#pokemon ult

[chocokano]

royult is peak actually. comedy gold

[macaroonkitti]

Excited about the new guy I think he bites people

[ena-the-eepy]

Screaming crying AND SOBBING AT THESE ULT PICS OH GOD😭😭😭💀🙏

Watch out because I have even more

Roy and Ult’s dynamic is so silly like. Blackrayquazashipping may be my new fav ship

[lemonsyourdem0n]

roy's face is killing me

he looks so fed up with him😭

[grey822aaa]

Mortis's Infinite ulta

[spookyshooti]

Gremlin doodles

[siliconsulfide8]

some Pokemon Legends: Z-A thoughts:

do lumiose city trainers that are in the tournament sleep during the day? are the streets gonna canonically be somewhat empty for a city during the day because of this?

the battle royale... wait. don't you need to get invited? who decides who gets to participate? is there an entry test? who decided this exists? is this the villain team looking for the strongest trainers?

Actually, since the battle zones kinda look like the wild zones... is Quasartico doing this?

Are the battle zones for non-competitors as well?

aw, the female character doesn't have the Sycamore-like hair. I wonder if they'll let you change that.

Successful surprise attacks ALWAYS result in CRITS? oh man.

Zygarde has taken a special interest in the player, huh? Wonder what that'll pull us into.

(some Horizons ramblings in the tags)

[crystallization-of-our-dreams]

Traitor Ult Theory

Okay! I just caught up with episodes 90 and 91, and yes he's only been in one episode and episode 92's trailer so far but listen, if Ult isn't a traitor already he's definitely having a traitor arc 100%. You cannot tell me otherwise.

This scene of him in the intro is already foreshadowing imo, it's definitely hinting that something is going on with Ult, whether that's him being a traitor or something to do with his backstory, it's suspicious, there's definitely more to him than meets the eye at first.

(Also worth noting, I'm not sure how accurate the translations are but according to bulbapedia the line in the song that plays along with that scene of Ult translates to "Just me and nobody else, but that ain't right" while the subtitles on the website I watched it on say the line is "I alone am, I am alone, different". However both translations paired with this scene imply that Ult may feel alone on some level but then later have that proved wrong. Obviously the meaning is different within the context of the other lyrics but each scene is chosen to go with each line for a reason, it means something.)

There's also how Roy keeps abandoning him and Ult seems pretty impulsive, if he's not a traitor from the start, I wouldn't be surprised if he went against the group out of annoyance of Roy leaving him behind (actually or metaphorically) and because it's a way for him to achieve their shared goal before Roy does. Spinel wants Rayquayza too and it certainly wouldn't be out of character for him to manipulate Ult into teaming up with the explorers, maybe he'd lie to Ult that he can have Rayquayza once he's done with it if Ult manages to catch it for him?

Also there's just something about Ult even knowing about the black Rayquayza, I guess it's possible that Roy told him about catching Rayquaza when they first met and Ult latched onto that and made it his goal too but it's also very possible that Ult found out himself somehow especially since Roy seems so done with Ult in some scenes that it feels unlikely he'd tell him about his goals.

Here Roy outright asks Ult if he doesn't have goals of his own, which yes is probably because Ult is following/copying his goal but it could also be a hint that he's working towards the explorers' goal (somewhat unknowingly perhaps??) and Roy might know that even if Ult does not.

They seemed to get along somewhat and work really well together in battle but Roy really seemed to want to keep Ult out of things, implying a deeper reason than Ult simply being a little shit. He repeats that he had no choice in abandoning him but there doesn't seem to be a reason why Ult couldn't come with him, unless Roy didn't trust him for some reason. And the look on his face when he made his mind up to abandon Ult is a sad smile but while he's abandoning him, his expression is a lot more serious.

However, before he leaves Ult, he's seen smiling with him as they set up a camp and eat together. Roy seems to feel some level of guilt for abandoning Ult but clearly sees it as something he has to do. Looking at this through the lens of the traitor Ult theory, this could hint at Ult unknowingly being a traitor. Something along the lines of Ult working with the explorers (maybe not even knowing they're the explorers) unaware that makes him untrustworthy/antagonistic to Roy who he genuinely views as a good friend/rival. While Roy has found out somehow and doesn't want to hurt Ult's feelings but also can't risk keeping him around, despite also considering him a good (albeit annoying) friend/rival.

Also in the trailer for episode 92 we see Ult has tracked Roy down in Kanto after he left him in the woods in Hoenn. He somehow located him in a whole other region. That shouldn't have been so easy for him.

