this challenge in alola should be interesting: if you get the coupon card at thrifty megamart, you can buy items at 50% off, meaning a perfect conversion rate. that plus meowth being earlygame & the higher money cap should make for a very hefty final total
Great video, it was very fun to watch! A way you could have squeezed out a little extra money would have been to liquidate your money when you were going to see every Pokemon and then lose to the trainers after you had seen the pokemon you needed to see and then lose 0 dollars then battle them again later with Meowth
you would have to liquidate all of your money for that, you lose roughly half of your money when you lose. doing this would also halve your money from liquidating, but this could in theory work, if the amount of money you liquidate by buying stuff in the last leg of the run is equal to to the amount you liquidate to lose to those trainers.
The way I see it, Assuming you get the double drink every time and not trying to complete the national dex are perfectly fine because whatever profit that you would gain from taking the time to do it is overshadowed by the cost it takes to see a therapist.
From Gen 5 onwards the hard limit for how much money you can have increases so I expect that to no longer be a problem, looking forward to your next video on this topic!
The is one room in the Old Chateau where you can encounter wild Gengar. You just need to a have a GBA-Pokémon game inserted in the 2nd slot of your Nintendo DS ... which unfortunately only works after you obtain the National Dex. WHY GAMEFREAK, WHY? :D
The idea of the strat for this REQUIRING you to breed a MALE Lopunny (a very obviously female-coded Pokemon) and a FEMALE Mr. Mime (it's in the god damn name) is insanely funny to me.
@ Fair enough, I suppose. But it's more than just the playboy bunny aesthetic. It's the general figure and mannerisms, they're all very feminine. And let's not pretend that playboy bunnies aren't usually female. Obviously there are male characters with all of those things, but they're not generally the first ones one would think of when they look at Lopunny.
I can't wait for you to do XY. O-powers can let you triple prize money or buy items for 50% off (and doesn't wear off while in the shop, so you can buy and sell pokeballs to get max premier balls for free)
50% off and getting Premier Balls would mean getting more sell value than he's spending, which according to his HGSS video, is against the rules, since it's infinitely repeatable. However, he could use that O-Power to get 100% return on any other purchase, preferably of high-value items so it doesn't fill the bag too fast. Though I love the idea that he'll have to explain at the start that he needs to unlock the Prize Money O-Power, take 4000 steps in his 3DS, then spend a few hours using Levels 1 and 2 over and over to unlock Level 3.
This video was brought to you by a guy you forget exists for 3 months but love remembering that he does Edit: Does seeing a pokemon in a fight you lose still enter the pokemon into the pokedex? If so that´s a whole lot of money on the table. Edit 2: I forgot about losing money on whiteout. Maybe by buying the vending machine drinks and any items that would be bought to escape money cap further down the line right as those fights become available it could still be a net profit considering amulet coin payday earnings.
@@SajjieSajj It would almost always shake out to a net gain. Ideally you'd enter the fight with a freshly hatched Level 1 Pokemon (though obviously this may be impossible for Trainers who don't show you the Pokemon they need until further in the fight), but bringing in lower-levelled Pokemon makes you pay out less money, and fighting the Trainers earlier would make you lose less money as well (your prize payout is a number which increases after every Gym badge multiplied by the level of the strongest Pokemon in your party). But even with all 8 Badges and a Level 100 Pokemon, you're only paying out 12000 Poke. Returning later with a Meowth, it'd need 12 Paydays to make that back. This may not be feasible on every fight, but losing with Level 30 or 50 Pokemon (depending on the Trainer's strength) instead would make it so you only need a very small amount of Paydays to return the money you lost previously.
