Fans Will Get The Chance To Name A New Move In Pokémon Sword And Shield

Too bad I'm not japanese

Destrustion? Mechablivion? Perhaps being Japan only is for the best...

Movey McMoveface

@Lizuka Well the winner isn't based on votes so that wouldn't happen

@Serebii are you really Serebii?

The honor should go to @Serebii for sure.

No more than 8 characters?? Ugh that’s hard.

Let’s see... a steel move that does massive damage, but does damage to you... first thing that comes to mind is a double-edged sword. How can I convey that in 8 characters?

the twerk or the glasgow kiss

@Heavyarms55 If it was up to me, I'd call it "Smeltdown"

@MH4 It's 8 characters in Japanese. This is a contest for the Japanese name, not the English one. It's just the Japanese one can use English characters if it does so fit

So 8 characters, japan only and it costs half your health?

Easy - 'Kamikaze'

Now how do I claim my prize?

Oxyde Cannon. The user oxydate himself after one use.

@Serebii Yeah, I get that, I’m just brainstorming despite the fact I can’t enter the contest 😜 Thanks for replying though. Smeltdown is a really clever name

Meta Beam or Heavy Beam, because it's a steel type move and is of the special category.

Reduces 50% and is a special steel move? I know what I’d call it. Sh*te.

@Serebii you mean like this?
メタルビーム
Or is it possible to use other forms of japanese characters? I'm confused about this.

Peeler. As in potato peeler, a highly dangerous weapon.

1. Tsurugi no Odoru (7 characters)/ Dancing Blades

2. Ryu No Kiba (5 characters) / Dragon Fang

3. Shichi Amaterasu (7 characters) / 7 Amaterasu

4. Shin Bushido (7 characters) / True Honour

5. Tsurugigami (5 characters) / God of Blades

6. Zantetsuken 😁

7. Shin Zanmato 😆

8. Grand Cross (7 characters)

9. Tenkara no Sasu (6 characters)
/ Heavenly Stab

10. Irumina Bureki (7 characters) / Illumina Break

Valyrian... (GoThronian)

@Serebii
Please check mine.
I have typed 10 different names.

I'm sorry, but this is kinda stupid. Without any context of what the move does, who learns it, etc. How can you even submit a decent name? Is it just willy-nilly and they pick the one that fits the move? As long as it's not a random draw I guess.

@Anti-Matter I'm curious about num. 6 and 7. I know very little of japanese. I do know that num. 6 is used by Odin of Final Fantasy though.

Steelix used Buttmash

If I am a weeb, I could name it “Wreckage”

Meltan used Liquid Mercury!

Trainwreck? 😅 (yes, NL, it’s all I have to say)

Metal Malice

@SamusLv7
6. Zantetsuken = Steel Bladed Sword
7. Shin Zanmato = True Magical Killing Sword

@Anti-Matter thanks 😊

I'd go with Post-Party Burger. It's powerful, but it also damages you lol

Corrosion Wave, i know its to long but sounds kinda cool so ignored the rules.
Oh please and make Lucario learn it.

This is extremely interesting. Good luck guys can't wait to see what you come up with!

How about "Klankebab?"

smelting gambit

@Venus_Adept
Hm...
Corrosion Wave -> Malwave (Malware Wave) , Meltbreaker, Catalyburst.

Seems like a bad move only usable on Blacephelon like frail sweepers or Z-move users

@Venus_Adept sounds nice and since it is impossible for a non-steel type to get corrosion, it could have a different effect on those just like the move C@#se works different on non-ghost types.

Sledgehammer pulse

Iron Chisel?

That's the best I can think of

I wonder if the 50% is of your maximum HP, or your remaining HP?

If it's the former it's kind of a bad move that will probably only be relevant for it's Z-move and as a last ditch effort. If it's the latter though, it could be a devastating tool for a choice scarf or choice specs wielder.

There are some decent suggestions in this comment section to be sure. If only I lived in Japan....

How about...Oxidation Smash?

I dont know? Melt..

I don't live in Japan, but here's an idea for somebody who does:
Meltdown. As in the user is melting to do a massive amount of damage.

Just saying!

Mega Sword should be the move

Or steel canyon

@SmaggTheSmug wow just wow

Cool, it’s like what they did with Draco Meteor.

In a naming contest, one can only imagine how many people are going to waste their time submitting vulgar entries that will be throw out.
You know that would probably happen from western fans.

Strong metal type attack that reduces hp by half. Sounds like radioactive decay. Could it be for a nuclear or radioactive pokemon?

From Xenoblade 1
Final Cross

I would call it metabeam like metal and beam

the first thing that came to my head was mercury meltdown. have it look like liquid metal raining from the sky.

I shall call the move 'Anemia'.

I would name it Self Harm

粉々波
I don't know japanese at all but Google-fu says this means "Shatter Wave"
Konagona Nami

@MH4 Scimitar ? *oh, thats single-edged (but it is curved)
Claymore that's a good one, I like that

I thought of "Sacrifice" since the move is sacrificing a chunk of your HP for lots of the opponent's HP, but it's just over the word limit.

"Renounce" and "Immolate" are some synonyms for it (thanks, thesaurus.com!).

GUST OF WIND DANCE

Shame I'm not Japanese but. If any of you want to use my ideas it's fine.
Rust
Iron hit

If given a chance, I would name it FINAL CLANG, I think it'll be less than 8 characters if written in katakana.

Well, clang, based on dictionary "to give out a loud, resonant sound, as that produced by a large bell or two heavy pieces of metal striking together." imagining the pokemon uses it have a metal sword and shield and then striking those together to produce a metallic sound explosion.

Stone Cold Stunner or Top Rope Elbow Drop.

@MH4 edgy slash

Edit - wait that's 9.

Lucario used ONLY IN JAPAN. It was super effective.

https://corocoro.jp/44052/

According to the official CoroCoro post, it appears that the name must be composed of 8-or-fewer characters drawn from hiragana, katakana, ‘English’ (presumably this can be simply interpreted as ‘the Latin alphabet’), or numerical characters. So ‘はがねバナナ9Z‘ would be fine (although unlikely to win).

Given than this is a Japanese contest for the Japanese version of the game open to a Japanese audience, I think it’s unlikely they’re looking for full English suggestions. Still, if you want to try your hand for curiosity’s sake, I think you can charitably allow yourself double the character length due to the Latin alphabet being less compact than the Japanese sylaberies. I’m not sure what the actual upper limit is on English move names, but standard (non-Z) moves like ‘First Impression’ reach 16 characters (including spaces) so allowing yourself this many doesn’t seem unreasonable.

EDIT: Lots of radioactivity-based names above, but no-one seems to have thought of using the concept of radioactive half-life! For a move that literally brings you down to half of your life, something like ‘half-life blast’ seems perfect!

@pupypup Edgelash?

Double-Edged Sword! It's like Double-Edge... but with a sword.

This is the first time I've logged on in years, and it was to make this dumb joke.

Yo what about "Automail", like after Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood? High powered, but it required a sacrifice; an arm and a leg.

Withagun. A tribute to a Charles Bronson parody and the unofficial third version of the game.

It should be sling blade. Its from a book series called red rising. Its used to cut of a limb to save your life.

Matalic blast