Tenten and Screentime should be the strongest team combo.

Tenten being on Team 7 and getting access to Zabuza's blade to learn how to use throughout the series is definitely something I would have loved to see

Tenten is what happens to characters with a ton of potential in a cast of hundreds. It just happens sometimes when building a story. I really wish she got more development.

It's funny how OG Team 7 was supposed to embody the 3 main Jutsu archetypes. Naruto for Taijutsu, Sasuke for Ninjutsu, and Sakura for Genjutsu. It was written that way with Naruto being a one-trick pony, Sasuke's affinity with multiple techniques thanks to the Sharingan, and Sakura's abnormally good chakra control and by extension is required for Genjutsu. Instead, Kishi went way overboard going into Shippuden and we got the imbalance we see now.

Shikamaru is one of Naruto’s closest friends and literally does the exact role he described once Naruto became hokage by becoming his advisor, on top of that Naruto’s sibling chemistry with Tenten is pretty much off the charts as I could easily see wonderfully wholesome training scenes like Shikamaru asking the 2 “alright geniuses, what should you do if you have to face someone stronger than you? Well?” Only to immediately shut them down as they raise their hands by saying “assuming that throwing a rasengan or weapons at them isn’t a possible solution” followed by the 2 slowly putting their hands down 😂

Tenten can also help Shikamaru by creating more sections of shadows to stretch out Shikamaru's reach and allow him to target peoples blind spots more effectively. Also Tenten targets from the sky, Naruto from eye level Shikamaru from the ground this basically information overload to in any battle

Sakura - Choji - Lee: Some other people have mentioned it but I think Sakura with Lee would be a great combo. Unlike Naruto who really just heals himself, Lee tends to burn fast and becomes unable to continue fighting. Put another space maker like Choji on the team and they can cover each other while Sakura gets them back into the fight. Plus as you mentioned, chakra control training for all three would be devastating. Naruto - Tenten - Shikamaru: Perfect. Sasuke - Kiba - Hinata: Level-headed, aggressive, and defensive respectively. Good balance of all techniques, visual and olfactory mastery, plus Hinata is the only girl who wouldn't annoy Sasuke because she hardly talks. Neji - Ino - Shino: Two teammates that can keep track of both Ino and opponents simultaneously. Both can also disable enemies and make them easy targets for soul transfer. Plus, Ino-Shino sounds funny together.

Kishimoto is really good at coming up with great concepts and immediately completely forgetting about them.

I appreciate the respect you give to Shino. He is my favorite of the 12 and the disrespect he gets is uncalled for. Also the idea of Shino and Ino being on the same team as exuberate fashion disasters Gain and Lee is hilarious. I imagine Ino's initial disgust at the idea of Shino's bugs touching her in any way, then the grudging respect because Shino actually has the bugs help in the flower shop or something. Ino trying to give her team a make over, but it fails. The dynamic has such good potential.

The Hyuga's being together would be a damn good plot line. Neji's grudge would be forced to come to a head a lot sooner with Kakashi's style of conflict resolution. The whole those who betray their mission are scum, those who betray their friends are worse then scum thing.

I kinda wanna see a spin-off series with these teams, the dynamics are so unique for the series v refreshing

I think TenTen and Shikamaru is kind of slept on. I know Ten Ten just throws weapons, but it gives Shikamaru more Shadows to work with. She could extend his shadows to long range with Ten Ten's mastery. Plus, he's also shown he can throw weapons with his shadows. Like that would be an interesting team ultimate to have those two put someone in the blender like that lol

Not to mention Tenten's entire combat style relies on fuinjutsu, something she's shown to be gifted at. Having her with Naruto, a scion of the Uzumaki who were renowned for their fuinjutsu would be really cool. She might have been able to help with the nine tails' seal, or with the other jinchuriki.

My favorite part was when Kurenai never trained Hinata in genjutsu, even though the Byakugan can exponentially increase a genjutsu’s range, and Hinata also displayed very good chakra control with her twin lion fists.

The Naruto-Tenten-Azuma-Shikamaru and Sasuke-Sakura-Kurenai-Kiba teams in particular are fascinating to me. This makes me wish we had gotten more cross-pollination between the teams in the actual series, since each of the sensei had something to offer to the genin outside their teams. Also, Naruto and Tenten spamming the whole battlefield with shadow clones and shuriken only for any survivor to find himself caught in Shikamaru's shadow possession is an awesome thought.

Tenten could have been portrayed as the ultimate backline support member of a war. If they would have just used her in scenes where she's supplying thousands of ninjas with weapons and bows in a pinch moment during some of the key battles, it honestly would have fixed her entire existence. Yeah, she still wouldn't be a strong character, but she nobody expects her to be anyway. Having ninjas skip the process of gathering weapons to head to battle and just rely on Tenten's infinite inventory would have been dope for her as a character. Also, she should have been a weapon's trainer, helping more skilled Shinobi find their perfect weapon.

Not gonna lie that I always felt Tenten was royally screwed over because of this, even an episode dedicated to Tenten finding out how she would grow as a ninja showed just how ill equipped Guy was with helping her grow. UPDATE: Holy crap, thanks for 1.6K likes guys! 😊

In the episode that showed Tenten’s growth, it was shown that she could summon a small tortoise. If this ability was developed, if she made a contract with a summons animal or even multiple, she could have had the same ability as the path of Pain that summoned animals. This would have made her even cooler!

