Buizel's a funny one. I pronounced it Byoosel til I saw the Manaphy movie and heard Ash say Bweesel. Wierd.

because i thot it was lillicky so thats how i pronounced it and i pronounce it jeerateena and i still dont know if its right...also and i pronounce that loomineeon and dont know if thats right either and the first i had trouble with was cuz i thot you say it as rejeejeegas but i think its rejeegigas cuz that makes more sense

still have no idea how to pronounce both of them

Gih-ruh-TEEN-a.
Re-ji-GIH-gus.

Well, Suicune was the first one I've come across. I'd always pronounced it SOO-i-soon, but the anime has pronounced it soo-EE-koon and SOO-ee-koon. I think they're right but it's annoying that they swap syllables. Also, the phonetics of soo-EE-koon annoy me.

Buizel is my second. Looking at the word, it appears to be pronounced BWEE-zul. BOO-i-zul is somewhat of a longshot, but since "bui" isn't related to any English word, I pronounce it BOY-zel, regardless, after its Japanese name (Buoysel). Buizel is a corruption of Buoysel.

Palkia is my third. On a TCG commercial that advertises Palkia, they pronounce it PAAL-kee-a (like the name Paul). I pronounce it PAL-kee-a (like the word pal, i.e. buddy, with a short A sound).

After that? Shaymin is one. I pronounce it SHAY-min and SHY-min. When in reality I really have no idea (but I presume it's the former).

Manaphy and Phione are two others. It's pronounced MAAN-aa-fee (like the aa in Palkia, but more drawn out), but I pronounce it MAN-a-free (with a short A sound).

Phione is pronounced fee-oh-nay, but which syllable is stressed, I have no idea.

- DNA

For awhile I had trouble with Ratatta. For the first few years that I was into Pokemon, I pronounced it rat-a-tat-a, until I realized it was pronounced rat-tat-a.

I have a sister named Megan, so when I first saw the English name for Meganium, I pronounced it me-GAN-nium. Now I pronounce it MEH-gan-ium

I also had some conflict with Suicune, but it has been so long since I changed the way that I pronounced it that I can no longer remember how I pronounced it.

I used to pronounce Sceptile SKEPT-tile, and I pronounced Gardevoir gar-DE-v-oi-er, but after hearing their names in the anime a few times, and deciding that those made more sense, I now say sep-TILE and gar-DE-voir, as in reservoir.

I pronounced Kyogre KEY-ogre, then at some point changed it to KYE-ogre.

For Deoxys, I say DEE-oks-siss, although, I'm not sure if that is right.

I pronounce Riolu RYE-loo.

I know that there was a conflict over Weavile while ago, and I emphasise Vile over Vill.

Dusknoir, I pronounce dusk-NOIR, as in foire

I had a little trouble with Regigigas in the beginning, but then I compared it to banana, and the rest of the regis, and I was able to pronounce it after separating Regi and Gigas.

I say SHAY-min.

For Arcues, I'm not quite sure, as he has little or no influence in anything aside from hacked games. I've seen one Sugimori image, and I can't find it again. I pronounce it ARE-sue-sa, the "a" in sa being silent, and emphasizing the long "s".

Well, in Irish, "bui" means yellow, and a lot of English is close to the Irish, e.g. Rugby in Irish is rugbaí (said the same way)

Anyways...

Gible. I used to pronounce it as gib-LEE. Then I saw a Youtube video of someone saying GIB-ull.

Dialga. I used to say Di-AG-la. Then I noticed it was spelt "D-i-a-l-g-a.

Darkrai. I used to say Dak-AR-ee. Then I noticed how it was spelt.


I'm sure there was more that I'm just not thinking of right now.

I guess that, from the japanese name, you should stress the last syllable, which would sound like 'fee-oh-NEH'. I don't believe the last one is a "NAY" sound, however, but oh well, it's just me.

