pokemon name revamp

monkfish

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what are birds? we just don't know.
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it has come to my attention that the pokemon company has finally realised that it is much easier to understand a pokemon if its name describes it properly and accurately:

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with that in mind i suggest that smogon should mark all existing pokemon names as redundant and provide new, more accurate names. for example, the name "pikachu" is extremely unhelpful. the smogon rebranded name will be Yellow Mouse: this helps the user to understand that the pokemon is yellow and is a mouse.

az faint please update the needful in the pokemon netbattle source code.
 
ThatOneSpork

ThatOneSpork

I would like to propose that Breloom is renamed to "Boxing Mushroom" as it accurately describes the general appearance and fighting style of Breloom. Another one I would like to propose is turning Escavalier into "Iron Escargot", as it references both the animal it is based on and the class of fighter it is based on. However, this may be too nuanced for this new naming system and as such could also be substituted for "Spear Snail", which works perfectly fine despite some shortcomings.
 
Bughouse

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Like ships in the night, you're passing me by
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I kinda like the scarlet ancient ones. the double barreled descriptive names are ridiculous but at least kinda creative and kinda fitting for them being ancient lore.

the violet future ones all being Iron X though is incredibly lazy and particularly bad for the majority that are just Iron insert-word-here. The only one that isn't is Iron Jugulis, but that then sounds ridiculous too since the juxtaposition between a word and a non-word is just silly. all in all just a mess.
 
Cratersmash

Cratersmash

Sijih said:
:sudowoodo: - Pokemon which appears to be wood but is not wood (trying to think of way to make this more succinct)
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May I suggest:
Wood But SIKE!
Now some others:
:quagsire:The Best Pokemon
:Clodsire:The Second Best Pokemon
:carnivine:Fleischfressende Insektenpflanze
:gholdengo:Busted Gold Man
:milotic:TOO DAMN BULKY
(I’m a Reevo player btw)
:zacian:Not Even That Good Tbh
(Refer to my above statement)
:honchkrow:He SWAG
:drifloon:Stealing The Children
 
Fusion Flare

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Bughouse said:
I kinda like the scarlet ancient ones. the double barreled descriptive names are ridiculous but at least kinda creative and kinda fitting for them being ancient lore.

the violet future ones all being Iron X though is incredibly lazy and particularly bad for the majority that are just Iron insert-word-here. The only one that isn't is Iron Jugulis, but that then sounds ridiculous too since the juxtaposition between a word and a non-word is just silly. all in all just a mess.
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ah, iron jugulis. the most creative name for by far the laziest paradox design.
 
Brown4Sides

Brown4Sides

Sorry if the sprites are too big, put them in a spoiler so they're not too in the way

Worst Starter
The GOAT
Smol Jugulis
Oink Cologne
Hound Stone
Iron Thorns

Alternative for Gogoat: Why Am I On Champion Geeta's Team
 
dave

dave

i can imagine that
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has anyone heard from GameFreak about these name change suggestions? i’d really love to hit the ground running in 2023
 
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