The new team 7 build would even be effective earlier in the story when they don't have access to KCM cloak. Tenten could force enemies into positioning for shadow paralysis and then Naruto could hit them with his early iterations of the rasengan or other early attacks he gains.

Lord Naruto, Tenten, Shikamaru should of been a thing. The number of things possible between them as well as the teams interactions in general would have been so much better than what we got.

I'm wondering why Ino and Shikamaru were surprised when they were picked to be team 10, seeing how their parents, and clans have been paired and working together for 15 generations prior.

I'm just amazed how this dude NEVER runs out of Naruto content.. & I'm here for all of it! 💯

I feel like a big problem with the teambuilding in Naruto can be contributed to Narutos bad world building, felt like the creator had no idea what jutsus they would get, or what enemies they would face later on in the story, hence not optimizing the team setup early on.

A team of Sasuke, Neji, and shikamsru would be unstoppable if they where open to being equals and trusting each other

I like the respect for Shino here. He deserved so much better from the series

This is a really intriguing concept. Personally I wouldn't use Naruto and Sasuke's abilities in the 4th ninja war as reference though. I think it would be more interesting if we try to match each member's usual fighting style and ability with one another. Here's how my list would go: - Naruto, Hinata, Shikamaru, Asuma: Naruto even before the 4th ninja war is already a powerhouse that can fight pretty much anyone and anything by himself. Shikamaru is here mainly for his brain, and Hinata is here to provide the team with her Byakugan mainly to support and defend Shikamaru. For a planner, information is key, and Hinata's map hack with Byakugan gonna make Shikamaru even more big brain than he already is. Also Shadow Possession into Twin Lion Fist is absurdly powerful to quickly disable any opponent - Sasuke, Tenten, Choji, Kakashi: Tenten is actually also known as master of Fuinjutsu. We saw in the second Chuunin exam that she can seal almost anything in her scroll, including water and fire. Now imagine if she found a way to store Amaterasu provided by Sasuke in her scroll for Sasuke to use and preserve Sasuke's chakra. Another combo I could think of is Tenten summon a sea of water for Sasuke and Kakashi to hit it with his Chidori for amp up Chidori, or Tenten summon oil to amplify Sasuke's fireball justsu. On the other hand, Tenten also shown to be able to store food in her scrolls, which would help to provide plenty of calories for Choji to use his Yang Release. Tenten potentially could also control Choji the same way Shikamaru does in the InoShikaCho formation by using string instead of shadow and wield him like a weapon. And imagine if Sasuke somehow found a way to coat a giant Choji with Susanoo... - Rock Lee, Ino, Shino, Guy: Honestly you nailed this team. The onlything I would add is that Ino have 2 very useful ability in this team. First of all, her healing is very useful in this team since Lee/Guy is a 8th gate user, which put a lot of toll on tneir body. Secondly, Ino have the ability to sense chakra and transfer this information to her ally, which essentially could give Lee/Guy a Sharingan lite. - Neji, Sakura, Kiba, Kurenai: I didn't really put much thought into this team, but it's almost like the upgraded version of the original team 8. Neji is a direct upgrade over Hinata, and Sakura's fighting style fit a lot better with the 2 close quarters combat specialist on her team. I also love the idea of Kurenai mentoring Sakura in using Genjutsu so I keep them together as well.

With both Neji and Hinata on the team, they are more precision close combat, while Chouji is more large scale combat. The latter can disrupt enemy formations and let the three doujutsu uses strike fast and hard. And as you said, Kakashi's ninjutsu expertise would do well for not just the two who have the second best eyes for ninjutsu, bit also Chouji who could use a but more support for his yang-release centric style. Might even help him perfect that butterfly mode to make it a viable technique and not just a dying gasp.

Kakashi, the only person with a sharingan besides Sasuke, needs to be his sensei. It’s just as important as Lee having Guy as his sensei.

I'd swap Sasuke and Choji here. Yes, Sasuke wouldn't get as much genjutsu training, but in early Naruto he's exactly what this team needs: A long range specialist. It's established in the early days of Naruto Sasuke is extremely talented in fire jutsu as well as shuriken jutsu. He can provide some backline damage for the team and still work with Kakashi on training his sharingan in it's less genjutsu based abilities. Choji doesn't fit quite as cleanly into Kurenai's team, but I do think that Choji could benefit a lot from learning chakra control and mixing that with his expansion jutsu. After all, his clan's primary technique is turning body fat into massive amounts of raw chakra, imagine what he could do with that chakra if he fine tuned it

Tenten-Naruto-Shikamaru is also great because their abilities would work together from the start to the end, at the start all of them were gimicks characters : Naruto spamming shadow clones, tenten throwing weapons and Shikamaru using his shadow technique; and I see so many ways to combine these three styles, like Tenten providing infinite weapons to naruto's clones and these clones launching an heavy rain of weapons at the opponent while Tenten catches their movementss with precises shots, and even if it isn't enough Shikamaru could still catch the opponent at any time as they would be distracted and as he has an almost infinite amount of shadows with the ones of the kunais. (And you perfectly explain why they would work together at the end)

Even without Naruto, considering how Shikamaru planned out his fight against Temari, just him and TenTen working together would be AMAZING.

