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My Butterfree is Lv. 50 and has much higher Sp. Attack than Attack. It knows: Bug Buzz, Gust, Energy Ball, Psychic.

Butterfree Learnset

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Butterfree (M) @ Focus Sash
Trait: Compoundeyes
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Sleep Powder
- Butterfly Dance
- Bug Buzz
- Giga Drain

Answer 1

Awesome moveset but suggest to switch gust with air cutter because it has higher power and it has high critical ratio but has 95 accuarcy.

Answer 2

Gen V

Butterfree (F) @ Focus Sash

Trait: Tinted Lens

EVs: 252 SAtk / 36 SDef / 220 Spd

Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)

• Bug Buzz
• Quiver Dance
• Energy Ball
• Psychic

Okay, you set up Quiver Dance with the help of your Focus Sash, then hit with your attacks. Bug Buzz gets STAB, while Energy Ball and Psychic provide type coverage. Especially helpful for Psychic in particular is Tinted Lens, which will allow you to get at least a neutral hit against pretty much every foe. However, this is just a weaker Venomoth, and even a weaker Mothim.

Answer 3

Gen V

Butterfree (F) @ Focus Sash

Trait: Compoundeyes

EVs: 248 SAtk / 16 SDef / 244 Spd

Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)

• Bug Buzz
• Quiver Dance
• Giga Drain/Psychic
• Sleep Powder

Okay, this is a reliable sleep inducer that also happens to be fast after Quiver dance. Sleep Powder will have high accuracy thanks to Compoundeyes, and after Quiver dance, you'll be like the darkrai of NU. I mean, the Spore users aren't very fast. You won't get outped by Amoonguss or Parasect, and even Breloom has below average Speed. So put the foe to Sleep. You can also do pretty nice damage with Bug Buzz (STAB) and Giga Drain (type coverage and healing). Psychic can be used over Giga Drain to deal with the Poison types of NU, especially since Bug Buzz deals with Dark types. However, you won't get the benefit of Giga Drain's healing. The EVs are focused at providing enough Speed and Special Attack after Quiver dance to do some damage.

Answer 4

Butterfree (M) @ Focus Sash

Role: Sunny Sweeper

Trait: Tinted Lens

EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd

Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)

• SolarBeam
• Hidden Power [Fire]
• Bug Buzz
• Quiver Dance

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Hey! Its that NU Volcorona!

Well, There have been many times that people have made NU weather Teams.

SolarBeam is amazing in the Sun, While HP Fire basically gets STAB from the sun. Bug Buzz is STAB. While Quiver dance is to Make him into a sweeper.

Its a pretty simple pokemon, very nice in the sun.

Answer 5

Gen III

Butterfree (M) @ Leftovers

Ability: Compoundeyes

EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd

Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)

• Sleep Powder
• Dream Eater - Special
• Giga Drain - Special
• Nightmare

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Sleep Powder gets much better accuracy with Compoundeyes, making for a reliable Sleep Powder.

Dream Eater covers those annoying Rock Slide Fighting types, and anything that dares cross this Butterfly's path.
Giga Drain is more coverage, and agaisn't rock too! And Nightmare is added on Sleep kills, So overall he's not too bad, but still not a favorite of mine.

Answer 6

Evoilite Metapod

(M) @ Eviolite

Role: Annoyer who bosses of physical moves.

Trait: Shed Skin

EVs: 252 HP / 4 Atk / 252 Def

Impish Nature (+Def, -SAtk)

• Iron Defense
• Bug Bite
• String Shot
• Tackle

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With like 1 Iron Defense it's hard as crap to touch this thing with anything physical, which is hilarious! Then you can use things like String shot to be a butt hole, or bug bite to do barely anything..

Comments

little cup caterpie FTW

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Just pointing out, I walled someone's Garchomp, who knew Stone Edge with this, Luckily Stone Edge missed and I get to set up Iron Defense!

Answer 7

Double/Triple Battle

Butterfree (M) @ Focus Sash

Trait: Tinted Lens
EVs: 252 SAtk / 4 SDef / 252 Spd
Timid Nature (+Spd, -Atk)
- Safeguard
- Tailwind/Quiver Dance/Swagger
- Air Cutter
- Bug Buzz/Stuggle Bug

Yeah, Butterfree sucks in multi-battle. This is because stat boosting does not work well at all, so Quiver Dance is going to be almost impossible to pull off, especially since the foe will be targetting Butterfree to stop you from using Quiver Dance. Safeguard provides some status protection for the team. Tailwind also provides support. There isn't much else Butterfree can do. You can be incredibly risky and run Quiver Dance, use it for all of one turn. Swagger can be used to help out Own Tempo Pokemon. Air Cutter is STAB and can hit multiple Pokemon. It won't do much, but Butterfree does not have much else. Bug Buzz is more powerful STAB, but it still won't do much, so you can use Struggle Bug to lower the Special Attack of the foes, while doing a tiny bit (tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny) of damage.

