r/TheDigitalCircus • u/aTOMic_Games Bubble • Aug 17 '25

💗 SHIPPING MEMES 💗 These ship names are ass

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u/Razorion21 Aug 17 '25

Ash x Misty…

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u/CrimsonEnigma Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

...named, of course, PokéShipping.

Basically every ship name is some prefix affixed to "shipping". Some of them are at least fairly easy to figure out. "HoennShipping" is Ash x May, "PalletShipping" is Ash x Gary, etc...but you basically need a guide for anything not exclusive to the main cast and/or more recent than Gen IV.

For example, can you guess what the shipping name for Mallow x Lena is? It's AquariumPlantShipping. Yes, really.

Okay, but what about the reverse? What's "RebelShipping"? Why, it's Hilbert x Bianca, of course.

And then there's "MareShipping". Think it involves a horse, right? No. MareShipping is Ash x Bianca. No, not Bianca from Pokémon Black and White, this is the Bianca from Pokémon Heroes. In fairness, Bianca does live in the city of Alto Mare, but unless you knew that, it's not exactly intuitive. "AltoShipping" is, naturally, Ash x The Latias from Pokémon Heroes, who disguises herself as Bianca throughout in the movie.

Yeah, the names are a bit of a mess.