I think konoha 12 besides the main 3 characters, weren’t meant to have a lot of screen time originally. They were just meant to be stepping stones for the main characters to develop on. But a few characters were extremely popular, so the writer tried to bring them back or make them relevant as the story progresses. Unfortunately since those characters are tied with their team, their team members are forced to show faces as well.

I think the biggest change I would make is swapping Hinata with Kiba. I don’t think both Byakugan users need to be on the same team. Both can serve as their respective sensor type and I think Kiba could do well training under Kakashi as both utilize Ninja dogs as well as can help Kiba learn elemental jutsu which could help him expand his arsenal. Plus Hinata seemed to do well under Kuranai so I think switching the two just work.

Tenten really could have been a very cool character. Every other kenjutsu specialist we see in Naruto is kind of iconic. It's very strange how there is a lot of support for a kenjutsu type character front and center in Naruto, but the most we ever get is Sasuke picking up a sword for intermittent use. Theres whole arcs about hidden swordsmen of the mist, the samurai military forces who are touched on while Sasuke is attacking the Kage summit, ect. If Tenten just had a powerful weapon that she used regularly, and used the techniques we see from other kenjutsu users, she would be a lot more dynamic as a character.

Just for the fun of it, I've always wondered how a team with Hinata and Naruto would be. Hinata was so disappointed in not being chosen to be on Naruto's team, that it always had me thinking that "What if" or if Ino was put on the team with Sasuke and Naruto instead of Sakura. Now, ignoring compatibility, my dream team would be Neji, Sasuke and Shino. These three are my favorite characters (well in my top 5 of the Konaha 12) and all 3 have interacted with Sasuke. Neji had a brief conversation during the beginning of the Chunin Exams, where Tenten teased at who would be stronger between Neji and Sasuke, and during the Konaha Crush Arc when Shino appeared to challenge Kankuro and them saying how they'll help each other out if they finish their fight first. Sasuke even mentioned this again when he was being pressured by Garra. I know Sasuke and Naruto had their rivalry, but I would have loved to have seen Sasuke connect more with others during the series. As much as I loved the journey Sasuke took to defeat Itachi, the sacrifice in this is that he never had the chance to build relationships with his classmates.

We can't forget that with the HinaNegiChoji team that its also technically double recon aswell as a triple threat. It gives plenty of scouting before a fight and makes for an easier strategy to be planned out. Think of it like, Hinata and Neji both use Byakugan to get a layout, Choji could also potentially use his power to group enemies together instead of spread them apart, and Kakashi and Choji could fight together while Hinata and Neji provide backup support? Potentially, I'm trying here 😭

Shino and Shikamaru as a duo would be FUCKING TERRIFYING and one of THE BEST interrogation teams in all of Naruto. Just imagine you suddenly can't move for some reason and realize it's because an absolute menace who controls the shadows themselves snuck up far behind you and stuck his shadow to yours as a man with thousands of bugs pouring from his body approaches from the front telling you to spill all the info you know or else said thousands of bugs will pour themselves down your throat and do only god knows what to you from the inside out, ain't nobody in the whole series who'd keep their secrets if caught in that shit

Honestly, I would love to see an arch between Neji and Hinata learning to exist together. Since we really only got a glimpse of their history in their Chunin fight. Plus seeing one person getting double 128 palmed or whatever would be insane.

I'd love to see this list again but done from the perspective of them coming right out of Ninja Academy and becoming Genin, based around the skills and jutsu that they had available to them as Genin. I think deciding based on their future versions is cool but like if they were teamed up in different ways then they also would have had different experiences as far as Mission Experience and opportunities to learn.

Nice Roster Nick. I would have preferred starting at the premise of Part 1 Naruto tho. I would of loved to see new team setups while they were still very young and inexperienced because that would build a whole new dynamic between teammates and teacher. If we start Konoha 12 back to when they were kids, I would set them up similar to your picks: Team Asuma Naruto, Shika, TenTen (exact same reasons you laid out) Team Gai Lee and the SHINO-INO combo (Agreed; these two would be prep to paralyze their enemy and then Gai/Lee breaks them) Now here's where I switch it up.. Team Kurenai Sakura, Neji, Choji (This would be my team because Kurenai would actually help all three blossom in their own way. Sakura would get a huge genjutsu boost while Neji could even learn a thing or two as far as genjutsu. Maybe he could use with his own dojutsu. Choji would get reprimanded for eating habits but awaken the courage and confidence he needs to make an impact in battle; especially with genjutsu users on his team. Choji would wreak havoc tbf.) Team Kakashi Sasuke, Hinata, Kiba (Ok this one makes sense to me. Kakashi gets extra pair of sharingan, gets new puppy friend and gets to learn more about Byakugan. Kakashi was the one who mentioned the relation Sharingan has to Byakugan so this team would actually be sensational imo. Kakashi will teach Sasuke and teach a little to Kiba cause he a fellow dog owner; and then take some time to watch over Hinata and coach her on building herself through training and attitude by letting her know that her life isn't as bad as it might seem and that it's better to be grateful instead of timid.)

