Pokemon But I Only Care About Getting Insanely Rich

[@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.

[@Jamseth_Ingramious]

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

[@wiIIiamfancyson]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@Bobboerba]

Because of the insane exp the meowths would get so they could take over the world with an army of level 100 meowth

[@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

[@Hunni_Gummi]

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

[@el_zinga]

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

[@CrazyDave12]

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.

[@1th_to_comment.]

Luigi's casino smells like apples. I am in so much debt

[@teei2]

pft, you QUITER

[@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

[@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.

[@ritasonka330]

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

[@Hrishi52xis]

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

[@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.

[@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...

[@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

[@MarcusFrasier]

Pocket money? That's 21k

[@Bobboerba]

@@MarcusFrasierno it’s literally pocket money inflation has made your average daily cost 50- 100 dollars plus there are INSANE taxes electricity bills clothing cost 21k is barley enough to get by

[@thattruegamernerd]

Of course it’s pocket money, it came from pocket monsters after all

[@GrayBeans]

"Today I crashed the pokeconomy through theft, dumpster diving, picking up trash, illegal counterfeit money, and brutally stomping out 10 year olds pokemon"

[@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. 🙏🏻

[@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.

[@Killer_Queen_310]

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

[@latifadipa8721]

9:19 You made a mistake you could have gave the girl fresh water (cost 200) instead of lemonade (cost 350) so you would have ended up with 150 more pokedollars.

[@gabrielpeterson2079]

Doesn't each drink give a different item or is that only red and blue

[@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**

[@pokadotplot]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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...

[@undercoverhotdog]

Awesome video. You nailed this new format

[@Duppling]

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

[@apoorvpandey3334]

Great to see you back Rylockes! Amazing video as always

[@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"

[@cyndalover]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.

[@MisVEVO]

Back here after the covet-strat was implemented in the following video 👌

[@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.

[@dexlopez9198]

Love that you named your character Bezos

[@zakigaming9349]

Literally just the intro got my sub, seemed like he was gonna shout but just shyly says "Hi"

[@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.

[@psymar]

I'd say about 21k in 1998 USD. But you have to keep in mind the main character's situation. $21k is an unfathomable amount of money for an average 10 year old

[@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.

[@The-RiRi-]

0:02 Is that the voice of Poketips?!

[@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.

[@savebatsfromscratch]

This is a really neat video concept!

[@pasarebird02]

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)

[@Shadowonwater]

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

[@Gareth-410]

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]

@@Gareth-410 To be fair, they called it "dollars" (not in Japan, but still).

[@psymar]

​@@Gareth-410It's on the publishers for changing the currency from yen to "Pokédollars" for the US release. You call it dollars we're going to assume dollars. Luigi's Mansion fans equating G to dollars have much less excuse

[@MumboJ]

I recently learned that, similar to "Pokémon" being called "Pocket Monsters", the Japanese version of "Pokédollars" is "Pocket Money", and I just think that's adorable! 🥰

[@chrissipe3206]

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

[@psymar]

at that point you might as well trade in an amulet coin

[@amejade]

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

[@Chumplefish2]

yoooo welcome back! missed ur vids

[@nickmeale1957]

Ash: "Wow, your pokedex is so limited, maybe I can help you catch em all!" Bezos: "How about I buy your pokedex you broke-ass"

[@AvalosTokyo]

This is a literally golden nuggets of pure joy. Great vid.

[@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

[@nicholasricci8342]

The king is back!

[@Naxhus2]

Mr Rylockes, I'm a big city old money investor type, and I'm here to tell you that you need to spend money to make money. I feel like you could have squeezed out a few more dollars if you had spent 400 pokedollars, caught four more Meowths, and then used them in the elite 4. You would have had more Pay Day PP and would have kept your ether, you would have hit more pay days (so more money made total). Wonderful videos, great series, new fan, big fan!

[@stianuwolyre6520]

One thing I believe would work in theory, but definitely way too annoying to do in practice, is to use a Delibird on all non mandatory trainers up to that point. You're limited to 15 uses of present per Delibird (without PP UP) and assuming each use of the move heals the opponent, you can use some extra pay days for more cash. Assuming pay day isn't a OHKO, this can likely help out in several battles making the use of 5 pokeballs on them a worthwhile investment. The fact it's only a 20% chance to heal the opponent though would make this run a REALLY tedious experiment, even if a way was cheated in to make it heal every time. If trading from other games is allowed, 5 Smeargles from Emerald with 4 presents could quadruple the results.

[@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

[@GaybrohamStinkton]

Smh. You dont BUY the bike, you get it for free and then SELL it for 90% of its original cost

[@zacharybrown3010]

can't believe the bike shop guy won't spot a single cent to the kid who tries to buy a bike with exactly 999,999 pokedollars

[@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.

[@nabbly]

2 mil?? That's enough to buy TWO bikes without a stupid voucher. Such a bummer that both Red and Green can only carry 1 dollar short of a million.

[@TheLobsterCopter5000]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@sarahgomez1976]

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

[@andersonantunesdeleu8591]

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

[@alexpasko1126]

What I would love to see is a speedrun to max cash using any available method (no glitch)!

[@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?”

[@VictoriousVulpix]

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

[@quiethere45]

how does that work

[@VictoriousVulpix]

@@quiethere45 at the end of nugget bridge is a team rocket grunt that gives you a nugget and then battles you. If you lose to him and battle him again he gives another nugget. As long as you don’t beat them you get a nugget every battle. Obviously this has to be done early in a game, because beating them is required to progress.

