Meltan

←(#807) Zeraora

Meltan (#808)

Melmetal (#809)→

Meltan #808
Type Steel Normal	Catch rate 3
Abilities Magnet Pull	Hidden Ability None
Spawn time Any	Level range in wild 5
Spawn location Land	Gender ratio Genderless
EV yield 1 Attack
Mount None Egg Groups Undiscovered	Behavior Timid 80% Neutral 0% Aggressive 20%
Modeled by Unknown	Textured by Unknown
Animated by Unknown	Voiced by N/A

Meltan is a Mythical Steel-type Pokémon.

It melts particles of iron and other metals found in the subsoil, so it can absorb them into its body of molten steel.

Meltan has a 1/3072 chance (by default [1]) of spawning upon taking the smelted form of Iron, Gold, Bauxite or Silicon ores out of a furnace. Each time one of the mentioned smelted items are removed from a furnace by a player, a single attempt at spawning Meltan occurs; when multiple relevant items are taken from a furnace, the number of items taken out is the number of spawn attempts made [3]. Modded furnaces can be used too, as long as they use the same vanilla smelting mechanic and the ingot can be pulled out manually.

Upon capture, there is a 25% chance (by default [2]) that Meltan will become a Ditto. Both the chance of Meltan spawning and the chance of it becoming a Ditto can be edited in the config.

Meltan will evolve into Melmetal when leveled up after 400 metal ores have been smelted with the Meltan in your party.

Drops

Drop	Chance	Quantity
Iron Ingot	100%	2-4
Silicon	66.667%	1-2

Stats

HP: 46

Attack: 65

Defense: 65

Sp. Atk: 55

Sp. Def: 35

Speed: 34

Total: 300

Type effectiveness

½×	1×	½×	1×	½×	2×	2×	½×	1×	½×	2×	½×	½×	0×	½×	½×	½×	1×

Moves

By level

Level Move Type Category Power Accuracy PP 011 Thunder Shock Electric Special 40 100% 30 011 Harden Normal Status — — 30 088 Tail Whip Normal Status — 100% 30 1616 Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100% 15 2424 Thunder Wave Electric Status — 90% 20 3232 Acid Armor Poison Status — — 20 4040 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100% 10

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Melmetal.

By TM/HM

TM Move Type Category Power Accuracy  PP  TM01 Headbutt Normal Physical 70 100% 15 TM05 Rest Psychic Status — — 10 TM07 Protect Normal Status — — 10 TM08 Substitute Normal Status — — 10 TM16 Thunder Wave Electric Status — 90% 20 TM27 Toxic Poison Status — 90% 10 TM36 Thunderbolt Electric Special 90 100% 15 TM54 Flash Cannon Steel Special 80 100% 10

Bold indicates a move that gets STAB when used by Meltan.

Predictions for Obtaining

In mathematics, there is a formula for finding the actual chance of an independent event (of the same probability) happening given multiple attempts:

 p = 1-(1-c)^n

given that "c" is the chance of occurrence {0<c<1} and "n" is the number of attempts made to find "p," the probability {0<p<1}. To find the amount of ores needed to obtain a specific chance of meltan spawning at least once, the formula can be solved for n,

 n = log_(1-c)[1-(desired chance)]

where the term "(1-c)" is the base. The following table for chances can be constructed using the default chance of 1/3072: showing the relation between the 'chance' of at least one success and the 'amount' of ores expected to be smelted.

Chance	Amount	Chance	Amount
10%	323.7	60%	2814.4
20%	685.4	70%	3698.0
30%	1095.5	80%	4943.4
40%	1569.0	90%	7072.4
50%	2129.0	99%	14144.8

Note that given a probability less than 100%, the chance of having at least one success will never reach 100% regardless of the number of attempts made. Additionally, there are diminishing returns from attempts in terms of probability as the predicted probability approaches 100%.

Sources

1 pixelmon-1.12.2-8.1.2-universal.jar/com.pixelmonmod.pixelmon/PixelmonConfig.class
2 pixelmon-1.12.2-8.1.2-universal.jar/com.pixelmonmod.pixelmon/EntityEmptyPokeball.class
3 pixelmon-1.12.2-8.1.2-universal.jar/PixelmonEventHandler.class
as of Pixelmon version 1.12.2-8.1.2