WARNING: This post may contain spoilers. Nothing new about Pokemon or the story is shown, but people may consider a post like this a spoiler.
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Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon contain a new minigame within them that involves flying through Ultra Space and through Ultra Wormholes that take you special places. In these places you can find regular Pokemon, Legendaries, and Ultra Beasts. There are some tricks, however, to finding the Pokemon you want and knowing which portals you are looking for.
How far did you go?
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- Good energy ring
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- Bad energy orb
In the minigame, your distance is measured in Light Years. The amount you traveled is shown to you once you enter into a wormhole. The farther you go, the better chance of finding rare Pokemon. When you are “flying” then you want to try and hit as many orange rings as possible. These give you more speed and allow you to not get sucked into wormholes as easily. Alternatively, the blue energy orbs slow you down and can make you get sucked into a hole you don’t want. The farther you go, the less orange rings appear and the more blue orbs spawn.
Shiny Chance Increased!
UPDATE: The exact shiny values for the Ultra Wormholes have finally been data-mined and are stated below. The shininess of a Pokemon is determined when you land in the wormhole (for NORMAL Pokemon only), allowing you to soft-reset for natures and stats ONLY. Legendaries and Ultra Beasts are slightly different and do NOT have an increased shiny chance, but are not shiny-locked and, unlike normal Pokemon, can be soft-reset for shiny. Once all Legendary Pokemon have been caught from one hole’s color then normal Pokemon can spawn in them. The below chart shows the newly discovered shiny chances for NORMAL Pokemon. Legendary shiny chances are either 0.024% for non-shiny charm, or 0.073% chance with the shiny charm (exact values are 1/4096 and 3/4096).
| Distance | Common | Rare | Ultra Rare | Legendary |
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| 500LY | 1% | 1% | 1% | 0% |
| 1000LY | 1% | 2% | 3% | 4% |
| 1500LY | 1% | 3% | 5% | 8% |
| 2000LY | 1% | 4% | 7% | 12% |
| 2500LY | 1% | 5% | 9% | 16% |
| 3000LY | 1% | 6% | 11% | 20% |
| 3500LY | 1% | 7% | 13% | 24% |
| 4000LY | 1% | 8% | 15% | 28% |
| 4500LY | 1% | 9% | 17% | 32% |
| 5000+LY | 1% | 10% | 19% | 36% |
Item Drops
During testing we found that the Pokemon you are battling sometimes leave behind an item. It will appear as a sparkle on the ground where the Pokemon was encountered. It is unconfirmed if you can find them from Legendary Pokemon. If you run from a Pokemon, you will not receive an item. If you either faint the Pokemon, or catch it then you have a chance of finding an item. If you save before the battle and soft-reset, you can get an item to possibly appear, but it will always be the same item (it is determined when you first enter the wormhole) NOTE: There may be more items then in the table below, we are still investigating
| Icon | Name |
 | Sitrus Berry |
 | Coba Berry |
 | Persim Berry |
 | Charti Berry |
 | Wacom Berry |
 | Tanga Berry |
 | Chesto Berry |
 | Soft Sand |
 | Grip Claw |
 | Clever wing |
 | Genius wing |
 | Resist wing (unconfirmed) |
 | Wide Lens (unconfirmed) |
 | Hard Stone (unconfirmed) |
Change your controls
By default, your Ultra Ride Pokemon will be controlled by motion controls. You can change this however. If you travel to Hea’Hea city and visit the Gamefreak Headquarters, there is a man in the bottom left corner of the building who gives you an option to change your controls from motion to circle pad.
Different types of wormholes.
There are many different wormholes throughout Ultra Space, but there are two categories we can split them up into: Rarity and Color.
Rarity
This depends on the rings around the wormhole. If there is no ring it is a common wormhole, one ring is a rare hole. Double rings means Ultra Rare, and double rings with magical swirly things (not official name) then it is a legendary hole. The chances of the different holes spawning is dependent on how far you have traveled. Below is a chart with all the values (thanks to Serebii.net for statistics)
| Distance | Common | Rare | Ultra Rare | Legendary |
| | | | |
| 0LY | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 1000LY | 78% | 20% | 2% | 0% |
| 1500LY | 66% | 30% | 4% | 0% |
| 2000LY | 52% | 40% | 8% | 0% |
| 2500LY | 33% | 50% | 16% | 1% |
| 3000LY | 32% | 50% | 16% | 2% |
| 3500LY | 31% | 50% | 16% | 3% |
| 4000LY | 30% | 50% | 16% | 4% |
| 4500LY | 29% | 50% | 16% | 5% |
Color
Different color wormholes hold different types of Pokemon. Each color (Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, and White) randomly selects 1 Pokemon from it’s table to spawn in the world. Most, if not all the Pokemon encounterable, are unique to Ultra Wormholes. Below are lists of all the Pokemon able to be found in the different Wormholes.
