Pokemon But I Only Care About Getting Insanely Rich

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  • čas přidán 29. 02. 2024
  • 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!
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  • @Rylockes
    @Rylockes  Před 3 měsíci +1042

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

    • @glowstonelovepad9294
      @glowstonelovepad9294 Před 3 měsíci +8

      When is the Q-nuzlocke (Quzlocke)?

    • @MatthewConnellan-xc3oj
      @MatthewConnellan-xc3oj Před 3 měsíci +2

      No.

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough Před 3 měsíci +19

      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
      @Echiewel Před 3 měsíci +3

      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
      @savage069 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @logans.7932
    @logans.7932 Před 3 měsíci +1952

    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
      @popeval6654 Před 3 měsíci +117

      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
      @matsu7086 Před 3 měsíci +75

      ​@@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
      @WevTheGamma Před 3 měsíci +24

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

    • @d3str0i3r
      @d3str0i3r Před 3 měsíci +37

      @@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
      @WevTheGamma Před 3 měsíci +8

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

  • @redflags6583
    @redflags6583 Před 3 měsíci +633

    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
      @Jamseth_Ingramious Před 3 měsíci +62

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

    • @nickbourgade8473
      @nickbourgade8473 Před 3 měsíci +52

      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
      @ShadowWolve-fx1rm Před 3 měsíci +11

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

    • @Xenbiotic
      @Xenbiotic Před 3 měsíci +27

      Use 6 Meowths too.

    • @GeorgeDCowley
      @GeorgeDCowley Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@nickbourgade8473 That might require more Meowths, though.

  • @Gibstack
    @Gibstack Před 3 měsíci +788

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

    • @ceulgai2817
      @ceulgai2817 Před 3 měsíci +13

      Not even a pre-gen4 monoFighting run?

    • @Gibstack
      @Gibstack Před 3 měsíci +27

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

    • @rubutu8408
      @rubutu8408 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@ceulgai2817fighting types learn other mobes tho

    • @ceulgai2817
      @ceulgai2817 Před 2 měsíci

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

    • @rubutu8408
      @rubutu8408 Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @hikerchris7164
    @hikerchris7164 Před 3 měsíci +493

    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
      @theultimatetaco42 Před 3 měsíci +35

      In AUD it would be about $21,457.38

    • @shastasilverchairsg
      @shastasilverchairsg Před 3 měsíci +40

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

    • @LuckySketches
      @LuckySketches Před 3 měsíci +79

      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
      @tonyhakston536 Před 3 měsíci +25

      @@LuckySketcheskanto is based on kantō

    • @PokeShadow77
      @PokeShadow77 Před 3 měsíci +5

      it's like 150 now in current economy lol

  • @saxor96
    @saxor96 Před 3 měsíci +359

    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
      @lavandieredenoz Před 3 měsíci +32

      But was it worth it since he loose money by fainting

    • @acdcljb
      @acdcljb Před 3 měsíci +66

      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
      @saxor96 Před 3 měsíci +13

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

    • @acdcljb
      @acdcljb Před 3 měsíci +8

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

    • @saxor96
      @saxor96 Před 3 měsíci +9

      @@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
    @speedgrump5515 Před 3 měsíci +310

    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
      @nameless24777 Před 3 měsíci +67

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

    • @NickJamNG
      @NickJamNG Před 3 měsíci +29

      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
      @itar10n Před 3 měsíci +36

      ​@@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
      @avivankori7827 Před 3 měsíci

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

    • @joelkinds
      @joelkinds Před 3 měsíci +14

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

  • @el_zinga
    @el_zinga Před 3 měsíci +189

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

    • @CrazyDave12
      @CrazyDave12 Před 3 měsíci +8

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

    • @Zociety6477
      @Zociety6477 Před 3 měsíci +16

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

    • @joemck85
      @joemck85 Před 2 měsíci +2

      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.
      @1th_to_comment. Před měsícem

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

  • @bucketslash11
    @bucketslash11 Před 3 měsíci +133

    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
      @MrCheeze Před 3 měsíci +16

      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
      @PerfectlyGenericUser Před 3 měsíci +7

      @@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
      @MrCheeze Před 3 měsíci +10

      @@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
      @PerfectlyGenericUser Před 3 měsíci

      @@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
    @Hunni_Gummi Před 3 měsíci +58

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

  • @robertm5110
    @robertm5110 Před 3 měsíci +108

    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
      @GivenForver Před 3 měsíci +5

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

    • @robertm5110
      @robertm5110 Před 3 měsíci +16

      @@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

  • @Jamseth_Ingramious
    @Jamseth_Ingramious Před 3 měsíci +34

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

  • @hikerchris7164
    @hikerchris7164 Před 3 měsíci +107

    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

  • @eesch28
    @eesch28 Před 3 měsíci +40

    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.
      @Leo.K. Před 3 měsíci +5

      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.

