Tips and tricks for opening a Mystery Box and catching Meltan

What is Meltan?

You can read all about Meltan here: https://pokemonletsgo.pokemon.com/en-us/new-pokemon/

What is a Mystery Box?The Mystery Box functions like a special type of Incense. It will spawn Meltan every 90 seconds for 30 minutes. You can open your Mystery Box every 7 days but you will have to transfer another Pokemon to the Switch to re-activate it.

How to get a Mystery Box in Pokemon Go:

1. Connect your Pokemon Go account to a Nintendo Switch with the Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu or Let's Go Eevee game

2. Transfer a Pokemon from Pokemon Go to Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu or Eevee. The Let's Go account needs to have reached the Go Park in Fuchsia City to do this.

3. Once you transfer a Kanto Pokemon to the Let's Go game, you will get the Mystery Box and it will appear in your Pokemon Go inventory.

Tips for when you open your Mystery Box:

1. Open the Mystery Box in snowy weather for weather boost, you will have a chance to get higher CP and IV. Make sure you open your mystery box before 30 minutes into the hour to avoid change in weather.

2. Meltan is a tiny Pokemon so it is better to open the Mystery Box in an area without many spawns. If you are near lures for example, you may miss Meltan when it spawns.

3. Turn on the sound and/or vibration to be sure to notice Meltan when it spawns.

4. Meltan now Spawns every 90 seconds, so keep your eye on the box timer to anticipate a spawn.

5. While your mystery Box timer is going, do not take any other actions in the game, like going into menus or clicking on stops or gyms and don't switch between apps on your phone. Doing so may disrupt the Meltan spawns and you will get less than the maximum of 20 Meltan,

6. Pinap every Meltan to maximize candy. You will need 400 candy to evolve a Meltan to Melmetal.

7. After catching all the Meltan that spawned from your Mystery Box you can either transfer them and get one candy or trade them with a long distance Pokemon for 3 candy each (for 3 candy trade with a Pokemon from 100km away or more). Keep in mind that Meltan trade is a special trade so you can do that only once per day.

Good luck opening your Mystery Box!

Guide by: Sivan Rehan
Source: pokemonletsgo.pokemon.com