Butterfree counters

#0012

bug flyingTier 1

Lobby CP

5,496

600

Timer

3:00

Attack

108

Defense

Difficulty

0.05

Pokebattler scale

Beating Butterfree should take 1 trainer with level 40 counters. Caught CP 983-1,044.

Weak torock2.56xflying1.6xfire1.6xelectric1.6xice1.6x

Who to bring

IncludeMega Legendary Shadow

Improve your raidweather · friendship · Mega in the lobby · Party Power · Adventure EffectsShow ▾

Weather

★ boosts a type this boss is weak to

No boost Sunny or clear ★Rainy ★Partly cloudy ★Cloudy Windy ★Snow ★Fog

Friendship

every trainer in the lobby who is your friend

None Good friend (+3%)Great friend (+5%)Ultra friend (+7%)Best friend (+10%)

Mega in the lobby

a Mega boosts every trainer's attacks: 1.3x of its own type, 1.1x of others

Try a Rock Mega — most top counters attack with Rock

Party Power

Party Play: the charged move after a full meter does 2x

Off 2 trainers 3 trainers 4 trainers

Adventure Effects

only these three change a raid

Behemoth Blade (+10% attack)Behemoth Bash (+10% defense)Dynamic Punch+ (+15% attack vs Mega)

Of the game's eleven Adventure Effects only Behemoth Blade (Crowned Sword Zacian), Behemoth Bash (Crowned Shield Zamazenta) and Dynamic Punch+ (Mega Mewtwo X) change a raid; Roar of Time, Spacial Rend, Freeze Shock, Ice Burn, Sunsteel Strike, Moongeist Beam, Future Sight+ and Dynamax Cannon act outside raids. Dynamic Punch+ only counts against a Mega boss, so it changes nothing here. Sources: the full list, Behemoth Blade / Bash, Dynamic Punch+.

Best counters

Mega, Legendary, Shadow · level 40

The best Butterfree counters are Mega Diancie, Shadow Rampardos, Rampardos, Shadow Gigalith, Terrakion & Shadow Landorus (Incarnate).

Suggested party of sixat most one Mega

M. Diancie
S. Rampardos
Rampardos
S. Gigalith
Terrakion
S. Landorus (Incarnate)

3 more Megas ranked inside the top six — a party can hold only one Mega, so the best one stays and the next non-Mega takes the slot.

Ranked by Estimator (trainers needed); small print: time to winOrder byEstimatorOverall %

1Mega DiancieMegaLegendarypartyRock Throw / Rock Slide0.050:08
2Mega AerodactylMegaRock Throw / Rock Slide0.050:08
3Shadow RampardosShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.050:09
4RampardospartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.050:09
5Mega Raichu XMegaThunder Shock / Volt Tackle+0.050:09
6Mega RayquazaMegaLegendaryAir Slash / Dragon Ascent0.050:09
7Shadow GigalithShadowpartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.050:09
8TerrakionLegendarypartySmack Down / Rock Slide0.050:09
9Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)ShadowLegendarypartyRock Throw / Rock Slide0.050:09
10Shadow AerodactylShadowRock Throw / Rock Slide0.050:09

More orders under All settings (Sort by). The top 15 in detail.

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Raid tier — Solo Raid

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Top 15 Butterfree counters in detail

Click a row for damage per move, breakpoints and the energy cycle. Click a column to sort. All 30 ranked attackers, with every column, are under All settings.

