A Pokemon Go trainer has showed off their impeccable Shiny luck after opening a Meltan Mystery Box, resulting in many envious players.
The only way to obtain aShiny Meltanis by using Mystery Boxes, which can be unlocked by transferring Pokemon caught in Go to your Pokemon Home account. After using one, there will be a three-day cooldown period until you can use it again.
Typically, players will celebrate if they catch a single Shiny Pokemon. However, this trainer defied all odds by capturing multiple Shiny Meltan.
An extremely lucky Pokemon Go playerpostedtheir catches on the game’s subreddit. In a single Mystery Box, they managed to catch not just one Shiny Meltan, but six of them all at once.
“Yet I’ve done two boxes in this event and am batting .000 on shinies,” one player lamented.
couldn’t appear as Shiny from Mystery Boxes except during special events like the 8th Anniversary and the Let’s Go! celebration.
“I can’t even get one shiny and I’ve opened a box everyday since this event started,” another person added.
According to one commenter, the odds of finding a Shiny Meltan are 1 out of every 64 encounters, meaning the OP got incredibly lucky.
In response, other trainers have questioned if the post author’s Shiny haul was actually real. “It can happen. I caught 4 shinies today in 1 box. There was a 5th but it ran away from the Go++ autocatcher and after I saw that I turned it off and checked manually,” a third player revealed.
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Cassidy Stephenson was a Senior Writer on Dexerto’s US team. She is a Gaming expert and TV & Movies enthusiast, covering Pokemon, Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Nintendo games, and RPGs. She also has bylines at CBR.
