5 Great Ways to Make Money in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet

thanks for covering my neat little strat :D

We need the real life tutorial next

For competitive people, keep normal tera shards. Really good for extremespeed sweepers like Dragonite.

Heads up on the hoarding junk thing. If you really do nee healing items for whatever reason, just go to the school cafeteria. They sell lemonades in bulk so you’re not mashing A on a vending machine. It’s cost efficient and just better to do in game

In the glistening items section: I noticed when I went above the jagged caves with the tera garchomp spawn there were a TON of star pieces and comet shards. I dont know if I just got lucky, but that little chunk of land is probably better than the desert.

Hey for the section about treasures in the desert:
You can set up a camp in the vicinity of a glow spot and your Pokémon will infinitely put the item in your basket where eggs normally go.
I tested this with Star Pieces and went afk. You get at least 10 per half hour. I found this useful as I played on another Switch for another version and save file

Normal Tera type is actually useful for Dragonite with a choicescarf and extreme speed. You can one hit ko a lot of stuff without them being able to react to it

One more thing, for people that are farming chansey for exp, you get alot of happiny materials which can be exchanged for LP. Also, you wan to exchange it regardless since that maximum amount of material you can hold is 999 anyway. DO NOT sell it, its worth alot less when selling and worth more when exchange into LP at the TM machine. LP basically works like money in this game anyway except when you are paying for auction.

As for raids, if you are the host, you can tailor your moves to the opponent. I use a shell bell azumarril and change between play rough/liquidation/brick break/ice punch as my ONLY attack. This way you don't need to train many pokemon as long as you remember to switch your moves accordingly. It's a great choice for your first raid ready pokemon.

I haven’t tried it yet, but I think Quaquaval with its hidden ability might be a good option. It has Moxie as well and is a little more bulky than Krookodile. Aqua Step also boosts speed after every use.

I'd love to see a complete TM guide. Specifically, what materials are the most valuable, and which ones are better off converting to LP?

8:45
Listen to everything but this, keep those normal Tera shards, ghost types are so strong right now. Being able to give yourself an immunity to rage punch should not be over looked.
Other than that, thanks again Austin for the helpful guide 🙂👍

Instead of a moxie krookodile for academy tournament i like using defiant bisharp/his evolution with amulet coin so no matter what if your atk gets lowered it at least gets back to neutral or net a +1. Just another option if anybody else sees this.

For the star piece collection in Asado Desert, if you find a star piece you can reset and do a picnic WITH ONLY TWO POKÉMON WHO CANT BREED IN YOUR PARTY with egg power (make sure the egg basket is right on top of the star piece) and in the egg basket, the star piece will multiply over time.

Flutter Mane spamming moonblast with amulet coin is better for the academy tournament AFK strat. With 252 EVs in special attack and physical defense, the only way you lose is if Scizor crits you twice and you're more likely to crit the Scizor yourself and oneshot it than get critted by it more than once, way more worth it to be able to use amulet coin and make double the money

This is a little more passive but if you hard save in front of an item in Asado desert, you can set up a picnic with the basket on top of that item and as long as you don’t have breeding pairs of Pokémon in your. The item you saved on will show up in your basket several times at least. Good for Star pieces

I actually went out of my way to get a normal teratype on my Skeledirge. I figured I would never bait a fighting move with a ghost type in and getting the option for stab Hyper Voice is pretty nice, especially if I've boosted sp attack twice from torch song

You could also ev train 6 raid mons at the same time using the Chansey method, just buy 6 power bracer/lens/weight and in under 30 mins you have 6 maxed out attacking stat and HP mons. Also nice to raise friendship and levels especially from early levels. All you need is a somewhat strong physical move with high PP, seriously something with STAB and youre set.

My favorite method is just running around the desert and collecting items. I think it’s one of the most fun as well

With the tournament/turbo controller method, I've found it's significantly more efficient to use a pixelate sylveon that's been properly EV trained, hyper trained, holds the amulet coin, and has hyper voice in the first move slot. I've been running my game for the last 14 hours and have made around 6 or 7 million that way without risk of getting knocked out.

If you're farming for Vitamins to EV train.. It's much more cost and time effective to just buy multiple Power items (10k each) and train multiple mons at a time... Only takes 28 KOs per stat you want to train and every pokemon in your party gains those evs. And HP and Atk can both be trained under a single Encounter Power Normal sandwich (Chansey for HP and Yungoos/Gumshoos for Atk). Saves you more money for mints and bottle caps or other battle items.

