Pokémon – This is how much a Poké Ball would cost in real life

On October 29, 2022By Garmin Philip

Pokémon fans calculated how expensive a Poké Ball would be in real life.

As is well known, in Game Freaks Pokémon RPGs we have always paid with the “Pokédollar” currency, which we earn in trainer battles, in order to then spend it on a wide variety of items. For example, a single Poké Ball costs 200 Pokédollars in the in-game supermarket – but how much money would that actually be in real life?

This question has come up regularly in the Pokémon community for several years, such as this one Reddit thread. There are now several theories about it – some simple, others impressively complex and mathematical. We have broken down the most common price theory for you. Don’t worry, we’ll spare you complex math.

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That’s about how much a Poké Ball costs in euros/US dollars

The most common calculation for the real life price of a Poké Ball is really simple and plausible. Blogger Aqua Admin Matt explains it very clearly in his blog post: We only have to look at how much items cost in the game that are also on the supermarket shelves in real life.

In the Pokémon RPGs, for example, we can buy consumables such as lemonade, sparkling water or cow-moo milk that we can use to heal the HP of our pocket monsters if necessary. Here’s the price in Pokédollars for a fresh bottle of Miltank’s Kuhmoo milk.

Cowmoo Milk = 500 Pokédollars

The blogger puts the current US retail price for a liter of fresh cow’s milk at $3.6. If $3.6 equals 500 Pokedollars, then $0.0072 equals one Pokedollar. We then multiply the 0.0072 US dollars by 200 (because a Poké Ball in the game costs 200 Poké Dollars) and then arrive at a value of $1.44 for a single Poké Ball, which according to the current exchange rate (as of October 28, 2022) is 1.45 equivalent to euros. Sorry, but a little math had to be.

Summarized: According to this calculation, a Poké Ball would cost 1.45 euros

A Super Ball would therefore be available for 2.16 euros (300 Pokédollars) and a Hyper Ball for 8.64 euros (1200 Pokédollars). Of course, these can never be exact prices, but only guide values, since the result depends on which real-life price we take as the starting point for the calculation.

Aqua Admin Matt goes even further in his blog post, by the way, and also calculates how much prize money coaches would give away after winning a fight (anywhere between $28 and $50). A decent amount of pocket money, don’t you agree?

Pokedollar = Yen? Incidentally, some other fans instead assume that 1 Pokédollar is simply equal to 1 yen. 200 Pokédollars would then be 200 yen. Converted, we would therefore shell out $1.36 or 1.37 euros for a Poké Ball.

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