0:09 Chief should get a POW medal just for completionism. He was after all held "captive" by the Gravemind on Delta Halo, force choked by the Didact, and left adrift in space by Atriox.
The existence of the Shaping Sickness is still relatively classified, so the only ones who know of his capture by the Gravemind would be able to award his medal. Even then, admitting a Spartan was captured, especially THE Spartan, would be a devastating blow to Human morale, be it during peacetime or war. - A message from His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm der Große.
Getting choked and yeeted don't make you a POW, and the Gravemind was just talking to him, I rhink most military personnel(myself included) would not consider this imprisonment, more like kidnapping.
Wasn't he straight up captured by an Innie in the books? I forget which one but I feel like I distinctly remember a moment where a prominent Innie leader is sort of trash talking him only for that guy to take a massive L and either lose/outright die moments later.
Technically Cortana held all of blue team captive in her sanctum during Halo 5 and only got out after Fireteam Osiris broke them out of it. So he was technically a prisoner then.
@@weasel003gaming7 Your comment reminds me of the walking stick from A Bug’s Life who doesn’t like getting laughed at. Not because he’s a clown, but because he’s a prop, always being cast as the broom… the pole… the stick… a SPLINTER! Only to be reminded (by me) that he’s a walking stick. Which is why the joke’s funny. Now laugh!
Chief definitely has to have the highest direct kill count. Although I will say that Admiral Cole and Gray team are each responsible for more covenant deaths than anyone else
Admiral Whitcomb can at least give them a run for their money, destroying an entire planet and its moon plus destroying the largest Covenant fleet ever seen (before Delta Halo). The Wiki even says he might have a higher individual kill count than the entire Spartan program.
To add to the utter terror of that number: That is just from the tail-end of the war. Even if it's due to the fact all sides were tossing in the heaviest they've got left, John-117 had two and a half decades to raise that count. There's plenty of Covenant ships, stations, bunkers, space elevators, armadas, armies, and possibly even cities he would've had to blow up during the course of the war. We know Spartan-II Modus Operanti for finishing missions is blowing them the heck up. As others noted, Admiral Preston Cole and Grey Team reach his kill count, if not outright beat it, but he's one to willingly send himself into the mouth of hell so others don't have to... and somehow, survive and win. To add to it all, in Silent Storm, John-117 himself doesn't even believe he's the best -- simply the most famous one. The average Spartan is just as much of a beast.
John says blatantly the he's not necessarily the best in Shadows of Reach. "There's difference between the best and best known. We are all quite capable."
Silent Storm is a joke. Anything written by Troy Denning is a fucking joke. In one of his books he mentions MJOLNIR armor having a fission pack worn by John. Like bro, if you're going to write for us at least know the lore. I still read anything by Halo but his books are either free on TH-cam or returned(I kept Silent Storm because I don't want to be a douche, even though he deserves it)
I love the idea that this one man has single handedly caused the end of over 1 billion lives in the defense of humanity I don't think hyper lethal can even begin to describe that, truthfully
Well the US Army has around 1 million personnel and the Chinese Army had around 3 million. A hyper lethal vector is able to take our entire armies by themselves. 1B is a lot more than 3M but that 1B wasn’t all at once. Additionally, it says a Spartan is to an elite military force what Superman is to a regular person. I think Hyper Lethal Vector is pretty appropriate. Although I think more Spartans would be included in that title given the opportunity like John or 6.
@@Vynndii That 1B WAS all at once, lol. The Mantle's Approach had over 1 Billion Promethean armigers aboard, which were all former living beings that were composed. Counting them, Chief detonating that nuke got him 40 million tac nukes in one instant.
"This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Junior grade Lieutenants or even me" -Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey.
There's probably a good chance he's basing it off of current population which im pretty sure has gone in excess of 7 billion in recent years vs the 7 billion or so we're used to hearing about. Granted there's also the off chance he's basing it off of Halo's Earth which is 500 years in the future and known to have megacities that take up entire states of the US Edit: current population as of 2022 is just shy of 8 billion at 7.96 Billion so my earlier prediction could very much be wrong however the off chance i mentioned is still a decent possibility Edit 2: More likely the percentage is based off of Halo's earth population which is listed at around 10 billion before the events of Halo 2/Battle of Earth
That isn't including his kill count from the books either which is probably similarly ratioed. Master Chiefs COMPLETE kill count is probably close to 25% or maybe even approaching 50% of earths population.
Hmmm. You know if we had any numbers for the crew compliment of the Sangheili Blockade runners, Halo 5 might actually have one of the higher kill counts thanks to the Argent Moon being blown up. But alas, we got no confirmation that the ships we saw coming out of Slipspace were destroyed and we do not have the number of crew/warriors so H5 remains where it is haha.
@@ChocolateManOfficial Oh did we? Lemme go check! It has been a moment since I looked at non-human ships *Edit* Aha! Yes there is! Thank you for pointing this out to me!
I'd like to make a case for Infinite's relatively low kill count by letting it be known that the vast majority of Chief's kills were done on the field, since the only mass killing we see from my memory is Gbraakon. It's easy to see why the Banished were convinced victory was certainly theirs with a soldier capable of racking up numbers like that almost entirely alone on the ground was taken out of the battle for six months and presumed dead
Hang on, Chief didn't personally destroy Truth's Fleet however, that was done by R'tas and his bois, it wasn't clear but did you imply that Chief had destroyed the fleet as well?