When austin needs to choose between quality of videos or quantity of videos he chooses both

I've found that Iron Valiant is perfect for the AFK strategy too. Get it up to Lv100, slap a Choice Specs on it and have it spam Moonblast.
Only Clavell's Amoongus and Miriam's Toxapex can survive the Moonblast, but neither have the damage output to KO Iron Valiant.

Love all your guides. Keep up the great work man.

Austin, if you want to update this Sylveon Hyper Voice with Amulet works great. Also 8bitdo software has a hold button you can program. Hold the A press Turbo, then hold the A press Hold button.

When picking up items from the ground, send out a fast pokemon that can keep up with your ride mon. It will collect most of the items for you as your ride passed them. No more spamming A or having to doubling back.

11:25 the 8bito has the turbo function (you need to hold) and the hold function (fires up even you are not holding)

If you find yourself with an excess of TM materials (especially from beating Pokémon in outbreaks), they can be sold too... But I suggest converting them to LP at the TM Machine for double the value.
Just don't accidentally sell your gimmighoul coins.

The Gholdengo gets about 140,000 per Ace Tournament completion, but he needs to be monitored. Ie healing up his PP for Make It Rain, use recover once in a while to avoid a KO, etc.

Worth noting that ability capsules sell for 25 000 and ability patches for a whooping 125 000. So if you are ever overflooded by ability capsules after grinding herba mystica, you get a lot of money

Thank you so much for all the content, data, tips and tricks that you provide us. It's amazing the effort you put into every single video. Thanks alot :)

Personally I prefer raid rewards, you get Exp candy bits and Treasure items. This helps with both grinding and selling.

For the tournament option. Wouldn't a Raid spec Iron Hand be great for that since it has Drain Punch and is super defensive? Even 2 hitting is fine cause Adrian lunch has 10 pp default. And you could up that with pp up

“You’re never gonna need a normal terra type.” Dragonite would like a word.

The best way is to farm raids for candies and then completely forget about the treasure you've been stocking up and then bulk sell it all.

I still say you might want a normal tarra type if your into competitive! :3 so I'd say keep the shards they take a long time to farm.

"You're never going to want a Normal tera type."
*Extreme Speed Dragonite has entered the chat*

Hey Austin, Thanks for all the videos and tips as always. Could you please come up with a video in details about how to train your pokemon stats, IVs, and bottle caps? And how those Hp up, Iron,... actually work? Thank you so much!

Dude your channel is so helpful for the Pokemon community. I just ordered these controllers and looking forward to trying them out :)
Personally however, I like Chi-Yu for the tournament. The only thing it can't at least two hit are Sylveon and Umbreon, while the latter can't deal damage (Sylveon wont KO you either). The rest either get two hit KOed (Toxapex, Tera Hatterene, Mabostiff, rival's Goodra) or OHKOed. You don't need an extra damage boosting Item so you can freely use the Amulet Coin!

Timid mint is really good! Fast special attackers like Gardevoir are great with timid nature

For the Academy Ace Tournament AFK method you can also use a Chi-Yu with an Amulet Coin with Modest and EVs into Sp. Atk and HP using the move Dark Pulse! I have been doing this and got about 6mil over night and I haven't failed :D

"You're never gonna want a normal tera type"
I think Extreme Speed Dragonite might disagree with you on that

Austin, you might want a Normal Tera Type. It's recommended to have at least 50 Tera shards. Any more, you can probably sell.

Re the amulet coin: If you are underleveled or don't have access to the best pokemon (yet), you can give the coin to a Cyclizar with Shed Tail and/or U-Turn, then switch-battle with another, beefier pokemon. This is obviously less effective compared to the method shown in the video, but Cyclizar is readily accessible from relatively early in the game, and this is also useful as a general strategy for maximizing your type advantage and getting free Substitutes from Shed Tail.

I just want to point out at one point AJP says he doesn’t do super competitive battling and suggests selling normal tera shards. I can think of a couple ways a normal tera type could be effective especially related to ghost priority moves so hold on to em for those that are serious about battling.

Something I notice about raid spotlights is that it you don't connect to the internet you can keep doing them so if you play in online mode you can keep doing the spotlight raid after its finished with friends of multiple switches until you connect to the internet

Thanks for your tera raid tips Austin! I used the same strat but with a physical iron hands and now I one tap raids!

When fighting ditto in the raid dens it’s always transforms into the leader of the den so would it be more helpful to have the leader use a magikarp with splash to destroy the ditto ?

