The Move That BROKE Pokemon! | The SCIENCE... of Pokemon Pay Day

Dear Nintendo, Hello, 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 the amusement of other cynical morons like me. Recently, MatPat deduced that being a Pokémon trainer was the worst

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. professional you could do, and you know what? You are absolutely right. The boring day-to-day job of coaching is not only exhausting, it's simply not worth it. Surprisingly, on my own journey into the Pokémon universe I discovered something that Mat overlooked. Something I honestly think we all missed.

I didn't see a single comment on that video about this. There is a secret loophole that, if you are willing to give up the normal path of wearing holes in the soles of your shoes, walking miles on routes 1 to 17 in your quest to literally become the best Pokémon trainer in the universe, only to be rewarded. with enough change to buy you a victory dinner and a cheap hotel room for the night *Deep breaths* You can become the richest person in the world in practically no time and destroy entire nations in the process, and in order.

To do that, you'll have to do one simple thing. Get yourself a Pokémon that knows the payday

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. Mat gets a pass for missing this move because, well, for one thing, he misses the spirit of the Pokémon games and anime, which is to go on an adventure and enslave sentient creatures and the force. fight each other to the death for their fun and benefit, but I actually discovered this completely by accident. You see, my original goal, the original video I was going to make was to find out among the 728 Pokémon moves, which one was the most dangerous and damaging of them.

And I went through the entire list to go to six. Move six! Six innings and I'm already distracted! I'm trying to figure things out, give people the blood, gore and horror they want from a game aimed at kids, and here I am distracted by the car keys jingling of "Boy! I just have to know how much money ". You can earn from payday! For the purposes of this video, we'll use the figure that MatPat uses, where one hundred pokedollars is thirty-nine cents in US currency. I double checked and it seems to be on par. Anyway, let's get on with the show.

How much money can you make with moving payday? For those who don't know, Payday is a move learned almost exclusively by Pokémon Meowth or its evolutionary forms. It's a normal-type physical move where your Pokémon attacks your opponents by literally throwing money at them. As a nice bonus at the end of the battle, you'll be able to pick up all the money on the ground and keep it! As long as you clean the murder victim's blood and fur first. The way the amount is calculated is pretty simple: it's your Pokémon's level multiplied by five per use.

If you use it, three times Meowth's level five. That's 75 strokes. Use it once with level 100 Meowth, boom five hundo right in your pocket, all for the low price of a little Pokémon PTSD. Basically, in that bit of information right there, you can see that the goal of making money would simply be for the highest level Pokémon to use Payday to its fullest in a short period of time, for the sake of simplicity and to save space. for later because I have a lot. of information to pass on today. Let's go over it like this.

You take a level 100 Meowth through a high level like Poni Gauntlet and start running in circles. Let's say you have the Enlighten skill active, which doubles your encounter rate, and let's say you get even smarter and equip an amulet. currency to double the money you earn at the end of the battle, keeping in mind that each step takes exactly one-fifth of a second. That means it will take approximately one point zero seven (1,077) seconds on average until you encounter a wild card. Pokémon That will be around level 15-55 Boom! If you shoot it twice using Payday, the Pokémon dies without having a chance to write to its family.

Since you're at level 100, you use Payday twice, it's two grand or $7.80, and then you rinse and repeat this over and over again. Since the average battle would last approximately forty-two point eight three seconds plus the average of one point zero seven seven seconds between battles, this means you're earning forty-five point five four (45.54) Pokedollars or eighteen cents per second. It's a whopping ten dollars and sixty-six cents per minute or six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-nine cents per hour. That's more than twenty-eight times the average hourly wage in the United States according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

That means if you work 8 hours a day, nine to five helpless, murderous, genocidal Pokémon five days a week week for a whole year. , you'll earn a salary of, get it, more than $1.3 million a year. Boom! Suck that, Elite Four! Instead of being the best anyone ever was, I'll just sit back in luxurious capitalist style and reap the fruits of my cute kitty's labor every day before returning to my glorious McMansion. Like between being a nomad with sore feet and being a millionaire businessman, I know which one I would choose, but it doesn't end there, oh, no, because a business is not a business if it cannot be expanded.

So how do we scale this up? Well, for that we're going to have to turn to the real YouTuber--really... Verlisify? Verlisify. Verlisifaius the third...? I do not know how to say it. Anyway, he discovered a way to twist and exploit the world of Pokémon for his personal benefit in a truly magnificent way using a combination of Pokémon Smeargle, who can learn a move called sketch that allows him to copy any move he wants. Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon's SOS mechanic allows you to build a Pokémon with the Roost, Payday, Happy Hour, and False Swipe moveset.