i think he did imply it. even with flood conversion halo 3s kill count should roughly be inline with halo ce/2 as chief did nothing against truths fleet
@@thegrimreaper4784 For the amount of forces that were on the Ark, most of the ships must have been in combat in space, rather than deploying troops to the Ark. The CAS Assault Carriers could have potentially unloaded some equipment and troops, but I'm willing to bet the majority of what we see on the Ark is from the Keyship, minus the Scarabs that were dropped from orbit outside the Citadel. Truth being killed must have been the turning point of the space conflict as we don't see any more co Flint after that point. So I would argue that the majority of Truth's fleet personnel died in space combat, out of range of the flood
@@ryantighe9469 I guess that is fair, it was him that convinced Miranda to go to the Ark with the Elites, but the Elites would have gone anyway, and they did most of the kills (Indeed, I think listening to the radio logs in game the UNSC Frigates scored about 2 or 3 kills in space)
A minor count challenge (not that it will matter after seeing the total). For CE and 3, you probably should have subtracted any ground kills from the crew compliment of destroyed vessels since it is reasonable to assume that the combatants faced in gameplay were units sent from those ships. So you probably counted a few hundred twice since they were counted as killed on the ground by direct action, then recounted as part of the ship crews who would have died when their ships went down. Not to take anything away from the video, it is still a mind numbingly high tally and you went into excellent detail. You're a sucker for details though, so I just figured I'd add a few to consider for next time :)
@@charlespedersen5752 I just meant the ones that he counted as shot in each level, not the total number that might have been deployed to the locations of the games that Chief may or may not have encountered during the course of play. You are quite right though, as I said at the start of my comment, a few hundred wouldn't really count for much when even a 0.1% error in his calculations could have added or subtracted over a million souls :P
I'd say cut the ground forces casualty count in half, since a number of ships managed to escape destruction and it's reasonable to assume that a non-trivial number of the ground forces could have come from them.
"Truth's fleet was... massive" If that was massive with just under 50 ships then what would you call the fleet that was at the Unyielding Hierophant? (It had around 500 ships) Then 200 of those managed to get blown up in the explosion of the Unyielding Hierophant when they overloaded the reactors and then they sent the Ascendant Justice into it to act as a magnet for the other Covenant ships. RIP Whitcomb and Haverson
I think playing the games on Heroic would've been the most accurate kill count considering that's the canonical difficulty. But I still respect the amount of work you put in here
Heroic is the way it’s meant to be played, but that doesn’t make it canon. Despite that, I agree that in terms of gameplay heroic seems to be the closest to canon
@@EddieFreak True, but it's stated to be the canonical difficulty. Which means the enemy counts encountered there would be the closest thing we have to a canon number.
@@NumPad I wish to disagree for one halo game: Halo. Based on the book"Halo: The Flood," which goes over the mission 343 Guilty Spark, the shotguns at the crashed pelican were present. In Halo, the only difficulty that has the shotguns there is Easy.
@@alphahuner1116 The novelization of the game portions of Halo: CE in "The Flood" is generally regarded as pretty lackluster. Certain events don't play out quite right, and characterizations of key figures are... off, to say the least. Can you really picture Master Chief calling someone "a hardcore son of a bitch"?
This shows why it is said that Humanity barely survived the war. Their greatest hope and their best soldiers were indeed wonders of war on the battlefield, but they never came close to nearly dent the Covenant war machine. Thankfully the Great Schism happened and humanity survived.
I'm sure the books and canon events in Legends, H4:Forward Unto Dawn, would bump this to anywhere between 5 billion to 20 billion, especially with the incident with the Unyielding Hierophant in First Strike (which should have been made as CEA campaign DLC)
@@extremosaur it's an untapped gold mine. Yet 343 is out there making updates for "the ImpEcAbLe sliPsPaCe eNgiNe" which can't even run coop. People don't give a shit if the graphics look mid, so long as the story is good and playable. Competent writing + H3 engine + First Strike retelling = auto atm with infinite cash 💸They're really not smart with their business development
@@kyleknight9686 What's hilarious is that the slipspace engine CAN run couch co-op. You can literally access it through a bug. 343 literally just needs to flip a switch and splitscreen would be available. It's so frustrating that they won't do it.
This doesn't make a huge dent in the numbers. But at least as far as the ships go above the Ark. The Arbiter's fleet is what took out everything but the keyship. The Brute fleet being destroyed completely while the Shadow of Intent was the only functionally surviving ship of the Sangheili feet. So, the Chief can't really be marked down as having kills for those ships as actual crew compliments.
They did destroy the key ship surprisingly I forgot which exactly book but i think the one that came out just before infinites launch in one of the chapters a group of banished come upon the key ship with a group of covenant loyalists left over from the first battle of the ark
@@Cobravenom69 Nothing BS about the Banished. Best hostile faction by far because their motives are understandable. Only good thing added to Halo since 3 tbh.
@@tothethreshold.9965 O.o lol cause the faction of brutes. The more impaired and least intelligent race in the covenant somehow managed to create tech, weapons and tactics that where able to defeat not only the covenant but the unsc and forrunner forces... Yeah not bs at all. They are nothing but plot armor and plot holes for a fantastically bad game with a fantastically bad story
It's all designed to show us Atriox' ability to unite the Brutes. It's one of the best points of writing from 343, he is their modern Alexander the Great, or Emperor of Man. And he has a believable origin story. And to alay the beliefs of people thinking on your lines, they threw us a bone. The Brute home world was nuked out of existence by Cortana with a Guardian.
Does Master Chief canonically kill every enemy he comes across in the game or does he skip some based on the levels story? I always do when I play the game unless I'm doing a special run, but I feel like at certain moments in the campaign, Master Chief wouldn't waste time killing every enemy, like when truth activates the ark or during the didact's attack on earth.
I'd say kill everything especially when marines are present in order for them not to get harmed, The 2 warthog runs, and maybe crow's nest(after you activate the bomb) as well the end of high charity would probably be the only places where he skips enemies. Prometheans would be too dangerous to skip since knights can teleport. And the brutes guarding Truth most of them had jetpacks so they could catch up Chief and Arby and flank them. In the cutscene where Chief activates the light bridge to Truth, it was eerily quiet so I doubt anyone was left alive to defend him.