NOTE: White will always spawn an Ultra Beast, Guzzlord is the rarest and the easiest way to find him is to fly into Ultra Rare or Legendary white wormholes, but he can be found in any color (thanks to people in the comments for more information).
White Wormhole
Ultra Beasts
- Nihilego – Common
- Buzzwole – Ultra Sun – Common
- Pheromosa – Ultra Moon – Common
- Xurkitree – Uncommon
- Kartana – Ultra Sun – Uncommon
- Celesteela – Ultra Moon – Uncommon
- Guzzlord – Rare
Red Wormhole
Normal Pokemon
- Swellow
- Altaria
- Yanmega
- Sigilyph
- Swanna
Legendary Pokemon
- Zapdos
- Moltres
- Ho-Oh – Ultra Sun
- Rayquaza – Kyogre & Groudon in party
- Cresselia
- Tornadus – Ultra Sun
- Thundurus – Ultra Moon
- Landorus – Tornadus & Thundurus in party
- Yveltal
- Articuno
Green Wormhole
Normal Pokemon
- Nuzleaf
- Grumpig
- Drapion
- Audino
- Heliolisk
Legendary Pokemon
- Mewtwo
- Raikou – Ultra Sun
- Entei – Ultra Moon
- Dialga – Ultra Sun
- Cobalion
- Terrakion
- Virizion
- Reshiram – Ultra Sun
- Zekrom – Ultra Moon
- Xerneas – Ultra Sun
Yellow Wormhole
Normal Pokemon
- Magcargo
- Medicham
- Hippowdon
- Abomasnow
- Crustle
Legendary Pokemon
- Regirock
- Regice
- Registeel
- Groudon – Ultra Sun
- Palkia – Ultra Moon
- Heatran – Ultra Sun
- Regigigas – Ultra Moon
- Giratina – Dialga & Palkia in party
Blue Wormhole
Normal Pokemon
- Quagsire
- Lombre
- Floatzel
- Stunfisk
- Barbaracle
Legendary Pokemon
- Suicune – Entei & Raikou in party
- Lugia – Ultra Moon
- Latias – Ultra Moon
- Latios – Ultra Sun
- Kyogre – Ultra Moon
- Uxie
- Mesprit
- Azelf
- Kyurem – Reshiram & Zekrom in party
For Giratina do you need to have Palkia and Dialga from the Ultraholes or can be from a different game?
They can be from a different game, you just need both of them in your party at the same time.
If you kill a legendary then will it return later on in other ultra wormholes because I found a mewtwo and forgot to save and I killed it.
If you faint a Legendary Pokemon you will be able to find it again.
Can I have more than 1 rayquazas? Cause I want to aim for the shiny+perefect iv (which is nearly impossible)
You can only find one of each of the available legendary Pokemon per game. If you do find a shiny one, you can hyper train it to have perfect IV’s.
Is there any way of catching suicune without having access to poke bank or trades? I could get poke bank but I don’t think I have another game comparable that has also got suicune! I’m a lone player but I soooo want suicune. 😔
Suicune appears in both Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. He is able to be found in Blue Wormholes. If you have not caught any legendaries yet, then your chances of finding him are greater in Ultra Sun (because there are only six findable legendaries instead of Ultra Moon’s eight), but he can be found in both games with enough patience. If you don’t have either of these games, then you can also find him in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, but you need Pokemon Bank to trade them to Sun and Moon. Alternatively, you can try trading for them on the GTS, or putting a Pokemon up for one of them (Vivillon might be a unique one to try). Good Luck!
Thank you, I have ultra moon and am having a go a gts. I didn’t think suicune would appear in the wormholes if you don’t have the other two? Thanks again😁
Hey ges what I just got a mega ultra wormhole at 2,792 light years
I have completed the game and I don’t know why it won’t let me go to ultra space and I don’t know why is their a side quest to unlock it or something. I have Pokemon sun
The Ultra Wormhole minigame is only available in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the enhanced versions, not the original versions.
Ok, so I managed to battle Rayquaza and Ultimately Caught him in 3 tries. With Ultra Balls.