I love the team picks. I’d love to see a fanfic that redoes it like this. I will be honest for the Konoha 12 my favorite characters in terms of concept were always Naruto, Shikamaru, and Tenten. I feel if say they were picked together while Sasuke and Sakura were with Kiba Naruto could have a distant rivalry during joint missions while not always being together when they meet up they go all out. Also Shino, Ino, and Lee in addition to being very complimentary also has very good comedic potential between the 3. Ino could easily swing from funny man to straight man roles depending on who she’s reacting to whether it be Lee, Shino, or Gai. I think I would’ve enjoyed early Naruto more from a character development standpoint with these teams at least upon rewatch because of the balancing issues that come early on.

Honestly, from a character development standpoint, your Team Kakashi might just come out on top. Kakashi being a bit of bland realist would do well at addressing Choji's low self-esteem, Hinata's void of self-esteem outside of Naruto, and Neji's extremely high self-esteem. Putting them in scenarios where they would have to overcome their worse traits together since those very traits could be caused and mended by those very traits. Neji as the bully who learns to care for those he deems weaker than himself, Choji as the sensitive one who learns to have tougher skin, and Hinata the quiet one who learns that she has to speak up to be heard. All with a sensei who will not hold their hands through it all. Add in elemental control, trail by fire tactics, rivalry based training, and an environment that will not allow for failure of character. They might be a squad of city busters but they would be a team with the best synergy.

I really like Shino and Shikamaru's new spots. Kiba and Naruto are similar in personality, so I imagine having him along with Sakura and Sasuke would create a very similar dynamic as og team 7, though I'm not sure that's a good thing. I think putting Naruto with Asuma is brilliant as it would be the 3rd making these, and with Asuma being family, the 3rd would want to a) entrust the ninetails to someone close and someone strong, and b) give a troubled orphan someone positive to look up to, guide him, and encourage him. I like your other teams a lot, except for the Hyugas; at the time Neji absolutely hated Hinata, and I don't think it would be healthy; especially with Kakashi heading them...that team is just asking for someone like Kakuzu to pull up and get em. That's assuming they even make it past the bell test. I do like Neji with Kakashi though, Neji like Sasuke was heading down a dark path and Kakashi's been there and come back, so its a good choice there. Hinata needed strength, courage, resolve etc, she should definetely go with Guy. Overall though, pretty good teams, and a great video. Thanks for making this, it was fun to think about

If you want balanced squads, you probably need to assign them out for missions in different configurations than they are trained. I.e. Kurenai train 3 genjutsu users, but then when they go out on missions, they split-up and travel with different squads. With that said, training-wise, I'd have Guy train some taijutsu specialists like Neji, Rock Lee, and Choji. I'd have Kurenai train 3 genjutsu specialists which would be Ino, Sakura, and I guess I'll draft Shino? Kakashi and Asuma have similar fighting styles, but I guess I'd have Asuma train the more frontline nin-taijutsu fighters like Kiba, Naruto, and Hinata. Kakashi would be a more ninjutsu specialist and would train Shikamaru, Sasuke, and Tenten. This means that the students would be learning slightly different jutsu sets than they did in the story. Then, for balance, kind of obvious at this point. Each squad would receive one tracker (Neji / Hinata / Kiba / Shino), at least one pure frontline fighter, one back rank fighter, and 1 mid-range fighters. Each squad would have one of the 4 strong ninjas (Neji, Sasuke, Naruto, Rock Lee). E.g. Neji, Tenten, Sakura Hinata, Sasuke, Shikamaru Choji, Naruto, Ino Rock Lee, Kiba, Shino

Well I think these teams are great with the information that we have now of what. They become a lot more difficult when you look at where they were originally when they were placed in teams. Mostly because you would have an idea of what a lot of them would end up dealing but there's no way they could have guessed that some of them would be basically deities and some of them would be shopkeeps...

The new team 7 sounds so fun. Like can you imagine what shikamaru can do with an army of Naruto? It would be chaos. Also he was one of the few people who was friends with naruto in the academy. Also tenten throwing her bazillion weapons enhanched by naruto or asuma's wind jutsu will be so much stronger.

Imagine Sasuke/Sakura/Ino being on one team. This would be hilarious

I was introduced to your channel recently with this video and man! I love the passion behind this take! So many of them could have had their potential brought out more if they had better teams and assigned sensei! I would have to watch this again in order to see or try my hand at my own takes for new teams and teachers. This was awesome! Keep it up!

It honestly always bothered me that Tenten never put chakra on her weapons. I always imagined Tenten would have the hilt of like a samurai sword, but it would just be the hilt and she would run her chakra through it and create a blade made completely outta chakra and look like she’s literally wielding a lightsaber😂

For Team 8: I would argue there is tactical value to having a whole squad focused on recon. Teams aren't really used this way in Naruto, but it would make sense to have missions divided into the recon component and an execution component, and it makes sense to have the redundancy to cover more ground and account for genjutsu. Basic idea would be to gather Intel then report back so a less discrete team could be sent in fully prepared.

I actually love the potential character dynamic of Shino's presence on team Guy, given that he is pretty shy and socially awkward having him paired with such high volume lunatics causes the comedy to write itself.

