My Weird Way of Naming Pokemon in Pokemon GO
Whenever I browse my Friends List, looking to send gifts, I always tend to note what their Pokemon Buddies are called. After all, pretty much everyone in Pokemon GO has a buddy. What’s interesting though is when you can see their companion’s names. Many people have slightly different ways of naming their Pokemon.
Some people just leave their buddy unnamed, but I like seeing people walking their Hundos and Shinies. It’s pretty obvious when someone is walking a 100% IVs Pokemon too. Either they have 100% in the Pokemon’s name, or a 15/15/15. Occasionally, you’ll also see the odd 14 in there, if a Pokemon isn’t perfect. Many will also put a note of their Pokemons move set too, like Psystrike for Mewtwo and various names for Gengar and its many moves.
Now, I could name my Pokemon like that. After all, the tag feature is a bit more tedious than I originally though, and naming a Pokemon after its moves and stats allows for faster searches. But no, I’m a pain in the ass and have my own naming system. It’s not even a good one.
High IV Pokemon
Some of my Pokemon have really good stats. But with nearly 1700 Pokemon on my account, I need some way of determining which ones have high IVs at a glance. Sure, I can just use the search feature, but that will still bring up a large range of Pokemon. A Pokemon with the stats 12/12/13 is just as much a 3* Pokemon with 15/15/13 stats.
In this case, my solution is pretty simple. If a Pokemon has 2 15 stats and a 14 or 13 last stat, they get the word Ultra added to their name. This means that, at a glance, I know which 3*s are closest to 4*s and should be prioritized over other 3* Pokemon. Sure, I could use something a tad more obvious, but I feel that “Ultra” sounds way nicer than being called “15/15/14” or similar.
Perfect Pokemon
Any 4* Pokemon though immediately get a new name. All my 100% Pokemon have the word “Wonder” in them. Why? Because I wonder how I got so lucky, and perfect Pokemon are very wonderful themselves. Also, Wonder is one letter shorter than Perfect, meaning I can give a Pokemon a slightly better name.
Examples of this are Wondershadow, my 4* shadow Tyranitar, Wonderblades, a 4* Groudon and Wondervoir for both my 100% Gardevoirs. In fact, there is only one perfect Pokemon that breaks this rule, and that’s Hundoom the Houndoom. Because that pun is to good to ignore.
Random Names For Pokemon I Like A Lot
For some reason though, some Pokemon get silly names. After all, I have a Giratina called Orokin Chonk. Most Pokemon here are named on the fly, and mostly just for fun. Alongside Orokin Chonk, we also have Pokemon like Dave the Moltres, Mel the Melmetal and “That’ll Do”, a Dialga that happens to be lucky.
Also in this group is the Autocorrectors tag. These Pokemon are all named after weird Autocorrect popping up in conversations with friends. Funnily enough, aabicus has named quite a few of my Pokemon this way. My favourite Pokemon with the Autrocorrect tag is WondaBelgium, a 100% Metagross who, before I evolved it, was accidentally called Belgium instead of Beldum. But the real winner here is a Gengar called Aghast Lie.
The Houndour/Rhyperior Rule
Last but not least though, I have a naming system for my two favourite Pokemon species. All Houndours and Houndooms must have a variation of the name Flafflebutt, named after the first Houndour I ever caught. Rhydon and Rhyperior on the other hand all have names based on the word “Hornier” or “Horniest”. Because, well, it amuses me. Plus that was the original name for my first Rhyperior.
The only exception to this is Hundoom, my 100% perfect Houndoom buddy. Because, well, how could I not use such a good pun? Seriously, it’s perfect.
And there you have it, an explanation for my weird Pokemon names. Do what you will with this mostly useless information.