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Trainer Item

Ultra Ball ハイパーボール Hyper Ball

File:UltraBallCollectionSun71.jpg Sun & Moon Secret print Illus. Ryo Ueda Release information Expansion Dark Explorers Rarity English card no. 102/108 Japanese Deck Reshiram-EX Battle Strength Deck Japanese card no. 011/018 Japanese Deck Zekrom-EX Battle Strength Deck Japanese card no. 011/018 Japanese Half Deck Hydreigon Half Deck Japanese card no. 010/015 Japanese Half Deck Garchomp Half Deck Japanese card no. 010/015 Japanese Deck Kit Master Deck Build Box EX Japanese card no. 030/046 Japanese Deck Black Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck Japanese card no. 010/018 Japanese Deck White Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Deck Japanese card no. 010/018 English expansion Plasma Freeze Rarity English card no. 122/116 Japanese expansion Spiral Force Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 058/051 Expansion Plasma Blast Rarity English card no. 90/101 Japanese Deck Blastoise + Kyurem-EX Combo Deck Japanese card no. 009/018 Expansion Flashfire Rarity English card no. 99/106 Japanese Deck M Charizard-EX Mega Battle Deck Japanese card no. 012/021 Japanese Deck Hyper Metal Chain Deck Japanese card no. 008/018 Japanese Deck Super Legend Set: Xerneas-EX & Yveltal-EX Japanese card no. 013/023 Expansion Roaring Skies Rarity English card no. 93/108 Japanese Deck M Rayquaza-EX Mega Battle Deck Japanese card no. 009/018 Japanese Deck Kit M Master Deck Build Box Power Style Japanese card no. 028/049 Japanese Deck Kit M Master Deck Build Box Speed Style Japanese card no. 030/049 Japanese Deck BREAK Starter Pack Japanese card no. 055/072 Expansion Fates Collide Rarity English card no. 113/124 Japanese Deck Zygarde-EX Perfect Battle Deck Japanese card no. 010/019 Japanese Deck M Audino-EX Mega Battle Deck Japanese card no. 015/026 Japanese expansion Premium Champion Pack Japanese card no. 103/131 English expansion Sun & Moon Rarity English card no. 135/149 Japanese expansion Sun & Moon Starter Set Japanese card no. 044/059 English expansion Sun & Moon Rarity English card no. 161/149 Japanese expansion Collection Sun Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 071/060 Japanese Deck Kit Premium Trainer Box Japanese card no. 002/018 Japanese expansion Strength Expansion Pack Sun & Moon Japanese card no. 045/051 Japanese Deck Tapu Bulu-GX Enhanced Starter Set Japanese card no. 013/021 Japanese expansion SM-P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 091/SM-P English expansion Shining Legends Rarity English card no. 68/73 Japanese expansion Shining Legends Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 064/072 Japanese Deck Solgaleo-GX & Lunala-GX Legendary Starter Set Japanese card no. 012/021 Japanese expansion Ultra Moon Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 056/066 Japanese expansion Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Premium Trainer Box Japanese card no. 003/020 Japanese expansion Forbidden Light Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 079/094 Japanese expansion Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Deck Build Boxes Japanese card no. 003/041 Japanese expansion Sky-Splitting Eminence Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 081/096 Japanese expansion Thunderclap Spark Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 049/060 Japanese expansion GX Starter Decks Japanese Deck Grass Lurantis-GX Deck Fire Charizard-GX Deck Water Lapras-GX Deck Lightning Raichu-GX Deck Psychic Mewtwo-GX Deck Fighting Lycanroc-GX Deck Darkness Yveltal-GX Deck Metal Metagross-GX Deck Fairy Xerneas-GX Deck Japanese card no. 111/131 Japanese expansion SM-P Promotional cards

Ultra Ball (Japanese: ハイパーボール Hyper Ball) is an Item card. It was first released as part of the Dark Explorers expansion.

Card text

Dark Explorers print

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

Team Plasma

Team Plasma

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

FLARE

(Prism Star) Rule You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.

TAG TEAM

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VSTAR Power

Discard 2 cards from your hand. (If you can't discard 2 cards, you can't play this card.) Search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Sun & Moon print

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

Team Plasma

Team Plasma

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

FLARE

(Prism Star) Rule You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.

