Dear Nintendo, hi, it's me, Austin And I'm here once again to take your cute, beloved franchise adored by millions, And twist it until it's barely Recognizable for both my own amusement and for the amusement of other cynical jerks out there like me Recently, MatPat deduced that being a Pokemon trainer Was the worst career move you could possibly make, and you know what? He's totally right. The boring old workaday trainer job is not only grueling It's just not freakin worth it Amazingly though, in my own journey into the Pokemon universe I discovered something that Mat missed.
Something that honestly I think we all missed. I didn't see a single comment in that video about this. There is a secret loophole, that if you're willing to forego the normal path of wearing holes in the bottom of your shoes walking miles Down routes 1 through 17 in your quest to become the literal best Pokemon trainer in the universe, only to be rewarded with enough Change to buy yourself a victory dinner and a cheap hotel room for the night *Deep Breaths* You can become the richest person in the entire world in practically no time at all, and destroy entire Nations in the process, and in order to do that, you're gonna have to do one Simple thing. get yourself a Pokemon that knows the move payday Mat gets a pass from missing this move because, well for one thing it kind of misses the spirit of the Pokemon games and the anime, which is to go on an adventure and enslave sentient creatures and force them to fight each other to the death for your amusement and profit, but I actually discovered this completely by accident. You see my original goal, the original video I was going to do was to figure out of all 728 Pokemon moves, which was the most dangerous and damaging of them. And I got all the way down the list to move to the six. Move six entropay New Zealand! Six entries in, and I'm already distracted! I'm trying to figure things out, give the people the blood, gore and horror that they want out of the game meant for children, and here I am distracted by the jingling car keys of "Boy! I just gotta know how much money you can make from payday!" For the purposes of this video We're gonna use the figure MatPat uses Where a hundred pokedollars is thirty nine cents in US currency Which I did double check and seems to be on the level. Anyway, on with the show. How much money can you make using the move payday? For those of you who don't know, payday is a move learned almost exclusively by the Pokemon Meowth or their evolutionary forms. It's a physical normal type move where your Pokemon attacks your opponents by literally throwing money at them. As a nice bonus at the end of the battle, you get to pick up all the money from the ground and keep it! Providing you wipe the blood and fur of the murder victim off of it first. The way the amount is calculated is pretty simple It's the level of your Pokemon times five per use. If you use it, three times the level five Meowth That's 75 smackers use it once with the level 100 Meowth the boom five hundo right in the pocket all for the low low price of a little bit of Pokemon PTSD So basically on that little bit of information right there you can see that the goal to making a buck would be to simply have the highest level Pokemon use payday the most in a short amount of time right and for the sake of simplicity and to save room for later because I have a lot of info to Get through today. Let's run through it like this You take a level 100 Meowth through a high level like Poni Gauntlet and start running in circles Let's say that you have the ability Illuminate active, which doubles your encounter rate and let's say you were even smarter and equipped an amulet coin to double the money you earn At the end of the battle, taking into account that each step takes exactly a fifth of a second That means it'll be approximately one point zero seven seven (1.077) seconds on average until you encounter a wild Pokemon Which will be around level 15-55 Boom! You two-shot it using payday the Pokemon dies without getting a chance to write home to his family. Since you're level 100 you use Payday twice, that's two thousand big ones right there or $7.80, and then you rinse and repeat this over and over and over again. Given that the average battle would last approximately forty two point eight three seconds plus the average of one point zero seven seven seconds in between battles, this means that you're earning a cool forty five point five four (45.54) Pokedollars or eighteen cents per second That is a whopping ten dollars and sixty six cents per minutes or six hundred and thirty nine Dollars and forty nine cents per hour. That is over twenty eight times the average hourly wage in the United States according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics That means if you work 8 hours a day Nine-to-five murder-genociding helpless Pokemon five days a week for a whole year., you'll make a salary of--get this--over 1.3 million dollars a year. Boom! Suck on that, Elite Four! Instead of being the very best that no one ever was I'm just gonna sit around in luxurious capitalist fashion and reap the fruits of my cute little cat's labor every day before going home to my glorious McMansion. Like between being a nomad with aching feet and being a millionaire entrepreneur I know which I would pick, but it doesn't stop there--oh, no--because A business is not a business if it cannot be scaled up. So how do we scale this up? well for that we're gonna have to turn to youtuber verily--verily...Verlisify? Verlisify. Verlisifaius the third...? I don't know how to say it. anyway, he figured out a way to twist and exploit