  • @marouaneh175
    @marouaneh175 Před 3 měsíci +14

    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.

  • @MigoKazan
    @MigoKazan Před 3 měsíci +9

    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

  • @RayAkuma
    @RayAkuma Před 2 měsíci +9

    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.

  • @Ruby_Mullz
    @Ruby_Mullz Před 3 měsíci +62

    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
    @ritasonka330 Před 3 měsíci +57

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

  • @tsawy6
    @tsawy6 Před 3 měsíci +16

    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...

  • @micos3820
    @micos3820 Před 3 měsíci +48

    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
      @RaymanMArenaCommunity Před 3 měsíci +6

      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
      @teacherjay9523 Před 3 měsíci +8

      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
      @SuperPraveenkumarpk Před 3 měsíci +4

      The battle frontier battles are repeatable and therefore banned

  • @JZHassan
    @JZHassan Před 3 měsíci +9

    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.

  • @flying_horse
    @flying_horse Před 3 měsíci +6

    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

  • @hrishikeshdas4434
    @hrishikeshdas4434 Před 3 měsíci +13

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

  • @Romidamn
    @Romidamn Před 3 měsíci +11

    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

  • @pokadotplot
    @pokadotplot Před 3 měsíci +4

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

  • @Killer_Queen_310
    @Killer_Queen_310 Před 3 měsíci +7

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

  • @bonkersturnip
    @bonkersturnip Před 3 měsíci +27

    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
      @kirua258 Před 2 měsíci +10

      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
      @bonkersturnip Před 2 měsíci

      @@kirua258 damn that sucks

  • @cyndalover
    @cyndalover Před 3 měsíci +2

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

  • @grembean
    @grembean Před 3 měsíci +14

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

    • @Rylockes
      @Rylockes  Před 3 měsíci +3

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

  • @maddywhite5044
    @maddywhite5044 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @apoorvpandey3334
    @apoorvpandey3334 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Great to see you back Rylockes! Amazing video as always

  • @undercoverhotdog
    @undercoverhotdog Před 3 měsíci +3

    Awesome video. You nailed this new format

  • @FBI_Agent_69420
    @FBI_Agent_69420 Před měsícem +2

    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**

  • @latifadipa8721
    @latifadipa8721 Před 3 měsíci +6

    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
      @gabrielpeterson2079 Před 21 dnem

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

  • @chrissipe3206
    @chrissipe3206 Před 3 měsíci +3

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

  • @VictoriousVulpix
    @VictoriousVulpix Před 3 měsíci +6

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

    • @quiethere45
      @quiethere45 Před měsícem

      how does that work

    • @VictoriousVulpix
      @VictoriousVulpix Před měsícem

      @@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.

  • @Chumplefish2
    @Chumplefish2 Před 3 měsíci +2

    yoooo welcome back! missed ur vids

  • @savebatsfromscratch
    @savebatsfromscratch Před 3 měsíci +2

    This is a really neat video concept!

  • @FlakManBegins
    @FlakManBegins Před 3 měsíci +5

    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!

  • @Sentinel851
    @Sentinel851 Před 2 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @MisVEVO
    @MisVEVO Před 3 měsíci +4

    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
      @MisVEVO Před měsícem +1

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

  • @GrayBeans
    @GrayBeans Před 17 dny +1

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

  • @Pixilm8
    @Pixilm8 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @Deep-Sarcasm
    @Deep-Sarcasm Před 3 měsíci +5

    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

  • @Duppling
    @Duppling Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @AvalosTokyo
    @AvalosTokyo Před 29 dny

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

  • @demi-femme4821
    @demi-femme4821 Před 3 měsíci +4

    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.

  • @Shadowonwater
    @Shadowonwater Před 3 měsíci +9

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

    • @garethdwright91
      @garethdwright91 Před 3 měsíci +4

      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
      @GeorgeDCowley Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @nicholasricci8342
    @nicholasricci8342 Před 3 měsíci +4

    The king is back!

  • @sarahgomez1976
    @sarahgomez1976 Před 3 měsíci +2

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

  • @20electric
    @20electric Před 3 měsíci +15

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

    • @ConchobarJ
      @ConchobarJ Před 3 měsíci +3

      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
      @KidSebi Před 3 měsíci +3

      14k when you’re 10 is crazy tho

    • @paduz
      @paduz Před 3 měsíci

      You are the reason why spoiler shields exist

    • @greenspeedser
      @greenspeedser Před 2 měsíci

      💀 easy money

  • @NickJamNG
    @NickJamNG Před 3 měsíci +2

    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
      @SomeGuy-ty7kr Před 2 měsíci +1

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

  • @benterry7934
    @benterry7934 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great vid! Thanks for the entertaining experiment 🤑

  • @gregorygan2077
    @gregorygan2077 Před 3 měsíci +3

    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"

  • @zakigaming9349
    @zakigaming9349 Před 20 dny

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

  • @rajkanishu
    @rajkanishu Před 3 měsíci +3

    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

  • @owenK1100
    @owenK1100 Před 3 měsíci +2

    This was a really entertaining vid👌

  • @lythd
    @lythd Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @erickdorazco4469
    @erickdorazco4469 Před 3 měsíci

    Love this new subscriber for sure!

