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CAP 10 CAP 10 - Name Submissions

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Final Submission

Garleam

Garnele + Gleam
Garnele is the German word for "shrimp" or "prawn". And because this is pokemon is a shrimp, I thought it would be appropriate. This is the Water type part of the name. Also, isn't Garnele some kind of stone?
Gleam: Brightness, or sparkle. I thought this would show CaP 10's Electric typing. Also, CaP 10 kind of gleams. :)
This was quite a quick idea but I quite liked it.

I think Krillowatt, Krillolith and Ebion are all great names for the new CaP. Kramp gave me a good laugh (because it was funny. I thought it was quite a good name).
 
Ebion's my personal favorite, as it's punny, rolls off the tongue, and I'm a huge weeaboo. Rakavolt's pretty cool too.

Volateur is apparently the French world for Volador, which is a Californian Flying fish. Which would've worked for Cyzir's entry, if it weren't for you meddling kids. As such, it's a toss up between Voltateur and Crevolt/Crevoltte: portmanteau of crevette de volt, which literally means volt shrimp.
 
Poking my nose into CAP 10, my ideas are:

Euphasill, pronounced "You-fah-zill". From Euphausia a genus of krill, phase as in of a wave or electric circuit, and krill because I think it makes it sound better than other endings.

or

Awn, dead simple - we need more Pokemon with three letter names!

Of existing names, Krillowatt's my favourite.
 
Since everyone is playing with languages, let's see what we can do with portuguese.
"Shrimp" and "Krill" are both Camarão (Kah-mah-rao).

Camaion, as in Camarão + Ion? Camavolt, Camashock, Camabolt, Camander (+ Thunder), Camactric (+ Electric)...

To be honest, I like the sound of Camabolt and Camactric, as horrible puns as they are.
 
I'm really not convinced with all these names based on the word "shrimp" or "prawn" in any language other than English. Generally speaking, the name of a pokemon should be descriptive of that pokemon in an obvious way, and generally speaking, using foreign languages has the exact opposite effect unless the word is incredibly well-known. Indeed, it is much easier to make sense of Prawnto or Flashrimp or Krillowatt than it is to make sense of Ebion or Badawang or Rakavolt.

EDIT: OK, since Pokemon originated in Japan, it does make some sense to have elements of Japanese in some pokemon names, so Ebion is perhaps passable. As for the rest of the foreign language-based names, I'd rather we called CAP10 Pinky than the German word for shrimp combined with the Spanish word for lightning.
 
Objection said:
I'm really not convinced with all these names based on the word "shrimp" or "prawn" in any language other than English. Generally speaking, the name of a pokemon should be descriptive of that pokemon in an obvious way, and generally speaking, using foreign languages has the exact opposite effect unless the word is incredibly well-known. Indeed, it is much easier to make sense of Prawnto or Flashrimp or Krillowatt than it is to make sense of Ebion or Badawang or Rakavolt.
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This.

I also think there's a danger in having many very similar sounding submissions.
Jumbolt, Gumbolt, Bubbolt, for example. If they all make it to the clicky-poll phase, then obviously there's a large pool of voters that likes the general sound. However, that pool will be divided and none of them will win. If you're going to post a name submission that is very similar to one posted earlier, be aware that you are weakening the end-game support for both submissions.
 
Final submission: Cevishell

ceviche (type of food that has shrimp) + shell (from shellfish, also related to its high HP)

just trying to be creative. Personally, i prefer names that dont have amp, ohm, volt or that sort stuck in there, it does not sound natural for the most part, with the exception of scampi
 
Final Submission:

Voltrawn (volt + prawn)

Is it reminiscent of a Transformer? Yes. Does it still work as a name? I'd say yes. It's simple, straightforward, flows easily, and gets the point across (heck, Transformers are built to adapt to different threats, right?)....not to mention it's by far as good as I'm going to come up with, however generic it is. So, here's Voltrawn.
 
I just edited my final sub to "Frittere," so if anyone feels like submitting Shramp or Tempurwatt, go for it. If anyone feels like telling me that those are better names and I'm a fool for siding with Frittere, you can go for that, as well.
 
Final Submission:

Kopapod


An alternate spelling of Copepod (a la Seel/Dewgong) highlights both form and function. Shrimp aren't technically copepods, but they're darned close. Additionally, this CAP has the ability to cope with a lot of threats.

As far as other submissions go, I think the best electric/shrimp portmanteau is Scampere. After reading Scampere, my immediate thought was "dang, what's the rest of the thread for?"
 
Apocalypse B-C said:
Final Submission:

Voltrawn (volt + prawn)

Is it reminiscent of a Transformer? Yes. Does it still work as a name? I'd say yes. It's simple, straightforward, flows easily, and gets the point across (heck, Transformers are built to adapt to different threats, right?)....not to mention it's by far as good as I'm going to come up with, however generic it is. So, here's Voltrawn.
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Umm, you do know that Voltron was an old TV show from the 80s and Voltron itself was like a precursor to the Megazord from Power Rangers right?

Calling it a Transformer...well that's just wrong.


Good idea though!
 