Answer 8

Doubles / Triples

Butterfree (M) @ Choice Scarf
Trait: Compoundeyes
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SAtk / 252 Spd
Modest Nature (+SAtk, -Atk)
- Air Cutter
- Bug Buzz
- Sleep Powder
- Tailwind

Yes, I suggested Choice Scarf + Tailwind. At least it will accomplish something before it dies. No, it won't faint. IT WILL DIE.

Piece of crap taken to a new level... And I like butterfree!
It gets 100% accuracy Air Cutter, so that's a treat. Sleep Powder as well. Heck, it would be worth it to just have something really fast alternating putting opponents to sleep right? Despite sleep clause, if it isn't active... good! To be honest, this thing is most likely going to take down 1 pokemon, or clean 2 up. OR Use Tailwind to support pokemon that can actually do something, or put a decent threat to sleep.

Answer 9

First off, you need to be listening to this while you read my set http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEA_hodDXBg&feature=related

It's borderline essential.

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Now that we have that out of the way, I'm going to listen to something different while I write this set out :P

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Butterful the Butterfree @ Life freakin' orb
Ability: Tinted Lens
Nature: Modest
EVs: 4 HP / 252 SP ATK / 252 SPEED

Quiver Dance - Let the boosting begin. Try to use this when you're pretty darn sure your opponent will switch out. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND using Stealth Rocks as team support before bringing this thing out ( and spinning away any rocks on your side ) so that you can land OHKOs on opponents that are abusing sash. They are out there!

Bug Buzz - STAB. Tinted Lens makes your not very effective hits neutral. That's pretty darn awesome if you ask me. This will be your primary attacking move.

Sleep Powder - Even though I'm not running the set where this is accurate ( the ability I mean.. whatevs ) it's still ridiculously useful for boosting. Taking the risk normally pays off..... normally.

Psychic / Shadow Ball - Choose your coverage. Both work remarkably well. Both hit Gengar / Haunter for super effective damage ( he 4X resists Bug buzz, so he'd still 2X resist you even after Tinted Lens. )

Answer 10

item:wide lens

nature:hardy/docile/Serious/Bashful/Quirky

ev:252 attack; 152 sp.atk; 152speed
with butterfree, its defences arn't the best. decent speed, you go in, hit first, get it to sleep. hopfully not taking a lot of damage. its attack stinks, so put all you can into it.

sleep powder-may not have alot of accuracy, but with the zoom lens its not that bad.

dream eater-when its asleep. get back some health.

protect-use when you think it will wake up or when you know somethings coming

u-turn-if all else fails, get this in first and switch.

Answer 11

So, it seems your Butterfree has Modest as its' Nature. As for a set, I have been tinkering all kinds of different ideas for sure to make use of Butterfree. Here's one I just had in mind

Nature: Modest (Special Attack up, Attack down)
EVs: Emphasis on Special Attack, HP, and Speed.
Ability: Compoundeyes
Attacks: Bug Buzz/Psychic/Energy Ball/Quiver Dance
Held Item: Wise Glasses

This would be a set mostly to have Butterfree get in with some quick special attacks and sweep them. With this set, Butterfree'd cover Grass, Psychic, Dark, Fighting, Poison, Water, Rock, and Ground, with Butterfree having a quadruple weakness to Rock, so that helps.

Here is another Set
Nature: Timid (Speed up, Attack down)
Ability: Compoundeyes
EVs: Emphasis on Speed, Special Attack, and HP
Attacks: Bug Buzz/Sleep Powder/Dream Eater/Quiver Dance
Held Item: Big Root

Put the enemy to sleep with Sleep Powder thanks to its accuracy going up due to Compoundeyes, as well as the Big Root giving you more HP from Dream Eater than normal. Bug Buzz for Same Type Attack Bonus, as well as Quiver Dance to raise Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed so Butterfree can do more damage with Bug Buzz and Dream Eater, as well as perhaps the pre-emptive strike too.