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Poké Transfer and Pokémon with ALL CAPS names

When Poké Transferring Pokémon to trade to others, what to do with their nicknames?

  • Keep them as they are, e.g. "SHINX"

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Rename them to non-ALL CAPS names, e.g. "SHINX"

    Votes: 2 20.0%
  • Rename them only if they are final evolutionary forms; e.g. "SHINX", "Luxray"

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Wait for interested parties to indicate their preference, then Poké Transfer

    Votes: 6 60.0%
  • Other - please explain in a post

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    10

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I was considering applying to open a trade shop stocked with shiny Pokémon that I'd caught through Poké Radar chaining on my Platinum cart. (This is not something I am thinking of doing imminently. I do not have enough stock to do it yet.) But of course, one issue with Pokémon that have been Poké Transferred to Generation 5 games is that they can no longer be renamed once they have arrived.

I think most people do not mind being unable to give their Pokémon a nickname (assuming of course that it doesn't already have a disliked nickname). But some people might dislike the fact that non-nicknamed Pokémon from Generation 3 and 4 games have ALL CAPS names.

A little technical information here: In the Generation 5 games, if a Pokémon has a name that matches its official name in any language (or matches except for differences in capitalisation), and it evolves, then its name becomes the name of the new species in the language of the cart where evolution took place. The new name will not be in ALL CAPS. So for example, if I have two Weepinbell on my English-language White cart, one of them called "WEEPINBELL" and the other called "Boustiflor", and I evolve them both, they will both end up being called "Victreebel".

So the question is, if I Poké Transfer shiny Pokémon to my White cart, should I leave them unnicknamed? Nickname them with non-ALL CAPS names? Only Poké Transfer them when I've found interested trading partners? That last option would be a bit of a pain in the neck, to be honest. And yet it seems likely that each of the first two options would put off some people.

EDIT: How annoying, I've made an error in my poll options. Please could a moderator change "SHINX" to "Shinx" in the second option?
 
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I know it's a pain like you mentioned to Poke Xfer only when someone's interested but I think that's the way to go. I'm fussy and I won't hide that fact XD Most of the shinies I hunt for are ones I really love, not just for the sakes of having shinies. :S (Prolly why I don't have enough in circulation to trade lol) And I really like the ones I keep to be nicknamed the way I want it to be.

But that's just my opinion :)
 
If it was me, I'd give them all ridiculous nicknames regardless. But if you're trading them to someone else the least you could do (assuming they're fully evolved) is give them a non-capslock name. Most people seem to find those annoying.
 
I found an AR code that allows you to change the name a Pokemon you received in a trade (or Poke-transferred). That is another version of fair hacking, but I know many people prefer not to use AR as it is, so this probably won't work for most.
 
For Pokémon that I'm planning to transfer to the current generation of games, I rename them in their original versions, giving them their fully evolved form's name in non-all caps. For event Pokémon, though, or things I get through the GTS that I want to nickname, I use the AR code that enables me to change the names of any Pokémon I have. I mostly use that for competitive teams, though, with Pokémon that I wouldn't be able to nickname otherwise (a good example is Celebi).
 
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