Re: Can U Get Shiny Meltan In Pokemon Go
Oleta Blaylock
well i don't know why but your method worked for me but i feel like this is too much of a hassle for one single mon so i'll just stick with the old pkhex version whenever i make shiny melmetal lol, thanks for helping though
It just means your old Melmetal was probably always illegal to begin with, it's just PKHeX wasn't updated to deal with it.
So you can use an old PKHeX, but just know your Melmetal would still be illegal, even if it appears legal on an older version.
The GP1->LGPE->SWSH is probably your best bet, since the date of capture is correct. You just need to ensure the other details, such as ball legality, matches LGPE's usable balls. If you don't know how GO->LGPE IVs work, you probably don't wanna mess with them.
now i'm starting to think that ROC's melmetal was a non shiny one so clicking on the star icon on the old pkhex made it leagl but the new pkhex is updated to make all non shiny melmetal impossible to be legitimately shiny so thats why i was getting the error lol it all makes sense now
theSLAYER i dont think i need to do the The GP1->LGPE->SWSH thing but have to keep in mind that i can't legitimately make a non shiny melmetal shiny by simply clicking the star icon on the new pkhex ( the old pkhex would show it legal but i understand that it wasn't updated enough with the appropriate legality checks )
yeah Melmetal (non-shiny) can be obtained pretty much at any date, but Melmetal (shiny) can only be obtained at certain dates.
So shinifying a non-shiny Melmetal (with the wrong dates, i.e. non-shiny encounter dates) will cause the legality error.
[If the date on the non-shiny Melmetal overlaps with a date that Meltan can be encountered shiny, it will not prompt the legality issue]
i dont think i need to do the The GP1->LGPE->SWSH thing but have to keep in mind that i can't legitimately make a non shiny melmetal shiny by simply clicking the star icon on the new pkhex ( the old pkhex would show it legal but i understand that it wasn't updated enough with the appropriate legality checks )
Alternatively, if you want to shinify an existing Melmetal, just make sure the date obtained matches a date that Meltan could be caught shiny in GO.
[Also, my GO transfers upload, as well as my Shiny Living Dex upload, has legal shiny Melmetal]
id give that a try, try changing the date to one of the dates it was available as a shiny and see if it works. i may try this too at some point if i need any more shiny melmetal lol
also maybe look up the dates when the shiny meltan events went live? idk if the dates are archived here. i just found out you can go through the encounter databace and use the encounters listed and see if they work or not, so far the lv.1 ones can be marked shiny cuz im guessing there from LGPE. the others you have to change the OT and place in the box before you make them shiny.
dont mind me trying to be a little helpful sents im not active here much