Not in raids nowNo announced raid window, Max Battle event or Power Spot board includes this species. Simulate it anyway · What is in raids
- Slug:
- butterfree
- Game Master form:
- BUTTERFREE (no form template)
- Family:
- FAMILY_CATERPIE
Base stats and CP
Straight from the Game Master; CP uses the level 1 to 51 CPM table. Ranks are recomputed over the released forms in the snapshot on every render.
Stat product 3,546,245 — #660 of 1,123 released forms. Bars are scaled against the highest value in the snapshot, not a round number.
Evolution family
2 evolutions in this line, with the candy and everything else the game asks for — read out of the Game Master's evolutionBranch, form by form.
- Base
- Stage 2
Metapod45/80/137 · 450 CP12 candy- 10 candy once purified
- Stage 3Butterfree167/137/155 · 1,827 CP50 candy
- 45 candy once purified
Evolutions are form-accurate: a regional form evolves into its own regional form, and a branch the game does not have is not drawn (Alolan Raichu names Pikachu as its parent but is not what Pikachu evolves into, so no line is shown). Mega Evolution is not part of this family — it costs Mega Energy and reverts, so it sits with the forms above.
In the field
Buddy, Pokedex and unlock numbers, all read from this form's own Game Master template.
Best against
Which raid bosses Butterfree is a top counter for, aggregated over the 123 bosses on the roster the same way pokebattler.com aggregates its own attacker rankings.
Butterfree does not reach the top 32 against any of the 123 bosses on the roster, with or without Shadow, Mega and Legendary attackers in the pool. That is an honest "no", not a missing measurement — it was ranked against every one of them.
As a raid boss (Tier 1)
Boss stats use 15/15/15 IVs, the tier CP multiplier and the tier's fixed HP pool.
Not in the current raid rotation snapshot. The counters below are still exact for the tier this form would be hosted at.
Best counters against Butterfree →
Catch CP after the raid
| 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.
Type matchups
Every one of the 18 attacking types against this typing. GO multipliers: 1.6x super effective, 0.625x resisted, 0.390625x doubly resisted.
- Double weak (1)
- Weak (4)
- Neutral (9)
- Resists (3)
- Double resists (1)
Every tile and chip is a link: it opens the Pokedex filtered to that type, so a weakness leads straight to the attackers that exploit it. Pokebattler lists only the weaknesses; the eleven types that do neither matter as much to a raider deciding what to bring, so all 18 are shown with the exact multiplier.
Released bug / flying forms with the highest attack — they share every weakness and resistance above.
Movepool
3 fast and 3 charged moves, elite / legacy included. Ranked by damage per second (fast) and damage per energy (charged), both with this form's x1.2 STAB applied where it earns it.
9 x Bug Bite per Bug Buzz · 8.0s cycle · 168 power with STAB
Fast moves
| Move | Type | Power | Energy | Duration | DPS | EPS | Att DPS | Def DPS | PvP | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confusion | psychic | 19 | +14 | 1.5s | 12.67 | 9.33 | 5.4 | 12.7 | 16 / 14 / 4t | standard |
| Struggle BugSTAB | bug | 15 | +15 | 1.5s | 12.00 | 10.00 | 4.3 | 10.0 | 9 / 8 / 3t | standard |
| Bug BiteSTAB | bug | 5 | +6 | 0.5s | 12.00 | 12.00 | 2.0 | 10.0 | 4 / 3 / 1t | elite / legacy |
Charged moves
| Move | Type | Power | Energy | Duration | DPS | DPE | Att DPS | Def DPS | PvP | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bug BuzzSTAB | bug | 95 | -50 | 3.5s | 32.57 | 2.28 | 17.3 | 27.1 | 100 / 60 | standard |
| Psychic | psychic | 95 | -50 | 3.0s | 31.67 | 1.90 | 19.0 | 31.7 | 75 / 55 | standard |
| Signal BeamSTAB | bug | 75 | -50 | 3.0s | 30.00 | 1.80 | 15.0 | 25.0 | 75 / 55 | standard |
STAB marks moves that share a type with this form (x1.2 damage), and the DPS and DPE columns above already have that x1.2 in them — so a STAB move and a stronger-on-paper neutral move can be compared straight down the column, which is how the best-moveset cards rank them too. Power and Duration stay raw; hover a DPS or DPE figure to see the arithmetic. Att DPS and Def DPS are the two columns pokebattler.com prints in the same table, reproduced exactly: both are raw with no STAB, Def DPS is power / duration, and Att DPS is power / (duration + 2s), the gym move delay. They are there so this table can be diffed against theirs row by row — every row on the pages read on 2026-09-11 matches. Energy is gained on fast moves and spent on charged moves. Every move name opens its own page with the damage window and every other form that learns it — or browse all moves.