You're not wrong, but that's why he took an average of kills from easy difficulty to legendary difficulty. Plus, anything that gets blown up means those enemies the Chief passed by die anyway
Due to a being a soldier, he would never leave someone who he knows to be hostile alive to watch his back. And as he's been trained since childhood on tactics, I believe that he would have killed every enemy
It is hard to count the flood because you can have combat forms that could have been killed by chief and reanimated, killed by someone else and then reanimated, or died by the flood itself.
Between halo 1 and halo 2 on his way back to earth chief blows up a covenant refueling station which had a fleet full of ships preparing for the invasion of earth. It's one of the reasons he got a medal at the start of halo 2. That was a great book. He blew up many many ships (and the station) that book.
Great video brother, thank you very much for this! Many of my friends are getting into Halo lore now, and this is the video I refer them to so they can get a glimpse of what they're getting into lol) Also, just a note, at 15:24-15:30 - 0.1 per cent of 7.7 billion is actually 7,700,000, not 77 million, your math was slightly off there.
I'm surprised that "an entire Covenant armada... Obliterated!" Only meant 5 ships destroyed. Also, you should add the kill counts from the books at some point. Unyielding Heirophant and its fleet in Halo: First Strike must've been worth a lot of kills.
@@squishyhunter1744 No, the Unyielding Heirophant was destroyed by its own fusion reactors. The ship you are referring to was used as a distraction to lure the nearby fleet back in and close to that explosion. And this happened after and far away from Halo, so when Cortana said that, this hadn't happened yet.
@@maximus1992a Only a few ships carried millions. Like the one in a couple hundred supercarrier fleet flagship type stuff. Most ships carried hundreds, some thousands, the biggest you usually see are more like tens, maybe a hundred, thousand. The scale of war in Halo is big... But no, not every ship carried millions.
To be fair if you have 12 ships and you lose 5 that would be classified as a deviating blow to a fleet as that thousands of units lost as well as billions of dollars (if we are going off of usd) if we apply this to a fleet of today that would be a obliterated fleet as that’s half of all you’re fire power wiped out in a instant and in a war like that it very much would be the end of the whole fleet
i was gonna say we can't count truth's key ship since it was locked down and survived based on the sacrifice short story, then i remembered highcharity and that complaint became negligible
I would add four million when he blew up the Uneven Elephant and 488 ships. 6600 other kills, given the ships engulfed when he destroyed the Argent Moon, making seven thousand for Halo 5, for a game total of 1077618241.
Wow! I had no clue the kill count was that high in the games. I was thinking in the thousands and tens of thousands, but roughly 1/7 of the human population. What a Legend.
I thought the covenant called him demon because he was a spartan, and hard to kill, but I can now really really REALLY see why the covenant called him, DEMON.
I'd really love for someone to do a comprehensive count including the books, because the Unyielding Hierophant in First Strike was the main base for Truth's main force, which when blown up only left a small fraction to hit Earth, enabling humanity to put up a good fight instead of just getting easily overwhelmed.
Geralt from witcher is medieval master chief, taken at a young age to train and be put through deadly trials to eventually be augmented to be stronger, see in the dark, heals faster ect.
This huge number is even his actual total kill count though. This is just over the course of the games+cutscenes. You gotta remember that chief was active and killing since *way* before the start of the games.
Didn’t Blue team on the Argent moon set the station to go supernova and blow up a covenant fleet that was regrouping their? The number should be higher then.
@@extremosaur I’m pretty sure theirs dialogue suggesting the fleet would be caught in the blast. Even then if theirs still implication that’s more to go on then saying it wasn’t destroyed. Considering the fleet doesn’t make a reappearance and 343 was writing the covenant out of the story being all destroyed and what not, it seems rather silly to think of any other outcome for that fleet. For all intents and purposes the fleet was destroyed.
I do want to add that in halo wars 2 it is shown that a good portion of the flood in high charity had survived the blast, and some of the individuals in the key ship (as detailed in sacrifice I think) either way you did round it down so no biggie. Amazing video by the way
Honestly insane how high that number really is. Sure on the surface we can all figure the kill count for ingame is probably in the thousands in most cases, and we can imply the crews of large ships or HC counting as well, but it's crazy to actually tally them up. That's some real dedication. Small error at the end though. Earth's population is about 7.38 times what the chief killed in the games, but in terms of percentage, it would be about 13.5% of the current population of Earth
Just want to say thank you for the effort you put into this video. As of now not a lot of views but seriously more people who enjoy halo should see this. Sorry for the algorithm, thank you for your service
For CE, did you count the Truth and Reconciliation as a MC kill? Because of the 12 ships remaining, one of them was the T&R which was destroyed by Lieutenant McKay. Or maybe Cortana counted it as a kill in the cutscene since it sustained heavy damage? And the ship was also carrying quite a lot of PoA survivors so it skews the numbers a little. Edit: Also, the Mantle's Approach wasn't entirely destroyed by the nuke as it made a slipspace jump to Genesis for repairs.
No he didn't. He says he gets the remining ships in that fleet from Halo: First Strike. This takes place after Halo: The Flood, so those 7 remaining ships would exclude the Truth and Reconciliation.
In regards to Halo 3, we know from the short story Sacrifice that the crew of the Anodyne Spirit survived. It's also uncertain how many flood forms on High Charity survived Halo 3, but we know enough did to become a threat in Halo Wars 2.
If you put Chief's kill, in person, on a sentient and intelligent beings like the Covenant, Humans, Banished, Guilty Spark and Harbinger, exclude mindless drones and zombies like the Forerunners, Promethean and Flood, in the games, that number would be less than 10,000. But with that number, Chief's won't go to the heavens, because He is the Demon.
Hello fellow kill counter! Ah what a nice spin on the old kill count formula! Fortunately for me I only count and show each kill I got in the main campaign… and as I counted the flood spores, Halo CE is the reigning champion on my leaderboard out of the Halo franchise… with just under 3000 confirmed kills. Crazy numbers you have got! Crazy!
