TEAM
Neziki’s Pokemon are all named after the greek letters of the alphabet because scientists and mathematicians do that all the time so it must be a thing that is smart!!! Still, to appear professional he never calls them these names in public. I guess the names are almost more of a categorization system; it’s pretty easy to write a single letter than a full Pokemon’s name. Plus, if in an urgent situation he can’t find one of them, they have a specific title he can call. Neziki always has practical reasons for everything because it makes him seem adult! And important! There’s no need for nicknames to be flamboyant.
I also imagine he carves the Greek letter of their names into their Pokeballs.
α (Alpha) - Electivire ♂
Ability: Motor Drive
Nature: Calm
Held Item: Expert Belt
Moves: Thunderbolt, Hidden Power (Ice), Flamethrower, Cross Chop (Earthquake, Magnet Rise)
This was Neziki’s first Pokemon, which is why he named it the first letter of the Gteek alphabet. Met him as an Elekid and raised him all by himself! He’s a pretty mild Pokemon, all silent and stoic and not annoying to Neziki, but the fact that he looks like a real tough bruiser probably got the kid out of a lot of trouble with people who like to pick on scrawny nerds. He’s pretty useful as a power source too! Endless electricity for the tech geek. Jubilations.
Σ (Sigma) - Skarmory ♂
Ability: Sturdy
Nature: Impish
Held Item: Leftovers
Moves: Brave Bird, Whirlwind, Spikes, Roost (Swagger, Metal Sound)
(Like half of these moves are supporting moves can I just say he also knows generic Skarmory things like Steel Wing and Slash I mean come on)
I bet Neziki found him when he was looking through a big heap of scrap metal for something to build with. It was probably some dramatic scene where he lifted a piece of scrap up and suddenly there’s this BIRD and this horrible screeching noise and his Elekid is kind of severely low leveled in comparison but a) the Skarmory has been trapped under scrap metal and is probably somewhat weakened because of it already and b) they use some whacked out strategy that has something to do with taking advantage of all the scrap metal lying around and then Neziki catches it because sure ok why not.
But he has to train it to stop screeching because the high frequencies make his machines flip out.
γ (Gamma) - Yanmega ♂
Ability: Tinted Lens
Nature: Modest
Held Item: Life Orb
Moves: Bug Buzz, Air Slash, Giga Drain, Endure (Protect, Toxic… Double Team!?)
There’s a strategy there where if Yanmega used Toxic on an opponent then Endure, then Protect, then a Double Team spam, he’d be able to prolong the battle enough that the other Pokemon faints from the poisoning. Three extra moves just seems a little… excessive to me, but whatever. I almost wanted him to know Hyper Beam and Swagger as well, but then I held my right hand with my left hand and said, “Pom, that’s enough.”
Honestly, I only want Neziki to have one of these because it looks like a robot bug. So yeah. I think he likes the way this Pokemon looks and stuff. Cool.
Gamma strikes me as a really intense type. Serious battler.
He was going to have a Tyranitar too, but then I was like “wow why it’s 5 AM screw it." Probably would have been named Omega though. We’ll see if I still want him to have it.