Money Farming Guide: How to Make Money Fast

Get money fast by farming valuable items from Tera Raids as well as taking on the Academy Ace Tournament in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (SV)! Read on to learn all the different ways to make money fast and become one of the wealthiest Pokemon trainers in Paldea!

Fastest Way to Make Money After Clearing The Indigo Disk

Farm the Academy Ace Tournament with Ice-Type Legendaries

Pokemon	Description
White Kyurem	Nature: Modest EV: Speed, Special Attack Held Item: Choice Specs Move to Use: Ice Beam Using Ice Beam with Choice Specs equipped will deal significant damage to your opponents, especially considering it's a STAB move, further increasing the damage!
Calyrex (Ice Rider)	Nature: Adamant EV: Speed, Attack Held Item: Choice Band Move to Use: Glacial Lance Glacial Lance boasts 130 Power with 100 Accuracy, making it possible to one-shot most opponents in the tournament. Keep in mind its low PP, which can be solved with PP Ups.

Strong Ice-Types are Recommended

We recommend using Ice-Type Legendary Pokemon with high-damaging moves in the Academy Ace Tournament. Not only do they possess the speed and toughness, but they can potentially OHKO most Pokemon in the tournament.

To minimize the chance of losing, avoid using low PP moves all the time especially if you can knock out the opposing Pokemon with a relatively weaker Pokemon.

You Can Also Use a Single Pokemon

If you do not have access to the Ice-type Legendary Pokemon, using one strong Pokemon to defeat all trainers in the tournament is a simpler way to farm money.

Pokemon to Use

Pokemon	Description
Sylveon	Nature: Modest EV: Defense, Special Attack, Agility Held Item: Amulet Coin Move to Use: Hyper Voice Sylveon is a good alternative for Flutter Mane, who is a Scarlet-exclusive Paradox Pokemon, or the Legendary Chi-Yu. Its hidden ability, Pixilate, can turn its Normal-type moves into Fairy-type to capitalize on its strength. ▶︎Best Sylveon Money Farming Build
Chi-Yu	Nature: Modest EV: Defense, Special Attack Held Item: Amulet Coin Move to Use: Dark Pulse Chi-Yu's Dark Pulse is a recommended move to farm the Academy Ace Tournament as it can flinch enemies, allowing you to attack consistently without taking damage.
Flutter Mane (Scarlet Exclusive)	Nature: Modest EV: HP, Special Attack Held Item: Amulet Coin Move to Use: Moonblast Should you own Pokemon Scarlet or have managed to trade a Flutter Mane, using its Level 84 learned move Moonblast can wipe out foes quickly.
Koraidon (Scarlet Exclusive)	Nature: Adamant EV: HP, Attack Held Item: Choice Band Move to Use: Iron Head Though not naturally learned, teaching Koraidon Iron Head is recommended as flinched foes can easily be defeated especially with Koraidon's high Attack stat.
Miraidon (Violet Exclusive)	Nature: Modest EV: HP, Special Attack Held Item: Wise Glasses Move to Use: Flash Cannon Giving Miraidon Wise Glasses as well as teaching it Flash Cannon can increase Miraidon's Special Attack while lowering the Special Defense of foes, knocking them out fast.

These Pokemon are meant to complete the Academy Ace Tournament as quickly as possible while holding a Amulet Coin to maximize money received. Having this setup aims to defeat opponents in one blow, allowing you to farm the tournament and rack up money along the way.

Note that the Koraidon and Miraidon's setup does not have them hold the Amulet Coin, which may be less efficient compared to the other three when it comes to money gained. Instead, their setup is geared towards beating the tournament as quickly as possible for farming.

Having one Pokemon in your party as well has having the recommended move as the top option in battle removes the prompt of having to switch Pokemon after beating an enemy Pokemon, allowing you to just mash the A button repeatedly until you've completed the entire tournament.

Total Money Earned

Completing one full set of Academy Ace Tournament matches, which is 4 cosnecutive trainer battles, will net you around ₽52,800 if none of the Pokemon you used in battle is holding an Amulet Coin.

If you are using the money farm strategy with an Amulet Coin, you will be able to double that yield and earn around ₽105,600 after winning all four battles.

Academy Ace Tournament Guide

Farm Money With the Item Printer

Sell Items Produced in the Item Printer

You can get items, sometimes high-valued ones, which you can sell by putting in dropped Pokemon materials into the Item Printer.

How to Unlock Item Printer

Best Materials to Farm for the Item Printer

Happiny Dust

Pokemon that Drops Happiny Dust
Happiny	Chansey

Collect Happiny Dust by defeating Happiny and Chansey, with lots of them spawning at North Provice (Area Three).

Happiny Dust provides 68% of the required materials per print job. If you're completing 10 print jobs, which require 1000% of materials, you'll need about 15 Happiny Dust to print items.

Sableye Gem

Pokemon that Drops Sableye Gem
Sableye

Collect Sableye Gems by defeating Sableye found in the tunnel system in the northern area of East Provice (Area Three). Try eating a sandwich that boosts the appearance rate of Sableye for easier farming.

While it provides 45%, which is lower than a Happiny Dust, it does provide more percentage than most of the materials.

