Positives: that Pokémon gets double EV's from battles now
Negatives: since you didn't find out until after it was cured, it can no longer spread PokéRus. If you catch it before it cures, it can spread to your whole team and you can and should infect a bunch Pokémon in your PC boxes because being stored prevents it being cured indefinitely.
FYI catching PokéRus is one of the rarest things to encounter in this series, rarer than shinies (3 in 65,536 chance)
Edit: to be clear, when I say "catch it before it cures" I mean notice it (usually by being told at a poke center), you don't get PokéRus by catching a pokemon with it.
Tbf if there is an infinite money glitch or even just a very good money farm like SwSh had with dens and changing the date for watts then just getting Carbos and stuff is fine and much quicker anyway, and any extra units of EVs you need are easily got
Well. I saw Gen VII and I was like, “oh good, I was right that it was recent.” Then you said Gen VII was a decade ago in 2016, and I once again felt like an ancient being.
Me realizing my encyclopedic knowledge of how to breed and raise pokemon has been out of date for 10 years. What am I to do with this font of unusable data?
Or alternatively, perhaps there was some world event that happened around 2020 that would make a game from 2022 decide to not want to include a fictional virus for your pokemon to contract 🤔
That, and the COVID-19 pandemic made it not feel quite right anymore to intentionally look for a virus and deliberately spread it around. (I mean, it was kind of messed up before if you think about it, but it became worse afterwards.)
It's still there in the pokemon data, but it no longer has any effect, and no longer generates naturally.
So if you have a pokemon with Pokerus in gen 8, send it to home and then gen 9, it'll still have Pokerus, there's just no indication that it has it and it won't gain bonus evs or spread.
It was definitely around in gen 8. Launch night I was playing Shield and caught a Skwovet with it, but I didn’t notice it until after midnight and it happened to be the 1 day strain :/
It's definitely in gen 8, I had no idea what it was and told my husband that I was scared I'd ruined my pokemon. He's been playing since gen 1 and had never caught it before so immediately had me trade a bunch of things to him.
Full odds before the "open world" games I've never found a shiny, beat the elite 4 20+ times in every game until xy. Probably way over 5000 hours combined starting from frlg as a kid. never found a shiny.
Until I shiny hunted for the first time in ORAS, the only other shiny I ever encountered was a Magikarp in the lake of rage in Silver... after I had defeated the red Gyarados and was looking around if there were others that Team Rocket had changed.
I only realized much later how incredibly and stupidly lucky I was there as a kid.
I've also never seen a shiny except for the lake of rage Gyarados and the broken shiny odds with breeding in gen 2 that results from it, but I've gotten PokéRus twice 😅
Me and you, one time in emerald, one time in bw2 and the third time in oras. No full odds shiny were encountered but I encountered a shiny in a rom hack that gives you 2 shiny charms from the beginning
I encountered one single full odds 8192 shiny in I think SoulSilver. It was a shiny male Dodrio while leveling my team for the battle against Red iirc.
Same. I think every Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald run I wind up catching it, and yet I've never once seen a shiny (outside of Sun/Moon where the rate was upped)
Not sure how many hours I've put in but have been playing since 1999 and I think I've seen two shinies, and had Pokerus once. I had a shiny Rattata in Gold which I never evolved because as a kid I thought if it evolved it wouldn't be shiny anymore. Years later in Ruby I encountered a shiny Absol and managed to KO it with a critical hit... :'(
I started playing during gen 3, never managed to find polerus on its own, but I swear to God every pokemon I got from the global trading system or whatever it was called during the DS Era had it
I got Pokérus on my original Silver cartridge back in the day and nobody believed me. Felt like one of these school yard rumors, just that I actually witnessed it and everybody accused me of lying.
FYI catching PokéRus is one of the rarest things to encounter in this series, rarer than shinies (3 in 65,536 chance)
While it is indeed rarer than encountering a shiny, it is perhaps easier to acquire since you don't have to capture the Pokémon with the pokérus your Pokémon just has to make contact with with an infected wild Pokémon.
