Beautifly

Beautifly
File:Beautifly.png National Pokédex Silcoon - Beautifly (#267) - Cascoon Hoenn Pokédex Silcoon - Beautifly (#016) - Cascoon Sinnoh Pokédex Silcoon - Beautifly (#050) - Cascoon
Japanese name	アゲハント (Agehunt)
Evolves from	Silcoon
Evolves into	None
Generation	Third
Species	Butterfly Pokémon
Type	Bug / Flying
Height	3 ft 3 in (1.0 m)
Weight	62.6 pounds (28.4 kg)
Ability	Swarm

Beautifly (アゲハント Agehanto in Japan, Papinella in Germany and Charmillon in France) is one of the Template:Pokenum fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. It is a dual bug- and flying-type Pokémon.

The name Beautifly is a simple portmanteau of beautiful and butterfly. Its Japanese name is a reference to 揚羽蝶 agehachou (swallowtail butterfly).

Biology

Beautifly is a very vain and colorful butterfly with long, curled, black antennae and black edges to its prominent, colorfully patterned wings. Beautifly has a long mouth in the shape of a coiled needle (similar in appearance to a butterfly's proboscis) which is very convenient for collecting sweet pollen from flowers, its favorite food. Beautifly is often compared to Butterfree, mainly because the word "butterfly" as Butterfree and Beautifly, and because they are both butterflies.

Beautifly is most active in the springtime, where it rides the spring winds as it flits around gathering pollen from flower-covered fields. People who like to see this Pokémon have found that they just need to leave a potted flower by an open window during springtime, for it practically guarantees the arrival of a Beautifly looking for pollen.

In spite of its appearance and all of its seemingly gentle feeding behaviors, it has an aggressive nature around certain other Pokémon, attacking ferociously by jabbing with its sharp needle-like mouth when angered or attacked by predators or enemy Pokémon in trainer battles.

In the video games

Beautifly evolves from Silcoon at level 10 if the Wurmple which in turn is obtained from the evolution of a Wurmple with the correct Personality Value (a hidden variable in the game code), or a Silcoon obtained in Petalburg Woods. In the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire games, twins of trainers were introduced. The Beautifly/Dustox combination is a popular choice for these types of trainers.

Beautifly is the Ruby/Sapphire equivalent of Butterfree, which is also a butterfly. Within the context of Ruby and Sapphire, Beautifly is counterpart to Dustox, who evolves from Cascoon.

Like Butterfree in the original Red and Blue versions, Beautifly evolves at an extremely early level (at level 10), and therefore proves to be useful with Flying and Grass-type moves in the early stages of the game. The tradeoff is that it has quite low statistics among other stage-2 Pokémon, so it is generally not seen in competitive play.

In the anime

Beautifly is generally the Pokémon that made May decide to compete in Pokémon Contests rather than defeating Gym Leaders, after May was enamoured by the performance of another coordinator's Beautifly in a Pokémon contest. She, along with Jessie of Team Rocket, would both capture Wurmples, hoping that they would evolve into a Beautifly in due time. The two Wurmples were raised in different ways, and eventually May's Wurmple would evolve into Beautifly while Jessie's would become a Dustox. For May, Beautifly would be the first Pokémon that she had caught, mirroring that of Ash Ketchum and Butterfree. May would use Beautifly in a number of Pokémon contests, and would be instrumental in her first Pokémon contest win.

Interestingly, May's Beautifly can also be seen as a symbol of the relationship between May's parents Norman and Caroline. It was said that the two of them were married in a field with many Beautifly in attendance. When May and her friends return to Petalburg City, she finds out that her mother believes that Norman is having a scandalinni with the local Nurse Joy, when in fact Norman was arranging a fireworks display for their wedding anniversary. The fireworks would consist of nothing but Beautifly, solidifying the marriage between the two. In the same manner, Caroline considers May's Beautifly as her favorite, and that may have been a factor in May leaving Beautifly in the Petalburg Gym prior to the start of the Battle Frontier storyline.

In the Pokémon Chronicles episode The Blue Badges Of Courage, Sakura (from the anime episodes "Trouble's Brewing" and "Espeon Not Included") owned one.

In the card game

Beautifly does not have many cards yet. Both of its cards are as stage-2 Grass-types:

• EX Ruby and Sapphire
• EX Deoxys

References

• The following games and their instruction manuals: Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue; Pokémon Yellow; Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2; Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal; Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald; Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

Publications

• Barbo, Maria. The Official Pokémon Handbook. Scholastic Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0-439-15404-9.
• Loe, Casey, ed. Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-930206-15-1.
• Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., August 2004. ISBN 1-930206-50-X
• Mylonas, Eric. Pokémon Pokédex Collector’s Edition: Prima’s Official Pokémon Guide. Prima Games, September 21 2004. ISBN 0-7615-4761-4
• Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Emerald Version Player’s Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., April 2005. ISBN 1-930206-58-5

External links

• Official Pokémon website
• Bulbapedia (a Pokémon-centric Wiki)’s article about Beautifly as a species
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• Pokémon Dungeon Pokédex entry, full of statistics analysis
• PsyPoke - Beautifly Pokédex entry and Usage Overview
• Smogon.com - Beautifly Tactical Data
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