{"id":404941,"date":"2025-11-26T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404941\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:16:16","slug":"pokemon-go-shiny-keldeo-pony-tales-masterwork-research-quest-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404941\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Go shiny Keldeo &#8216;Pony Tales&#8217; Masterwork Research quest steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can now get a <strong>shiny Keldeo<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/game\/pokemon-go\/38713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/a>, if you buy the <strong>&#8220;Pony Tales&#8221; Masterwork Research<\/strong> ticket for $7.99.<\/p>\n<p>As usual with Masterwork Research, this research is only purchaseable for a limited time (<strong>until Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in your local time<\/strong>), though once you buy and start the research, you&#8217;ll have it unlocked permanently \u2014 which is a good thing, because it&#8217;ll take a while to complete this research.<\/p>\n<p>Below we list out the known steps for the &#8220;Pony Tales&#8221; Masterwork Research and talk a bit about whether the ticket is worth buying.<\/p>\n<p>                        Is the shiny Keldeo &#8216;Pony Tales&#8217; Masterwork Research worth buying?<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t have a full list of the rewards as of writing this (and we won&#8217;t by the deadline to purchase the ticket), but the rewards for these types of tickets do usually make up the coin value of the ticket cost, making it &#8220;worth it&#8221; in that sense. However, the main thing to consider here is if you want a shiny Keldeo.<\/p>\n<p>Keldeo is a mythical Pok\u00e9mon, and it has only had a few event distributions since its reveal. You should have access to a regular, non-shiny Keldeo as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/pokemon-go-tales-of-transformation-keldeo-special-research-quest-steps-rewards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Tales of Transformation&#8221; seasonal Special Research<\/a>, but<strong> if you specifically want a shiny one, this is one of the only ways to get one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"825\" height=\"247\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shiny Keldeo with its regular version in both of its forms. Shiny Keldeo gets a more teal fur coat.\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jlee_251125_1001_pogo_shiny_keldeo_sprites.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jlee_251125_1001_pogo_shiny_keldeo_sprites.jpg\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><br \/>\n        Graphic: Julia Lee\/Polygon | Source images: Niantic<\/p>\n<p>The only other legitimate method to get a shiny Keldeo is by completing the Pok\u00e9dex for Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield in Pok\u00e9mon Home. To do this, you need to catch every Pok\u00e9mon in Sword\/Shield and then register those Pok\u00e9mon in Pok\u00e9mon Home. (You functionally need to have a living Pok\u00e9dex in the aforementioned games, and then transfer everything to Home.)<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t think you ever want to do the above challenge, and you really want a shiny pony, well&#8230; this is your other option.<\/p>\n<p>                        Shiny Keldeo &#8216;Pony Tales&#8217; Masterwork Research quest steps<\/p>\n<p>You can see the steps below for the research.<\/p>\n<p>            &#8216;Pony Tales&#8217; step 1 of 7<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Catch 151 Pok\u00e9mon originally discovered in the Kanto region (647 XP)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Catch 100 Pok\u00e9mon originally discovered in the Johto region (647 XP)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Catch 135 Pok\u00e9mon originally discovered in the Hoenn region (647 XP)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Catch 107 Pok\u00e9mon originally discovered in the Sinnoh region (647 XP)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Catch 156 Pok\u00e9mon originally discovered in the Unova region (647 XP)\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Catch a Pok\u00e9mon on 10 different days (647 XP)\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rewards<\/strong>: 25 Cobalion Candy, 25 Terrakion Candy, and 25 Virizion Candy<\/p>\n<p>            &#8216;Pony Tales&#8217; step 2 of 7<\/p>\n<p>Since step 1 has a time gate, we don&#8217;t have access to this step yet. We&#8217;ll update this post when we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can now get a shiny Keldeo in Pok\u00e9mon Go, if you buy the &#8220;Pony Tales&#8221; Masterwork Research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-404941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115613597253765449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}