Pokémon Discussion Thread

[Buffett and Colbert]

My biggest qualm is the names. They seem, for whatever reason, to largely have become somewhat uninspired.
Then again, I've never played Gen V, so names is about all I've been exposed to.

And I'm sure Gen I had the best names, eh? I mean, with such gems as Seel, Grimer, Ghastly, Butterfree, Graveler, and so many others, it must have. I can really see why the Gen I names are so special.

^This

[Astrolinium]

And I'm sure Gen I had the best names, eh? I mean, with such gems as Seel, Grimer, Ghastly, Butterfree, Graveler, and so many others, it must have. I can really see why the Gen I names are so special.

^This

I should clarify that, while there have always been a few duds, Gen V's duds have, for some reason, really stuck out at me more. Perhaps because the Gen I names have been with me since childhood they don't seem as ridiculous as they are, but the names from Gen V seem different in a way.

[Hetland 2]

I fought against Candice in my Diamante version, my Torterra, Jennifer, lost the first round, and then my Steelix, Tenma, curbstomped the rest of her party.

I wuv you Tenma~
Coincidentally that's the same team with the shining Crobat, Haruna.

[Episarta]

I fought against Candice in my Diamante version, my Torterra, Jennifer, lost the first round, and then my Steelix, Tenma, curbstomped the rest of her party.

I wuv you Tenma~
Coincidentally that's the same team with the shining Crobat, Haruna.

Looking through a lot of these posts, and seeing yours, it makes me think that everybody nicknames their pokemon. So, do most of you? I never nickname mine. If I get a nicknamed one in a trade, I just make a baby of it and either trade away the nicknamed parent or release it.

I find that nicknames and "improper" genders (A female Machamp? No thank you, release!) ruins my categorizing of my pokemon in the PC. I like to organize them all by final evolution and numerical order. And nicknames just take away from it I guess. :/

[Hetland 2]

I fought against Candice in my Diamante version, my Torterra, Jennifer, lost the first round, and then my Steelix, Tenma, curbstomped the rest of her party.

I wuv you Tenma~
Coincidentally that's the same team with the shining Crobat, Haruna.

Looking through a lot of these posts, and seeing yours, it makes me think that everybody nicknames their pokemon. So, do most of you? I never nickname mine. If I get a nicknamed one in a trade, I just make a baby of it and either trade away the nicknamed parent or release it.

I find that nicknames and "improper" genders (A female Machamp? No thank you, release!) ruins my categorizing of my pokemon in the PC. I like to organize them all by final evolution and numerical order. And nicknames just take away from it I guess. :/

Well that's you.
I like my pokemon nicknamed.

Diamond team
Torterra/Jennifer Female
Bibarel/ Vincent Male
Steelix/ Tenma Female
Chimecho/ Ayumu Male
Clefairy/ Yakumo Female
Crobat/Haruna Female

I found my Shiny Zubat less than 20 minutes after my original golbat, Yolanda, evolved into a crobat. I love them both.

[TaQud]

anyone ever gotten a female starter and made an entire team of her and her babies?

[Anacasppia]

anyone ever gotten a female starter and made an entire team of her and her babies?

Not quite a team, but my female Torchic (supposedly quite rare) had three babies over the course of the game.

[Chewing on your spleen]

was looking through the pokemon i have on ruby, sappire and emerald having a bit of a trip down memory lane when i discovered an aron that i'd caught when i already had one in the same version that i'd gotten really annoyed with because i was tryin to find a different pokemon and i accidently caught it instead, using up my last ultra ball in the prosess so when i was asked if i wanted to nickname the aron i'd just caught instead of selecting no as i usually do when given this option in a fit of rage i selected yes and named the aron FUCK.

[TaQud]

was looking through the pokemon i have on ruby, sappire and emerald having a bit of a trip down memory lane when i discovered an aron that i'd caught when i already had one in the same version that i'd gotten really annoyed with because i was tryin to find a different pokemon and i accidently caught it instead, using up my last ultra ball in the prosess so when i was asked if i wanted to nickname the aron i'd just caught instead of selecting no as i usually do when given this option in a fit of rage i selected yes and named the aron FUCK.

my short attention span read was FUCK so...

