Pokemon But I Only Care About Getting Insanely Rich

I played Pokemon Fire Red to see how much money the game would let you collect - without using any of the "money glitch" methods (VS. Seeker, recurring items, etc.) If you played the game optimally trying only to make the most money - what is the net value of your cash + items? Let's find out!

[@Rylockes]

Turns out the real treasure was the 60 mandatory friends we made along the way ❤

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

When is the Q-nuzlocke (Quzlocke)?

[@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj]

No.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

and that, my friends, is where being a pokemon millionaire is different than being a real one. To be a REAL millionaire, you _start_ with 60 friends... and then one by one you throw them all under the bus for the sake of profit 🤗

[@Echiewel]

While fake-grinding up Meowth, did you minimize your attack EV's? That would raise the chance of needing more hits further. And for the later battles, wouldn't it just have been better to use 6 Meowths, or eventually Persians?

[@savage069]

When you stream and are inside the game at the same time. 11:18

[@logans.7932]

Fun fact getting rich as hell was the goal of the the MC of the Sun and Moon manga. He named his Alolan Meowth “Cash”

[@popeval6654]

I didn't know about this but I've been playing pokemon emerald with mostly bug types (just cause I like em) and I have a money theme. Cash, Money, Dollar, Yen, Change, and the Unnicknamed Shedinja beat Flannery this morning

[@matsu7086]

​@@popeval6654 You should name the Shedinja Charon or Obol (in reference to charon's obol) since it relates to the coin you place on a dead person so they can pay the ferryman to cross the River Styx. You can probably guess why it would be for Shedinja

[@WevTheGamma]

​@@popeval6654...how did you beat flannery, a fire type gym, with shedinja...was yer shedinja just...very fast?

[@d3str0i3r]

@@WevTheGamma IIRC because shedinja only has one HP originally any item that operates like sturdy made it indestructible, this would be patched in later games

[@WevTheGamma]

@@d3str0i3r wait...that worked in hoenn????-

[@Gibstack]

I truly never thought I'd see a run where Foresight is useful. Incredible work

[@ceulgai2817]

Not even a pre-gen4 monoFighting run?

[@Gibstack]

@@ceulgai2817 I dunno lol. Didn't think too much about it

[@rubutu8408]

@@ceulgai2817fighting types learn other mobes tho

[@ceulgai2817]

@@rubutu8408 Mostly Normal moves when it comes to physical attacks.

[@rubutu8408]

@@ceulgai2817 most learn dark type moves, and if the fighting pokemon has another typing. So foresight isnt even useable with fighting type monolocke

[@redflags6583]

Here's the thing though. You want to maximize the number of times you use Pay Day to maximize payout. A Lvl 100 Meowth with Pay Day will steamroll a lot of competition, but also 500 Pokedollars every attack. So the best Meowth is one with the lowest Attack IV's and EV's to ensure that Pay Day hits the lowest while paying out the most

[@Jamseth_Ingramious]

All the better if you can manage to get its attack lowered by six stages, probably through Baton Pass.

[@nickbourgade8473]

Ah, but a level 100 Meowth with the lowest attack might not be able to get through Giovanni or Bruno. I think to maximize Paydays, you would need to determine what the lowest possible level is that you can beat any given battle while using exactly your PP in Payday, barring crits.

[@ShadowWolve-fx1rm]

You will also want max defence and heath Iv and ev’s to survive long enough

[@Xenbiotic]

Use 6 Meowths too.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@nickbourgade8473 That might require more Meowths, though.

[@hikerchris7164]

The best part of the Pokémon economy is that its based off Yen, which equivocates 100 yen to about 1 dollar. So the final total is about 1/100 what you might think

[@theultimatetaco42]

In AUD it would be about $21,457.38

[@shastasilverchairsg]

Well for a kid 20k does seems like 2 million...

[@LuckySketches]

2,138,041 of today's yen would equal 14,121.15 USD. However, pokémon Fire Red came out in 2004. Adjusting for inflation ¥2,138,041 in 2004 is ¥2,416,462.82 today, or $15,956.05 American. That's just over 9 months of the average rent in the US or 2 years and 3 months in Tokyo prefecture (the real-life equivalent to the Kanto region.)