He is probably gonna do it on SV and spend a lot of time doing BBQs to gain enough to buy the chance to find Cyndaquil and Chespin for Quilladin and Quillava. He will pick Quaxly for sure and will catch a Quagsire in Kitakami then find a Qwilfish-Hisui in the Tundra biome
I love these videos, I can’t wait for Galar since the Championship is basically a sporting event with sponsors. Not to mention a Pay day with Amulet Coin can steal a trainer’s entire life savings if done right
If you can get more money out of catching both a male and female combee, couldn't you catch a female, go on to breed with a male Yanma at the safari zone, and then breed both for a male Combee to save a Poké Ball? It's a lot of extra work, but profit is profit. Lol
I think breeding 6 Bold 0 Attack IVs 31 HP IVs 31 Defense IVs and EV train them is reasonable (as in reasonable to hack in) if going for the x2 drinks in is reasonable.
Thanks for the reply, I was wondering that as well. Still, maybe he could've used exclusively Meowths with a +def -atk nature, minimum atk IVs and maximum defensive IVs/EVs?
I know this is a small thing, but this video is all about the small things. I dont have access to a copy of platinum to test myself, but if you lost the battle and whited out to the optional trainers that you fought to see certain pokemon for the sinnoh pokedex, does that register them in your dex still while leaving the trainers to be defeated with meowth later? This was a very fun video i loved seeing everything you could do to avoid spending extra money.
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps you could sink all your money into the vending machine drinks before entering the battle to minimize the money lost.
I haven't played SV, but Meowth and the Amulet Coin are both in West Province Area Three, so first he'd have to do anything required to make Koraidon/Miraidon able to get him there (if he can't just walk, I don't know how it's laid out), catch a Meowth, train it to Level 100, then fight 5 Trainers to earn the Amulet Coin, and clean out the game from there. Of course, with picnics being the new way to get eggs, I think he can also ignore any cost of Daycare involved in making a full team of Meowth.
As soon as you got the Togepi egg you could have made more money, Togepi can use Metronone to call Pay Day on every trainer from that point onwards, it could also steal Roserade's held item
Since you know you get over the cap 4 times, you have to take into account the amount of money you lose on 50% items. I.e. once you reach the 4th million, you should buy the items that cost less, in order to lose the least amount. That means that it would be optimal to buy 4 million worth of pricey items like ultraballs first, and then buying the exact amount of honey, where you only lose 25$, no? Did you do the calcs considering this?
Most of the money was dumped into 100% return drinks, and the money that wasn't is dumped into 55% return Poke Balls. Buying anything else, no matter how cheap or expensive, would've given him only a 50% return, so it's best to get the Poke Balls and Premiere Balls.
Are there any Great Marsh pokemon that learn Thief by levelup? Would that change the route a little to steal 1 extra berry? Knowing how thorough these are, I assume not, but I didn't hear mention of it.
There's not. I checked. He could of made extra money using the feature where you put in GBA games technically though. Still checking to see if any more money was left out.
26:20 somebody just lost out on some potential cash in the Old Chateau, on the furthest room to the right upstairs, with any GBA mainline pokémon game inserted into the GBA cartridge slot, you have an 8% chance of encountering a wild gengar. while this does make it so ur required to catch and level up ralts, thats still a net gain from not fighting an optional trainer also, while this technically does use a second game, youre still encountering the gengar in that copy of platinum. i feel like that's worth considering at least
Gray area question: what if you bought hyper potions to use on meowth during a double battle to reset how many paydays you could hit yourself with? Would that not be profitable, you could spend your money and make all of it's value back from each use?
Wouldn't it be more profitable to complete the pokedex before the elite 4? I'm pretty sure this is possible and i think it could even be done before the 8th gym, not 100% sure about that though
Spititomb is likely the problem here. I think the only trainer with one is Cynthia, and you need a second game to see a wild one, which was probably not allowed. Spending all your money, going through the elite 4 until Cynthia, and losing to her may have ended up getting a little bit more money, though.
I'm sorry to say but you could've gotten far more money. Because your Meowths were level 100 they OHKOed everything meaning they were only able to use 1 pay day per pokemon. If you put them at a lower level then you would've been able use Pay Day multiple times. You could even use a different pokemon to drop the other pokemon's attack stats so that you could use even lower leveled Meowths and used even more Pay Days.
