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Butterfree

Jungle / #33/64

Butterfree

Printed language: English · Pokémon

Set (printed edition)
Jungle
Rarity (source)
Uncommon
Illustrator
Kagemaru Himeno
Source reference
base2-33

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The Pokémon’s story

Butterfree travels through meadows in search of nectar and carries it to its nest on the hairs of its legs. Its wings also help repel threats: by beating them rapidly, it scatters toxic powder. This protection even allows it to fly in rain. The Pokédex credits it with still more attentive behaviour: when a bird attacks a Caterpie, Butterfree may intervene by covering the attacker in its scales.

Background on the species in the video games; its forms and card versions may have appeared later.

A detail worth noticing

Butterfree’s large eyes are not simple surfaces. Close observation reveals that they consist of a multitude of small eyes, explains Pokémon Sun. This anatomical detail belongs to an insect that must spot flowers, rivals and dangers during flight.

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Card details

HP
70
Type (source)
Grass
Stage (source)
Stage2
Evolves from (printed name)
Metapod
Pokédex number
12
Weakness (source)
Fire ×2
Resistance (source)
Fighting -30

Printed card text — English

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Description from the source

In battle, it flaps its wings at high speed to release highly toxic dust into the air.

Attacks

Whirlwind

Cost: Colorless · Colorless

Damage: 20

If your opponent has any Benched Pokémon, he or she chooses 1 of them and switches it with the Defending Pokémon. (Do the damage before switching the Pokémon.)

Mega Drain

Cost: Grass · Grass · Grass · Grass

Damage: 40

Remove a number of damage counters from Butterfree equal to half the damage done to the Defending Pokémon (after applying Weakness and Resistance) (rounded up to the nearest 10).

Documented variants

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  • Normal
  • First Edition
  • normal · standard
  • normal · standard · 1st-edition
  • normal · standard · d-edition-error

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