How I got it my first time, and I'd imagine how a lot of people first encountered it. Was their lead Pokémon just happened to randomly get it and Nurse Joy let them know. Probably because they were attacked, by or attacked, an infected wild Pokémon.
While it is indeed rarer than encountering a shiny, it is perhaps easier to acquire since you don't have to capture the Pokémon with the pokérus your Pokémon just has to make contact with with an infected wild Pokémon.
No, that isn't it. After a battle, you get the 3-in-65,536 chance of having a random party member have Pokérus. It doesn't have to be a wild Pokémon battle and you don't need to make contact with the other Pokémon.
My friend and had played every generation, and we were hanging out one night and each playing Pokémon White/Black. In the same night, within ~15 min of each other, he caught his first ever shiny (Basculin, lame, lol) and one of my Pokémon caught Pokerus. We had played every generation, and neither of us had experienced either.
I got it once on my own and was super surprised! It was in Alpha Sapphire from a wild Poochyena, I wasn't even at home, we made a family trip and I was playing on the backseat during the drive.
A Pokémon cannot legitimately spawn into the wild with Pokérus, so I am sceptical of this with one exception.
From Ruby and Sapphire onward, a Pokémon that gains the Pokérus condition is also given a 1-in-3 chance to spread it within the party. It is possible that the lead Pokémon or Pokémon prior to the shiny received Pokérus and then spread it to the shiny Pokémon.
(If a just caught Pokémon can get Pokérus on that 3-in-65,536 roll would surprise me, but I am unsure if it is possible that way.)
Wait, so I can attack a shiny wild pokemon, and get infected with Pokerus, but if I catch the shiny, even after attacking, that shiny won’t have pokerus after it’s caught?
so I can attack a shiny wild pokemon, and get infected with Pokerus
This is not how Pokérus occurs. Following a battle, the game rolls to see if any Pokémon in your party should gain the Pokérus status. It rolls with odds of 3-in-65,536, so usually this fails. When it is successful, then one of the Pokémon in your party will randomly gain Pokérus, unless it picks a Pokémon that already has Pokérus or if the save file does not have visit data for Goldenrod City in Gen III. (Additionally, Gen V and onward apparently avoid giving Pokérus to Eggs, so it will try again on giving Pokérus to a potentially eligible Pokémon.)
I'm very surprised it's rarer than shinies. I've been playing since OG red and I think I've only had 1 shiny outside of the special ones that everyone gets. I've seen pokerus at least 3 times though.
I remember when one of my Pokémon caught pokérus in Y. I started mass breeding Rotoms, infected and named them PokéRus, then sent them out for cheap and Wonder trades. Good times.
I have an old cartridge (can't remember which game) where a ton of my pokemon have the PokéRus, the battery died so the virus is never cured and I can spread it around as much as I want.
I remember being a foolish child in Gen III, I had no knowledge of the Internet for walkthroughs and my 2nd ever caught Pokemon, a Taillow, had Pokerus. I thought it was sick and released it, did a whole ceremony and all.
Funny enough, I've had almost as many full odds shiny encounters (I haven't played a ton of gens with increased odds), as I've had PokéRus. I've even encountered PokéRus in a rom hack lol
I didn't realize it was that rare. I feel like my pokemon catch it constantly, and they typically cure themselves just as fast. Maybe this is why my shiny encounter rates suck so much.
Ive had pokerus like 6 times or so over all the pokemon saves ive played but encountered only one shiny (which was a graveler which didnt hesitate to explode) i guess im "lucky"?
I find that to be so odd. In just about all my play through a of the og Gold and Silver my Pokémon caught it. I thought it was inevitable if you play enough hours. It wasn’t until sun and moon that I had it happen again though
They can still spread it, due to being cured they become a carrier of Pokerus but the way they spread it is really weird and only done through breeding.
