2000 English edition almanac

Base Set 2 reprints Base Set and Jungle in one 130-card set. No Fossil cards are in it, and no new cards — 68 of the 198 cards in Japan's 1996–97 output are absent from this set.

Only in the Japanese set (68): Aerodactyl, Arbok, Articuno, Clefairy Doll, Cloyster, Devolution Spray, Ditto, Dragonite, Eevee, Ekans, Electrode, Energy Search, Flareon, Gambler, Gastly, Gengar, Geodude, Gloom, Golbat, Golduck, Golem, Graveler, Grimer, Haunter, Hitmonlee, Horsea, Hypno, Jolteon, Kabuto, Kabutops, Kingler, Koffing, Krabby, Lapras, Machamp, Magmar, Magneton, Mankey, Mew, Moltres, Mr. Fuji, Muk, Mysterious Fossil, Oddish, Omanyte, Omastar, Pikachu, Pokémon Flute, Ponyta, Porygon, Primeape, Psyduck, Raichu, Rapidash, Recycle, Revive, Sandslash, Seadra, Shellder, Slowbro, Slowpoke, Tentacool, Tentacruel, Vaporeon, Vileplume, Weezing, Zapdos, Zubat

Compared with the Japanese cards of 1996 and 1997.

Eighteen more than Japan's 65. The extras are not padding: they include Dark Charizard, Dark Blastoise, Dark Dragonite, Dark Alakazam, Dark Machamp, Dark Gyarados and Dark Raichu, plus Rainbow Energy, Here Comes Team Rocket! and Rocket's Sneak Attack.

Not in this Japanese set (18 names): Dark Alakazam, Dark Arbok, Dark Blastoise, Dark Charizard, Dark Dragonite, Dark Dugtrio, Dark Golbat, Dark Gyarados, Dark Hypno, Dark Machamp, Dark Magneton, Dark Raichu, Dark Slowbro, Dark Vileplume, Dark Weezing, Here Comes Team Rocket!, Rainbow Energy, Rocket's Sneak Attack

Compared with the Japanese cards of 1997.

Gym Heroes takes Japan's fifth and sixth expansions and keeps 132 cards of the 194. Fifty-seven of the cards below have no Japanese counterpart in the fifth expansion, and 21 of Japan's are missing — this is a re-cut, not a reprint.

Not in these Japanese sets (28 names): Blaine's Growlithe, Blaine's Quiz #1, Brock, Brock's Mankey, Brock's Onix, Brock's Rhyhorn, Brock's Sandshrew, Brock's Zubat, Erika, Erika's Exeggcute, Erika's Gloom, Erika's Weepinbell, Fighting Energy, Fire Energy, Grass Energy, Lightning Energy, Lt. Surge, Lt. Surge's Electabuzz, Lt. Surge's Spearow, Misty, Misty's Cloyster, Misty's Goldeen, Misty's Seaking, Misty's Shellder, Misty's Starmie, Misty's Tentacool, Psychic Energy, Water Energy

Only in the Japanese set (90): Blaine, Blaine's Arcanine, Blaine's Charizard, Blaine's Charmeleon, Blaine's Doduo, Blaine's Mankey, Blaine's Ninetales, Blaine's Quiz #3, Blaine's Rapidash, Blaine's Rhyhorn, Brock's Diglett, Brock's Dugtrio, Brock's Ninetales, Brock's Primeape, Brock's Protection, Brock's Vulpix, Chaos Gym, Cinnabar City Gym, Erika's Bulbasaur, Erika's Ivysaur, Erika's Jigglypuff, Erika's Kindness, Erika's Paras, Erika's Venusaur, Fuchsia City Gym, Giovanni, Giovanni's Gyarados, Giovanni's Last Resort, Giovanni's Machamp, Giovanni's Machoke, Giovanni's Machop, Giovanni's Magikarp, Giovanni's Meowth, Giovanni's Nidoking, Giovanni's Nidoqueen, Giovanni's Nidoran ♀, Giovanni's Nidorina, Giovanni's Nidorino, Giovanni's Persian, Giovanni's Pinsir, Imakuni?'s Doduo, Koga, Koga's Arbok, Koga's Beedrill, Koga's Ditto, Koga's Ekans, Koga's Golbat, Koga's Grimer, Koga's Kakuna, Koga's Koffing, Koga's Muk, Koga's Ninja Trick, Koga's Pidgeotto, Koga's Pidgey, Koga's Tangela, Koga's Weedle, Koga's Weezing, Koga's Zubat, Lt. Surge's Eevee, Lt. Surge's Jolteon, Lt. Surge's Secret Plan, Misty's Dewgong, Misty's Golduck, Misty's Gyarados, Misty's Horsea, Misty's Magikarp, Misty's Tears, Misty's Wish, Resistance Gym, Rocket's Mewtwo, Rocket's Minefield Gym, Rocket's Secret Experiment, Rocket's Zapdos, Sabrina, Sabrina's Alakazam, Sabrina's Golduck, Sabrina's Hypno, Sabrina's Kadabra, Sabrina's Porygon, Sabrina's Psychic Control, Sabrina's Psyduck, Saffron City Gym, Transparent Walls, Viridian City Gym, Warp Point, _____'s Chansey

