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Nicknames! What do you name your Pokémon? (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by noodle to c/pokemon

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Do you decide in the moment you catch them? Do you reuse nicknames across saves? Do you not nickname them at all?

As you can see, I have a theme 😅

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[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I never got to play Pokemon on handhelds as a kid, so my only experience is through emulators and romhacks as someone much older, so there’s no way to transfer Pokemon between games (that I know of).

So I just started naming mine by species, and treating it as if I just met a Pokemon I’d had before again in the wild. Different natures or IVs didn’t matter; aren’t YOU different over the course of your life?

Like “hey look, it’s Crockjock again!” if I wanted to do a run with Totodile. Same Pokemon, different adventure.

[–] noodle 1 points 2 years ago

I like the sentimentality of that! It's not a random Pidgey, it's your old friend from gen 1 back again.