Forget its name but the fire fish legendary is great for turbo strat, with stats in the right areas it can survive the haryama terastalized close combat on max damage roll crit on 1 hp and takes it out in 2 hits with dark pulse so you literally can't lose no matter the RNG

The 8bitdo controllers have an option if you change it in their software. I believe it's called "auto burst". Or the "hold" function with the sn30 pro+.

If you're using 8BitDo Pro 2 / Ultimate controller, you can just assign the P1 & P2 key at the back with Turbo & Hold. Then set Turbo to A, and also Hold to A. Then you can leave it doing all the work without pressing anything.

Additional hunt for glistening items in the desert:
Larvesta is the only fire type in the desert, I've did a hunt, got 2 shinies. Kinda hard to see at first, but you'll get the hang of it.

Austin @ 7:14 : “I’m never gonna need fifty six revives.”
Me: “You underestimate my ability to blow it, good sir.”

Normal tera Dragonite is amazing, Extreme speed is so strong and then only 1 weakness makes it easy to roost up and get ultiscale back
Tera Normal Toxtricity is also amazing, Boomburst with stab and punk rocks just melts things

Update to the Krookodile Ace tournament method: max spA, max HP Chi-yu with dark pulse. Zero issues. With krookodile, Penny’s sylveon will kill it if they’ve all been using baby doll eyes, and fighting chick’s Tauros can crit with aqua jet and kill since crunch won’t one shot the fire after intimidate. You can run clear amulet for half the money without issues though.

Also, abuse the "change moves" when you have the opportunity to do so, they restore all your PP

I prefer just going to the desert near the water gym to get stuff to sell, riding around picking up shiny stuff but only at dark. (easier to see them at dark) it has a lot of star pieces stardust and sometimes nuggets and rare bones

8:42 "STOP HOARDING ITEMS" this hits me man, thanks for this obvious but useful tips!

Surprised that you didnt mention the picnic one.
You can set up a picnic on a shining item with pokemon that dont breed, and with egg power you will get that item from that basket, as if it were being breed into reality

Hey! One thing y’all I would hold onto the normal Tera type shards if you are in to competitive with some talks of extreme speed dragonite possibly being a contender. Just a thoughtful thought.

Dude that GameboyLuke strategy is working very well for me right now. I missed out on being able to dupe ability patch so I was worried money would always be a struggle, but this is clutch.

I just tried my first 5-star raid and got annihilated. Realized I needed to properly train pokemon.
This is an amazing way to get money to buy performance enhancers for pokemon!

Kingambet works well too for AFK battles. Use him with defiant.

Also if you use flutter mane and with an amulet coin and moon blast aswell as some other random moves you can get 700k an hour and I recommend this method using 252 hop and special with 4 defenders and a other a special boosting nature or defence one

“You’re probably never gonna need a normal tera-type”
Dragonite extreme speed: Am I a joke to you?

You don’t understand how hard it is to not duplicate ability patches for that sweet coin.

Thank you for this!
Random aside but while beating the main campaign I stumbled randomly across three shinies total! It's base rate for sure so that was weird. I've never even seen one shiny in all my other games

Don’t actually get rid of normal terra shards, since it can be good on dragonite (stab extreme speed), and toxicitry/noivern with boomburst

# 001 I get a team of Pokemon that has the ability Pickup, get them all to level 91. Then whenever you train up your team, have one in your party to train and the rest of your party picking up items. You'll occasionally get Big Nuggets for 20k a piece! Along with some other useful healing items like Ethers and Elixers so you won't have to run back and forth to a Pokemon Center.
This tip is only for those that are in the early game like me and just want to take their time with it. But still want to make money. I call this my 4th path. The Path of Pickup

Great content! Quick question though.. What is the website you are using that shows a table of Tera raid rewards and the items available for pickup in the desert, etc?

Hey Austin, this might be a lot of work, but could you make a guide on how to find areas for isolated shiny hunting? For instance I'm trying to hunt Eevee/Umbreon and I'm having trouble finding a spot that only has them as the only Normal/Dark types.

About the glistening items: this works at least for berries, when you picknick next to a glistening item (DON'T pick it up before), your Pokémon will collect it over and over and put it in the basket (relatively rarely though)! I'll test it for money items too real quick.

HORI also does a wired controller with a turbo function. I think they also make a casing for their snap controllers, which, again, wired, but if you've already got the snap pads, then you could just use those instead I guess. I think the actual wired controller is cheaper, though.

Normal t-type on my Ceruledge has actually been a great strategy.