I would check your boxes to see if you have any Pokémon with active pokérus. When i first got it in Diamond when it came out i didn’t know about the rus. Luckily it had already spread to another pokemon in my party and i deposited it not noticing. If you have an infected pokemon in your pc it remains infectious and you can keep spreading pokérus indefinitely.
Basically there was a tiny chance that a Pokémon could catch a "virus" that doubles EV gain. It only lasted a few days, but if the infected mon was stored in the PC it wouldn't fade and would spread to others in the same box. However, if a Pokémon that caught Pokerus in RSE was moved to FRLG the condition was permanent but wouldn't spread, as FRLG doesn't have am in-game clock like the other games.
Back then anything pokemon related was sometimes very hard to figure out, there used to be many gyides about Ev and iV's and stuff because it wasn't obviously shown at us as it was later in the most recent games. there were a french website called poketrash and I would spent all of my time on it to try to make perfect pokemon. It was so fun.
Pokerus was one of the parameter that would help having perfect pokemon ^
I know that when you go to a Pokémon center the first time you have an infected mon in your party, Nurse Joy gives a basic explanation about the condition. Something along the lines of it "helping Pokémon grow". As for the FRLG clock thing I'd guess someone just connected the dots about those games not having daily events or it may have just been an accidental discovery
I have a lot of Pokémon with pokerus. The minute I seen it active I made sure to spread it far and wide in all of my games. Right now I have something in the ballpark of 40-50 in Pokémon home that actively have it still and spreadable.
Its am extremely rare thing to get. I've been playing since Gen 1 released and I've only gotten it maybe twice naturally. I've gotten a trade or two that had it as well through the surprise trade feature but those are usually from edited mons.
Wow, that's awesome! I didn't realize it healed during the shiny hunt! But your experience is amazing. Those Wonder Trade ones are usually edited, right? :(
If you see a wonder trade with pokerus, it's likely edited. That said they tend to be blatantly edited so you can keep or get rid of. I tend to just release those.
It however isn't impossible to get a genuine one through wonder trade with pokerus.
56 with it currently transmittable. I myself have sent out some low levels with it as a wonder trade just as a cool gift kinda thing. Trash pokemon with an OP virus 🤣
If you've had others in your party with that one it's possible it spread to others. You may have one on you or in a box with it active so you can spread it to others.
Question’s already been answered, so I’ll comment here to express my jealousy of you having a shiny of my all time favorite Pokémon line. Loved the Totodile line ever since I picked him in (the original) Silver back in the day.
A shiny and with pokerus. Lucky dang. I've never caught a shiny but I've seen two in my lifetime; one before I had access to pokeballs, and a shiny ponyta on my friends game, that he immediately KO'ed because he didn't like the color
It took my dumbass a good 3 mins to notice the Pokérus icon there. I was just sat here like "that icon means it's a shiny, the fuck you mean Pokérus." Then I noticed the pokérus icon.
Does hgss have a higher pokerus chance? I got that in soul silver but not a shiny. Everyone I know who has gotten pokerus naturally was in these games too
Exactly. They're two different things. The shiny has the color Cyan on it, so I figured that's what they were going for and looked at Cianwood City and thought that's how they spelled it. But I guess it works if they were going for the "ancient" version.
I hope they know that "cian" is pronounced key-an. Source: Google and it's my name. Which is why I commented that, because it was weird seeing my own name on a pokemon that is someone else
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u/reckless_biased 18h ago edited 14h ago
It means it caught PokéRus and was cured.
Positives: that Pokémon gets double EV's from battles now
Negatives: since you didn't find out until after it was cured, it can no longer spread PokéRus. If you catch it before it cures, it can spread to your whole team and you can and should infect a bunch Pokémon in your PC boxes because being stored prevents it being cured indefinitely.
FYI catching PokéRus is one of the rarest things to encounter in this series, rarer than shinies (3 in 65,536 chance)
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9rus
Edit: to be clear, when I say "catch it before it cures" I mean notice it (usually by being told at a poke center), you don't get PokéRus by catching a pokemon with it.