Approximately 14.368% of current the population. You flipped your denominator and numerator. This was a fantastic video! it's kind of terrifying to have that kind of a kill count though.
And let’s say if you added the books this number would be freaking unbelievable you got to remember in halo first strike when they destroyed the covenant space station it had a fleet of 500 or 300 ships give or take so when blue team nuked that space station it took 3 quarters of the fleet with it so I can just imagine his actual in lore kill count
Casual player: "I wonder how many kills MC actually has?" 🤔 Installation00: "Not without some serious adding up." Cas player: "But I don't have the time for that!" 😢 Installation00: "Don't worry. I got the Math."
The scary thing about his kill count here is this is JUST the games and cutscenes but add all the books and everything he’s done while fighting in the war it’s gotta be FAR higher than this
Love the video. Just a little correction on the math. Approximately 13.47% of earth's current population (approximately 8 billion). But I still love it
I think Chief is responsible for the deaths of the remnant covenant in the first of his missions when the Argent facility goes super nova, maybe not though. I always thought the mantles approach was such a goofy ship, especially when I learned how big it really was... great video always love your content
I always thought Heroic was considered the optimal difficulty to play Halo, ergo couldn't you just have counted the enemies on that difficulty rather than averaging easy and legendary? Great video regardless!
gosh the amount of Prometheans on that ship just adds to how weird they are as an enemy. like how was chief allowed to live if they had that many troops and they can just teleport wherever they want....
i actually think we're grossly undercounting his body count. we're assuming that he slayed bodies during the games. what about the comics and books? even more so, when he blew up all the halos, chances are, there were the sentinels and possibly countless flood spores in stasis.
0:09 Chief should get a POW medal just for completionism. He was after all held "captive" by the Gravemind on Delta Halo, force choked by the Didact, and left adrift in space by Atriox.
only the first would make him a prisoner
The existence of the Shaping Sickness is still relatively classified, so the only ones who know of his capture by the Gravemind would be able to award his medal. Even then, admitting a Spartan was captured, especially THE Spartan, would be a devastating blow to Human morale, be it during peacetime or war. - A message from His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm der Große.
Getting choked and yeeted don't make you a POW, and the Gravemind was just talking to him, I rhink most military personnel(myself included) would not consider this imprisonment, more like kidnapping.
Wasn't he straight up captured by an Innie in the books? I forget which one but I feel like I distinctly remember a moment where a prominent Innie leader is sort of trash talking him only for that guy to take a massive L and either lose/outright die moments later.
Technically Cortana held all of blue team captive in her sanctum during Halo 5 and only got out after Fireteam Osiris broke them out of it. So he was technically a prisoner then.
Chief: *Blows up the Halo ring and wipes out an entire Covenant armada and the Flood.*
Gimli: “THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!”
Underrated comment XD
Hahahahahahahahaha
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It counts as one because he killed all the rest personally.
@@weasel003gaming7 Your comment reminds me of the walking stick from A Bug’s Life who doesn’t like getting laughed at. Not because he’s a clown, but because he’s a prop, always being cast as the broom… the pole… the stick… a SPLINTER! Only to be reminded (by me) that he’s a walking stick. Which is why the joke’s funny. Now laugh!
Chief definitely has to have the highest direct kill count. Although I will say that Admiral Cole and Gray team are each responsible for more covenant deaths than anyone else
as a gray team fan I totally agree
Admiral Whitcomb can at least give them a run for their money, destroying an entire planet and its moon plus destroying the largest Covenant fleet ever seen (before Delta Halo). The Wiki even says he might have a higher individual kill count than the entire Spartan program.
@@MistahFox dang you're right, forgot about Whitcomb and the uneven elephant
@@MistahFox the planet and moon were after he was killed too.
@@Rev_Goose it’s unyielding heirophant Johnson. (Idk if I spelled that right)
To add to the utter terror of that number: That is just from the tail-end of the war.
Even if it's due to the fact all sides were tossing in the heaviest they've got left, John-117 had two and a half decades to raise that count. There's plenty of Covenant ships, stations, bunkers, space elevators, armadas, armies, and possibly even cities he would've had to blow up during the course of the war. We know Spartan-II Modus Operanti for finishing missions is blowing them the heck up.
As others noted, Admiral Preston Cole and Grey Team reach his kill count, if not outright beat it, but he's one to willingly send himself into the mouth of hell so others don't have to... and somehow, survive and win.
To add to it all, in Silent Storm, John-117 himself doesn't even believe he's the best -- simply the most famous one. The average Spartan is just as much of a beast.
John says blatantly the he's not necessarily the best in Shadows of Reach. "There's difference between the best and best known. We are all quite capable."
@@communitygamer117 Shadows of Reach! My bad, confused the titles. Thanks!
Silent Storm is a joke. Anything written by Troy Denning is a fucking joke. In one of his books he mentions MJOLNIR armor having a fission pack worn by John. Like bro, if you're going to write for us at least know the lore.
I still read anything by Halo but his books are either free on TH-cam or returned(I kept Silent Storm because I don't want to be a douche, even though he deserves it)
i'd also not count the flood since those are infected organisms and already "dead"
@@extremosaur oh no 😢 a slight error in a single sentence in one of his books, screw you Troy 😢😢
"He was asleep for 4 of those years."
Of course, that doesn't mean he didn't kill stuff during that.....
Wonder if he dreams of killing grunts..
@@lesbianduck7862 Oh he definitely does. Haven’t you dreamed of an average day at work?
@@justicetaylor3050 no but I have dreamt of killing grunts so it's understandable
@@lesbianduck7862 Are you actually a duck?
@@lesbianduck7862 he counts the number of grunts he is killing in his mind... to put himself to sleep.
Like normal people count sheep...
