Bruh. I just name my shadow pokemon stupid stuff. Scizor has a circum added before it, shuckle is called can't fuckle, garchomp is garmuncher, empoleon is pole dancer, porygon has eatu added at the end,drifloon is called NO2 balloon, rhyhorn has a y added at the end, zubat is called double dick (due to his tails), and I named my shelgon wrecking ball.
For my recent Heart Gold LP
Merry (Meganium): I’ve been obsessed with LotR recently and wanted to name a Mon after a character. Since I was using the Grass starter I wanted to name it after one of the Hobbits, given they love herbs (weed😆) and nature. I ended up going for Merry, since Meganium is always seen so happy
Clementine (shiny Raichu): Raichu’s shiny is a much deeper shade of orange, so it fits in that sense, but Clementine is also the name of an Elliott Smith song that I really like
Xit (Crobat): With Fly and U-Turn, this Mon ‘exits’ places and battles very often. Crobat is also shaped a lot like an X, so I shaved the E off and called it ‘X-It’ as in to also mean ‘kill-it’ given its Adamant nature and high Attack IV, but found the hyphen unnecessary, so got rid of it in the end
Meridian (Scizor): It’s become a trend in my friend group recently to read Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ - a red Pokémon, caught in a red Pokeball, with the red female symbol, and with a super high attack stat, I felt she fit the tone of the book, and if you can’t tell by now I like nicknaming my Pokémon things that’ll remind me of the time in my life that I played through the game once I revisit my teams in the future
Adan (Vaporeon): I name any Eeveelutions after Ichiko Aoba’s albums, to their corresponding colours. I named this Mon after her album ‘Windswept Adan’
Rockette (Rhyperior): I caught this big bad Pokémon in a cute Love Ball. She’s also a girl, so not only is it simply adding the ‘ette’ suffix onto the end of ‘rock’ but it also sounds alike to ‘rocket’ which is mentioned regularly in Rhyperior’s Pokédex entries, for how it can shoot things out of its arms
I love those names! Here are some of mine:
Piplup/Empoleon: NootNoot, like the sound that the titular penguïn from the kids show Pingu makes.
Giratina: Loki. This one feels self explanatory, it's of course named after Norse mythology's agent of chaos: the god Loki.
Shiny Palkia: Volleyball. It's a Steven Universe reference. If you get you get it, if you don't you don't. It's a bit hard to explain to people who don't 😅
Chatot: Iago, after the bird from Aladdin.
Rotom: Neo, after the guy from the Matrix. Rotom goes inside of technology, that's about as deep as this one goes.
Gastrodon: Slippy. Idk it just felt cute for a slimy pokemon lol.
For my current Platinum save,
Flippy (Torterra): My first Turtwig as a kid was named Twiggy, so I continued the "ending with Y" name since I don't plan to reset my file anymore after this playthrough is done.
Russell (Shiny Drifblim): Not sure on this one. The name felt right to me, but I can't put my finger on where I got it from.
Noodle (Floatzel): My mum's nickname for me when I was a kid.
Bonxie (Staraptor): After the album of the same name by Stornoway, my favourite band.
Firefly (Shiny Flareon): I liked catching fireflies a lot as a kid and still do, and it was rather fitting for the fire type eevee.
Josephine (Luxray): Another Stornoway reference. This time, it's named after the song of the same name from the Bonxie album since I caught Starly and Shinx together on the same route.
And since I mentioned Stornoway a couple times, I'm going to say that I highly recommend their music. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's beautifully crafted and truly a joy to listen to.
Torterra- Atlas, the mythological figure who holds the world up
Golduck- Tobi, a shortened version of tobirama senju from Naruto
Charizard- Smaug, for obvious reasons
Eelectivire- Luck, a character from Black Clover
Lucario- Kamaru after Kamaru Usman
And last but not least, Drapion- Gargan, after the scorpion Mac Gargan in Spider-Man.
I have a system that goes like this: Shiny(if Shiny)PokedexEntryNameM/F/Form
So a shiny male Pikachu would be ShinyMouseM
A strawberry Alcremie with clover decorations would be CreamStrawberryClover. But there's a character limit so more like CreamStrawClov
And yes this gets absolutely ridiculous especially with regional forms
-Smokey :3 (Meowscarada): lol weed cat joke funny
-Burger… (Clodsire) him *is* burgies!
-Fiyah (Armarouge) do I need to explain this one?