Final Submission

Hycrustaik [ High - krus - tey - ik ]

Hydro + Crustacean + Voltaic

Basically, I tried to combined three things into one. Water, Electric, and a shrimp based name. Originally, I tried to add flexible or tactile into it but that didn't work out so I ended up using the more obvious three. Crustacean might have been a weird choice but if you tried Hyshritaik or Hyprataik or even Hylobtaik (lobster lol), It didn't fit very well for me :[
 
I have two questions:

- Is it too late to change my final submission? If so, I'm totally okay with the name, but if not...

- Should I add an extra "L" in the name to make Krillowatt? I didn't know my name would be too popular. I thought a lot of people would get to it before me.
 
Seizen said:
It gives us a "prawn" reference which isn't very well-known,

so the puns aren't very useful
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Uhhhhh if we aren't going to know it and there aren't useful puns then what does this name have going for it?

capefeather said:
But seriously, "pot" is a common shorthand for "potentiometer"

(Sadly, I did go to the Wikipedia page to refresh my memory on some of these things. At least I admit it, guys.)
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That isn't common at all unless you use it in your field of choice. This is a Pokemon forum.

Tortferngatr said:
Okay. Does Whaiatt sound better?

The "i" was inserted to give a legitimate excuse for a triple vowel in its name.
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I have no idea what that is even supposed to represent without having to dig up your post and seeing that it's shitty slang with a random letter thrown in. There is no "watt" in there, there is "what".

Raseri said:
Malacostraca is the class that most crustaceans belong too,
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That's great and all but this isn't zoology class.

If someone has to go to wikipedia or look at your post to see what the name is supposed to represent, it's a bad name. Everyone is really trying too hard now that all the simple names have been posted.
 
Final Submission - Amaebi

Amaebi is japanese for sweet shrimp (though you may know it as a kind of sushi) and our cap is a sweet cute little shrimp.
 
familyguyman said:
Umm, you do know that Voltron was an old TV show from the 80s and Voltron itself was like a precursor to the Megazord from Power Rangers right?

Calling it a Transformer...well that's just wrong.


Good idea though!
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Oh. Had never actually heard of Voltron, just thought it sounded like Megatron >_> Shows what I know. Thanks, in any case. (the point still stands, Wiki'd Voltron and it does seem to be an excellent multitasker/adaptor/whatever)

....and yeah, this pokemon is fairly simple design-wise. The complex names aren't necessary (and believe me, I love complex names <_<). Personally, I think Krillowatt would be a perfect name, but Scampere and Ebion are able to get away with being a little fancier. If those don't end up the as the final 3 names on the board at the end, I'll be surprised.
 
SinisterSamurai said:
Frittere:
Fritter (Delicious fried foods often containing shrimp) + Ampere (a measured unit of electric current).

Has the added benefit of sounding like "Tare" at the end, as in "Tare Weight." It essentially means to re-zero the scale. CAP10 is kinda supposed to counter stuff and even the playing field, so it loosely fits. I guess it also sounds like critter.

Edit: Oh, snap, Deck Knight. Nice.
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Instead of trying to suggest a good name, which I can't come up with, I'm going to throw my support to Frittere. It kind of sounds Cajun, which is the first thing I thought of when I saw the design.
 
I have to agree with Tennisace on all points made... I was actually going to point out some other problems with other useless names but I wasn't sure if that was grounds for infraction. (maybe I'll keep my mouth shut just in case)
thegamer128 said:
I have two questions:

- Is it too late to change my final submission? If so, I'm totally okay with the name, but if not...

- Should I add an extra "L" in the name to make Krillowatt? I didn't know my name would be too popular. I thought a lot of people would get to it before me.
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Hmm... Krilowat VS Krillowat....? ...I thought the second L would be good at first, but visually, one L looks better to me.

Also, I'd be willing to support 'Scampere' if the spelling was changed to Scamparay / Scampiray (assuming that's how the name was pronounced). Lends itself more to an Electric theme with 'ray' in there, but as I said before, I don't really like the idea of naming our liddle shrimpy CAP-10 after something that you're supposed to eat, in general. x\
 
tennisace said:
That isn't common at all unless you use it in your field of choice. This is a Pokemon forum.
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Yeah. Nonetheless, I still personally like the name, as I thought what we all probably did when we first read the name: that it really was simply a combination of the words "shrimp" and "pot" ("pot" having been from such an uncommonly seen term really caught me off guard at least as I was reading it). Thinking about it that way, it still works pretty much the same way: the things that you put into a pot depends on what you're cooking, which of course also depends on who exactly you're cooking for. Similarly, the moves, EVs, etc, you choose for CAP10 will depend on just what you're trying to go after with it.

So while the actual meaning of that name would probably escape people, the meaning that they actually would think of still works, and one of those particular meanings (the one described above) is why it's one of my favorite submissions so far: it combines CAP10's actual physical appearance (a shrimp) with what it's made to do (be very adjustable and customizable). I was trying to do similar in my own submission, but could only figure out something that incorporated it's typing with it's nature. Capefeather's submission actually did manage to do both though, which has it being one of my favorite submissions so far.
 
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