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 Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: WHAT IS A POKERUS |
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LAST NIGHT I GOT A CALL FROM PROFESSOR ELM TALKING ABOUT A POKERUS, WHICH IS A POKEMON VIRUS VERY CONTAGIOUS BUT NOT HARMFUL TO YOUR POKEMON??????? WHAT IS IT I'VE PLAYED THIS GAME LIKE 20 TIMES AND NEVER GOTTEN THAT CALL.... DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT IT IS MY FRIENDS THINK ITS A GLITCH OR GAME VIRUS.  |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: IF I'M NOT HERE |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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Mister Toups
Hates your favorite videogame
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confused
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| DO EITHER OF YOU KNOW WHAT A POKERUS IS |
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Shapermc
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| Quote: | The Pokérus is a useful little virus that can help you while you train your beloved Pokémon. You may or may not have heard of it, but chances are that you haven’t heard of it if you are reading this. You may be wondering “Why do I need it” or “How can a virus help my Pokémon” or “How do I get this ‘Pokérus’” or “Why is this guy asking so many questions”. Save for the last one, it will be covered here.
Let’s start with what it does. The Pokérus is, as mentioned before, very helpful in training your own Pokémon. If you have the Pokérus on a Pokémon, you have probably noticed that it will spread to the other Pokémon in your party and when you level one of those Pokémon up by battling, their stats will increase higher than usual. The reason for this is because the Pokérus doubles the Effort Points you’ve obtained. In other words, it’s just like the Macho Brace you get north of Mauville except without the speed boost and it doesn’t take up an item slot. (For more info on Effort Points, go take a look at the Effort Value guide.) It’s quite helpful indeed. It’s important to note that the Pokémon with the Pokérus will lose the Pokérus eventually, and a small dot will appear in your Pokémon’s status screens. If you want to keep the Pokérus forever, make sure you put an infected Pokémon in your box.
So now how do I get this elusive virus? Well to tell you the truth… It’s really based upon luck, like most things. Maybe not as much as to get a shiny Pokémon, but around that area. To get the Pokérus, your Pokémon needs to engage in a battle a wild Pokémon that holds the Pokérus. You will be alerted if you have the Pokérus in your party when you next visit the Pokémon center. The Pokémon nurse there will go through a dialogue with you dealing with the Pokérus after you get them healed. You can catch it as well by catching the Pokémon and placing it in your party to spread it.
And that is amazingly everything related to the Pokérus… |
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WOW THATs interesting thanks and if i want to keep the virus i have to keep an effected pokemon in bill's box thats cool. and i'll know if my pokemon has it if there is a dot on its status screen, right? ok well thanks i was worried my game was messed up  |
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Nana Komatsu
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| I wish I could get this excited about Pokemon games again. |
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One of my Pokemon caught that virus once.
Once. |
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SuperWes
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I think our forums may have caught a virus.
heh...
-Wes
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The Great Unwashed
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What is a pokerus? It's a valid avenue of enquiry.
What does it mean to be a pokerus? Can something uncatcheable possess some symptoms that are metamedical? Could, then, an idea be a pokerus?
Maybe I've been reading it wrong the whole time. What if it's not a question at all? What if it were a statement. Perhaps what is, itself, a pokerus. Inquiry. Which is to say...
*cough*
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| LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS |
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The Great Unwashed
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I DON'T WANT TO RUSH INTO ANYTHING IN THIS RELATIONSHIP SORRY GREATSAUNTLOUIS
NO OFFENCE YOU'RE A GREAT GUY AND ALL
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| I WILL SHOW EVERYONE MY POKEMANS VIA WEBCAM I EVEN HAVE A HUG LAUNCHER THAT I ALREADY USED ON J.GOODWIN. ALLSO NEED HELP ON SPOUNGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MOVIE GAME FOR GAMEBOYADVANCED PLZ SEND CHEET CODES KTHNKSBAI. |
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dessgeega
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Nana Komatsu
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| The Great Unwashed wrote: | What is a pokerus? It's a valid avenue of enquiry.
What does it mean to be a pokerus? Can something uncatcheable possess some symptoms that are metamedical? Could, then, an idea be a pokerus?
Maybe I've been reading it wrong the whole time. What if it's not a question at all? What if it were a statement. Perhaps what is, itself, a pokerus. Inquiry. Which is to say...
*cough* |
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TOLLMASTER
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I caught a shiny Sandshrew, once.
It was pretty freaking awesome. The chances of finding one, and then being able to catch it, are "not good." I didn't have my regular False Swiper with me, but somehow I was able to put it to sleep with something and then catch it at full health (any attack I would have made with my uberized Pokes would have killed it). Nice. |
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Wilkes
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I really want a shiny oddish.
I wonder how the new DS games are going to handle shiny pokemon.
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Mister Toups
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Posting in TGQ forums first legendary thread?
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| Wilkes wrote: | I really want a shiny oddish.
I wonder how the new DS games are going to handle shiny pokemon. |
If you rub them when they're on the screen they will get shinier. I hope. |
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dhex
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| Quote: | | What is anime? Anime is . . . Action! Comedy! Sci-Fi! Martial arts! Totally awesome! On right now, 24 hours a day! Call your local cable or satellite provider and Demand Your Anime(tm), Anime Network.* |
*The Anime Network (tm) is not responsible for incidents of soul cancer.
i kinda like how pokerus sounds out loud. like a noble roman senator fighting to keep aside the shores of tyranny and being cruelly cut down by his political opponents.
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GSL
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Funny, I got an image of some sort of Antarctic walrus with extra-pokey tusks. Or something.
Yes, parts of my mind have not matured past five years of age. |
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Persona-sama
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I think the chances of getting Pokerus is like 1/1772 or something. In comparison, the odds of finding a shiny pokemon is like 1/574231 or among those digits.
I caught a shiny Milktank in my Silver game once. It was in a field where i slaughtered Meowths to raise my pokemon. I admired its shiny skin and checked its stats and then dumped it in a box in digital hell and never saw it again.
Pokerus, on the otherhand, I've been able to get in Silver and Sapphire. I think the chances of getting it have been raised in the newer games.
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