Pokémon Super Deluxe Essential Handbook
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| ISBN: | 978-1338230895 |
| Published: | July 31, 2018 |
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| Preceded By: | Pokémon Alola Region Handbook |
| Succeeded By: | N/A |
The Pokémon Super Deluxe Essential Handbook is an edition of The Official Pokémon Handbook series that was published by Scholastic on July 31, 2018. It serves as a paper form of the National Pokédex for all 806 Pokémon known at the time in alphabetical order, excluding Zeraora, as well as alternate forms of Rotom and Necrozma. The book is 496 pages long.
Blurb
- Pokémon
- SUPER DELUXE
- ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK
- If you want to catch 'em all, you gotta have this
- essential guide to the world of Pokémon.
- Your favorite characters from every known region
- are all inside this book! You'll find
- Stats and facts on Pokémon from
Abomasnow to Zygarde - Insider info on attacks, Z-Moves, types,
Evolutions, Mega Evolution, and the all-new
Alolan Pokémon - The scoop on Legendary Pokémon,
Mythical Pokémon, and the mysterious
Ultra Beasts
- Stats and facts on Pokémon from
- plus much, much more.
- The Super Deluxe Essential Handbook is
- jam-packed with all the facts and figures you need
- to become a Pokémon expert.
- It's your comprehensive guide
- to over 800 characters!
Entries
The entries for each Pokémon are in an easy-to-read page setup. Each Pokémon has either an entire page to itself, or shares a page with another Pokémon. If a Pokémon has a Mega Evolution, it is listed immediately afterwards. Alolan Pokémon are listed after their Kantonian counterpart.
Name
Each entry is topped with a colored bar. These bars have the Pokémon's name, category and regions they can be found in (either Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos [Central, Coastal or Mountain], or Alola).
Stats
Each Pokémon has the following stats below its name:
- Type
- Description (based on its Pokédex entry)
- How to say it
- Imperial Height
- Imperial Weight
- Metric Height
- Metric Weight
- Possible Moves (moves the Pokémon will learn by leveling up)
Image and other information
Each Pokémon has an anime-style picture on its page. Legendary, Mythical Pokémon and Ultra Beasts are labelled as such under the colored bar and there is a glow around the Pokémon.
Evolution chain
At the very bottom of a Pokémon's entry is a diagram of its evolutionary family, including the Pokémon's Mega Evolution. Pokémon that do not evolve instead have the words "Does not evolve". A Pokémon that is on one side of a branched evolution will show itself, and the Pokémon it evolved from, but not the other side of the branch.
Trivia
- Unown's exclamation and question mark forms are omitted, despite having existed years before the book was printed.
- This is the first handbook to include the Therian Formes of the Forces of Nature.
- The book uses entries from Pokémon Alola Region Handbook for Pokémon who didn't originate in Alola (including non-Alolan forms), replacing those that had been used in most books. However, others remain the same.
Errors
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- Dusknoir's region is listed as Hoenn instead of Sinnoh.
- Hoopa Unbound is known as the "Mischief Pokémon" instead of the "Djinn Pokémon".
- Mega Lopunny is known as the "Caring Pokémon" instead of the "Rabbit Pokémon".
- Vikavolt is known as the "Levitate Pokémon" instead of the "Stag Beetle Pokémon".
- Volcanion's learnset has only three moves: Steam Eruption, Flare Blitz, and Take Down.
- The included poster in the Barnes & Noble exclusive hardcover shows a picture of Mega Blastoise with Blastoise's name.
- Cosplay Pikachu's region is listed as Kanto rather than Hoenn.
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