Making money in PokeMMO

Methods at a glance

Profits are the community's rough estimates per hour of play, before boosters. Battle methods pay the same every time; item methods follow the GTL.

Money boosters

Trainer battles pay more with a booster active. Each lasts 1 hour and is used up when you activate it, so start it right before a run, never before a break. Here is what the in-game descriptions say:

• Amulet Coin: "1.50x Money gain. Stacks with other bonuses."
• Riches Charm (+75%, +100% or +150%): "Does not stack with other money bonuses." Members of your Link get a 10% bonus.
• Donator status: +5% money from trainers, on top of its other perks.
• Some events add their own bonus: the Lunar New Year event gave +10% money from trainers, stacking with the rest.

You cannot combine an Amulet Coin with a Riches Charm: use one or the other. Either one does add up with Donator status, and with event bonuses.

Item	Why it matters	GTL price	Listings
Amulet Coin	×1.5 for one hour	$17,900	15
Riches Charm (+75%)	+75% for one hour	$70,900	44
Riches Charm (+100%)	+100% for one hour	$120,000	57

Lowest GTL price right now, from the PokeMMO Hub prices API. Prices move every day.

A booster pays off when the hour's battles earn more than its price: on an Elite Four run, a +100% charm doubles about $330,000.

Elite Four rebattles

Once every region is finished, each region's Elite Four can be fought again as a repeatable event. Each member pays $66,000 and 2,000 Battle Points before boosters, so a full run of five pays $330,000 and 10,000 BP.

• The rematch teams get their highest levels after five completions of that region's Elite Four. Before that, the strategy below can fail.
• Each region's Elite Four can be fought again 18 hours after your last win, like the gyms.

The usual team, from JinxedBoon's strategy on the PokeMMO Wiki, locks each opponent into one move with a Choice item, switches in a Pokémon that is immune to it, then sets up with X items and sweeps:

Pokémon	Ability	Moves	Nature	Held item
Metagross ×2Lead: Trick the Scarf onto the foe	Clear Body	Earthquake Stealth Rock Trick Thunder Punch	Jolly	Choice Scarf
PoliwrathTakes Water moves	Water Absorb	Belly Drum Earthquake Ice Punch Drain Punch	Adamant	Aguav Berry
ChandelureTakes Fire, Ground and Fighting moves	Flash Fire	Shadow Ball Flamethrower Energy Ball Calm Mind	Modest	Air Balloon
ExcadrillTakes Ground and Electric moves	Mold Breaker	Earthquake Stealth Rock Iron Head Swords Dance	Adamant	Air Balloon
BlisseyTricks a Scarf, stalls	Natural Cure	Trick Stealth Rock Soft-Boiled Protect	Bold	Choice Scarf

• Metagross ×2Lead: Trick the Scarf onto the foe

  Ability

  Clear Body

  Moves

  • Earthquake
  • Stealth Rock
  • Trick
  • Thunder Punch

  Nature

  Jolly

  Held item

  Choice Scarf

• PoliwrathTakes Water moves

  Ability

  Water Absorb

  Moves

  • Belly Drum
  • Earthquake
  • Ice Punch
  • Drain Punch

  Nature

  Adamant

  Held item

  Aguav Berry

• ChandelureTakes Fire, Ground and Fighting moves

  Ability

  Flash Fire

  Moves

  • Shadow Ball
  • Flamethrower
  • Energy Ball
  • Calm Mind

  Nature

  Modest

  Held item

  Air Balloon

• ExcadrillTakes Ground and Electric moves

  Ability

  Mold Breaker

  Moves

  • Earthquake
  • Stealth Rock
  • Iron Head
  • Swords Dance

  Nature

  Adamant

  Held item

  Air Balloon

• BlisseyTricks a Scarf, stalls

  Ability

  Natural Cure

  Moves

  • Trick
  • Stealth Rock
  • Soft-Boiled
  • Protect

  Nature

  Bold

  Held item

  Choice Scarf

Bring plenty of consumables, since one run uses some of each: Potions, Sitrus and Aguav Berries, Air Balloons, Revival Herbs, status heals, and X Speed, X Special, X Sp. Def and X Defend. The builds have little room for change; the wiki page lists the exact sets.

Gym leader rebattles

When you have beaten a region's Elite Four, its gym leaders can be fought again 18 hours after your last win against each of them. Trainer money grows with your number of badges, so this pays best once every region is done. The wiki estimates $250,000 to $400,000 an hour with a fast team.

The best-known team wins each gym in one or two turns:

1. A level 1 Whimsicott with Prankster leads and uses Tailwind, next to a level 1 Torkoal with Drought and a Heat Rock: the sun is up and your team is faster.
2. Both get knocked out. Two Typhlosion with Choice Specs come in and use Eruption at full HP until the gym is cleared.
3. Against a gym that resists Fire, send two Blastoise instead: the faster one uses Rain Dance, then both use Water Spout.

Typhlosion and Blastoise want Modest natures with Special Attack and Speed trained. The Fly and Teleport Ocarinas save the flying around between cities.

Red and Ho-Oh, each week

Red waits at the top of Mt. Silver. He opens once every regional Elite Four is beaten and the OT National Pokédex is complete, and can be fought once per real week.

