Translated talk with Masuda, Ohmori, and Iwao from the fan meeting
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>With the idea of conveying the supreme nature of the Pokemon’s supreme existence to the player in mind, the build up to the encounter with Ultra Necrozma had to be at least twice as intense as the Legendary encounters in the original Sun & Moon games stated Iwao. Although they considered Ultra Necrozma to be the most comprehensively powerful pokemon players have encountered so far, they still wanted to make sure that as long as you utilized the strengths of the pokemon your gathered together on your journey, in the end you would come out on top.
>In regards to the design of Ultra Necrozma, Iwao stated that, to put it bluntly, they wanted it to look cool. And when he considered “How do you make a cool pokemon?” naturally he concluded “You make it Dragon type”. With that as the primary design principle they set about creating a fusion of the Psychic type Necrozma and a new Dragon type form. With that said, the result was less an entirely new appearance, but rather a rearrangement of Necrozma’s body parts into a new Dragon shaped entity.