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I name my pokemon based on their physical appearence and Pokedex description.
Feraligatr; Jaws Quilava; Blaze Kadabra; Blade [I know, it has nothing to do with it's description or physical] Machoke; Muscle Graveler; Heavy G Ampharos; Starfire [The starz :D]
Infernape - Prometheus - The titan who stole fire from Zeus and brought it to the humans, or Forethought (I'm thinking of renamng him Goku ...)
Staraptor - Aquila - Eagle
Floatzel -Neptune - God of the ocean
Roserade - Oleander - A flower
Togekiss - Amore - Love (When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, thats amore)
Dialga - Articulus - Moment in time
Dragonite - Draco - Dragon
Luxray - Nemean - Nemean lion
Or I name them really random ones,
Golduck - Gorgonzola - Blue Cheese
Psyduck - Cheese
Venasaur - Stench
Mewtwo - DarkMage - Dark Magician
Well, I sometimes give them nicknames if I can, like I named a Buizel Tsunami, a Piplup Ice Cream, kind of like that, but I only nickname them if they're going to be important to me, if I just caught them to be HM slaves, I wouldn't nickname them.
Well, here are my lovely nicknames. :)
Venusaur - Cell (from Dragonball Z) Charizard - (M) Volvagia (after the dragon in Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time). (F) Inferno (After the Living dead Doll) Blastoise - Pico (After F-Zero GX) Pidgeot - Margalo (After the canary in Stuart Little 2) Raticate - Hush (After a Living Dead Doll) Sandslash - Posey (Another Living Dead Doll) Nidoqueen - Sahara Persian - Jinx (After a Living Dead Doll, not to be confused with the Pokemon Jynx) Psyduck - Daffy (obviously after the Looney Tune duck) Arcanine - Geit (after the main galf in Tales of Legendia) Alakazam - Alba (Meira from the King of Fighters games) Machamp - Goro (after the four-armed monster in Mortal Kombat) Rapidash - Epona (after Link's horse) Muk - Slimer (after the green ghost in Ghostbusters) Gengar - Icky Bod (from Clay Fighters) Electrode - Poke Ball (obviously) Marowak - Spinal (after the skeleton warrior from Killer Instinct) Weezing - Molly (after the Living Dead Doll, Toxic Molly) Vaporeon - Camael Jolteon - Raziel Flareon - Blaze Articuno - Glacius Zapdos - Fulgore Moltres - Cinder Dragonite - Nils Mewtwo - Azrael Meganium - Salza Typhlosion - Uriel Feraligatr - Mathis Ariados - Arachne Togetic - Eggzorcist (after the Living Dead Doll) Ampharos - Adeas Sudowoodo - Weird Tree Espeon - Zadkiel Umbreon - Sadie (after the Living Dead Doll) Scizor - Ginger (from Dragonball Z) Sneasel - Greasy (from Who Framed Roger Rabbit) Houndoom - Canis Raikou - Jupiter Entei - Saturn Suicune - Neptune Celebi - Saria Sceptile - Gerik Blaziken - Dante (from Devil May Cry) Swampert - Kipper (from Bailey Kipper) Mightyena - Mishka (Living Dead Doll) Linoone - Rufus (from Kim Possible) Swellow - Isaac (Living Dead Doll) Pelipper - Scuttle (Little Mermaid) Gardevoir - Grune (Tales of Legendia), Saleh (Fire Emblem 8) Delcatty - Simone (Living Dead Doll) Sableye - Isabel (Living Dead Doll) Plusle - Hazel Minun - Hattie Spinda - Sybil (Living Dead Doll) Altaria - Ninian (Fire Emblem) Lunatone - Luna Solrock - Sunny Kecleon - Karma Banette - The Lost (Living Dead Doll) Wynaut - "Why Not?"
Usually I stay with their names as is, but the 3 starter pokemon from blue and red I like to name after the pokemon from Pokemon the movie....bruteroot (bulba) shellshocker (squirt).