Come to think of it, the pronunciation of Weavile, got me a few times, I thought you said it like 'whee-veel' until I heard it from PBR that they said 'WHEE-vuh-eel', it was quite a finding.

I don't really know why many of you got the pronunciation of Buizel odd, to me, from the japanese name, it was simple, bouy as in 'BOO-eeh' and 'zel'... yeah, this was a simple one for me because I know to pronounce Romanisations, it helps.

And as for Shaymin, I used to think it was "SHY-meen" with a kinda short 'ee' sound in the 'meen', but then I heard the japanese commercial of the 11st movie and they said "Sora no haratara (spell issue?) 'SHAY-meen'." again with the short 'ee' sound in the 'meen'.

By the by, "Sora no Haratara" means "Bouquet of the skies" so yeah.

I go with how something would be pronounced in Japanese for a lot of these things. :/ Riolu, for instance, I say as "Ree-oh-loo".
Also, I'm pretty sure that Weavile's name is pronounced "WEE-vill", given that when you unleash one in Brawl it shoots back and forth shouting something that sounds a lot like that.

Misdreavus continues to confuse me, though. "Mizz-druh-voo" seems to be closest to me; it looks French or something.

I couldn't pronounce half of them and I still probably donut pronounce them right.

I pronounced pal-KAY-ah
I pronounced it die-AL-ga
At 1st I pronounced it re-gi-GAS. Now I know my mistake!

im always trying to pronounce arceus right, i think its ark-ee- us or ar-see-us. im also unsure if i should be pronouncing the e in uxie. the theird generation pokemon i have trouble with are gorebyss wich i think might be gor-bass, glalie i have no idea, altaria ive been pronouncing all-tar-ee-ah, best i can come up with for masquerain is mass- square-rain, i usualy just say that pokemon that starts with a G when refering to gardevoir verbaly. in second generation i only wonder if your supposed to say its a ? and ! for the ? and ! unown or if you just say unkown? as if you were questioning it and unkown! with excitement. all the rest were either easy enough to pronounce or have been in the anime(some im unsure of may have been in episode ive missed)

Regigigigigigigigigigigigiggigigigigigigigigigigigas

I'm not sure how to pronounce Drapion

Dialga sounded like "DI-al-gla" mixing up the spot where the "L" was.
Buizel also got me.
Phione is another that got me cause it came out as "FI-oh-ne" for me.

DRAY-pi-on or DRAH-pi-on???

<<< When I caught it I didn't know how to pronounce it, so I named it Dalglish.
That's what it is to me now, it's what I always call it and refer to it as.
D-A
D-A-L
D-A-L-GLISH
DALGLISH!

..I think I've been watching too much Soccer AM.
xox

I used to say Rayquaza as Ray-kwa-za until i saw the 7th movie and i was like WTH

I pronounce Arceus as Ars-a-us and Giratina as Jiratina until i heard it on PBR. I think it sounds better as Jir rather than a hard G

I used to think Bidoof was pronounced "bih-doof".

Then I found out it was pronounced "bih-doo-fus".

Phione - Feeohn. (oh like OMG)
Giratina - Jyrateener
Gyarados - garadose (like overdose)
Suicune - Sooiseen
Arceus - Arseeus
Regigigas - Rejeejeejeejas. (I always say like 5 jee's)

= Ru -Ka -Rio (Because japanese version pws)
= Bee -duffy (Don't ask ...)
= Re-Ji-jay-gas
= Shei-me

If you're going to be the sort of person who automatically thinks that the Japanese names are better than the English names, even when they usually aren't, you should probably know that the name for "Rukario" has the same pronunciation in both languages.

Are you serious? I thought that was just a generalization of Japanese people mixing up R's with L's in pronunciation... I'm now inspired to check www.engrish.com every now and again once more.

No; the character for L does not exist in Japanese, so the similar R is used instead.

Ratiosu (Latios), Rukario (Lucario), Ruiji (Luigi; not a Pokemon, but still).