Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4440927-20200108185553/@comment-14267015-20200109091232

I've had years now to think about the Ultimate forms, and like most people I loved the idea of them when the Ultimates were first introduced. They weren't necessarily executed though, at least for me. Now I think it's actually for the best Ben doesn't have them. My reason is, I hope, fairly simple and understandable: it goes against the lesson Tetrax taught Ben about using his aliens strategically. 10 year old Ben tended to pick the strongest/most powerful alien he could, going Ultimate just means that if the alien Ben picks isn't working he can just give it a super charge so it can hit the problem harder and that just seems boring to me. Now, as a tool for Albedo I think it works fine and I've noticed he fights a lot like 10 year old Ben; preferring to use bigger, stronger aliens like Rath, Diamondhead, and Humungosaur and charge into the fight. Not only is this a weakness Ben could exploit but we'd get to see him use his aliens powers in new ways to beat Albedo's Ultimate forms.

On a more cynical note, the Ultimates were never going to stick around anyway. Remember, Ben 10 is owned by Cartoon Network, they were trying to make money of the show. Adding the Ultimates drew in viewers and gave them something to make new merchandise for. Plus, I'm not all that convinced the writers and other people working liked them either. Everytime Azmuth showed up in UA he always had a line about either not liking the feature or working on a new Omnitrix, almost as if they were telling the viewers it wasn't going to last.