How do Trainer's get money? Free Healing?

[Airslash]

Where do they get money for food and stuff? Some may have jobs (Like the gym leaders in the pokemon manga, lots of them have other jobs), but what does your wandering trainer do. In the manga based of the Anime, they're was a mention of them working simple jobs (The one with the giant tree and the bulbasaur line. Misty was a waitress and Ash had a helmet with "safety first" on it) but that would be impractical and take up a month.

And why is healing your pokemon free? In the games it so you don't use up an insane amount of money. But in the Anime and Manga?

And how come the the nurse is always "We hope to see you again?" So she wants you to injure your pokemon? But that's a story for another thread...

 

[Orion-Sama]

As I once told Seijiro, that's what I believe: Trainers get money from their parents. If paren't can't help them enough, I think a national fund aids them with the basics so they can start their journey. I also believe that major battles, such as GYM Battles and League Battles earn you some money. In Leagues, you get money by participating, and you can get more in accordance to your standings.

As for Pokémon Centers being free... they must be maintained by gobvernment. Thus, their maintenance is paid via taxes...

And get it now... the nurse is just being POLITE! She doesn't wants your Pokés to get hurt again! Sheesh...

 

[Jupetta]

I was wondering about this also... my conclusion was similar to *Orion*'s.
~;354;

 

[jellsprout]

In the games, you get money after every battle.
In the games, you also don't eat, drink or even breath, so you won't need money for anything except for your Pokémon. Since I've never read the manga or seen the Anime, my answer is solely based on the games.

For the Pokémon Center, the have a whole slavery team consisting out of Electric Pokémon who provide the electricity.
The gouverment finances are also important.

If you find this strange, think about this: she's in the same spot 24/7, she is behind a desk with no entrance and every nurse in every Pokémon Center is identical. They always say the exact same thing. She also has nobody to talk to. I think that she says "I hope to see you again" is actually a cry for someone to talk to and have socialising contact with. If you're stuck behind a desk, and the only person who ever talks to you leaves for who knows how long, do you want him to leave? The nurses aren't evil, just desperate for someone to talk to.

 

[Charizard86]

It's also wired how a giant gang such as Team Magma & Aqua both exist and can cause as much havoc as they like without a single cop bothering them. At least Johto had some sort of police force going on but Hoenn seems to be the place where villians & criminals can run free and do what they like, such as taking over an entire town or kidnapping people and not getting arrested.
Amazing.

 

[Arena Tycoon Slaking]

Its a game they can do watever they want theres no real life on that gameboy screen theyre all computerised people not caring a thing about how theyre fake lives go on its a pretty simple answer really

 

[Raevell]

Wasn't it also said in AG episode 1 that the Pokemon center has free food and board? It's probably a league/tax paid for system, in my opinion. The necessities are offered to the trainers. I think they would have to get something for participating in leagues too, it would be silly if they didn't. If this were the case just about everyone in the anime would be aiming to be a bum. ^^;

And as someone else pointed out, in the game you don't even need necessities.

 

[Smile Guy]

I always figured it was etiquette to give a trainer that's just beat you a bit of money. And if you're running out of money, you'll need a job for a while.

 

[Moonlight.]

The Pokemon Center facilities are likely payed for by the Government.

In the games, the trainers get money for winning a battle.

 

[The Organizer]

In the anime pokemon trainers work at little part time jobs, but in the game trainers get money from defeating other trainers.

 

[Blaze Dragon]

In the games, the trainers get money for winning a battle.

But, if the trainers get money for winning a battle, the losers from where they obtain the money for givin to the winner?

Sorry if it`s a little messy

 

[Captain Brain]

It is probably a combination of allot of things. Including battles, parents, jobs, competitions, donations, free stuff. Living off the wild, etc.;025;

 

[Metal Force]

Trainers get money from their parents

I agree with *Orion* i do think that they get money from their parents remeber the bug catcher (3rd bug catcher) in LG/FR in the forest after you beat him he tells you that he has lost a little of his allowence?, and for non-kid/children trainers they get money from jops.

 

[SHUCKLE MAN]

I agree with *Orion* i do think that they get money from their parents remeber the bug catcher (3rd bug catcher) in LG/FR in the forest after you beat him he tells you that he has lost a little of his allowence?, and for non-kid/children trainers they get money from jops.

Well, this seems to be the most reasonable explanation to me...

 

[water types rule]

Iv'e always wondered why the old lady in the Day Care Center looks to the left and to the right before she gets you Pokemon, as if she has something to hide...

 

[Megg Lavender]

Iv'e always wondered why the old lady in the Day Care Center looks to the left and to the right before she gets you Pokemon, as if she has something to hide...

That's another thing I'd wonder about...
And for the topic, trainers either get money from their parents, or from a job. And for the free healing, it's probably free, since everyone mostly needs their Pokemon to be healed. Just paying for it would be a waste of money. :/
And, I do also wonder about why the cops don't even bother to chase after the enemy in the game... and I wonder if they still exist there... (there were cops in RBY and GSC, right?)

 

[Psychic]

I have a different theory on how trainers get money.

What if the money trainers get from winning battles aren't the real currency in the Pokémon world? They're more like credits, coupons, one that you can use for buying things for your Pokémon: healing items, TMs, stat-boosters, even for haircuts or Daycare services. You can't use them to buy food and clothing for humans, just accesories for your Pokémon.

Trainers would get real money from doing odd jobs in cities they pass by; mow the lawn here, help with groceries there, even work at social events. That money is the normal currency actually worth something, used for buying anything for humans. This normal money could probably be traded in for these Pokémon coupons, or even vice-versa, so you can sell a Super Potion you found on the ground for money for yourself, or if your Meowth picks up something off the ground after a battle, it can be used for Pokémon or traded in for money.



The free healing at Pokémon Centers is just something the Government made to accomadate trainers so they won't get robbed while camping out in some random forest or anything. The machines are easy and inexpensive to operate, as all you need is electricity. You don't need an Electric Pokémon to do all the work, but if the power is out or they're having money problems at the Center for whatever reasons, you just find a trainer with a Pikachu and your machine is back online.

Oh, and Nurse Joy is only trying to be friendly...what do you WANT her to say?


~Psychic

 

[[Kingdra]]

I guess their currency is practically useless and they have a lot of it

 

[feebas_factor]

Hmm... I dunno, it seems weird either way.

- If trainer's food, shelter and pokecenter services are paid for by the gouvernment; I pity the poor suckers who actually work for a living. Imagine the taxes they must pay! No wonder everyone wants to be a pokemon trainer. It's basically being a bum who leeches off the rest of society. And for what? A few interesting pokemon battles? Bah... those parasitic trainers.

- If a trainer uses the money they earn in battle to pay for food, shelter, etc; then they must either win ALOT of battles, or when your lose you hand over your entire life's savings. Either that or they just never eat or drink or sleep... ooo, creepy.

- If a trainer must also work, do odd jobs, etc. to earn money to live; then basically being a trainer means being a drifter with no career. Hey kids! How would you like to leave home at a young age, give up your education and any hope for a successful career to become a pokemon trainer! The hours are long, you'll have to work like a dog just to survive and you'll usually find yourself sleeping on dirt... but hey, you'll be a pokemon trainer! ... yeh, why would anyone want to do that? Imagine how tough it'd be to survive just doing odd jobs, while at the same time trying to raise a team of pokemon.

In conclusion... I still haven't decided which one maybe isn't so weird, so I dunno.

 

[Kabuto]

In the games you get money for winning battles but in the anime I'd assume they get their money from their parents. Not like it matters, they never mentioned money even once in the anime (to my knowledge).