Happy with their English names?! I won’t be using spoilers for any information OFFICIALLY given out by Nintendo of America.
- 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.
To me Oshawott seems like a portmanteau of Ocean+Aqua+Water+Otter. Maybe I’m just crazy.
its time for the pokejungle cool wall, the rules are the same for top gear cool wall, and here are the ratings for the revealed english names:
snivy:ok, i believe i heard a similar name before on pokemon rebirth and its good to have similar sounding names, verdict: sub zero
tepig: this name is tepid with a different letter, unoriginal, verdict: uncool
oshawott: WHO THE HECK CAME UP WITH THIS, ITS HARDLY ENGLISH, ITS MORE LIKELY JAPANESE, TO PEOPLE WHO THINK ITS CANADIAN, EXPECT ANTI- CANADIAN SCORN, VERDICT: SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY UNCOOL
unova:WHO THOUGHT OF THIS NAME IS A LEGEND, BECAUSE OF THE USE OF NOVA, VERDICT: SUB ZERO
i don’t even know what tepid means. i’m 16. how is a 5-year-old gonna understand that connection?
That’s because the 5-year-olds that play the game aren’t supposed to know what the names mean. When you were five, did you know what Kabutops or Gyarados meant, or how epic the name Cloyster actually is? The Pokemon’s names aren’t meant to sound obvious as to what two words are combined to make it up, that would destroy the illusion Nintendo is trying to make that pokemon are “mysterious”.
Besides, Tepid can be the temperature of water, which could be a reference to the fact he can later learn Boiling water. The fact that Tepig is the first stage could indicate that his evolution’s names are also centered around water. It’s possible he could evolve into Embroil.
I meant to say that his evolution’s names could center around temperature, not water. Sorry, my bad. o.O
I’d actually be fine with embroil
i think emboar sounds cooler though
and still thinkin tepig shoulda been called baycon or something
gonna nickname mine that anyway
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE TOP GEAR!!!!
*gasp* I missed yesterdays episode…NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aha! I love how you made the effort to sift through all those posts to find the people that picked Snivy. it’s admirable, PJ 🙂
interesting names…the first time i saw oshawott i thought “oh, it’s wash backwards….with…parts of otter around it” definitely a strange choice. And Tepig is cute but almost as awkward to say as oshawatt….awesome we finally have them though!
oh yeh, Unova is actually quite awesome too. And whoever suggested Un(ited States) Of A(merica) is really on the ball (unless it was explained somewhere, in which case i look like an idiot, haha)
opinions + score from 0-10
Snivy: genius! 10
Tepig: crappiest name of any starter EVER!!! -7,000,000
Oshawott: kinda cute, might grow me. 5
Reshiram: muy fabuloso, but took a while to grow on me. 8.5
Zekrom: genius! theres no better name for it! 10
Unova: don’t like it because it breaks the two-syllable pattern for regions in the metagame, but mostly it is just unoriginal. 2.5
Do you know people had almost the same reaction to Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Turtwig, Chimchar and Piplup? And had there been widespread internet fandom of doom at the time you can bet Squirtle, Bulbasaur and Charmander would have been called worse than Zenigame, Fushigidane and Hitokage. Heck, there was massive raging when Rukario (derived from oracle spelt backwards in Japanese) became Lucario.
And that people complained about the change from Shinnou to Sinnoh and Houen to Hoenn and Jouto to Johto.
So yeah. People will complain no matter how little or how much is changed.
So forgive me if I’m not taking any of the ‘threats’ to ‘nickname it mijumaru and use it on forums and eff you if you don’t remember what its real name is. MIJUMARU IS BETTERU’ very seriously. Because you’ll be over it come April.
Still doesn’t mean the names are any good ;p
Ooops, this wasn’t supposed to be a reply to your post specifically, I was typing this at the bottom and it jumped. Sorry.
its ok, i was just surprised when youu said FU cuz i don’t think i said anything too ofdensive. but i agree that it does take time for the names to stick,however i’m positive i will be nicknaming my Tepig Pokabu because i like it about 200x better
I liked the new names, but saying “Tepid” out loud it’s hard >:
i luv these names!
I like Oshawott, its pretty unique. Tepig is decent, Snivy was kinda obvious, I wish they went for more obscure names. I love Unova, though! I never expected it to stray so much from Isshu!
oshawott sounds so canadian to me somehow?
im nicknaming my oshawott mijumaru cuz it just rolls of the tounge
bet you couldnt say mijumaru 5 fast
mijumaru mijumaru mijumaru mijumaru mijumaru
SNIVY! Awesome >w<! Love it already!
Tepig… meh ._. I don't know… I will still name it Ganon though xD
Oshawhooooot?! o.O What is wrong with this… it sounds like disease or something xP I like miju though but the english name is just… strange xP
Unova sounds seriously bad ass o.O If you think about it… This name is actually one of most strongest names for a region since Kanto. I like this one a lot!