This is the first video of yours I ever saw and I loved it, almost of your reasoning for the teams made sense and was entertaining. Thanks, and you just got another sub

You based Naruto's new team almost entirely off of his adult abilities. It's hard to say where the academy would have put him if they were trying to make balanced teams because he was so bad at everything as a child. Though even without that I think him with Ten Ten and Shikamaru works well. Naruto covers recon and CQC with shadow clones, which simultaneously makes space for his teammates and reduces the risk of Ten Ten killimg him by hurling weapons everywhere.

Shikamaru being on Naruto and TenTen's team makes total sense.

I love your idea of Joining Tenten to Naruto and Shikamaru under Asuma And others have commented that Kakashi could help Neji at getting over his family conflict, but although that sounds good Sasuke also had family and death related issues and Kakashi didn't help out a lot on that... except for one scene which Sasuke ended up throwing over his shoulder

I wish people paid more attention to TenTen feats in fillers and movies. She was shown going toe to toe with Hidan in melee combat, finishing off a giant beast with explosions on par with Konans, sealing elements in her scrolls like fire dragons and almost an entire ocean. As well as utility like saving herself and lee by creating an armodilo like steel shield and transporting and entire ship in a scrool. She can accomplish a lot if given the proper attention, probably having her best showcase in will of fire

"He wanted to train an emo how to make his mouth scream" is a pretty amazing line ngl. Also i think an interesting follow-up to this video would be exploring how these teams would have progressed from the beginning of the series were these the setups

Some things about these teams : - In the new Team 7, Naruto can use his wind style to boost Tenten's weapons speed, and while it would not be that useful when he is in KCM, it could be useful when they are Gennins. - The new team 10 is perfect for Guy because Shino could give Lee bugs for him to carry to the ennemies and by so weaken them ( it would help Lee get less injured ). - For the new team 9, it means that Sakura could have gone to retrieve Sasuke ( Kiba would want her help and now she has justus so Shikamaru can't say anything about her being too weak ) and ( unless plot armor ) would have got his emo @ss back to Konoha. - Team 3 / Team Kakashi : Kakashi would make his team stronger because if they had fire or lightning to their hits, they would deal ENORMOUS DAMAGES. Just imagine Choji using a form of lightning release as an armor, like the raikage ( but weaker ) and use his ball technique ( i forgot the name 😅 ).

Great team concepts! Perfect! And great video, thank you!

Great breakdown, i actually really like these teams that youve made.Some of those combos would be elite.

I think Sakura would've been better suited in a team with guy and Lee. Not only can she heal them when they use the gates, and can learn 8 gates and stack 100 heals. She'd be the strongest hand to hand user. Chogi learning any gates to stack on his size would be insane.

Great line ups, my only problem is you made these teams at their peak. Not when they got formed. I feel like when they got out of the academy or at least beginning of shippuden would be a good way to arrange them

Under Kuruni's team, it'sChoji, sasuke, and Kiba. Kuruni covers Genjutsu, Choji covers close combat, Sasuke covers Mid range, and Kiba is recon. Giant dog with a susano? Neat! Extreamly large man wearing a susano armour with a sword? Kinda scarry.... the tiny dog on his shoulder wispering into his ear your exact location? Absolutely terrorfying! under Kakashi, put sakura, Negi, and Hinata. Kakashi covers mid to long range, While Sakura focuses on supporting her team(and maybe genjutsu if she learns it), And Neji and Hinata are primarily Recon, and close quarters combat. Stacked with tiajutsu users, but sakura breaks your body, the Hugas break your chakra network. Kakashi can honestly rain hell on the battle feild since the Hugas can see everything coming, and react, While sakura can heal 1 of her team mates knowing atleast 1 huga is protecting them almost 100%. giant doggo is nice, but not having to worry about accidentaly hitting a teammate? just as good when things call for the big jutsus.

I really enjoy your content!! This is my favorite one you've done. I would say your last team actually has more potential than you might think. I'd say you did a great job with it!! They could have a bunch of different strategies and combos that would give people trouble! Keep it up man!!

TenTen and Naruto combo actually sounds pretty powerful early on since both have abilities dedicated to spamming stuff; in Naruto's case himself, in TenTen's case enough weapons to equip an army. Sure, you could argue that lore-wise it isn't a likely combo since team guy graduated before Naruto did, but its still an interesting scenario. I think the actual teams matter a bit less after the main series since they move around more and that perhaps the more important thing is which teams are most effective early on. Sakura and Sauske with Kurenai definantly makes more sense in that regard. Not entirely sure about the rest. Interesting video at any rate.

I also think Sasuke would have benefit from having either Asuma or Kurenai as a Sensei. They are both shown to be very caring teachers who become pseudo parents to their teams. They could have helped Sasuke overcome his trauma through kindness and opening up, or at the very least get him into therapy. They might have even been able to keep Sasuke in the village. I love Kakashi but that man is so emotionally stunted and traumatized its ridiculous. But yeah cool teams, I like all the switch’s and different concepts you went with. Awesome video!

