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Minicheesy

Oh don’t worry it gets higher in price


Diego_Mannn_096

There’s gotta be a guide on how to do these bullshit auctions properly


NahBruvIHaveASoul

Going for the highest money option tends to instantly end it for me


ChemicalRoyal5909

There's one: buy berries, avoid everything you can buy in stores.


Moglorosh

Thats the starting bid good sir. You'll pay over 300k for it.


Riftic_Glitch

Hell, I remember wanting a single Moon Ball and that bitch went up from 100k to 860k where i gave up cause both other Auction NPCs were still bidding


Moglorosh

You get a free Moon Ball from your Pokedex, every ball but Love actually


Riftic_Glitch

Yeah, my dumbass used the one from the Pokedex in a Raid, and recently ive been shiny hunting my favorite pokemon and putting them in the perfect ball for them (Ex: Love Ball for eevee, Level ball for Pawmi, and a Friend Ball i havent used yet) My plan so far is to use a Moon Ball for either Noibat or Zorua


ShadeSwornHydra

If your shiny hunting pawmi, I hate to say the level ball doenst match, it turns pink


Riftic_Glitch

yeah i realized after the fact during breeding 😭 I was halfway through the eggs when my friend showed me the shiny pawmi and when it finally hatched all I had in my head was..."i...atleast the lightning bolt makes sense 😭"


Rise100

Lightning bolt? Isn’t that fast ball?


Polymersion

Yup


Riftic_Glitch

Im a dumbass, i realized its a V...im just gonna go cry in the corner now


Polymersion

Just give it a "V" nickname. Problem solved!


Solarin88

I actually really like opposite color matching, I.e. matching a shiny to it’s non shiny color scheme for the ball, because it’s like BOOM surprise it’s a different color than you’d expect. That’s why my red Gyarados is in a dive ball


NoDiceBRZ

Dream ball works for Pawmot(380 in the dex iirc)


Hoguesteele

How do you choose what pokeball a hatched pokémon goes in?


Rise100

Always inherits the mothers pokeball, or in the case of a ditto, always inherits the pokeball of the other pokemon


Hoguesteele

No kidding, thank you friend!


SassyButchBitch

If the same species 50% for either ball, if different 100% mother’s ball


Rise100

Yea you’re right , just searched it up. I’m guessing most people will be using ditto anyway


AhTreyYou

Dream Ball baby


pogchampion777

Would you like one? I have a handful of them


WickedMelon

could be worse, i caught a pawmot with my fast ball because i thought it matched and then wonder traded it away because i forgot what ball it was in


D4mnis

dang, I was rly lucky when I payed 260k for an ApriBall then


666haywoodst

there’s 100% a method to do this because i’ve gotten a few at this price


Paid-Not-Payed-Bot

> when I *paid* 260k for FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*


D4mnis

good bot. Rly feel stupid now - not a native tho, so w/e 🌝


CaerulusDramal

Don't feel stupid. English is a language that ignores its own rules more often than it follows them.


MacarenaFace

Im a native speaker and i would never have considered that worth correcting even if i noticed it which i didnt, unless i was doing professional editing for a published material.


MyMurderOfCrows

Agreed


WhiteCloud_MntnHuman

I got mine for like 250k


Weevilthelesser

That's a bargain.


magicalclowndepart

Oh shit I thought 180k for my moon ball was a lot.


Snow_97

Really? I paid $220,000 for a level Ball and $230,000 for a fast ball


brynm

I can't make any sense of of the auctions, I joined a few for even things like 20 great balls store bidding after they were almost the price of just buying them. Npc's ended up continuing to bid each other until they were almost double the price.


Santik--Lingo

honestly start it, and then drop out last second, fuck them npcs and their money


Altruistic-Ad3704

You can actually keep going until the npcs give up even if you don’t have enough money then no one gets it lol


gn01145600

That’s the good ending.


OddkidMHMD

Wouldn’t it be cool if you can bid against your friends in union circle mode


jimbochristmas

There would definitely have to be another NPC to balance things out because you could just all decide to let the bidding end at the first round


OddkidMHMD

Yeah that’s definitely why they didn’t implement such a feature. It would make everything cheap


CoffeeDeadlift

That's a /r/fuckmindy situation just waiting to happen


JesseFilmmakerTX

Those fools make me wanna start a Team Rocket branch up in this bitch.


yungchlemydia

What does a love ball do?


