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Best and worst names for Pokemon?

Ryan the Terrible

Ryan the Terrible

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This thread is for the names Game Freak and Nintendo came up with, not nicknames.

My favorite is probably Jirachi. I've always loves that name for some reason. I've never known why, but it always makes me happy to hear the name. ^^

My least favorite has to be Abomasnow. Honestly, I would be surprised if it took five whole seconds to come up with that name for an abominable snowman Pokemon. I love the Pokemon, but I hate its name. >.>
 
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I always liked Exploud's name. It just rolls off the tongue so nicely. Also Tyranitar. It sounds freakin' kick-ass. My least favorite is Seel. I mean really, Seel? That was creative...
 
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I think it should be spelled "best". And personally, I didn't like Graveler. It just sounds so... vulgar. Also, Ho-oh because it sounds so funny. xD
Corphish and Crawdaunt are pretty cool. Wooper just rolls off the tongue.
 
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Some of the names aren't especially creative, but still kind of sound cool. Things like Houndoom and Magikarp which are pretty much two words mashed together, and others like Drowzee and Onix which are just misspells.

I really don't like the name Pineco. I don't know why.
 
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Gen. III and IV have bad names. Abomasnow? Exploud? Beautifly? Toxicroak? I mean, really?
 
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Doctor Jimmy said:
Gen. III and IV have bad names. Abomasnow? Exploud? Beautifly? Toxicroak? I mean, really?
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Well then, do you have a problem with these?

Blastoise
Graveler
Bee drill
Sand shrew
Clefairy
Nine tales
Diglett
Machop
Slowpoke

And that's only a few. It just seems that the logic behind using common words in the names (I'm assuming that's your logic) doesn't just apply to Gens III and IV. A lot of Pokemon from every generation have that.
 
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Being the person that I am, I am particularly fond of the name Gardevoir, it really brings out the grace of the Pokémon.

That and the fact that the Japanese name, Sirnight, only sounds strange.
 
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^Well it wouldn't be pronounced that way, giving the constraints of the Japanese language. I guess it sounds alright in that sense.

I don't really have any least favourite Pokemon names, since most have really just stuck to me and I've found it hard to complain about them any more. I still think that 'Croalurk' is a better name than 'Croagunk', though...and the 4th generation added too many '-don's and '-dos'es to the mix.
 
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Rayquaza and Suicune have to be at the top of my favorite names list. Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres have annoyed me a bit ever since I first found out that they were uno, dos, and tres.
 
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My favorites are Suicune, Sandshrew, Jirachi, and others that roll of the tongue and are fun to say. My least favorites are the ones that everyone says your pronouncing wrong and turn into a big debate and turns out your wrong... unless they're saying it with a Japanese accent.
 
DonKarasuMan said:
^Well it wouldn't be pronounced that way, giving the constraints of the Japanese language. I guess it sounds alright in that sense.

I don't really have any least favourite Pokemon names, since most have really just stuck to me and I've found it hard to complain about them any more. I still think that 'Croalurk' is a better name than 'Croagunk', though...and the 4th generation added too many '-don's and '-dos'es to the mix.
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They also added four "eon"s. (Empoleon, Finneon, Glaceon, Leafeon.) And only two of them were Eeveelutions.

Speaking of Eeveelutions, I have to say that the second-gens were two of the most creative Pokemon names ever. Instead of using obvious things for naming, (jolt, flare, vapor, leaf, glacier,) the second-gen used more obscure things that I didn't really know for awhile. Umbreon, as I figured out, is based on an umbra, the darkest part of the shadow of an eclipse. Espeon, which I figured out on my own after awhile, is based off of the psychic power ESP.
 
I like ones that sound really graceful, like Masquerain, Gardevoir, Milotic, and the Dratini line.

I can't really think of any least favorites, they all end up growing on me.
 
I never really payed any attention to the good names, but I dislike Heracross. Seriously? My mother thought I said 'Hairy crotch' when I said its name once. After that it sounded really displeasing. Same with Scizor. Cool Pokemon, bad name. It sounds really uncreative.
 
Krabby, Pidgey, Kakuna, Beedrill, Meowth, Seel, Muk, Tauros etc for worst (love some of them though lol)

GASTRODON FOR BEST.
 
Blaziken. Scyther. Those two don't even need nicknames to be badass.

However, Palkia sounds crap. Like a rejected name for the color Pink.
 
My favorite names are probably Rhyperior (just the name makes it sound like something that wants to brutally murder you), Lotad (it rolls off the tongue and is fun to say), and Dusknoir (plain AWESOME!).

The worst name for a Pokemon? Gee, there are so many...I would have to say Chingling (makes NO sense), Manectric (difficult to say, and a cool Pokemon like him dosen't deserve such a terrible name), and Gible (don't you just want to laugh at it?)
 
My favourite? Um... Probably Totodile. The name just FITS for me, I have no other reason. The worst, it's obvious:

Togekiss

I HATE that name. It sounds so uncreative. They had to start with "Toge" of course, but they could have made it much more creative, like Yanmega for instance. Of course this is just my opinion.
 
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