Trainer Battles
The same moves, on the Trainer Battle clock: 0.5s per turn, 100 energy cap, stat changes included. These numbers come from a separate Game Master template and are not the raid numbers above.
20 fast throws · 20 turns · 10.0s to fire
Lowers the opponent's Defense by 1 stage (30% chance)
5 fast throws · 20 turns · 10.0s to fire
Lowers the opponent's Defense by 1 stage (30% chance)
4 fast throws · 16 turns · 8.0s to fire
Lowers the opponent's Attack by 1 stage (20% chance); Lowers the opponent's Defense by 1 stage (20% chance)
Fast moves
| Move | Type | Power | Energy | Turns | DPT | EPT | Raid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bug BiteSTAB | bug | 4 | +3 | 1(0.5s) | 4.80 | 3.00 | 5 / +6 |
| Confusion | psychic | 16 | +14 | 4(2.0s) | 4.00 | 3.50 | 19 / +14 |
| Struggle BugSTAB | bug | 9 | +8 | 3(1.5s) | 3.60 | 2.67 | 15 / +15 |
Charged moves
| Move | Type | Power | Energy | DPE | Effect | Raid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bug BuzzSTAB | bug | 100 | -60 | 2.00 | foe Def -1 @30% | 95 / -50 |
| Signal BeamSTAB | bug | 75 | -55 | 1.64 | foe Atk -1 @20%foe Def -1 @20% | 75 / -50 |
| Psychic | psychic | 75 | -55 | 1.36 | foe Def -1 @10% | 95 / -50 |
Turns are the one-based count the game and every reference site print: the Game Master ships a zero-based durationTurns, so its 1 is a 2-turn move. DPT and EPT are damage and energy per turn and DPE is damage per energy, both with this form's x1.2 STAB already in them where the row is flagged STAB, so the columns can be read straight down; Power and Energy stay raw. A stat change moves the target up or down the game's own ladder (0.50, 0.57, 0.67, 0.80, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75, 2.00 for stages -4 to +4). Every Trainer Battle number is audited on the data-quality page.
Acquisition and variants
Available as a Shadow Pokemon (x1.2 attack, x0.833 defense). Shadow charged move FRUSTRATION, purified RETURN.
10,000 Stardust and 25 Candy.
Dynamax capable and has a Gigantamax form.
This entry is not a Mega or Primal form.
Where this data comes from
Every field above is read from the committed snapshot, never typed by hand.
Built 2026-10-03 from the PokeMiners Game Master (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeMiners/game_masters/master/latest/latest.json) by npm run data:build.
No hand-curated correction was needed for this form; it comes straight from the Game Master template.
Their entry: BUTTERFREE — 3 fast, 4 charged. Ours: 3 fast, 3 charged.
- Return (charged) — only on Pokebattler: Return (purified only)
Source: https://fight.pokebattler.com/pokemon, read 2026-10-03. The full diff across all 1,269 forms is on the movepool cross-check.
Snapshot integrity is re-checked on every build and on the data quality page.