About PokeRus

Started by Keyaki January 2nd, 2012 3:59 PM
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Age 29
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Posted October 24th, 2013
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16.2 Years
Okay, ever since Gen III I've been getting PokeRus everytime. I had gotten in in Black version as well and I'm trying to breed a few Pokemon and spread to them. But for some reason, it doesn't seem to want to spread. It never been the case before and my Pokemon that I'm using as "holders" of the virus haven't been cured yet but it just doesn't seem to want to spread.

Anyone else have that problem?
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Age 29
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Posted October 24th, 2013
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Having Pokerus isn't a bad thing! You get double the EVs whenever you battle Pokemon in-game. It goes away after a day or so.
Did you read it? I know PokeRus is a good thing, that's why I want to SPREAD it to a few other Pokemon.
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Age 29
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Posted October 24th, 2013
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I actually have this problem a lot. What I do is put the pokemon and the pokemon I want to infect in double battles, so they come in contact. Whether this works or not I have no clue, but eventually it should spread regardless of what you do.
Interesting. I'd try it but both Pokemon are low-leveled lol.
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PlatinumDude

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Age 29
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Seen July 31st, 2020
Posted May 30th, 2020
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Did you read it? I know PokeRus is a good thing, that's why I want to SPREAD it to a few other Pokemon.
My bad, then. D:

As for the main topic, in my Platinum game, my team got Pokerus. I spread the virus to a few random Pokemon and sent them to the PC. I then traded those Pokemon over to SoulSilver.

During those times, I didn't have much problems transferring the virus over from Pokemon to Pokemon. The only problem I had was that it sometimes took a while for the virus to transfer from one Pokemon to the other.

iDason

Elite Botanist Trainer

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Seen January 13th, 2013
Posted January 3rd, 2012
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11.4 Years
I have for some reason, caught super pokemon in pokemon black! :P lol jk but i have had pokerus ont them for about a month now, and they are super strong! If you want to know theyre breed, they are: Samurott, Leavanny, Gigalith, Golurk, Darmanitan, and Elektross. Pretty sweet team, I know. I must have caught it battling audinos to train or something
As for Pokemon, I really wish they had male gardener sprites to appeal for the male botanists of the world (aka me) :P I made this one from the female gardener sprite on Imagerie:

East. Aust.
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Posted May 4th, 2021
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15.9 Years
I find that pokerus seems to spread far faster if the carrier is a higher level than the recievers, and the greater the level difference, the faster (using evidence from my Diamond, in which... [long, so I'll stick it below])
Unless it's the daughter of my mukkuhawk, who has stubbornly not caught it at all.
Possibly it's to do with family lines? (my mukkuhawk has been antibodied since long before he had his daughters)
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At some point in time while I was training to get Otoojio, my starter, to evolve (into empoleon), he caught the Pokerus. This passed to Denkou (shinx>rentoraa), who passed it to the pokemon that I now keep in my box (a level 5 zubat and level 13 onix).
Through them, Umino (magikarp>gyarados) and Hishoga (ponyta>rapidash) caught it.
It took a while.
So my observation goes: the higher the level of the pokemon that has it, the faster the weaker pokemon catch it.
Den' had it as soon as I checked her stats, directly after capture (Otoojio was level 36 to her 3/4). I had to infect the rest of my team (whom I caught after Otoojio and Den's 3-day spreading period was up) by putting my box pokemon (the above mentioned [5]zubat and [13]onix (who had caught it from Den'/ Otoojio, meaning, immediately)) in my party. It took considerably more time to transfer the virus, and Umino, who was the weaker of the two [level seven to Hishoga's thirteen], caught it first)
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So possibly the not-transferring issue a) is the levels, b) is something to do with family lines (genetic immunity so the antibodies never show up?)(I honestly doubt this one, but eh. It's interesting), or c) something strange is happening.
I don't know, because my White is a Shiny game, not a PokeRus game, so I can't check to figure it out in that Gen.

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Age 30
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New York City
Seen May 21st, 2016
Posted May 16th, 2016
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15.9 Years
Nothing to do with level. PokeRus can only spread to Pokemon adjacent to the infected in the team roster, though. And it only spreads after a battle, iirc. Also, if a Pokemon has the little past-infection symbol, it can't be infected again.
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