Uhh... Interesting??? One 4 star, one 3 star, and one 1 star review. This is... interesting.

I feel like that's the case too, but I've gotten comments before about how I'm too heavy for a pokemon fanfic (which is weird because it's really not that heavy), and I need to add more jokes to make it more lighthearted. I guess I can stop trying to appeal to the little kids though if it's distractingly forced.

He has met literally zero women in the entire story so far, or even in all my notes. If there's romance at all, chances are it will be an OC that I throw in there later on.

No, I believe effects is correct.

"There is no good and evil, only power." -Professor Quirrell

I think I get what you're saying here. He would have had more karma if he had done everything he did to help people, but apart from killing The Terror, he was forced to do everything else and he hated doing it, so he lost some karma points. He still got a lot for saving humanity on three occasions though.

This isn't a self insert; I don't agree with everything the main character does, especially starting around what will probably be around chapter 16. Though to be fair he hates them because their parents had him killed to feed them. He thinks if they didn't exist he wouldn't have had to die for them. (Not that that's correct. If the kids weren't there he would die for the parents instead.) He just needs someone to hate to deal with the trauma basically.

Well, more like a soul literally created by the devil, but alright.

Granted, he doesn't actually know what those numbers mean specifically. The potential could be out of a million for all he knows. But high usually means good, so that's just what Dust went with. His guess is later confirmed by a Marshadow having a potential that he cannot recognize but is greater than ten. I'll add his thoughts about the numbers in since I think there are others that are worried about it.

Love that fanfic. Sad it got dropped.

They make no sense at all!

Yeah he just can't hold an infinite amount of electricity. He ends up getting extremely damaged by too much, both in Hoenn and Unova.

I just used them as an example but none of the grunts are ever really intelligent. Butch and Cassidy are supposed to be the competent versions of Jessie and James and always end up still becoming a joke. If you want a more serious example, Team Rocket grunts kill a Marowak to get some Cubone. Pidgeot is better than Marowak in my opinion, but there's this whole operation to get these things that ends in Red taking out a huge sector. Pokemon Origins btw, so not canon, but neither is this, now is it? I just don't think Team Rocket outside of the higher-ups is a very intelligent organization. They're comedic relief unless an executive or Giovanni shows up.

True. I still liked Mega Pidgeot though. Also it's Team Rocket. The same group that went on a wild goose chase after some Pikachu.

Ah, someone who has not attuned themselves to the secret teachings of Gangnam Style. Youtube is your friend.

Ah, you're good, thanks!

Thank you :)

It's not like Paras is exactly my favorite pokemon, but when thinking of Kanto pokemon that are fairly weak to introduce at the start of the story, Ekans, Paras, and Oddish seemed about right. This is meant to be realistic fantasy, not a wish-fulfillment or OP from the start fic, meaning Dust has to take what he can get. Also tiny spoiler, but selling pokemon is illegal in this world. Thanks for the well-wishes!

Yeah, it's really dropped

Shisui beat Itachi in the fight they had but said Itachi would have likely won if he wasn't thinking about something else, that being the clan coup situation. Based only on strength, they are about equal, and I would give the edge to Itachi after he unlocked Mangekyo but before his illness started to limit him more. Of course, Kotoamatsukami is just a cheat code, and with that, Shisui can pretty much solo the Narutoverse with the exception of Urashiki because Urashiki would see the future and know not to look at Shisui.