[@tonyhakston536]

@@LuckySketcheskanto is based on kantō

[@PokeShadow77]

it's like 150 now in current economy lol

[@saxor96]

8:20 you can actually keep the S.S. Anne from going away by deliberately fainting inside the ship after getting the HM. That way you can return later for greater profit. (It's the only way to get that lava cookie in fact).

[@lavandieredenoz]

But was it worth it since he loose money by fainting

[@acdcljb]

He would lose money by blacking out though. For the least possible profit loss, he would have to skip Misty and catch a level 2 mon. After beating the ship rival and before getting the HM, he would have to deposit his party into the PC, withdraw the level 2 mon, then get Cut and lose a battle on the ship. This way, he would lose only 100 for not selling a ball and 16x2 for lossing a battle (because in FRLG, money lost for blacking out is dependant on number of badges obtained and level of mons in your party).

[@saxor96]

@@acdcljb I think poisoning doesn't make you lose money if you faint out of battle, at least in FR/LG

[@acdcljb]

@@saxor96 I think it does, though? Either way, is there a convenient place to get poisoned near the ship?

[@saxor96]

@@acdcljb Route 5 has Odish with poisonpowder in Fire Red, so that could be an option. But I don't remember them mentioning any money lose when you faint outside of battle... Maybe it just skips the text but the loss still happens.

[@speedgrump5515]

two potential money misses 1. all items return 50% of their value if you sell them, except pokeballs which come with a free premiere ball if you buy a stack of 10, and I'm pretty sure they hold value too 2. if you're poor (or invested everything) you are let into the safari zone for free to avoid softlocking

[@nameless24777]

Premier balls are not in FRLG for some reason. The second money miss is definitely a way he could’ve saved money though!

[@NickJamNG]

I'm not so sure on that second one because investing in this game necessarily incurs a loss of half the money. I can't think of a time where it's worth it to save those 500 by losing half the previously established net worth.

[@itar10n]

​@@NickJamNGit is, though since he would have spent at least that much on ultra balls afterward. It's also a case of pathing, where he could have cleared the safari zone for free before running back to bully all of the early game trainers.

[@avivankori7827]

You can spend the money on cheaper things for a smaller loss

[@joelkinds]

The price of the item doesn’t matter if it’s 50% of everything. 1x100/2=10x10/2

[@robertm5110]

If you got the bike using the voucher, even though it’s a key item, I’d say it’s still worth an extra million in your total net worth (or $500,000) if you’re going by what it should be sold for

[@GivenForver]

If he got the voucher and never swapped it for a bike would it keep its total value?

[@robertm5110]

@@GivenForver no the voucher isn’t worth anything but the bike does have a value. It’s like how a coupon isn’t worth anything but it can be used to buy something worth something that coupon is for

[@el_zinga]

9:31 You CAN however lose infinite money gambling. Stay out of the casino, kids. They smell really bad.

[@TheBingusZone]

Hear me out: You can make infinite percent of your money (this is a joke)

[@Zociety6477]

You can only lose 100 percent of your money but can win 2000 percent ofnit

[@joemck85]

The casino can only take all the money you have, not infinite. Short selling on the stock market on the other hand... You borrow shares, sell them, and then are obligated to rebuy and return them after a set time. If the stock goes down, you profit. If it goes up, you lose. If it goes waaaaay up, you might lose way more than you have.

[@bucketslash11]

could've been further optimized by using a low attack IV Meowth, thus getting more attack in each battle because it deals less damage

[@MrCheeze]

And also by keeping it at the minimum level possible that still lets you complete the fights. (Or even investing more Pokeballs into more lower-levelled Meowths.) But doing all that optimally would make the routing absurdly difficult.

[@PerfectlyGenericUser]

@@MrCheezeI don't know if lowest possible level would be optimal, but at minimum you'd want a Meowth that just barely missed the one-shot (save scumming until you needed a maximum low roll, so that Meowth was as high level as possible) and then you'd switch in your level 100 for maximum coins on the overkill finisher. It would make the routing absurd, especially since you'd need to keep catching and leveling them up, but given that you only need a single level 20 Payday to pay back the pokeball on every Meowth (10 with the amulet coin) it would be well worth it from a strictly financial standpoint.