You could have gotten a bit more money by selling each of the drinks once and then buying 2 again, allowing you to get the 999th of each at perfect convertion This only works because you can sell the drinks for the same price you buy them, it wouldn't work with the pokeballs for example
Would it have been cost effective to lose against trainers when you were completing the pokédex, then complete it and profit on their rematch with meowth? Just curious, I don't know the math!
This is without getting meowths with the proper EV or IV to have max hp and physical defense, and lowest physical attack to maximize double battle profit and also not widdling down the opponent to have one pokemon left in a double battle to minimize the damage the meowths take from their opponent(as seen at 29:59), resetting to get the lowest damage per attack including the enemies’ not using damage moves, and calculating proper levels for foes who might get 2 shot by level 51 meowths but one shot by level 100 meowths. All of this is way more effort than should be put into an actual run but it should be taken into account for theory crafting the maximum as all of those conditions can be set in a simulation, that is if you are crazy enough to set up the simulation because you are THAT unhappy with the video’s results(I’m just pointing this out you’d have to be insane to actually set up the simulation or god forbid try the challenge yourself with these potential “improvements” taken into account)
Take in mind to meowth calculations for level have to be made separately for every pokemon they fight to find the level at which the move stops oneshotting
Couldn't you technically optimize Meowth double battle strats by getting max defense, sp.def and hp iv and natures, and minimum atk? So that you can hit more pay days per battle?
I thought you were posting the same exact video every time, but only now do I notice that the adjective you put before the word "rich" is different every time.
How's it like, being a pokemon millionaire? I still hope that if you do B2W2 for this challenge, you'll consider doing pokestar studios simply because it's funny and an added challenge, though you can technically make each movie more than once. But just once per ending isn't that repeatable, no? *puppy eyes*
I tried watching this but the background track was genuinely so distracting to me that I had to turn this off. I even skipped ahead in the hopes that it would stop later, but it doesnt look like it. The video looks cool but yeah, I really can't watch this.
I found a way to add a around 100k+ The required changes to your routing: use of the dual slot feature of the game. ( allows you to obtain Gengar without needing to battle that trainer ) A second game for the sol purpose of the underground to obtain spiritomb. pick infernape. the reason for this is The grass starters final stage is the quickest to reach in victory road ( only requiring you to fight 2 trainers to reach, both required anyway unlike the empeolon line,) and your rival will have the water starter. Which i guess technically means you picked the worst starter for this challenge run if you allow the Spiritomb trick. If you do all this, you'll obtain the national-dex and thus meowth with far more trainers to defeat. (see below for how many more just off some quick routing i stole from this video) the only downside is, doing this would require you to buy like 10-15 poke-balls ( didn't feel like trying to find a map of every trainer's team in the game and finding out exactly where they were, i only checked for the final stages of pokemon and the only 3 that were a problem, could be sorted out Via capturing or battling the guys you had to battle originally anyway ). but i feel like having the meowth's for a dozen extra battles, should more than make up the price of the balls. ( the 6 other required trainers + the rival fight, elite four and the champion) which will net you just off the meowth's 6000 x 12 for 96,000 Extra money. And i think you also don't need to fight the trainer who has gengar so actually 13 trainers, for 102,000. Ontop of this, i can also Add in 4 more trainers. You can find a Rilou using Trainer in the Oreburgh Gate ( i checked my prima guide from back in the day and cross-checked this with online sources, because tbh i only recall being able to get him via the island as well ). And good for you, you only need to fight a single trainer. This would add an additional 4 trainers, at 6000 meowth profit a piece this brings up your total earnings from 102,000 to 126,000. At this point that 2000-3500 in pokeball cost, is more than paying for itself. Minus the 1 trainer for the guy you had to fight for this, but you get the point. That was the best i could do, as it's very hard to find what trainers have what and do a full routing, but i think i spent long enough on this, since. around 120,000 more poke-dollars is the most i can improve this by.