TAG TEAM

{{{ruletext}}}

VSTAR Power

Discard 2 cards from your hand. If you do, search your deck for a Pokémon, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Release information

This card was included in the Dark Explorers expansion with artwork by 5ban Graphics, first released in the Japanese Reshiram-EX and Zekrom-EX Battle Strength Decks. It was reprinted in the Japanese Hydreigon and Garchomp Half Decks, the Master Deck Build Box EX, and the Black Kyurem-EX and White Kyurem-EX Battle Strength Decks. An Ultra-Rare Secret print with new artwork by the same artist was later included in the Plasma Freeze expansion, first released in the Japanese Spiral Force expansion. The original print was later included in the Plasma Blast expansion, first released in the Japanese Blastoise + Kyurem-EX Combo Deck.

During the XY Series, Ultra Ball was reprinted in the Flashfire expansion with new artwork by 5ban Graphics, first released in the Japanese M Charizard-EX Mega Battle Deck. This print was later included in the Japanese Hyper Metal Chain Deck and the Super Legend Set: Xerneas-EX & Yveltal-EX. It was reprinted again in the Roaring Skies expansion, first released in the Japanese M Rayquaza-EX Mega Battle Deck. This print was later included in the Japanese M Master Deck Build Box Power Style and M Master Deck Build Box Speed Style, the BREAK Starter Pack, and as a Mirror Reverse Holo in the Premium Champion Pack. It was reprinted once again in the Fates Collide expansion, first released in the Japanese Zygarde-EX Perfect Battle Deck and M Audino-EX Mega Battle Deck.

Ultra Ball was reprinted again during the Sun & Moon Series as part of the Sun & Moon expansion, first released in the Japanese Sun & Moon Starter Set and Premium Trainer Box simultaneously, on December 9, 2016. A Full Art Secret print was also released in the Sun & Moon expansion, first released in the Japanese Collection Sun. Both prints feature artwork by Ryo Ueda. A Mirror Holo reprint of the Regular print was included in the Strength Expansion Pack Sun & Moon in Japan. The Regular print was reprinted again in the Japanese Tapu Bulu-GX Enhanced Starter Set. A SM-P Promotional reprint was 1 of 9 cards available in special packs sent to official Event Organizers in Japan starting August 2017. This print features the Event Organizer logo in the bottom right corner of the illustration. It was reprinted again in the English Shining Legends expansion and in the Japanese Shining Legends subset, Solgaleo-GX & Lunala-GX Legendary Starter Set, Ultra Moon expansion, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Premium Trainer Box, Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Deck Build Boxes, Forbidden Light expansion, Sky-Splitting Eminence expansion, Thunderclap Spark subset, and in each of the GX Starter Decks.

In Japan, participants of the Sky-Splitting Eminence Shield Game, held at the Pokémon Card Station at the Tokyo Bay Pokémon Center on June 1, 2018, were given 5 Trainer cards to use in their decks if they so wished. These included 1 unnumbered SM-P Promotional copy of this card, 2 unnumbered SM-P Promotional copies of Hau, and 2 unnumbered SM-P Promotional copies of Sophocles. The Shield Game operated much in the same way as Limited Format tournaments outside Japan: participants would receive 15 Sky-Splitting Eminence booster packs and 14 copies of each basic Energy card upon entry and play using a 40-card deck and four Prize cards. The event was limited to 24 entrants.

Gallery

Dark Explorers print Illus. 5ban Graphics	Plasma Freeze print Illus. 5ban Graphics	Flashfire print Illus. 5ban Graphics
File:UltraBallPremiumTrainerBox2.jpg Sun & Moon Regular print Illus. Ryo Ueda	File:UltraBallCollectionSun71.jpg Sun & Moon Secret print Illus Ryo Ueda	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori
Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori	Diamond & Pearl print Illus. Ken Sugimori

Trivia

Origin

The Ultra Ball is a type of Poké Ball in the Pokémon games which has an improved capture rate over the Great Ball.

This article is part of Project TCG, a Bulbapedia project that aims to report on every aspect of the Pokémon Trading Card Game.