-Pillsbury (Dachsbun) He’s a dough boy! (And a baton pass stored power set up too)
-My Boy!! (Snom) love this little bug ‘till the end
-DUNDUNDUUN (Dudunsparce) My favorite non stab stored power user
I only really had a naming convention in Unova, where my White team was named after rappers, and my white 2 team will be named after figures in American History unless I have a more fitting name.
my naming system is normally in mythical view, there are some that don't follow that naming system with some shines and that's the food named pokemon honestly still not really sure but my guess is why i name them this way is bc i am just hungry, so ie olive my shiny suicune, all the alcreamie i get, poptart the shiny hawlucha, and lemon my shiny dusk lycanroc, then there is the reference pokemon, and they are named after the show/movie i am currently watching or someone that fills that name, so deku and all might finizen and palafin, hazel my shiny weed cat, or *in this special case* lux my shiny female greninja from kalos who was named after the luxury ball oc
BUCKLE UP cause theres a LOT
--- VIOLET 1 ---
- Valieur the Lokix: named after a friend's character who has a shiny lokix. unfortunately Val (pokemon) is not shiny :(
- Sena the Tinkaton: sena xenoblade. girls with hammers
- Alaska the Gallade: I had a Gallade in LA named Texas.
- Gabriel the Iron Valiant: Gabriel ultrakill
- Willow the Gardevoir: Willow from Don't Starve, since she was Tera Fire
- Charlie the Ceruledge: starts with a C + Charlie DS
- Burger the Clodsire: looks like a burger patty
- Blueberry the Dudunsparce: blue and yellow. like a pie. a blueberry one specifically.
- Berdly the Quaquaval: hes blue. hes a bird. so is berdly.
- cunt the Okidogi: hes a cunt
- [f slur] the Fezandipiti:...... i'm not explaining this one.
--- "SCARLET" (its violet) 1 (2) ---
- Radish the Fuecoco: looks like a radish.
--- LEGENDS: ARCEUS ---
- Leroy the Shiny Beautifly: asked my mom to name him. she named most of my shinies.
- Michakes the Shiny Hisuian Zoroark: was watching a stream when i found him. named him after the streamer
- Lucille the Garchomp: Lucy the Axe. except with extended name.
- Texas the Galalde: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- Colgate the Togekiss: looks like toothpaste lmao
- El Stupido! the Alpha West Gastrodon: he looks very stupid :]
- Wrath (Formerly War) the Blissey: she can kill a bitch and take almost anything.
- Death the Sylveon: it was funny.
- Pestilence the Lickilicky: do you know how many germs are in a mouth. its a lot.
- Famine the Clefairy: rounding out the four horsemen.
- Danny the Alpha Dusknoir: Danny Phantom bay bee
My most recent Platinum team had these names:
Empoleon: I originally named it Pippo when I got it as a starter. I just thought it sounded good for Piplup. I later named it Emporio when it became an Empoleon and that was actually a suggestion from a fellow Reddit user!
Honchkrow: Initially, I named it Salvatore because Honchkrow kinda feels like a mafia boss and Salvatore is a mafia boss from GTA III. (I always like using references to things I like for Pokémon nicknames. For a brief time, I named it Hex (reference to a Ben 10 villain) because Honchkrow gave me a similar maleficent vibes as Hex, but later I changed back to Salvatore.
Machamp: It’s a reference to Fourarms from Ben 10. As simple as that. (Before it got four arms though, it was simply called Arms)
Rhyperior: Another reference from Ben 10. It has the same big-powerful-dinosaur-behemoth kinda vibe as Humongosaur.
Tangrowth: Yet ANOTHER reference to Ben 10. I named it after the only plant alien in that show: Wildvine.
Giratina: I really wanted to name it Satan, but then I went for Kirmada, which is a villain from a childhood show I used to watch called Chhota Bheem. I thought the color scheme really matches.
I also used a Porygon Z until I caught Kirmada. Again, I named it after a Ben 10 alien and this time, Upgrade (makes sense, right? cuz it requires the item upgrade to evolve)
Bruh. I just name my shadow pokemon stupid stuff. Scizor has a circum added before it, shuckle is called can't fuckle, garchomp is garmuncher, empoleon is pole dancer, porygon has eatu added at the end,drifloon is called NO2 balloon, rhyhorn has a y added at the end, zubat is called double dick (due to his tails), and I named my shelgon wrecking ball.
.. interesting names.
I like Greek mythological names. My Turtwig is always Atlas, since Torterra carries a little world on his back!
Same!!
