It is seemingly official: Pokérus is gone. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet simply launched on Thursday, however gamers are already discovering the uncommon, fictional illness will not be current within the new video games.
Pokérus was first launched in Gen 2 Pokémon video games. The standing is actually a virus; it infects any Pokémon adjoining to an contaminated Pokémon in your social gathering, regardless that they’re each nonetheless in Poké Balls.
The disappearance of Pokérus was found by Twitter person and dataminer @mattyoukhana_, who discovered that the sport’s code confirmed no indication of Pokérus.
Pokérus is no longer present in Scarlet & Violet! No assets for the Pokérus status icons exist in the game, and it can not be found on wild Pokémon.
After testing with a Pokémon forcibly given Pokérus, they still gain the usual EV yield (not x2), and Pokérus does not spread. pic.twitter.com/DIklfjbQHS
— Matt (@mattyoukhana_) November 18, 2022
Whereas a virus absolutely sounds unhealthy, Pokérus is definitely fully helpful. The standing, which was indicated by a small icon, doubled the EV factors that the contaminated Pokémon gained from battle, making coaching exceedingly simple.
All you needed to do was place your Pokémon throughout the contaminated and poof! Inside hours, all of your Pokémon would have the standing.
With Scarlet and Violet, Pokérus isn’t any extra. The icon indicating the infections is gone, and there are no property for it within the recreation. In truth, the standing cannot even be discovered on wild Pokémon.
So, for these of you making an attempt to achieve EV rapidly and simply, hoping to get Pokérus is not gonna be an awesome technique.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have been to a tough begin, with many gamers experiencing gameplay points on the Nintendo Swap. In keeping with IGN’s Rebekah Valentine in her evaluate in progress: there actually isn’t a second in [Pokémon Scarlet & Violet] the place’d I’d say they run nicely. Body charges are dropping, Pokémon are clipping by means of partitions and character fashions are popping out and in.
For our full evaluate of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, keep tuned to every thing IGN.
Carson Burton is a contract information author for IGN. You may observe him on Twitter at @carsonsburton.
