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3rd Gen Pok?rus: the rare virus?

dqle

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    Is it just me, or is the Pok?rus more common than we think?

    I first got the Pok?rus in Granite Cave around the 50 hour mark when training there. Then I got the Pok?rus again 5 hours later (still training there). Is this normal, or am I just lucky?

    Oh, and I accidentally pressed the A button too fast, so I skipped what Nurse Joy said the first time. Does anyone know what she said about the Pok?rus?
     
    Your POKéMON may be infected with
    POKéRUS.

    Little is known about the POKéRUS
    except that they are microscopic life-
    forms that attach to POKéMON.

    While infected, POKéMON are said to
    grow exceptionally well.
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    Extracted with Advance-Text! =P

    I guess you were just lucky.
    Someone can search for days and won't get it, others can only play for 5 minutes and will already find it.
     
    Pokemon can infect your other pokemon if they have pokerus. You may have just spread it to another one of your pokemon.
     
    Bobby is right, your pokemon can infect others unless you place it in the box. The chances of finding a shiny pokemon are about 8192 to 1 and the poke rus virus is rarer. You are realy lucky.
     
    The pokerus is something after 347 hours I still havent been able to get! youre lucky! ...I have no idea how you get the thing though mind you!
     
    Oh, I got it first in Rustboro Town in Sapphire at around hour Three. (I like to train a LOT!) And I've gotten it a whole lot since then. I'm at 50:38 right now. What I do when I get it is I will stick my poke'mon in the PC with a bunch of other poke'mon I want infected (I know, sounds sinister and cruel, doesn't it?), and once they've all got the pokerus, I will keep one poke'mon in the PC that has it and once the poke'mon in my party have lost it, I stick 'em right back in the box with that one infcted poke'mon and they all get it again. That's on way to keep the rare virus forever! Try it!
     
    I dunno about the 'forever' part.

    This is my theory: The Pokérus lasts 24 hours according to your battery pack. (the in-game clock, not game play time) As soon as you put the infected Pokémon in the PC, though, the timer stops. When it spreads to other Pokémon, it keeps the same time on that one too. (i.e. The Pokérus still has 21 hours left. when spread, it will also only last 21 hours on the newly infected Pokémon) That's why I haven't taken out my infected Nincada in a long time...

    Oh, and I made sure I didn't have any Pokémon with the Pokérus. I only had 2 Linoone who's Pokérus already passed though them. (a period next to the Pokéball? that's the immunity symbol??? boring!) The other four I had were uninfected.

    Maybe I should feel happy. On my Ruby, I've played over 300 hours worth, and I couldn't find a Shiney or the Pokérus!

    Oh, and thanks for the quote, Scizz!
     
    I've never had it. After 370 hours on Gold, 210 hours on Fire red and 250 hours on ruby. I found one shiny in fire red though.(Rattata)
     
    Hey, I think most people havn't got any Pokemon with Pokerus's, or even Shinies...

    For example, my play time is at 450 hours, but I have yet to encounter any of these.
     
    i have never heard of this 'poke virus' of which you speak of... but i do have a Shiney!!!^^ its a blue flygon^^(ironic, no?XD) but, its and awesome Poke!^^ could you explain the virus a litl bit more?
     
    The Pokérus, or Pokémon Virus, is a 'disease' that helps the infected Pokémon gain higher stats per level when leveling up without the virus. I think it's dependent on EVs, but I'm not sure.

    It's random when you get the Pokérus. Like people said, I guess I was just lucky that I got it twice in a row. I think, though, that the virus is spread when you battle, but I'm not sure...
     
    I think Pok?rus is more common in Emerald. I never get it in Sapphire, but in Emerald i get it in Lavandia...
     
    blue flygon said:
    i have never heard of this 'poke virus' of which you speak of... but i do have a Shiney!!!^^ its a blue flygon^^(ironic, no?XD) but, its and awesome Poke!^^ could you explain the virus a litl bit more?
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    Pokerus, like the Macho Brace, doubles the amount of EVs a pokemon gets in battle (without the drop in speed). In the end, your pokemon will still have the same stats it would have gotten without it, though. You can just EV train faster. And with Pokerus and Macho Brace you can get 4x EVs :D
     
    Well I had it very early in the game. In fact my absol has it right now. It is in XD. But you find out through the nurse. But the pokemon infected can't have it for very long, or can it?
     
    do you know what's sad? i haven't ever heard of the pokerus and i had 3 chances to get a shiny but on 1 i didn't have a pokeball and on the other 2 i thought it was "some regular metapod messed up" in coloring.
     
    !~Dark Forte.exe~! said:
    Well I had it very early in the game. In fact my absol has it right now. It is in XD. But you find out through the nurse. But the pokemon infected can't have it for very long, or can it?
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    Again, The Pok?rus can only last for a total of 24 hours. This timer keeps on going until you put the Pok?mon in the PC and SAVE!!! If you save while the Pok?mon with the Pok?rus is still in your party, the timer will keep going down, until, of course, it runs out. In that case, the Pok?mon will be immune to future Pok?rus.

    Oh yeah, the timer will still count down whether your power is on or not! My suggestion is to either level up that Absol as fast as possible, or put it in the PC ASAP.

    Zootster said:
    Pokerus, like the Macho Brace, doubles the amount of EVs a pokemon gets in battle (without the drop in speed). In the end, your pokemon will still have the same stats it would have gotten without it, though. You can just EV train faster. And with Pokerus and Macho Brace you can get 4x EVs :D
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    So, what you're saying is that if you have the Pok?rus and the Macho Brace equipped, then Speed will level up normally since the Macho Brace negates the Pok?rus' effect on speed?
     
    The odds of seeing a wild Pok?mon with Pok?rus are 3 in 65536, or ~1 in 21845. At that, you have no clue that the poke you're battling has it since it looks no different. AFAIK, you have to use a contact move on the wild poke to receive Pok?rus. Once you've got it, spreading it is easy: sometimes, after a battle, Pok?rus will spread to the Pok?mon adjacent in your party to the ones with it (assuming they don't already have it or have the Black Spot).

    As far as going away goes, there's a bit of a Cinderella rule to it: at midnight, each of the Pok?mon in your party has its Pok?rus counter knocked down by one. When a poke catches Pok?rus, its counter has any value between 3 and 1, and is predetermined for the Pok?mon, so different Pok?mon will keep Pok?rus for different time periods. Pok?rus neither spreads nor dissipates on Pok?mon in the PC.

    Once Pok?rus goes away, the Pok?mon that had it will have the "black spot," indicating that it can never have active Pok?rus again. It still receives the boosted EV gains, however, no matter how long ago it had Pok?rus.

    In FR/LG, your party will behave just like the PC in terms of Pok?rus: it will neither dissipate nor spread. (Nintendo could've made it spread in FR/LG, but they opted not to in order to keep the game balanced. They considered Pok?rus that could spread but never go away too cheap.)

    I got Pok?rus in my Sapphire some time ago; while I was looking for a shiny Seviper, my Marowak caught it.
     
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