Please Don’t Reduce Ultra Beasts To Just Another Raid Boss
Ultra Beasts are coming to Pokemon Go. Developer Niantic effectively confirmed as much on Twitter by posting a video of Nihilego, the extraterrestrial creature that looks like a mix between Sun & Moon protagonist Lillie and a jellyfish. It was only a matter of time, there are loads of Gen 7 Pokemon available already and yet more arriving with the Alolan-themed challenges, but I’m a bit worried.
Ultra Beasts are cool. Whether you like all the designs, some of them, or none of them, the idea of alien creatures (we’re initially not even sure they’re Pokemon) invading our world is excellent. They were a bit underused in Sun & Moon, but came into their own in the expanded story of the sequels, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon. The Pokemon – sorry, beasts – themselves are well-designed, in my opinion, just ending up leaning more towards cool than weird. A bodybuilding bug? A dragon that actually looks like it wants to eat you rather than deliver your post? From origami Grass-types to fiery clowns, the Ultra Beasts gave the Pokemon designers freedom to run wild, and I love the results. Xurkitree is probably my favourite of the lot, but I am biased towards Electric-types.
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Another element that added to how cool the Ultra Beasts are is how we found them. Great rifts in the heavens, tears in reality leaking wacky creatures into our dimension. It’s awesome, if only we had Dynamax back then and could have acted out kaiju battles against the extraterrestrial invaders. Ah well, at least we had Z-crystals. What a great mechanic they were. Right?
Jokes aside, finding the Ultra Beasts felt a lot cooler than regular Legendary Pokemon, which to be honest have been boring since
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