I know commenting won’t change the video, but I gotta ask: In the Pokémon Safari, why not try and catch some Pokemon just in case? Edit: oh right, you need space for all the Eevees
He doesn't need space for the eevees any pokemon can replace them. I would guess he already had a plan of how to play before entering the safari so there was no reason for a just in case.
Should’ve done this on Gen 3 Firered/leafgreen. If you catch a low level pokemon before nugget bridge you can lose to the rocket grunt on purpose over and over and EVERY TIME YOU GET A NUGGET. Easy way to make money a non-issue throughout the whole game
I’m not sure you’re allowed to use the words “Lopunny” and “breeding purposes” in the same sentence on UA-cam. *checks notes* Oh, it’s a male Lopunny? Is that really better?
I love your vids. Sometimes I wish the bgm was different than hype-y rock music, like something low tempo so I can think about what you're saying instead of feeling distracted ...
Gengar is actually catch/encounterable in pokemon Platinum! When you have a gen 3 game in your nds while playing you can find it very rarely in the Old Chateau
I’m not sure you’re allowed to use the words “Lopunny” and “breeding purposes” in the same sentence on UA-cam. *checks notes* Oh, it’s a male Lopunny? Is that really better?
So glad Ryan has uploaded another "How fast can I catch Meowth" speedrun
Meowth learns Endure via TM, which he could have used in order to always reach the 65535 money cap in double battles
this challenge in alola should be interesting: if you get the coupon card at thrifty megamart, you can buy items at 50% off, meaning a perfect conversion rate. that plus meowth being earlygame & the higher money cap should make for a very hefty final total
Ooh that sounds fun I hope he can cap out the alola money too!
Great video, it was very fun to watch! A way you could have squeezed out a little extra money would have been to liquidate your money when you were going to see every Pokemon and then lose to the trainers after you had seen the pokemon you needed to see and then lose 0 dollars then battle them again later with Meowth
you would have to liquidate all of your money for that, you lose roughly half of your money when you lose. doing this would also halve your money from liquidating, but this could in theory work, if the amount of money you liquidate by buying stuff in the last leg of the run is equal to to the amount you liquidate to lose to those trainers.
If he was going to liquidate a significant portion for 50% return value anyway, then it would have been a good move
He got well over the max limit of money multiple times later, all the money from that original gain was liquidated anyway
The way I see it, Assuming you get the double drink every time and not trying to complete the national dex are perfectly fine because whatever profit that you would gain from taking the time to do it is overshadowed by the cost it takes to see a therapist.
From Gen 5 onwards the hard limit for how much money you can have increases so I expect that to no longer be a problem, looking forward to your next video on this topic!
The is one room in the Old Chateau where you can encounter wild Gengar. You just need to a have a GBA-Pokémon game inserted in the 2nd slot of your Nintendo DS
... which unfortunately only works after you obtain the National Dex.
WHY GAMEFREAK, WHY? :D
The idea of the strat for this REQUIRING you to breed a MALE Lopunny (a very obviously female-coded Pokemon) and a FEMALE Mr. Mime (it's in the god damn name) is insanely funny to me.
"Female coded" you're missing out
@@alexread6767 What did they mean by this.
@@aneonfoxtribute if being based off a playboy bunny means "female coded" then you're missing out on some similar male character designs
@ Fair enough, I suppose. But it's more than just the playboy bunny aesthetic. It's the general figure and mannerisms, they're all very feminine. And let's not pretend that playboy bunnies aren't usually female. Obviously there are male characters with all of those things, but they're not generally the first ones one would think of when they look at Lopunny.
I can't wait for you to do XY. O-powers can let you triple prize money or buy items for 50% off (and doesn't wear off while in the shop, so you can buy and sell pokeballs to get max premier balls for free)
50% off and getting Premier Balls would mean getting more sell value than he's spending, which according to his HGSS video, is against the rules, since it's infinitely repeatable. However, he could use that O-Power to get 100% return on any other purchase, preferably of high-value items so it doesn't fill the bag too fast.