Chief's Kill Count? Answer: Yes!
He kills as many enemies as we guide him to. We move and he kills, his kills are absolute!
How many enemies has he killed in the game?
All of them.
well im glad when I was younger I played the campaigns on repeat. I did my fair share of covie killer to stat pat the master chief
Campaign and coop replays count too?
I've got One question, Explosions?
@@wolfpreist Answer: Yes
I love the idea that this one man has single handedly caused the end of over 1 billion lives in the defense of humanity
I don't think hyper lethal can even begin to describe that, truthfully
1 billion in just four years... it wasnt even the height of the war...
Plus Ultra Hyper Lethal?
Well the US Army has around 1 million personnel and the Chinese Army had around 3 million. A hyper lethal vector is able to take our entire armies by themselves. 1B is a lot more than 3M but that 1B wasn’t all at once. Additionally, it says a Spartan is to an elite military force what Superman is to a regular person. I think Hyper Lethal Vector is pretty appropriate. Although I think more Spartans would be included in that title given the opportunity like John or 6.
@@Vynndii That 1B WAS all at once, lol. The Mantle's Approach had over 1 Billion Promethean armigers aboard, which were all former living beings that were composed. Counting them, Chief detonating that nuke got him 40 million tac nukes in one instant.
@@IndyMiraaga ahhh you’re right. That’s such an insane number
"This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Junior grade Lieutenants or even me" -Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey.
18:45 that's not 7.38% of Earth's population, that's 13.89% of Earth's population. that's even more terrifying.
There's probably a good chance he's basing it off of current population which im pretty sure has gone in excess of 7 billion in recent years vs the 7 billion or so we're used to hearing about. Granted there's also the off chance he's basing it off of Halo's Earth which is 500 years in the future and known to have megacities that take up entire states of the US
Edit: current population as of 2022 is just shy of 8 billion at 7.96 Billion so my earlier prediction could very much be wrong however the off chance i mentioned is still a decent possibility
Edit 2: More likely the percentage is based off of Halo's earth population which is listed at around 10 billion before the events of Halo 2/Battle of Earth
That isn't including his kill count from the books either which is probably similarly ratioed. Master Chiefs COMPLETE kill count is probably close to 25% or maybe even approaching 50% of earths population.
@@keeganfox1864 Edit 2 suddenly contextualizes the percentage much better
@@keeganfox1864 7.38% of that is 590 million.
He also messed up his high charity estimate. If he was only counting 0.1% of the Population, that’s only 7.7mil, not 77mil.
Hmmm. You know if we had any numbers for the crew compliment of the Sangheili Blockade runners, Halo 5 might actually have one of the higher kill counts thanks to the Argent Moon being blown up. But alas, we got no confirmation that the ships we saw coming out of Slipspace were destroyed and we do not have the number of crew/warriors so H5 remains where it is haha.
We did get the numbers for blockade runners tho? In Halo: Warfleet
@@ChocolateManOfficial Oh did we? Lemme go check! It has been a moment since I looked at non-human ships *Edit* Aha! Yes there is! Thank you for pointing this out to me!
Can't imagine the effort that went into making this video. Bravo. Had to like and comment to show appreciation this was awesome
He's a Master, his kill count is INFINITE
Boo this man
No pun Intended.
His kill count does actually end or I would still be editing 🤣
Technically his KDR is undefined until he dies, just saying.
These are the real questions we should be asking, im intriqued for sure
I'd like to make a case for Infinite's relatively low kill count by letting it be known that the vast majority of Chief's kills were done on the field, since the only mass killing we see from my memory is Gbraakon. It's easy to see why the Banished were convinced victory was certainly theirs with a soldier capable of racking up numbers like that almost entirely alone on the ground was taken out of the battle for six months and presumed dead
Now this is an interesting approach to counting Master Chief-117’s kill counts. Very good video my good sir 🤯🤯🤯😃
Hang on, Chief didn't personally destroy Truth's Fleet however, that was done by R'tas and his bois, it wasn't clear but did you imply that Chief had destroyed the fleet as well?
estimate based on flood conversion
i think he did imply it. even with flood conversion halo 3s kill count should roughly be inline with halo ce/2 as chief did nothing against truths fleet
@@thegrimreaper4784 For the amount of forces that were on the Ark, most of the ships must have been in combat in space, rather than deploying troops to the Ark. The CAS Assault Carriers could have potentially unloaded some equipment and troops, but I'm willing to bet the majority of what we see on the Ark is from the Keyship, minus the Scarabs that were dropped from orbit outside the Citadel. Truth being killed must have been the turning point of the space conflict as we don't see any more co Flint after that point. So I would argue that the majority of Truth's fleet personnel died in space combat, out of range of the flood
It happened as a result, at least partially, because of the chief and that’s why he included it
@@ryantighe9469 I guess that is fair, it was him that convinced Miranda to go to the Ark with the Elites, but the Elites would have gone anyway, and they did most of the kills (Indeed, I think listening to the radio logs in game the UNSC Frigates scored about 2 or 3 kills in space)
A minor count challenge (not that it will matter after seeing the total). For CE and 3, you probably should have subtracted any ground kills from the crew compliment of destroyed vessels since it is reasonable to assume that the combatants faced in gameplay were units sent from those ships. So you probably counted a few hundred twice since they were counted as killed on the ground by direct action, then recounted as part of the ship crews who would have died when their ships went down. Not to take anything away from the video, it is still a mind numbingly high tally and you went into excellent detail. You're a sucker for details though, so I just figured I'd add a few to consider for next time :)
i dont think he had any real way to know the amount on the ground, and i dont think a few hundred matter in the face of over 1 billion
@@charlespedersen5752 I just meant the ones that he counted as shot in each level, not the total number that might have been deployed to the locations of the games that Chief may or may not have encountered during the course of play.
