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Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 10:50:03 No.57529732 View View Reply Original Report

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ITT: Pokemon with terrible and/or unimaginative names

Hardmode: Come up with a better name

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 10:53:15 No.57529740 Report

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>>57529732
Arcteal = arctic + seal

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 11:05:36 No.57529769 Report

Quoted By: >>57529949 >>57531049 >>57533077 >>57534640 >>57535626 >>57535835 >>57536285 >>57536749

"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.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 12:16:22 No.57529949 Report

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>>57529769
Picrel has the exact same issue

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 12:17:10 No.57529950 Report

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>>57529732
The Paradox Pokemon's ugly names.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 16:44:06 No.57530914 Report

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>>57529950
This
Honestly should just be removed from canon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 17:19:22 No.57531049 Report

Quoted By: >>57534111 >>57536266

Smoliv and Lechonk are cancer.
>>57529769
Never liked this line, now I hate this thing even more
Thanks, Anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 17:21:46 No.57531059 Report

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>>57529950
think of them as what their species classification would be if they weren't all "Paradox"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 09 Mar 2025 20:22:14 No.57531775 Report

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>>57531059
huh ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 01:03:23 No.57533067 Report

Quoted By: >>57533101

Mr. Mime (Replace with Pantimos)
Geodude
Golem
Seaking (Replace with Azumao, the Japanese name fits a Japanese themed Pokemon you can do the same for Goldeen too but Seaking feels more egregious)
Feraligatr (Replace with Impergator)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 01:05:18 No.57533077 Report

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>>57529769
cool
i wish they would sandwich me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 01:07:16 No.57533084 Report

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>>57529732
Corviknight is a terrible name. I think it should be renamed to “Tinkaton’s Cocksleeve”

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 01:11:41 No.57533101 Report

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>>57533067
>Mpreg gator

DoctorGreen !DRgReeNusk

DoctorGreen !DRgReeNusk Mon 10 Mar 2025 01:12:34 No.57533105 Report

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>>57529732
sƏal

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 06:25:32 No.57534026 Report

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>>57529732
Not sure what the Lo in Lotad and Lombre is supposed to mean.

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Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 06:40:27 No.57534078 Report

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>>57531775
All the Paradox Pokemon have Paradox for their species.
Picrelated’s true name could be something like Mastodonphan with its species being the Great Tusk Pokémon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 06:56:08 No.57534111 Report

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>>57531049
Add Buzzwole to the list of terrible meme names. It should've been called Buzzwell, same meaning and wouldn't make it extremely dated in a few years.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 06:58:56 No.57534117 Report

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>>57534111
It's been around since the 80s. I don't think swole is going away.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 07:06:10 No.57534139 Report

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>>57534111
No, James cooked, and you came up with "buzzes well".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 07:10:45 No.57534146 Report

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>>57534111
Anon you might actually be retarded and completely out of touch - not just with current culture but several decades worth

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 10:44:47 No.57534586 Report

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>>57529949
at least talonflame sounds decently cool
(i just refer to it as smogonbird anyways)

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 10:45:54 No.57534589 Report

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>>57534586
it's boring as shit, but i'd rather have a name that's boring than one that's actively cumbersome to say

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 11:01:47 No.57534637 Report

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>>57529732
LITleo
LITten
PyROAR
IncineROAR
Basically just slapped something cat related to the word lit and something fire related to the word roar.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 11:03:14 No.57534640 Report

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>>57529769
It's a play on "toxicity".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 11:20:11 No.57534676 Report

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>>57534640
Do you think I don't know this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 11:33:13 No.57534698 Report

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>>57534676
You never mentioned it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 11:39:02 No.57534709 Report

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>>57534698
because it's fucking obvious?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 11:41:45 No.57534714 Report

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>>57534637
wow I never realized that but true

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 14:13:37 No.57535200 Report

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>>57534637
this is fucking with me

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 16:30:55 No.57535626 Report

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>>57529769
Blacephalon's French name is Pierroteknik

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 17:11:58 No.57535795 Report

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>>57534637
It's a 4 stage evolutionary line.
Litten -> Litleo -> Pyroar -> Incineroar

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 17:20:28 No.57535835 Report

Quoted By: >>57536284

>>57529732
Sealove ("Seal of Approval")
(Dewgong can be renamed "Approveal" to complete the joke)

>>57529769
This name is fine, you just didn't get it.

