How to get Pokemon Home’s Shiny Keldeo and Shiny Meltan
Pokémon Home regularly allows trainers to get their hands on rare Shiny Pokémon. The app's latest update has given users a brief window to add a Shiny Keldeo and a Shiny Meltan, two hard-to-get Pokémon, to their collection. However, it isn't handing them out for free. If you want to get these two Shinies, you'd best be ready to hop back into some old Pokémon games to complete a few of Pokémon Home's Pokédexes. It won't be easy, but catching Shinies never is. Here's how to get Pokémon Home's Shiny Keldeo and Shiny Meltan. How to get Pokémon Home's Shiny Keldeo Image via Destructoid Keldeo, the Colt Pokémon, is the adoptive ward of the Swords of Justice, a trio of Legendary Pokémon introduced in Pokémon: Black and White. As a Mythical Pokémon, Keldeo is usually only catchable during limited-time giveaway events (although there is an obscure way to catch it Pokémon: Sword and Shield's Crown Tundra DLC). This is the first time its Shiny variant has been available, making it an irresistible prize for Shiny hunters. Here's how to get the Shiny Keldeo from Pokémon Home. Download the Nintendo Switch version of Pokémon Home. Complete the Galar, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra Pokédexes for Pokémon: Sword and Shield and its Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra DLCs Transfer the required Pokémon from Pokémon: Sword and Shield into Pokémon Home through your Switch to register them on the app's Galar, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra Pokédexes. Download the Pokémon Home app on iOS or Android and link your mobile Home account to your Switch Home account. Use the Mystery Gifts feature in your Pokémon Home mobile app to receive your free Pokémon. How to get Pokémon Home's Shiny Meltan Image via Destructoid Meltan, the Lugnut Pokémon, is one of my all-time favorite Pocket Monsters. How can you not love this little guy? Look at his little wheel nut head! Unfortunately, you can only catch Meltan in Pokémon Go, the only game where it can evolve into its second form, the roided out Melmetal. Here's how to get the Shiny Meltan from Pokémon Home. Download the Nintendo Switch version of Pokémon Home. Complete the Kanto Pokédexes for Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu or Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu. Transfer the required Pokémon from Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu or Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu into Pokémon Home through your Switch to register them on the app's Kanto Pokédex. Download the Pokémon Home app on iOS or Android and link your mobile Home account to your Switch Home account. Use the Mystery Gifts feature in your Pokémon Home mobile app to receive your free Pokémon. Before making room in your menagerie for Shiny Keldo and Shiny Meltan, don't start thinking you can trick the system. Pokémon Home can tell which game you got the Pokémon you're transferring in from, and it won't count any Pokémon that weren't caught in the games I listed above. There are no shortcuts here; if you want these Pocket Monsters, you've got to put in the work and fill in those Pokédexes the old-fashioned way. The post How to get Pokemon Home’s Shiny Keldeo and Shiny Meltan appeared first on Destructoid.
Pokémon Home regularly allows trainers to get their hands on rare Shiny Pokémon. The app's latest update has given users a brief window to add a Shiny Keldeo and a Shiny Meltan, two hard-to-get Pokémon, to their collection. However, it isn't handing them out for free.
If you want to get these two Shinies, you'd best be ready to hop back into some old Pokémon games to complete a few of Pokémon Home's Pokédexes. It won't be easy, but catching Shinies never is. Here's how to get Pokémon Home's Shiny Keldeo and Shiny Meltan.
How to get Pokémon Home's Shiny Keldeo
Keldeo, the Colt Pokémon, is the adoptive ward of the Swords of Justice, a trio of Legendary Pokémon introduced in Pokémon: Black and White. As a Mythical Pokémon, Keldeo is usually only catchable during limited-time giveaway events (although there is an obscure way to catch it Pokémon: Sword and Shield's Crown Tundra DLC). This is the first time its Shiny variant has been available, making it an irresistible prize for Shiny hunters.
Here's how to get the Shiny Keldeo from Pokémon Home.
- Download the Nintendo Switch version of Pokémon Home.
- Complete the Galar, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra Pokédexes for Pokémon: Sword and Shield and its Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra DLCs
- Transfer the required Pokémon from Pokémon: Sword and Shield into Pokémon Home through your Switch to register them on the app's Galar, Isle of Armor, and Crown Tundra Pokédexes.
- Download the Pokémon Home app on iOS or Android and link your mobile Home account to your Switch Home account.
- Use the Mystery Gifts feature in your Pokémon Home mobile app to receive your free Pokémon.
How to get Pokémon Home's Shiny Meltan
Meltan, the Lugnut Pokémon, is one of my all-time favorite Pocket Monsters. How can you not love this little guy? Look at his little wheel nut head! Unfortunately, you can only catch Meltan in Pokémon Go, the only game where it can evolve into its second form, the roided out Melmetal.
Here's how to get the Shiny Meltan from Pokémon Home.
- Download the Nintendo Switch version of Pokémon Home.
- Complete the Kanto Pokédexes for Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu or Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu.
- Transfer the required Pokémon from Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu or Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu into Pokémon Home through your Switch to register them on the app's Kanto Pokédex.
- Download the Pokémon Home app on iOS or Android and link your mobile Home account to your Switch Home account.
- Use the Mystery Gifts feature in your Pokémon Home mobile app to receive your free Pokémon.
Before making room in your menagerie for Shiny Keldo and Shiny Meltan, don't start thinking you can trick the system. Pokémon Home can tell which game you got the Pokémon you're transferring in from, and it won't count any Pokémon that weren't caught in the games I listed above. There are no shortcuts here; if you want these Pocket Monsters, you've got to put in the work and fill in those Pokédexes the old-fashioned way.
The post How to get Pokemon Home’s Shiny Keldeo and Shiny Meltan appeared first on Destructoid.
