Valuable item
- Gold Leaf redirects here. For the item in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, see Shiny Leaf.
- Stardust redirects here. For the currency in Pokémon GO, see Stardust (GO).
A valuable item is an item which generally serves no practical purpose other than to be sold, usually for a high price.
In Generation II and IV, it is possible to buy some of these items for a discount (but only one of each per day) on Mondays in the morning in the Goldenrod Tunnel. In Pokémon Black, some of these items are sold in Black City, albeit for prices much higher than they can be sold for. Often, these items later become exchangeable items. In Generation V, mulches and flutes became valuable items due to losing their function. While most of these items can be sold at Poké Marts, those introduced in Generation V can only be sold to certain item maniacs. Besides Big Nuggets, Pearl Strings and Comet Shards, the player can also sell normal Nuggets, Pearls and Big Pearls, Stardust and Star Pieces to the maniac inside the Icirrus Pokémon Center, for double the price presented below.
Valuable items that can be sold in Poké Marts
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Note: Formatted as TinyMushroom prior to Generation VI |
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Mulches
- Main article: Mulch
Flutes
- Main article: Flute
Valuable items that can only be sold to item maniacs in Unova
Route 5
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Note: Formatted as BalmMushroom in Generation V. Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games. |
Icirrus City
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Note: Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games. |
Undella Town
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Note: Cannot be sold to Poké Marts in the Generation V games, X, and Y. |
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Artwork
Underground
This is artwork of the items as seen in the Sinnoh Underground
Star Piece | Rare Bone |
Global Link
This is artwork of the items as seen on the Pokémon Global Link.
Nugget | Big Nugget | Pearl | Big Pearl | Pearl String |
Shoal Shell | Shoal Salt | Stardust | Star Piece | Comet Shard |
File:Dream TinyMushroom Sprite.png | ||||
Tiny Mushroom | Big Mushroom | Balm Mushroom | Rare Bone | Pretty Wing |
Strange Souvenir | Relic Band | Relic Copper | Relic Silver | Relic Gold |
Relic Crown | Relic Statue | Relic Vase |
In the anime
In Defending the Homeland!, Clemont mentioned having used Big Mushrooms as a part of the new food he had just made for the group.
In the manga
In the Pokémon Adventures manga
In Ursaring Major, Team Rocket had cut off the tails of a herd of Slowpoke by the Slowpoke Well near Azalea Town, planning to sell them for profit. However, they were stopped by Silver and his Ursaring before they could do so.
A Big Pearl appeared in Crossing Crobat, where it was retrieved by Janine as part of a test to check the security of the Goldenrod Museum.
A Big Mushroom appeared in Old Wounds, where Shoko gave it to one of her Patrat to hold while demonstrating Black her Marvelous Bridge Partrat Show.
Trivia
- The SlowpokeTail is actually a useless item with no function past its monetary value. Although it is said that a Slowpoke will use its tail for fishing, a SlowpokeTail has no effect on fishing at all, nor does it have any effect on Shellder despite the fact that contact with a Slowpoke's tail usually induces a spiral change.
- The first time that humans eating Pokémon is mentioned explicitly in the games is when a Team Rocket member mentions the SlowpokeTail's value as a delicacy. In Pokémon X and Y, Slowpoke Tail is one of the dishes served by Restaurant Le Yeah in Lumiose City.
- The Japanese name for nugget, きんのたま kin no tama, literally means "golden ball", which is also a colloquial term for testicles. The man offering his "golden ball" is a frequent joke amongst Japanese fans. As this pun would be lost in translation, as well as the fact that it would not go over well with parent groups, it was translated as "nugget of wisdom".
- The Rare Bone and Thick Club share the same Bag sprite.
In other languages
Nugget
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Brick Piece
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Gold Leaf
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Silver Leaf
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Pearl
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Big Pearl
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Slowpoke Tail
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Shoal Salt
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Shoal Shell
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Stardust
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Star Piece
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Tiny Mushroom
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Big Mushroom
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Rare Bone
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Pretty Wing
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Balm Mushroom
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Comet Shard
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Big Nugget
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Pearl String
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Strange Souvenir
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Relic Band
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Relic Copper
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Relic Silver
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Relic Gold
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Relic Crown
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Relic Statue
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Relic Vase
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Types of items | |
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General | Evolution stones • Fossils • Flutes • Shards • Held items Evolution items • Escape items • Exchangeable items • Valuable items Battle items • Scents • Nectars • Candy • Ingredients |
Medicine | Status condition healing items • Vitamins • Feathers Mints • Mochi • Drinks • Herbal medicine |
Berry and Apricorn | Poké Balls • Apricorns • Berries • Mulch |
Aesthetic | Decorations • Accessories • Backdrops • Props • Décor Clothing (XY • SMUSUM • LGPE • SwSh • BDSP • LA • SV) |
Other | Mail • Key Items • Event items Wonder Launcher items • Rotom Powers |
This item article is part of Project ItemDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on all items. |