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At the end of the Orange League season (Episode 118 "The Rivalry Revival"),
when Ash talks with Professor Oak and decides to continue travelling to the
Johto region, Prof. Oak gives him a new Pokédex. In every new region Ash goes
to, he get a new Pokédex to catalogue the new Pokémon living there.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YOpxt.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/YOpxt.png)

Strangely enough, though, in episode 50 "Who Gets To Keep Togepi", Oak tells
Ash there's a new upgrade to the Pokédex, saying "Well, now you can get
details on all the latest Pokemon discoveries", and upgrades Ash's Pokédex.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h5gqP.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/h5gqP.png)

At first it really wasn't clear why Ash should get that upgrade, but later in
the same episode this question is cleared up, as Ash gets to see Togepi and
says "Hey, now that Dexter is been upgraded he'll know the answer". Although
Togepi is from the next generation, the Pokédex now has the info on Togepi
(although it does say that more info about its species is still unavailable)
rather than saying "there are still Pokémon yet to be identified" like in the
first episode with Ho-Oh.

Anyway, this upgrade seems to make the Pokédex know the species in the 2nd
Gen, which makes me wonder why Ash needs a new Pokédex for the Johto region
since the Pokédex had already been upgraded to know the Johto Pokémon species,
and we don't see any great difference in the new Pokédex except its design.

(Although it may need evidence, since the Pokédex clearly says the there's not
much data on Togepi, since it's not new the Pokédex might say that like in
Ep.23 "The Tower Of Terror" the Pokédex said the same about Gastly, Haunter
and Gengar.)


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Why was Ash's Pokedex replaced?


In Season One, ep66 "The Evolution Solution" Ash and his gang are going to
Prof. Westwood, who programmed the Pokedex, once he sees Togepi he says "Now
that's interesting Pokemon" after Misty asks "You mean Togepi" he says "I've
never seen another Pokemon quite like that". although this may lead to a plot-
hole as with Ash's Pokedex had been upgraded to know Togepi, as in the
question, it may not be so much a problem since the Pokedex itself said
"there's not much data" to imply that Prof. Westwood though he didn't have
much data but may have heard about species like Togepi and insert that little
information he heard and the Pokedex Associate the information to Togepi.

Anyway, to the question, Prof. Westwood soon tells Misty "Yeah, and I'm
updating all my research materials about the rarest legendary Pokemon!", so it
is safe to say that is exactly the new Pokedex Ash received before going to
Johto since Westwood said itself that he is currently in updating his
materials as the early upgrade Ash gets not to contain expensive data on Gen2
Pokemon and only after that update Westwood worked on the next Pokedex
Generation. (support @f1Krazy comment)

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O5emA.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/O5emA.png)

And the evidence for that (although it's in the Advance series its still
evidence that Westwood discovered new information) is in Advanced Challenge
ep4 "The Princess And The Togepi" the Pokedex has much larger information
about Togepi than the first Pokedex.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yTGfu.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/yTGfu.png)


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