Introducing: Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott

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  • Snivy (tsutaaja) – Grass Snake Pokemon [Overgrow]
  • Tepig (pokabu) – Fire Pig Pokemon [Blaze]
  • Oshawott (mijumaru) – Sea Otter Pokemon [Torrent]
  • Reshiram – Vast White Pokemon [Turboblaze]
  • Zekrom – Deep Black Pokemon [Teravolt]

Region name: Unova!

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ps- Did the wait kill you?  :p  English name page has been updated as well 😀

pps- These are the people who correctly guessed ‘Snivy’: Roy, oshell, Gerudo_Prince, Ai, ???Unown, Sazando007, Marshmallow, Kitkat, Belmand and finally MIKAL85 was the first to guess it.

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246 thoughts on “Introducing: Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott”

  1. Snivy- I can deal
    Tepig- Wish is was Pigma. 🙁
    Oshawott- Its name is probably a mix of Oshawa, the city in canada whos hockey team is the OTTERS and otter. So their making a candian reference since its right above The Unova States. xP

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  2. i wonder why everyone so upset bout the name change if i remember “sinnoh” was originally “shinou” “hoenn” was “houen” but they just changed isshu to Unova but Unova does sound bad if you really try to pronounce it lol

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    • I understand what you mean, The one person who got the United(Un) Of(ov) America(a) parts from it makes it sound more convincing that its based on America to! Now this means we have all O sound regions again to!

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    • Some people dont hate the names though, its just……. really different. At least the other names of the regions “sinnoh”, “shinou” look alike and sound alike but when you go from Isshu to Unova, its weird. And if you tried to make a joke about Unova i think i get it……….

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      • I think all the names are unique and thats what i said on the first page in that long paragraph lol even though Tepig is obvious the meaning of it is bad ass( i mean come on you cant say “bring the pig into the fold isnt cool” XD) its really weird but like gamefreak said there starting fresh with everything and i guess that means names too XD

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        • Unova Region… the weird United States of America thing you guys just did made me understand where it may have come from. That is extremely clever! Alright, now that that is explained, I think I like that name now~

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          • …or the fact that nova means “new” in latin, and BW is supposed to be an entirely new take on the series…thats my theory anyway

            @Seph: I dont see how it sounds bad if you “try” and pronounce it; oo-no-vah….sounds kinda cool to me

  3. Everyone complaining about Tepig’s name, when you actually pronounce it right (Tehh-Pig) it sounds kind of like “Epic”

    I think I love Pokabu just a little more now.

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  5. Snivy.. said it earlier, so I guess that’s that. It’s the better of the names revealed to me, but it’s still not all that great. Oshawott is too much of an effort to make a decent name, and they missed in the end. Tepig is just.. odd, and somewhat random. Pokemon is mainly aimed towards the younger population.. and not many of them know what the word tepid means. It’s not like the meaning is obvious.. when compared to Pignite and such anyway. This can also be applied to Oshawott.

    Overall ; I don’t like the names.

    I’m also wondering why they renamed Isshu.. it seemed perfectly fine as it was.. I mean, was it really necessary? I’ll stick to the Japanese names haha.

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    • idc what anyone say snivy is a really generic name and i think they could have had a way better name for ivy snake pokemon if i do say so myself. snivy is to much like a fan-made name or something you nickname a pokemon

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      • Well Tsutaja directly translated is snake + ivy. I guess they had no better idea but to just translate Tsutaja into an English phrase that flowed. It’s really not all that awful in comparison to the other two starter’s names to me. But I have to agree.. the names are really wacky.. so much so that when I saw the news I thought it was a prank. XD;

        Oh Nintendo, you really don’t have your wits about you this time.

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  7. really? im savando007? *facepalms*
    i thought id be first to guess it, but i guess not. i swear i did not copy from anyone else though

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  8. Wow. After literally eight hours of doing nothing but looking at the screen of my computer waiting for the names, they come up right after I leave the house for an hour. I’m angry.