Asuma’s team (Naruto Tenten and Shikamaru) is perfect. This gives wholesome friendship/family vibes everybody just wanted for Naruto. Sakura and Sasuke should not be in the same team tho. Same for Hinata and Negi. It is an invitation for drama. I think Sasuke deserved a better support system and I think the only ones with a real shot were Kurenai and Hinata. Also, I wouldn’t mind separating Negi and RockLee and giving them a healing teammate as follows: Guy’s team: Rock Lee - Sakura - Choji Sakura, with her monstrous strength and healing abilities, would’ve been much scarier with Guy’s/RockLee’s taijutsu, amount of will power and training dedication. Same for Choji and his ability to change sizes. He could’ve been a titan as in AOT. Kakashi: Neji - Ino - Shino Relatively the weakest team but with the strongest teacher. Even tho my faith in Kakashi is limited, I think these 3 would’ve learnt to care for each other on their own. I think Negi would’ve respected this new teams abilities and have better team spirit protecting Ino as a the healer/recognition person. And maybe, just maybe, Kakashi could’ve step up his game as a teacher after being inspired by this. Kurenai: Sasuke - Hinata - Kiba This one has to be obvious. It’s basically a caring teacher that specializes in genjutsu , the only girl that doesn’t simp for him, and a dog. Best support system for Sasuke

Love your content man!

I definitely think it’s worth considering how the teams would work together personality-wise. Hinata and Neji together in Part 1 just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, I don’t see Sasuke and Kiba getting along at all, and reserved Shino would only get more overshadowed by the forceful personalities of Ino, Lee, and Guy.

I think the biggest hole in the team adjustments is Guy's team. Primarily because it is established that they graduated before the rest of the Konoha 12 and are introduced in the Chunnin exams after they spend a year studying with Guy. So Lee, Tenten and Neji would technically be unavailable for sorting if we want to be buzzkills about this.

awesome video!

Honestly this is pretty deeply thought out and it makes sense. Not only with their set move but personalities as well. I feel like some underdog characters would get better support in these teams.

I think one bad call you made while making that list is sorting them by what they are capable at the end of the story, not what they do at the start of it or at least end of 1st series.

Aye those gains are gaining keep it up man❤

LOVE this, agree with every of your team combos

You have made infinitely better teams than what we got. Everyone just makes sense. Tenten getting some shine is always appreciated, too.

What I think Kishimoto was originally going for with team 7 before Konoha crush arc was that he may have wanted team 7 to specialize into the three main shinobi arts. Naruto was likely supposed to be a taijutsu master- using shadow clones to overwhelm opponents. Sasuke was supposed to be a ninjutsu master much like Kakashi- sensei who copied a thousand jutsu and created the chidori and passing it down to his “prized student”. Sakura-Supposed to be a genjutsu master- we learn early on about her amazing chakra control and her intellect, Sasuke mentions how Sakura had to have been the first to notice the genjutsu going into the chunin exams building. Then she dispels a genjutsu that was able to cover the whole chunin exams arena and put most of the genin except for Shikamaru and a few others to sleep. In this point of the story she is somewhat useless but it’s like her limited amount of skills gets nerfed going into the mission to capture sasuke. After that she just becomes a medic nin that does very little to contribute and we only think she is strong because we have to reminded by the anime that Sakura is strong. Personally I don’t think she truly blossoms until a brief moment against Sasori and then she stays dormant until the war. When Naruto was learning to create the Rasenshuriken she should have been with Kurenai getting tips on genjutsu. Considering how underwhelming Kisame’s death was (imo) she could have been the one to take him out on the mission to capture itachi. She should have been a character that either surpasses or gets on the level of Itach in terms of genjutsu. Rant over no matter what Sakura will always be a sore subject when it comes to the what could have been’s

Shino has always been one of my favourites I love watching him fight and his jutsu has so many applications. seriously underrated character that deserved way better

youtube recommended this video to me and omg my lil naruto loving heart soared. i love these picks. alot

Shino with elite Taijutsu makes him a team on his own tbh. Not sure how well he could coordinate the movement of his insects while in heated combat, but considering how well he did it in the chunin exam I can imagine he had mastered that by Shippuden in the team structure he had. With a teacher like Might Guy that would, one could imagine, cause his progress to speed up expeditiously.

Another think with TenTen is, she has shown she can use legendary ninja tools on the first try, only held back by her chakra reserves. Something Naruto could easiky assist with.

I think Kurenai and sasuke goes beyond just the tactical genjutsu aspect. Personally I think mental stability played a central role in Naruto, specially with Sasuke. Kurenai could have been a motherly figure, could even help Sasuke cope with his trauma using her genjutsu as tool for this. Maybe she could offer Sasuke some affection and kindness that another Sensei could not

Actually the new team Kakashi works pretty well. Choji covers Kakashi as he uses his 1000 jutsu at will, and nobody gets past the wall of Choji, and the twin Palms of Hyugas. It allows Kakashi to sit back at let lose with all of the counters to anyone else's jutsu. And Neji + Hinata means eventually those chakra points are gonna go down too. And Choji can handled anything else thrown their way

I think that most characters would almost necessarily end up completely different than original Naruto due to these new teams, so taking into account what they became rather than simply potential and their early kit seems flawed. I do, however, love how the teams turned out. Naruto and Tenten would be an actually pretty good combo early on (she provides the weapons, he provides the soldiers) and I think they'd get along surprisingly well. I think an interesting follow-up would be to simply take each of the 12 individually and assign them the best teacher for them out of the 4 available, because I'm curious how you'd think to maximize each Genin's potential through their teacher.

