This concept is awesome. I really hope a writer with talent takes it up.

Personally, I think Pokemon can work really well as crossover material. I've wanted a good Naruto/Pokemon crossover for ages, but can't find any. Basically, replace ninjutsu with Pokemon, shinobi with trainers, etc. Each of the Hidden Villages would be a league. The Elemental Nations would be the equivalent of Pokemon's regions. And so on. There's a lot you could do in a setting like that.

 

In that case, why would you make the villages/nations leagues? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep things as they are, scrap the whole Madara and Tobi shit, and just have no chakra and instead pokemon.

There are no gyms. Probably no levels, since I am not sure how that would work. But you would have certain divisions that use the same pokemon, which are bred intensively. The Yamanaka having Abra's and Drowzee's or whatever, Nara those deer and dark types.

Not sure how exactly one would replace blood line limits. Maybe have them for pokemon training? Like, Sharingan allows one to understand pokemon attacks better, Byakugan is the same but used by flying type and underground pokemon trainers, because they can actually still see them.

Then you would have certain division pokemon. Maybe every ANBU needs to train a few specific pokemon to be able to do the job. Hunter nin have certain pokemon, gate guards have certain pokemon, intelligence ops and so on.

Think you would have to scrap the bijuu, though, or replace them with legendaries but it stops being pokemon as soon as the trainers step up to fight, imo, so, I think just no bijuu is better.

You could have Moltres in the Land of Fire, what Konoha kinda preys to, or have it be the pokemon of the Hokage, Zapdos for Hidden Cloud and so on.

 

All good ideas.

By replacing ninjutsu with Pokemon, I really meant replacing chakra altogether.

I think there'd have to be a significant compromise between Naruto and Pokemon elements for some things. For instance, Wood Release in Naruto is extremely rare and OP, but the closest analogue is the Grass type, which is not particularly special, and fairly widespread. So perhaps in this instance, Hashirama would be a famous historical trainer who specialised in Grass types and possessed one or more Grass legendaries (Virizion, Celebi, Shaymin, etc.). The only thing making him special would be his immense prowess as a trainer.

Also, presumably Fire types would be most common in the Land of Fire, Water types in the Land of Water, and so on. Or the lands could be named after the legendaries they are home to. Moltres/Ho-Oh/Entei in the Land of Fire, Zapdos/Thundurus/Raikou in the Land of Lightning, etc.

As for kekkei genkai, I like the idea that families of trainers who have long specialised in a certain type gradually develop genetic affinities and adaptations. Though you could also have Arceus play a role in some of the more arcane bloodlines.

 

Yeah, you would have certain pokemon being village exclusive, or at least, being really rare outside of it. Big part of the whole ninja culture would be trying to get pokemon from the other village regions, in order to increase versatility.

Kiri might be a bit screwed though. Water pokemon are awesome, but a lot of them require, well, water sources. Not really ideal to expand. Think you could have them as the undisputed coastal power but a lot of their pokemon would be next to useless inland. You have the occasional heavy hitter that can function on land, (suiciune and arcticuno for the Mizukage?), but not exactly a lot.

Would you keep stuff like water walking and tree jumping?

Maybe have the villages flock to the legendaries of the region, being build in their centre of power, where they roost/live and the Kage don't exactly control or train them but have a working relationship with them.

Would there be pokeballs? Not sure if you would have pokecenters or if you would keep medical jutsu or something.

 

Well, Pokemon with the ability to heal would replace medical ninjutsu. And for everyone else, yeah, there'd have to be something like Pokemon Centers.

As for bijuu, I think it's fine to get rid of them completely. Since Pokemon would be replacing chakra, and the bijuu are chakra entities, they wouldn't exist. In fact, the good thing about this whole idea would be that you can dispense with the convoluted Naruto mythos of Kaguya, Hagoromo, Indra/Ashura reincarnation, etc. and create a new backstory focused on Pokemon like Arceus, Mew, etc.

Edit: If people want to include the Naruto mythos, then it's still possible. Kaguya could have been the first human to control Arceus, or something along those lines.

 

I think fanfiction writers should dump the stupid Naruto mythos and Madara/Kaguya/Obito thing regardless of what kind of stories they write.

You could make a fair attempt and recreating the Pokemon conventions with sealing though. Chakra could be the psychics of the Naruto world, and a few people can do some things with it, like sealing or medical jutsu. Maybe tree climbing but no jutsu throwing around. I know that's an arbitrary distinction but not much more than anything else.