    But anyway, I am SO happy I got Snivy’s name right. I’ve been speculating that to be his name ever since I saw his name origin back when he first came out. I even nicknamed my Tsutaja on my White game Snivy. I am just ecstatic I predicted right! :). I truly hope everyone believes me. The other two names, however, are just a bit strange. But thank God Mijumaru’s name is not Wotter.

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    • By the way, I see a lot of you are complaining about the simplicity of Snivy’s name. May I remind you of, in my opinion, the worst named pokemon ever, Treecko the Tree Gecko pokemon? Snivy’s a bit more intelligent than that 😛

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      • Well then… To defend Treecko’s honor I’ll be here to instruct some name origins!
        (Love Treecko and it’s name by the way. Nice and simple. 8D)

        Treecko’s actually the Wood Gecko Pokemon.
        It’s Japanese name, Kimori, is a combination of 木 ki, tree, and either 森 mori, forest,
        or ヤモリ yamori, gecko.
        So, it’s English name is just another usual direct translation.
        A great example would be Snivy, snake + ivy.
        It’s Japanese name, Tsutaaja, is derived from ツタ tsuta, Japanese ivy, and 蛇 ja, snake.

        English names for Pokemon are usually based on their Japanese counterparts in one way or another. So, whatever a Japanese name may be can be the cause of an awesome or awful English name.
        Does anyone else besides me think Snivy’s name should have been spelled “Snaivy”?
        I want more “snake” in it.
        (~.~)’

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  9. I really enjoy the names. Snivy is a great name, I think it’s kind of cute too. Tepig is fun to say! Oshawott is a mouthful, but it’s still cool. Unova is a bit of a surprise. I like it too.

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  11. I don’t like these names very much. Then again, I didn’t like Piplup when the name first came out either. I’ll give it some time and then I’ll be fine.

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  16. I like all the names, especially since I read Casey’s comment on the Oshawa Otters. Oshawa, ocean, water, otter it’s all good now, Just wondering on how to pronounce Oshawott XD

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  21. YOU GUYS THESE ARE SOOOO FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol jk no more of that please 🙂 ahaha and if this is the reaction to the starters, i’m gonna hate to see the reaction to their evolutions…and then the other 147 new Pokemon after that XD

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    • totaly agree. If the starter names are like this (I like them but they are just different from other pokemon names) I wonder what the other pokemons names are gonaa be…

      I want Iwaperusu 2 be Herock (or Rockmit)

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      • ^_^ Exactly what I was thinking.

        And how about Stermit (Stone+Hermit) for Iwaperusu and Crabould for it’s evo?

        Also, once again, I am claiming the name Caribloom for Mebukijika 😀

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  22. I’m actually kinda happy at these names especially at Tsutarja’s the thing is I was also one of the ones to come up with the name Snivy, well actually I was in gym class one day when they were revealed I actually named it Snaivy but its pronounced the same way so yea haha! I was ecstatic to find out that was the name I also named my Snivy in the rom Snivy due to the 5 character limit for nicknames, its a Jalorda now of course so hehe! I’m actually proud of myself because of this. 😀 Anyway the other starter names sound wierd Tepig is the wierdest but I don’t judge mainly cause I’m gonna pick Snivy, Oshawott sounds pretty decent for Mijumaru but its hard to pronounce and we all know people will still call it Wotter mainly because of the “wott” in its name!

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  23. But seriously though, those are horrible. Oshawott sounds like Jewish pornstar. And Tepig? Based off the word tepid which means lukewarm. What’s next? Mediumwellhog? Snivy is okay, I guess. But I picture two guys, that look like the Monopoly guy, standing around drinking $800 water talking about how they got to be so rich “Why yes, I was quite snivy indeed.” “Indeed.” * Insert cliché maniacal laugh here* But whatever, I’m still going to buy the damn game when it comes out in English, but I’m going to name my starter “assface”, cause at least it would be creative.

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  25. @David: I would never have made that connection with Unova’s naming; that is so amazingly clever! And of top of that, it does sound much cooler than roaming around the “issue” region.

    Also, I love Snivy’s name; much catchier than Smugleaf. Oshawatt’s alright (still think Splotter was better), but I think Pigaboom would have been a better name than Tepig, but it’s a fine name too (they could be saving Pigaboom for Tepig’s evo).

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