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I actually like the name of Type: Null, It sounds like the name uncaring scientists would give to their experiment. I also really like how when it evolves its name changes to sound more like how you would typically name a pokemon, like through your help it could finally move on from its dark past and become a Silvally.

I love the fact that you *have* to nickname sharpedo and cofagrigus to trade them because they have certain bad words *in* their names lmao

Feraligatr should have a dex entry like "Dubbed "Feralligator" by researchers, it was later shortened to fit into early Pokedexes' character limits. The new name stuck."

On names, i remember naming my buzzwole "Swolesquito" instead and being proud of how much more fun it was to say... whether or not it was actually a better name. xD

Honestly what made me really like Incineroar’s name was Slimecicle’s smash bros video on him when he said the line “I don’t make the crowd incineclap, I don’t make them incinecheer, I make them incineROAR” with a hulk hogan impression. Was honestly brilliant.

I recently realized that Ninetales also pulls from its folklore inspiration in its name, hence why "tales" is spelled the way it is, which makes the name actually pretty solid IMO even though it sounds really basic.

The thing about the Regi names is that they follow a certain pattern in Japanese. Regirock = レジロック Rejirokku Regice = レジアイス Rejiaisu Registeel = レジスチル Rejisuchiru Regigigas = レジギガス Rejigigasu Regieleki = レジエレキ Rejieleki Regidrago = レジドラゴ Rejidorago The Regi names, when written in katakana, are all six characters long. I'm not sure if this was originally because of a technical limitation, but now it seems like a deliberate stylistic choice to shorten, like with "eleki" and "dorago". They _could_ contract Regieleki to Regileki like how Regi-ice is Regice, but the latter is justified since "ice" is already in the name. "Leki" in Regileki doesn't really scream "electric", so they kept it as Regieleki

Funny how Emolga is on the list, as it’s the only Pikaclone whose name was actually altered from the Japanese version. In the Japanese version it’s known as Emonga

I will *NEVER* get over the fact that they went with Mudbray into Mudsdale instead of Mudbray into Clodsdale. They went for two instances of sticking "mud" in font of a donkey/horse word instead of combining Clod with Clydesdale, like a clod of dirt, no they said "Mud + Donkey Noise: Bray, uh, Mud + Type of Horse: Clydesdale. Done. Couldn't possibly be a good pun+portmanteau in there."

I think the worst part about Persian is that if you dont specify "pokemon" in a search it literally has no idea what to bring up lol

To be fair, Iris's Emolga in the anime did make her name sound cute whenever talking.

Pirowing could have worked for Tallonflame. It's a peregrine falcon, arrows that twirl (or pirouette a French word like from the Kalos region) are super fast, and pyro means fire.

As a spanish speaker is really funny to me how half of the "bad names" become incredible/pronunciable when you speak spanish

With Incineroar, it's also close to the Spanish verb "Incinerar" which obviously means to incinerate.

As a spanish speaker, Zorua, Zoroark and Zeraora sound amazing! I kind of expected your "Darkrai is a bad name" from a few years ago. I think is one of the coolest sounding names but it kinda blew my mind when you said it was Dark twice being (Dark Kurai). I always thought it as "The darkness cry" which made a lot of sense in my head regarding how he's always running to not damage others

My favorite pokemon name is definitely Torterra. Gets across what it is. Has a nice heavy sound for a nice heavy pokemon. Hits the ear well. I always thought it was also a syllable swap of like "territory" which makes sense with the landmass on its back. But, I've never seen anyone talk about that, so maybe that's just me.

I kind of like that Incineroar starts with the "Incin" part of its name. The short i sounds make it sound more like the word "intimidate", which is clearly a design factor they were going for

The examples you used of "Oh which one is Chinchou?" and whatnot makes me really want a Real-Or-Fakemon style series on this channel where you get friends who aren't knowledgeable on Pokemon, give them like 10 names and pngs, and get them to match them up.

Back when Gen 5 was first released and I heard that one of the Pokémon was to be called 'Sawk', what came to mind for me was a Steel/Flying type in the vein of Skarmory (saw + hawk).