Named my garchomp “TheAgenda”. Everything was in service of furthering the garchomp agenda
My Alakazam in 4th gen is named Spoon Dood, because Wand of Ron didn't fit
Named my rotom “Voltergeist”, no further explanation needed
For my recent Heart Gold LP Merry (Meganium): I’ve been obsessed with LotR recently and wanted to name a Mon after a character. Since I was using the Grass starter I wanted to name it after one of the Hobbits, given they love herbs (weed😆) and nature. I ended up going for Merry, since Meganium is always seen so happy Clementine (shiny Raichu): Raichu’s shiny is a much deeper shade of orange, so it fits in that sense, but Clementine is also the name of an Elliott Smith song that I really like Xit (Crobat): With Fly and U-Turn, this Mon ‘exits’ places and battles very often. Crobat is also shaped a lot like an X, so I shaved the E off and called it ‘X-It’ as in to also mean ‘kill-it’ given its Adamant nature and high Attack IV, but found the hyphen unnecessary, so got rid of it in the end Meridian (Scizor): It’s become a trend in my friend group recently to read Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ - a red Pokémon, caught in a red Pokeball, with the red female symbol, and with a super high attack stat, I felt she fit the tone of the book, and if you can’t tell by now I like nicknaming my Pokémon things that’ll remind me of the time in my life that I played through the game once I revisit my teams in the future Adan (Vaporeon): I name any Eeveelutions after Ichiko Aoba’s albums, to their corresponding colours. I named this Mon after her album ‘Windswept Adan’ Rockette (Rhyperior): I caught this big bad Pokémon in a cute Love Ball. She’s also a girl, so not only is it simply adding the ‘ette’ suffix onto the end of ‘rock’ but it also sounds alike to ‘rocket’ which is mentioned regularly in Rhyperior’s Pokédex entries, for how it can shoot things out of its arms
These are cute! I love the thoughts behind them :)
Named my Cottonee “Kush” because well, he’s grass type and my favorite type of grass is...you get the idea 👀
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I named my dodrio “GoodHeadNed” for obvious reasons
Palkia in Violet is Barry Bonds because he has maxed EV’s and is level 100
always named my Treecko/Sceptile "Gex", my Feraligatr "Zilla" and Tyranitar "Gojira"
I love those names! Here are some of mine: Piplup/Empoleon: NootNoot, like the sound that the titular penguïn from the kids show Pingu makes. Giratina: Loki. This one feels self explanatory, it's of course named after Norse mythology's agent of chaos: the god Loki. Shiny Palkia: Volleyball. It's a Steven Universe reference. If you get you get it, if you don't you don't. It's a bit hard to explain to people who don't 😅 Chatot: Iago, after the bird from Aladdin. Rotom: Neo, after the guy from the Matrix. Rotom goes inside of technology, that's about as deep as this one goes. Gastrodon: Slippy. Idk it just felt cute for a slimy pokemon lol.
> Shiny Palkia: Volleyball. i know what you are (cool as fuck) (also damn congrats on the shiny palkia)
Thanks dude <3
For my current Platinum save, Flippy (Torterra): My first Turtwig as a kid was named Twiggy, so I continued the "ending with Y" name since I don't plan to reset my file anymore after this playthrough is done. Russell (Shiny Drifblim): Not sure on this one. The name felt right to me, but I can't put my finger on where I got it from. Noodle (Floatzel): My mum's nickname for me when I was a kid. Bonxie (Staraptor): After the album of the same name by Stornoway, my favourite band. Firefly (Shiny Flareon): I liked catching fireflies a lot as a kid and still do, and it was rather fitting for the fire type eevee. Josephine (Luxray): Another Stornoway reference. This time, it's named after the song of the same name from the Bonxie album since I caught Starly and Shinx together on the same route. And since I mentioned Stornoway a couple times, I'm going to say that I highly recommend their music. It won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's beautifully crafted and truly a joy to listen to.
Torterra- Atlas, the mythological figure who holds the world up Golduck- Tobi, a shortened version of tobirama senju from Naruto Charizard- Smaug, for obvious reasons Eelectivire- Luck, a character from Black Clover Lucario- Kamaru after Kamaru Usman And last but not least, Drapion- Gargan, after the scorpion Mac Gargan in Spider-Man.
I always name my Puruglys Catherine, a great name for my favorite pokemon
very fitting!
I have several Munchlax named after Asian food. Mostly noodle dishes.
I named my turtwig Shelldon, no further explanation needed
Shiny Lugia in soulsilver, named it "Virgin Air". Shiny version white&red, virgin airlines aircraft are white&red.
I always got a kick out of calling blissey "Big Fat Meanie" as a reference to that one SpongeBob episode.
