4th Gen PokeRus - Beware!

Started by Swolligator March 27th, 2010 3:36 PM
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Ok, so I got pokemon Heart Gold on thursday..... 3 days ago when it first came out in New Zealand. Yesterday i arrived in Eckruteak and found that my pokemon had the PokeRus - i thought myself lucky.

Oops my bad, got the evolution level wrong.

I've put this thread up for all thoes who have got the PokeRus in HGSS and also for its discussion.

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oops my bad, got its evolving level mixed up, damn, i feel bad for posting that. i count myself lucky tho, the rate for getting the virus is lower than a shiny and i have yet to se a single shiny.

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according to Bulbapedia:

"When it was introduced, the Pokérus had a 3 in 65,536 chance to be on a wild Pokémon. Through battling or capturing this wild Pokémon, players could get this helpful virus onto their own Pokémon, and subsequently spread it around. Due to the overwhelmingly low chance of encountering the virus (about 1/3 of the chance to encounter a shiny Pokémon), and the fact that most would not even recognize a Pokémon with the virus and therefore flee from it, however, most players would never have a Pokémon with the virus."

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Haha, I got the virus while training for the elite 4. My main team has it and it's now being preserved by a mew in my pc's legendary box. Though I didn't know it was rarer than seeing a shiny...I'm still wishing for that to happen.
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Yes, it is. But, you get it as a shiny in any version of HGSS. I'm still trying to get Pokerus, I've gotten it on the GTS a few times, thought I've never had it myself without a cheating device.
OOOOOOHHHH, Okay, just makin' sure. :3 What does PokeRus even do to your Pokemon???

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it doubles the Ev points gained from ev training. quite useful in my opinion, cuts ev training time in half.

Call me dumb, but... EV's? .... Hehe..... :/

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May I refer you guys to the compiled guides?

Right here.

Oh, and lol and the below comment... err, I think it's 3 below me.
If I only had a heart...

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Those stats make me feel even luckier as I've had the 'rus on TWO games without trading between them! ^o^ I must be lucky!

When I find my Diamond (currently, unfortunately, lost) I'm transferring a Lv. 1, completely untouched Sneasel over for some serious EV training. :D

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I have Pokérus but I got it via a trade on GameFAQs, never encountered it naturally. It's useful for EV training, not really much else to add.

I just wish there was a human equivalent of the disease irl. Would make uni work easier. <.<


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I got PokeRUS once on a wild Drifloon in Pearl; never got it in SS, though ): I can always trade :)


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oops my bad, got its evolving level mixed up, damn, i feel bad for posting that. i count myself lucky tho, the rate for getting the virus is lower than a shiny and i have yet to se a single shiny.

That's...happened for me too.

I was playing the Japanese version of SoulSilver a couple months back when I saw my ditto had pokerus. I've gone through Platinum and SoulSilver and have not encountered a single shiny in the wild (Red Gyrados not included).
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That's...happened for me too.

I was playing the Japanese version of SoulSilver a couple months back when I saw my ditto had pokerus. I've gone through Platinum and SoulSilver and have not encountered a single shiny in the wild (Red Gyrados not included).
I've NEVER had a shiny, every (not even Red Gyarados, as I somehow... missed out GSC completely as a child) and yet, as I've said, I've had Pokerus twice.

An' that don't seem right. ~♪

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