[SquareDisc City]

I nickname the Pokemon I'm going to use on a regular basis, and sometimes legendaries, and have used a variety of sources for names. Of late I've taken to having connections between the names of different team members, such as my ghost team where all members were named after gaseous elements - Hydrogen, Helium, Fluorine, Neon, and Radon.

[Olthar]

^This

I should clarify that, while there have always been a few duds, Gen V's duds have, for some reason, really stuck out at me more. Perhaps because the Gen I names have been with me since childhood they don't seem as ridiculous as they are, but the names from Gen V seem different in a way.

Gen I had a seal named Seel. That is unquestionably the most boring, unoriginal, uninspired name that has ever been made for a Pokémon, but what you said is exactly my point: You, and most everyone else, don't care about the boring names from Gen I because you're used to them, i.e. you have your nostalgia goggles on at full power.

Now, I'm not saying Gen I's Pokémon suck or anything, in fact, I love many of them, especially their poison-types. I'm just saying that they're not somehow magically better than every other generation. Each Gen has their good Pokémon and their bad Pokémon, and no matter how many sweeping generalizations people make, that will never not be true.

I find that nicknames and "improper" genders (A female Machamp? No thank you, release!) ruins my categorizing of my pokemon in the PC. I like to organize them all by final evolution and numerical order. And nicknames just take away from it I guess. :/

I don't much care about the Pokémon that go in the PC, but I completely agree with the "improper genders" for the ones in my team. If I'm putting a Gardevoir on my team, then I will only use a female one. However, my Crobat is always male.

As for nicknames, I do name them, usually only the ones in my team, but I have given nicknames to others if I felt like it. I usually try to make my nicknames clever or witty or, at least, references, and sometimes I succeed. However, there is one nickname that I am very proud of. My friend and I were both playing Platinum on release day, and we both ended up catching a Budew. He got his first and gave it some sort of flower-based nickname, as you'd expect for a flower-based Pokémon. Then, when I caught mine, I named her Fluoride. It's a word that sounds like it has something to do with flowers while actually being a poisonous chemical. That was pretty fun. I also liked the name I gave to my Piplup in that game: Tux. It just seemed so appropriate for a penguin, especially one with the ability of "torrent."

[Meryuma]

I should clarify that, while there have always been a few duds, Gen V's duds have, for some reason, really stuck out at me more. Perhaps because the Gen I names have been with me since childhood they don't seem as ridiculous as they are, but the names from Gen V seem different in a way.

Gen I had a seal named Seel. That is unquestionably the most boring, unoriginal, uninspired name that has ever been made for a Pokémon, but what you said is exactly my point: You, and most everyone else, don't care about the boring names from Gen I because you're used to them, i.e. you have your nostalgia goggles on at full power.

Now, I'm not saying Gen I's Pokémon suck or anything, in fact, I love many of them, especially their poison-types. I'm just saying that they're not somehow magically better than every other generation. Each Gen has their good Pokémon and their bad Pokémon, and no matter how many sweeping generalizations people make, that will never not be true.

I find that nicknames and "improper" genders (A female Machamp? No thank you, release!) ruins my categorizing of my pokemon in the PC. I like to organize them all by final evolution and numerical order. And nicknames just take away from it I guess. :/

I don't much care about the Pokémon that go in the PC, but I completely agree with the "improper genders" for the ones in my team. If I'm putting a Gardevoir on my team, then I will only use a female one. However, my Crobat is always male.

As for nicknames, I do name them, usually only the ones in my team, but I have given nicknames to others if I felt like it. I usually try to make my nicknames clever or witty or, at least, references, and sometimes I succeed. However, there is one nickname that I am very proud of. My friend and I were both playing Platinum on release day, and we both ended up catching a Budew. He got his first and gave it some sort of flower-based nickname, as you'd expect for a flower-based Pokémon. Then, when I caught mine, I named her Fluoride. It's a word that sounds like it has something to do with flowers while actually being a poisonous chemical. That was pretty fun. I also liked the name I gave to my Piplup in that game: Tux. It just seemed so appropriate for a penguin, especially one with the ability of "torrent."

