Headline: Is your Pokémon Ultra Sun up to date? Version 1.2 is essential!

Was it worth it? For legitimate players, yes. For the shiny hunters, it was a tragedy.

This is a quality-of-life change rarely discussed. You can now press the "B" button immediately after inputting a Z-Move to skip the long pose animation. The damage still calculates, but the player avatar no longer freezes for 2.5 seconds. This cut online match times by an average of 8 seconds per Z-Move.