Trainers1soloable

#	Attacker	Moveset
1	Mega Diancierockfairyjoint top pick	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,346	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
2	Mega Aerodactylrockflyingjoint top pick	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	4,118	0:08	0.05	5129.4%
3	Shadow Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:09	0.05	4866.0%
4	Rampardosrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,298	0:09	0.05	4866.0%
5	Mega Raichu Xelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricVolt Tackle+	3,510	0:09	0.05	4790.1%
6	Mega Rayquazadragonflying	flyingAir SlashflyingDragon Ascent	5,713	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
7	Shadow Gigalithrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,228	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
8	Terrakionrockfighting	rockSmack DownrockRock Slide	3,698	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
9	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate)groundflying	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	3,588	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
10	Shadow Aerodactylrockflying	rockRock ThrowrockRock Slide	2,783	0:09	0.05	4589.4%
11	Mega Staraptorfightingflying	flyingWing AttackflyingBrave Bird+	3,979	0:10	0.05	4512.4%
12	Mega Raichu Yelectric	electricThunder ShockelectricZap Cannon+	3,780	0:10	0.05	4480.0%
13	Shadow Rhyperiorgroundrock	rockSmack DownrockRock Wrecker	3,733	0:10	0.06	4377.4%
14	Shadow Tyrantrumrockdragon	rockRock ThrowrockRock Tomb	3,128	0:10	0.06	4359.9%
15	Shadow Alolan Golemrockelectric	rockRolloutrockStone Edge	2,949	0:10	0.06	4359.9%

Ordered by Estimator alone, fewest trainers needed first. . The place badge names each row's Overall place on hover.

Times are one trainer with six copies of that attacker, level 40 at 15/15/15, no weather, no friendship, no dodging, Shadow / Mega / Legendary attackers hidden — the same defaults pokebattler.com's own counter pages open with. Open the full counter tool to change any of them. "Details" opens the per-move damage, breakpoints and energy cycle against Butterfree.

Estimator is how many trainers of this strength the fight needs. Power is the share of Butterfree's HP that six of that attacker remove inside one raid timer, so over 100% means they finish it with time to spare. Faints is how many of the six go down inside that timer.

“Joint top pick”: 2 attackers inside 2.1% of each other — this simulator's own accuracy against pokebattler.com (median 1.6% per attacker), so any of them is the right answer.

Hardest movesets to raid against

The same boss is a different fight depending on what it knows. Each row re-simulates the top 6 counters above against one specific moveset; the list is ordered hardest first, and clicking a row filters the whole page to that moveset — the ranking, the estimator and the share link all follow.

Boss moveset	Win % (1)	Overall	Power	Time to win	Estimator
Random (any moveset)showing	100%	954%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05
Struggle Bug / Bug Buzz	100%	1029%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05
Struggle Bug / Psychic	100%	937%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05
Struggle Bug / Signal Beam	100%	1065%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05
Confusion / Bug Buzz	100%	921%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05
Confusion / Psychic	100%	870%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05
Confusion / Signal Beam	100%	955%	4770.8%	0:09	0.05

Measured over the top 6 attackers on the list above rather than by re-ranking the whole roster once per moveset — the ordering is what the table is for, and a full re-rank per moveset would cost ten times the page's whole simulation budget. Win % is the share of runs 1 trainers of those attackers finish inside the raid timer. Overall is Pokebattler's published blend on its own absolute scale (higher is easier), not a percentage of the best row the way the ranked table's Overall column is — which is why an easy boss reads well above 100% here.

Simulating each boss moveset…

Butterfree weaknesses and resistances

Every one of the 18 attacking types against this boss's typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 2.56x doubly, 0.625x resisted, 0.39x doubly resisted.

rock2.56x flying1.6x fire1.6x electric1.6x ice1.6x normal1x poison1x ghost1x steel1x water1x psychic1x dragon1x dark1x fairy1x bug0.63x fighting0.39x grass0.39x ground0.24x

Double weak (1)
Weak (4)
Neutral (9)
Resists (3)
Double resists (1)

It resists ground0.24xfighting0.39xgrass0.39xbug0.625x— bringing one of those is throwing damage away.

What Butterfree throws at you

Its standard movepool, with the damage window a dodge has to beat.