Though I love the idea that he'll have to explain at the start that he needs to unlock the Prize Money O-Power, take 4000 steps in his 3DS, then spend a few hours using Levels 1 and 2 over and over to unlock Level 3.
This video was brought to you by a guy you forget exists for 3 months but love remembering that he does
Edit: Does seeing a pokemon in a fight you lose still enter the pokemon into the pokedex? If so that´s a whole lot of money on the table.
Edit 2: I forgot about losing money on whiteout. Maybe by buying the vending machine drinks and any items that would be bought to escape money cap further down the line right as those fights become available it could still be a net profit considering amulet coin payday earnings.
Losing both trainer and wild battle makes you lose money. The question is if it results in net loss rather than net gain.
@@SajjieSajj It would almost always shake out to a net gain. Ideally you'd enter the fight with a freshly hatched Level 1 Pokemon (though obviously this may be impossible for Trainers who don't show you the Pokemon they need until further in the fight), but bringing in lower-levelled Pokemon makes you pay out less money, and fighting the Trainers earlier would make you lose less money as well (your prize payout is a number which increases after every Gym badge multiplied by the level of the strongest Pokemon in your party).
But even with all 8 Badges and a Level 100 Pokemon, you're only paying out 12000 Poke. Returning later with a Meowth, it'd need 12 Paydays to make that back. This may not be feasible on every fight, but losing with Level 30 or 50 Pokemon (depending on the Trainer's strength) instead would make it so you only need a very small amount of Paydays to return the money you lost previously.
Man by the end of the year Ryan is going to be the rishest guy in every Pokemon region.
Can't wait for him to tackle Hisui or Paldea for this one.
I was dubious about watching this video, but you always manage to innovate the series with new elements and strategies, great job x
So you’re a Rocket guy.
A mafia made entirely of poachers specialized in exactly this.
You mean you can easily get rich by making cats fight each other? It's cat videos meet reality TV in here
I think other trainers don't use their strongest until you do stark mountain, could be the same for center trainers.
That Great Marsh routing was very impressive
God these videos are so good. You are so underrated dude, your dry humor makes me crack up every time
Another certified watch later banger
Your patience and effort is outstanding 😂
I usually don’t comment but this is easily my fav series of yours in one of my fav games so far :)
I love these videos. It's a genuinely fascinating exercise in routing and planning unlike any other challenge run on youtube
Was wondering if you were gonna make this, glad you did, thanks pal.
33:46 OH GOD, NOT AGAIN! Eevee is getting the Skitty treatment. Those poor soles...
I'm commenting this on every video until you release the Q Letterlocke.
He is probably gonna do it on SV and spend a lot of time doing BBQs to gain enough to buy the chance to find Cyndaquil and Chespin for Quilladin and Quillava. He will pick Quaxly for sure and will catch a Quagsire in Kitakami then find a Qwilfish-Hisui in the Tundra biome
I started watching because of the Letterlockes. I want to see the rest of the alphabet!
@@zacharyzorua9961 yeah you cany access any of the Blueberry Academy stuff without completing the whole main storyline first tho...
Guess it has been a bit of a wait now.
I love these videos, I can’t wait for Galar since the Championship is basically a sporting event with sponsors. Not to mention a Pay day with Amulet Coin can steal a trainer’s entire life savings if done right
If you can get more money out of catching both a male and female combee, couldn't you catch a female, go on to breed with a male Yanma at the safari zone, and then breed both for a male Combee to save a Poké Ball? It's a lot of extra work, but profit is profit. Lol
It'd cost 200 to take two Pokemon out of the Daycare for the extra pairing, vs the 150 for Honey and Poke Ball for catching a second Combee.
I think breeding 6 Bold 0 Attack IVs 31 HP IVs 31 Defense IVs and EV train them is reasonable (as in reasonable to hack in) if going for the x2 drinks in is reasonable.