Unless location sharing is on between them on their rotom phones (which I doubt considering Roy was trying to get away from Ult) it shouldn't be that easy, unless someone else is giving Ult information or he has some other way to track Roy down. It just feels suspicious, especially since there's no way in hell that the explorers aren't keeping tabs on the RVT and out of all of the RVT members it'd make the most sense if the explorers were to keep an eye on (as far as we know) the only one in the group still out there adventuring, training and trying to work towards finding Rayquaza again. Which is also something the explorers, specifically Spinel, want.

It would just make sense if Ult were a traitor, I love Ult, he seems great from what we've seen of him so far, but he's suspicious as hell.

And even if he is a traitor I think he still does genuinely like Roy, getting abandoned like that clearly hurt his feelings, especially after he made it clear to Roy that he didn't want to be left behind by him.

I also think if he is a traitor, he'll regret it once he grows closer to the group, or, if he's an unknowing traitor, once he finds out about his place in this.

Again, I love what we've seen of Ult's character so far, he's an annoying little shit with abandonment issues and I love that about him, I'm really excited to see what'll come next for his character and in this new arc in general!! :)

[kooldewd123]

haven't gone into the horizons tag because of new episode spoilers so I don't know if this has been shared already, but we have character sheets for some of the new designs!

now that we have a clearer look at it, the design on roy's shirt isn't an unown r anymore. i'm not entirely sure what it's meant to be? kinda reminds me of the patterns on groudon/kyogre. or maybe it's an uppercase unown "R" instead?

also WOW it wasn't obvious from the front shots, but ult's got one chonker of a backpack there. fits in with the whole feral look he's got going on.

[tangoslavender]

Spoilers for Pokemon Horizons 90 & 91

IM SO ISNFOFBFONFOFBFIFB/pos

ok first off; i really REALLY like Ult. He’s annoying enough for me to deem him “good annoying” and not “bad annoying”. And it doesn’t seem he’s going to be a replacement for Dot which is good. Ult genuinely might be my favorite character other than Friede right now

Also I need to say how FUNNY the scene where Cap yelled at Sableeye and Crocalor was. It really felt like an adult family member scolding/yelling at younger family members it was amazing!!

And now we have Liko, Ann, and Roy.. I love how Liko tried to not let the school know that she was apart of the Rising Volt Tackers but came clean later in the ep. Not to mention how the other kids in the school really put it into perspective that the RVT are currently viewed as the bad guys in canon. Can’t wait to see what’ll they say when it’s proven that the RVT aren’t the villains

THIS FUCKING SCENE. THIS ONE RIGHT HERE. THIS BROKE ME. LIKE YEAH I KNEW THAT FRIEDE WAS GONE FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR BUT THIS SCENE IN PARTICULAR REALLY DROVE IT IN. NOT TO MENTION A TRANSLATION OF THE OUTRO MUSIC; “One person still hasn’t returned” WHICH MAKES IT WORSE IN THE BEST WAY EVER.

NOT TO MENTION THE ONLY SCENE WE GET WITH THE ENTIRE RVT IS ONE SCENE IN THE OUTRO/INTRO. WHICH IS A BIG OWWW

[l00rem]

Considering the new arc is introducing Ult as a new main reoccurring character, I wonder if we’ll be getting even more new characters? Horizons already has a largely sized cast so I wouldn’t want more than 3 tbh.

Personally I’m hoping we could get a new admin in the explorers: with Spinel being the big bad and Amethio most definitely being gone from their side they’ll only have 3 admins to use for the usual battles. And with Ult being introduced into the kids group I’d prefer it if he got his own admin to be his rival instead of sharing with one of the other kids.

I’m also a believer in the whole Spinel has found and brainwashed Friede theory, but I don’t think they’d reveal that twist until around the end of the new arc. It would just be kinda weird to have all the characters talking about how Friede’s disappearance effected them and how they’ve all grieved if we knew he was alive, If they confirmed it before any of the characters get to know it would just be really annoying for the viewers and take away from those moments. It would also be interesting to me if we get to see Friede and Amethio fight whilst Friede’s in this new version of himself, I’d always wondered if they’d let amethio surpass friede in terms of strength and this feels like a natural way to do it. We also know how much this show loves parallels, it would be really interesting to see them fighting but the sides their fighting for have swapped! So the admin rivalries could go: Liko and Onyx, Roy and Sango, Dot and Agate, Ult and the potential new admin, Amethio and Friede.

