After a few weeks doing unpaid beta testing for Niantic and Nintendo’s fun-but-glitchy Pokémon Go, players have come to realize that the game’s best feature is the ability to give your pocket monsters stupid and hilarious names.
Sure, you can do a great one-off—we all want to name a Magmar “assface,” right?—but the truly inspired jokes don’t stop there. They use an entire screenful of nine Pokémon.
Here are some of the best we’ve seen so far:
You come and (Pokémon) go
Am I doing this right? pic.twitter.com/YBehzvU6V6
— Jelisa Castrodale (@gordonshumway) July 20, 2016
The Doduos know…
I think they're trying to tell me something… pic.twitter.com/mBBtZnOp0l
— gabe bergado (@gabebergado) July 20, 2016
It’s Gucci time
— paige (@BonerWizard) July 18, 2016
Stretching for the pun here
sorry for this pic.twitter.com/VhcSOQlunx
— pointy (@chipspopandabar) July 14, 2016
Think of all the eggs you could hatch…
I'm done. 😂 pic.twitter.com/RrDWTjF51L
— jamesHDKN (@JamesHadouken) July 17, 2016
Where do you live?
This is only one Pokémon, but he was too good to leave out
https://twitter.com/tonyisuncool/status/752684346448961536
Hey, whatever works for you
View post on imgur.comThis guy typed nonsense and let his phone autocorrect it
Gotta do something with all those garbage Zubats, I guess
Well, this is now stuck in my head forever
And the obligatory…
The opening narration from Bee Movie would also be a savvy choice, especially if you happen to have nine Beedrills in your collection.
Good luck catching ’em all and renaming ’em in the interest of bad puns and glorious shitposting.