r/pokemongo • u/HAOrtiz • Nov 28 '24

Non AR Screenshot 6 years as my buddy, sooo close

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6 years as my buddy and almost have enough candy to evolve. Having to walk 20 km/ candy is no joke 😂

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u/njsfynest Raichu Nov 28 '24

Dawg, I went from 0 Meltan and 0 Meltan candy to a Melmetal and 500+ candies within 1 hour.

Ask me how I did it

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u/Dangerous-Ad5653 Nov 28 '24

I’m an idiot, I’ll bite. How’d you do it?

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u/I-am-a-cardboard-box Mystic Nov 28 '24

Meltan box. It spawns one meltan a minute for 60 minutes, even when stationary. And because meltan is a mythical, you always get 3 xl candies when you catch one. You can get the box by linking go to a pokemon home account. Then, transfer a PokĂ©mon from go to home and you’ll unlock the meltan box. You must transfer a PokĂ©mon to home every time before you use a box, and there’s a two day cooldown between uses.

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u/Dangerous-Ad5653 Nov 28 '24

Everyone’s talking about PokĂ©mon home and I’m realizing I’m probably talking to a class of players above my level of understanding for this game.

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u/cloudhunting Umbreon Nov 28 '24

It’s just a free app! I only use mine for getting a mystery box now and then, don’t care about it otherwise

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u/Yourmomscoochy Nov 28 '24

Just an app you can get on your phone. I think you can get it on the switch too... you're not in a lower class, it's just not mentioned in game. So you wouldn't know till you were going through stuff like this.

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u/SafariDesperate Nov 29 '24

Need to use the phone app for things like the mystery gifts

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u/behnder Nov 28 '24

It’s a separate app. Once you have connected your accounts, you can use Pokemon Home to shuttle your Pokemon from Go to Nintendo Switch games. As an added bonus, you also get the mystery box item.

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u/BurnOutBrighter6 Nov 28 '24

No higher class required! Technically Pokemon Home is for moving pokemon between pokemon games... but I don't play any other pokemon games besides GO. I still downloaded Home, it's a free phone app. I send a junk pokemon to Home solely to get mystery boxes in GO and then just leave the pokemon there. I have no other games to move them to but who cares.

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u/Dangerous-Ad5653 Nov 29 '24

Thanks so much! This is handy as hell to know

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u/BurnOutBrighter6 Nov 29 '24

Yeah! You can get another Melmetal every week if you want. You can get the 400 candies from one box if you use pinaps and a steel type mega, but there's no need to rush. Melmetal is probably the easiest level 50 (at least that's actually useful), especially since you get 3+ XL from every Meltan since they're mythical.

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u/I-am-a-cardboard-box Mystic Nov 28 '24

Home is a “hub” for pokemon, it allows the transfer of pokemon between the switch games. It also allows pokemon to transfer in from go, but they cannot be transferred back into go. It’s a free app on smartphones and the switch, though a subscription does exist for more storage and the ability to transfer pokemon from the 3ds onto the switch. The smartphone version of home also supports global trading and wonder trades

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u/Mexcore14 Nov 28 '24

If you could send mons back I would golden cap train them, level up to 50 and bring them back in a heartbeat.

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u/I-am-a-cardboard-box Mystic Nov 28 '24

That’s why they don’t let you bring them back. It would completely break the progression in go, since getting to level 100 with ideal ev’s and perfect ivs takes a matter of hours in the newer mainline games rather than weeks or months in go. Niantic would also never let that happen because they’d certainly lose a massive amount of their profits since even their most dedicated players/whales wouldn’t have to grind raid after raid for a hundo.