God the amount of work put into these videos has to be insane. Thanks for the awesome watch!
Why not use payday on the lowest-damage Meowth possible so that you hit the battle-money cap each time?
Payday gives you more money the higher level your Pokémon is
Thanks for the reply, I was wondering that as well. Still, maybe he could've used exclusively Meowths with a +def -atk nature, minimum atk IVs and maximum defensive IVs/EVs?
So we learnt that inflation is real
I know this is a small thing, but this video is all about the small things.
I dont have access to a copy of platinum to test myself, but if you lost the battle and whited out to the optional trainers that you fought to see certain pokemon for the sinnoh pokedex, does that register them in your dex still while leaving the trainers to be defeated with meowth later?
This was a very fun video i loved seeing everything you could do to avoid spending extra money.
I just remembered you lose money when you white out, I guess that makes that not an ideal strategy
I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps you could sink all your money into the vending machine drinks before entering the battle to minimize the money lost.
honestly I love these niche challenge runs. always a treat!
I'm waiting for the game that makes less money than the one before.
4:16 I wonder how you would do this challenge in Paldea? That game is very open after all allowing you to skip gyms.
I haven't played SV, but Meowth and the Amulet Coin are both in West Province Area Three, so first he'd have to do anything required to make Koraidon/Miraidon able to get him there (if he can't just walk, I don't know how it's laid out), catch a Meowth, train it to Level 100, then fight 5 Trainers to earn the Amulet Coin, and clean out the game from there.
Of course, with picnics being the new way to get eggs, I think he can also ignore any cost of Daycare involved in making a full team of Meowth.
jeez. the prep for this must have been absurd
As soon as you got the Togepi egg you could have made more money, Togepi can use Metronone to call Pay Day on every trainer from that point onwards, it could also steal Roserade's held item
Since you know you get over the cap 4 times, you have to take into account the amount of money you lose on 50% items. I.e. once you reach the 4th million, you should buy the items that cost less, in order to lose the least amount. That means that it would be optimal to buy 4 million worth of pricey items like ultraballs first, and then buying the exact amount of honey, where you only lose 25$, no? Did you do the calcs considering this?
Most of the money was dumped into 100% return drinks, and the money that wasn't is dumped into 55% return Poke Balls. Buying anything else, no matter how cheap or expensive, would've given him only a 50% return, so it's best to get the Poke Balls and Premiere Balls.
Yes bro this was exactly the video I was hoping was gonna come out next.
the elite four team 😭😭 this is actually so cool though
Oh I've been waiting for this one!
This was so much more interesting than I thought
Are there any Great Marsh pokemon that learn Thief by levelup? Would that change the route a little to steal 1 extra berry? Knowing how thorough these are, I assume not, but I didn't hear mention of it.
There's not. I checked. He could of made extra money using the feature where you put in GBA games technically though. Still checking to see if any more money was left out.
29:52 does healing your meowth and keep that on a loop gives you more money?
So, your optimal team was a penguin, a clown, a cat, and some henchman? Sinnoh feeling very Gothamesque in this run 🤔
finally, a good video is posted to youtube
26:20 somebody just lost out on some potential cash
in the Old Chateau, on the furthest room to the right upstairs, with any GBA mainline pokémon game inserted into the GBA cartridge slot, you have an 8% chance of encountering a wild gengar. while this does make it so ur required to catch and level up ralts, thats still a net gain from not fighting an optional trainer
also, while this technically does use a second game, youre still encountering the gengar in that copy of platinum. i feel like that's worth considering at least
@@Hutch2Much that's only after you obtain the national Pokedex. He couldn't have done that even if he wanted to.
Oh I thought I finally had him making a mistake.
Gray area question: what if you bought hyper potions to use on meowth during a double battle to reset how many paydays you could hit yourself with? Would that not be profitable, you could spend your money and make all of it's value back from each use?
