Nicknames?

[water dog]

Yeah it probably is more fitting, but I wanted the pair to be Pizza Hut and Taco Bell because of this song.

And I always give the Legendaries dumb names because they're always silly and dumb and I never use them anyway.

The whole Ash & Pikachu thing is kind of a weak argument. I mean, Pikachu's the mascot (or got turned into the mascot, I guess), it'd be confusing for him to have multiple names or something like "_____ the Pikachu." And also there's other nicknamed Pokemon in the anime anyway, like Ritchie's Sparky, and plenty of other Pokemon get nicknamed in the manga and stuff.

Whether Pikachu is the mascot or not, Ash didn't have to have a nickname for it to be personal. The fact that some people nicknamed their Pokemon in the anime is irrelevant.

P.S. I wasn't attacking you or anyone, just saying why I think nicknaming Pokemon is silly.