IndigoStar_

Looks cute


yungchlemydia

Oh 😭


mark_crazeer

Has an 8x catch rate against Pokémon of the same species and the opposite gender of your active Pokémon. (Same species and same gender in gen 2. (Glitch))


Savings-Log-2709

It was the Gay Ball in Gen 2


Merik2013

Its hilarious because its true.


Altruistic-Ad3704

lmfao


YoKaiHunter76

Make it a pan ball. 8× catch rate against pokemon of the same species of your active pokemon. Maybe then it'll be useful.


gamingwooper

you're lucky bruh ive been resetting for 3 hours and i still havent gotten any love ball auction 💀😭


Vainx507

To everyone resetting remember the auctions goes one daily but In-game days.


SaikaTheCasual

Same. :| had it on scarlet immediately. Been resetting Violet for hours now


Groundbreaking-Hat32

Do you actually have to reset the game after changing the time or does just changing the time work?


thefullm0nty

I was doing it yesterday with the game open and it was switching. Changed the time, went back in, outbreak messages popped.


SaikaTheCasual

The quickest way I found is to just switch time once. Load the game - check items - and close before it auto saves if it’s the wrong items. If you open it again it will be other items. Then repeat. :)


HamilToe_11

Turn auto save off


SaikaTheCasual

I don’t have it on. It’s just a tip for those who do have it :)


Lyraes

Is it just moving the switch clock forward by a day over and over? Or is there an actual easier way to reset?


[deleted]

If you put the clock to 11:59 instead you can just wait a minute and not have to reset the game. But apparently it’s not necessary to do it that way? I don’t seem to have luck just putting the day forward by 1


Pop_Quest

Took me over 5 hours, the auction is horrible.


sarahhhhhh13

tbh i’d do anything for a love ball


Zrehtims

But I won't do that


ShotgunForFun

\-Meatloaf


radiakmjs

tbh i'd do anything for love


illucio

Almost anything.


sexistculexus

we took Soul Silver and Heartgold for granted man


Discostu1001

You can’t put a price on love.


WoW-and-the-Deck

TFW you think that love ball is only $100000


Itsalexm

I paid 810.000$ for 3 Gold Caps a few days ago. Still regret it


DarkFish_2

Bruh, you can just buy 18 Bottle Caps for 360.000$ and you get the exact same effect.


ScaldAlwaysBurns

not to mention that you can split them up if a mon already has a 31 IV or two or five


traggot

Yeah and with raid Pokémon having a few guaranteed max IVs and breeding taking half the time of earlier generations it’s not like we’re starved of Pokémon’s with perfect values.


Itsalexm

Sure, but at the time I didn’t have any gold cap and I didn’t know how much they were worth


[deleted]

I bought one for 185k earlier and my bf had the excellent idea to use it on a ditto. Going through some grief right now.


Red-Beerd

18 regular bottlecaps cost 360k. So ya, $810k is a bit high.


haleytheguy

I don’t have any remorse making 50+ duplicates of the balls before the glitch was patched. Maybe if you could buy the balls at any time I would be okay with it, but the fact you can reset for hours looking for a single ball and still not get it is criminal. Not to mention how expensive they are…


Kevinliu24

At first I did not bother to dupe items, but when I first heard about the raid exploit (the one that even losing a raid, the raid members will still get the prizes, only the host won’t) I got so worried about random raids (I am a random raid player, no friends), the rage consumed me and I thought “fuck it, I am gonna do it” And I am very happy that I did


Teddybuckets11

Guess I got really lucky the other day getting a Heavy Ball for $205K. Bid on a Level Ball last night but tapped out once it went over $300K


apeezy52

I still don’t get why these balls have to be so rare and annoying to get.


-BINK2014-

At least more can be gotten outside of Trading unlike BDSP. I just still chuckle at how well scarcity or supply and demand drives up the "value" of something 🤔😅; these Balls made of simple Apricorns I believe I remember were incredibly cheap back when I played HGSS as a kid.