Wouldn't it be more profitable to complete the pokedex before the elite 4? I'm pretty sure this is possible and i think it could even be done before the 8th gym, not 100% sure about that though
Spititomb is likely the problem here. I think the only trainer with one is Cynthia, and you need a second game to see a wild one, which was probably not allowed.
Spending all your money, going through the elite 4 until Cynthia, and losing to her may have ended up getting a little bit more money, though.
@@metleon That would break the rules of the challenge, because it would involve beating the first four members of the Elite Four more than once.
@DrabekNewburn Ah good point. So yeah, no real option to complete the Pokedex before beating the E4 in this challenge.
I feel like Ultra Sun and Moon will have the highest amount of money earned with the post game and how early you can get a Meowth
There’s a cheaper and much more difficult way to do this - Have Togepi use metronome and call payday every time for every fight.
I'm sorry to say but you could've gotten far more money. Because your Meowths were level 100 they OHKOed everything meaning they were only able to use 1 pay day per pokemon. If you put them at a lower level then you would've been able use Pay Day multiple times. You could even use a different pokemon to drop the other pokemon's attack stats so that you could use even lower leveled Meowths and used even more Pay Days.
I too and biased towards Piplup
Good choice
If only Mindy wasn’t evil
All about that $$$
You could have gotten a bit more money by selling each of the drinks once and then buying 2 again, allowing you to get the 999th of each at perfect convertion
This only works because you can sell the drinks for the same price you buy them, it wouldn't work with the pokeballs for example
Mr. Crabs lock
Saying you evolved Buneary into Lopunny for "breeding" purposes is so sus.
Would it have been cost effective to lose against trainers when you were completing the pokédex, then complete it and profit on their rematch with meowth? Just curious, I don't know the math!
pretty sure you unlock the hardest sets for trainers after battling hetran in mt. stark
So excited for paldea
This is without getting meowths with the proper EV or IV to have max hp and physical defense, and lowest physical attack to maximize double battle profit and also not widdling down the opponent to have one pokemon left in a double battle to minimize the damage the meowths take from their opponent(as seen at 29:59), resetting to get the lowest damage per attack including the enemies’ not using damage moves, and calculating proper levels for foes who might get 2 shot by level 51 meowths but one shot by level 100 meowths. All of this is way more effort than should be put into an actual run but it should be taken into account for theory crafting the maximum as all of those conditions can be set in a simulation, that is if you are crazy enough to set up the simulation because you are THAT unhappy with the video’s results(I’m just pointing this out you’d have to be insane to actually set up the simulation or god forbid try the challenge yourself with these potential “improvements” taken into account)
Take in mind to meowth calculations for level have to be made separately for every pokemon they fight to find the level at which the move stops oneshotting
I love this series
I love the little surprises in life. Thank you so much
Couldn't you technically optimize Meowth double battle strats by getting max defense, sp.def and hp iv and natures, and minimum atk? So that you can hit more pay days per battle?
Adjusting for inflation, this comes up to about 28 943.83 USD
Not bad for a 10 years old, once again!
If I had to guess with the pokemon center traniers you probably would have to do the E4 rematch with their stronger teams not national dex
W video
Love these!
Couldnt you use lower level meowth to get the most pay days out of every battle?
I thought you were posting the same exact video every time, but only now do I notice that the adjective you put before the word "rich" is different every time.
How's it like, being a pokemon millionaire?
I still hope that if you do B2W2 for this challenge, you'll consider doing pokestar studios simply because it's funny and an added challenge, though you can technically make each movie more than once. But just once per ending isn't that repeatable, no? *puppy eyes*
I tried watching this but the background track was genuinely so distracting to me that I had to turn this off. I even skipped ahead in the hopes that it would stop later, but it doesnt look like it. The video looks cool but yeah, I really can't watch this.
Call Luigi
Hm i might be able to beat this, ill do some research
Assuming you allow all non-trade options, this isn't the highest amount you can obtain.
