Rejected Pokemon Nicknames

[TheRightToArmBears]

Oh man, tons. My friends and I only really nickname Pokemon when we're breeding them for eachother, so they're always fairly inappropriate (we are the height of maturity). That said, it looks like I'm going to be fielding 420BLAZEIT1! the Torkoal in online battles soon. I'm going to look like such a dick.

 

[Something Amyss]

One of the actual names for a Pokemon prevented it from being tradable in the generation it was introduced - Cofagrigus.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cofagrigus

Myself though, never nicknamed anything that has had trouble getting through the filter.

Several have, at least in some language. I remember the whole Bulbasaur family was unable to be traded with default names in at least one gen because it contained "sau." They make explicit exceptions for Poké names now, don't they?

 

[FirstNameLastName]

Since online play, Nintendo's imposed some rules on what you can and can't nickname your little guys.

Nice to see how online everything is enriching our gaming experience in recent years.

I'm honestly not sure why this pisses me off as much as it does, since i never name my pokemon anything childish, nor have i played any pokemon game in a long time. But it really does annoy me how companies decide that a game now has to be online, so the internet connection comes hand in hand with a comically over-zealous censor.
I get that it's supposed to shelter children from the horrors of vocabulary, but when your censor is flagging your own official names then i think that might be the point that you should reassess your methods.

 

[smithy_2045]

It's really disappointing that "hump" is on the bad word list. Couldn't name my Chespin "Chumpette" or my Numel "Humper" without making it look silly with a double "m".

 

[loa]

Since online play, Nintendo's imposed some rules on what you can and can't nickname your little guys.

Nice to see how online everything is enriching our gaming experience in recent years.

I'm honestly not sure why this pisses me off as much as it does, since i never name my pokemon anything childish, nor have i played any pokemon game in a long time. But it really does annoy me how companies decide that a game now has to be online, so the internet connection comes hand in hand with a comically over-zealous censor.
I get that it's supposed to shelter children from the horrors of vocabulary, but when your censor is flagging your own official names then i think that might be the point that you should reassess your methods.

They already just display the default names instead of nicknames in online battles but I guess receiving pokemon with names you don't care about is worth forcing a filter onto everyone, online and offline.
Who doesn't love receiving that japanese rattata whose kanji you can't read and which in turn you'll never actually use in your team because you can't rename it which is also a well beloved feature I'm sure?

 

[144_v1legacy]

HA!
I have yet a new ridiculous entry to the list, for those who are interested:
I tried to name my Pineco "Cone of Pine"
...
nope!

 

[RJ 17]

Someone name their starter "Buhtsecks". I bet that'd make it through. =3