[@MrCheeze]

@@PerfectlyGenericUser You're giving me even more ideas, true optimality is even crazier than I thought. I'm thinking now about a minimum-level minimum-attack Meowth holding brightpowder, which means that your opponent can keep missing every turn while you keep chipping away 1hp at a time with Pay Day... and then finally they hit you when you're out of PP or they're at 1HP, to make sure it doesn't actually gain experience (after one or more low-levelled Meowths, you can swap to a high-levelled Persian at the end for cleanup if necessary).

[@PerfectlyGenericUser]

@@MrCheeze Yeah, being truly optimal would require obscene amount of RNG manipulation. Unfortunately I don't think you can get a level 1 pokemon with Payday in FRLG, so you're stuck with a level 18 Meowth as your weakest option without trading shenanigans. So you'll want five min-attack Meowths at level 18 OR the highest possible level to deal 1 damage to the opponent on a low-roll, plus a single level 100 Persian. Get the pokemon down to 1HP with Meowths - or as close as you can get with all 100PP of Pay Day on them- then finish them off with the Persian Other musings I couldn't get to work: PP Ups would probably pay for themselves if there's enough trainers with the total bulk to warrant it Having them be Burned is optional, I'm uncertain if the extra cost to heal them would be worth the extra uses of a higher-level Payday you'd get as a result. I can't figure out a good way to reliably get a 6-stage attack drop onto your own pokemon but if you could Baton Pass a drop onto them you could use MUCH higher level pokemon while still dealing chip damage. Using a Leppa Berry or even an Ether to get more uses of Pay Day is worth it, but no PP-restoring items can be infinitely purchased in FRLG so any acquisition of them wold technically violate the repeatable farming clause. If you can trade pokemon from another game, oh boy. You can get Pay Day on a level 1 Hoppip through breeding in gen 2. Between the lower level, no STAB, and lower Attack, you can guarantee you'll be doing chip damage on dang near anything, ensuring all 100+ uses of Pay Day in every possible encounter, and at a significantly higher level than meowth can achieve.

[@Hunni_Gummi]

Becoming a rich Pokémon master to show mom she'll regret kicking you out at 10 the story of true revenge

[@hikerchris7164]

Even if it was for a brief moment, seeing Mr. Nido being at level 100 was such a nostalgia trip. That was the first mon I ever got to level 100

[@Jamseth_Ingramious]

You forgot to get the bike voucher from Mr. Pokemon, giving you an asset that's effectively worth one million.

[@eesch28]

It makes me wonder what the sweet spot for level is since at some point a lower level might get more pay day uses which equates to more coins being dropped from a battle.

[@Leo.K.]

What I think could have worked was having 2 mons. 1 the lvl 100 meowth and 2 a Persian that is around 18 levels above its competition late game. The meowth cleans up the trainers until Persian comes to constantly hit pay days before it dies switching back to the meowth to finish the job.

[@bonkersturnip]

i hate to be that guy but surely it would have been better to buy 10 pokeballs at a time to get a free premier ball instead of buying ultra balls (to preserve net worth)

[@kirua258]

Well, it would be if it wasn't Fire Red or Leaf Green. Premier Ball cannot be obtained in those, only via trade with R/S/E

[@bonkersturnip]

@@kirua258 damn that sucks

[@ritasonka330]

When I saw your names for yourself and Blue, I cracked up and immediately paused the video to write this.

[@Ruby_Mullz]

This was your best video by far. I genuinely laughed at some jokes and the editing was good. I’d love if u do ur future vids in this format.

[@micos3820]

Glad to see you back! 17:39 This immediately made me think of the Energy Guru from R/S/E who occasionaly sells stat boosters at half price. Unfortunately that only happens after you have entered the Hall of Fame. Though I doubt you can reach the money cap in R/S/E at all, since there is no Pokemon that learns Pay Day in Hoenn as far as I know.

[@RaymanMArenaCommunity]

In the Emerald battle frontier, you can earn battle points, and with those, you can buy vitamin items. Once you have a streak going it's actually pretty easy to get to the money cap in Emerald. As for RS... yeah I don't know.