Ok, so I have been Hunting for Rayquaza for days. Every Day I have searched for hours. And I only find 1 LEGENDARY Red Wormhole, which contained an Articuno (Which takes forever to catch). Any tips for finding Rayquaza? And What pokemon type is best against Raquaza’s attacks? I need to catch him badly. I used around 63 ultra balls to catch Articuno, and I have around 138 left. So should I buy, more for a Rayquaza encounter, because Rayquaza is a rarer and more complex pokémon?
I see that you caught him so congrats! There is really no advise for finding specific legendaries. If they require you to have special Pokemon in your party then make sure you have them. Otherwise it is completely luck based as to what Pokemon you will find. Also, if you run from a legendary you can find it again, so if you don’t want to catch one yet, it is okay to run and find it again in the future.
In theory if i soft reset for an xerneas shiny i could do it 4095 times and not get it but on the 4096 time it would be and 100% chance to get a shiny
Yes…that is the general idea, but that only works in theory. More realistically, every random encounter has the same chance (1/4096), so every time you randomly encounter a Pokemon, you have a .024% chance that it will be a shiny. Mathematically, you have a 100% chance to find ONE shiny in 4,096 encounters, but realistically it is all based on chance. Although, once you pass 4,096 random encounters, the chance that you will have encountered ONE shiny is greater then the chance that you will have not encountered ONE shiny. Very complicated stuff, so if anybody is reading this and doesn’t understand it at all, the only thing you need to know is it usually takes time to find a shiny, but you will eventually find one 🙂
The chances of finding a shiny are the same regardless of how many atempts you have done.
I know how this math works so I will do it for you.
First, and most important, you will ALWAYS have 1/4096 chance to get a shiny so in your 4096°th attempt you will have 1/4096 chance to get the shiny. You don’t eliminate the NoShiny chance when you get an NoShiny encounter.
However the more number of encounters you do is more likely that AT LEAST ONE of them will have a shiny.
For example: You don’t have the shiny charm and you will do 2 encounters trying to get a shiny and you will both of them no matter if you get a shiny or not. There fore you can get a NoShiny/NoShiny encounter a Shiny/Shiny one, a Shiny/NoShiny or a NoShiny/Shiny. To calculate the chace to get at least one shiny we can count the chance to never get a shiny and subtracts from 100%. Ergo, you have a [1-(4095/4096)²] that is approximately 0.0488% chance to get AT LEAST ONE shiny, you could even get the Shiny/Shiny scenario. As you can see 0.0488% is a greater chance than 0.024% (more than double the chances!).
You can use the same formula for a scenario with 4096 encounters but instead of using to the power of 2 you will use to the power of 4096 like this: [1-(4095/4096)^4096] that is approximately 63.21% chance to get a shiny, but you will never have an 100% to get a Shiny no matter the number of encounter you do the but you can get as close as 99.99999999% as an example. You can calculate the number of encounters you need for an x% chance with a logarithm but this is outside the question.
Also, as important as the first point I made. If you set a 4096 encounters scenario to get a shiny and you do your first encounter as a NoShiny one you will now have a 4095 encounters scenario ahead of you, which has a lower chance than the 4096 and this is because that you don’t eliminate the NoShiny chance when you get an NoShiny encounter.
wide lens is confirmed, I got one from fainting a yanmega.
Well at least someone’s explained whether the Wormhole affects Legendary shinies or not. At least they unlocked most shinies.
(RIP Pink Dusk Mane/Blood Moon.)
Can you get TWO legendaries? My brother really needs them because he wants Kyurem, and so do I.
Not of the same legendary. If you want two of the same legendary then you have to get two copies of the game. Alternatively, you could put another legendary that you don’t care for as much up on the GTS for a Kyurem, someone will probably trade it (especially if it is an Ultra Sun or Ultra Moon exclusive)!
For Kyurem:
In Ultra Moon you can get Zekrom
In Ultra Sun you can get Reshiram
You can only get one per game.
If you have Sun and your brother has Moon (Vise-Versa) then you can trade Zekron to him so he can get Kyurem, Then let your brother trade both Reshiram and Zekrom to you so you can get Kyurem. Trade Reshiram/Zekrom to your brother so you both have Reshiram/Zekrom and Kyurem
I just traded level 100 Aegislashes for Kyurem, Ho-Oh, Lugia, Suicune, and Landorus in about twenty minutes on the GTS.
I imagine any level 100 competitive Pokemon will get similar results.