Ho-Oh waits at the top of the Bell Tower in Ecruteak City, once Johto is finished. Each win gives 10 Rainbow Quills and 3 Legendary Lures, and you can fight it once a week on each character: players with several characters chain the fights, about seven an hour.

Item	Why it matters	GTL price	Listings
Rainbow Quill	×10 per Ho-Oh win	$1,300	63
Legendary Lure	×3 per Ho-Oh win	$19,900	51

Lowest GTL price right now, from the PokeMMO Hub prices API. Prices move every day.

Pokémon	Ability	Moves	Nature	Held item
AltariaTank: cancels the weather	Cloud Nine	Substitute Roost Dragon Pulse Safeguard	Calm	Leftovers
PoliwrathBeats the legendary dogs, main damage	Water Absorb	Drain Punch Belly Drum Ice Punch	Adamant	Black Belt
ChandelureSteady damage between phases	Flash Fire	Calm Mind Shadow Ball	Modest	Shell Bell

• AltariaTank: cancels the weather

  Ability

  Cloud Nine

  Moves

  • Substitute
  • Roost
  • Dragon Pulse
  • Safeguard

  Nature

  Calm

  Held item

  Leftovers

• PoliwrathBeats the legendary dogs, main damage

  Ability

  Water Absorb

  Moves

  • Drain Punch
  • Belly Drum
  • Ice Punch

  Nature

  Adamant

  Held item

  Black Belt

• ChandelureSteady damage between phases

  Ability

  Flash Fire

  Moves

  • Calm Mind
  • Shadow Ball

  Nature

  Modest

  Held item

  Shell Bell

Pay Day and Pickup at Undella Bay

A quiet method that pays from three sides at once. Fish with the Super Rod on the beach of Undella Bay (you get the rod at the end of Unova) with a level 100 Meowth that knows Pay Day and Thief and has Pickup.

• Against Shellder and Remoraid, use Pay Day: the coins grow with the foe's level.
• Against Luvdisc, use Thief to take its Heart Scale. Luvdisc makes up 30% of the Super Rod bites in winter and up to 70% in summer.
• Pickup picks up items after battles on its own: Big Pearls, Star Pieces, shards, stones...
• Thief only works if Meowth holds nothing: take each item off it right away. A Munchlax with Pay Day and Covet works too.

Item	Why it matters	GTL price	Listings
Heart Scale	Stolen from Luvdisc, wanted for move relearning	$5,400	56
Big Pearl	Found with Pickup	$3,750	66
Star Piece	Found with Pickup	$4,910	58

Lowest GTL price right now, from the PokeMMO Hub prices API. Prices move every day.

Add a Smeargle with False Swipe and Spore in case a shiny bites, and an Abra with Teleport to get back to the Pokémon Center.

Stealing held items with Frisk and Thief

Some wild Pokémon hold valuable items. A Pokémon with Frisk shows what a horde is holding when the battle starts; a Thief user then takes it. Banette has both, and a Weavile with Pickpocket takes items from Pokémon that hit it. Use Sweet Scent to call hordes.

Item	Why it matters	GTL price	Listings
Amulet Coin	Meowth	$17,900	15
Big Nugget	Garbodor	$15,900	13
Nugget	Grimer, Trubbish	$5,010	105
Flame Orb	Heatmor	$28,000	44
Star Piece	Staryu	$4,910	58

Lowest GTL price right now, from the PokeMMO Hub prices API. Prices move every day.

Seasons change every month and decide which hordes appear: each location page opens on the current season. The wiki counts about seven Amulet Coins an hour on Meowth hordes.

Catching Ditto to sell

Every breeder needs Ditto, so there is always a market for them. Once Hoenn is finished, go to the Desert Underpass, through a house west of Fallarbor Town: Ditto makes up half of the encounters there, at levels 50 to 52, all year.

1. Lead with a level 100 Breloom with Poison Heal and a Toxic Orb, knowing Substitute, False Swipe and Spore.
2. Use Substitute first, so Ditto cannot transform into Breloom.
3. False Swipe down to 1 HP, Spore, then throw Dusk Balls (sold at Shopping Mall Nine in Unova).

About one Ditto in six has a perfect 31 IV in some stat: sell those one by one. The others sell in boxes of 60 to players who breed for shinies. The catch rate calculator shows the odds of each ball, and the breeding guide explains why Ditto is so sought after.

Berries, GTL trading and breeding

• Berries: plant, water and harvest, then sell. The berry page ranks every berry by profit with today's prices, and its tracker reminds you when to water and harvest.
• GTL trading: the GTL opens at four badges. Buy under the usual price, sell when the price comes back. The market shows each item's price history, so you know what "usual" means.
• Breeding for profit: competitive Pokémon sell well but cost a lot to make. The breeding planner gives the cheapest plan and its cost at today's prices before you commit.
• Alphas: alphas and alpha eggs sell high. The alpha guide covers spawn times and the team to catch them.

Sources

Booster effects are quoted from the in-game item descriptions. Wild held items and encounter rates come from the PokeMMO client data. Payouts, cooldowns and teams come from the money guides of the community PokeMMO Wiki (CC BY 4.0), whose battle teams follow JinxedBoon's videos. Prices come from the PokeMMO Hub prices API.

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