In every Pokemon game, there's always give you the option of naming your character and your Pokemon (and also your rival in some cases). While some players don't name their Pokemon, I'm one of the people who actually do that. Why? Because it's fun. Also, it's a must to nickname your Pokemon when playing the Nuzlocke challenge.
So, what how do I nickname my Pokemon you ask? I have a few methods of naming my Pokemon, but I do have one rule, and that is I do not nickname my Legendary Pokemon (Because their original names are good enough for me). One method was to spell the Pokemon's name backwards and that will become the nickname. Sometimes I get something awesome (like 'Moolerb' for Breloom), but most of the times they were horrible. Plus, this method never works on Ho-oh, Eevee, Girafarig and Alomomola.
Another method I have is to see what the Pokemon remind me of. I nicknamed my male Drilbur 'Simon' because it's a mole, with drills. Gurren Lagann anyone? Also, I had an Emboar nicknamed 'Cho Hakkai', nicknamed after the pig monster Cho Hakkai in the epic 'Journey to the West'.
Sometimes I really don't know what to name it, and so I'll actually check Bulbapedia for the original Pokemon's name origin and try to come out with a creative name. One Pokemon I'll always have in my team if I could obtain the Pokemon is a male Gardevoir (and no, I'm one of those people who have weird Pokemon fetishes). The reason it's a male Gardevoir is that whenever I catch a Ralts to add into my team, it's always a male Ralts. Even in Platinum, where the male Ralts had better nature for Special Attack. Originally, in Emerald, I give my Gardevoir a dumb nickname called 'I'm A Boy' due to it looking more like a female than a male. In my later games, I call it Gardner, a name I came up by reading Bulbapedia.
One more method I have is a gender specific method. Whenever I catch a Pokemon, I'll give it a male/female name depending on the gender I got. For example, if I have a male Crobat I'll call it Bruce (for obvious reasons), and if it's a female it's Tabitha.
My final method is just giving it a very generic name (which I did when I was younger, but not now). Like Raichu would be 'Bolt', Vaporeon would be 'Aqua', etc.
So, with the first topic out of the way, on to the second one. I continued my Black 2 from where I left off. Before I continued playing it on Thursday, I was at Nimbasa City with 3 badges and 5 Pokemon. I have not explored anything near the city yet, or even the Desert Resort. My team was
Dewott named 'Kenshi' (After the samurai from the anime Ruroni Kenshin)
Rossi the Flaffy (It'll be a male Ampharos. I took the 'Ros' and made Rossi out of it)
Missile the Growlithe (Named after the Pomeranian 'Missile' from the DS title Ghost Trick)
Golbat named Tabitha (Tab is 'Bat' backwards, bit is the past tense of 'bite', and my Golbat is a female)
and Psynx the Espeon (Psychic + Lynx = Psynx)
I have my team all planned out. My final Pokemon was gonna be N's Zorua which will be given to me at Driftveil City.
A few hours of playing later, I've got 6 badges, and now at Lacunosa Town. All the members of my team are fully evolved and they're pretty good in my opinion. The problem with my team I think is that it lacks a tank, but I don't consider that a huge problem.
Another problem with my team is that it's underleveled. Not a big problem, I just need to either grind more, or use some good strategy when facing the Gym Leaders ahead.
Anyways, that's about all for today.
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