Tenten throwing an assortment of weapons for them to turn out to be Naruto clones seems like an easy combo that opens up an opportunity for shikamaru to trap the enemy in shadow possession jutsu

I just watched one of your videos from a year ago (the rewriting sakura one) and just got to this one, such a difference between you (current) and you (a year ago).

I like your teams but I would have swapped Neji and Sasuke. Not only could this have balanced the teams more by not having 2 team 7 members on the same team but we could also have Sasuke put a Susanoo cloak on a gigantic Choji which I think would be cooler than the Kiba Susanoo.

Thank you sooo much for making this video Nick lol. I thought I was the only one saying “these teams make no sense how tf are they supposed to be effective.” and none of my friends listen

Sounds like Hinata got a bit gypped on both teams. On her canon team she didn’t really have much that she could learn, but she did at least have people who were good moral support for her. In this new team however, Hinata might be able to learn elemental jutsu, but she loses out on that emotional support. Not only that but she’s stuck on a team with one of her worst tormenters, a well meaning but passive big boned boy, and a teacher that kind of sucks at emotionally connecting with people.

I really enjoyed your list and the perfect editing aswell. For a bonus round you can maybe add in Gaara, Temari, Kankuro. Darui, Omoi, Karui. First time watcher.

Great ideas! Love the video and the scenario man, really sparked me up to do the rearrangement challenge as well 😄 one team we have is even similar, but I added more combos. Would love to hear your thoughts on this!! I went for a bit more strict condition by not being able to have any former team mate in your team. And then obviously having balance, good match ups, reasonable team leaders (and OF COURSE the gender ratio of 2 boys 1 girl 😁). These are the teams in overview: Guy: lee, shino, sakura Asuma: tenten, naruto, shikamaru Kurenai: sasuke, choji, hinata Kakashi: kiba, neiji, ino [ ] Guy: Shino, lee, sakura Close: lee, sakura (trained) Mid-long: shino Support: shino, sakura Strategy: shino, sakura Recon: shino Lee and guy have to be together, obviously, be alone training for the opening of the inner gates. Though lee will be the main close combat type, sakura would get trained under guy into being more capable and confident in fighting closely, as she actually has some strong punch when concentrating chakra into her fists. Also shino wouldn't do bad to adopt at least some close combat defense skills, to be honest. As sakura and shino are intelligent and strategic, they can both cover strategic manouvers. Shino would not only bring some mid to long range coverage, if lee would struggle against certain nin-jutsus from enemies, shinos potential do drain out their chakra would make lee much more reliable in dishing out the damage. Sakura is also good in releasing lee for example from genjutsu. Lastly, as sakura has the best medical abilities in konoha 12 she might be able to adopt some ways of bringing lee back on his feet after he destroyed himself when opening the inner gates. [ ] Asuma: tenten, naruto, choji Close: naruto, tenten (trained) Mid-long: tenten, shikamaru Support: tenten, shikamaru Strategy: shikamaru Recon: naruto? Tenten would actually adopt a bigger role in this team. First, asuma would train her on extending chakra onto a specific weapon like he does, so she will has more close combat potential (eg. A fighting staff/stick with two chakra spear heads on each end on she could do acrobatic stuff with). Furthermore, asuma would (if possible as he is a sarutobi and the 3rd hokage invented this jutsu) teach her the shuriken shadow clone technique which would in the end just spam even more throwing weapons on the enemie than she already does, but lol why not. In combination with naruto, they could pull of the shadow shuriken jutsu like he did with sasuke against zabuza. But instead, they would spam another hundreds of naruto shadow clones disguised as throwing weapons, thrown by tenten. Shikamaru would obviously be more supportive in his role and also, create battle startegies. In combo with naruto, he can very straight forward do his shadow possession jutsu and naruto finishes enemies of with a rasengan. Same strategy with tentens new chakra blades. In combination with tentens weapon spam, as soon as he develops the ability to control multiple "arms/branches" of shadows, the could pick up multiple weapons and fight multiple enemies, or a single enemies from all sides. [ ] Kakashi: kiba, neiji, ino Close: kiba, neiji Mid-long: (neiji) Support: ino Strategy: / Recon: kiba, neiji (,ino?) Kakashi is training kiba because he literally has the contract with ne ninken dogs of the inuzuka clan (kibas clan). Kiba would learn more about the ninken summoning jutsu and become stronger by learning combos with the other ninja dogs, like creating more passing fang tornados, and other. Him and neiji obviously doing the close combat dirty work with kiba being a more furious and neiji a more controlled fighter. Neiji brings also somewhat of a mid range abolity with the Air wall palm technique. Maybe kakshi can train him to combine it with some elemental release. Ino will obviously have the support role and ability to hold up several enemies with the mind body disturbance technique (not the mind transfer as this would make her take the damage on the enemy too) for neiji and kiba too hit hard. Having 2-3 recon types seems a bit overkill but in combo with inos mind body transmission technique this could become pretty dope. As it is hard to coordinate for kiba and his ninken while doing the passing fang technique (I think they rely on smell sensing and anticipation only), gaining the sensing information from neijis byakugan sight, as well as inos chakra sensing abilities, through inos mind body transmission jutsu on kiba and lets say 9 other ninja hounds (or even more with shadow clone jutsu) doing the passing fang tornados...this could create quite a havoc. Same benefits obviously also the other way for neiji, if ino syncs up all their individual recon abilities. In general summoning more dogs and having "more fighters" would cover ino a bit better if she screws up her mind jutsus. Lastly, maybe the summoned dogs from kiba could bite and hold enemies for ino to hit them with her mind jutsus. Though not a super innovative strategy, probably worth a though. [ ] Kurenai: sasuke, choji, hinata Close: sasuke, hinata, choji Mid-long: sasuke (,hinata) Support: sasuke Strategy: sasuke? Recon: hinata This is kind of the last-of-the-bunch team, but definitely no slouch, including 2 different dou jutsu eyes (and choji the master mind). Under Kurenai, sasuke would be trained intensely in genjutsu, becoming of a itachi kinda type of fighter, with hinata and choji doing the dirty work. Maybe having more emphasis on mid/long range elemental techniques. The thing is, sasuke can kinda do it all anyways, he has ninjutsu, taijutsu, shuriken skills and with genjutsu even support abilities. While enemies are trapped in his genjutsu, choji and hinata have enough hitting power to take out enemies easily (imagine having a horror nightmare and then getting woken up by a human wrecking ball stomping your face). Hinata same as neiji has somewhat of a mid range aspect with the air wall palm technique. Although there is probably plenty potential for team combos there, here my creativity and/or knowledge isn't sufficient enough to come up with more than that. At least all of them should be doing fine on holding up fights on their own, not relying too much on each other (with some maybe having a few more tricks up their sleeves than others). ...I liked the idea of putting tenten together with choji to summon him a huge war club when he becomes a giant but you have to make compromises for the sake of the constellation conditions 😅