How to Make Money Fast

Use the Picnic Item Farm Glitch

If you find a shiny item in the Asado Desert, save your game before you pick it up! Because it might be a Star Piece you can put your picnic egg basket over to make a Star Piece farm that will earn you between 60,000 to 100,000 Pokedollars every 30 minutes.

All you need for this potentially lucrative money-making opportunity is a few sandwich ingredients, two of the same Pokemon, and a little patience. If you want to know how to do it, read our guide below.

How to Do the Picnic Item Farm Glitch

Farm Valuable Items from Tera Raid Battles

Farming Tera Raid Battles and selling the received rewards is also a good way to earn money. From these battles, you can get items like Mushrooms and Pearls that can net you between 250 to 10,000 Pokedollars per piece when you sell them!

Remember, the more stars a Tera Raid battle has, the more valuable the items you get once you finish it. So fight Tera Raid battles that have the highest amount of stars you can manage for more valuable items.

Farm Items from Wild Pokemon

You can steal a wild Pokemon's held item infinitely! A wild Pokemon holding an item will always have its held item regardless of how many times you steal it.

Once you have confirmed that the wild Pokemon is holding the item you want, you can use Item-stealing moves like Thief or Covet to steal the item, run away from the battle, and when you challenge the same Pokemon, it will have the item up for grabs again!

Farm Unlimited Held Items from Wild Pokemon Exploit

Money Farming Methods Comparison

Money per Minute Breakdown

Hisuian Zoroark + Sylveon Gives Highest Amount of Money

As seen in the table above, farming the Academy Ace Tournament will yield the highest amount of money, especially when using Hisuian Zoroark and Sylveon, making it the best way to farm money.

Since Hisuian Zoroark with Happy Hour is somewhat of an exclusive Pokemon, farming the Ace Tournament with a solo sweeper is the next best option.

While this is still a great way to earn money, it might be more challenging due to the increased Pokemon levels in the tournament after the Indigo Disk DLC update. Consider replacing Sylveon with either White Kyurem or Ice Rider Calyrex if you have them.

Picnic Farm Glitch Requires Least Effort

Despite ranking third overall, the Picnic Farm Glitch will yield the most amount of money with the least amount of preparation and effort required. For players without turbo controllers or those who do not want to manually challenge the Ace Academy tournament multiple times, the Picnic Farm Glitch is the best alternative.

Players can simply leave their game open running in the background after setting up the Picnic Farm, and come back to collect their spoils every few minutes.

How to Make Money While Progressing the Story

Money Farming While Progressing Story
Obtain the Amulet Coin and Battle Trainers Do Team Star Base Challenges Again Pick Up All Shiny Objects You Come Across

Unlock the Amulet Coin and Battle Trainers

Item	Effect / Location
Amulet Coin	Effect An item to be held by a Pokemon. If the holder is sent into a Trainer Battle, the money earned after the battle is doubled. Location(s) • Defeat 5 Trainers in West Province (Area Three)

Defeating 5 Trainers located at the West Province (Area 3) and speaking to the Medali Battle League Rep will reward you the Amulet Coin, which doubles money received from Trainer Battles.

It is recommended to get this as early as possible in order to ensure that you're earning twice as much for beating every trainer you encounter.

All Pokemon Trainer Locations and Rewards

Repeat Team Star Base Challenges

Repeating Team Star Base challenges is also a good way to earn money as you go through the story. However, note that repeating these challenges will have you defeat 50 Pokemon instead of 30 through the Let's Go feature.

Team Star Order and Levels

Picking Up Shiny Objects Across the Map

Make picking up every shiny object you see in the overworld a habit as it can net you items that can be sold for a high price from Stardust to Nuggets.

Complete the Billy and O'Nare Sidequest (The Teal Mask DLC)

Billy and O'Nare are a wealthy couple that can be found exploring Kitakami and Paldea in The Teal Mask DLC. Beating them nets the player heaps of Pokedollars, as well as multiple high-value, sellable items.

List of Rewards

#	Location	Rewards
1	Bottom of Apple Hills	・17,420 Pokedollars
2	Fury Falls	・ Big Pearl x15
3	Area 1 and 5 Border	・ Nugget x15
4	Apple Hills West	・17,420 Pokedollars
5	Casseroya Lake West	・ Pearl String x10
6	Glasseo Mountain	・ Big Nugget x10
7	Area Zero Mountain	・35,052 Pokedollars ・Glitterati Case ・Oh No Emote ・ Big Pearl x25
-	Total Rewards	・604,892 ~ 814,568 Pokedollars

Players can encounter Billy and O'Nare seven times throughout this questline and the total number of Pokedollars that can be obtained from them (both items and money) can go from 600,000 up to a whipping 814,000 should you use Gholdengo's Make it Rain and an Amulet Coin.

All Billy and O'Nare Locations and Rewards

List of Valuable Items You Can Sell

All Treasure and Sell Price

Item	Value
Tiny Mushroom	₽250
Big Mushroom	₽2,500
Pearl	₽1,000
Big Pearl	₽4,000
Pearl String	₽10,000
Stardust	₽1,500
Star Piece	₽6,000
Comet Shard	₽12,500
Nugget	₽5,000
Big Nugget	₽20,000
Pretty Feather	₽500
Rare Bone	₽2,500
Tiny Bamboo Shoot	₽375
Big Bamboo Shoot	₽1,500

List of All Treasures (Valuable Items)

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Beginner's Tips and Tricks

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