Preferably I’d want this new admin character to be a girl to even out the gender distribution in the explorers, especially if friede might be on their side later on. Bonus points if she gets to be a duo with agate, I need my evil yuri pls anipoke 🙏. As for her partner, it would definitely be something that can mega evolve. I could see it being a Mawile as it’s mega is decently popular and none of the other admins have a steel or fairy type as their main mons. Plus, if she’d be Ult’s rival a mega mawile vs mega sabeleye would be really fun to watch- big chompers vs big ass jewel.

[ena-the-eepy]

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Tune in next time for more TOTALLY LEGIT news from the Explorers News Agency‼️😋

[lemonsyourdem0n]

lots of info about has been released from the anime talk show, especially about roy and i wanna talk about it like the roy enthusiast i am

spoilers for talk of the mega voltage arc ahead

i had a feeling this would be the case, with spinel having framed the rvts for the incident at laqua it would have been a large reason why liko went back to school and dot went back home, but roy didn't want to go back to the island and seemingly motivated to learn more about the laquium and find friede, hence why cap is with him

-roy is going to have heavy focus this arc

i had a feeling this would be the case, with all the stuff roy has been shown to be getting/have, from the looks of things he is the only one of the horizons trio to be getting mega evolution. and when the magazine was released showing all the timeskip designs, roy had a page to himself whereas liko and dot shared a page. ult had his own page too, he is a new character so that makes sense, roy having his own page rather than liko had to be for a significant reason

-roy is going on his journey without the rising volteccers

-roy's growth embodies a sense of sadness and loneliness, like a child being forced to grow up (according to terasaki, roy's jp va)

smth i definitely expected and am right about was a change in personality from the trio as a result of laqua, it was also stated that liko has become depressed after the events of laqua. roy forcing himself to become more mature to focus of finding friede and learning about laquium makes a lot of sense, especially since for the most part he is going on alone, really giving him that sense of loneliness. i thought this would happen to roy ngl

-roy is a lot more serious and mature (especially around ult)

roy being especially serious around ult could come from the fact that he sees his past self in him and it makes him feel bitter about not being able to go back to that

-despite being his rival, ult and roy have a master/disciple dynamic

this just amuses me kind of but at the same time, really shows that roy isn't all that interested in interacting with ult outside of being rivals

-ult is after the black rayquaza

this would give motivation as to why ult is chasing over roy and seems to admire if roy has brought up battling and having earned a little bit of respect from the black rayquaza to ult. would explain the master/disciple dynamic more as well

-ult's personality is very similar to how roy was in the past

i could tell this was going to be the case from just seeing the little bit of how this kid looks and acts, and is a big reason why i feel roy is especially serious and mature around him as i said before

-dot has become more of a reliable figure and has been helping roy from home

i really like this detail, does make me wonder how much we will get to see of dot actually outside rather than helping from just in her home

-ult is not impressed with liko and doesn't like her

im amused by this but honestly? it kind of makes a lot of sense. ult is constantly ignored by roy and not all that impressed by him from the sounds of things, and one of the only things we currently know about ult is that he is incredibly confident in his own strength. so maybe it will have bruised his ego a little to know that roy came to find liko for her to lend him her strength and seeing the bond between them

-roy seems to ditch ult a lot

a bit of my last point stems from this, their whole dynamic seems a little sad ngl, ult seems to really admire roy and look up to him and roy is just not giving him the time of day. i do think this is because of roy's bitterness of wanting that joy and whimsy all the time back, i did read that battling with ult does bring that childlike side back but unfortunately that sounds like a very short-lived moment. partly i think roy does not want to see ult get hurt like he is as a result of everything

im very excited for the mega voltage arc, that is my son

[miinistar]

(Sketchbook doodle) Liko and Ult are getting along nicely

[hupla222]

Episodes 90 + 91: Some Thoughts

They came out together so it's only fair that I talk about them together. What a build up to this one! The hype was real and this two parter did not disappoint. Emotions were raw, tensions are high, a lost feeling has settled across them all. There's something so blanketed in sadness about the kids doing this all on their own now. Also brief Spinal being an absolute maniac makes me want to punt him (this is a good thing).

We got our first look at Ult. He seems fine enough, although we know little about him other than he likes battling, he's reckless, and he's pushy. But the intro implies something quite sad about him so I'll keep watching to see where he goes with interest.

Speaking of that intro, what a banger! Great music and stunning visuals. And oh boy, do I have many many thoughts about the appearance of my boy Sidian. Buckle in because that's all I could focus on. Just off the bat we can see he has a new outfit (mostly).

