Pay Day (move)

Pay Day
ネコにこばん Coin for a Cat
Type  Normal
Category  Physical
PP  20 (max. 32)
Power  40
Accuracy  100%
Priority  0
Range
Opponent Opponent Opponent
Self Ally Ally
Unknown
Availability
Introduced  Generation I
Condition  Smart
Appeal  1
Jam  0  
???
Condition  Smart
Appeal  1
Earn +3 if the Pokémon gets the lowest score.
Condition  Smart
Appeal  0  
Jamming  0  

Pay Day (Japanese: ネコにこばん Coin for a Cat, lit. Neko ni Koban) is a Normal-type move introduced in Generation I that deals a small amount of damage.

The Japanese name of Pay Day is a Japanese proverb akin to Pearls Before Swine.

Effect

Generation I

Pay Day does damage, and each use scatters coins on the ground with a value equal to twice the user's level. These coins can't be collected.

In-game, the coins scattered by Pay Day are picked up if the player wins the battle.

Learnset

Generation I

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0052   Meowth
Fighting 17
0053   Persian
Normal 17
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.

By TM01

#   Pokémon Type
0025   Pikachu
Electric
0026   Raichu
Electric
0031   Nidoqueen
Poison Ground
0034   Nidoking
Poison Ground
0052   Meowth
Normal
0053   Persian
Normal
0054   Psyduck
Water
0055   Golduck
Water
0056   Mankey
Fighting
0057   Primeape
Fighting
0079   Slowpoke
Water Psychic
0080   Slowbro
Water Psychic
0086   Seel
Water
0087   Dewgong
Water Ice
0112   Rhydon
Rock Ground
0143   Snorlax
Normal
0151   Mew
Psychic
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.

By leveling up

#   Pokémon Type Level
0052   Meowth
Normal 20
0053   Persian
Normal 20
Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB
from this move.


By breeding

Template:Learnlist/breeding |- | style="background: #FFF; font-family:monospace,monospace" | 0187 | style="background: #FFF; text-align: center;" |   | style="background: #FFF" | Hoppip
| colspan="1" style="background:#3FA129; text-align: center;" | Grass || style="background:#81B9EF" align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" | Flying | style="background: #FFF" | Pikachu, Raichu

|- | colspan="6" | Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move.
Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move.
*Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.
|} |}

Generation III

By leveling up

Generation IV

By leveling up


Other appearances

When a Meowth appears in a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros Brawl it uses Pay Day.

In other languages

  • French: Jackpot
  • German: Zahltag
  • Italian: Giornopaga
  • Spanish: Día De Pago
Generation I TMs
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Generation I HMs
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