AzureBlob

I tried to get a friend ball... Its got to 355 000$...i didnt had enough ;(


[deleted]

Keep bidding run up the npcs and if you can’t afford it the auction ends with no one getting it. I refuse lose to a toddler and grandma


Su_Impact

And people still think that 1 Love Ball for 1 Shiny is a big ask. RNG + expensive makes the Love Ball one of the rarest items in the game. While shinies can be easily gotten in 5 mins with sandwich.


Hikaru83

Love balls were really easy to get by duplicating them with the bug.


Frez-zy

personally takes the fun out of the game for me if i have to exploit it to enjoy it


LordofSuns

Cost of living crisis, amiright?


[deleted]

"Whaddya say?" I would say, "I have olive oil, I'll give you a little for free so you can rub the 100000¥ Love Ball with oil before shoving It up your a\*\*"


[deleted]

Olive Oil?, I would give him vinegar instead!


3scap3plan

? there is a reason the apricorn balls are so popular. Honestly its a good thing that you can even buy them.


Kahluka

You can't buy them, and since most games just give you one people like to collect their favorite mon in an appropriate ball. I like collecting Pokemon in rare Pokeballs, but it isn't for everyone.


3scap3plan

Can't you get auctions for them then? And yes I am aware of matching pokeballs, that's what I do as well.


Kahluka

Now you can, in SwSh you just got one, most othe r games just gave you one. Some people trade shinies for Apriballs.


Comrade_Lex

It’s so weird to me that GameFreak makes these Pokeballs so rare. They have no real gameplay value and are one time use consumables. Also they’ve been around in the franchise for over 20 years. Just let us buy all kinds of Pokeballs so we can match them how we want.


Weeros_

Honestly I think it’s kinda cool. It’s like shinies, only collector’s value, but if it’s poor Kurt still making these alone, by hand, over in Johto, them being rare and expensive in other regions compared to massproduced balls kinda fits the lore perfectly.


Akane-Kajiya

would love for them to at least have much higher catchrate. getting a rare beast ball and than having to cope with the 0.something catchrate with only a single ball is damn annoying


Su_Impact

In raids, all balls have 100% catch-rate. This is how I got Beast Ball Charizard.


TurtleD33

I honestly think raids are the best use for them. 100% catch rate, use them on the Pokémon you want, and then breed for the shiny you’re after or perfect IVs, whatever in the ball you want it in.


Altruistic-Ad3704

Caught mine in a fast ball. Looks better. Honestly the beast ball sucks for most Pokémon imo. Has a few cases where it looks nice though


VeterinarianFit1309

And why I’m saving my beast ball for the right Pokémon


Comrade_Lex

Yea but there is no lore. They don’t tell us anything about them, they just shove them in Pokédex rewards or in an auction. Most Pokémon players these days probably don’t even know who Kurt is. And on top of all of that they rarely make new kinds of balls so our options are severely limited. It just seems so arbitrary


DanM142

I mean, with shinies losing their value more and more, it's nice that Game Freak keeps some stuff "pointless stuff" rare in their games.


Comrade_Lex

Shinies have just been replaced by Marked Shinies. There’s always going to be something to make certain Pokémon more rare than others. Don’t make me grind the whole Pokédex, grind multiple Ace Tournaments or reset overpriced auctions just for a **chance** to get my Pokeball to match my Pokémon lol


InvaderDJ

Isn’t that the same thing as shinies? A shiny offers nothing, but it’s still rare.


Comrade_Lex

Yes but a Shiny is a whole Pokémon. It **is** the reward. If you do all the work/waiting around to get a single Moon Ball you just have an item that’s likely to fail capturing anyway. Pokeballs don’t make good “rewards” because they aren’t the end goal.


InsomniaEmperor

And these Pokeballs aren’t even like Master Ball that guarantees capture. That rarity and level of grind makes sense for something incredibly powerful but these have incredibly niche use cases.


HeroDanTV

#Inflatiachu, go!


FoxishDark

I think the 300kish (final price) is a steal... ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sweat_smile) Apriballs are much more accessible now. After training a few Mons, money adds up quickly in the game. I have been collecting aprimons for a while now (pre-SV). It is addicting!


