How to farm money in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Whether you’re looking to sweep the Porto Marinada auctions or you want to buy Bottle Caps for Hyper Training, money is fairly easy to come by in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (though it’s even easier to spend).

Here are our most favorite methods for making money. While there may be many other methods available, we have chosen the most popular. (We won’t include any techniques that use exploits or bugs because Game Freak could patch them.

Tera Raids: Rare items can be farmed

It is the hard truth, and it’s something nobody likes to hear. Tera Raids can prove so challenging that high-level Tera Raids often drop rare items such as Big Nuggets (or Comet Shards), which can be very valuable. Comet Shards can be purchased for as low as $12,500, while Big Nuggets are available for up to $20,000.

You can still sell items from lower-tier raids, though they will be of lesser value.

Tera Raids can be a great way to gain EXP candy and get rich quickly. However, if you are unable to consistently defeat five- or six-star raids then stick with four-star raids (or lower). You can then use the rewards from the four-star raids to power up your Pokémon until they’re strong enough for five- and six-star raids. It’s an annoying cycle, but it’ll be worth it in the end.

Selling can be a great way to make a lot of money. Capsules for Ability(£25,000 per person) Ability Patches ($125,000 each). These items can be used to gain specific abilities, including Hidden Abilities. However, if there is surplus you could sell them off for quite a penny. Anything Mints you don’t need can also be sold for a good chunk of change.

A selling menu showing how much feathers, mints, and ability items sell for. Ability Patches and Ability Capsules sell for way more than the rest of the stuff.

If you don’t want to run raids, there are some more methods below that work great.

Running the Academy Ace Tournament and Team Star Rematches using the Amulet coin

Give your lead Pokémon the Amulet CoinHold the item, and defeat the Academy Ace Tournament around $120,000 for a single run.

This method obviously works best if you have a very strong team that can one-hit KO most opponents in the Academy Ace Tournament, ensuring you won’t have to worry about type match-ups or anything like that.

You can get the Amulet Coin from this Pokémon League rep outside of Medali after taking down Five trainersIn the vicinity:

A man in a suit asks if a trainer has “Been having some nice battles?!” outside of Medali

You can fight one Team Star leader at each base if you only need $25,000, but this is limited to one battle per day.

Repetition of the Team Star Challenges

This method technically rewards League Points (LP), but seeing as you can use LP as money in shops (though not in auctions), it’s kind of the same thing.

Ringing the bell at Team Star base’s entrance in the postgame can earn you a lot of LP. You also have the option to complete the Team Star challenges once again. The faster you complete the challenge, the more LP you’ll get. We finished Mela’s base in a little bit under three minutes and got around 7,000 LP.

This isn’t really a Super effective method, as running and chucking your Pokémon around can get tedious, and the return on your time investment isn’t great compared to the other methods, but if you only need a few more LP to complete your next big-ticket purchase, it can help in a pinch.

Searching for sparkles in the Asado Desert

Each day you have the opportunity to sweep Asado Desert in search of sparkling objects. While, yes, you’ll find dozens of Cacnea Needles and Potions, you’ll also run into Star Pieces ($6,000 each) and other loot you can flip for good money.

A trainer rides a Koraidon around in the desert, picking up a Star Piece on the floor

It is best to look at the ground in-game at night. It’s much easier to see the sparkling items on the ground.

It is worth noting that items like Icy Rocks, Smooth Rocks and similar can be sold for as low as $2,000 per piece. You could make quite a fortune selling them off.

Farming and selling of materials in the aftermath of an outbreak

Again, this method will net you LP, but it’s still worth doing if you have tons of extra material.

Some Pokémon, like Dratini or Ditto, drop a valuable material when caught or knocked out. Some material can sell for up to 150 LP each when you sell them back to the TM Machine at Pokémon Centers. Notably, Happiny Dust sells for 150 LP each, so if you’re Chansey farming for EXP, then you will end up with tons of material (and LP).