Just don't think one should have teleporters and stuff as commonplace devices.

 

I've been playing with the idea of a RWBY/Pokemon crossover for a while. The main idea would be that hunters and huntresses hunt down and kill/capture pokemon that are simply too dangerous to let go. Pretty much would seamlessly transplant Beacon into the Pokemon world.

 

Seriously though, why has the pokemon fandom latched onto these betrayal fics? I just don't understand it. Half the stories are, X people betray Ash, while Y remain loyal and Z helps Ash recover from the death of his mother/pikachu/professor Oak. Insert stupidly OP team from most recent play-through.

 

That's because it's a stupid easy story to tell and can create instant drama and plot for the future. The same reason it's popular in every damn fandom.

 

No idea, perhaps a combination of not liking the new companions for those who watch them, some people liked the original betrayal! fic and seeing the faves/follows for the first one people picked up on it making it a mini-trend on it's own.

Generally he ends up with Cynthia or some all powerful trainer harem or some shit, from the little I've seen.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9528773/1/The-Lost-Master

Here's one that's readable although I abandoned it after a while, wasn't really my thing.

 

Only got so far as two chapters I think before I had to stop because it was just unbearable. Wow, it's exactly like the betrayed Harry fics. Only cosmetic differences in terms of names and obviously pokemon stuff instead of Potter but everything else, how characters behave, how the main character is? Identical.

 

Yup, these two are the only others I'm aware of

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9191771/1/Pokemon-Summit

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9103189/1/The-Ash-Connection

I really liked Summit, had a unique concept although it hasn't been updated recently. TAC is complete.

My favorites though have already been mentioned, Under the Same Sky and GoC

 

I really want to read a pokemon fic where Red, for whatever reason, joins Team Rocket when he is offered a position at the end of the nugget bridge. It would be interesting to see the pokemon world from Team Rocket's perspective.

 

I know OP said newer fics, but I'm just gonna go ahead and post two of my all time favorites, not featuring Ash for anyone out there that hasn't read these two stories. Thumbs up to whoever mentioned Under the Same Sky. Awesome story as well.

Regret https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5808527/1/Regret

Pokemon 0 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4998290/1/Pokemon-0

 

Only read Regret if you have the ability to withstand mind-numbing angst.

 

I haven't seen either of these stories mentioned, so I'll throw them out there.

Both by Saphroneth

Master, Pokemon? : In which Ash is a Zorua pretending to be a human. The scenes are non-sequential, but it does have some humorous moments

Ashes of the Past : It isn't new, having been started in 2011, but still has a solid update rate, and does a decent job of powering up Ash while still giving him challenges, and gives reasonable explanations as it follows the introductions of the fairy type and mega-evolution. The story isn't a serious one, but still is good at keeping your attention.

 

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11113835/1/Essence

Has anyone been reading this story? 8 chapters, 260k words which is pretty crazy

It starts off slow, but I'm enjoying it so far - I just got to chapter 5. It's a rather light-hearted romp, but this fic's teeth are starting to show at the SS Anne. The "king's nature" is a pretty interesting mechanic.

You can tell that it's quite heavily influenced by Traveler.

Give it a go.

 

Ashes of the Past is in the library.

I really enjoyed the first few dozen chapters, but recently it's beginning to bug me. It's just dragged on too long.

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Fics where Ash picks a different Pokemon and that makes everything different kind of bug me.

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I'll take a look I guess.

 

I can't speak to that. Traveler is my favorite non-GoC story, and it has a different starter divergence as well.

Heads up to folks going after it.

The early chapters certainly enjoy following the filler parts of the Anime a bit. We've got the Samurai, that AJ doucher with the Sandshrew, Bulbasaur's retreat the Pokemon Institute, Squirtle Squad etc. I'm still working through chapter 5.

Not entirely sure how I'd rate it. I'll probably put it up for review when I finish what's there.

 

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11266745/1/Triumvirate

I've read this fix over the last week or so and had a good time reading it. It's a more grim, serious pokemon fic similar to The Sun Soul, but with a few minor problems.

Pokemon power levels are somewhat inconsistent, the characters are maybe a bit too angst-y and it's longer than it should be imo.

That said, if you're looking for something to read it's at least worth a shot.