>>57534709
You said the name was just a combination of toxic and electricity in your post.

>>57534111
It should've been called Masskito. I think his french name is something similar.

>>57535626
Pierroteknik is perfection.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 18:04:12 No.57535975 Report

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>>57529949
>>57534586
Roastalon
Was it that hard TPCi?

EFL

EFL Mon 10 Mar 2025 18:48:45 No.57536168 Report

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>>57535626
That makes the English name look like the trash that it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 18:51:24 No.57536179 Report

Quoted By: >>57536808 >>57536816

>>57534637
>>57534714
>>57535200
These are not terrible.

Litleo is Lit Little Leo.
Litten is Lit Kitten.
Pyroar is Pyro Roar.
Incineroar is Incinerate Roar.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 18:53:01 No.57536183 Report

Quoted By: >>57536205

>>57535975
>>57529949
>>57534586
>Talonflame
>"Roastalon"
That is not better at all.

The challenge is making "peregrine falcon" fire related, like "Pyrogrine" and "Firelcon".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 18:58:27 No.57536205 Report

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>>57536183
Pyrogrine would've been god tier
Damn it TPCi

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:07:22 No.57536243 Report

Quoted By: >>57536284 >>57536293 >>57536370 >>57536425 >>57536749

It doesn't flow horribly, but the name itself makes absolutely no sense. More importantly, they didn't go with the obvious "Wotter"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:12:26 No.57536266 Report

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>>57531049
Smolive is fine. "Smol" as a memeword just tainted it for you. Otherwise there would be no issue with the combination of "small" and "olive" for a first stage olive pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:15:05 No.57536284 Report

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>>57535835
>It should've been called Masskito. I think his french name is something similar.
Masskito is its German name, Mouscoto is French.
I would agree Massquito is a far better name for it. It fits the pun, it fits the portmanteau, and it's similar to the Japanese name.
>>57535626
>>57536205
>>57536243
>no Pierrotecnic
>no Pyrogrine
>no Wotter
Damn it TPCi indeed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:15:09 No.57536285 Report

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>>57529769
Strinder does not roll off the tongue better than Toxtricity imo

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:15:41 No.57536288 Report

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>>57534026
Lotus

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:17:34 No.57536293 Report

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>>57536243
I agree that Wotter is better, but Oshawott does make some sense if you think of it as "wash" and "otter" with some mild spoonerism.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:17:45 No.57536294 Report

Quoted By: >>57536301

I get the necro, but what the fuck is the -zma for?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:19:03 No.57536301 Report

Quoted By: >>57536319

>>57536294
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ozma

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:22:20 No.57536313 Report

Quoted By: >>57536378 >>57536427 >>57536442 >>57536795

>Ho-Oh
>Kyogre
>Palkia
>Dialga
>Yveltal
all these names are just plain awkward, with Ho-Oh literally being the animal it's based off of
how should these be changed?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:22:54 No.57536319 Report

Quoted By: >>57536326

>>57536301
huh. Thats actually neat.
Makes ya wonder what the -ga- in the middle of sol(sun)-ga-leo(lion) is for, though you could just bullshit it as engrish, same for the -la in lunala.

wasnt mewtwo conceptualized before mew? but this's unrelated so y'domt have to answer it if ydont wanna

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:23:33 No.57536325 Report

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>>57536266
I hate the memeword too, but I also agree there's not many ways to get "small" or its synonyms and "olive" to work together in English. Its Japanese name, Minive, doesn't roll well. The closest alternative I could think up is Olivini.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:24:13 No.57536326 Report

Quoted By: >>57536328

>>57536319
Galileo?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:24:45 No.57536328 Report

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>>57536326
Maybe im just retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:31:39 No.57536363 Report

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>>57536288
Ah.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:33:39 No.57536370 Report

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>>57536243
I always said "Ah-sha-wott" but now it occurs to me Oshawott's meant to be "Ocea-wott".