I = pleased =D
Snivy = snake (because it’s classified as a snake (even though it’s clearly a lizard)) + ivy (because the leaf on it’s tail is poison ivy (without the extra stem)
Tepig = tepid (because it means not hot but not cold (warm) and do any of us recall the interview with the artist of Poka- Tepig saying he wanted a piglet that hadn’t reached it’s full potential that it was just WARMING up) + pig (because it’s a pig)
Oshawott= random O (maybe they like O) + wash (with the letters rearranged (because to wash you need water)) + otter (because it’s an otter (even though I wanted a platypus!))
Not necessarily. Snakes had limbs pre-historically. There was a myth about snakes and their limbs, saying they ran so fast and so much their legs fell off. If you regard Tsutaja and it’s speed, then Janovy’s speed up to Jaroda.. the myth kind of comes to life in that line. Still a snake, just kind of takes after the reptilian ancestors until final form.
snivys 1st evos name is JANOVY which sounds alot like SNIVY janovys name might stay the same in england
(i dunno but the evo names sometimes ryme or sound alike there past evo name eg, bulbaSAUR ivySAUR venuSAUR sniVY janoVY squirTLE wartorTLE just a thorght)
p.s TEHPIGS name rules
Maybe
Snivy
Jungivy
Junglord
jaLORDa? possible final evo name may have lord in it 8]
Or it could have KING in it since its regal and royal and what not?
Snaking?
Ivyking?
Idea for Tepigs? Burnboar? Boarburn? Just some random thoughts off the top of my head. lol
what do you think the names of the evos will be?
maybe for snivy’s final evo will be emperviper
emperor+viper
I was thinking Chaoboo would be called Sumog (Sumo+Hog)
thinking the same thing
OOH I LIKE SUMOG :p and then Emboar would make me happy
Yay! I’m glad people agree 🙂
what i dont understand is y everyone is making such a big deal out of this
hey pokejungle, whats yur favorite starter name
snivy of course (grass :p) or any grass type starter
yeah snivy is just kick ass,
i also like oshawhaatXD
but tepig sucks….real hard
Snivy is the best name. However, I made a nickname for Oshawott: Osha w00t 😛 And here is a nickname for Tepig I found on PC: Teh Pig.
or tEPIC!
OSHA: “Occupational Safety and Health Administration” ….what?
Serious name-fail.
oshell is such a better name, cause with oshawott we’re like WTF, and the acronym O.S.H.A. is gonna give nightmares.XD. but with oshell it makes more sense
otter+shell=oshell NoA has gone psycho O.o
i definitely thought of OSHA too when i first saw it haha
What if they had named it Oshellott (ocean+shell+otter) don’t know if that sounds better to anyone, but personally, I have already warmed up to Oshawott 🙂 It sounds more natural now that I’ve been saying it for a couple of days. 😀
i only don’t like the name Unova cause it’s three syllables instead of two.. but hopefully i’ll get over it.
i love oshawott though! i miss the days of long starter names
random side note, getting the english names makes this generation seem so much more familiar. it’s hard to explain but reading japanese names for everything made it seem kind of foreign and disconnected from pokemon in general but now i’m getting super excited cause it’s getting closer!
yea lol i know what your feeling 😛 im excited for this game. if only they still made the cartridges colored like with the GB, and GBA games 😛
personaly i dont like the starter names
please dont hate me
i don’t hate you…. everyone is titled to there own opinion and i respect yours. hopefully you have not offended anyone because they should take matter in what they beleive and not by what others influence them to think. i hope you get absolute fullfilment from these games when they come out and enjoy it to the greatest extent. i myself cannot wait for this game to release so that i may rule over the pokemon world and pummel the yabakuron out of the competition. anyways you are titled to your own opinion so do not worry because they will not hate you for having an opinion…i hope…
agreed
i personally am getting very excited with the release of these names 8]]]] were getting closer and closer to getting theh gamezzz >.< i CANT WAIT!!!!!
I dont care about the names if i like or noth them, eventually, in a week where gonna be used to them.
Wath really annoys me is the classification of zekrom and Reshiram. WHY THE FUCK THEY CANT CALL THEM THE BLACK YIN POKEMON AND THE WHITE YANG POKEMON?!?!?!?! What? every occidental potential pokemon buyer is enough ignorant to dont know wath the fuck is teh yang/ ying?
Potentialy, they just screwed with one of the coolest concepts behind this pokemon versions…..
agreedd
Five dollars says there ganna name emonga tesquirrel
Meh they make me mad making the species the Deep Black and Vast White for Zekrom And Reshiram respectively. The names I kind of didn’t expect Tepig or Oshawott.
Snivy was kind of back when people came up with Wotter and Pignition Derpderp and Smugleaf came around but I didn’t expect it to be a name but then again his name does translate to something along the lines of Snake and Ivy.
Anyone still keeping the Fan Names or the Japanese names in mind when it’s released in America?
Yeah I like Deep Dark and Vast White but Ying and Yang suited ‘Black and White” better.
deep ying and vast yang lol
im so happy with snivy but tepig couldve been nemed somehing else and oshawoot i dont like. the german starter name for mijumaru is otaro, much better sounding. anyways im “starstruck” with the nemes…. 😀
i think the new names will grow on me by next week but we shall see…
ya your right