Welcome to our complete list of Z-Moves for Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon. Z Crystal's can be used to upgrade moves to Z-Moves when used in conjunction with the Z-Ring. Z Moves are often considerably more powerful than standard moves and take up so much energy that they can only be used once per battle.

The Z Move will inherit attributes such as type, move classification (eg physical, special etc) and how powerful it is from the standard move it was based on. So lets give Thunderbolt as an example, the standard moves base power is 90, but when done as a Z-Move its at 175, nearly double! Because the move classes as Special so does it's Z move. It should be noted that in order to use any Z Move your Pokémon must be holding an appropriate Z Crystal.

So now that we understand how Z Moves power etc is decided lets check out the full set of available Z Moves in Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon.  These moves break down into the following categories: Universal-Adaptable Z Moves, Pokemon Specific Z Moves and Type Specific Z Moves.

Universal, Adaptable Z Moves

These moves will normally inherit characteristics from the base version of the move and would in the vast majority of cases line up with the Z Crystal's type. I believe these moves never miss (please correct if anyone has encountered otherwise), and can even break through defencive moves whilst still dealing 25% to 50% of their intended damage. These Z moves will normally preserve the traits of their original base move too for example if the base move had a chance to cause a status effect such as poison, paralysis or burn then the Z Move has an equal chance to do so too, although after an appropriate Z Move hits the right target there will probably be little left there to afflict!

Likewise moves which give positive stat increases to the user will continue to do so in their Z Format. Check out all the base attacks and what their Z Move adaptations look like, as well as how powerful they are and any other effects they cause.

Type Specific Z Moves

These Z Moves are type specific, fairly self explanatory in most respects with Darknium Z Crystal's being for Dark type Pokemon only, Waterium Z Crystal's being used for Water Pokemon only and so on. Each move has it's own Z Crystal and resultant special attack, check out the list below to see what moves each types get when they use a compatible Z Crystal.

Pokemon Specific Z Moves

Again pretty self explanatory but there are also specialist Z Crystals for specific types of Pokemon. The names usually give away which Pokemon they are for like Pikanium Z being for Pikaschu, Mimikium Z for Mimikyu and so on. Each Z Crystal gives a specific Pokemon a specific move, and will become usable once said Pokemon learns a certain movev (detailed in the list below). They will hit with a minimum of 175 and with the potential to hit 200 in some cases.