[@teacherjay9523]

You can trade a Skitty for a Meowth in the Battle Frontier in Emerald too, so you can actually have Pay Day in this game.

[@SuperPraveenkumarpk]

The battle frontier battles are repeatable and therefore banned

[@Romidamn]

What a fantastic video! Thanks for going through hell planning and playing all of this do we don't have to. I was lying awake in bed for countless nights, thinking about how rich you could be in Pokémon. The curse is now lifted

[@tsawy6]

Meowth money /could/ be pushed a tad further, because a level 100 meowth will kill things in one hit. Cuz money scales linearly, and damage output is /roughly/ quadratic (damage has a term for level and attack, which is linear+ a constant) a level 1 meowth would net the most money if it knocked out a pokemon... but... PP is a thing, and if a level 2 meowth and a level 1 meowth both didn't kill a mon then the level 2 meowth is better. So what you'd want, for each trainer, is a team of weak ass meowths (that through some heavenly providence survive) that get to spam out all their PP, and in the process leave all the opponents mons on 1 HP, whence the lvl 100 boy can knock them out. It's so stupid complicated, and would strictly involve savestates to get minimum damage rolls, but it's there, I guess...

[@hrishikeshdas4434]

I checked your channel like 15 times after the previous video, you are the most underrated pokemon nuzlocker in my opinion. Love from India

[@pokadotplot]

Great video! I was super excited when I saw you posted a new one. Didn't disappoint.

[@Killer_Queen_310]

So glad to see you back after a brief period of time.

[@cyndalover]

So happy to see you back, I missed your great content!

[@grembean]

Definitely one of your best videos yet! Great writing, editing choices, and it felt more personal. Also... next stream when? 👉👈

[@Rylockes]

Thank you! No planned streams right now but definitely will have some soon. 🙏🏻

[@maddywhite5044]

Absolutely amazing and entertaining throughout the whole video :D You really outdid yourself with that one!!

[@MisVEVO]

Could probably have made more by using covet or theft on trainers as well. Snorlax learns covet in its 40s and if you then breed it, you might get a low level snorlax with covet which therefore won't deal too much damage to the opponent so you could still cash out on the paydays or you just roll with the initial snorlax.

[@undercoverhotdog]

Awesome video. You nailed this new format

[@apoorvpandey3334]

Great to see you back Rylockes! Amazing video as always

[@JZHassan]

I heard they're holding the last guy who had a million liquid pokedollars in a Cinnabar island gulag until he tells them how he did it.

[@marouaneh175]

Let's say a level 100 Meoth would one shot a trainer Pokemon. But a level 60 would two shot it. That means the level 60 has made more money than the level 100 on the same trainer.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

Man, that ending is depressing. No matter how much money you get, you can't buy that goddamn bike...

[@savebatsfromscratch]

This is a really neat video concept!

[@Deep-Sarcasm]

Honestly it seems like the same vibe to just use a gillion paydays on wild pokemon for infinite money. But this video was entertaining in an unhinged way. It also illustrates how you can only get so far with legit work, and to be a billionaire requires... a little more rule bending and stepping on toes, let's say

[@NickJamNG]

A few thoughts: 1. Since a bike is being sold in-universe for $1,000,000, I think you could get one with the voucher and consider your net worth increased by $1,000,000 even if the mechanics prevent you from selling it in-game, but that really comes down to semantics. 2. I'd argue auto-leveling Meowth is technically breaking your own rules. Consider the following: - If Meowth only knows Pay Day when caught, then it cannot be leveled without Rare Candies or fighting Pokemon - If you fight wild Pokemon, you can't use Pay Day without breaking the repeatable exploitation rule. - You'd need to fight trainers until learning another move so that you could then use that to grind instead of Pay Day - You can't assume rare candies since they aren't available in enough quantity to reach 100 at that point and using them costs money that would've had to be factored in. - Struggle training is also out since you'd have to get potions to keep HP up and there's no knowing how many it'd take to reach 100 (plus there's that pesky Pay Day PP needing to be used up to get to the point of struggling). For number 2, the fix is probably something simple like teaching it a TM move that does damage for grinding or using enough candies/trainers that it learns a move, but I don't think it really damages the challenge to the point of it needing redone. It really just struck me as an interesting paradox to consider. This was a really fun video overall and I enjoyed the editing and tone of it!

