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Pokémon Games => Games General => Topic started by: OpallapO on August 26, 2013, 22:14
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So, to those people out there who do nickname their Pokemon, what are your favourite nicknames you've used? Why did you pick them? Do they have a meaning?
Here are a few of mine:
Samurott - Tirradya (Teer-Ad-Ya) - Female
Tirranna means Water, and Adya means First. Samurott was my first Pokemon on White 2, and is a Water Type Pokemon. I think it sounds really nice ;)
Reuniclus - Echoplasm (Echo-Plasm) - Male
I thought that Reuniclus looks like a single being inside a bigger copy of itself. This reminded me of an echo because an echo is a copy of a sound repeated over and over. Plasm comes from cytoplasm.
Sawsbuck - Horae (Oh-Ray) - Female
Horae means Goddess of the Seasons. Sawsbuck changes with the seasons and I thought it was fitting.
Ferrothorn - Acacia (Ak-Ah-See-Ah) - Female
Acacia means thorny. I thought it was a simple, feminine name that describe Ferrothorn perfectly.
Scrafty - Kerina (Care-Ee-Na) - Female
Keri means dark, and Dina means warrior. I fused them together to make Kerina, meaning dark warrior, which describes Scrafty's Dark/Fighting type.
Mamoswine - Adarilei (Ad-Ah-Ril-Ay) - Female (Shiny Pokemon)
Ada is taken from Adana meaning Earth. Ril is taken from Amarilla, meaning Shiny, and is like Amarillo, which is yellow in Spanish (Shiny Mamoswine is yellow). Ei is taken from Eira which means snow.
My nicknames usually take a long time to decide on because I like to play around with different names and see how they sound together... Do you like simple nicknames or complex ones?
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I don't nickname my Pokémon very often, but when I do, I usually just use the names of my friends, because I'm incredibly uncreative. I always feel kind of bad when I don't nickname them though, so maybe I'll start.
I don't really have any favourite nicknames due to my aforementioned inability to be creative. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I usually just use the names of my friends, because I'm incredibly uncreative.
This is why Umbreon is now called Nathan for me. I think it suits him very well :yeswink:
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Ray the Hydreigon.
Ollie the Omastar
Gunny the Typhlosion
Pepe the Scolipede
Bitsy the Zebstrika
Nero the Nidoking.
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Volbeat - DeadButRising
(Please tell me someone gets the joke!)
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Blaziken - Cinderslash
Mightyena - Scarouge - combination of 'scar' and 'rogue'
Tropius - Timberwing
Currently trying to think of a nickname for a Sandslash...
Thinking something to do with its Ground typing, and the spines/spikes on its back... :/
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I used to have a female Sandslash called Stanzie ^.^
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I've come up with a few by putting Ground/Desert related words together with words that could be related to Sandslash
Dryspine
Hotclaw
Groundslash
Earthspike
Dustclaw
I like Dustclaw and Dryspine but I'm not totally sure...
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Earthspike sounds really cool!
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I've decided on Dustclaw for Sandslash, and Allaura for Gardevoir. Mixture of 'allure' and 'aura'.
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I nickname everything with the first name that pops into my head. Unless I'm doing a themed game. My Platinum, for example, is Shakespearean.
This is how I end up with Ethel the Hydreigon, Edna the Frosslass, and Malvolio the Empoleon.
I regret nothing.
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I do themed games sometimes, all of my HG Pokemon are named after different "fandom" book characters. I have:
Arya the Meganium (The Inheritance Cycle)
Ginny the Ninetales (Harry Potter)
Cato the Ariados (Hunger Games)
Tal the Skamory (7th Tower (Garth Nix))
Siry the Tyranitar (Pendragon Adventure (D.J. MacHale)
and Watson the Cloyster (Sherlock)
I've also done Historical ones where they're all named after kings and emperors and ones where I name them after cities.
