The Official Pokémon Advanced Handbook 4: Difference between revisions

The title of this article is incorrect because of technical limitations. The correct title is The Official Pokémon Advanced Handbook #4.

The Official Pokémon Advanced Handbook #4 by Maria S. Barbo (ISBN 0439559898) is a handbook that was published in 2003, and is the sequel to The Official Pokémon Handbook #3. It served as a paper form of the Hoenn Pokédex. It contained an entry for all the Generation III Pokémon, excluding Jirachi and Deoxys. This handbook is considerably shorter than the older handbooks.

Entries

All Pokémon from the same evolution family share a page. Pokémon with no evolution share a page with other Pokémon.

Name

Each entry has the Pokémon's name, and its species (e.g. Wood Gecko Pokémon for Treecko). It is then followed by facts about the Pokémon itself. Other features include a picture of the Pokémon.

Stats

The entries list the following stats:

1. Type
2. Height (in inches and feet)
3. Weight (in pounds)
4. Attacks (the basic and most commonly used moves of that Pokémon)

Attacks are not listed with the levels at which they are learned, and not all the moves the Pokémon can learn appear.

Evolution chain

At the very bottom of the entry there are pictures with arrows between them to show what the Pokémon evolves into. Pokémon that do not evolve do not have an evolution chain.

Other content

Besides the entries on each Pokémon, the book includes a Hoenn region map with a brief summary about the region. There are also Hoenn, Johto and Indigo League comparisons that compare Badges, amount needed etc. There are also a couple of pages in it to read up about Pokémon types, and other things that are new to Generation III.

Errors

• On Torchic's page, Tentacool's moveset is listed instead of Torchic's.
• On Ralts's page, it states Ralts can not evolve. This is not true, as Ralts can evolve into Kirlia.

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