[@iRazenrak]

If you get more money from multiple Meowths with Pay Day, wouldn't you want 6 Meowths?

[@zyanide194]

With the trainer being named BEZOS, there was a missed opportunity to nickname the meowth AMAZON lol. Great video regardless!

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

8:18 You *might* have missed something, depending on how the S.S. Anne functions in these games. Because of the whole "Mew under the truck" rumor somebody in the dev team decided to hide a Lava Cookie ($100) on the dock if you do the same thing others did in the original games. I might be wrong, but I think in the original games at least you could Teleport to leave the boat without the boat leaving the dock and you can come back once you have Surf. Since you could get an Abra for free, you could have gotten the Lava Cookie, maybe. That might not actually be the case for these games though. (I'm not about to play through them to find out myself.) It's also possible that Teleporting doesn't work, and the only ways to get it is to either trade for a Pokemon that can use Cut with a second GBA and a second game, (which I assume isn't allowed,) or lose a battle, which will lose you a chunk of money and wouldn't be worth it. Edit: I suppose fainting from poison or burn could've also worked. You'd have to find a Pokemon for that first though.

[@stefanogandino9192]

Bill not paying you is such a "the ad said 3000" moment

[@semtrexy]

Missed you man

[@artizzy2k2k]

Now do this in EVERY POKÉMON GAME

[@shinobi197]

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

[@BlueSparxLPs]

I think this could be interesting in a game like XY, where the money cap is higher and you won't need to "invest" in any items.

[@ciriousjoker]

You could have used a setup pokemon with baton pass to lower your attack into oblivion + maximize defense (for higher leftover value) + double team

[@owenK1100]

This was a really entertaining vid👌

[@crazydov]

Great idea, cant believe it hasnt been done before

[@MasterJ_2003]

technically, you lost more money than necessary with the ultra balls since if you bought them exclusively in batches of 10 you'd get a premiere ball on top of the ultra balls every time. not entirely sure how much more you'd get but the opportunity for more money is there, though it'd definitely be tedious...

[@Rylockes]

I like where your head is at! For some reason, the Premier Ball thing isn’t in FRLG (basically the only main series game that’s missing) so no money lost there!

[@KattoTang]

@@Rylockes And even if they were in FRLG, it wouldn't matter. When they were first introduced in gen 3, you only got Premier Balls from buying 10 regular PokeBalls. I don't know when exactly they changed it to include other types of balls, but I'm pretty sure it was that way for a few generations at least.

[@ceulgai2817]

However, you *could* buy your balls in multiples of 10, using Ultra Balls to make up the remainders.@@KattoTang

[@Hailey_Robinson33]

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

[@mapeus]

So, not banning Pay Day makes this challenge (figuring out how much money is possible to earn) nigh impossible to optimize because of minor optimizations regarding Meowth's level and stats. However, even disregarding all that, there's a huge amount of money missed. Here's a setup that allows one to use many more Pay Days in a number of battles (A similar setup with attack dropping may be possible earlier, but that's the earliest I can figure out): - Battle all the trainers you have to until Sevii Islands using a female Meowth to make money - Obtain a male Golduck knowing Psych Up - Breed the Golduck and Meowth - Have a Meowth with Growl and Psych Up Now this Meowth can use Growl at any enemy 6 times and then copy that with Psych Up, allowing it, to my knowledge, to do the lowest damage possible. Not only that, but Kadabra can learn Trick. That means you can trick Leftovers upon the enemy and trick it back after you're done collecting money, meaning that you can theoretically use up the maximum amount of Pay Day PP, which are limited to the 5 Meowths, all with Growls and Psych Ups, in a decent number of optional fights. You do this by using Pay Day only while the opponent is healthy enough and using non-damaging moves the rest of the time, while staying alive via Double Team or something similar.

[@thekiss2083]

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

[@Giga-lemesh]

Return of the King

[@aminotarobot7486]

A bit of micro that could've added value is buying standard Pokeballs in sets of ten to get the free premiere ball which if I remember correctly still sells for value so you'll be able to add that to the final count

[@benterry7934]

Great vid! Thanks for the entertaining experiment 🤑

[@DMkiller100]

You made a misstake. You can trade the amulet coin from a other game via link cable. You can make much more money 😁

[@loukianosvarsamis7133]

you can juice your returns a lot by breeding a meowth with charm and psych up, lowering pay day's damage output to 1/4 of the normal amount. this is a substantial improvement worth conservatively 1.5-2x total returns over the course of the run

[@loukianosvarsamis7133]

if you're willing to trade from RSE, it's possible to make infinite money in a single battle with a skitty using assist: - skitty holds leppa berry to restore PP and knows assist and charm - party consists of a pokemon that knows psych up, a pokemon that knows present, a pokemon that knows a recovery move, a pokemon that knows recycle, and a pokemon that knows pay day - spam charm and assist against a resilient opponent (giovanni's rhyhorn for example). smack them with assist continually for tiny damage with pay day and present, while force-healing them with present - never run out of PP because you recycle the leppa berry - never run out of HP because of unlimited healing moves and using present to heal your opponent for much more than they take from -6 pay day and recoil from -6 struggle this can easily be made finite by taking the leppa berry out, thus staying in line with the original rules. with multiple skitties in the party you can probably 10-20x the number of pay day hits per battle this way it's a lot more involved than the original plan of charm and psych up, which gives you the best improvement for not too much additional work

[@katieofsister]

You know there are going to likely be several people (myself included) who want to see this continue in other games!!! ;)