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[Chiri Kitsu]

Quite surprising, I have never encountered it yet as its usually a very rare thing to get.

[shady]

i thought you could only get it by hacking the game.

[mr.chya]

I think it's like shiny pokemon, it's in the game but you have as much of chance to encounter it as you do of joining teem rocket (witch sucks because some times I really want to go all evil and try take over the world). With that being said I've played all of them and never once encountered it though I have caught to shinies albeit they were both in yellow and one was the red gerados (the other was a shiny hoothoot which was nice).

[Chiri Kitsu]

Ya, indeed, it is something of very rare occurence just like a shiny pokemon?

[Yuto]

Oh yeah. It freaked me out at first when i saw it though. I thought one of my pokemon had a poison status, since it shows up as "PKRS" or something in purple lettering right under the pokemon's name/status. It happened with my Flygon somewhere at lvl 45 near a small town shortly after training. I thought "What the hell is that?" And then my friend explained to me what it was and then i though "Oh, well i guess i'll keep it!" So it came in handy when i was kicking ass with Flygon.

[Ascension]

I received PokéRus through a random trade at a local Pokémon Day in Germany.

I knew what it was so I stored my Pokémons swiftly and spread it around my Pokémon.

[PKOverdrive]

I remember suddenly getting it in Emerald while doing my egg hatching/level grinding back-and-forth on the mach bike. You guys remember that route, right? The one between the city with the elec-type gym and the town where Wally was supposed to stay? That's when I googled it and did the only logical thing: keep it in the PC for future use.

[deeluna]

I've encountered it once or twice in each generation. I used to spread it around to everyone I could because pkrs pokemon even if it is a ratata would get you a really rare pokemon in a trade.

[LizasLilProtege]

I have to admit, I've never heard of the pokerus infection... could somebody explain what it is? I'm pretty intrigued here, haha.

[Frag.EXE]

I have to admit, I've never heard of the pokerus infection... could somebody explain what it is? I'm pretty intrigued here, haha.

 

Have you heard of EVs? These are Effort Values, which affect a Pokemon's stat growth. Different Pokemon give different EVs when defeated in battle, and level grinding on a certain species of Pokemon often results in your Pokemon's stat growth in a certain area becoming much better than if you just progressed normally and fought whatever came your way. Pokerus is a harmless infection that actually doubles the rate at which you gain these EVs, allowing your Pokemon's stat growth to improve faster. For those who grind EVs for optimized Pokemon, infecting their desired Pokemon with Pokerus will halve the number of battles they need to max out their Pokemon's EVs.

 

Pokerus will spread throughout your active Pokemon party, but after some time the Pokemon will become cured of Pokerus. Don't worry, they still gain the benefits from the infection and will continue to receive doubled EVs from battles. Storing a Pokemon that has yet to be cured of Pokerus in a PC will suspend its Pokerus status, allowing you to take it out and continue infecting other Pokemon you acquire even months or years later. Getting Pokerus is incredibly rare (even rarer than a Shiny!), but fortunately you will be notified the first time you acquire an infectee when you return to the Pokemon centre to heal. Treasure it.

[TheFalse]

That is a pretty good explanation on what pokerus is. For me I tend to get pokerus in every game I have at one of m playthroughs.