His jacket is completely new. It looks to be made of a softer material this time around, seemingly more free to move around in and certainly less constricting on him. It's baggier and hangs more loosely on him, especially his collar. Seems like he can move more freely now. I wonder if this could be indicative of a shift in his character, more free to show his emotions now perhaps. He does seem especially angry here.

(Also side note, he and Coral have matching white stripes and that's really adorable and also shows that they still have a connection)

Speaking of this shot, I'm absolutely boggling over the lighting here because it could mean so much. We see Coral right up front in the spotlight, soaking it in. This probably implies that she's living up being the hero in the public's eye, loving the adoration and attention regardless of whether or not she earned it. On the other hand Sidian is in the shadows, in the back. This implies that he doesn't share these thoughts, that he hates being seen for what he's not. Maybe that's why he's so angry. He's living a dishonest farce, one that he probably can't escape from.

Later on we see him and Liko and oh my goodness I'm loving this. Look at them!

Look at how determined she is against him. And just look at my boy! This is the most animated we've ever seen him. I meant what I said when I said he can express himself more freely now. Just look at the pure anger he's seeping. Look at his body language. Something has got him more emotional than we've ever seen him and he's looking right at Liko. They're rivals! It's happening! Liko and Sidian finally get to have the attention they deserve when it come to their dynamic. He's out to get her, perhaps he even blames her for all that has happened. They've both lost someone during Laqua. Maybe the both blame each other.

It wouldn't surprise me (although I'm not hopeful) that all of this may mean we get a role reversal of sorts with Coral and Sidian, with Sidian now being the more unhinged one that Coral must control. He certainly doesn't seem to like being a "hero" and thus wouldn't care how the public sees him but Coral would, if she really is soaking in the praise.

And before you say Coral is there two check this out.

Look at the way the camera pans. Meowscarada may be facing them both but she's in front of Garganacl. Sidian is up front here while Coral is in the back this time. This is his fight. This is their fight. I am so unbelievably hype for this you have no idea. And look above at the previous batch of three. He's so determined. This feels personal. SidianLiko rivalry redemption arc. Or at least Sidian backstory. Or at the very least Sidian motivation incoming. Gah! The way his pupils slit whenever he gets fired up. The way he's in Liko's section of the song. It's so hype!

Anyway, I think that's more than enough rambling from me. Overall this arc looks really good and I can't wait for more!

[crystallization-of-our-dreams]

i see your 'ult is a traitor' theory and raise 'ult actually has a very tragic backstory' theory

anon, anon, anon

I agree with you so much, ur so right in saying this

for a few weeks now, I've been talking with some friends about how Ult could have a tragic backstory (mostly on discord with some friends who r HUGE Ult fans, one even being the admin of the Ult rp blog) so I genuinely keep forgetting that isn't confirmed canon 😭 everything in my traitor theory post was also going off the idea he had a difficult past too ajdhdjd

but while both could be true at once, I think Ult having a very tragic backstory is actually more likely in canon than him being a traitor, it's an extremely strong possibility for him and most of the things I brought up in my Ult traitor theory post could also hint at him having a tragic backstory, especially that scene/those lyrics in the intro

one of my friends on discord ( @rainbowangel110 ) said they think Ult is a homeless kid who latched into Roy because he was kind to him once and I think that's a really interesting idea which feels in character for both of them

personally, I don't think Ult was shown much genuine love/kindness in the past until he met Roy, which is why he's so upset whenever Roy abandons him, because that's the first person who ever treated him like a person who matters and he just keeps leaving like it's nothing (because he doesn't know how important he is to Ult, probably because Ult's way of showing love is through Being Annoying)

Ult follows Roy around for a reason, he wants to be his friend, to travel with him, work towards their shared goal together.. he also seems to want Roy's approval that he's allowed to have that same goal as him as we see him get angry when Roy implies Ult doesn't have his own goals because they're the same as his

and the reasonings for all that could definitely be rooted in Ult having a sad/tragic backstory

also unless you're in the Likodot discord server you probably wouldn't know this, but I love Roy and Ult's dynamic so much and genuinely I'm so excited to see more of it as the series goes on, they could be really silly or really angsty and I'm SO here for it

like don't get me wrong they clearly care a lot about each other but I can smell the miscommunication issues through the screen LOL

honestly though, I'll be happy with anything they do with his character arc and backstory as long as it's well written and fits him :)

theories are just for fun, I'm here to enjoy the series wherever it takes us

but Ult having a tragic backstory,,,, please pokeani, we NEED THAT