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What'd you name your rival?

Dexter's his name, in Diamond at least. I don't know why, I just came up with it on the spot. The protagonist's name is Joe, which is my name in real life.

When playing the first time in Crystal, I named him ???, 'cause that's what he said his name was. I think I named the protagonist Ash.

Ditto when I played Gold 8 years later, but this time I named him Ken, after Ken Hoshimoto in Generation 2021.

Shame we didn't get to name the rival in RSE, though.
 
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In Pearl my rivals name is Juusto, which means "Cheese" in Finnish :p
In Platinum I just name him Jun, for me it's so hard to create good names for rivals or for pokémon
I can't remember the rivals names in LeafGreen and HeartGold, but they are very silly names for sure
 
I don't remember what I called my rival in recent games, but I remember something funny I used to way back when I had gold. (the original one) I called my rival Ass, iferget, Stupid, moron, ?????, Poopie, etc. I was trying to lower that dude's self-confidence so he would leave me alone and commit suicide.

Needless to say, it didn't work. Boo-hoo for me.
 
On my current run...
My rival's Aquoris, with Piplup/Prinplup/Empoleon. I'm Chalybs, with a mono-steel team.
The names have connections with "Water" and "Metal" respectively.
 
Platinum- Chico
HeartGold- you don't wanna know...
 
FireRed: Blue
LeafGreen: Gary
Diamond: Ritchy
Platinum: Barry
SoulSilver: Silver
 
Let's see
FR: Henry
Second play of FR: Blue (Lazy....)
Pearl: John (The funny thing is, I found out his Japanese name was Jun not long after I started so I was like, "Wow, I was almost spot on.")
Platinum:Greg
HG: Reggie
 
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Pearl: Cody. Was just a random name off the top of my head.
Platinum: Talon. Idk maaaan.
HeartGold: Was originally going to name him Simon, but went with Jacob instead.
 
SoulSilver: Lars (Ulrich, Metallica's drummer)
Platinum: Barry (Kept the name from the show)

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I named them after my younger brothers. A little rivalry is always good...
 
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