Happy Hour doubles the amount of reward money you receive from a battle which, when combined with the Amulet Coin, results in a four times larger cash payout. NOW WE ARE COOKING WITH GAS! While these combined abilities allow you to maximize your payouts, Roost and False Swipe allow you to essentially drag out a battle for an eternity, forcing your opponent to call for help every turn while you mercilessly throw money at them, making the game less of a cute visualization of cartoony dogfights in a sort of meat grinder simulator where you drop Pokémon in at one end and scoop out blood-soaked money at the other.

Eventually you reach a maximum payout of one hundred thousand Pokedollars or three hundred and ninety dollars and the battle collector wins and starts the process over. We now know that these battles happen in real time because time in the Pokémon world moves at exactly the same rate. like our world, and surprisingly this simplified process increases your salary from a still quite 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 per year. That's a damn pile of cash, a suspiciously tall pile of cash.

Which brings us back to what I mentioned before: "and destroying 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 payday move, a move to remember, involves throwing a literal, valid, spendable coin to your opponent, who acquires your money in one of two ways. Either A). It's a glorified printing press where whoever uses it is essentially wasting fresh money as they go, which means you're really going to have to invest in some... money laundering...? OR B).

It's teleporting valid currency from somewhere in the world into your Pokémon's hands. Essentially glorified theft, let it "wow." Now, I'm going to be honest: by my calculations, one person doing this would not negatively impact the economy one way or another. Although, I'm sure you would definitely surprise the IRS. But the chaotic windfall of bitcoins has taught us something. Where easy money can be made, short-sighted people will come running from all corners of the world. There is a 100% chance that if this money-making scheme were discovered, it would not remain a secret and to determine the economic impact of this move, we will have to find out how many people are using it throughout the Pokémon world.

Now it's hard to say exactly how many people would notice. But we can build an approximation from the same video that describes this method. Right now, Verlisify's Money Making Guide has 1,900 likes, which is probably the closest estimate we have. I will get it for people who play Ultra Sun and Moon and use this method. Now grab your butts because we're going to use this number: nineteen hundred... and we're going to use it to blow up your electrodes. So, considering that at least 1900 people are presumably using this method to get rich in ultra Sun and Moon, we need to find out a few things; the population of the various Pokémon regions, their gross domestic product or GDP, which is an economic shorthand for how much money this country is worth.

Although that's a bit reductionist and it's incredibly difficult to know for sure how much money there 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 Pokémon canon is made up of seven main regions: Kanto, Johto Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola. All of which are based on real-world locations with almost the exact design: Kanto is the Kanto region of Japan, Johto is the Kansai region, Hoenn is 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 of our real world. They are based on estimates of their area, which we can use in conjunction with population densities to obtain an estimated population. Unova was the hardest since the Hudson hack andsaw and East isn't perfectly aligned with Unova, while Alola was the easiest since you could copy and paste everything. Given the approximate population densities of each region the Pokémon are based on and their square miles and kilometers, I determined that Kanto has a population of seven hundred thirty-eight thousand, Johto eight hundred ninety-four thousand Hoenn nine hundred 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 across all main Pokémon games.

Since nineteen hundred people are exactly 0.21% of Alola's population - and, for the sake of simplicity, I assume that this percentage of users remains constant throughout the region - it means that, in total, there are approximately twenty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-three people. using the payday charm

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genocide method and happy hour to make money. But we're not done yet because while this is incredibly useful in determining how much money is being created, it doesn't give us an idea of ​​what the economic impact would be. For that we need to multiply that GDP per capita by the gross domestic product per person for each person in each region.

According to the GDP of the respective countries, the United States has the highest PC GDP of fifty-seven thousand fifteen dollars and sixty-six. cents, followed by Japan with thirty-eight thousand eight hundred eighty-nine dollars and seventy-six cents and finally France with thirty-six thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and four cents, which when multiplied appropriately gives us a total Pokémon GDP of one point. eight billion poka. dollars or seven hundred twenty-four billion real world dollars. Well, do you have all that? Do you need a glass of water? For sure yes. Alright, our gigantic reserve of money for this video is seven hundred and twenty-four billion dollars, but we have almost thirty thousand people or 0.21% of the population working eight hours a day five days a week to make the most of it . money they can.

Interestingly, it is estimated that approximately 0.33 percent of the population is behind bitcoins. So this number remains the same. So let me present you with a scenario. You are the first person to discover this Pokédollar printing method. You start making thousands of dollars every day and one day someone says, "Hey, why do you look so rich all of a sudden?" and you know, she's your best friend, so she decides what the harm is and tell one person. So you give him the details and go about your business effectively printing your own money and meanwhile the online forums dedicated to Pokédollar mining start to stir.

