Pokémon Ultra Sun

Pokémon Ultra Sun
Franchise	Pokémon
Developed by	Game Freak
Published by	Nintendo The Pokémon Company
Platform(s)	Nintendo 3DS
Release date	November 17, 2017 (2017-11-17)
Genre	Role-playing
Details
Played by	Ben Mooney Lindsay Gibbons
Featuring	Rick Desilets John Selig Sarah Fischer
Intro theme	"VS. Ultra Ancient Pokémon" by GaragebandPoke
Outro theme	"🅱️okémon" by Dachampster
Original run	November 20, 2017 – June 27, 2021
No. of episodes	16
Episode length	11–24 minutes
Playlist	link
Playlist length	4:44:08

Pokémon Ultra Sun is a 2017 role-playing game developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo 3DS. It is part of the seventh generation of the Pokémon franchise, and one half of a pair of games with Pokémon Ultra Moon. The two games are updated versions of the 2016 games Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, the first entries in the seventh generation. They follow roughly the same plot as the originals with some changes, including the addition of a new postgame story centered on the villainous Team Rainbow Rocket. In addition, several new Pokémon forms and Ultra Beasts are included. The game was played on The D-Pad by Ben and Lindsay upon its release. The LP currently consists of 16 episodes, released on weekdays from November 20, 2017 to June 27, 2021. It is on an indefinite hiatus, with the release of future episodes uncertain, though Ben, Lindsay, and Rick have all expressed interest in eventually completing the LP.

Episodes

This LP was re-released on The D-Pad Unpaused on October 30, 2023.

Episode	Title	Length	Player(s)	Commentator(s)	Release date
Chapter 1
1	"New People Already"	18:39	Ben	Rick, John, Lindsay	November 20, 2017 (2017-11-20)
2	"I'm Really Good at Fighting Babies"	17:53	Ben	Rick, John, Lindsay	November 22, 2017 (2017-11-22)
3	"Electric Magoobaloo"	22:02	Ben	Rick, John, Sarah, Lindsay	November 22, 2017 (2017-11-22)
4	"Five Nights at Macaulay Culkin's"	15:48	Ben	Rick, John, Sarah, Lindsay	November 23, 2017 (2017-11-23)
5	"It's Just a Cloud"	18:26	Ben	Rick, John, Sarah, Lindsay	November 24, 2017 (2017-11-24)
6	"He's Got Stilt Skin"	17:57	Ben	Rick, John, Lindsay	December 6, 2017 (2017-12-06)
7	"The Owls Are Not What They Seem"	11:37	Ben	Rick, John, Lindsay	December 7, 2017 (2017-12-07)
8	"All Dunka, No Roo"	19:30	Ben	Rick, John, Lindsay	December 8, 2017 (2017-12-08)
9	"There Will Be No Survivors"	17:53	Ben, Lindsay	Rick, John	December 16, 2017 (2017-12-16)
10	"Grab the Bull by the Horns"	17:15	Ben	Rick, John, Lindsay	December 17, 2017 (2017-12-17)
11	"A Bum in My Throat"	24:58	Ben	Rick, Lindsay	December 25, 2017 (2017-12-25)
12	"Nobody Plays Pokémon"	14:52	Lindsay	Rick, John, Ben	January 16, 2018 (2018-01-16)
13	"#damp"	18:56	Lindsay	Rick, John, Ben	January 17, 2018 (2018-01-17)
14	"Thinking About Beans"	14:50	Lindsay	Rick, John, Ben	January 18, 2018 (2018-01-18)
15	"Peck Him 'Til He's Moist"	16:45	Lindsay	Rick, John, Ben	January 19, 2018 (2018-01-19)
Chapter 2
16	"Apparently, He Loves Fuck"	16:47	Lindsay	Rick, John, Ben	June 27, 2021 (2021-06-27)
00:15: Verdant Cavern 02:54: Route 2 06:16: Route 3 07:12: vs. Rising Star Tatiana 08:43: Route 3 08:57: vs. Rising Star Ian 12:08: Route 3 15:33: Melemele Meadow

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Trivia

• Pokémon Ultra Sun was the first main series Pokémon game to be covered in a non-Nuzlocke LP on the channel, due to Rick and John not wanting to repeat themselves by Padlocking Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon immediately after finishing the very similar Sun and Moon. The non-Nuzlocke format was later reused for Pokémon Sword, with Geoff replacing Lindsay as the second player.
• No new episodes of Pokémon Ultra Sun have been recorded since early 2018. Episode 16, which was recorded shortly after episode 15, was held to be included with the next batch of episodes. It was ultimately released as a one-off in 2021 during Rick's calculations to determine the odds of encountering a shiny Pokémon across the channel's entire history.