
At the end of Ilima’s Trial in Verdant Cave, Ultra Sun players will find a Totem Gumshoos to battle while Ultra Moon players will fight a Totem Alolan Raticate. There are also version differences when it comes to the first Trial in the games. The only reason why this matters is that there are a few Pokémon that will only appear either in day or night, as well as a few optional side missions that will only take place at a certain time of day. Ultra Moon, on the other hand, runs on inverted time, so it will be night in the game when it is day in real life. Ultra Sun runs on normal time, meaning when it is day in real life, it is day in the game. Other than version-exclusive Pokémon, probably the most glaring difference between the two games is the time of day. All the other differences between the two games will be discussed in this article.

For an extensive list of all version-exclusive Pokémon in Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, click here. Nowadays, more things change between versions than just what creatures you can catch. Back in the day, version-exclusive Pokémon were pretty much the only differences between paired versions, such as Red and Blue or Silver and Gold.
