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"Toxtricity" is, bar none, the absolute WORST Pokémon name in the entire franchise. Not only is it a mouthful, it tells you nothing about the Pokémon apart from its type combo. It sounds like something I'd come up with at the age of like 9 when doodling shitty fakemon in Microsoft Paint.
For a while, I read the name as "Toxitricity" (note the "i" in the middle), which is just as uncreative, and rolls off the tongue only slightly better. Even then I thought it was dogshit, but now that I've realized that there's no "i" there, it's even more awkward and cumbersome to say.
>Hardmode
You wanna know the worst part? The fucking Japanese name for this Pokémon already solved this. In Japan, it's called "Strinder." It rolls off the tongue nicely, sounds cool, but most importantly, it has actual identity. It comes from "strings" and "salamander," because it's a fucking salamander with guitar strings on its chest. But no, they had to say "HURR DURR ITS POISON AND ELECTRIC TYPE, JUST FUCKING CALL IT TOXIC ELECTRICITY" as if they didn't have a perfectly good name that already made sense in English.
Fucking hell man. This pisses me off way more than it reasonably should. Toxtricity is one of my least favorite Pokémon for its English name alone.
