
Its antennae changes from black to light green and, like other dynamaxed Pokémon, are surrounded by red clouds. A fur-like pattern is attached to its wings and back. It sports a giant set of wings with glowing teal patterns on them. In its Gigantamax form, Bufferfree's body has a larger frame with red glowing eyes. Butterfree's large wings simply appear as black and white butterfly wings. Its eyes are quite large in proportion to its head and are a red color. Butterfree has a large purple body with light blue limbs and a nose with very small fangs. It quietly endures hardships while awaiting evolution.Butterfree is an insect-like Pokémon appearing as a large butterfly. Black/White: A steel-hard shell protects its tender body.
SoulSilver: It prepares for evolution by hardening its shell as much as possible to protect its soft body.HeartGold: Inside its shell, it is soft and weak as it prepares to evolve.It quietly endures hardships while awaiting evolution.
Diamond/Pearl/Platinum: A steel-hard shell protects its tender body. LeafGreen: This Pokemon is vulnerable to attacks while its shell is soft, exposing its weak and tender body. FireRed: Even though it is encased in a sturdy shell, the body inside is tender. A Metapod does not move very much because it is preparing its soft innards for evolution inside the shell. Emerald: Its shell is as hard as an iron slab. It stays still because it is preparing its soft innards for evolution inside the hard shell. Ruby/Sapphire: The shell covering this Pokemon's body is as hard as an iron slap. At this stage, it can only harden, so it remains motionless to avoid attacks. Silver: It prepares for evolution by hardening its shell as much as possible to protect its soft body. Gold: Inside its shell, it is soft and weak as it prepares to evolve. However, a large impact may cause it to pop out of its shell. Yellow: Hardens its shell to protect itself. Red/Blue: This Pokemon is vulnerable to attacks while its shell is soft, exposing its weak and tender body. The information seems mostly concerned with the fact that it is a Pokemon cocoon, and that its soft innards need to be protected by the shell on the outside, and thus, it needs to use Harden. It appears in all games except Coliseum, XD and must be traded in to Ruby and Sapphire. Metapod has a National Pokedex number of 11. X0.25 less effective attacks against fire/fighting, poison/fighting, fighting/steel, fire/flying, fire/steel, ghost/flying, poison/flying, steel/flying, and ghost/poison types.īug-type Pokémon have no ineffective attacks. X0.5 less effective attacks against fighting, fire, flying, ghost, poison and steel types. X2 super effective attacks against dark, grass and psychic types. X4 super effective attacks against grass/dark, dark/psychic and grass/psychic types. X0.5 resistant to fighting, grass and ground attacks. X2 weak against fire, flying and rock attacks. Since the first gym in Red/Blue is a rock gym, people who chose Charmander tend to take the time to evolve out a Butterfree through the painful Metapod stage because it learns Confusion early, which can be used to crush Brock's team. This Pokemon is on of the first evolved forms found in the wild in Pokemon Red/Blue, but catching one is much less preferred to evolving into one.Ī caught Metapod will only know Harden, whereas an evolved one will retain Tackle, making leveling much easier. Metapod is the Cocoon Pokemon, resembling a chrysalis and housing within it a Caterpie that's on its way to evolving into a Butterfree.Ĭontrary to what the name says, there is nothing very meta about this Pokemon, and the name is a portmanteau of metamorphosis and pod. Routes 2, 30 and 31, Ilex Forest, National Park, Bug-Catching Contest, Viridian Forest, Headbutt tree ( HeartGold) Routes 24 and 25, Viridian Forest, Pattern Bush ( FireRed/LeafGreen) Routes 24 and 25, Ilex Forest, Bug-Catching Contest ( Crystal) Routes 2, 30 and 31, Ilex Forest, National Park, Bug-Catching Contest ( Gold) Routes 24 and 25, Viridian Forest ( Blue) Well trained Metapod, caught before hand as it's previous form Caterpie, are capable of leaning Tackle, Electroweb, Bug Bite, String Shot, Iron Defense. Wild Encounter Metapod almost always use the move Harden exclusively. Metapod is a Bug-type Pokémon that evolves from Caterpie and steadily evolves into duo type Bug/Flying-type Butterfree.