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Pokémon Home might have leaked the first official look at Gigantamax Melmetal, coming to Pokémon Sword & Shield (via Twitter).
Home launched yesterday, and offers a cloud storage service to transfer Pokémon to and from Pokémon Sword & Shield, Pokémon Let's Go, Pikachu!, Pokémon Let's Go, Eevee!, Pokémon Go, and Pokémon Bank. The “Professor” Grand Oak wants the entire National Pokédex to be filled out by the player, and Home has entries for all Pokémon from Generations 1 to 8. Joe Merrick, founder of Serebii, was scrolling through the app’s National Pokédex when he stumbled across a new form for a familiar ‘mon.
Well there’s our first official look at Gigantamax Melmetal
I also don’t know why the Furfrou forms aren’t showing as they are on Switch. pic.twitter.com/OhfR6gwjXv
— Joe Merrick (@JoeMerrick) February 12, 2020
Like Snorlax and Toxtricity, we knew that the Steel-type Mythical would be getting a Gigantamax form ahead of time. The data for it was found in Sword & Shield’s code, and its description in the game says, “In a distant land, there are legends about a cyclopean giant. In fact, the giant was a Melmetal that was flooded with Gigantamax energy.” Melmetal’s mercury body is stretched upwards and outwards to be casted into two strong arms. Its grey hexagonal nuts are now set in its hands and feet, and its golden hexagonal nut is a luminescent red. In sum, it looks kickass.
Even though its form has popped up in Home, that isn’t to say that the variant is coming to Pokémon Sword & Shield any time soon. Gigantamax Toxtricity has only just rocked up to Galar, and it could be that Gigantamax Melmetal appears after the first DLC, The Isle of Armor, releases in summer. This would let those who purchase the DLC to complete it and catch those new and returning critters, and gives players who didn’t opt for the extra a new hunt. Pokémon Home does allow for the transfer of Meltan and Melmetal from Pokémon Let’s Go! and Pokémon Go to Sword & Shield, but it seems that we will be waiting a little longer for the debut of the cadmium cyclops.
Pokémon Home is available for the Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android. Pokémon Let’s Go, Eevee!, Let’s Go, Pikachu!, and Pokémon Sword & Shield are out now for Nintendo Switch.
