Regional Pokédex

Johto's regional Pokédex, a predecessor (note lack of numbers).

A regional Pokédex is a Pokédex order specific to a certain region of the Pokémon world. Rather than chronicle all known Pokémon as does the National Pokédex, a regional Pokédex serves to list those Pokémon native to the region, usually starting with the Grass-type starter Pokémon, and followed by its evolutions, the Fire-type starter and its evolutions, and the Water-type starter and its evolutions, then continuing through the rest of the Pokémon native to the region. Legendary Pokémon of the region are typically placed near the end, while the very last slot or few slots are occupied by special Pokémon not normally encountered.

Corphish in the Hoenn regional Pokédex

A regional Pokédex will often place newly released evolutions and pre-evolutions near their base form, no matter how much distance is between them in the National Pokédex. For example, in the National Pokédex, Aipom falls at #190, with its evolution Ambipom at #424. In the Sinnoh region's Pokédex, however, they are #063 and #064, respectively. Capturing all Pokémon in a regional Pokédex will cause the Game Freak developers in-game to award the player with a diploma in Generation I, Generation II, and Generation III. Completing the National Pokédex awards another diploma in Generation III. In Generation IV, seeing every Pokémon in the Sinnoh region's Pokédex allows the player to receive the upgrade to National mode from Professor Oak.

The Sinnoh Pokédex allows players to switch between regional and national views.

So far, however, only the Sinnoh region's original Pokédex does not naturally include all of the new Pokémon released in that generation. In Diamond and Pearl, Pokémon such as Gligar and Eevee were excluded from the listing, despite both receiving new evolutions in Generation IV and being easily available after getting the National Pokédex. The reasoning for this is unknown; however, both of these Pokémon, as well as all others that are relatives of a Generation IV Pokémon, among others, were added to the Sinnoh Pokédex in Platinum. Generally regional Pokédexes are in the order of how the developers intend you to meet the included Pokémon within the main game, except for the Kanto and Johto Pokédexes which are put in seemingly random orders.

Scrafty in the Unova regional Pokédex of Black and White

The Pokédex order for the six main regions of the Pokémon world are as follows:

• Kanto Pokédex (FRLG): #001 Bulbasaur - #151 Mew
• New Pokédex (): #001 Chikorita - #251 Celebi
  • Johto Pokédex (): #001 Chikorita - #256 Celebi
• Hoenn Pokédex (RSE): #001 Treecko - #202 Deoxys
  • New Hoenn Pokédex (): #001 Treecko - #202 Deoxys
• Sinnoh Pokédex (): #001 Turtwig - #151 Manaphy
  • Enhanced Sinnoh Pokédex (): #001 Turtwig - #210 Giratina
• Unova Pokédex (): #000 Victini - #155 Genesect
  • New Unova Pokédex (): #000 Victini - #300 Genesect
• Kalos Pokédex ()
  • Central Kalos Pokédex: #001 Chespin - #151 Diancie
  • Coastal Kalos Pokédex: #001 Drifloon - #153 Moltres
  • Mountain Kalos Pokédex: #001 Diglett - #151 Mewtwo

The National Pokédex, which catalogs every Pokémon currently known, is as follows:

• National Pokédex:
  • Generation I Pokémon: #001 Bulbasaur - #151 Mew
  • Generation II Pokémon: #152 Chikorita - #251 Celebi
  • Generation III Pokémon: #252 Treecko - #386 Deoxys
  • Generation IV Pokémon: #387 Turtwig - #493 Arceus
  • Generation V Pokémon: #494 Victini - #649 Genesect
  • Generation VI Pokémon: #650 Chespin - #719 Diancie

In the Pokémon Ranger series of spin-off games, Pokémon information is stored in the Browser, which acts similarly to a Pokédex for Pokémon Rangers. It is as follows:

• Fiore Browser: R-001 Bulbasaur - R-213 Mew
• Almia Browser: R-001 Pichu - R-267 Regigigas
• Oblivia Browser: R-001 Pidgey - R-301 Lugia
  • Past Oblivia Browser: N-001 Piplup - N-222 Mew

In Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD, the Strategy Memo acts as a Pokédex for Orre, listing Pokémon alphabetically.

Non-native Pokémon

Pokémon not native to a region which are obtained before a game's regional Pokédex has been upgraded to National Mode will be displayed with ??? as their Pokédex number in the status screen, where the regional Pokédex number is displayed in all other cases. If caught from the wild (through hacking the game), the Pokédex registration screen will display different numbers dependent on the game: Hoenn-based games display a number between 203 and 386, corresponding to the Pokémon's position in the National Pokédex minus those Generation I and Generation II Pokémon native to Hoenn (Arbok, for example, is #226, but Pikachu, Raichu, Sandshrew, and Sandslash, which appear in Hoenn, are skipped, making Nidoran♀ #227). Sinnoh-based games and Johto-based games, on the other hand, display the registered Pokémon as #000 if it is outside of their respective regional Pokédexes. Kanto-based games, interestingly enough, state only that the Pokémon's data has been registered, and skip straight to nicknaming the Pokémon, never displaying the Pokédex.

See also

• Pokédex

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