Pokémon Super Deluxe Essential Handbook

The Pokémon Super Deluxe Essential Handbook by Cris Silvestri and Simcha Whitehill is an edition of The Official Pokémon Handbook series that was published by 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 , , and , as well as alternate forms of , , , and . The book is 496 pages long.
The book uses both and for height and weight listings.
==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 to 
:*Insider info on attacks, Z-Moves, types,Evolutions, Mega Evolution, and the all-newAlolan Pokémon
:*The scoop on Legendary Pokémon,Mythical Pokémon, and the mysteriousUltra Beasts
: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. A page may be devoted to one or two Pokémon. If a Pokémon has a Mega Evolution, it is listed immediately afterwards. Alolan Pokémon are listed after their Kantonian counterpart.
===Name===
Each entry begins with the Pokémon's name, its species name, and the regions they can be found in at the top on a colored bar.
===Information===
Each Pokémon has the following information 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 line, 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==
* '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 of the forces of nature.
* Despite being mentioned in the back cover blurb, Z-Moves are not listed throughout the book.
===Errors===
* The following errors are corrected in later reprints:
** 's Summer and Autumn forms have their labels switched.
** is listed before and and their evolutions, despite coming afterwards in alphabetical order. However, this may have been intentionally done to keep and on the same page.
* 's region is listed as Hoenn instead of Sinnoh.
* Unbound is listed as the "Mischief Pokémon" instead of the Djinn Pokémon.
* is listed as the "Caring Pokémon" instead of the Rabbit Pokémon.
* is listed as the "Levitate Pokémon" instead of the Stag Beetle Pokémon.
* 's learnset has only three moves: , , and , its level 1 moves.
* Cosplay Pikachu's region is listed as Kanto rather than Hoenn.
* Under 's learnset, "Hammer Armor" is listed instead of .
* The included poster in the exclusive hardcover shows a picture of Mega with Blastoise's name.
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