I have ultra moon and I’ve caught all the legendaries except regice and zapdos. I have these from red: Cresellia, moltres, articuno, yveltal and thundurus. You can get the reveal glass from burnet in the dimensional research lab. From green: mewtwo, cobalion, terrakion, virizion, entei. From blue: Lugia, kyogre, azelf, Uxie, mesprit. From yellow: palkia, regigigas, regirock, registeel. From white: guzzlord, xurkitree, pheromosa, celesteela, nihilego. Some legendaries only appear in certain games, for example lugia is only in ultra moon, and ho oh is only in ultra sun. Some Pokemon only appear when you have two certain Pokemon, but both these Pokemon always aren’t in the same game, so you’ll need to trade. To get rayquaza, he’s in red and you need groudon (ultra sun only) and kyogre (ultra moon only) and to get giratina (don’t now which wormhole) you need dialga (ultra sun only) and palkia (ultra moon only) and for kyurem you need reshiram (ultra sun only) and zekrom (ultra moon only) I also have a shiny crustle, shiny audino, and shiny magcargo.
And for the ultra beast on the white wormholes, celesteela and pheromosa are only in ultra moon, and kartana and buzzwole are only in ultra sun, but you can get more than one of these. I have two guzzlords and 3 pheromosas.
And also for suicune you need entei (ultra moon) and raikou (ultra sun)
Thanks for making a nice condensed list of the information in this post! (NOTE: I combined your comments into one to make it easier to read.)
I go in ultra worm holes but I keep getting random pokemon I don’t know what I’m doing wrong
Don’t worry, you aren’t doing anything wrong. Legendary Pokemon can be found in any hole (except white), but very rarely show up in holes other then ultra rare and legendary. Ultra wormholes, however, are not guaranteed a legendary, in fact, it is much more common to encounter a normal Pokemon rather then a legendary. Just remember, everything is based on random chance, so for some they find a legendary on their first ultra rare hole, and for others, their 100th hole. Keep at it!
i mostly go into ultra rare holes everytime i see one and i mostly get legendaries. so try to go in them mostly
Would a legendary from a traded or added from pokebank, stop that legendary from being catchable as it appears as caught in the pokedex?
No, they only stop appearing once you catch them. Good question.
What if I ran from it. I made an accidental dialga encounter right after I had found a shiny. I hadn’t saved after that shiny, but I didn’t want dialga yet, so I ran. I haven’t found it since.
If you run from a legendary then you can re-encounter it again, same thing with the Ultra Beasts. However, you are required to find it again which can take a lot of time.
you can save before legendaries if you want them but then knock them out and then you can soft reset
Even if you don’t knock them out, you can still soft-reset for a shiny.
Thanks for this post! I found an Entei because of this! (When I heard his theme i almost teared up)
I’ve been going in nearly every single ultra rare red wormhole to find a shiny Altaria for days, and I still can’t find one. Are shiny Altarias a bit more rare than finding others (Swanna, Swellow, etc) as a shiny, if you know? Am I doing anything wrong, since I’m getting absolutely nowhere??
No, you are not doing anything wrong. Everything with the Ultra Wormholes is based on chance. In theory, you could hunt for a shiny Altaria for 100 years and never find one (very unlikely). Each of the Pokemon for the wormholes seem to have the same spawn rate (except legendaries). Also, each of the Pokemon (again, except legendaries) have the same shiny chance. So no, you are not doing anything wrong, just keep at it and eventually you will find one!
lolololol Namine you are doing it wrong lololol
don’t go into ultra red wormholes
that will just get you legendary pokemon
go into regular reds or 1 ringed reds
that’s how you’lll get it
I got a shiny crustle, floatzel.yanmega and heiloisk
I caught an articuno in a red wormhole in US 🙂
can you get guzzlord from common white wormholes?
I do not know for certain. If you can, it is very rare and extremely unlikely to find him. Your best bet is to find an ultra rare white wormhole.
also, does anyone know the actual probabilities for the different color portals to appear? is it 20% for each color? or are the white ones rarer?
The white ones are rarer, but I am pretty sure the rest have the same rarity.
The problem with the ultra rare holes is they will give you kartana or Celesteel so you might as well look for a legendary white hole
Thanks! Updated the post with this information.
Yes, I just found one in a regular portal. I don’t know the odds of it, though
I’m playing Ultra Moon. I have yet to encounter an ultra rare or legendary white wormhole yet, and I can’t for the life of me find Celesteela, but I’ve encountered two Guzzlords from common white wormholes.
It is out there, I promise, best of luck!
Just wanted to say that Mewtwo is catchable in the yellow wormhole, as that is where I caught it
Interesting, so far I haven’t seen anybody else find him in yellow wormholes. I will keep my eyes out for more evidence and if I find any I will update the post. Thanks for alerting me!