About that part with Feraligatr and Victreebel. We have that in french too. Pansear, Panpour and Pansage are named Flamajou, Flotajou and Fleuillajou respectively (Flamme is pretty obvious, Flotter means to float and Fuillage means foliage. They also all come from sapajou, a group of small monkeys from south america). And then they evolve into Flamoutan (outan comes from orang-outan), Flotoutan and Feuiloutan with only one L because the second one wouldn't fit in the character limit ! Feuillajou is pronounced sorta like fuh-yah-joo justfine but Feuiloutan because of the missing L and ho french works should be said like fuh-y'-loo-tan and not fuh-yoo-tan. Another funny french name fact is Quagsire's. Prior to gen 5, pokémon names were always in capital letters and thus didn't feature diacritics. So in gen 5 they started adding them and made some changes to previous names so that we pronounce them right. French can use a lot of diacritics to alter or clarify the way a letter should be pronounced. the most common ones are é, è, ê and ô. So for example Léviator (Gyarados) is spelled Léviator which sounds like ley-vyah-tore and not Leviator which would sound like luv-yah-tore. But Quagsire's name did not get an accent. it stayed Maraiste but should actually be spelled Maraisté. The name is a clever combination of Marais (swamp or marsh) and Majesté (this one's obvious). But i guess it wasn't obvious enough and people got used to pronouncing it mah-rest, and it didn't get the accent in gen 5, until Julien Bardakoff (this guy gave the french names for the first 251 Pokémon all by himself and is the reason why we get custom french names unlike Spanish or Italian which stick to english names.) showed up on a streamer's chat and explained the name to everyone and why it should not be said mah-rest, but mah-ress-tay. Maraiste still doesn't get an accent despite gen 8 and 9 being released afterwards and is still more often pronounced the wrong way but personally i like Maraisté better, before i knew about it the end of the name was confusing to me, i didn't know what it came from and it sounded a bit odd.

Always felt that a better name for Regieleki would have been Regishock

When I first saw Yamask when I was playing Black for the first time, I wasn't really paying that much mind to the name Yamask. Instead, my eyes were glued to its design. And just knew I wanted to name it Imhotep from the 99 remake of the moive The Mummy. And this was before I knew what it evolved into to mind you.

I think a decent name for Dewpider could have been Spidew. It’s a portmanteau, and maybe it doesn’t sound great but I think it’s kinda cute

14:09 In german, Talonflame is called "Fiaro", which is basically the japanese name and kind of sounds the same as it, with english pronunciation. But on the other hand, we don't have Fearow in german, but "Ibitak", which is probably a reason for that.

To Lockstin and the viewers: as someone who favors more than half of the Pikachu clones we’ve received over the years for cuteness, I will say that while I really appreciate Emolga for being an adorable flying squirrel, I don’t hate its name and find it really cute. But what would you change its name to?

Y'all I'm sobbing they misspelled Garbodor

For spanish people Regieleki is pronounced more as re-gi-eh-le-ki, making the transition between regi and eleki smoother by having different vowels.

2:05: -The enemy Lockstin used “Aggressiveness Toward Pokémon”. It was not very effective. -Seel has used Aurora Beam. -The enemy Lockstin Froze solid and can’t move. -Seel has used Body Slam! -The enemy Lockstin fainted.

I've often wondered what level of communication exists between the developers and localisers, in terms of names specifically.

I guess we all needed to give Lockstin an excuse to play with his plushes.

Lockstin: *leaves the screen as the video ends* Decidueye hiding on the ceiling fan: "That was too close"

i feel like Eternatus is a generic fantasy/comic book name, Druddigon is also fine if you don't have dyslexia lol. Also to your point about kids not getting Brionne's name, they probably wouldn't get Sableye either. I didn't know til this video what a sable was. Also the spelling is weird, is it sable-eye or say-blye? One of the best names is Sudowoodo, which is specifically to troll kids. It looks like a tree, so why wouldn't a kid try fire attacks? Most kids won't get the joke immediately, and I know people who haven't realized until later its pseudo wood, or that its a petrified tree. Another thing, Incineroar is based on Tiger Mask, the most famous Japanese pro wrestler. Alola is Hawaii, and Japan has a lot of cultural influence there. King from Tekken is also inspired by Tiger Mask.

