What nicknames do you give to your pokemon

[蜃気楼]

I named them with Mega Man and Naruto characters names such as Falzar, SpoutMan, HeatMan, Sarutobi, Naruto
I named my Piplup SpoutMan and after it evolved into Empoleon, I renamed it to SpoutManEX

 

[Zebra Thunderhead]

I used to nickname my Pokemon after weird nicknames I had for my online friends/Inuyasha character names. ]: I've since ditched the nicknaming process.

 

[moments.]

Oooh Tangela and Medusa sounds awesome!
Behemoth is good on Gyarados.

 

[The Ebon Blade]

I always thought that nicknaming pokemon was kind of a waste of time. Unless you can come up with some really clever and not annoyingly cliched names.

 

[Haza]

Genie is good for a female Shiny Dusknoir. When I get one thats what I am naming her(so dont take my idea).

 

[OokamiShipper]

I only nickname sometimes, and mine's are classics and they (usually) revolve around nature. Like...
Charizard - Female, Flare
Charizard - Male, Flame
Sceptile - Male, Blade
Arcanine - Female, Infernia (OMG, lame, I know)
Though I do name some of my pokemon after my fave characters or their pokemon.
Beautifly - Female, Haruka
Venusaur - Male, Saur
Espeon - Male, Vui
Pikachu - Male, Satoshi
Jolteon - Male, Volkner
And some are random...
Vaporeon - Male, Farai

 

[Dominus Temporis]

I did have nicknames for my Crystal team for a while. I forget what I called my Typhlosion, but I had a Feraligatr called Gatorade, an Espeon called Neo, a Lugia called Legend, a Tyranitar called Tyrostorm, and a Raichu called Henry.

Yes, Henry. This is part of the reason I changed them back...

I also thought of naming all my Diamond team for characters from the Discworld book series. It would've been:

Torterra: A'Tuin
Staraptor: Vimes
Luxray: Havelock
Gastrodon: Rincewind
Rapidash: Binky
Lucario: either Lobsang or Lu Tze

 

[Xebelleon]

I sometimes nickname.

Like the Unown I caught and stuffed into MPR got their respective letter of the alphabet placed in between parentheses.

- Unown (X)

I favor TURTWIG for the Sinnoh starter.

Tortrunk, the TORTERRA

Other:

:P ikachu, the PIKACHU (yes, it has a space)
W-----D 40, the WAILORD (refers to WD-40)
Gaydar-OS, the GYARADOS (OS = Operating System; as 'nasty' as my nicknames get)

*Smeargle I use for breeding get named based on what their pair, and moveset, is.
~eg. Snub-HB, the SMEARGLE pairs with Snubbull. HB is for Heal Bell, though Close Combat is on it as well.

**My 'Smeargle Monks' get named, in part, on their alignment
~eg. Gravehound, the SMEARGLE is 'Ghost-type' aligned
~~Conversion, Curse, Recover, Shadow Force

 

[Neety]

I decided that with Diamond I was going to nickname all the Pokes I caught...bad idea when you're stuck for words at the naming screen, sitting there going "Um...eeergh...aaagh..." Also I don't get why but I hate how the game automatically CAPITALS all the names; I kept the legendaries names the same, but de-capitalised them (So MESPRIT is now Mesprit).

Most of my Pokes were named after real-life pets, eg:

Turtwig = Soupy (my pet turtle)
Shinx = Bourneville (boyfriend's cat)
Lucario = Blaze (boyfriend's dog)
Buneary = Misty (my old pet rabbit)

I also named a Bibarel "Ugh" owing to my unexplainable hatred of that specific Pokemon.

 

[Hadim Sinan Pasha]

NO. I don't give neicknames to pokemon because, well, I'm not good at naming Pokemon. If I was better than I might do it but no, I'm just not original with names. It's always stuff like:
Ugly, Teeny, Whiney, Sissy. Nothing uber awesome.

