I would like to see you rate Pheromosa! My favorite Ultra Beast, and for Many Many Reasons an absolute awful choice for a Pokémon to seek out let alone have as a pet/companion!
It’s been a while since I’ve covered an Ultra Beast! These one’s are tricky: we know so little about them, since researchers have had such little contact with them. Their biology and behavior is often so… well… alien that they are difficult to assess. Considering their general aggression in our dimension, I would wager that a pheramosa would not make the best pet.
Pheramosas stand at just under six feet tall, though I doubt that they would have much trouble navigating a home considering that they are roughly the shape of a human. While they only weigh fifty-five pounds, this height will make them a little difficult to transport, though taking them on errands to the vet or a groomer or whatnot might be futile anyway given their alien biology. The pokédex isn’t able to give us much information about their ideal habitat: while pheramosas are a common pokémon in their homeworld, Ultra Desert (Ultra Moon), we don’t know a whole lot about it as humans have only travelled there on extremely rare occasions. Its arid, rocky environment might dictate that a pheramosa would be more comfortable in drier environments, but I can’t say for sure. We do know, however, that they feel uncomfortable with a perceived “uncleanliness” in our world (Moon), which I’ll get into more later.
What I can say for sure is that pheramosas don’t have a good temperament for living alongside humans. The pokédex refers to this pokémon as a danger in our world (Sun, Ultra Moon), due to their aggression upon traveling here through an Ultra Wormhole. While pheramosas aren’t the “nstantly vaporized you” type of dangerous, they still pose a serious threat. Despite their thin appearance, pheramosas aren’t incredibly strong (Ultra Sun) and can move about “at terrific speeds” (Sun), using kicking moves like Low Kick, Double Kick, Triple Kick, and High Jump Kick to brutalize their opponants. Being attacked by a pheramosa is no joke: there’s a reason why the authorities are so keen to get them under control when they make their way to our world! I wouldn’t count on being able to train a pheramosa very effectively, given their discomfort with our world, so I’m not sure if there is a way to get around how dangerous these pokémon are.
A pheramosa in our dimension is an unhappy pheramosa, given their feeling that our world is unclean. The pokédex explains that, while in our world, pheramosas “refuse to touch anything” (Moon). This general discomfort makes me think that caring for a pheramosa in our world is outright unethical unless you are able to perfectly recreate the conditions of Ultra Desert, a place which we know very little about. Considering this problem, and their general threat level, I can’t recommend a pheramosa as a pet. Luckily, this won’t get in the way of most of your plans anyway: given the fact that they come from a different dimension, accessible only through rare Ultra Wormholes, I am unsure how any average person could adopt one of these pokémon in the first place.
