it into a name by making "lin" into Lynne.)
Sandslash: Rattleback (Like Windrunner the Articuno, it's a Future is Wild reference.)
Grotle: Shrubbery (Bad one..I was being goofy thinking about the bushes on his shell and talking like the Knights who say "Nee!" Bring me a shrubbery! XD)
Empoleon: Bonaparte (yep, a nod to Napoleon.)
Cherubi: Cerise ("cherry" in French)
 
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I hate nicknaming my pokemon if i do it is on my old pokemon games and i give them names fromthe anime like:
Pikachu (Sparky)
Charmander (Zippo)
Butterfry (Happy)
You get the picture I basicly call them after Rickies Pokemon. But other than that I don't.
 
I try my best to find nice and fitting nicknames for all my Pokemon. I mean, I wouldn't want to be going around calling other people, "Hey Human, what's up?" It makes each and every one of my Pokemon unique and shows that I care.
Once I forgot to nickname one of my bred/EV Trained Lvl. 100 Pokemon before migrating them, so I rebred and retrained him for the sakes of the nickname. (Yeah, I'm crazy =P)
 
I sometimes. here are soem xamples of what i do:

sceptile:greeny
machamp: girls like me :P (he male!)
 
Of course I nickname my pokes! I feel that anyone who doesn't is simply unoriginal. Not naming your Pokes is like just calling your dog "Poodle," or "Dalmation." What if all of our parents had the same views on naming their children as some of you do with naming your team of Pokemon?

"Eh, I find names stupid. I just call him/her 'kid.'"
 
Sometimes I'll nickname them the Japanese names, if I like them better....
 
I actually forced myself to nickname all the pokemon I catch this time around. ^_^* A few of them(around 5 or 6 of 6 pc boxes full of pokemon) don't have nicknames though, and I think you can't rename pal parked ones, but at least I'm not disappointed by my creativity.

I'm not going to list any because most wouldn't understand them and some of them are just too stupid. xD

100 posts!
 
I played Gold, Crystal, Ruby and soon Pearl(or Diamond) and I never and never will nickname them. They don't deserve the names I'd give them, as I am sure the nicknames would suck raw eggies. I have little problem with the names that they already have. And if Ash, Misty, May or Brock never named them, why should I? :laugh:
 
I sometimes nickname them, but usually only when I'm playing anything before R/S/E. Like in my crystal version, I ended all of my pokemons names with an x. for example, Polix (Poliwrath).

So my answer is a sometimes.
 
I did on Silver...there is a great reason why I never nickname my Pokemon on Emerald and Diamond. And here it is:

Selma - Pidgeot
Reddy - Shiny Gyarados
Milly - Dragonite
Mark - Lugia
Mick - Ho-Oh
Mike - Feraligatr

Oh dear. My Silver's internal battery has died so my Pokemon have died with those names...I can never put through any of my Pokemon through terror like that again.
 
I nickname them. :D I called my Chikorita Olive and my Geodude Flint on BPRPG. :)
 
I nickname my prized Shiny Pokemon only! So far, I've nicknamed 3!!
 
i don't give them nicknames in the games but i do in my head =P
 
of course.

i always give all of my pokemon nicnames. unless i catch them accidentaly, in the safari zone or something. i also cant stand not being able to nickname the pokemon that i get in a trade. sometimes it keeps me from doing the gts.
 
Virtual Headache said:
I usually nickname the Pokémon I plan to use in my team for a longer time.
Some names are random, some are based on their Japanese name.

Empoleon- Stefan
Pikachu- CHuI (I name all my Pichus, Pikachus and Raichus like that)
Roserade- Blumi (the German word "Blume" means flower)
Infernape- Hikki (because of Chimchar's Japanese name)
Staraptor- Mukki (from its Japanese name once again)
Luxray- Kiki
Floatzel- Ken
Togekiss- Jimmy
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Oh my gosh! I named my Luxray Kiki!!! That is too weird!
 
I nickname the Pokemon that aren't so dear to me. I use insanely random nicknames like...

Blissey=Jimulah
Carvanha=Vancarhaha
Sandshrew=Tonxedrin
Meowth=Mentosisou
Drowzee=Toejamlyze.

I could go on with this. These nicknames will be passed around.
 
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