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:34:49 No.57536378 Report

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>>57536313
Aren't legendary names consistent across all languages for marketing purposes? Making a pun doesn't really work then, and I think they all sound cool enough. You could also read Yveltal with an "evil" sound to it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:42:45 No.57536425 Report

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>>57536243
Wotter is also terrible

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:43:36 No.57536427 Report

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>>57536313
I imagine most of these are based on Japanese or some other ESL language, so I'll just Americanize them.

>Ho-Oh
Phoenidise (phoenix bird of paradise)
not great
>Kyogre
Leviabyss (Leviathan Abyss)
too much overlap (gorebyss)
>Palkia
Spearl (space pearl)
not good either
>Dialga
Timond (time diamond)
better but not sufficient
>Yveltal
Yvernity (Y wyvern eternity)
the most passable of these perhaps

the problem with legendary names is that they require more grandiose references to work for their nature and they have to sound more like a personal name than a species

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 19:47:03 No.57536442 Report

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>>57536313
>Ho-Oh
I like how the English localization corrupted Hōō (Houou) to separate it from the real word and to make it easy for basic English speakers to read the pronunciation or else those people would've probably read it as "Hoo" or "Ho-uu". The same could be said for Suicune from Suikun, pronounced the same, but spelled differently. Now, why didn't they do the same to Raikou? Raikou and Houou have the same "ou", so why didn't the localizers name it Raikoh?
>>57536378
It is for the legendary Pokémon that are marketed on the covers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 20:08:54 No.57536529 Report

Quoted By: >>57536621

This is a pet peeve of mine, but I hate how a fair amount of dragon pokemon just have part of the word 'dragon' in their fucking names.
>Flygon, Bagon, Shelgon, Druddigon, Hydreigon, Kingdra, Goodra, Dragapult, Dragalgae etc

Also there are too many cat pokemon that use 'meow' or 'purr' as the basis of their names.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 20:33:25 No.57536621 Report

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>>57536529
I agree, but Hydreigon is a really good name.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 20:55:21 No.57536699 Report

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Problem: Regirock, Regice, Registeel, Regigigas, Regieleki, Regidrago
>Option 1: Regi-Rock, Regi-Ice, Regi-Steel, Regi-Gigas, Regi-Eleki, Regi-Drago
>Option 2: Regrock, Regice, Regsteel, Regigas, Regeleki, Regdrago
Pick 1.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 21:09:02 No.57536749 Report

Quoted By: >>57537879

>>57529732
Pinnitusk
>>57529769
Venshocka
>>57529949
Blazehawk
>>57536243
Bobbleott

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 21:20:18 No.57536795 Report

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>>57536313
I think these are all fine. like someone else said, legendary names feel a bit more 'personal' instead of just being puns, it works for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 21:22:29 No.57536808 Report

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>>57536179
None of them are bad im a vacuum, they're saying it's bad having two evolution lines with such similar naming schemes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 10 Mar 2025 21:24:11 No.57536816 Report

Quoted By: >>57537867

>>57536179
None of them are bad in a vacuum, they're saying it's bad having two evolution lines with such similar naming schemes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 00:51:23 No.57537867 Report

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>>57536816
Right after one another too. Whoever localized the names really phoned it in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 00:53:53 No.57537873 Report

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>>57535626
This name is fucking awesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Mar 2025 00:54:53 No.57537879 Report

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>>57536749
these are all dogshit

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