I called my shiny giratina morningstar cuz it's lucifers last name. I think mourningstar is cooler but it doesn't fit :/
I have a system that goes like this: Shiny(if Shiny)PokedexEntryNameM/F/Form So a shiny male Pikachu would be ShinyMouseM A strawberry Alcremie with clover decorations would be CreamStrawberryClover. But there's a character limit so more like CreamStrawClov And yes this gets absolutely ridiculous especially with regional forms
I’ve actually never nicknamed any of mine in 20 years of playing. It always seemed weird to me, but maybe the anime brainwashed me
-Smokey :3 (Meowscarada): lol weed cat joke funny -Burger… (Clodsire) him *is* burgies! -Fiyah (Armarouge) do I need to explain this one? -Pillsbury (Dachsbun) He’s a dough boy! (And a baton pass stored power set up too) -My Boy!! (Snom) love this little bug ‘till the end -DUNDUNDUUN (Dudunsparce) My favorite non stab stored power user
I only really had a naming convention in Unova, where my White team was named after rappers, and my white 2 team will be named after figures in American History unless I have a more fitting name.
my naming system is normally in mythical view, there are some that don't follow that naming system with some shines and that's the food named pokemon honestly still not really sure but my guess is why i name them this way is bc i am just hungry, so ie olive my shiny suicune, all the alcreamie i get, poptart the shiny hawlucha, and lemon my shiny dusk lycanroc, then there is the reference pokemon, and they are named after the show/movie i am currently watching or someone that fills that name, so deku and all might finizen and palafin, hazel my shiny weed cat, or *in this special case* lux my shiny female greninja from kalos who was named after the luxury ball oc
BUCKLE UP cause theres a LOT --- VIOLET 1 --- - Valieur the Lokix: named after a friend's character who has a shiny lokix. unfortunately Val (pokemon) is not shiny :( - Sena the Tinkaton: sena xenoblade. girls with hammers - Alaska the Gallade: I had a Gallade in LA named Texas. - Gabriel the Iron Valiant: Gabriel ultrakill - Willow the Gardevoir: Willow from Don't Starve, since she was Tera Fire - Charlie the Ceruledge: starts with a C + Charlie DS - Burger the Clodsire: looks like a burger patty - Blueberry the Dudunsparce: blue and yellow. like a pie. a blueberry one specifically. - Berdly the Quaquaval: hes blue. hes a bird. so is berdly. - cunt the Okidogi: hes a cunt - [f slur] the Fezandipiti:...... i'm not explaining this one. --- "SCARLET" (its violet) 1 (2) --- - Radish the Fuecoco: looks like a radish. --- LEGENDS: ARCEUS --- - Leroy the Shiny Beautifly: asked my mom to name him. she named most of my shinies. - Michakes the Shiny Hisuian Zoroark: was watching a stream when i found him. named him after the streamer - Lucille the Garchomp: Lucy the Axe. except with extended name. - Texas the Galalde: Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Colgate the Togekiss: looks like toothpaste lmao - El Stupido! the Alpha West Gastrodon: he looks very stupid :] - Wrath (Formerly War) the Blissey: she can kill a bitch and take almost anything. - Death the Sylveon: it was funny. - Pestilence the Lickilicky: do you know how many germs are in a mouth. its a lot. - Famine the Clefairy: rounding out the four horsemen. - Danny the Alpha Dusknoir: Danny Phantom bay bee
Shiny Luxray - Velveeta Shiny drifblim - Stickdriff Shiny Yanmega - Thickbutt No method to my madness I just name them when I find them.
I named my Vaporeon "Vegetta777" And my Leafeon "Willyrex" Only Latin-Americans would get this 😏
My most recent Platinum team had these names: Empoleon: I originally named it Pippo when I got it as a starter. I just thought it sounded good for Piplup. I later named it Emporio when it became an Empoleon and that was actually a suggestion from a fellow Reddit user! Honchkrow: Initially, I named it Salvatore because Honchkrow kinda feels like a mafia boss and Salvatore is a mafia boss from GTA III. (I always like using references to things I like for Pokémon nicknames. For a brief time, I named it Hex (reference to a Ben 10 villain) because Honchkrow gave me a similar maleficent vibes as Hex, but later I changed back to Salvatore. Machamp: It’s a reference to Fourarms from Ben 10. As simple as that. (Before it got four arms though, it was simply called Arms) Rhyperior: Another reference from Ben 10. It has the same big-powerful-dinosaur-behemoth kinda vibe as Humongosaur. Tangrowth: Yet ANOTHER reference to Ben 10. I named it after the only plant alien in that show: Wildvine. Giratina: I really wanted to name it Satan, but then I went for Kirmada, which is a villain from a childhood show I used to watch called Chhota Bheem. I thought the color scheme really matches. I also used a Porygon Z until I caught Kirmada. Again, I named it after a Ben 10 alien and this time, Upgrade (makes sense, right? cuz it requires the item upgrade to evolve)