Creepy, fraudulent companies are starting to form. Suddenly, a year later, everyone joins the Hodl gang. Your secret is out, and now thirty thousand people are murdering psyducks every day to increase the size of their Pokémon bank account so they can get closer and closer to that elusive Poké-lambo. Assuming this method prints money instead of, say, stealing it from old ladies teleportation style, what does this mean? Inflation. with so many peopleBy printing so much money, we have gone from infusing the market with just two million, four hundred and thirty-five thousand, two hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety cents a year to a terrifyingly high figure of seventy-five billion, nine hundred and sixty-four million, one hundred and eighty-five thousand and eight dollars. with 20 cents per year creating - get this - an annual inflation rate of ten point four eight percent.

Which is not good at all. A little inflation is a good thing. The US Federal Reserve tries to keep it around three percent each year because it encourages spending and growth. However, ten point four eight percent would have a quite negative impact on the economy. People would want to save money or even borrow money because one hundred dollars they have in January would be worth eighty-nine dollars and fifty cents in December. We know for a fact that inflation like this is bad because it is the rate our country maintained during several serious economic crises over the last fifty years.

While it probably wouldn't kill people, unemployment rates would rise and the government would begin investigating why inflation had risen so high without their involvement. "Which markets are unsupervised and unregulated?" they might ask. (That's a scam!) And boom, suddenly you and your 30,000-person company find yourself before a congressional ethics board, sanctions are imposed, and guilt! Payday grinding is prohibited. It's not the best result, but it's not the worst either. The worst thing that happens here is that you yourself become the Bernie Madoff or Martin Shkreli of the Pokémon world. They would write about you in textbooks for basic business courses about the dangers of seeking arbitrage.

It's not great, but at least you're still alive and maybe you'll get a great deal on a book. However, the same cannot be said if Payday, instead of acting like a printing press, steals money from somewhere. And honestly, knowing how the Pokémon world works, this seems much more likely. I mean, what is a cat or whatever Smeargle is like, a Bob Rossian dog? Anyway, how are they able to make money out of nothing? The mere logistics of keeping that amount of metal stored in their bodies for spontaneous synthesis is worrying. While Pokeballs and other Pokémon such as Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam have shown that teleportation and the casual abuse of quantum entanglement are common in this universe.

It makes a lot more sense that those Pokémon are teleporting money from local cash registers, safes, banks, and mattresses into their hands to throw at their enemies and shit, if this is the case, the whole damn world is screwed. I'm sure everything is fine at first. on wheels, but after a few weeks in which 30,000 people effectively stole money from others, the world economy would begin to collapse. I mean, just for reference, the rich 0.21% in America control a little over 11% of the country's wealth, and conservatively, it took them at least a few years to obtain that wealth, probably decades.

It would take 0.21% of Pokémon trainers to use these moves 282 days. There are only 10 months left to be at the same level and from there we will continue to rise. I mean, whatever your political leanings are, look out the window, look on Twitter, you know? Isn't it great right now people are angry, some people want to protect their wealth, other people want to redistribute wealth and we're just here, we're here where the top 0.21% control 11.37% of the wealth! Can you imagine what it would be like if 0.21% controlled, I don't know, a quarter of the wealth? Well, less than two years after our setting, that's where we are in the Pokémon universe.

Half the wealth? Less than three and a half years. At the end of a five-year period, if this pattern continued until the top 0.21% of the Pokémon world's rich would control almost ¾ of all the money in existence. There would be an unstoppable uprising, probably long before this point. Political leaning would hardly matter because everyone is on the same page when you are starving. From the left, from the right, everyone would unite under the banner of cutting off your damn head so they could afford to eat. The redistribution of wealth would not even be a political issue, it would be the meaning between life and death for 99.79% of the world's population.

And once thirty thousand heads rolled, there would undoubtedly be bloody civil wars in which masses of hungry and desperate people with different life experiences and ideologies would fight over how to distribute this money among the people. It would be a war with death like we have never seen before. It would be devastating, spanning entire continents, and costing the lives of millions of innocent people, all because you didn't want to work for an honest living, so, sure. Training Pokémon may not be the best way to live, but it's a hell of a lot better than spending your life in prison or having millions of people cheer while your head is chopped off.

Be save. Be responsible. Don't use payday. And apparently, don't be a Pokémon trainer either, just... be one of those guys who owns a store that sells Pokéballs to ten-year-olds. It's much safer. Sincerely, Austin.