Pokemon GO Mateo Not Showing Up Issue

In our Pokemon GO Mateo Not Showing Up Issue guide, we are going to give you a few potential fixes for this problem. Sometimes, the gift-exchanging NPC just refuses to spawn, even when he’s “supposed” to. Fortunately, the fixes are pretty simple, so it’s not gonna be a huge hassle. Here’s what you need to do.

Pokemon GO Mateo Not Showing Up Solution

There are a few solutions that you can try to solve the issue where Mateo is not showing up in Pokemon GO. Well, two of them are the main courses of action. Method #1 is to tap the gym at the end of the route where you expected to see him. That can apparently sometimes jostle the bearded fellow into appearing. It’s not a fix that works one hundred percent of the time, but it’s worth a shot as the first step. If that doesn’t make Mateo show up, then you might have to restart the game. According to this Reddit post, that seems to work most of the time. I don’t know if that can also dislodge him when he gets stuck in the environment. Give it a try anyway.

So, yeah; those are the fixes for the Mateo not showing up issue in Pokemon GO that we’re aware of. If you know of any other workarounds, let us know in the comments below. I assume reinstalling the game and walking the route again might also be of help, but that’s also a waste of time. Only do that in extreme cases. And while we’re on the subject, I do have to remind you that Mateo does not appear at the end of every route. His spawning is random, as we’ve covered before. Therefore, sometimes it’s not even a bug; it’s just the gods of RNG being mad at you. I don’t know; it would be so nice if Niantic just made things that work.