I guess I'll have to tell the whole story sometime, but when I was at Nintendo, one project I worked on was helping rename most of the Pokemon from Gold and Silver for the US release. I can be held responsible for Girafarig, Natu, Xatu, Wobbuffet, and many others.
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Why did you need a Pokémon that started with an X?
After the success of the original games they wanted to make sure they had a Pokémon for each letter of the alphabet for merchandise. So part of my job was to find good names for the letters we didn't have yet like X (Quilava was my answer for Q).