  • @relt1554
    @relt1554 Před 3 měsíci +2

    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.

  • @qsxsqsxs
    @qsxsqsxs Před 3 měsíci

    Your videos are super funny! :D

  • @semtrexy
    @semtrexy Před 3 měsíci +2

    Missed you man

  • @deoverlopez9198
    @deoverlopez9198 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Love that you named your character Bezos

  • @brandontownsend2756
    @brandontownsend2756 Před 3 měsíci +3

    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

  • @endgame_real
    @endgame_real Před 3 měsíci +2

    Chekhov's Abra was such a good storytelling method lmao

    • @Saint_Y8S
      @Saint_Y8S Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @homer23422000
    @homer23422000 Před 2 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @Giga-lemesh
    @Giga-lemesh Před 3 měsíci +1

    Return of the King

  • @stefanogandino9192
    @stefanogandino9192 Před 28 dny

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

  • @crazydov
    @crazydov Před 3 měsíci +1

    Great idea, cant believe it hasnt been done before

  • @katking9574
    @katking9574 Před 3 měsíci +4

    converting the pokedollars to yen, then to usd, it's only a bit less then 200k

    • @128Gigabytes
      @128Gigabytes Před 2 měsíci

      Your math is way off, it's like 12K USD

  • @GaybrohamStinkton
    @GaybrohamStinkton Před 3 měsíci +2

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

  • @andersonantunesdeleu8591
    @andersonantunesdeleu8591 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @sendhelp6349
    @sendhelp6349 Před 3 měsíci +9

    "Grinding on the trainer and collecting money" oh dear

  • @lordmudkip7344
    @lordmudkip7344 Před 3 měsíci +7

    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
      @Rylockes  Před 3 měsíci +9

      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
      @sierranicholes6712 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

    • @tomc.5704
      @tomc.5704 Před 3 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @dudebrian
    @dudebrian Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @VictorSperry
    @VictorSperry Před 3 měsíci +1

    Using foresight WAS JUST BRILLIANT

    • @canis_lupus2220
      @canis_lupus2220 Před 3 měsíci

      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...

  • @AllergyPuppy
    @AllergyPuppy Před 3 měsíci

    That last twist joke got me, good woek

  • @samanthayote
    @samanthayote Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @pullsane
    @pullsane Před měsícem

    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

  • @harryboynton7800
    @harryboynton7800 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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)

  • @aminotarobot7486
    @aminotarobot7486 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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

  • @zheom3198
    @zheom3198 Před 3 měsíci +4

    You forgot the lava cookie before ssanne

    • @blissfulstatic2563
      @blissfulstatic2563 Před měsícem

      if trading in a cut mon was allowed then he would also be able to trade in a meowth early and wouldn't have to use any extra pokeballs for the national dex
      worth a mention i guess but the rules are fine as is

  • @redninjakoopa
    @redninjakoopa Před 3 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @ssjmatt8424
    @ssjmatt8424 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @sSuper3roryt
    @sSuper3roryt Před 3 měsíci

    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?”

  • @MumboJ
    @MumboJ Před 2 měsíci +1

    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! 🥰

  • @alexpasko1126
    @alexpasko1126 Před měsícem

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

  • @stianuwolyre6520
    @stianuwolyre6520 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @roguerocket99
    @roguerocket99 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Missed you bro

  • @nyekomimi
    @nyekomimi Před 3 měsíci +2

    I'm confused - does the whole "get Cut, get fainted to escape the ship, go back to ship" no longer work in remakes? Surely the profit from going back to ship later would outweight one-time loss fee?

  • @amejade
    @amejade Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @iRazenrak
    @iRazenrak Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @lilamjazeefa9466
    @lilamjazeefa9466 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @chadnorris8257
    @chadnorris8257 Před 3 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @yungmercury
    @yungmercury Před 3 měsíci +2

    great video

  • @shinobi197
    @shinobi197 Před 2 měsíci

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

  • @artizzy2k2k
    @artizzy2k2k Před 3 měsíci +1

    Now do this in EVERY POKÉMON GAME

  • @loukianosvarsamis7133
    @loukianosvarsamis7133 Před 2 měsíci +1

    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
      @loukianosvarsamis7133 Před 2 měsíci

      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

  • @Hailey_Robinson33
    @Hailey_Robinson33 Před 3 měsíci +1

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