[@SomeGuy-ty7kr]

he could also have switch trained the meowth on wild pokemon using his starter

[@rajkanishu]

this was such a fun video and cool idea, though you could have kept track of how much money you converted into ultra balls and technically "lost" so you could have a more accurate final assessment :* still impressive work on the run though, I wonder will someone crazy enough to optimize it ever step up? stuff like getting the perfect IVs on meowth to maximize defenses and minime damage dealt so you can use payday more times, TASing and manipulating RNG in the safari zone to catch every pokemon in one ball (plus perfect routing to cover the most areas), i lt would be impressive honestly

[@Chumplefish2]

yoooo welcome back! missed ur vids

[@Pixilm8]

The comedic story telling made this video so entertaining to watch! W video dude

[@pullsane]

Only 2 minutes in and I already had to smile and look away in shame by me getting caught of guard with the naming of your character. This ought to be good

[@FlakManBegins]

Question: would it have been better for the E4 to bring more Pay Day users vs. PP restoring items? I guess the question is whether the price of a Pokeball is greater than an Ether + Leppa Berry 🤔 Edit: Oh, you said the Ether was $600, so I think the answer is yes, you save some money by catching and bringing another Meowth!

[@benterry7934]

Great vid! Thanks for the entertaining experiment 🤑

[@flying_horse]

The assumption that being at max level will lead to maximum profit is not necessarily true Lower levels but more repetitions can be more profitable But the math get messy quickly. The level of exp management required would be insane

[@channelwhatchamacallit2614]

It's not equivalent to dollars, it's equal to yen or cents Calling Poke, "dollars" is one of my Pokemon pet peeves

[@garethdwright91]

Game developed by Japanese company, produced by another Japanese company, for a Japanese console, and based in a pseudo-Japanese region. Americans: Oh the currency must be USD!!! Annoying US-defaultism.

[@GeorgeDCowley]

@@garethdwright91 To be fair, they called it "dollars" (not in Japan, but still).

[@VictorSperry]

Using foresight WAS JUST BRILLIANT

[@canis_lupus2220]

does payday not create coins when it misses? Otherwise spamming it against ghosts until you run out of PP then switching in a Ghost-killer Pokemon sounds way more profitable...

[@demi-femme4821]

This is even less impressive when you consider that Pokédollars are based on Yen, so you really only made about 15,000 dollars in USD.

[@VictoriousVulpix]

My preferred in FRLG is the nugget bridge nugget loop, repeating method so obviously doesn’t apply to the vid.

[@Duppling]

That Good Morning rip at the beginning caught me off guard harder than it should've

[@ssjmatt8424]

Huh, I NEVER knew mushrooms spawned there, and I feel like I am about to find a bunch of things I never knew in this video.

[@gregorygan2077]

Ah yes, the Husuian saying from Calaba states that "All lives touch other lives to create monetary policy favorable to the ones who seize financial opportunity and allocates their investments well"

[@endgame_real]

Chekhov's Abra was such a good storytelling method lmao

[@Saint_Y8S]

Act that it said "41 pokemon caught" after all of that made the deus ex Abra seem less important

[@brandontownsend2756]

You could calculate your net worth on how much the items cost, and not what the mart buys them back for. Almost like collectibles which are worth x on paper but will never sell for that

[@lythd]

just discovered u from ur 100x sapphire, loved this video too!

[@deoverlopez9198]

Love that you named your character Bezos

[@crazydov]

Great idea, cant believe it hasnt been done before

[@harryboynton7800]

Ways you might be able to make more: 1) Self burn/use attack lowering moves and baton pass to get your meowth to be able to use more paydays per battle 2) Spend a tiny amount more catching more meowths at different levels so you can have lower attack stats for the same reason (e.g. you might be able to get 2 attacks with a level 70 meowth vs 1 with a level 100)

[@20electric]

Pokedollars are clearly based on Yen and 2,138,041 yen is only 14,339 usd.

[@ConchobarJ]

In 2004 when FRLG came out the exchange rate was .0095 so it was more like 20,311, which would be about 33,000 today when adjusted for inflation.

