At least 10 Ultra balls. Maybe some Timer balls.

Xatuish123 said:
Okay it looks like the leader girl from the guys in all-white, just like the first Ultra-Beast looks like the girl with the hat.
What in the world are these things exactly?

In other worlds they would be called Elder Gods. Ancients. Eldrazi.

Xatuish123 said:
Okay it looks like the leader girl from the guys in all-white, just like the first Ultra-Beast looks like the girl with the hat.
What in the world are these things exactly?

Bongani said:
In other worlds they would be called Elder Gods. Ancients. Eldrazi.

They're basically ELDRITCH BEASTS from another universe, people are pretty sure that they're not even pokemon at all.

Just throwing out a crazy theory here, what if the ultra beasts come from the future?

Bongani said:
In other worlds they would be called Elder Gods. Ancients. Eldrazi.

Oh lovely so they're actually the Pillar Men

fucking great

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
Oh lovely so they're actually the Pillar Men

fucking great

The Pillar Men at least have been on Earth so long they've naturalised, if they weren't already from it. The UBs belong to colours out of space.

Lance_Armstrong said:
At least 10 Ultra balls. Maybe some Timer balls.

Zreig said:
They're basically ELDRITCH BEASTS from another universe, people are pretty sure that they're not even pokemon at all.

Maybe we can't catch them because "Ultra Beasts" aren't Pokemon, but some other sort of creature.

Furrin_Gok said:
Maybe we can't catch them because "Ultra Beasts" aren't Pokemon, but some other sort of creature.

There's a very small list of what they could be.

>Precursors to humanity
>Cosmic horrors assuming a form we can comprehend
>Outright aliens
>Eldritch entities that do not adhere to mortal concepts (think angels or demons)

Lance_Armstrong said:
At least 10 Ultra balls. Maybe some Timer balls.

They're probably going to be boss monsters that can't be captured. Maybe even involving having to fight them with 2+ of your pokemon at the same time.

At least I hope so, I've been waiting for something like that in pokemon games for over a decade.

Bongani said:
>Outright aliens

Deoxys are outright aliens, so there would have to be more than just that.

Furrin_Gok said:
Deoxys are outright aliens, so there would have to be more than just that.

Not necessarily. Consider the concept of what is known by TVTropes as Super Weight.

Humans in the Pokémon universe are Weight 0 (baseline human), 1 (above-average human) tops. Most of the regular Pokémon average between 1 (Rattata, Pidove) and 3 (pseudolegendaries and any elemental Poke). Legendaries (absent Arceus at 7 and Giratina at 6) are 3 or 4 (can affect a fairly large area with some effort); Deoxys is a 4 if we take Episode Delta into account. The UBs are heavily implied to be weight 5 (can affect the entire world with some effort), possibly 6 (borderline Godlike).

Once the weight gets above 4, you go from just being "supernaturally strong, but able to do what a normal person with that kind of ability could do" to "Potentially fold, spindle, and mutilate the world or reality". The implications given us are that the UBs are beyond anything any Pokémon not named Arceus or Giratina - a physical god and a borderline physical god - can pull off.

SuperScum said:
They're probably going to be boss monsters that can't be captured. Maybe even involving having to fight them with 2+ of your pokemon at the same time.

At least I hope so, I've been waiting for something like that in pokemon games for over a decade.

Welp...

Looks like I'm just gonna have to keep hoping and waiting, because they turned out to be just spoopy alternate dimension pokemon.

SuperScum said:
Welp...

Looks like I'm just gonna have to keep hoping and waiting, because they turned out to be just spoopy alternate dimension pokemon.

We did get uncatchable boss Pokemon though, in the form of Totem Pokemon.

Zreig said:
They're basically ELDRITCH BEASTS from another universe, people are pretty sure that they're not even pokemon at all.

Does that mean an Occultist and a Houndmaster could defeat an Ultra Beast

Also you get special Beast Balls to catch these in post game btw

Oracle_of_Pelor said:
Also you get special Beast Balls to catch these in post game btw

Still takes a little effort though, but at least they don't heal, UNLIKE Primal Groudon.

Turbotowns said:
Still takes a little effort though, but at least they don't heal, UNLIKE Primal Groudon.

Nah pheromosa has a really high catch rate with a beast ball... just chuck one of them before you even attack. Same with kartana.

Turbotowns said:
Still takes a little effort though, but at least they don't heal, UNLIKE Primal Groudon.

Primal Groudon gets wreckt by a levitate pokemon though, like Mega Latios/Latias