In defence of grimmsnarl I think it makes it sound like a fantastic monster from Alice in Wonderland, think Jabberwock, Bandersnatch, Grimmsnarl, it fits right in

Here's a hot take: Klink/Klang/Klinklang are perfectly fine names, if a bit unimaginative. You start two simple little gears, it makes a little *klink* sound; then you have several cogs moving back and forth against each other, the sound is a slightly more substantial *klang* sound; finally, the mechanism becomes much more complex, complete with great big *klink-KLANG* noises! Small wonder that it was one of the first Pokémon to learn the new move Autotomize in B/W, a steeltype move that sheds excess parts to greatly boost speed and lower weight, something that happens to machinery naturally through usage, or as part of improving production efficiency. Here's a name I can't make sense of: Pineco. It's a pinecone, but it's a bug type, but it doesn't look enough like a bagworm like Burmy eventually would. Forretress ALMOST makes sense, it's bug/steel and, if you squint, it's a forest-dwelling fortress bristling with artillery. It honestly makes me wonder if there were redesigns to tone down the military looks, like they did with Remoraid and Octillery.

I think chinchou's name makes plenty of sense when you realize it is likely derived from 提灯 (chouchin), the Japanese word for lantern. Just because you did not understand the origin does not mean it was unreasonable, especially given that it is based on a lantern fish.

I pretty much disagreed with every name you disliked, Emolga is probably my favorite Pika Clone Names, but that might be cuz of the anime the way Emolga's Voice actor say Emolga is so fun and cute, and Dragalge is literally one of my favorite Pokemon names ever

ironically most of the names you had trouble pronouncing sound good with a spanish pronunciation because we actually tend to have with exceptions some words that repeat a letter and they make the same sound so yeah... its the english pronunciation that makes them sound weird because of the sounds that are needed

Upon learning that Talonflame is called Fiarrow in japanese im infinitely sadder that they changed it. fiarrow is such a cool and fitting name for that pokemon.

I mean, Type: Null makes since because it’s an artificial pokemon with the intent of having a null type. Sivally is less an evolution and more it being freed and being given a name

I love that the haunter at 3:57 is shiny.

Never realized how much more I would've liked "Purrsian" until just now. It even looks more like a Pokémon name.

To be fair... I think Talonflame is not just Talon and Flame, but Talon and Enflame, to burst into flames. It's got talons and enflames itself when it attacks.

I always pronounce Regieleki’s name as Regileki lol, just made more sense to me

6:37 what's all that movement back there?

How was it not mentioned that the worst part of Talonflame is that ITS TALONS ARE NOT EVEN ON FIRE

3:46 ironically one of our dogs ended up going by the name Little Dog because my mom forgot his name and it stuck it was exactly what he responded to its hilarious

I think Incineroar is a great name. I personally find it fun to say, and Incinerate transitions into Roar very well. I personally don't believe a name needs to specify it's species. I made a Fakemon called Draconace because it's a Draconic Menace. I'll give you one try to guess what it's based on. It's an Alligator. (Also I'm proud of it's prevo's name Callaconic coming from Cadet, Alligator, and Draconic)

I always pronounced the E in "regieleki" as a neutral vowel (think the 2nd E in "elephant"). The same as I do in "electric", is eelektrik's name a homophone with "electric" to some people? I agree about simipour. I always thought "simisea" would kind of work better than "simipour", as the other 2 have names which double as reflecting their type and the trio's origins of the 3 wise monkeys; "sage" for both the herb and meaning wise, and "sear" which means burn and also rhymes with "hear" as in "hear no evil". "Sea" is both a body of water and a homophone with "see", as in "see no evil". But I guess kind of like "fiarrow", that may have got scrapped because so many gen 1 pokémon used up "sea" as an etymon already (horsea, seadra and seaking), so the developers decided to do the next best thing and use "pour" to alliterate with the unevolved "pan" instead of something starting with "S" to alliterate with the final forms' "simi". And I guess "sea" wouldn't exactly suit a geyser pokémon either, but ehhh... Ekans's Japanese name actually is a bit more clever, as "Arbo" is both "Arbok" with a letter subtracted and the 2 Japanese characters that spell "boa" backwards. I guess I can kind of see why it wasn't kept, but on the other hand, if "Gyarados" is ok, surely a name based on a Japanese transliteration of an English word should be fine. Speaking of, I definitely think the early gens' transliterating some of the Japanese names left something to be desired. By the sounds of it, "gyarados" is supposed to be pronounced like it's spelled but is pronounced as if the Y isn't there because the voice actors in the dub found the name too hard to pronounce properly. In that case, why try to keep it at all, and if no one could think of a better replacement why not at least alter the spelling to reflect the altered pronunciation? Same with "raikou", the developers did have the foresight to alter suicune's name from the standard Japanese transliteration so it was clear it rhymed with "dune" and not "bun", so why not do the same with raikou's name instead of leaving it so anyone who reads it predictably assumes it rhymes with "you"? The developers literally made that exact change with "ho-oh", so why the heck did someone think that vowel distinction that doesn't exist in English was worth trying to preserve in just that one case?

