Butterfree

Contents
Info
Base stats
Evolution chart
Pokédex entries
Moves learned
Sprites
Locations
Language

Butterfree is a Bug/Flying type Pokémon introduced in Generation 1. It is known as the Butterfly Pokémon.

Pokédex data

National №	012
Type	Bug Flying
Species	Butterfly Pokémon
Height	1.1 m (3′07″)
Weight	32.0 kg (70.5 lbs)
Abilities	1. Compound Eyes Tinted Lens (hidden ability)
Local №	012 (Red/Blue/Yellow) 026 (Gold/Silver/Crystal) 012 (FireRed/LeafGreen) 026 (HeartGold/SoulSilver) 025 (X/Y — Central Kalos) 019 (Sun/Moon — Alola dex) 019 (U.Sun/U.Moon — Alola dex) 012 (Let's Go Pikachu/Let's Go Eevee) 015 (Sword/Shield)

Training

EV yield	2 Special Attack, 1 Special Defense
Catch rate	45 (5.9% with PokéBall, full HP)
Base Friendship	50 (normal)
Base Exp.	178
Growth Rate	Medium Fast

Breeding

Egg Groups	Bug
Gender	50% male, 50% female
Egg cycles	15 (3,599–3,855 steps)

Base stats

HP	60	230	324
Attack	45	85	207
Defense	50	94	218
Sp. Atk	90	166	306
Sp. Def	80	148	284
Speed	70	130	262
Total	395	Min	Max

The ranges shown on the right are for a level 100 Pokémon. Maximum values are based on a beneficial nature, 252 EVs, 31 IVs; minimum values are based on a hindering nature, 0 EVs, 0 IVs.

Type defenses

The effectiveness of each type on Butterfree.

Nor	Fir	Wat	Ele	Gra	Ice	Fig	Poi	Gro
	2		2	¼	2	¼		0

Fly	Psy	Bug	Roc	Gho	Dra	Dar	Ste	Fai
2		½	4

Evolution chart

#010
Caterpie
Bug

(Level 7)

#011
Metapod
Bug

(Level 10)

#012
Butterfree
Bug · Flying

Butterfree changes

In Generation 1, Butterfree has a base Special stat of 80.
In Generations 2-5, Butterfree has a base Special Attack of 80.
In Generations 1-4, Butterfree has a base experience yield of 160.
In Generation 5, Butterfree has a base experience yield of 173.
In Generations 2-7, Butterfree has a base Friendship value of 70.

Pokédex entries

Butterfree

Red Blue	In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.
Yellow	Its wings, covered with poisonous powders, repel water. This allows it to fly in the rain.
Gold	It collects honey every day. It rubs honey onto the hairs on its legs to carry it back to its nest.
Silver	Water-repellent powder on its wings enables it to collect honey, even in the heaviest of rains.
Crystal	It flits from flower to flower, collecting honey. It can even identify distant flowers in bloom.
Ruby Sapphire	BUTTERFREE has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can even search out, extract, and carry honey from flowers that are blooming over six miles from its nest.
FireRed	The wings are protected by rain-repellent dust. As a result, this POKéMON can fly about even in rain.
LeafGreen	In battle, it flaps its wings at great speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.
Emerald	It has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can seek, extract, and carry honey from flowers blooming over six miles away.
Diamond Pearl Platinum	It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen.
HeartGold	It collects honey every day. It rubs honey onto the hairs on its legs to carry it back to its nest.
SoulSilver	Water-repellent powder on its wings enables it to collect honey, even in the heaviest of rains.
Black White Black 2 White 2	It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen.
X	It loves the honey of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen.
Y	The wings are protected by rain-repellent dust. As a result, this Pokémon can fly about even in rain.
Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire	Butterfree has a superior ability to search for delicious honey from flowers. It can even search out, extract, and carry honey from flowers that are blooming over six miles from its nest.
Sun	Close examination of its large eyes reveals that each eye is composed of a myriad of tiny eyes.
Moon	When attacked by other Pokémon, it defends itself by scattering its poisonous scales and fluttering its wings.
Ultra Sun	Its wings are covered in toxic scales. If it finds bird Pokémon going after Caterpie, Butterfree sprinkles its scales on them to drive them off.
Ultra Moon	Nectar from pretty flowers is its favorite food. In fields of flowers, it has heated battles with Cutiefly for territory.
Let's Go Pikachu Let's Go Eevee	Its wings, covered with poisonous powder, repel water. This allows it to fly in the rain.
Sword	In battle, it flaps its wings at great speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.
Shield	It collects honey every day. It rubs honey onto the hairs on its legs to carry it back to its nest.
Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl	It loves the nectar of flowers and can locate flower patches that have even tiny amounts of pollen.