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Knuckles the Blaziken
Blaziken is more like an echidina (or so I've heard) and knuckles from the Sonic series is one, and they both attack mainly physically.
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I have a cute Slowpoke named Lazy River. :)
Man, don't try to copy that one too much. It's pretty darn clever, but that's just what I think. :( ;)
Ice Cap the Snorunt, another clever one for just another cute Pokémon. ^.^
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Love Lazy River the Slowpoke! Cute name :3 Clever too.
Just realised Cinderslash doesn't fit for Blaziken... How does Cinderkick sound?
Also got Azurewinds the Altaria.
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Cute name :3 Clever too.
It's pending for the Name Rater. That's the only mistake I'm making.
My Throh is called Defensei, a combination of Defense and Sensei. I will shoot down the Name Rater where he rated a nickname that follows the idea:
It really does amaze me when people take two words, sling them together, and think that their work is done. This just borders levels of awfulness I didn't think even existed.
The Pokémon's original names are exactly the same. There is no such thing as a level of awfulness for nicknames that follow this idea, because the original names happen to defend them. These nicknames are following an official, copyrighted example, which may not even be nearly as good as the nicknames themselves. This style of naming presents an alternative name for the Pokémon, challenging its own official name. Things like Lazy River the Slowpoke, that's nicknaming material only. As in, Lazy River could never pass as the Pokémon's original name. This style, however, is more than nicknaming material and is at a certain honorable level of cleverness rather than awfulness. And for a Pokémon whose concept and design is already clever, to such an extent that even its original name is so, a nickname might even better stand in its place if we're talking about the name alone. You could bluntly say that I've come to the conclusion that Pokémon's original names suck, but you're well aware that your career is based off "bad" nicknames. But it's not your job that's in question here. It's Pokémon itself. Without the original names that may suck to you, concept and design would run colorless. I wouldn't see Shellos being officially called "Pokemon422." So, in a way, "bad" names hold up the entire Pokémon franchise, without which you would have no life, not just no job.
In response to Snogre the Snover, a nickname of mine. Snover's evolved form is an ice monster, the abominable snowman, so Snover's nickname combines "snow" and "ogre" to reflect the monstrous quality within its line. Snogre even sounds like Snover, so the nickname and its own name mix pretty well. It may have served a good alternative name.
Love Lazy River the Slowpoke! Cute name :3 Clever too.
Just realised Cinderslash doesn't fit for Blaziken... How does Cinderkick sound?
Also got Azurewinds the Altaria.
Cinderkick? Well, it's okay, but I think Blaziken might need something tougher.
A few more nicknames here.
Ursula the Corsola (The aquatic villain from Little Mermaid. A shiny Corsola is blue, while Ursula herself is bluish. They happen to have similar sounding names, and this makes it sweet)
Ichigo the Cyndaquil (A main protagonist from the very popular anime Bleach. His fiery, orange hair is his most noticeable feature, which spikes up the way Cyndaquil's flame does. The man is a fighter with a fiery personality, and Cyndaquil has quite the fiery typing. Both connect through their most noticeable features, and they're even both from anime. This was also pretty cute on a Cyndaquil. :) )
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My Throh is called Defensei, a combination of Defense and Sensei. I will shoot down the Name Rater where he rated a nickname that follows the idea:
I love that name! Better than Throh, at any rate ;)
As for my nicknames, I don't tend to name them too often, but I've got a few.
-> Chomp the Grotle. It won't do for Torterra, it has to be Grotle. It just fits his mouth.
-> Quinn the Piplup. Only if its male, I don't like Quinn as much as a girls name :nowink:
-> Hamm the Tepig. My brother had toy story on the TV at the time...
-> Taewonduck the Farfetch'd. How can you not name him that? ;D
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"Toilet" the Clefairy. Because it always says "Pipi."
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I'm gonna name my Male Kingdra Amaness.
'Amane' is 'water' in Berber.
'Ness' is from 'Highness' and also the Loch Ness Monster :)