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How to get Shiny Meloetta for free in Pokémon Home

Learn how to claim this rare Shiny

Marco Wutz

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Nintendo and Game Freak will reward you with a free Shiny Meloetta in Pokémon Home, if you’ve completed the Pokédex for Paldea, Kitakami, and Blueberry Academy. 

In other words, to get your hands on this ultra-rare Pokémon, you’ll need to catch all creatures found in Pokémon Scarlet & Violet as well as its DLC, The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 1 and Part 2.

Although you can catch Meloetta in the Indigo Disk DLC, its pretty Shiny form is a true rarity that can become the crown jewel of your Pokémon collection, so you should definitely take this opportunity to work towards this goal or claim the creature, if you already fulfill the conditions.

How to claim Shiny Meloetta in Pokémon Home

Claiming your Shiny Meloetta is only possible through the Pokémon Home Mystery Gifts function, so this is not a regular distribution via Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Mystery Gift codes.

Follow these steps to get Shiny Meloetta via Pokémon Home:

  1. Complete the Pokédex for Scarlet & Violet and its DLC by transferring the required Pokémon from the game into Pokémon Home to register them there. Please note that this can only be done on the Nintendo Switch version of Home.
  2. Download the Pokémon Home app on iOS or Android – you need the mobile version of Pokémon Home, since it’s the only one that has the Mystery Gifts function.
  3. Make sure that the same Nintendo account you use for Home on the Switch is linked to your Pokémon Home mobile app.
  4. Use the Mystery Gifts feature in your Pokémon Home mobile app to receive your free Pokémon.

Please note that only Pokémon actually caught in Scarlet & Violet and its DLC count towards this purpose. If you have, say, a Pikachu from Kanto registered in Home, it won’t count towards your progress in the Pokédex for Paldea, Kitakami, and Blueberry Academy. You will have to actually go and catch a Pikachu in one of these areas for it to contribute to the completion of that Pokédex. No one said this was going to be easy, right?

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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