★『The Pokemon Nicknames Thread!』☆

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Every time I make a new pokemon, competitively or not, I always attempt at a somewhat clever nickname. They aren't always good. But my ending team in Pokemon Moon was Palmer the Alola Exeggutor, WRAITH!! !! !! the edgiest of all Decidueye, Smith the WishiWashi, Shambles the Kommo-o, Blister the Toucannon, and Victoria III the Palossand. And now I just keep making up more as I build up teams for competitive play. It's taking a while. But heck at least I'm almost done my first team.

Mine are usually based on obscure Japanese puns that only I would get.

Keeping in mind that X was my first pokemon game, when I first got Riku from Korrina I thought he was a Ground type 'cause he knew Bone Rush. And I knew Riku meant land in Japanese, (though I tried to make a Kingdom Hearts rerfrenece...) Though I still hope he likes his name.

Why, exactly, are Lucario, Empoleon, Mawile, and Jirachi part Steel type?! It makes no freaking sense! Lucario should be Fighting-Psychic, and Jirachi could be Fairy-Psychic. *end of rant*

Also, why is Luigia part psychic instead of water? They even tripped up the people who do the TCG because one of the cards for Luigia is water type.

Maybe those spikey things on their paws/hands and on their chests are made of steel?

^I don't know, I give up on Pokemon logic.

^I find that fact that you can't change a Pokemon's nickname if it's been traded very annoying. Why, exactly, is that a thing?

What's worse is the fact that you can't give the pokemon a nickname if it came from someone else, even if they don't have one.

^That's the reason why my Vulpix in Moon cannot be actually named Sakura like I wanted.

Just do what I do: pick your nickname and ignore the fact that (default nickname) is it's real name, and when your talking about that pokemon out loud, say it's name, and it'll stick eventually.

I wonder what to name my [eventual] Lunala? Mizuki?

Selene sounds nice. [The old Greek goddess of the moon.]

But isn't selene the name of the defaule girl you play as when you first start the game?

I'm not sure. The name originated from the old Greek goddess of the moon [I'm not sure if Artemis/Diana/Cynthia came before or after Selene, or Apollo came before Helios. It's hard to say.]