1)Pokerus lasts for approximately 24 hours of out of box activity.

2)Pokerus spreads only while battling. After about 2 battles, it will spread to the adjacent pokemon in your roster.

3)Pokerus is not effected by steps, only actual time. It can wear off even if you haven't played.

4)Unsure about this yet, but pokemon who are boxed seem to have their status "locked"- it does not spread, but it does not go away. However, I have only had pokeRus-infected pokemon boxed for two days, so I'll keep you updated.

5)Pokerus has no effect on breeding if the father is effected. I will soon infect a mother and try that.

6)Pokerus increases gained stat experience by an unknown amount. I'll be heading to the unknown cave to check on this.

7)After a pokemon is infected and fights it off, his status screen will be marked by a dot just above the far righthand side of his hp bar. He is thereafter immune to the virus.

That is all, for the time being. Like I said before, if anyone has any questions or testings they want to attempt, I'm up for it. Just ask.

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Originally posted by Brayze:
6)Pokerus increases gained stat experience by an unknown amount. I'll be heading to the unknown cave to check on this.

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Uh.....there IS no Unknown Cave in G/S. Do you mean Silver Cave?

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Pardon me, not a stat changer -- a status changer...I'm either getting lazy or stupid...or both. Bleh.

If Pokerus prevents status ailements, then that is game-unbalancing. I'll go check some more. *runs*

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If they do, then, if I ever the Pokérus, don't expect me to get any sleep... I'll be up catching like crazy

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Pokerus lasts for about 24 hours of out of box activity, and it seems to last forever, in a static state, with boxed pokemon. It only spreads if you actually fight (you can't just ride around on a bike and expect it to spread to other pokemon). It doesn't spread in the box.

The reason that your pokemon seemed to have it for about 5 days was probably because they were being rotated, and experienced about 24 hours of out-of-box time across those 5 days.

Trust me on this, I've done several trials.

Maybe both have to have it.

--Meowth346

PS, maybe you should revise your page on the Pokerus, I'd be happy to give you an exact duration for it. Just gimme a day or so after you reply.

And also it doesn't spread in boxes, and it doesn't automatically spread to all pokemon when you put them in the pokecenter.

..Only spreads if you fight, to adjacent pokemon...hmmm, a stay at the pokecenter may count as a fight...

Will test.

Etc, etc. That's pretty much all I've found, but feel free to put it up if you want.

Good hunting!

--Meowth346

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Originally posted by Porcupine:
I want to know if the PokeRus protects your status condition as well.

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Well, I've done a little research and the answer is - no. You can still freeze, sleep, burn, die, etc. while carrying a Pokèrus. It just appears that the game's creators had no better place to let you know that your Pokèmon have been infected than the @#$*! status line (yes, my hopes were falsely raised a bit).

BTW, if you have used a Gameshark to shark your status (Burn, Freeze, etc) or shark the PokéRUS, you notice that they the same byte of memory. That was my suspicion that you could have PokéRUS and a status condition at the same time, although your Pokémon stat screen should say the status condition rather than the PokéRUS condition.

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It reminds me of those Jack Handy sayings on auld SNL.

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