Gigantamax

Sword	Crystallized Gigantamax energy makes up this Pokémon’s blindingly bright and highly toxic scales.
Shield	Once it has opponents trapped in a tornado that could blow away a 10-ton truck, it finishes them off with its poisonous scales.

Moves learned by Butterfree

In other generations
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl Sword/Shield

Moves learnt by level up

Butterfree learns the following moves in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl at the levels specified.

Lv.	Move	Type	Power	Acc.
1	Bug Bite	Bug	60	100
1	Gust	Flying	40	100
1	Harden	Normal	—	—
1	String Shot	Bug	—	95
1	Tackle	Normal	40	100
4	Supersonic	Normal	—	55
8	Confusion	Psychic	50	100
12	Poison Powder	Poison	—	75
12	Sleep Powder	Grass	—	75
12	Stun Spore	Grass	—	75
16	Psybeam	Psychic	65	100
20	Whirlwind	Normal	—	—
24	Air Slash	Flying	75	95
28	Safeguard	Normal	—	—
32	Bug Buzz	Bug	90	100
36	Tailwind	Flying	—	—
40	Rage Powder	Bug	—	—
44	Quiver Dance	Bug	—	—

Moves learnt on evolution

Butterfree learns the following moves when it evolves in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl (regardless of level).

Move	Type	Cat.	Power	Acc.
Gust	Flying		40	100

Egg moves

Butterfree does not learn any moves by breeding in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl.

Moves learnt by TM

Butterfree is compatible with these Technical Machines in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl:

TM	Move	Type	Power	Acc.
11	Sunny Day	Fire	—	—
15	Hyper Beam	Normal	150	90
17	Protect	Normal	—	—
18	Rain Dance	Water	—	—
19	Giga Drain	Grass	75	100
20	Safeguard	Normal	—	—
22	Solar Beam	Grass	120	100
29	Psychic	Psychic	90	100
30	Shadow Ball	Ghost	80	100
32	Double Team	Normal	—	—
40	Aerial Ace	Flying	60	∞
42	Facade	Normal	70	100
44	Rest	Psychic	—	—
45	Attract	Normal	—	100
46	Thief	Dark	60	100
48	Skill Swap	Psychic	—	—
51	Roost	Flying	—	—
53	Energy Ball	Grass	90	100
58	Endure	Normal	—	—
62	Bug Buzz	Bug	90	100
68	Giga Impact	Normal	150	90
70	Flash	Normal	—	100
77	Psych Up	Normal	—	—
82	Sleep Talk	Normal	—	—
85	Dream Eater	Psychic	100	100
87	Swagger	Normal	—	85
89	U-turn	Bug	70	100
90	Substitute	Normal	—	—
97	Defog	Flying	—	—

Moves learnt by level up

Butterfree learns the following moves in Pokémon Sword & Shield at the levels specified.

Lv.	Move	Type	Power	Acc.
1	Bug Bite	Bug	60	100
1	Gust	Flying	40	100
1	Harden	Normal	—	—
1	String Shot	Bug	—	95
1	Tackle	Normal	40	100
4	Supersonic	Normal	—	55
8	Confusion	Psychic	50	100
12	Poison Powder	Poison	—	75
12	Sleep Powder	Grass	—	75
12	Stun Spore	Grass	—	75
16	Psybeam	Psychic	65	100
20	Whirlwind	Normal	—	—
24	Air Slash	Flying	75	95
28	Safeguard	Normal	—	—
32	Bug Buzz	Bug	90	100
36	Tailwind	Flying	—	—
40	Rage Powder	Bug	—	—
44	Quiver Dance	Bug	—	—

Moves learnt on evolution

Butterfree learns the following moves when it evolves in Pokémon Sword & Shield (regardless of level).

