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Forci Stikane May 30th, 2007 12:21 PM

PKRS-cured Pokemon's effect on its spread?
 
There's a bit of confusion on exactly what Pokerus is, now that it has become easier to spread to other people. Yes, it is a beneficial virus, goes away after 24 hours of the infected Pokemon being in your party, and spreads throughout your team if one has it. However, what's the effect of having a Pokemon cured of Pokerus (I.E., with the smiley-face) in your party? Does it slow down the infection rate?

Who here has had experiences with the little virus, and who's seen an effect on the spreading rate from a Pokemon that can still transfer it by having a "cured" Pokemon in their party?

(I put this in the D/P section because it's become more of a known because of the games, and the discussion that inspired me to start this thread occurred here. If someone wants to move this to somewhere else, then go right ahead...but at least explain why first :) )

Corona May 30th, 2007 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ichaste Pekoni (Post 2504645)
There's a bit of confusion on exactly what Pokerus is, now that it has become easier to spread to other people. Yes, it is a beneficial virus, goes away after 24 hours of the infected Pokemon being in your party, and spreads throughout your team if one has it. However, what's the effect of having a Pokemon cured of Pokerus (I.E., with the smiley-face) in your party? Does it slow down the infection rate?

Who here has had experiences with the little virus, and who's seen an effect on the spreading rate by having a "cured" Pokemon in their party?

(I put this in the D/P section because it's become more of a known because of the games, and the discussion that inspired me to start this thread occurred here. If someone wants to move this to somewhere else, then go right ahead...but at least explain why first :) )

When you get the smiley face that pokemon can no longer spread pokerus or get it again....like chiken pox

Forci Stikane May 30th, 2007 1:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JoyRide (Post 2504666)
When you get the smiley face that pokemon can no longer spread pokerus or get it again....like chiken pox

...Okay, I'll rephrase it.

Team Rocket Boss Giovanni May 30th, 2007 2:24 PM

What if it has a frowny face?

Forci Stikane May 30th, 2007 3:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blaziken_Lover (Post 2504800)
What if it has a frowny face?

...*facepalm* It's a face. Whether it's frowning or smiling is up to the eye of the beholder (sort of like a mini-Mona Lisa). Can we get back to the original topic now, please?

Conman May 30th, 2007 5:30 PM

Sense no one is actually posting anything that hasn't already been stated, here is my post from that other thread...seems more appropriate here anyway.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Conman (Post 2504620)
I believe it is true cause 3 members of my main team couldn't transfer it anymore and I had 2 clean pokemon I was going to pass it to. So, my party looked like this...

Clean / Clean
PKRS / Cured
Cured / Cured

And I couldn't spread it for nothing. Then when I took out the cured ones and replaced them with more pokemon with PKRS, after one battle it was spread to the clean ones.


Forci Stikane May 30th, 2007 5:53 PM

That discussion's exactly why I made this thread, Conman...so I'll do the same.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Me
Quote:

Originally Posted by Conman (Post 2504620)
I believe it is true cause 3 members of my main team couldn't transfer it anymore and I had 2 clean pokemon I was going to pass it to. So, my party looked like this...

Clean / Clean
PKRS / Cured
Cured / Cured

And I couldn't spread it for nothing. Then when I took out the cured ones and replaced them with more pokemon with PKRS, after one battle it was spread to the clean ones.

...Really? Hmm...because I had a layout of

clean / PKRS
cured / clean
cured / clean

and it spread after just one battle. Maybe the placement matters...?


Samson May 30th, 2007 6:24 PM

well i already said that i thought i noticed that cured pokemon seem to reduce the possibility of spreading pokerus. after staraptor became cured, it became more difficult to spread pokerus to pokemon of friends whenever they asked. since he was (and still is) always with me as my flyer, i never noticed a difference in the difficulty to spread it until i didn't have him in my team, and i continued to test it with other pokemon, and every time, it seemed that with cured pokemon in my party, the possibility of spreading seemed lower.

i didn't test whether party arrangement had anything to do with it, so it's all up in the air.

Legacy May 31st, 2007 3:07 AM

I haven't noticed any change, to be honest. I had a line up like this:

Clean/Cured
Cured/Cured
Cured/PKRS

And the one clean Pokémon was infected after one battle. I've done this numerous times.

Melody May 31st, 2007 3:11 AM

hmmm...that's odd....I got a pokemon from the gts that had pokerus and it spread like wildfire even though i had 2 other cured pokemon in my party...

anemos June 24th, 2007 2:11 PM

same here. i think trading icnreses infection probability 1.5x, like xp gain

MasterWGS June 24th, 2007 2:14 PM

I noticed it spread faster for me if my Pokemon with PKRS was actually the one battling and was next to a clean Poke in my lineup. I didn't test it too much, but from my little bit of experience (Done this for about 18 Pokes, so roughly 4 teams with one infected Poke), if my PKRS carrier battled, it spread faster.

Warheart June 24th, 2007 2:18 PM

Yeah, Mine spead quickly to all the other pokemon I had in my party through battles, and walking around.

Uh, But it lasted alot longer than 24 hours for me; I've had the same pokemon with pokerus in my active party, and it's had the pokerus for going on 8 days now...has anyone else had a problem like this? Originally I had gotten a pokerussed pokemon through a trade with a friend, put it in my party, spread it through other pokemon, but it still hasn't been cured O_o

Should I worry about that?

funkeboodha June 24th, 2007 7:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Murderface (Post 2554520)
Yeah, Mine spead quickly to all the other pokemon I had in my party through battles, and walking around.

Uh, But it lasted alot longer than 24 hours for me; I've had the same pokemon with pokerus in my active party, and it's had the pokerus for going on 8 days now...has anyone else had a problem like this? Originally I had gotten a pokerussed pokemon through a trade with a friend, put it in my party, spread it through other pokemon, but it still hasn't been cured O_o

Should I worry about that?

Not sure how you got it to last longer than "24 hours." When they say 24 hours, it usually means that at 12AM any Pokemon in your traveling party will lose the ability to spread Pokérus. BUT, if you put the Pokémon in your storage PC, it will have it as long as it is in there. Also, the smiley face means that the Pokerus effects are still there, but it just cant spread anymore.

This is unconfirmed, but i think once i was able to keep the spreadable Pokerus on my pokemon for 2 days by keeping my DS on overnight in power save mode, but again, this is just a guess.

hope that helps.

Warheart June 24th, 2007 8:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by funkeboodha (Post 2555261)
Not sure how you got it to last longer than "24 hours." When they say 24 hours, it usually means that at 12AM any Pokemon in your traveling party will lose the ability to spread Pokérus. BUT, if you put the Pokémon in your storage PC, it will have it as long as it is in there. Also, the smiley face means that the Pokerus effects are still there, but it just cant spread anymore.

This is unconfirmed, but i think once i was able to keep the spreadable Pokerus on my pokemon for 2 days by keeping my DS on overnight in power save mode, but again, this is just a guess.

hope that helps.

Nah, it's been way longer than 24 hours. Actually, what's weird about it is that the nurse at the pokemon center no longer says anything about me having it, but when I check the summery or one of my pokemon, I still get the purple box that says "Pkrs" next to the pokemons name and level.

I was wondering what this was about; I never used any cheating devices, so that definetly isn't it...

Edit: Huh...could it possibly be that I start to play the game around 12 PM each night, and each time the clock rolls over, I'm playing as if I had been from the previous day? I mean, it isn't anything that has effected my gameplay yet, but is it something I should worry about anyways?


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