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→‎Trivia: ...that is the most ridiculously long piece of trivia EVER. Plus, it doesn't change official weight if the US games can't convert right.

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 *[[James]] uses cards of Pokémon to sometimes identify the Pokémon and the moves they can learn.
 *Excluding gender differences and minor form variations, there are 540 unique Pokémon designs. <!--This includes Unown, Shellos/Gastrodon, Cherrim, Castform, Rotom, Shaymin, Giratina, Burmy, Wormadam, and Deoxys. This does not include Spinda or Arceus, and shinies or gender differences. Math is 493+17+2+1+3+5+1+1+2+2+3=540. Order follows the list above. -->
-*Due to the Pokédex in the [[Generation I]] [[Generation II|and II]] games listing Pokémon weights in pounds rounding the weights of all Pokémon other than {{p|Gastly}} and {{p|Haunter}} to whole pounds (the games didn't switch to rounding to tenths of a pound until [[Generation III]]), this created a unique anomaly in the anime episode [[EP194|''Ring Masters'']] when shown in the United States, where a {{p|Kangaskhan}} was entered in the [[Sumo Conference]] competition, where the weight minimum is 80.0 kg (176.4 lbs).  According to Generation II games that record weight in kilograms, Kangaskhan weighed 80.0 kg and thus eligible to compete at its game-canon weight; however, according to Generation II games that record weight in pounds, Kangaskhan weighed 176.0 lbs and thus one at its at-the-time game-canon weight would be ineligible to compete for being four-tenths of a pound too light.  The anomaly could have been avoided had the games started rounding Pokémon weights to tenths of a pound one generation earlier; once the games started rounding Pokémon weights to tenths of a pound, Kangaskhan's weight was listed at 176.4 lbs and hence eligible for the Sumo Conference at game-canon weight.  (Such an anomaly would have also affected {{p|Starmie}} had one been entered in the competition; it most likely would have also affected {{p|Swalot}} had it existed in Generation II and one been entered in the competition.)  It should be noted, however, that there were Pokémon entered in the Sumo Conference competition whose game-canon weights do not meet the weight minimum on either weight scale.
+*The Pokédex models of [[Generation]]s {{gen|I}} and {{gen|II}} rounded the weights of all Pokémon to full pounds except for {{p|Gastly}} and {{p|Haunter}}, despite the Japanese games' use of tenths of kilograms since the start. From [[Generation III]] onward, all weights have been given to the nearest tenth of a pound.
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