This is voluntary: Any one of you feel free to share your list of Pokemon nicknames. I'll start out with my team. So here goes!

Serperior (M) - SmugLord

Seismitoad (F) - Princess

Vanilluxe (F)- DairyQueen

Klinklang (N) - Yusei Go!

Golurk (N) - Gladiator (Formerly Juggernaut)

Mandibuzz (F) - GoldDigger

So, what are you thoughts, guys?

Oh, that's nice, I thought it was compulsory...

That's a dodgy question. It should be "Do you nickname your Pokémon?" with the options "Always", "Sometimes" and "Never".

I do every so often. Usually in the second version of a generation and no other time. I played Black second this time round and gave my team nickname's from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

In order of them joining my team...

Hamlet the Excadrill
Yorick the Whimsicott
Ophelia the Volcarona
Horatio the Beartic
Laertes the Golurk
Fortinbras the Hydreigon

You'll notice I haven't used my starter. That's because this generation they're awful. Until I caught Hamlet, however, I used Claudius the Snivy & Polonius the Simipour. Claudius actually managed to evolve before I got to Wellspring Cave.

I always nickname my Pokemon with a set pattern

For example, all of my Black team has an -are suffix at the end of their names

I do sometimes.

I started to nickname in Platinum, mostly just random names based on fictional characters that fit with the mon in some way. And Jason.

I usually nickname the mons for my main party and my post-story-team, but not usually my boxed mons. I usually nickname after characters from an anime, but this time I've been just naming them names that start with the same letter as their original name.

Although in Diamond or Ruby I did try to nickname every mon I caught.

I tend not to nickname mine.