{"id":14693,"date":"2018-10-24T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:19:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T21:19:59","slug":"melmetal-evolution-of-mythical-pokemon-meltan-discovered-pokemongo-pokemonletsgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2018\/10\/melmetal-evolution-of-mythical-pokemon-meltan-discovered-pokemongo-pokemonletsgo\/","title":{"rendered":"Melmetal, Evolution of Mythical Pok\u00e9mon Meltan, discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company International and Nintendo announced a new Pok\u00e9mon, Melmetal. Meltan, a Mythical Pok\u00e9mon recently discovered in the world of <strong>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/strong>, evolves into Melmetal, making Meltan the first Mythical Pok\u00e9mon known to be able to evolve.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lore in Pok\u00e9mon,<br \/>\nMelmetal was worshiped in ancient times as a Pok\u00e9mon with the power to create metal. Because of its Evolution from Meltan, its body has hardened and is now incredibly sturdy. Melmetal is made of liquid metal, and its flexible arms can be whipped forward to deliver a devastating punch. It can also execute a powerful, unique Steel-type physical move known as Double Iron Bash. By using the hex nut in its chest like an axle to spin its arms around, Melmetal can deal a double strike to its opponent. The weight of the heavy hex nuts on its arms combined with the spinning motion gives the Double Iron Bash move extraordinary power.<\/p>\n<p>Name: Melmetal<br \/>\nCategory: Hex Nut Pok\u00e9mon<br \/>\nHeight: 8&#8217;2&#8243;<br \/>\nWeight: 1,763.7 lbs.<br \/>\nType: Steel<\/p>\n<p>The Evolution of the Mythical Pok\u00e9mon Meltan into Melmetal can only occur in <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em> and requires 400 Meltan Candies. Like Candies that can be collected for other <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, players can obtain Meltan Candies by catching Meltan (after opening a Mystery Box) and sending them to Professor Willow or by walking around with Meltan selected as their Buddy Pok\u00e9mon. Fans can also obtain Meltan Candies by sending that Pok\u00e9mon from <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em> to the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu!<\/strong> or <strong>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!<\/strong> video games. Fans can have fun exploring the Kanto region with Melmetal once they bring it over from <em>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/em> to <em>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pikachu! <\/em>or<em> Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ddxlXwEQ30?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Pik<\/em><em>achu! <\/em>and<em> Pok\u00e9mon: Let\u2019s Go, Eevee!<\/em> will be available exclusively on Nintendo Switch on November 16th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pok\u00e9mon Company International and Nintendo announced a new Pok\u00e9mon, Melmetal. Meltan, a Mythical Pok\u00e9mon recently discovered in the world of Pok\u00e9mon GO, evolves into Melmetal, making Meltan the first Mythical Pok\u00e9mon known to be able to evolve. According to the lore in Pok\u00e9mon, Melmetal was worshiped in ancient times as a Pok\u00e9mon with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[101,1530],"tags":[1732,1386,1729,2192,2193],"class_list":["post-14693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo-switch","tag-niantic","tag-nintendo","tag-pokemon-go","tag-pokemon-lets-go-eevee","tag-pokemon-lets-go-pikachu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bOMAYXor0fm-UzOat7ARyWuh_mjVGFyI.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6HXYU-3OZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15927,"url":"https:\/\/www.darkainarts.com\/gamers\/2019\/04\/shiny-meltan-is-back-in-pokemongo-starting-tomorrow\/","url_meta":{"origin":14693,"position":0},"title":"Shiny Meltan is back in Pokemon GO starting tomorrow","date":"April 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Shiny Meltan is back for a limited time. 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