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Old November 10th, 2009 (3:21 PM).
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i was like 10 when my blaziken has the pokemon virus xDD I had no idea what it was so i started freakin out and i thought my game was about to die

what was your reaction to it?
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Old November 10th, 2009 (3:30 PM).
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I thought "why isn't she telling me what in the world it does"? Turns out it doubles your EV gains, so no wonder my Exploud was gaining 5-6 HP per level. Even better, my internal clock was busted, so it never wore off. :)
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Old November 10th, 2009 (3:47 PM). Edited November 10th, 2009 by Sydian.
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I assume you're talking about Pokerus. Anyway, mine was from a friend who traded me a Lanturn. I gotta say...I freaked out and boxed all the Pokemon that caught it. A year later, I took all the infected ones out together (so they wouldn't infect anyone else) and ran around with them until they lost it. I didn't know anything about EVs back then, so...yeah. xD

This can go in general gaming since it technically covers generations II - IV. :3 Hope you don't mind...it'd just be a shame to let RSE hog all the Pokerus glory, non?
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Old November 10th, 2009 (4:14 PM).
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Whatever you'd expect a 6 Year old to do:

"Mum my Pokemon are dying help me!!!!"
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Old November 10th, 2009 (8:36 PM).
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I never actually got it naturally on my game. I didn't actually find our about pokerus until someone offered to trade me a pokemon with it and I had to ask what it was.
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Old November 10th, 2009 (9:33 PM).
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It Scared me to death, I got scared and thought my pokemon were gonna i died. I must of healed them at the pokemon center like 100 times hoping the message would disappear. Than i got so scared i stopped playing for like a week. Than finally after a while i found it from a friend that it actually doubles Your EV gain or something like that and that it's not even bad.
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Old November 10th, 2009 (10:13 PM).
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Well I heard all these rumors about a Pokemon Virus existing and how it was ultra rare making it seem unbelievable. Then one day I caught an Absol and went to the Pokemon Center, I noticed the Nurse Joy speech was a bit longer this time and noticed something different "OMG I got Pokerus"
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Old November 11th, 2009 (9:43 AM).
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I've only had it once, when my Gold game went completely insane and glitched out. I've no idea what happened, but in the route below Eurecteak I started encountered lvl. 129 Seadra and lvl. 137 Chansey. I caught these crazy Pokemon to see what would happen, visited the Pokemon to be told my Pokemon had Pokerus - only I wasn't paying attention to what she was saying, I was just mashing A like I usually do, so I only caught the second half of the explanation and didn't know what the hell was going on. Then my game glitched out and died.
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Old November 11th, 2009 (9:45 AM).
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I already knew about Pokerus when i first got it, so i wasn't too surprised, and i didn't really know HOW it affects the EVs, so i boxed all my Pokerus Pokemon when i EV trained something, afraid i might so something wrong with the EVs
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Old November 11th, 2009 (12:01 PM).
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I was already well versed in its effects when I caught it in LG, so I was like, "Awesome! Now if only I had some Pokemon to EV train..."
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Old November 11th, 2009 (1:40 PM).
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Whenever one pokemon on my team got it, I would make sure it spread to all the others and then I would take some pokemon out of my box to give them the virus. xP
So I pretty much gave all my pokemon I owned the Pokerus...Thank god its not deadly. *whew*
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Old November 11th, 2009 (2:34 PM).
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Once in Crystal, I went to heal at the Pokemon center. Then the Nurse Joy person said a really long speech. I thought "What? Well since she told me it doesn't do anything, I might as well keep it" and I did.

A while after that I got a DS and it fell, causing it to break. I had no idea that my Pearl game was still in there and my file was wiped clean.

Then, my brother was playing it and I saw his Pokemon had a small smiley face. I figured his Pokemon had caught the virus. I restarted the file and I saw some of my Pokemon had it. I still didn't know about EVs, so I didn't care.

A while after I learned about EVs, my Lapras had caught it and I wanted to spread it as quickly as I could so some box'd Pokemon that stay in there have it.

YAY FOR LONG STORIES. XD
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Old November 11th, 2009 (3:56 PM).
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It took me untill the fourth generation to get it naturally, it was on a Mantyke after sunnyshore, I knew what it was so I was more Happy Than suprized!
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Old November 11th, 2009 (6:40 PM).
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Ironically the first time my pokemon got pokerus was a day after I read about it online. So there wasn't any surprises for me. :(
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Old November 12th, 2009 (11:06 AM).
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It wa sin Pearl ....
It was a Saturday morning . My family was sleeping , I was playing Pearl and NBA Street on my PSP at the same time . I killed a Bidoof to laugh , but he kinda damaged my Luxio , so I got to heal and Joy says a fricking random thing .... Whaaat , I looked at my Luxio and it said PKRS .... wait , whaaat ? was my game broken .... but anyways I deposited my Luxio (my HM Slave Roselia was infected and I deposited her and it got on ) .

I got it on Platinum as well (man I a lucky ) . Now I got an infected Marill and a Smoochum paralyzing in my boxes ....
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Old November 12th, 2009 (12:21 PM).
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My brother told me that the Pokerus eventually deleted all of my pokemon so I started a new game on my Emerald even though I had a super beastly team. T-T
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Old November 12th, 2009 (2:07 PM).
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PokeRus. It's something you shouldn't get too excited about, I just got a smile on my face and that's it really. But that has spread to nearly all of my Pokemon in my boxes now :D
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Old November 13th, 2009 (8:22 AM).
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My brother told me that the Pokerus eventually deleted all of my pokemon so I started a new game on my Emerald even though I had a super beastly team. T-T
Wow. What a dick. Seriously.
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Old November 13th, 2009 (8:34 AM).
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Old November 13th, 2009 (10:23 AM).
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I first got it from a pokemon a friend of mine traded to me in the 3rd gen. When I was like "Hey, what does PKRS mean?" he told me it makes pokemon get better. Now I have a Ninetales that's infected and a Rayquaza that's infected. It may be more, but I can't remember..
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Old November 13th, 2009 (1:02 PM).
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I remember one of my teams all got the pokemon virus. I was estatic. That's a good sign because when you train while they are infected they get stronger(or at least that's what my brother told me)
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Old November 13th, 2009 (3:26 PM).
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The first time I got Pokerus, I had an excited reaction, cause I'd already learned about the virus from the net and my big bro.
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Old November 13th, 2009 (7:53 PM).
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Haha, I got it for the first time EVER naturally today. My reaction was to go SWEET and immediately infect all the pokemon I had in my box that I might work on later (this didn't take long, I restarted the game and I'm only at the second gym). I now have a nice PKRS PC box with eight infected pokemon :D aside from my team.
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