One of the names that bothers me the most isn't because of the name itself but because of the anime's pronunciation of it. Skiddo is a really great name. A young goat is a kid, human kids are often called kiddo, and I imagine it tends to skid to a halt when it's running. The goat goes, and the kid skids. So why on Earth did the anime pronounce it "Skidoo"?! I assume they were referencing the phrase "23 skidoo," but that's not how it's spelled. That one has bothered me for years.

*slowly looks at Seel* “…I hope you’re on this list…” Edit: 2:05 …I am happy

Nihilego is pronuncied like "neel aego" reading it in Latin, and it sounds amazing imo! I know that because i studied Latin, and nihil ego means literally "no myself", referring to the fact that it is a parassite with apparently no personality and self-consciousness.

11:02 Least they brought back fat pikachu with gigantamax. "And there was much rejoicing" least until the dexit controversy happened...

15:09 Hear me out... Lucharoar.

Leccy in some parts of the UK is a slang word for electric so having it as Regileki which is in Galar of all places would of made a lot of sense

5:52 At the least it does sound like a regi cry in the anime, they tend to stutter their names a lot.

I don't think pokemon names necessarily need to be ham fistedly obvious portmanteaus lol, I think the sound of it is more important. pikachu isn't very obvious (in english) but still it fits the pokemon and has a nice ring to it

I will say that I distinctly remember being very good at vocabulary in middle and high school and I feel like Pokémon names had at least some effect on that, that’s why I personally like the hard to understand obscure names because it is an avenue to learn (through something like the videos you make)

I remember being extremely disappointed by Talonflame's name back when I first saw it in X and Y, since its prevos had such a strong naming theme that was just dropped out of nowhere in favor of something 7-year-old me would have smugly nicknamed a Moltres. I always felt like "Flarrow" [FLARE-oh] would have been distinct enough from the gen 1 bird to have worked.

With the Scarlet/Violet out, Talon Flame sound like a Past Paradox Pokemon name.

2:46 For Digimon the mon in their names is basically a file extension so all Digimon names basically chock up to that really simple naming structure of word plus mon(ster). Rhinomon the rhino monster.

Personally I think all these names have their own unique adorable charm Especially the way they are said in the anime

Just a note about Grimmsnarl. Its name isn't simply 2 words put together. The "Grimm" part of the name is also a reference to the Brothers Grimm, whose fairy tales act as an inspiration for that whole line.

The confusion of Faraligatr's name is very evident in the fact that I used to pronounce it Feral-ig-a-tar. I saw feral, and without that extra O at the end, I didn't register it as being Alligator

9:18 australian here. They’re so easy to say. Zor-oo-ah Zor-oark Zeh-rah-or-ah. 9:49 Drud-ee-gon. 10:05 Nigh-hil-lay-go. 11:20 Why does Brionne have to have a watery name? When I was a child I didn’t know what a golem was, and just went off of the fact it looked like a boulder. Brionne is a blue seal thats obviously an evolution of the water type starter. You’re gonna know it’s water type regardless.

To note though, Digimon are programs so the “mon” is sort of like the “.exe” of their computer code. I think Digimon names work pretty well actually.

I would have liked Talonflame’s English name to have been Flaregrine (Flare + Peregrine)

I would argue that Monster Hunter is another game that puts a lot of thought into creature names

I don't mind the weird and simple names some pokemon have, in my opinion it makes them feel more grounded. After all, we have animals named after what they do, such as the fly, woodpecker, anteater, sloth. Honestly most stuff doesn't sounds good until it does

I actually love Dewpider as a name! I always pronounced it as "dew-pih-der" and when I realized it was Dew-spider I loved it ever since.

You can still pronounce Regieleki like “Regileki” The “ie” sound/formation of vowels is a thing Y’all just put an imaginary hyphen in Regieleki’s name

0:45 Holy crap I never noticed that the blue top of Cofagrigus head disappears when it closes, what's up with that? Does it happen on it's 3D model?

15:24 No, that's trademark. Can't copyright a name.