Tenten would have been so cool if she had a katana and a bow to cover her close and long range attacks respectively and all the thrown weapons for mid range

I think my only small issue at all is mostly that Neji, Lee, and TenTen are all a year elder than the others. It is established that they grade above. I do understand that it's more so evaluating their respective skills and creating teams that would allow them to be used to their full potential though so just a tiny nitpick. XD

I think rearranging the teams as they were in OG Naruto and in Shippuden are two different tasks.

I agree with the first team Sikamaru Naruto and Tenten all work well under Asuma. I'd change it so that Guy, Lee, Neji and Hinata would be on a team. Instead of trying to avoid too many close combatants, why not lean into it? A close combat specialty unit. Plus that'd mean that you can basically keep all the storylines between those characters intact, you could even shift Hinata's crush to Rock Lee for even more intra-team drama. I'd then put Sasuke, Ino and Kiba together. Kiba is the spacer, Sasuke is the trapper (with genjustu) and Ino seals the deal. Plus with Akamaru around that's one extra teammate to guard Ino's body. Plus Kakshi also uses ninja dogs, so that's a training connection with Kiba. Lastly Sakura, Choji and Shino under Kurenai. Sakura learns her genjutsu and can heal up Choji when he pushes himself too far. Both Sakura and Choji cover the close combat for Shino and their high damage output can easily distract from a convert bug attack.

Actually I think team Kurenai could be well design in some kind of assasination/recognition missions where they need to be quiet and unspotted. Kiba with his nose could sense enemy from really far. He can point Hinata in some direction. Then she can precisly know enemy location and area around him. Kurenai can use genjutsu to distract enemy while Shino can prepare his bugs to kill enemy. And all of this can be done really silent without allarming anybody.

I actually adore that new team 7 idea, thats brillant. You would see them coming and know you're not leaving unless your surrender or your dead. Shikamarus shadows would be an excellent way to trap opponents and make sure they cant escape or get out of range. I feel like they would also work personality wise with everyone and be able to form a strong bond that would make them nearly untouchable. A+ New team 10 I love as well, Lee would def need distance based teammates and the choices are great. I do see some personality conflicts with everyone so itd be interesting to see. Damn Id love a fanfic about how the story would change with these new teams.

Kakashi's team should be Sasuke, Sakura, Choji. Having Choji expand and carry Sasuke and Sakura allows Sasuke to give Choji a susanoo cloak and Sakura to heal and keep Choji going since he tends to burn out fairly quickly too. That would allow Kakashi and Sasuke to quickly dispatch enemy threats while Choji is a huge wrecking ball. That would put team Kurenai with Neji, Hinata, Kiba. Neji and Hinata can provide close to mid range, Kiba can help them cover their blind spots and make it impossible to sneak up on them by controlling sight and smell advantage. Kurenai can support the three with long range attacks and Genjutsu.

New team 7 seems completely amazing!!!! Also all their personalitys match pretty well... Give me a season of that please

Seeing TenTen getting special training from the Samurai would have been an amazing. Just a side idea I had that would help boost her kenjutsu skill and control. Also side thought with Naruto being able to draw in nature Chakra could he transfer that to her too? Basically fueling her with infinite Chakra to keep her spamming attacks and disorienting them while Shikamaru holds them and Naruto closes in behind.