You are quite right though, as I said at the start of my comment, a few hundred wouldn't really count for much when even a 0.1% error in his calculations could have added or subtracted over a million souls :P
I'd say cut the ground forces casualty count in half, since a number of ships managed to escape destruction and it's reasonable to assume that a non-trivial number of the ground forces could have come from them.
I was gonna say he forgot to subtract one from CE for Johnson
"Truth's fleet was... massive" If that was massive with just under 50 ships then what would you call the fleet that was at the Unyielding Hierophant? (It had around 500 ships) Then 200 of those managed to get blown up in the explosion of the Unyielding Hierophant when they overloaded the reactors and then they sent the Ascendant Justice into it to act as a magnet for the other Covenant ships. RIP Whitcomb and Haverson
Remember the fallen. Remember Reach.
The Uneven Elephant explosion was massive destruction in the books, and Truth still called it a "miner setback."
Great video and did not expect that number for Chief's kill count
I think playing the games on Heroic would've been the most accurate kill count considering that's the canonical difficulty. But I still respect the amount of work you put in here
Heroic is the way it’s meant to be played, but that doesn’t make it canon. Despite that, I agree that in terms of gameplay heroic seems to be the closest to canon
@@EddieFreak True, but it's stated to be the canonical difficulty. Which means the enemy counts encountered there would be the closest thing we have to a canon number.
@@NumPad I wish to disagree for one halo game: Halo. Based on the book"Halo: The Flood," which goes over the mission 343 Guilty Spark, the shotguns at the crashed pelican were present. In Halo, the only difficulty that has the shotguns there is Easy.
@@alphahuner1116 The novelization of the game portions of Halo: CE in "The Flood" is generally regarded as pretty lackluster. Certain events don't play out quite right, and characterizations of key figures are... off, to say the least. Can you really picture Master Chief calling someone "a hardcore son of a bitch"?
@@NumPad Even still
This shows why it is said that Humanity barely survived the war. Their greatest hope and their best soldiers were indeed wonders of war on the battlefield, but they never came close to nearly dent the Covenant war machine. Thankfully the Great Schism happened and humanity survived.
I'm sure the books and canon events in Legends, H4:Forward Unto Dawn, would bump this to anywhere between 5 billion to 20 billion, especially with the incident with the Unyielding Hierophant in First Strike (which should have been made as CEA campaign DLC)
Never say never. Would be weird but cool to get DLC for a 20 year old game with sequels already released.
@@extremosaur it's an untapped gold mine. Yet 343 is out there making updates for "the ImpEcAbLe sliPsPaCe eNgiNe" which can't even run coop.
People don't give a shit if the graphics look mid, so long as the story is good and playable. Competent writing + H3 engine + First Strike retelling = auto atm with infinite cash 💸They're really not smart with their business development
@@kyleknight9686 What's hilarious is that the slipspace engine CAN run couch co-op. You can literally access it through a bug. 343 literally just needs to flip a switch and splitscreen would be available. It's so frustrating that they won't do it.
That's wild. Makes their greed even more disgusting.
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This doesn't make a huge dent in the numbers. But at least as far as the ships go above the Ark. The Arbiter's fleet is what took out everything but the keyship. The Brute fleet being destroyed completely while the Shadow of Intent was the only functionally surviving ship of the Sangheili feet. So, the Chief can't really be marked down as having kills for those ships as actual crew compliments.
They did destroy the key ship surprisingly I forgot which exactly book but i think the one that came out just before infinites launch in one of the chapters a group of banished come upon the key ship with a group of covenant loyalists left over from the first battle of the ark
@@mad_man_savage452 hes talking about chief and the arbitar tho not that new bs that is the banished
@@Cobravenom69 Nothing BS about the Banished. Best hostile faction by far because their motives are understandable. Only good thing added to Halo since 3 tbh.
@@tothethreshold.9965 O.o lol cause the faction of brutes. The more impaired and least intelligent race in the covenant somehow managed to create tech, weapons and tactics that where able to defeat not only the covenant but the unsc and forrunner forces... Yeah not bs at all. They are nothing but plot armor and plot holes for a fantastically bad game with a fantastically bad story
It's all designed to show us Atriox' ability to unite the Brutes. It's one of the best points of writing from 343, he is their modern Alexander the Great, or Emperor of Man. And he has a believable origin story. And to alay the beliefs of people thinking on your lines, they threw us a bone. The Brute home world was nuked out of existence by Cortana with a Guardian.
Chief, what do you have to say?
Chief: *"I'll f**king do it again!"*
Does Master Chief canonically kill every enemy he comes across in the game or does he skip some based on the levels story? I always do when I play the game unless I'm doing a special run, but I feel like at certain moments in the campaign, Master Chief wouldn't waste time killing every enemy, like when truth activates the ark or during the didact's attack on earth.
He probably would let the grunts that run away from fear go to move on and not waste time with them.
I'd say kill everything especially when marines are present in order for them not to get harmed, The 2 warthog runs, and maybe crow's nest(after you activate the bomb) as well the end of high charity would probably be the only places where he skips enemies. Prometheans would be too dangerous to skip since knights can teleport. And the brutes guarding Truth most of them had jetpacks so they could catch up Chief and Arby and flank them. In the cutscene where Chief activates the light bridge to Truth, it was eerily quiet so I doubt anyone was left alive to defend him.
You're not wrong, but that's why he took an average of kills from easy difficulty to legendary difficulty. Plus, anything that gets blown up means those enemies the Chief passed by die anyway
Due to a being a soldier, he would never leave someone who he knows to be hostile alive to watch his back. And as he's been trained since childhood on tactics, I believe that he would have killed every enemy
It is hard to count the flood because you can have combat forms that could have been killed by chief and reanimated, killed by someone else and then reanimated, or died by the flood itself.