I had a party with a Meowth named Lovecraft and a Tentacool named Cthulhu. I also named my character Dope MC and my starter Ill Beats.

[Astrolinium]

Gen I had a seal named Seel. That is unquestionably the most boring, unoriginal, uninspired name that has ever been made for a Pokémon, but what you said is exactly my point: You, and most everyone else, don't care about the boring names from Gen I because you're used to them, i.e. you have your nostalgia goggles on at full power.

Now, I'm not saying Gen I's Pokémon suck or anything, in fact, I love many of them, especially their poison-types. I'm just saying that they're not somehow magically better than every other generation. Each Gen has their good Pokémon and their bad Pokémon, and no matter how many sweeping generalizations people make, that will never not be true.


I don't much care about the Pokémon that go in the PC, but I completely agree with the "improper genders" for the ones in my team. If I'm putting a Gardevoir on my team, then I will only use a female one. However, my Crobat is always male.

As for nicknames, I do name them, usually only the ones in my team, but I have given nicknames to others if I felt like it. I usually try to make my nicknames clever or witty or, at least, references, and sometimes I succeed. However, there is one nickname that I am very proud of. My friend and I were both playing Platinum on release day, and we both ended up catching a Budew. He got his first and gave it some sort of flower-based nickname, as you'd expect for a flower-based Pokémon. Then, when I caught mine, I named her Fluoride. It's a word that sounds like it has something to do with flowers while actually being a poisonous chemical. That was pretty fun. I also liked the name I gave to my Piplup in that game: Tux. It just seemed so appropriate for a penguin, especially one with the ability of "torrent."

I had a party with a Meowth named Lovecraft and a Tentacool named Cthulhu. I also named my character Dope MC and my starter Ill Beats.

All I can remember from when I could play is that one time I had a Pidgey that I named Geoffrey. Can't remember whether I named him after Geoffrey Chaucer or Geoffrey of Monmouth.

[Olthar]

Gen I had a seal named Seel. That is unquestionably the most boring, unoriginal, uninspired name that has ever been made for a Pokémon, but what you said is exactly my point: You, and most everyone else, don't care about the boring names from Gen I because you're used to them, i.e. you have your nostalgia goggles on at full power.

Now, I'm not saying Gen I's Pokémon suck or anything, in fact, I love many of them, especially their poison-types. I'm just saying that they're not somehow magically better than every other generation. Each Gen has their good Pokémon and their bad Pokémon, and no matter how many sweeping generalizations people make, that will never not be true.


I don't much care about the Pokémon that go in the PC, but I completely agree with the "improper genders" for the ones in my team. If I'm putting a Gardevoir on my team, then I will only use a female one. However, my Crobat is always male.

As for nicknames, I do name them, usually only the ones in my team, but I have given nicknames to others if I felt like it. I usually try to make my nicknames clever or witty or, at least, references, and sometimes I succeed. However, there is one nickname that I am very proud of. My friend and I were both playing Platinum on release day, and we both ended up catching a Budew. He got his first and gave it some sort of flower-based nickname, as you'd expect for a flower-based Pokémon. Then, when I caught mine, I named her Fluoride. It's a word that sounds like it has something to do with flowers while actually being a poisonous chemical. That was pretty fun. I also liked the name I gave to my Piplup in that game: Tux. It just seemed so appropriate for a penguin, especially one with the ability of "torrent."

I had a party with a Meowth named Lovecraft and a Tentacool named Cthulhu. I also named my character Dope MC and my starter Ill Beats.

I prefer to name Tentacool "Acooltent."

[Old Erisia]

I want a Water/Bug

Isn't that covered by Surskit and Masquerain?

Surskit is NFE, and Masquerain is Bug/Flying

I had a party with a Meowth named Lovecraft and a Tentacool named Cthulhu. I also named my character Dope MC and my starter Ill Beats.

