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?
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 |
 |  |  |  | |
| 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. Here are some rules the item system follows:
- Legendary Pokemon do not drop any items (this includes Ultra Beasts).
- If you run from a Pokemon, you will never receive an item.
- You will have a chance at finding one if you faint or capture the Pokemon.
- It is possible to soft-reset for an item, but it will always be the same item (it is determined when you first enter the wormhole)
The table below shows all the currently known items and which Pokemon have a chance at dropping them.
| Icon | Name | Pokemon Dropped From |
|---|---|---|
 | Charti Berry |  Swellow |
 | Chesto Berry |  Lombre |
 | Coba Berry |  Medicham |
 | Occa Berry |  Abomasnow |
 | Passho Berry |  Magcargo |
 | Persim Berry |  Grumpig |
 | Rindo Berry |  Quagsire |
 | Shuca Berry |  Heliolisk |
 | Sitrus Berry |   Lombre/Nuzleaf/Audino/Magcargo |
 | Tanga Berry | Grumpig |
 | Wacan Berry |  Floatzel |
 | Grip Claw |  Barbaracle |
 | Hard Stone |  Crustle |
 | Poison Barb |  Drapion |
 | Soft Sand |   Stunfisk/Hippowdon |
 | Wide Lens | Swellow/Yanmega |
 | Clever Wing |  Sigilyph |
 | Genius Wing |   Altaria/Swanna |
 | Health Wing | Swanna |
 | Muscle Wing | Altaria |
 | Resist Wing | Sigilyph |
 | Swift Wing | Swanna |
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
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.
Just borrow reshiram or zekrom from him so you have both catch Kyurem then let him borrow both reshiram and zekrom to catch his own Kyurem then get whatever one you caught back and you can fuse with the dna splicers found in aethers secret lab from an employee
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 think you’re missing Latias from blue wormhole
And latias is moon exclusive Latios is sun exclusive also found in blue
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
But if he has all legendaries in red then they won’t appear
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!
It’s only found in green