Fast moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
psychicConfusion	19	+14	1.5s	0.50s
bugStruggle BugSTAB	15	+15	1.5s	1.20s

Charged moves

Move	Power	Energy	Duration	Hits at
bugBug BuzzSTAB	95	-50	3.5s	1.80s
psychicPsychic	95	-50	3.0s	1.50s
bugSignal BeamSTAB	75	-50	3.0s	1.90s

Catch CP

What the encounter after the fight can hand you.

IV spread	CP at L20	CP at L25 (weather boosted)
10/10/10floor	983	1,229
11/11/11	995	1,244
12/12/12	1,007	1,259
13/13/13	1,019	1,274
14/14/14	1,031	1,289
15/15/15hundo	1,044	1,305

Caught CP range 983 - 1,044, or 1,229 - 1,305 when the weather boosts it.

A raid encounter is level 20 (level 25 weather boosted) and cannot roll an IV below 10/10/10. Anything outside the first range is not this raid's reward.

When it is in raids

From the raid schedule, refreshed daily.

Butterfree is not on the raid schedule right now. The simulation above is still exact for the tier chosen — any boss can be simulated, current or not.

All settings

Tier 1: 600 HP, 3:00 timer, boss Attack 108 / Defense 90 (15/15/15 at tier CPM 0.5974).

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Attackers allowed

ShadowMega and PrimalLegendary, Mythical, Ultra BeastLegacy and Elite TM moves

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Every column, and pokebattler.com's own rank

On a phone the list shows estimator, time to win and faints. Overall, Power, win chance, CP, DPS and TDO appear on a wider screen.

#	Attacker	Moveset	Overall	Power	Est.Estimator	TimeTime to win	Win % (1)	CP	DPS	TDO
1	Mega Diancie top pickrockfairymega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	98%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,346	86.6	736
2	Mega Aerodactyl top pickrockflyingmega Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	100%	5129.4%	0.05	0:08	100%	4,118	74.4	632
3	Shadow Rampardos rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	85%	4866.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	88.6	793
4	Rampardos rock Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+5 more movesets	85%	4866.0%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,298	73.7	660
5	Mega Raichu X electricmega Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle+	Thunder Shock / Volt Tackle++35 more movesets	94%	4790.1%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,510	75.4	686
6	Mega Rayquaza dragonflyingmega Air Slash / Dragon Ascent	Air Slash / Dragon Ascent+11 more movesets	92%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	5,713	73.6	699
7	Shadow Gigalith rockshadow Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+14 more movesets	82%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,228	68.1	647
8	Terrakion rockfighting Smack Down / Rock Slide	Smack Down / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	84%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,698	64.4	612
9	Shadow Landorus (Incarnate) groundflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+7 more movesets	84%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	3,588	64.5	613
10	Shadow Aerodactyl rockflyingshadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+23 more movesets	82%	4589.4%	0.05	0:09	100%	2,783	66.8	634
11	Mega Staraptor fightingflyingmega Wing Attack / Brave Bird+	Wing Attack / Brave Bird++19 more movesets	87%	4512.4%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,979	72.8	701
12	Mega Raichu Y electricmega Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon+	Thunder Shock / Zap Cannon++35 more movesets	79%	4480.0%	0.05	0:10	100%	3,780	81.1	789
13	Shadow Rhyperior groundrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	83%	4377.4%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,733	80.5	801
14	Shadow Tyrantrum rockdragonshadow Rock Throw / Rock Tomb	Rock Throw / Rock Tomb+17 more movesets	75%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,128	61.0	610
15	Shadow Alolan Golem rockelectricshadow Rollout / Stone Edge	Rollout / Stone Edge+8 more movesets	77%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,949	65.6	656
16	Glimmora rockpoison Rock Throw / Power Gem	Rock Throw / Power Gem+7 more movesets	77%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,273	60.2	602
17	Shadow Thundurus (Therian) electricflyingshadow Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm	Volt Switch / Wildbolt Storm+9 more movesets	78%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,659	67.2	672
18	Regieleki electric Thunder Shock / Thunder Cage	Thunder Shock / Thunder Cage+11 more movesets	77%	4359.9%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,803	60.5	605
19	Shadow Crustle bugrockshadow Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+7 more movesets	74%	4266.0%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,542	63.5	648
20	Shadow Omastar rockwatershadow Rock Throw / Rock Slide	Rock Throw / Rock Slide+11 more movesets	71%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	2,786	61.3	644
21	Mega Blaziken firefightingmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+20 more movesets	73%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,161	58.2	611
22	Rhyperior groundrock Smack Down / Rock Wrecker	Smack Down / Rock Wrecker+15 more movesets	77%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	3,733	65.9	692
23	Mega Delphox firepsychicmega Fire Spin / Blast Burn	Fire Spin / Blast Burn+23 more movesets	77%	4152.2%	0.06	0:10	100%	4,783	59.5	625
24	Shadow Golem rockgroundshadow Rock Throw / Rock Blast	Rock Throw / Rock Blast+11 more movesets	71%	4082.2%	0.06	0:11	100%	2,949	64.3	685
25	Mega Tyranitar rockdarkmega Smack Down / Fire Blast	Smack Down / Fire Blast+15 more movesets	73%	3963.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	5,347	57.0	627
26	Mega Mewtwo Y psychicmega Confusion / Future Sight+	Confusion / Future Sight++26 more movesets	71%	3948.4%	0.06	0:11	100%	6,428	63.8	701
27	Shadow Tyranitar rockdarkshadow Smack Down / Stone Edge	Smack Down / Stone Edge+15 more movesets	66%	3827.7%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,834	64.7	743
28	Shadow Electivire electricshadow Thunder Shock / Wild Charge	Thunder Shock / Wild Charge+9 more movesets	63%	3821.0%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,079	54.3	619
29	Kyurem (White) dragonice Ice Fang / Ancient Power	Ice Fang / Ancient Power+17 more movesets	68%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	4,605	52.8	607
30	Shadow Zapdos electricflyingshadow Thunder Shock / Ancient Power	Thunder Shock / Ancient Power+11 more movesets	68%	3791.1%	0.06	0:11	100%	3,527	52.3	601

