>>33936344>He doesn't input his own name so that when he battles or trades with his friends, it doesn't say "(Your name, you, the name that was bestowed upon you and the one your friend recognizes you by) sent out _____!"Games like LoZ, use the canonical hero's name, or make up a name for a character in a game like WoW, but for a game like Pokemon, it's the most natural course to name the character after yourself.