the story of each pokemon game relies on you never losing a single battle
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