I found a way to add a around 100k+
The required changes to your routing:
use of the dual slot feature of the game. ( allows you to obtain Gengar without needing to battle that trainer )
A second game for the sol purpose of the underground to obtain spiritomb.
pick infernape. the reason for this is The grass starters final stage is the quickest to reach in victory road ( only requiring you to fight 2 trainers to reach, both required anyway unlike the empeolon line,) and your rival will have the water starter. Which i guess technically means you picked the worst starter for this challenge run if you allow the Spiritomb trick.
If you do all this, you'll obtain the national-dex and thus meowth with far more trainers to defeat. (see below for how many more just off some quick routing i stole from this video)
the only downside is, doing this would require you to buy like 10-15 poke-balls ( didn't feel like trying to find a map of every trainer's team in the game and finding out exactly where they were, i only checked for the final stages of pokemon and the only 3 that were a problem, could be sorted out Via capturing or battling the guys you had to battle originally anyway ). but i feel like having the meowth's for a dozen extra battles, should more than make up the price of the balls. ( the 6 other required trainers + the rival fight, elite four and the champion) which will net you just off the meowth's 6000 x 12 for 96,000 Extra money. And i think you also don't need to fight the trainer who has gengar so actually 13 trainers, for 102,000.
Ontop of this, i can also Add in 4 more trainers. You can find a Rilou using Trainer in the Oreburgh Gate ( i checked my prima guide from back in the day and cross-checked this with online sources, because tbh i only recall being able to get him via the island as well ). And good for you, you only need to fight a single trainer.
This would add an additional 4 trainers, at 6000 meowth profit a piece this brings up your total earnings from 102,000 to 126,000. At this point that 2000-3500 in pokeball cost, is more than paying for itself. Minus the 1 trainer for the guy you had to fight for this, but you get the point.
That was the best i could do, as it's very hard to find what trainers have what and do a full routing, but i think i spent long enough on this, since. around 120,000 more poke-dollars is the most i can improve this by.
I know commenting won’t change the video, but I gotta ask: In the Pokémon Safari, why not try and catch some Pokemon just in case?
Edit: oh right, you need space for all the Eevees
He doesn't need space for the eevees any pokemon can replace them. I would guess he already had a plan of how to play before entering the safari so there was no reason for a just in case.
Should’ve done this on Gen 3 Firered/leafgreen. If you catch a low level pokemon before nugget bridge you can lose to the rocket grunt on purpose over and over and EVERY TIME YOU GET A NUGGET. Easy way to make money a non-issue throughout the whole game
That would fall under repeatable actions like pickup and isn't allowed by the rules he set up
Nice
guessing none of your other pokemon could help you made a combee egg, so you couldn't catch a female one first, & use it to get a male one;
I’m not sure you’re allowed to use the words “Lopunny” and “breeding purposes” in the same sentence on UA-cam.
*checks notes*
Oh, it’s a male Lopunny?
Is that really better?
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I love your vids. Sometimes I wish the bgm was different than hype-y rock music, like something low tempo so I can think about what you're saying instead of feeling distracted ...
Gengar is actually catch/encounterable in pokemon Platinum! When you have a gen 3 game in your nds while playing you can find it very rarely in the Old Chateau
26:30 pretty sure if you have a pokemon game in the GBA slot, you can encounter gengar in the mansion. Unless that's diamond and pearl only?
I hate how wrong you pronounce Buneary
Its bun ear y not bune eary
I haven't played platinum but are you still able to deposit items in your own pc? That's another 998 storage for each drink, correct?
eevee gets covet, didnt you miss some stealable items from that?
edit: turns out eevee does not get covet in gen 4, i was wrong.
can’t you get a gengar encounter in the old chateau after you deal with rotom?
32:58 breaking your own infinite money rule . . ?
I’m not sure you’re allowed to use the words “Lopunny” and “breeding purposes” in the same sentence on UA-cam.
*checks notes*
Oh, it’s a male Lopunny?
Is that really better?