Believe it or not, Nintendo started off as a card game company in the late 1800s. They sure have come a long way since then! They are know one of the most successful video game companies in the world with major franchises to their name like Mario, Pokémon, Metroid, Splatoon, and The Legend of Zelda.
Pokémon, one of their most successful brands, has inspired a lot of crossover fan art. So why not crossover Pokémon with 🥀other Nintendo brands? Here are ten pieces of fan art that show Nintendo characters as Poké🌱mon Trainers.
10 Peach And Ma❀rio ✱
This fan art makes it look like Peach and Mario are cosplaying as Ash and Serena from the Pokémon anime! They did a pretty good job, though its hard to im🌌agine Ash with📖 a mustache.
The art was made by . She does a lot of adorable fan art of Super Mario characters that uses a 🎐lot of pink colors and sparkles. She is also a Princess Peach cospl🦩ayer!
9 Link Meets Pokémon 🦂
The artist, , made this piece in celebration of The Legend of Zelda's 30th and Pokémon's 20th anniversary ജyear. The two games are pretty different in terms of story and gameplay, but t🦩he two have some in common.
Both have gone through a ton of ch꧑anges over the years! Itꦇ is cute that they are switching up their stuff in this art. What kind of trainer would Link be and would Red be able to learn combat? The artist is a comic book artist, so check out their stuff!
8 🌠 Froslass In Splatoon
The artist for this piece, , does a lot of Nintendo fan art and crossovers. In fact, this art is just one of a collection of Splatoon and Pokémon crossover art.
While both Splatoon and Pokémon are pretty innocent and happy games, the artist managed to get these two to look a little scary. Other Pokémon this artist has crossover with Splatoon characters include Gyarados, Sno🤪rlax, Arcanine, Haunter, and mo🤪re.
7 ಞ Samus And Pikachu
Due to Super Smash Brawl, a lot of fans have made fan art of different characters teaming up. One popular team is Samus and Pikaܫchu! There is actually a lot of fan art of these two Nintendo characters together. Would Samus be a better trainer than Ash? Well, instead of getting Pikachu to fight for her, they would fight together.
The artist is and their gallery is the place to be for Nintendo fan art. They have fan art of characters like Rosalina, Zelda, Daisy, Peach, Kirby, Fox, Falco, Cynthia, and tons of other characters in Smash.
6 🎐 Link And De𓃲tective Pikachu
Here we have a modernized Link from on an investigation with Detective Pikachu. What is most cute about this duo is that Detective Pikachu is very talkative while Link never speaks! Imagine having a silent trainer with a talkative Pokémon! Also, what are they investigating? Is that. . . Sonic 🍸the Hedgehog's quill🌌? This crossover might be more complex than we thought.
The art was made by and they do a lot of cute Legend of Zelda fan art. They have also done fan art for Fire Emblem.
5 B💮owser And Pikachu 🍨
The dynamic between Pikachu and Bowser would be very fun to watch. It appears this is actually fan art for Super Smash, as characters can send out different Pokémon to help them out if they pick up a Pokéball. It looks like Bowser wants Pikachu to attack his enemies but Pikachu is refusing. The way Pik𓆏achu is behaving is reminiscent of the first episodes of the anime with Ash.
The artist is and he does a lot of fan art for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Sailor Moon, Disney films, and more.
4 💖 Sq꧂uid Trainers
We had to put in another piece from from their Splatoon and Pokémon crossover collection, because they just look so happy here! We have two squid kids from Splatoon with a Charmander and Squirtle.
Water-Types would definitely suit the characters of Splatoon more since they have squid and octopus people. There is even a squid Pokémon, Inkay, which is both Dark and Water-Type.
3 🙈 Pokémon Go Team ༒
Not all crossover art has to be about the base games. The app, Pokémon Go, is s⛄till one of the post popular phone games out thജere. The summer it was released created a major craze.
This art was done by illustrator and comic artist, . He drew the three Mario princesses: Peach, Daisy, and Rosalina, as trainers in Pokémon Go. If you look at their shirts, you can see the three teams as well from app: Mystic, Valor, and Instinct. Not o🐲nly do the teams fit the princesses' different colors, but they also coin♛cide with their personalities!
2 Luigi Meets A ꦐGhost-Type
Luigi and ghosts are like peanut butter and jelly thanks to the Luigi's Mansion series. So it is pretty clever to do a crossover with him and Ghost-Type Pokémon! In this f🌞an art, he is meeting a Polteagiest. He seems terrifying but it looks like it just wants to be friends.
The artist for this piece is . Her gallery also has fan art for The Legend of Zelda, Devil May Cry, Mario, Ducktales, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and more.
1 Zelda And Pichu 𓄧
This wholesome art gives some baby Pokémon some love. Picha is adorable, but not known to be strong. Zelda does not care though. What matters is that i🔥ts friendly and cute! This is a very warm picture, and it captures the sw💃eeter side of Hyrule's princess.
The artist for this piece is and she does a lot of Legend of Zelda fan art.