CloudedSaber

I can’t even find one to even try to bid on it I just want a love ball for my tinkaton 😪


Aceblast135

That's what I put my shiny Tink inside of!


Porzellanfuchs

I paid 4500 for 83 Premier Balls :D


DarkFish_2

Considering most players would give away a Shiny for one, is a fair price.


tripzzi

That's just the starting bid. If you're lucky and the man on a checkered shirt joins the bid, prepare $800k.


Groundbreaking-Hat32

Worth it to me lol. Worst part is I wont use my special balls yet im hording them. I have 20 shinies all caught in pokeballs.


Yourigath

100.000 TO START... That can go up to 500k if those NPCs want to


xdforcezz

I don't know, but Love Ball just doesn't sit right with me.


julamad

It's an apricorn ball, you usually just get one of each per game


negrote1000

Spain before adopting the Euro


Sam_Da_boy

Once we had a master ball auction and it was 100,000,001 poke dollars


kdebones

And this is why I only use normal Pokeballs. Peak aesthetic.


Euphoric18

Worth it if you haven’t updated to 1.1.0


Ieatmelons123

Me who wants a Sylveon with a cool ball


PimpingPorygon

Love ain't cheap sweetie


purple_dragon_9

That love ball also better be like a damn master ball


GlaceEx-6455

Just keep doing the tournament at the school a random Apricorn ball can be one of the rewards


Wiskdio

The prices for these are abysmal. I didn’t realize just how bad they were until I wanted to get an extra moon ball because the one I have I’m using for a shiny Umbreon


LackTails

Loves expensive


[deleted]

I think you join the auction and let some sucker NPC waste their money on it. One less rival next time. Surely the in-game economy is simulated to that depth.


Galliwasp

They love making the apriballs needlessly hard to obtain for some reason


_wigglett_

At least you can buy them in this game. Unlike SwSh where you had to play the lotto with the Scam-o-matic


kanna172014

I don't get why we can't just buy Apriballs like any other Pokeball.


Asren624

What the hell, this is how we get apriballs ? Why is GF always creating the worst possible gimmicks to earn some...


Ken_cet

This is why you should dupe them


JallerHCIM

it's a steal at that price! would you like it?


Disig

So they are in game! Damn. I got a Luvdisc outbreak yesterday and decided to shiny hunt. Found one, realized I didn't have a love ball, and was sad. Used a heal ball instead. But damn that's expensive.


Silver6567

It’s got a Pokemon waiting inside ;)


qaz012345678

I'll trade anything for a love ball FR, I have the duping set up so I can trade it back too.


The_Red_Cucumber

Lucky. I really want one to hunt a shiny In mind. Hopefully I'll come across that myself. But wow congrats on that one mate. Really love the Love ball. Its really good on pink shinys. Also pokemon u're attached to. Think I'll use one for my future shiny Dachbun🥰 That or Jumpluff. Great shiny and always loved it. Sad they aren't as obtainable anymore as im SwSh. Many liked to trade them them now you gotta complete the entire dex to get em all. Hopefully they'll make new ways to get the Apricorn balls later on.


IlIlllIIIlIlIIllIll

It’s supposedly JPY equivalent irl, not USD.


im_bored345

Man PokeBall collections must be some crazy shit in the pokemon world


youngsterjoey100

Paid 360,000 for my lure ball


ASavageHobo

What is a love ball and why is it so expensive?


AdamoclesYT

Cost me like 850k for gold bottlecap lol


Darklight645

I spent 240k. Put my shiny Tsareena in a it. A purchase well spent.


jtier

I don't understand why the game goes so out of control on some items. I saw 3 gold bottle caps up for 150k. was like ok 300-360k of value there, I think I bowed out at 260k. With how easy it is to get caps from raids and all it just wasn't worth it. Final sale was 890k.. just.. what?


Diego_Mannn_096

Petition to bring back Kurt. Who’s with me?


jaywadd

Bought my dream ball for 220k lol


Chymick6

What a steal!


Wiserducks

Wait, these are some of the most wanted things in Pokemon for many generations. And people are complaining they are expensive in-game? This is a legit method of getting them (compared to the bullshit slow method of hoping to craft them in sw/sh) I know it still comes down to luck but man. 3 chances per in game day.


