Nicknames

[Miss Anne Thrope]

I give them all different kinds of names. Made up names, food names, word names.
The one thing I cannot stand when people do is when they name their Pokemon after God/ess figures.

 

[SLITCX]

I usually nickname my Pokemon with my friend's names. I put the ones that I don't like much on the weak HM slaves or ugly ones. And yeah, you should know what I do with the ones I like. :)

 

[Captain Gizmo]

On my FireRed game, I named my Wartortle 'Briseis'. It's from the love interest of Achilles during the Trojan War :)

 

[Starry Windy]

I nicknamed my Pokemon when I got the idea of what the Pokemon will be called, from genders, Pokemon, everything. And sometimes I decided not to nickname my Pokemon. I remember I named my Oshawott in Pokemon White as "Mijuken", inspired from Mijumaru and Daikenki.

 

[curiousnathan]

I don't nickname any of my Pokemon.

 

[abnegation]

This seems more related to the games than Pokémon in general. So I've moved this over to Pokémon Gaming Central.

Moved.

 

[wygar]

hmm, hard to tell, usually i just go with anything that suits said pokemon and i don't really tend to recycle nicknames apart from Nero/Nerus which is, most of the times, the name of my fire starter, if i choose it.

one thing i do a lot though is waiting until i get to the name rater to stop and decide which pokemon i'm gonna use and what are the nicknames i will give them because my playthroughs tend to be too chaotic with no real plan regarding team building and nicknames so i always end up catching A LOT of stuff i'll never use.

plus, i tend to restart as soon as i feel i'm done with the current playthrough so i would be wasting too much time nicknaming everything i catch to end up using what... 20% of them?

 

[Captain Gizmo]

When playing my FireRed game, I actually planned some names according to their genders.

Charizard:
Male: Charizard
Female: Briseis

Blastoise:
Male: ShellShock
Female: Melory

Venusaur:
Male: Bruteroot
Female: Sora