What to buddy for Meltan quest stage 4?
I have been walking Chansey for the past few months and switched to Electabuzz last week, but Electabuzz has returned as a raid boss (and with SGPokeMap, I can easily find it).
Should I switch to a 1 km buddy to speed up stage 4 of the Meltan quest? Main reason to rush is that later stages require catching species that are common during this event but otherwise rare. However, most 1 km buddies are useless in the current metagame.
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I decided to put on a random Starly just to get the 5km done ASAP because I'm concerned that I might have trouble with the next few aspects of the quest later on as even now, Cubone aren't common where I am, for example.
I don't think I'm going to be stuck anywhere, but it's winter here now and my phone doesn't do well with cold, so the amount that I'm playing has dropped by about half. I don't want to take any chances.
For what it is worth, people have reported that catching Alolan Marowak from raids counts for that step.
Catching fossil pokemon is the potentially problematic step. Hopefully Niantic continues the fossil spawns for a while. But any sentence that starts with "hopefully Niantic" is already dangerous.
I did it with Cleffa (I'm digging the Clefable quest, building an army of them to put in gyms). It went really fast. Adventure sync seems to give me a lot more distance than the default game settings did. Pick whatever 1km walker you need more candy of. Geodude, Magikarp, Cleffa, Jigglypuff, Pidgey, Starly, Caterpie, Weedle (the later ones on the list are non-optimal, probably).
With a 1 KM buddy, it flies by.
I switched over to a Starly - I have the least candy for them of the 1k options - but in hind sight it seems a bit silly to have switched over to getting useless candy just to rush that step. If I were doing it again I would probably choose a Buizel - they are rare enough that I actually need the candy to evolve one and at 3k/candy the extra km are not too onerous.