Between halo 1 and halo 2 on his way back to earth chief blows up a covenant refueling station which had a fleet full of ships preparing for the invasion of earth. It's one of the reasons he got a medal at the start of halo 2. That was a great book. He blew up many many ships (and the station) that book.
Great video brother, thank you very much for this! Many of my friends are getting into Halo lore now, and this is the video I refer them to so they can get a glimpse of what they're getting into lol) Also, just a note, at 15:24-15:30 - 0.1 per cent of 7.7 billion is actually 7,700,000, not 77 million, your math was slightly off there.
"what do you have to say about this?"
"I need a weapon"
me: his blood lust knows no bounds!
For the kill count of Combat Evolved, you'll have to take out Sergeant Major Johnson and any who survived alongside of him.
*Chief blows up a Scarab tank*
Random Marine, incredulously: "That still only counts as one!"
The Chief is that unstoppable, so much to the point that he is fighting the Banished in his 50's.
Master chief shows up and all you hear is, "the odds of escaping him are 1,077,611,641 to 1"
I'm surprised that "an entire Covenant armada... Obliterated!" Only meant 5 ships destroyed.
Also, you should add the kill counts from the books at some point. Unyielding Heirophant and its fleet in Halo: First Strike must've been worth a lot of kills.
Wasn't the Uneven Elephant destroyed by the UNSC Gettysburg-Covenant Ship hybrid?
each ship has millions of soldiers
@@squishyhunter1744 No, the Unyielding Heirophant was destroyed by its own fusion reactors. The ship you are referring to was used as a distraction to lure the nearby fleet back in and close to that explosion. And this happened after and far away from Halo, so when Cortana said that, this hadn't happened yet.
@@maximus1992a Only a few ships carried millions. Like the one in a couple hundred supercarrier fleet flagship type stuff. Most ships carried hundreds, some thousands, the biggest you usually see are more like tens, maybe a hundred, thousand.
The scale of war in Halo is big... But no, not every ship carried millions.
To be fair if you have 12 ships and you lose 5 that would be classified as a deviating blow to a fleet as that thousands of units lost as well as billions of dollars (if we are going off of usd) if we apply this to a fleet of today that would be a obliterated fleet as that’s half of all you’re fire power wiped out in a instant and in a war like that it very much would be the end of the whole fleet
i was gonna say we can't count truth's key ship since it was locked down and survived based on the sacrifice short story, then i remembered highcharity and that complaint became negligible
I would add four million when he blew up the Uneven Elephant and 488 ships. 6600 other kills, given the ships engulfed when he destroyed the Argent Moon, making seven thousand for Halo 5, for a game total of 1077618241.
Wow! I had no clue the kill count was that high in the games. I was thinking in the thousands and tens of thousands, but roughly 1/7 of the human population. What a Legend.
I thought the covenant called him demon because he was a spartan, and hard to kill, but I can now really really REALLY see why the covenant called him, DEMON.
Whenever Cheif says he needs a weapon, he should realize he is said weapon.
I'd really love for someone to do a comprehensive count including the books, because the Unyielding Hierophant in First Strike was the main base for Truth's main force, which when blown up only left a small fraction to hit Earth, enabling humanity to put up a good fight instead of just getting easily overwhelmed.
And for the Ring of Abundance (in Silent Storm) too.
And the whole battle with the Banished on Reach.
I appreciate how conservative you were with Halo 3 kill count. But damn, that's a lot of kills!! Demon for sure!!
Master Chief, the walking extinction event.
Geralt from witcher is medieval master chief, taken at a young age to train and be put through deadly trials to eventually be augmented to be stronger, see in the dark, heals faster ect.
Your channel is criminally underrated! Fantastic work again! Much appreciated
I would wonder if Arbiters Kill Count is even Greater, given how many planets he wiped as Supreme Commander.
9:04 The Library is an excellent level.
This huge number is even his actual total kill count though. This is just over the course of the games+cutscenes. You gotta remember that chief was active and killing since *way* before the start of the games.
One minor error: Sgt. Johnson was not killed by Chief during the destruction of the Pillar of Autumn.
Props to you sir for going through all the prep and effort of counting and getting these numbers! That had to be excruciating at points, well done!
I wouldn't count Truth's fleet, or the elite fleet, because we don't know how many ships were destroyed during their crossfire and such.
Several thousand. IIRC the books he and blue team killed thousands of grunts in A pre-prepped explosives ambush in one instance.
This might be how many he has killed with bullets, plasma bolts, swords, blades, or punching. Probably not anything set up like huge booby traps
Spartan Locke: "... I can take em'" Lol no the fuck you can't! 🤣
Didn’t Blue team on the Argent moon set the station to go supernova and blow up a covenant fleet that was regrouping their? The number should be higher then.
Yes. But we have no official numbers on fleet size or anything. Literally just mention of a fleet. Nothing else
@@Installation00 ah true! But their still could’ve been rough estimates given from a couple hundred to possibly thousands tho yes?
And no proof that fleet was even harmed, only implication.
@@extremosaur I’m pretty sure theirs dialogue suggesting the fleet would be caught in the blast. Even then if theirs still implication that’s more to go on then saying it wasn’t destroyed. Considering the fleet doesn’t make a reappearance and 343 was writing the covenant out of the story being all destroyed and what not, it seems rather silly to think of any other outcome for that fleet. For all intents and purposes the fleet was destroyed.
I honestly doubt that nuke would have done enough damage to kill all 1 billion Prometheans because of how advanced forerunner amour is.
I do want to add that in halo wars 2 it is shown that a good portion of the flood in high charity had survived the blast, and some of the individuals in the key ship (as detailed in sacrifice I think) either way you did round it down so no biggie. Amazing video by the way
To be fair there were about twelve or so survivors from the Pillar Of Autumn, including Johnson.. Makes ALL the difference.
Sheesh Master Chief got max level by that rate.
