Pokemon Ultra Sun Team Builder

A Pokemon Ultra Sun team builder (and Ultra Moon) should respect Alola’s trial structure: totem auras, regional forms, and dual-types that look cute until four of them share a Ground weakness. Coverage still wins island challenges.

Draft in the Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon planner — or start with Sun/Moon mode if that is your cartridge.

What makes this game’s team building different

• Trials replace classic gyms — bosses still have types; prepare answers, not only levels.
• Regional forms change expected matchups (Alolan lines especially).
• Fairy and Dark show up constantly in mid-to-late Alola.
• Ultra content rewards flexible coverage more than one hyper-offensive mon.

Core roles for your party

1. Starter path — Decidueye, Incineroar, or Primarina each leave different holes.
2. Ground or Electric — depending on whether Water or Electric is deleting you.
3. Fairy or Steel — dragons, dark, and fighting edges.
4. Water or Grass — island route glue.
5. Dark / Ghost / Fighting — Psychic and Normal walls.
6. Bulky pivot — totem fights punish pure glass.

Common type traps

• Stacking four Flying weaknesses into Rock/Electric/Ice.
• No Ground answer for Electric totems and routes.
• All Fire because Incineroar is cool.
• Ignoring Fairy into late dragons and fighting cores.

How to use the planner

1. Choose Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (or Sun / Moon) in the grid.
2. Build six you will actually train through trials.
3. Read defense tallies for Ground, Ice, and Fighting stacks.
4. Keep four-plus STAB types for UBs and league energy.
5. Share the URL for co-op or nuzlocke notes.

Alola (USUM) notes

• Totem / Ultra fights reward resist pivots, not six glass cannons.
• Regional forms & Z-Move era change which STAB lines feel “free” — re-check offense coverage after each island.
• Vs SM: Ultra dex is the safer planning target in this tool — open USUM mode.

Alola Island Trials & Ultra Necrozma Survival Guide

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon feature some of the hardest boss battles in the entire Pokémon franchise:

• Totem Pokémon Double Battles: Totem Pokémon (Gumshoos/Raticate, Araquanid, Marowak, Lurantis, Vikavolt, Mimikyu, Kommo-o, Togedemaru, Ribombee) receive +2 stat aura boosts and summon SOS allies with synergy moves.
• Ultra Necrozma Roadblock: Level 60 Ultra Necrozma has +1 to all stats, massive 167 base offenses, and Photon Geyser / Dragon Pulse / Power Gem / Smart Strike. Counters include: Foul Play / Sucker Punch on Zorua/Zoroark (disguised as a Poison/Fighting type so AI spams Photon Geyser to 0 effect!), Focus Sash + Toxic / Destiny Bond, or Malamar with Topsy-Turvy.
• Elite Four: Molayne (Steel), Olivia (Rock), Acerola (Ghost), Kahili (Flying), and Champion Hau (Decidueye/Incineroar/Primarina, Raichu, Noivern, Crabominable, Tauros).

Alola Starter Cores

• Incineroar (Fire/Dark): Pair with Primarina/Golisopod (Water), Tsareena/Lurantis (Grass), Vikavolt (Electric/Bug), Mudsdale (Ground), and Mimikyu (Ghost/Fairy).
• Primarina (Water/Fairy): Pair with Salazzle (Poison/Fire), Tsareena (Grass), Magnezone (Electric/Steel), Krookodile (Ground/Dark), and Kommo-o (Dragon/Fighting).
• Decidueye (Grass/Ghost): Pair with Toxapex/Araquanid (Water/Poison), Arcanine/Salazzle (Fire), Alolan Raichu (Electric/Psychic), Mudsdale (Ground), and Bewear (Normal/Fighting).

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