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3rd Gen pokerus

I hope you didnt think I meant shinies, I was talkin about PokeRus. Ive seen 3 shinies on Silver (one which was the Gyrados), none on Sapphire and 2 on FireRed. Yet some ppl have half a dozen (noncheated ones) from one version! I do believe my Sapphire is cursed tho, Ive played it more than my FireRed.
 
Oh...oops I guess I was having another of my many blonde moments. Sorry. Okay now that I'm out of the twilight zone, the pokerus, while not as rare as a shiny is still quite rare. In other words you could play an entire game and still not get the pokerus. In this subject I'm cursed as well because although my pokemon contracted the pokerus they had it for less than a day. Which made me very unhappy.
 
Shinies are a lot less rare than Pokerus. The chances are better that you'll catch a shiny than you will a pokemon with Pokerus... but once someone gets the virus, they're likely to keep it alive, if they're smart. That might be why you've seen it around so much. :P

And I was the one who caught a shiny Ralts with Pokerus. Unfortunately, my little cousin restarted my game, and I lost 'im. :( He was my favorite... *cries all over again*
 
OMG your cousin...that really sucks. But I'm just going by what serebii.net says and they said that the pokerus is more common than shinies. I really have no idea and I really wasn't that concerned with keeping it alive seeing as how I never expected to get it in the first place.
 
Atemu said:
OMG your cousin...that really sucks. But I'm just going by what serebii.net says and they said that the pokerus is more common than shinies. I really have no idea and I really wasn't that concerned with keeping it alive seeing as how I never expected to get it in the first place.
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Huh... well, it's not the first time I've been wrong, and I'm sure it won't be the last, lol. Sorry 'bout the misinformation!
Shiny ratio: 1 in 8192
Pokerus Ratio: Unknown. Serebii.net says it might be slightly better than ratio for shiny, although for gsc it was much lower than shiny ratio.
 
Well it's still pretty hard to get and I was so elated when I finally got it...only to find out less than a day later that only one of my pokemon was left infected. It was disappointing but oh well life goes on. Oh yeah and I forgot to mention. After the virus wears off there is a black dot that appears next to their Level under Summary. I wonder what it means.
 
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I must have gotten a lucky trainer number or something because first I catch a shinny Poochyena at the beginning of the game and now I've managed to get the Pok?rus.

Yeah...I'm still in shock.
 
U get pokerus... that's good to u for the EVs spreading.
I play for about 200 hours and 10 boxes of pokemons but still cant get it!!
 
Well, it really doesn't matter if you ever get the pokerus. It doesn't actually do anything special in the end, it just makes EV training faster, so anyone can have the exact same final results by just using the good ol' macho brace...it'll just take a bit longer.
 
Well yeah it does speed up EV training which saves you a lot of time. But other than that yeah it's really not that great.
 
when one of your pokemon has pokerus, dose it get, like, paralis or poison?
 
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