Pokémon GO introduces new creatures all the time, but these ones are different. Meltan and Melmetal, just introduced on Friday, are something different. They're not just new Pokémon for Pokémon GO,they're new Pokémon period: brand-new character designs meant as a cross-promotion for Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, a set of new games just released for the Nintendo Switch. As far as cross-promotion goes, it's a no-brainer: a unique Pokémon tied to a new Pokémon game just sort of makes sense.
And yet the idea also raises the ever-present issue of "pay-to-win" for free-to-play games. At first, it seemed like Niantic had engineered Meltan's introduction to Pokémon GO carefully to avoid the appearance of gating one of its creatures behind a $60 game and a $299 console. That's the idea behind the special research it introduced on the same day Pokémon Let's Go came out: it was a new, special creature, but you could still get it if you completed a reasonably difficult quest line. Which works for Meltan, but raises a thorny issue for its evolution, Melmetal.
Meltan is one of a small group of creatures in Pokémon GO that require a whopping 400 candies to evolve, which presents a problem for those without Pokémon Let's Go. If you get the creature through Let's Go you can deploy a "mystery box" that floods your immediate area with the little guys, and after a few uses, it shouldn't be that hard to get the requisite candy, though you can only do them once a week. If you get it through the quest, however, you can only get a maximum of 11 candies through the catch and final reward tier. Which is considerably short of 400.
It would technically be possible to get those 400 candies without Let's Go, but it would take a ridiculous amount of time, requiring either hundreds of rare candies or thousands of miles walked as a buddy: Meltan takes 20km for just one candy, the highest tier that the game has. You can also trade it around to rack up a few candies, but it's a special trade and thus both limited and expensive. It will also likely be a while before anyone is willing trade the difficult-to-evolve Melmetal.
You can get the mystery box by linking to a friend's copy of Let's Go, but it's an imperfect solution: you would need to go on your local Pokémon GO social media group to find a willing stranger if you don't know someone directly, and not everyone wants to do that. And you'll need to do it multiple times to get the full evolution.
Sources: Forbes
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