Kartana VS Volcarona!

After handing the Radiant Stone over to the Metropolis research institute, Xia Chen sorted through everything he had gained since arriving in the Ultra World.

His two main goals in coming to the Ultra World had been to find his missing parents and find a Kartana capable of cutting open an Ultra Wormhole.

He had completed one and a half of them—

He had found Kartana, but whether it could cut open an Ultra Wormhole like the one in the anime was another matter.

Since Metropolis's research into spatial jumps was still being wrapped up and they would not be leaving anytime soon, Xia Chen decided to use this time to have a proper talk with Kartana.

This was already the strongest Kartana he could find. If even this one could not open an Ultra Wormhole, he could only wait for Metropolis's spatial-jump technology to mature.

Besides that, discovering the Radiant Stone vein had been an unexpected delight. Once Earth World and the Ultra World established a stable connection—or once they helped the Ultra World end the Dark Era—they could begin researching Z-Moves.

Honestly, judging by their performance in the games, Z-Moves definitely did not carry the same strategic significance as any of the other three battle systems.

Dynamax might not match Z-Moves in a single attack, but it granted three move uses, and during that time, the Pokémon's vitality and endurance were greatly enhanced, making it much tankier.

Unless they were Z-Moves exclusive to certain Pokémon, such as Eevee's Extreme Evoboost and Kommo-o's Clangorous Soulblaze, Z-Moves were basically completely outclassed by Dynamax.

And compared with Mega Evolution and Terastalization, their duration was not something Z-Moves could match either.

Still, no matter what, Z-Moves were a special system capable of greatly boosting the power of a single move. Having them