It's coming back by popular demand! The Bell Tree World Championship! After three years, our grand gaming event will return on May 18th with ten Nintendo Switch games to play, both competitively and casually. Signups for the event are now open as explained in the new Bell Tree World Championship 2024 thread!
I use the character's names. The only time I don't is when it's a third version, like Emerald or Platinum. I only remember the name I gave my guy in Platinum, which was Yuuto. If there's a Z I'll probably finally go with Reindeer.
I did a trade between my X and OR and it was just so weird. 'Marina would like to trade with Marina' 'Would you like to add Marina as a friend,' as you can see I haven't met any other Marina's in my lifetime...
This question made me want to check my games to see what I did as a kid versus now, but I didn't seem to stray from several names. This from versions I completed myself... The other games like Gold, Leaf Green, White ,Y, etc were completed by either my brother or my husband so I didn't count those lolz
I use my real name unless I want to play through a specific game with the name of a character from the anime to use their pokemon in the playthrough. Such as in Platinum. I was Dawn with her pokemon. Piplup, Buneary, Pachirisu, Mamoswine, Togekiss, and I traded myself a cyndaquil egg so it would have her OT
My trainer name is Chris. Yea, not very original using my own name...
My excuse with X&Y though is that I heard you can have two names (the other being your nickname) which I set as Tao. Sadly, I wasn't aware of just how little the 'nickname' gets used.