Compared with the Japanese cards of 1998 and 1999.

Gym Challenge is the other half of the same re-cut: 53 English-only cards and 19 Japanese cards left out. Read Gym Heroes and Gym Challenge together as one English set split in two, and Japan's two Gym expansions as a different split of the same material.

Not in these Japanese sets (18 names): Blaine, Blaine's Dodrio, Blaine's Quiz #2, Fervor, Fighting Energy, Fire Energy, Giovanni, Grass Energy, Koga, Lightning Energy, Lt. Surge's Electrode, Master Ball, Max Revive, Psychic Energy, Sabrina, Sabrina's Abra, Sabrina's Gastly, Water Energy

Only in the Japanese set (80): Blaine's Gamble, Blaine's Kangaskhan, Blaine's Last Resort, Blaine's Magmar, Blaine's Moltres, Blaine's Tauros, Brock, Brock's Geodude, Brock's Golbat, Brock's Golem, Brock's Lickitung, Brock's Mankey, Brock's Onix, Brock's Rhydon, Brock's Rhyhorn, Brock's Sandshrew, Brock's Training Method, Brock's Vulpix, Brock's Zubat, Celadon City Gym, Cerulean City Gym, Charity, Energy Flow, Erika, Erika's Bellsprout, Erika's Clefable, Erika's Dragonair, Erika's Dratini, Erika's Exeggcute, Erika's Exeggutor, Erika's Gloom, Erika's Maids, Erika's Oddish, Erika's Perfume, Erika's Tangela, Erika's Victreebel, Erika's Vileplume, Erika's Weepinbell, Good Manners, Imakuni?'s Doduo, Lt. Surge, Lt. Surge's Electabuzz, Lt. Surge's Fearow, Lt. Surge's Magnemite, Lt. Surge's Magneton, Lt. Surge's Spearow, Lt. Surge's Treaty, Minion of Team Rocket, Misty, Misty's Duel, Misty's Goldeen, Misty's Horsea, Misty's Poliwhirl, Misty's Poliwrath, Misty's Seadra, Misty's Tentacool, Misty's Tentacruel, Misty's Wrath, Narrow Gym, No Removal Gym, Pewter City Gym, Recall, Rocket's Hitmonchan, Rocket's Moltres, Rocket's Scyther, Rocket's Snorlax, Sabrina's ESP, Sabrina's Gaze, Sabrina's Slowbro, Sabrina's Slowpoke, Sabrina's Venomoth, Sabrina's Venonat, Secret Mission, The Rocket's Training Gym, The Rocket's Trap, Tickling Machine, Trash Exchange, Vermilion City Gym, _____'s Chansey

Compared with the Japanese cards of 1998 and 1999.

Fifteen more than Japan's 96: six basic Energy cards and the nine starter evolutions of Chikorita, Cyndaquil and Totodile are numbered cards in the English set. Nothing was removed.

Not in this Japanese set (15 names): Bayleef, Chikorita, Croconaw, Cyndaquil, Feraligatr, Fighting Energy, Fire Energy, Grass Energy, Lightning Energy, Meganium, Psychic Energy, Quilava, Totodile, Typhlosion, Water Energy

Compared with the Japanese cards of 2000.