Move	Type	Cat.	Power	Acc.
Gust	Flying		40	100

Egg moves

Butterfree does not learn any moves by breeding in Pokémon Sword & Shield.

Move Tutor moves

Butterfree can be taught these attacks in Pokémon Sword & Shield from move tutors (details):

Move	Type	Cat.	Power	Acc.
Dual Wingbeat	Flying		40	90

Moves learnt by TM

Butterfree is compatible with these Technical Machines in Pokémon Sword & Shield:

TM	Move	Type	Power	Acc.
08	Hyper Beam	Normal	150	90
09	Giga Impact	Normal	150	90
11	Solar Beam	Grass	120	100
19	Safeguard	Normal	—	—
21	Rest	Psychic	—	—
23	Thief	Dark	60	100
24	Snore	Normal	50	100
25	Protect	Normal	—	—
28	Giga Drain	Grass	75	100
31	Attract	Normal	—	100
33	Rain Dance	Water	—	—
34	Sunny Day	Fire	—	—
39	Facade	Normal	70	100
40	Swift	Normal	60	∞
56	U-turn	Bug	70	100
74	Venoshock	Poison	65	100
76	Round	Normal	60	100
78	Acrobatics	Flying	55	100
82	Electroweb	Electric	55	95
87	Draining Kiss	Fairy	50	100
95	Air Slash	Flying	75	95

Moves learnt by TR

Butterfree is compatible with these Technical Records in Pokémon Sword & Shield:

TR	Move	Type	Power	Acc.
11	Psychic	Psychic	90	100
20	Substitute	Normal	—	—
26	Endure	Normal	—	—
27	Sleep Talk	Normal	—	—
29	Baton Pass	Normal	—	—
33	Shadow Ball	Ghost	80	100
40	Skill Swap	Psychic	—	—
46	Iron Defense	Steel	—	—
61	Bug Buzz	Bug	90	100
65	Energy Ball	Grass	90	100
89	Hurricane	Flying	110	70
96	Pollen Puff	Bug	90	100

In other generations
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

Butterfree sprites

Type	Generation 1	Generation 2	Generation 3	Generation 4	Generation 5	Generation 6	Generation 7	Generation 8	Generation 9
Normal									—
Shiny	—							—	—

See all Butterfree sprites

Where to find Butterfree

Red Blue Yellow	Evolve Caterpie/Metapod
Gold	Route 2, 26, 27, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, Azalea Town, Ilex Forest, Lake of Rage, National Park
Silver	National Park
Crystal	Route 2, 24, 25, Ilex Forest, National Park
Ruby Sapphire	Trade/migrate from another game
FireRed LeafGreen	Evolve Caterpie/Metapod
Emerald	Trade/migrate from another game
Diamond Pearl Platinum	Evolve Caterpie/Metapod
HeartGold	Route 2, 47, Ilex Forest, National Park, Viridian Forest
SoulSilver	National Park
Black	Trade/migrate from another game
White	Route 12
Black 2 White 2	Trade/migrate from another game
X Y	Evolve Caterpie/Metapod
Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire	Trade/migrate from another game
Sun Moon Ultra Sun Ultra Moon	Route 5, Melemele Meadow, Lush Jungle
Let's Go Pikachu	Viridian Forest
Let's Go Eevee	Evolve Caterpie/Metapod
Sword Shield	Rolling Fields, East Lake Axewell, Slumbering Weald, Giant's Mirror
Brilliant Diamond	Evolve Caterpie/Metapod
Shining Pearl	Trade/migrate from another game
Legends: Arceus	Not available in this game
Scarlet Violet	Not available in this game

Answers to Butterfree questions

Other languages

English, Spanish, Italian	Butterfree
Japanese	バタフリー (Butterfree)
German	Smettbo
French	Papilusion

Name origin

butterfly: a species of flying insect
free: without limit, now it’s able to fly