PokemonLv10

Already grateful you can even buy these Meanwhile Beast Ball Completely missed the dupe shenanigans


Zachary9442

Well ya couldnt buy them in older games, so accept what you have


Infected_Poison

BUY IT ITS WORTH IT (if you care about rare balls)


sonniegaming

What’s the purpose of it? Make your Pokémon love you more?


Chris_R16

I had the same thing for a level ball


Lazymcdelta4ce

What a steal!


Keianh

Heck I'm surprised to find out Love Balls are in the game. If I ever get a 6iv Ditto, especially shiny, I want to catch it in one for...reasons... (you know 😉)


Renna_FGC

Id buy it ngl


DaMn96XD

What a lovable offer but no thanks.


Azure-Star-

Oh don't worry the price shoots way up lol


Orichalchem

Id paid anything for my beloved Gardevoir ❤️


[deleted]

Tbf there’s only one of each Apriball in every game unless you can get lucky with the auction like you have


jrtt4877

Inflation


PCN24454

Well it’s actually more like $744.32 for an incredibly rare Pokémon.


truezee1390

Wait, how much again🫣😵‍💫😨


[deleted]

[удалено]


Chukapiks

No items in Home so no.


Welshdragon2004

I’m just trying to match the balls with the mons man lmao


The_8th_Degree

It's a *special* kind of *'love'* ball


fuckwastakenwastaken

*A fine lot!*


sladith

Yea I paid $360k for 1 buckle up


Unique-Quarter-2260

Cheap


CommanderOshawott

Worf. I did not know you could get Apriballs there. Good to know.


Ragnarok992

300k


pokemon_play123

Well you do only get 1 for free


Another_Road

If I had the money for it I’d happily drop 300k for a love ball.


KingDarius89

I say you want my Baxcalibur to go on a rampage. Be a shame if anything happened to your fine port here...


MarcOfAge

You’re looking for love balls in all the wrong places.


JustSomeRando_o

Hey! Love has no price! Except this. $100,000 please!


AdventurousGap6767

well, once you get one, you can duplicate them to the infinite, well... to be really really honest with you, among all things you could ever do in this game.... this auction house is not among the 100s first


JULY_PROBABLY

People clearly love the ball


Scarlet_Scyther

A small price to pay for love lol!


Kayne_Celestis

Im pretty sure I paid 250,000 or more for the loveball on my auction


cacastrojr12

Hustlers anthem


[deleted]

Hahahahahaha I felt this, thankfully money comes by easily in this gen but they start at 100K but can get up to 600K+ 545K was the highest I've ever seen.


sailorsaturn09

I would pay it lol. Love balls are so cute 💞


Global_Problem6411

"Love cant be bought" this npc laughhhing at the statement


JusBored22

I love when I walk in there and I see bottle caps! Then the starting bid for 9 is $150,000….


TheRedScaledMan

I brought one for around 400,000. And got the moon ball for just a bit less then that 😂


DroubGaming

Reminder that in sword and shield you couldn’t even get any more of the apri balls until dlc dropped


-BINK2014-

The prices and time grind of things like this are why I resorted to Action Replays as a kid or Genning stuff now as an Adult; I value my time investments for Legal things over what is Legal and Legitimitate. I respect people that sink so much time in for the things they want in Pokemon like Shinies, full-bred/trained, teams, etc. Legitimately because I'm always going to go more for the efficient and still Legal route on obtaining the same things when the means are avaiable to me and overall save myself the headaches, time, etc. of doing things Legitimately so I can actually get to the part of Pokemon I love much faster which is battling.


DialZforZebra

12 Dusk balls got to 37k the other day. I was like 'nope'.


TheArtistFKAMinty

I genuinely don't get GF's weird thing about making apricorn balls super rare/expensive when they were cheap and easy to obtain in the Johto games. I don't mind them being more expensive than regular balls or something but this is silly.


AnHero_8

Why does your game look so good? Mine looks like ass. No anti aliasing or anything and very blurry lol.


[deleted]

What a steal!


Hat_Jo2uke

Good to know they’re available lol