If plaintiff chooses to amend the complaint, is the amended complaint supers supersets the original complaint?

If plaintiff chooses to amend the complaint, he is informed that, as a general rule, an amended complaint supersedes the original complaint. See Ferdik v. Bonzelet, 963 F.2d 1258, 1262 (9th Cir. 1992). Thus, all claims alleged in the original complaint which are not alleged in the amended complaint are waived. See King v. Atiyeh, 814 F.2d 565, 567 (9th Cir. 1987). The court cannot refer to a prior pleading in order to make plaintiff's amended complaint complete. See Local Rule 220. An amended complaint must be complete in itself without

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reference to any prior pleading. See id.