This movie offers solid methods for sure.
But if you really don't want to glitch or use AFK methods, then there's another similar method:
Level 100 Gholdengo with Amulet Coin.
Makes 1000 pokedollars per 'Make it Rain' move.
PP Up that move to 8 times.
Go do the four Ace trainer battles in the academy.
Use Nasty Plot 3 times, then Make it Rain until victory.
You end up with 100.000+ battle and a few reward items.

Big fan of your channel since BoTW days, and your consistency with these awesome vids proves it! 💙 Do you have an official discord by any chance? It'd be cool for this whole community to be able to participate in raids and events! Much Love from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷

One run through the tournament with the amulet coin earns about 115k. If you aren't doing it afk, I have never failed with Tinkaton after one swords dance.

Not sure if anyone has noticed but with the 1.1.0 patch they fixed the glitch where even if you lose a online raid you still earn rewards

I have been trying to find a good turbo controller since I heard you talk about them in your ACNH vids so thanks for giving details. Got mine today and have been sending Krookodile to be a menace at the university tournaments for the past couple hours

For Ace Tourney: I use a Flutter Mane holding Amulet Coin lv 100, 5iv Hyper Trained but jot in Attack, 252 HP, 252 Sp. atk, 4 Def with First slot move being Moonblast. Let this set run on Turbo for 12 hours and never lost currently have about 10 million pokedollars.

I remember when you only had like 100k subscribers bro, you’ve gotten big in no time. I love it ❤

There is a glitch with glistening items to pick up the same one multiple times - if you place your picnic and the egg basket sits over it. When there are eggs in the basket, there is usually an item.
Just save before you pick up an item and if it is valuable restart and place your picnic. Get egg power going and you can afk there while it accumulates that item. It might be less efficient than afking the academy, but if you don't have a turbo controller or a cool lego contraption it should be good.

Thank you Austin for posting this vid. These tips are really useful since I'm always broke

I think the fastest way to make money is making the item duplication glitch. Just duplicate a bunch of Ability Patches and sale them at 125k each. Not sure why Austin didn't include it. I reached the money limit in under 1 hour.

Can really tell Austin isn't into online battles. Normal, extreme speed Dragonite is a beast. Every tera type is useful, even if you only use it defensively.

Don't even have the game yet but are watching all your tutorials. Keep up the amazing work!

My method is going to fury Falls and getting all the bamboo shoots. It's a relatively small area with all sparkling items being treasure. Then just save, move the date on you're switch, and repeat the process

"Stop hoarding items" is a nice way to say "you cant rebattle the top4 and make money and level your pokemon that way"

I keep all the bitter healing things for my catcher breloom because the affection mechanic keeps healing his poison status I purposely want him to have from toxic orb.

PSA: If you're hosting a Ditto raid use a ditto and use the friendship berries to lower your ditto's def/spdef as far as possible. Give it expert belt or life orb and level it up to a high level. The ditto's imposter ability will copy your ditto and lock it into transform which will just fail. then copy one of your allies and proceed to destroy the helpless ditto.

Yeah don’t sell your Tera types even if you think you’ll never use them. Remember it takes 50 to change the type of only one Pokémon.

For the 8bitdo there's a mode called "hold" that's exactly what you need

Would love to see the best hidden abilities to use the Ability Patch on! Got one and have NO idea

I don't know if anyone has done it but I think someone should look over all of the crafting material needed to make tms and make a list of all of the crafting materials that aren't needed for anything and are worth selling for LP in the games!

I got my Hori split pad just because my joycons started drifting, but I never used the Turbo. I might finally get some use out of it now though.
As someone who *still* can't evolve his shiny Sinistea because I only get the item for the original variant, not the fake, I'm holding onto those teapots very dearly.

I started doing all 3 quests with like £3K, got to Medali *and I was rolling in a cash pile of £890,000* mostly because of my Persian being used every trainer match I was in as well as handing in like 40 or so nuggets & pearls too.
Pay to win has never felt so good when buying 100 quick balls in one go.

For turbo controllers where you have to press and hold the button, I just put a pot lid on the button I need to hold over night and it weighs it down.

Now that you’ve made this video, I wanna ask your opinion about the duplicate glitch. Im sure it’ll get patched out sooner or later, but I’m curious how you feel about it.

Thank you very much for all your videos! Just finished my pokedex this morning for the shiny charm because of all of them! Hope you and your family are doing well austin😊

"You're never going to want a normal tera type" - wrong if we're talking competitive. Normal ties with electric for the most defensive tera type. Not only that, but it also has some good moves for niche cases like tera-normal Toxtricity with boomburst which is both defensive and powerful. (also works for Noivern)
For competitive - tera is too new to know you won't need a certain type.