[@KidSebi]

14k when you’re 10 is crazy tho

[@paduz]

You are the reason why spoiler shields exist

[@greenspeedser]

💀 easy money

[@andersonantunesdeleu8591]

You truly are a cool guy! I missed one rap, your voice is cut out for singing!

[@AllergyPuppy]

That last twist joke got me, good woek

[@erickdorazco4469]

Love this new subscriber for sure!

[@Sentinel851]

a few other methods, you can use Thief (which is learnable by many pokemon, including meowth), to steal an item, so if we know what pokemon have items that, when stolen, are worth more than the pay day hit (or when we'd otherwise not get a OHKO thanks to not being STAB), we can also directly convert actions into items.

[@nicholasricci8342]

The king is back!

[@semtrexy]

Missed you man

[@Giga-lemesh]

Return of the King

[@RayAkuma]

This reminds me of a thought i once had: Since Team Rockets main objective is making money, Why didn't they just amass an army of goons, give all of them 6 meowth that know pay day, and go to some basement and have them fight each other only using pay day. That should generate so much money and no one could complain.

[@MigoKazan]

Don't forget that it's pokedollars, which are equivalent to yen. So divide by 100 to get roughly the USD value, and you get about 21k, which is still pretty solid pocket money for a 10 years old child in the 90s

[@dudebrian]

I think your videos rly improved a lot with the added facecam

[@redninjakoopa]

Great video as always! One tiny optimization I can see to save a buck: Breeding pokemon is free, until you get them out of the daycare. But you don't need to pay for eggs, so those are virtually free pokemon. By catching a female Meowth up front, you can then get a male Eevee, get to the daycare on four island, deposit the eevee and meowth, then run around until you get 5 baby meowths, which you can then cheat up to lvl 100. This frees the masterball to be used instead of a pokeball on one of the 60 mandatory for Cerulean Cave, and you may be able to get through Giovanni & the Elite 4 with all meowths, meaning lower damage, more paydays, more $$$ at the end. If you reaaaally want to optimize at the cost of the playthrough's runtime being longer, ensure all the meowths are bold or calm natured, so their attack stat is even lower.

[@sarahgomez1976]

I had no idea foresight worked on after switching for a normal type, damn i didn’t know that.

[@Anxiety.H.J]

oh that's a nice cover of Good Morning in the intro

[@sendhelp6349]

"Grinding on the trainer and collecting money" oh dear

[@petrie911]

Reminds me of trying to optimize funds rank in Fire Emblem, which leads you to try to kill a dragon with iron weapons because weapons have durability and S-rank weapons are absurdly valuable. The funds rank scores items by their buy value rather than their sell value though, so there's no penalty for investing in items.

[@lordmudkip7344]

You could optimize by having more pay day users. instead of one shoting with the 100 level meowth, first deal damage with a weaker meowth and then deal the finishing blow with the level 100 one But it seems really really painful to optimize Also you want like, Meowths with the minimum atk possible and all in bulk

[@Rylockes]

Yeah there’s 100% a way to optimize the Pay Day money, but thinking about doing it for every fight gave me a headache lmao. Can’t remember Meowth’s exact stats but I definitely maxed out its Defense and SpDef EVs

[@sierranicholes6712]

could be an interesting TAS if someone felt like doing it lol

[@tomc.5704]

@@sierranicholes6712 It'd be a wild TAS. Optimizing IVs and resetting for low damage rolls is tedious -- but the routing. The more you think about what routing the game would look like, the worse it gets. How many meowths do you catch? $200 to buy a pokeball is easy to make back -- actually, it's only a $100 loss because you had to "invest" in items anyway. Optimizing your exp gains sounds impossibly complicated. You'd know exactly how much exp you get from each trainer, and exactly what level your meowth(s) should be at to maximize profit from each of their pokemon. Which order do you fight the trainers in? How do you manage the level ups of your meowths? Sometimes you'd share the exp, sometimes you'd have one or more meowths contribute to the payday but then faint, and I suppose sometimes you'd like to let a meowth faint to keep it at a lower level but you still need it available for the trainer's third pokemon. The whole thing is like a giant traveling salesman problem, except the "distances" (money gained from each trainer) isn't constant. It depends what level your meowths are. And some trainers are locked behind other trainers. I wonder if it would ever be optimal to stick two meowths in the daycare and pick up eggs instead of catching new meowths. Wait, duh, of course it would -- it only costs 2 x $100 to have an infinite supply of meowths of any level (at least lv5). It's also the only way to get meowths at a lower level than 10, which might be optimal if you give them brightpowder and have perfect TAS luck. (Hopefully that's not too optimal of a strategy; it could trivialize the routing and make the execution extremely tedious.) Then there's a few tricks here and there. Pretty sure you can faint on the SS Anne to fight those trainers later with Amulet Coin. And you could invest your money early to avoid losing any money there, and also to get free entry into the safari zone.