Pokémon with the Best Names

1:12 I love how you intentionally passed over the real Chinchou for Wailmer. 1:30 Ah, yes. Purugly. The definition of SPEED. A cat is supposedly faster than literal fighter jet dragons. I feel like this joke came from a place of Team Galactic PTSD.

2:54 Batterymon is an even deeper cut than the appmon of the same name, it only appeared in the Xros Loader vpet when the battery was running low. Wonder how long before it gets a Digimon Enclyopedia/Reference Book entry (I mean if even the original digimon in Digimon New Century and the long-neglected digimon of Digimon World 3 (Valvemon aside as it's been in two of the anime now) can get these)

9:15 All of these have two syllabales. Zoru*a, Zoro*ark and zera*oraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraoraora! Only real offender here when it comes to rolling off the tongue weird is Zoroark. Zeraora is on the border line though.

I've really grown to enjoy Decidueye's name as rowlet is my favorite pokemon and Decidueye is my main in Pokemon unite. But I somehow am slowly becoming a Horticulture person and so the "deci" part of its name I always enjoyed deciduous trees, Decidueye a ghost type. Super clever, always enjoyed it I've never really found any names that I don't like, I'm a fairly positive person

I always thought "Druddigon" was like the "digon" sounds like "diggin'" and it...lives in caves? But of course, it isn't ground type and it EXPLICITLY does not dig it's den... Also you should have tried to rename them to be better! Like, we got "Beltigre" but what about others? Sidenote: I have always been mad that Honedge wasn't named HEXCALIBER

“Talonflame Sounds Like A Cheesy Warrior Cats Oc Name” Same Gnoggin, Same 😂

10:40 " it's yah-vul-tahl"

That was a very interesting video, because most names you said that were difficult to pronunce I think are easy to pronunce, but I have a really bad time with gen 3 and 6, I think it's because of our differences on birth languages. Maybe it's possible to ask someone opinions on Pokémon names and try to deduce which country they are from.

Its druh di gon. I never struggled with it. But I understand maybe having trouble with it. Also the reason every Digimon ends with mon is that its the type of file they are, like png, jpg and the like. They are computer data after all.

For a while I was convinced that Rillaboom was called Drummerilla. I don't know how I got that but I'm mad that it's not actually it's name.

"Oh. It's a mystic that meows." That literally never occurred to me until just this second. I just liked how it was the first ever gendered pairing that actually had symbiotic roles with each other. The male is the defender/distracter, the female is the attacker.

5:45 you guys have been pronouncing regieleki with the first e? ive just kept saying it like Regileki as if the first E didnt exist cause Eleki has the same E sound as the end of Regi so i assumed it was meant to flow into the other half

Could always go with Pyrogrine for Talonflame, since it's base on a Peregrine Falcon.

Was that a JULES GAIA song I heard during your sponsor segment!? Love that artist

13:59 To be fair, Talonflame is not only a valid warriors name, it would also be badass in the world of warriors, especially since their naming conventions make it sound better in that series context. Talons are on eagles, which hunt cats in the series, and flames are a devastating force that can destroy entire territories. Talonflame sounds cool, but only as a warrior cats name. It's still stupid, especially in a series with such creative names compared to this kids scholastic book series.

8:23 I’ve always thought Dewpider should just be named “Spidew”. It gets the same point across, & sounds WAY better to say out loud!

2:00 Everyone always mentions these two, but no one ever mentions Cloyster, which is just a portmanteau of cloy and cloister, kind of.

Regarding the Digimon naming convention, think of them like filenames. Like.. Agu.MON. Agu being the onomatopeia for "agu agu", which is chewing. It's not that the names are lazy (yeah Rhinomon is kinda lazy) but you can't really compare them.

I think they dropped the "T" in Frostmoth for Frosmoth that way it can have "osmo" (from osmosis) in the name

Why wasn't Dewpider named Spidew? It was riiiight there

Fiarrow holds a special place in my heart. This must be how parents feel when their rich neighbor steals your baby's name.

You got to come around and talk about the german names at some point. I see so much potential there!

Druddigon is literally one the few (only?) mentions Galar gave to Wales. Dd=th

Regieleki could’ve also should’ve been Regitric

To be fair for regieleki’s case, It sound a lot better when you pronounce the e as “uh” instead of “ee”

I like the name Alcremie because either way you pronounce it ("Al-crem-e" or "All-creamy") it makes sense, kind of like Tigrex from Monster Hunter.