{"id":76871,"date":"2026-04-28T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76871"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:37:41","slug":"how-to-get-shiny-meltan-in-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76871","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Shiny Meltan In Pokemon Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/pokemon-go\/\">Pokemon Go<\/a>&#8216;s Steeled Resolve event is officially underway, shining the spotlight on various steel types like the debuting Orthworm. That isn&#8217;t the only special Pokemon you can encounter in the mobile game right now, however. The event also brings back the elusive shiny Meltan.<\/p>\n<p>This shiny mythical Pokemon only appears during special events, making it rare even among shiny Pokemon. However, finding one involves persistence and a particular item called the Mystery Box, which you can only obtain through some convoluted means. Here&#8217;s a full breakdown on how to get the Mystery Box and catch shiny Meltan before the Steeled Resolve event ends.<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"toc\">How To Catch Meltan<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most Pokemon, Meltan doesn&#8217;t normally spawn in the wild. Rather, the mythical Pokemon will only appear after you&#8217;ve opened the Mystery Box&#8211;a special item that you&#8217;ll receive after you&#8217;ve linked your Pokemon Go account to Pokemon Home (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/pokemon-lets-go-pikachu-pokemon-lets-go-eevee\/\">Pokemon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu or Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee<\/a> for Nintendo Switch).<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve obtained the Mystery Box, you&#8217;ll find it stored among the other trainer boost items in your inventory. Open the box and Meltan will spawn around your character on the world map for 60 minutes. Once that time has elapsed, however, Meltan will no longer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pokemon Go&#8216;s Steeled Resolve event is officially underway, shining the spotlight on various steel types like the debuting Orthworm. That isn&#8217;t the only special Pokemon you can encounter in the mobile game right now, however. The event also brings back the elusive shiny Meltan. This shiny mythical Pokemon only appears during special events, making it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":76873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76874,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76871\/revisions\/76874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}