Honestly insane how high that number really is. Sure on the surface we can all figure the kill count for ingame is probably in the thousands in most cases, and we can imply the crews of large ships or HC counting as well, but it's crazy to actually tally them up. That's some real dedication.
Small error at the end though. Earth's population is about 7.38 times what the chief killed in the games, but in terms of percentage, it would be about 13.5% of the current population of Earth
Now I wanna know Commander Shepard's kill count throughout the Mass Effect games.
YOU ARE IN THE WRONG NEIGH ORHOOD FOR THAT KIND OF TALK CHUMP
@@extremosaur how bout B.J Blazkowicz? :D
Just want to say thank you for the effort you put into this video. As of now not a lot of views but seriously more people who enjoy halo should see this. Sorry for the algorithm, thank you for your service
Quite the undertaking ! And it’s immensely appreciated! Love the content as per usual as well as the new intro! Stunning 👌
Any doubts that Installation00 is a madman are duly evaporated. Impressive gaming and calculations!
For CE, did you count the Truth and Reconciliation as a MC kill?
Because of the 12 ships remaining, one of them was the T&R which was destroyed by Lieutenant McKay.
Or maybe Cortana counted it as a kill in the cutscene since it sustained heavy damage?
And the ship was also carrying quite a lot of PoA survivors so it skews the numbers a little.
Edit: Also, the Mantle's Approach wasn't entirely destroyed by the nuke as it made a slipspace jump to Genesis for repairs.
No he didn't. He says he gets the remining ships in that fleet from Halo: First Strike. This takes place after Halo: The Flood, so those 7 remaining ships would exclude the Truth and Reconciliation.
Should give this man more support
Man, thank God you did this because it saved me a TON of time.
he has received every war commendation and medal, save for the prisoner of war medallion. that fact always gets me to chuckle
In regards to Halo 3, we know from the short story Sacrifice that the crew of the Anodyne Spirit survived.
It's also uncertain how many flood forms on High Charity survived Halo 3, but we know enough did to become a threat in Halo Wars 2.
When you mentioned the population of High Charity a chill ran down my back tbh.
Imagine the kill count with including the books
If you put Chief's kill, in person, on a sentient and intelligent beings like the Covenant, Humans, Banished, Guilty Spark and Harbinger, exclude mindless drones and zombies like the Forerunners, Promethean and Flood, in the games, that number would be less than 10,000. But with that number, Chief's won't go to the heavens, because He is the Demon.
Weren't there survivors from the Pillar of Autumn? There were sailors and marines with Sgt. Johnson.
Hello fellow kill counter!
Ah what a nice spin on the old kill count formula!
Fortunately for me I only count and show each kill I got in the main campaign… and as I counted the flood spores, Halo CE is the reigning champion on my leaderboard out of the Halo franchise… with just under 3000 confirmed kills. Crazy numbers you have got! Crazy!
Approximately 14.368% of current the population. You flipped your denominator and numerator. This was a fantastic video! it's kind of terrifying to have that kind of a kill count though.
Demon is the understatement of the millenium...
And let’s say if you added the books this number would be freaking unbelievable you got to remember in halo first strike when they destroyed the covenant space station it had a fleet of 500 or 300 ships give or take so when blue team nuked that space station it took 3 quarters of the fleet with it so I can just imagine his actual in lore kill count
Kill count: *YES*
Casual player: "I wonder how many kills MC actually has?" 🤔
Installation00: "Not without some serious adding up."
Cas player: "But I don't have the time for that!" 😢
Installation00: "Don't worry. I got the Math."
Bro your commitment is unmatched 🙌🏽 👏🏼
Now lets add the books!
Not because i think it'll add too much [although first strike might] but because I want you to count them all.
Damn, didn't realize I needed three more zeros in my guess, well done!
Installation00 is a big part of life
Fantastic video! I love the research that went into this
Instalation 00 you forgot the fleet of covenant ships that appear in the mission blue team.
3:43 “I played all the halo games on easy & legendary….”
immediate flashbacks to me trying to play h2 on laso no envy
Chief casually killing thousands or millions of enemies is basically just another Tuesday afternoon at the office for him
The scary thing about his kill count here is this is JUST the games and cutscenes but add all the books and everything he’s done while fighting in the war it’s gotta be FAR higher than this
This is the information I need thank you sir
I was about to say the book kills are going to be crazy trying to find
Love the video. Just a little correction on the math. Approximately 13.47% of earth's current population (approximately 8 billion). But I still love it
this is why I love this channel!
It's too bad you couldn't count Chief blowing up the Unyielding Hierophant on First Strike that takes place between CE and 2
I think Chief is responsible for the deaths of the remnant covenant in the first of his missions when the Argent facility goes super nova, maybe not though. I always thought the mantles approach was such a goofy ship, especially when I learned how big it really was... great video always love your content
That’s so absurd and just freaking what. Definitely a legend master chief
Omg, you're awesome for doing this video m8 ✊✊✊
didn't some of the keyship's crew survive? The wiki says half and those are the guys they talk about in Halo: Devine Wind if I recall
"We're dealing with silly numbers" I want a T-shirt with the chief with "Confirmed silly numbers" printed on it.
Now I want to know how many Brutes Cortana killed when she yeeted their home world.
Great content!
00 always out here doing the absolute most.
I always thought Heroic was considered the optimal difficulty to play Halo, ergo couldn't you just have counted the enemies on that difficulty rather than averaging easy and legendary?
Great video regardless!
gosh the amount of Prometheans on that ship just adds to how weird they are as an enemy. like how was chief allowed to live if they had that many troops and they can just teleport wherever they want....
i actually think we're grossly undercounting his body count. we're assuming that he slayed bodies during the games. what about the comics and books? even more so, when he blew up all the halos, chances are, there were the sentinels and possibly countless flood spores in stasis.
Covenant has called hax on me more times than I can count, they stay mad.
One of the only remaining spartans we know of with the 'hyper-lethal vector' designation