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Clever Pokmon Nicknames | Page 81

I'm not sure if I'm the best with nicknames, but here are some I've used. Some are more clever than others.

Delphox: Firefox (My web browser! :p)

Venusaur: Blossom, Bloom, maybe even Flora once? (The bud it has as a Bulbasaur blooms into a flower.)

Aegislash: Masamune (After the sword Frog uses in Chrono Trigger.)

Swanna: Cygnia, Aquarelle (I had a hard time coming up with a nickname for it in X. I used Cygnia at first since cygnus is the name of the genus swans belong to, but Aquarelle sounds better. Coincidentally, aquarelles are a type of watercolor painting.)

Florges: Flora, Antheia (Another Pokemon I used in my X playthrough. I named it Flora originally for obvious reasons, but after I evolved it I renamed it Antheia since according to Bulbapedia, the line may be inspired by that Greek goddess.)

Flygon: Toph, Myrm (I named a female Flygon I used in Pearl after Toph from ATLA. In my X playthrough, I caught a male Trapinch and struggled to find a name for it. The line is based on antlions, and I noticed that they belonged to the family Myrmeleontidae. Wyrm is a word for dragons, so why not combine those two somehow?)

Pikachu: Zappa, Electra, and probably other horrible electric puns.

Gardevoir: Hikari (Japanese name meaning light)

Gallade: Link (from Zelda)

Metagross; Metaknight (from Kirby)

Kyogre: Sapphire (Yes, I actually did this.)

Blaziken: Phoenix (Well, it is a fiery bird...)

Empoleon: Mumble (from Happy Feet)

Charizard: Dragonfire (It was dragon like and I was playing FireRed at a time I was into Winx Club for some reason. The 4Kids dub called Bloom's power the Dragon Fire so yeah...)

Weavile: Vira (It was a female dark type and Vira sounds similar to virus.)

Weezing: Poisonwind (Um...it's poisonous and gaseous?)

Vaporeon: Ariel (Hey, it does looks kinda like a mermaid. :p)

Lapras: Nessie, Oceania

Milotic: Baikal (After Lake Baikal in Russia.)

Stunfisk: T-urdfish (Because the censors in X would not let me name it Turdfish.)

Panpour: Cali (I was considering using it on my team in X but I scrapped it. Short for California, its evolution looks like a surfer dude to me. Do not question my logic.)

Meganium: Gaia, Gardenia (Gaia is an earth goddess and Gardenia is a flower that also contains the word garden?)

Blastoise: Leonardo (Pfft, TMNT.)

Swampert: Everglades, Skippy

Starmie: Stella, Cosmo

Gastrodon: Squishee

Staraptor: Windstar, Gale. (Flying type with the word star in its name? And well Gale is...wind...poof.)

Girafarig: Grimmer (A character from an anime called Monster. He's a tall guy and the fandom jokes about him being a giraffe.)

Infernape: Tarzan

Roserade: Rosacea (A skin disease that coincidentally sounds like it's a flower related to roses...)

Pidgeot: Superwing, Bobo (Superwing was my beloved overleveled Pidgeot from Yellow. In a playthrough of Fire Red, I used a Pidgeot named Bobo because of an in-joke my cousin and I have about a bad translation of Pokemon Green.)

...And that's just off the top of my head. As you can imagine, I love nicknaming Pokemon. ^_^

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