when you do lose a battle, you “black out” and start over in a pokecenter and you redo the battle until you win
when you black out it’s because you were in a doomed splinter off the main timeline and youre being taken back to your Victory Timeline
u lose u die
Then why do you also lose money?
the time-space grim reaper that drags your soul back to the Alpha Timeline jacks ur wallet while your consciousness transfers across the aetherial plane
when your consciousness overrides the old one in the Victory timeline the old one gets sent to the Mystery Dungeon universe and wakes up as the player Pokémon
B O L Y F U C K ! ! !