[@shinobi197]

Cant believe you didn't get the bike voucher. Thats an extra million in value right there.

[@amejade]

I like how you refer to the game as FireRed but you’re playing LeafGreen

[@samanthayote]

Very nice! Your next run will use the Nugget Bridge glitch, and your character will be named Elon. The main challenge will be seeing how many times you have to repeat the glitch before you max out.

[@owenK1100]

This was a really entertaining vid👌

[@sSuper3roryt]

This is cool. It’s kiek I was waiting for such video to appear in my algorithm Like I was thinking “imagine play Pokémon but you only want to save money?”

[@siv5612]

that turnaround from the "useless" Abra xD

[@chadnorris8257]

It's funny that they make the bike worth a million dollars, just so it's impossible to buy it on your own. You have to find the guy with the voucher.

[@PikaPower131313]

This would be a lot better if Meowth wasn’t artificially leveled up…

[@lilamjazeefa9466]

All my Ferengi in the chat tearing into OP for profit misses.

[@homer23422000]

Maximizing your earnings in Pokemon is mainly to purchase the expensive TMs you want or need as early as possible and buying a bunch of healing items to knock out Pokemon as fast as possible and go to Pokemon Centers as infrequently as you can so you can beat the game quickly. Beating the game quickly is important because there's 50 11 Pokemon games to play, especially ROM Hacks.

[@The-RiRi-]

0:02 Is that the voice of Poketips?!

[@SurlyUJest]

this video was WAY more interesting than i thought it would be

[@gabrieldevoogel6225]

The thing he doesn’t mention is how this run also shows an optimal way to use unevolved Pokémon, play to the strengths

[@emkalina]

have you compared what will you get via evolving meowth and getting more money thanks to lvl vs using as weak meowth as possible and using more moves / battle? hitting pay day three times at level 34 gets you more money than ohkoing at lvl 100

[@MrChristianDT]

The moment where you remember Pokedollars are most comparable to real life Yen & you just went from have $90,000+ to only $900.

[@The_PokeNerd]

I would've also fought the rematch fights at the end since they're technically unique fights. Probably would've have helped much though.

[@FBI_Agent_69420]

Wild Shellder: **appears** 10 Year Old Me: "Oh nice, my favourite Pokemon! Murkrow, snatch his pearl. Got it? Perfect, bye bye shell thing." **running noises**

[@CuchilloMucho]

Makes me wish happy hour wasnt an event only move so a run like this could get even more crazy

[@philippaul2270]

still not able to afford that bike

[@relt1554]

Should have maxed out Moewth's EVs when setting it to level 100. Depending on which pokemon you fight, you could (probably) put nothing into attack in order to minimize that stat. Also, changing Meowth's IVs so it has 0 attack might have helped as well. Probably not the biggest deal though since it's probably doesn't increase the number of times you can use pay-day by much.

[@RetroCandyArt]

based intro song, legit caught me off guard lol

[@chrissipe3206]

Optimization Idea: Get Cut from traded Pokémon so you can save SS Anne Trainers until after Amulet Coin

[@zheom3198]

You forgot the lava cookie before ssanne

[@Hailey_Robinson33]

I think the bike is a joke… the money cap is an absolute troll…

[@yungmercury]

great video

[@dreamareakoso3791]

i’m sorry, was that opening song from Omori with the gen 3 sound font???

[@GameurBlais]

Is it really optimal to be level 100? I mean, if you two shot à pokémon at level 51, it's better than one shot at 100

[@thekiss2083]

Wow! That's a little more than the value of 2 bicycles