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What kind of nicknames do you use?

well...

i usually name my pokemon random names...or really funny names. mostly i just name them for what they look like. heres my key:

pokemon that have long bodies, ex milotic: wiggles
human shaped pokemon: steve or bob
scary looking pokemon: baby eater
muscular pokemon: shankums
cat pokemon: melon cat or dunecat

i have tons of more names but i think you get the point.
oh and delibird (own category): santa
 
I named my quagsire Quashie.
This is because there is a football (soccer) player named Quashie that looks like a quagsire
 
In the past I only nicknamed some of my Pokemon. Then I started naming Pokemon after Pokemon I created, or after Digimon. (I remember having three Jumpluff in Silver nicknamed Leafmon, Palmon, and Vegiemon...) I also named them after other fictional characters, such as Voldemort for Noctowl. Then I named a Muk Yesenia, after a girl I hated in school. And I picked silly names, like OUCH!! for Pinsir and ??? for Gastly. Some trends I have nowadays with picking nicknames are:

-Never use all capital letters. I used to do that, but recently stopped...
-I tend to use a lot of foreign language names, usually that are pretty apporpriate for what they are. Like Haganiwa for Aron (which indicates its type, Steel/Rock) and Luchadora (wrestler) for Makuhita.
-Sometimes my nicknames are slightly random. Such as Pufflet for Chansey, Sunny Dee for Torchic, Neko for Abra (xD), Foxy for Zubat, Fresa for Lotad (strawberry?!?), etc.
-Sometimes I still name Pokemon after famous people or fictional characters... Such as Deatheater for Banette, Sigmund for Ralts, and Robin for Taillow.
-Other times I just pick names that are appropriate, like Snippety for Kingler, Aurine for Vaporeon, Oak for Seedot, Dotty for Ledian, and Duckfire for Magmar.
-And now I nickname every single Pokemon I catch. I wish I could nickname the Pokemon I get in trades, but...
 
I used hardly ever nickname my Pokemon, but these days, I always nickname all the members of my teams.

I usually just pick names off of the top of my head, so they can be pretty random at times(I once had a Pidgeot named 'Coke'. XD; ). For the most part, they're fairly normal, though: I tend to pick somewhat generic names like Steve or Liz. :P
 
I named all of my pokemon, so that if I traded a pokemon and needed it back, and the other trainer had the same pokemon I could identify it.
 
I only really nicknamed my Pokémon twice. However, both times I wound up messing up their names because they evolved :P

(It was a Spearow named Speary and a Torchic named Torchy. I'm so creative, aren't I? :P )
 
I call all my pokemon something completely random that somewhat fits who they are, like: My female Gengar is Ms.Creepy (named it Mr.Creepy until i found it was a female) and my Pelipper, Capt.Kirk (not knowing who the real capt Kirk in the Star Trek thing was.)and my favourite Beat-all which is my Heracross.
 
I never use nicknames, i like the orginal names on the pokemon.
I'v only nicknamed a pokemon once and that was Luca....
 
I normally name them after my fav J-Pop artists or songs (My best one is my Pikachu which I named Takanori)
 
I don't usually name all of my pokemon. Just the ones that are my favourites, or the ones that remind me of people I know. I sometimes use Spanish words (eg. Rojo for Red) or something that reflects the pokemon's type.

Sometimes I use really silly names. I named my starter in Ruby, Jimmeh. XD
 
I haven't started naming yet, but once i finally get my party together I think that I'm gonna name my pokemon with references to songs, musicians, or albums. Gengar is going to be Kilroy, in relation to the "Kilroy was Here" Album by Styx. My Pinsir is going to be named Ringo after the Beatle (his pokeball seal could be a star). My Blaziken will be Kansas, because of their song "Fight fire with fire".
 
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Normally Random...

Houndoom - Blaze
Roserade - Rose
Lapras - Myst
Milotic - Celest
Froslass - Wynter
Pidgeot - Breeze
Ambipom - Munkie
Alakazam - Rune
Ampharos - Sparky
Golem - Rocky

Tend to have names that go with the pokemons look =P
 
I usually name them after favorite chracters of mine that I cna relate them too.

Most favored so far was when I named my Suicune "Franziska" becuase of the whip like tails.(Phoenix Wright character. She uses a whip tons of times.)
 
when i had sapphire i gave all my pokemon japanese names
for example i named luvdisc "ai" (love), staryu "hoshi" (star), vileplume "hana" (flower)...
but now that i have the japanese version of diamond and with only 5 spaces instead of 10 in the english versions for names.. lol
 
When I catch a paras/parasect on my LG (I'm collecting mushrooms)
I usually name them a name that popped on my mind like
Paras#1:Parasutectu
Paras#2:Charizma!!
Parasect:Prisquetect
Or something like that
 
The thing about me is, I love my Pokemon to death, real or not. So if I get a Pokemon I just KNOW I will love and adore for a really really long time, I give it a nickname.

Most of my nicknames are a play on the Pokemon's actual name. I named my Pikachu Paki, pronounced puh-kee. Sometimes, they're completely random. I have a Mudkip named Skipper. And then sometimes they're just plain stupid. I have a Dialga named TehPwnerer.

Nicknames are fun! n_n
 
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