No.695Gen 6 (Kalos)
Heliolisk in Japanese
エレザード
Erezādo
✍️ Read the name kana by kana
エe
レre
ザza
ーlong vowel
ドdo
💡 ー is a long-vowel mark: it stretches the vowel before it (in romaji it is shown with a bar, like ō).
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📖 Pokédex entry in English and Japanese
One Heliolisk basking in the sun with its frill outspread is all it would take to produce enough electricity to power a city.フリルを広げて日光浴するだけで都市一つ分の電力を発電できる。
The Japanese text is a translation of the English entry, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana. Try to spot the katakana words!
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