Pokemon Sword and Shield Adding Gigantamax Melmetal and Pokemon GO Connectivity

The Pokemon Company just released a lot of new information concerningPokemon SwordandShield. While most of it involves the Crown Tundra DLC, there was also an important announcement revolving aroundPokemon GOthat fans have waited to hear sincePokemon Home releasedsome months back.

The news says thatPokemon GOwill soon be able to connect to Pokemon Home, the cloud service that allows trainers to store and transfer the Pokemon they’ve caught from and to a variety of differentPokemongames. This means that trainers will be able to take the Pokemon they’ve acquired inPokemon GOand transfer them toPokemon SwordandShield— and potentially any other futurePokemongames — through the Pokemon Home service.

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To top all of this off, once the link betweenPokemon GOand Pokemon Home goes live, The Pokemon Company will host aPokemon GOand Pokemon Home event that will award trainers with a special kind of Mystery Gift. InPokemon GO, the Mystery Gift will cause theMythical Pokemon Meltanto appear on the opener’s map. In Pokemon Home, the gift will give trainers a unique version of Meltan, one with the ability to Gigantamax once it evolves into Melmetal. All trainers need to obtain each of these Mystery Boxes is transfer one Pokemon fromPokemon GOinto Pokemon Home.

Precisely when the link will become active wasn’t touched on, but The Pokemon Company did state it wanted to have it available by the end of the year. With that in mind, it’s probably safe to say that trainers shouldn’t expect the link anytime before October 22, theCrown Tundra’s release date. Early December seems like a reasonable window.

There are also a few disclaimers that fans should know about concerningPokemon GOand Pokemon Home’s upcoming connection. Like theGBAPokemongames, once a trainer transfers a Pokemon fromPokemon GOinto Pokemon Home, they can’t move it back. Also, not every Pokemon available inPokemon GOcan make their way into Pokemon Home. These Pokemon would be any Pokemon released explicitly forPokemon GO, like the special Pikachu that wears a Christmas hat.

Overall, the end of 2020 is looking good for Pokemon.Pokemon SwordandShieldwill receive their final DLC in late October. Then trainers will be able to look forward to thelink betweenPokemon GOand Pokemon Home, which will hopefully arrive before 2020 ends.