I prefer to name Tentacool "Acooltent."

I was really into Egyptian mythology/history when I was playing Blue, so that started a tradition of naming my competitive mons after Egyptian gods, kings, or pharaohs. Although I diverge from this at times. My Hail team was named after characters from the North in Game of Thrones, and my pink team was named after pin up models. Also, all normal type pokes get "normal" names, like Joe, Bob, and Kate (and Big Bertha the Slaking). And Whimsicott will always be Whimsicunt.

My pokemon are my slaves, kept for one purpose. I made them, and all that they are is owned to me. Their value is judged by their kill count or breeding potential. They must earn their names.

[Libaries]

God, I can't keep waiting for Black and White 2 to come out... IM GONNA DIE!

[TaQud]

God, I can't keep waiting for Black and White 2 to come out... IM GONNA DIE!

I can its called playing the old pokemon games and playing fifa 12

[Libaries]

God, I can't keep waiting for Black and White 2 to come out... IM GONNA DIE!

I can its called playing the old pokemon games and playing fifa 12

I would do that, except that I'm stuck in HeartGold and Diamond.

[SquareDisc City]

BW2 I'm expecting to be much like any main series game - essentially more of the same. Pokemon Conquest is the title I'm really psyched for.

[Libaries]

Pokemon Conquest is the title I'm really psyched for.

Oh yeah! I saw a commercial for that! I want it now too.

[TaQud]

I can wait for the game easily

[Libaries]

I can wait for the game easily

Lucky. When I wait for a Pokemon game, I sit staring at the computer on Bulbepedia, and wait for it to say it was released. While munching on chocolate.

[Lambrinisia]

I'm intrigued by Pokémon Conquest. I like the idea of a new way to explore the pokémon world.

Also, how many people are region specific here? For some reason I can't bring myself to use a pokémon if the final evolution isn't within the dex of the starting region. I know I can probably make better teams by using all regions, but I'm just stuck in my ways.

Right now, I'm starting on Soul Silver and have bred a hell of a lot of eggs. I'm looking forward to my Ice Shard Phanpy. Also doing a few I haven't trained before, or since Gen 2. Donphan, Scizor, Feraligatr, Ampharos and Miltank. Only thing I'm repeating from Heart Gold is a Hypnosis/U-Turn Crobat.

[Libaries]

I'm intrigued by Pokémon Conquest. I like the idea of a new way to explore the pokémon world.

Also, how many people are region specific here? For some reason I can't bring myself to use a pokémon if the final evolution isn't within the dex of the starting region. I know I can probably make better teams by using all regions, but I'm just stuck in my ways.

Right now, I'm starting on Soul Silver and have bred a hell of a lot of eggs. I'm looking forward to my Ice Shard Phanpy. Also doing a few I haven't trained before, or since Gen 2. Donphan, Scizor, Feraligatr, Ampharos and Miltank. Only thing I'm repeating from Heart Gold is a Hypnosis/U-Turn Crobat.

I just like Unova. Layout is simple, and easy. Besides, I'm almost beating my cheat-loving neighbor!!

[Olthar]

I'm intrigued by Pokémon Conquest. I like the idea of a new way to explore the pokémon world.

Also, how many people are region specific here? For some reason I can't bring myself to use a pokémon if the final evolution isn't within the dex of the starting region. I know I can probably make better teams by using all regions, but I'm just stuck in my ways.

Right now, I'm starting on Soul Silver and have bred a hell of a lot of eggs. I'm looking forward to my Ice Shard Phanpy. Also doing a few I haven't trained before, or since Gen 2. Donphan, Scizor, Feraligatr, Ampharos and Miltank. Only thing I'm repeating from Heart Gold is a Hypnosis/U-Turn Crobat.

I just like Unova. Layout is simple, and easy. Besides, I'm almost beating my cheat-loving neighbor!!

Unova is the best region. Hoenn was nice, but it had too many flaws, like an over-abundance of water routes. Sinnoh was rather mediocre, same with Johto, but Kanto kinda sucked. It was just a fucking square. So boring.