Meltan (Japanese: メルタン, Hepburn: Merutan) is a Steel-type Mythical Pokémon revealed in Pokémon GO and in Japanese on the official site for the Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee Switch games, which are Kanto region Generation VII sub-set pairs part of the main series.
Biology
Physiology
Meltan is a small Pokémon with a gold head, which resembles a hex nut, and a glossy silver body. A black sphere floats in the center of Meltan's head like a magnet; the sphere itself is Meltan's eye. A red wire sticks out from Meltan's back, acting as a tail. Its hex nut head can also spin.
Behavior
Meltan's body is made out of liquid metal. This allows Meltan to corrode/eat any metal and absorb it into its own body, eventually becoming an indirect predator to the Steel Pokémon with metallic body, such as Magnemite evolution lines. In addition, Meltan generates electrical energy from the metal it absorbs; it uses the electricity as an energy source as well as an eye beam attack version of Flash Cannon, which it releases from its eye. Meltan cannot stand absorbing heats, making it weak against Fire-type.
Meltan can be very curious, showing interest in many things.
Evolution
Meltan evolves into Melmetal when it is fed 400 Meltan Candy in Pokémon GO.
Game info
Game locations
| Locations | ||
|---|---|---|
| Version(s) | Area(s) | Rarity |
Pokédex entries
Template:Pokédexentries
Stats
| Stats | |
|---|---|
| HP | |
| Attack | |
| Defense | |
| Sp. Atk | |
| Sp. Def | |
| Speed | |
| Total | 212
|
Learnset
Leveling
| LevelingGeneration VII | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Level | Move | Power | Accuracy | PP | Type | Cat. | |||
| 1 | Headbutt | 70 | 100% | 15 |  Normal
|
Physical | |||
| 1 | Harden | — | —% | 30 | Normal
|
Status | |||
| 9 | Tail Whip | — | 100% | 30 | Normal
|
Status | |||
| 18 | Thunder Wave | — | 90% | 20 |  Electric
|
Status | |||
| 27 | Thunder Shock | 40 | 100% | 30 | Electric
|
Special | |||
| 36 | Acid Armor | — | —% | 20 |  Poison
|
Status | |||
| 45 | Flash Cannon | 80 | 100% | 10 |  Steel
|
Special | |||
| Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. | |||||||||
TM
| TMs, TRs, and HMs Generation VII | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM/HM/TR | Move | Power | Accuracy | PP | Type | Cat. | |||
| TM01 | Headbutt | 70 | 100% | 15 | Normal
|
Physical | |||
| TM05 | Rest | — | —% | 10 |  Psychic
|
Status | |||
| TM07 | Protect | — | —% | 10 | Normal
|
Status | |||
| TM08 | Substitute | — | —% | 10 | Normal
|
Status | |||
| TM16 | Thunder Wave | — | 90% | 20 | Electric
|
Status | |||
| TM27 | Toxic | — | 90% | 10 | Poison
|
Status | |||
| TM36 | Thunderbolt | 90 | 100% | 15 | Electric
|
Special | |||
| TM54 | Flash Cannon | 80 | 100% | 10 | Steel
|
Special | |||
| Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. | |||||||||
Breeding
| Meltan learns no moves via breeding. |
|---|
Tutoring
| Tutoring Generation VII | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move | Power | Accuracy | PP | Type | Cat. | ||||
| Bold indicates this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. Italic indicates an evolved or alternate form of this Pokémon receives STAB from this move. | |||||||||
Sprites
Template:GenVIIPokéSprites
Anime
Meltan will first appear in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon - Ultra Legends. Prior the species’ full appearance in SM109 and starting plays major role from SM111, three Meltan made cameo appearances in SM106 as silhouettes, where they were sealed within a small crate beneath the underwater nearby Poni Island, but somehow manage to escape from that crate, unsealing the Hex Nut Pokémon off-screen. When Ash and his classmates are finished with their School trip from Poni Island back to Melemele Island, there are more than three Meltan whose coming along as well, infiltrating beneath the said ship to the latter island. Once they reached Melemele Island, they made hug mistakes on attempting to eat any metallic substance, starting from almost killing one of Steel Pokémon with metallic body like Magneton, then eating one of James’ bottle cap collections, and lastly many metallic tools around Pokémon school before one of the Meltan being found by Ash and his friends while it shows interest in Ash's Rowlet.
Trivia
- Meltan is the first new Pokémon revealed in Pokémon GO.
- Meltan is the second Mythical Pokémon with a singular type that had its type introduced in Generation II, the other being Darkrai.
- Meltan is the shortest Mythical Pokémon, along with Land Forme Shaymin. Conditionally, both will appear in Sun & Moon TV series anime.
- Meltan is the shortest Steel-type along with Alolan Diglett and Klefki.
- Many Ditto have been seen being transformed into Meltan in Pokémon GO since it was first released.
- Meltan won’t be able to be found in Pokémon Let’s Go, only in Pokémon Go.
- Meltan is the first Mythical Pokémon to be able to evolve.
- Meltan has the lowest base stats of all Mythical Pokémon.
- Meltan and its evolution, Melmetal, have source code abilities even though abilities are not present in Let's Go.
- Meltan (along with Melmetal) is the first Mythical Pokémon to be part of an evolutionary line.
- Meltan is the only evolvable Pokémon who cannot evolve in any core series games. Instead, it needs to be evolved in Pokémon GO.
- As demonstrated on its anime debut on SM106, Meltan can walk underwater, despite being a Steel-type, and its first main weakness as of SM111 is cannot stand absorbing heats, such as from the likes of Fire-type-related Pokémon.
Origin
Meltan's head is based on a hex nut. Its body is made up of mercury which is a liquid at room temperature, similar to Meltan's body. It uses electricity to form amalgams, types of rocks/metals that can be fused into one.
Etymology
Meltan comes from the word melt, metal, -tan (a Japanese suffix meaning small), tantalum (a kind of metal) and molten (a material that can be easily melted, like steel).
Gallery
| Legendary and Mythical* Pokémon | |
|---|---|
| Generation I | |
| Generation II | |
| Generation III | |
| Generation IV | |
| Generation V | |
| Generation VI | |
| Generation VII | |
| Generation VIII | |
| Generation IX | |
Template:GenVIInav