 

[deliriouspurple]

I sometimes nickname them:
leafeon=Issa
Charizard=Jerz
Empoleon=Hared
Houndoom=Kshadow

 

[*~Frost Umbreon~*]

I just name my Pokemon cute names. =3

Typhlosion - Flame

Ursaring - Rini

Crobat - Flappy

Umbreon - Darky

Raichu - Sparky

Raikou - Bolt

Entei - Volcano

Suicune - Ocean

Igglybuff - Iggly

Lapras - Larry

Vileplume - Bloom

I'll add more. :O

 

[machomuu]

I give my pokemon general nemes, names that wouldn't help someone immediately identify a species of a pokemon...most of the time.
Pikachu- Pikaru(Girl) Tory(Boy)
Piplup- Pipford
Catrpie- Hikari
Charizard- Gale
Pidgey- Hikaru
...Well I guess it's sort of a split

 

[Nnoitra Jiruga]

Get ready for the lamest names...
Charizard-....Hmmm...STEVE x DD
Pikachu- HMM....Volt! x D
Froslass (Cause I like Froslass :3)- Midna x D or RozenIce
Blastoise- Aqua Dream (Female)
Blastoise- Hydro (Male) Bleh...lame I know...
Venasaur- I WOULD name it...Shuu x DD (Male)
Venasaur- Rose Petal (Female) Meh...sounds like a nickname for a Roselia

 

[machomuu]

Get ready for the lamest names...
Charizard-....Hmmm...STEVE x DD
Pikachu- HMM....Volt! x D
Froslass (Cause I like Froslass :3)- Midna x D or RozenIce
Blastoise- Aqua Dream (Female)
Blastoise- Hydro (Male) Bleh...lame I know...
Venasaur- I WOULD name it...Shuu x DD (Male)
Venasaur- Rose Petal (Female) Meh...sounds like a nickname for a Roselia

Oh yeah, well When G/S came out, I named my Meganium, get ready, Megas... how's that for a lame name :).

 

[OokamiShipper]

Get ready for the lamest names...
Charizard-....Hmmm...STEVE x DD
Pikachu- HMM....Volt! x D
Froslass (Cause I like Froslass :3)- Midna x D or RozenIce
Blastoise- Aqua Dream (Female)
Blastoise- Hydro (Male) Bleh...lame I know...
Venasaur- I WOULD name it...Shuu x DD (Male)
Venasaur- Rose Petal (Female) Meh...sounds like a nickname for a Roselia

Whoa, you gonna name your male Venusaur Shuu? xD Oh mai.
Thpse names are in no way lame, my names are way lamer, my arcanine Infernia. DxD

 

[Giratina ♀]

Murkrow: Nightwitch (bad name, great Pokemon!)
Typhlosion: Typhon (Greek Mythology, yay.)
Raichu: Dengeki ('electric shock', I believe.)
Honchkrow: Nights End (I tend to use the prefixes Night-, Dark-, or Crow- for my Murkrows, so I decided to do something different for this guy.)
Umbreon: High Moon (descended from 'High Noon', a company that makes... something. IDK.)
Mesprit: Vindict (a fanfic thing.)
Magneton: Helio (xD another fanfic thing...)
Giratina: Cyrus (Need I any explanation? xD)

I lost my copy of Pearl, so I can't remember many.

 

[Heiheipig]

I used to, until my friend and I started trading (and GTS) most people don't like pokemon with nicknames (my friend names EVERY pokemon of his Magikarp).

 

[Neety]

Yeah, I guess traders aren't fans of names because you can get stuck with a name you don't like. I didn't actually think of that!

@Ginga: I love the idea of a Chrizard called Steve.

 

[ArcanineOod]

I usually don't give them nicknames, but when I first played Pokemon Colusseum, I named them all food products! (Years ago, ok?)
I had a Ferret called Apple Pie or something stupid like that! XD

A couple of nicknames I would give:
Pikachu - GG
Buizel - Smuiz

Other than that, I keep the original name, apart from the time when I first got Ruby or Sapphire and named my Torchic 'Charmy' ^_^
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