the world of Pokemon for his own personal gain in a Truly magnificent fashion using a combination of the Pokemon Smeargle, who can learn a move called sketch which allows him to copy any move he wants in the SOS mechanic from ultra Sun and ultra moon allows you to build a pokemon with the moveset Roost, Payday, Happy Hour, and False Swipe. Happy hour doubles the amount of reward money that you receive from a battle which combined with the amulet coin Leads to a four times money payout, NOW WE'RE COOKIN' WITH GAS! Whereas these combined skills allow you to maximize your payouts, Roost and False Swipe allow you to essentially prolong a battle for an eternity Forcing your opponent to call for help every turn while you mercilessly pelt them with money, turning the game from a cute visualization of cartoonish dogfighting into a sort of meat grinder simulator where you drop Pokemon in one end and pick blood-soaked money out the other. Eventually you reach a maximum payout of a hundred thousand Pokedollars or three hundred ninety bucks and the battle collector winnings and start the process all over again Now we know that these battles happen in real time because time in the Pokemon world progresses at the exact same rate as our world, and amazingly this Streamlined process bumps your salary from a still pretty impressive six hundred and thirty nine dollars and forty nine cents per hour to one thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and 64 cents per hour or 2.4 million dollars a year. That is quite the freaking stack of cash a suspiciously high stack of cash. Which brings us back to what I mentioned earlier: "-and destroy entire nations in the process!" Those of you who know a thing or two about Economics know that money doesn't come from nowhere. And as far as I see it the move payday a move that remember involves throwing a literal, valid, spendable currency at your opponent acquires its money in one of two ways. Either A). It's a glorified printing press where whoever uses it is essentially pooping out fresh money on the fly which means you're really gonna have to invest in some.. money laundering..? Or B). It's teleporting valid currency from somewhere in the world into your pokemons hands. Essentially glorified theft, which 'yikes.' Now, I'm gonna be honest: according to my calculations one person doing this would not negatively impact the economy one way or the other by all that much. Although, I'm sure you would definitely raise some eyebrows over at the IRS. But if the chaotic windfall of bitcoins has taught us anything Where there's easy money to be made short-sighted people will come rushing from all corners of the globe There's a 100% chance if this money-making scheme were discovered, it would not remain a secret and in order to figure out the economic impact of this move, we're gonna have to figure out how many people are using it across the entire world of Pokemon. Now it's hard to tell exactly how many people would catch wise But we can build an approximation from the very video that outlines this method as of this moment the money making guide by Verlisify has 19 hundred likes on it, which is probably the closest estimate we'll get for folk who are playing Ultra Sun and Moon that are using this method. Now hold on to your butts because we're gonna use this one number: One thousand, nine hundred... and use it to blow your electrode. So considering that at least 1900 people are presumably using this method to get rich in ultra Sun and Moon, we need to figure out a few things; the population of the various Pokemon regions their gross domestic product or GDP, which is economic shorthand for how much money this country is worth. Although that's a bit reductive and it's incredibly difficult to know for certain how much money is in the world. This is the closest thing to a real number we can use to estimate how big the giant pool of Pokedollars is. The Pokemon canon is comprised of seven major regions- Kanto, Johto Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. All of which are based off of real world locations almost to the exact layout Kanto is the Kanto region of Japan, Johto is the Kansai region, Hoenn is the Kyushu and Sinnoh is the Hokkaido region while Unova is New York and New Jersey and Kalos is France and Alola, of course, is Iceland. I mean - Hawaii. Using the maps we have available, I overlaid them with the various regions our real world they're based on the get estimates of their area, which we can use in conjunction with population densities to get an estimated population Unova was the most difficult since the Hudson hack and saw and the East aren't perfectly aligned with a Unova while Alola was the easiest since I could just copy and paste everything. Given the approximate population densities of each region the Pokemon ones are based on and their square miles and kilometers I determined that Kanto has a population of seven hundred and thirty eight thousand, Johto eight hundred ninety four thousand Hoenn nine hundred and eighty seven thousand Sinnoh 1.3 million, Innova 8.7 million Kalos five hundred forty-seven thousand and Aloha eight hundred ninety seven thousand or a total population of fourteen point one seven million in all the mainstay Pokemon games. Since nineteen hundred people is exactly 0.21% of the population of Alola -and I'm presuming for the sake of simplicity that this percentage of users remains consistent across region- means that in total, there's approximately twenty nine thousand nine hundred ninety, three people using the payday and happy hour amulet Pokemon genocide method of money-making.
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