How accurate is this? Same top pick as pokebattler.com on 26 of 27 lists checked, 90% of its top tens shared; weakest on Mewtwo's default list (7 of 10).

Ranking. Our full ranking against the page pokebattler.com serves for the same boss and settings, on 27 boss and filter combinations read live (2026-10-04): 242 of 270 top-ten places shared, the same #1 on 26. On the six fixed reference bosses (read 2026-10-03): 85% top-ten overlap with its default filters, 83% with Shadow, Mega and Legendary on. A close top three is shown as a tie because the order inside it is below what we can measure.

Time to win. Graded with Pokebattler's own movesets against every boss moveset, average per boss: Tier 1 and 3 +0.1% to +1.2%; Tier 5 −2.9% to +1.3%; Mega −1.1% to +2.6%; Shadow Tier 5 −1.8% to +0.3%. One attacker can be off by more: median 1.6%, worst 15%, RMS per boss moveset 2.05%.

Known weak spots.

Mewtwo (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of Pokebattler's top 10: Absol, Incineroar and Salamence sit just outside ours, Polteageist, Cursola and Hisuian Typhlosion just inside.
Groudon (Tier 5, default filters) shares 7 of 10; its Grass and Water counters run 2-6% fast here.
Tier 5 times run about 2-3% fast for attackers that faint often, and 2-3% slow on Mega Charizard Y and Mega Beedrill, whose counters resist the boss.
Tier 1 lists are the least checked: Combee (Tier 1) shares only 3 of Pokebattler's top 10, with Gigalith first here where Pokebattler puts Rhyperior.

This boss on pokebattler.com. Boss-by-boss accuracy report.

Ranked 30 attackers in 0.1 s (50 Monte Carlo runs each, seed 1). Same boss on pokebattler.com. The same ranking as JSON: /api/raids/rank.