Is Beautifly Good in Emerald Playthrough?
Bug/Flying with AbilitySwarm boosting Bug at low HP. Beautifly has decent Special Attack for a Bug but falls off by the fourth gym. The early availability is the selling point. Don't expect it to contribute past Wattson.
Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Roxanne's team.
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Beautifly resists most of Brawly's coverage and hits back hard.
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Wattson's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Flannery's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Norman's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Winona's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Tate & Liza's team.
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Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Juan's team.
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Beautifly has the type edge here and should clean up Sidney's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Phoebe's team.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Glacia's team.
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Drake's team hits Beautifly's weaknesses hard.
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Beautifly trades roughly evenly with Wallace's team.
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Catch Wurmple
Catch Wurmple on Route 101 (walking, Lv 2-3, common).
Recommended Moves
- STARTING (Lv 2)
- LV 2NormalTacklePower 35Accuracy 95%PP 35
- LV 5PoisonPoison StingPower 15Accuracy 100%PP 35
Breed Beautifly
Beautifly can be obtained by breeding (post-game).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- TM42NormalFacadePower 70Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Norman
- After Winona
- TM40FlyingAerial AcePower 90Accuracy 100%PP 20Prize for defeating Winona
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
Breed Dustox
Dustox can be obtained by breeding (post-game).
Recommended Moves
- After Brawly
- TM29PsychicPsychicPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 10Mauville Game Corner
- After Norman
- TM36PoisonSludge BombPower 135Accuracy 100%PP 10Dewford Town
- TM15NormalHyper BeamPower 150Accuracy 90%PP 5Lilycove Department Store
- TM22GrassSolar BeamPower 120Accuracy 100%PP 10Safari Zone
- TM30GhostShadow BallPower 80Accuracy 100%PP 15Mt. Pyre
- LV 34BugSilver WindPower 90Accuracy 100%PP 5
- LV 38PoisonToxicPower —Accuracy 85%PP 10
- After Tate & Liza
- TUTORNormalDouble-EdgePower 120Accuracy 100%PP 15Sootopolis City
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalSwiftPower 60Accuracy 100%PP 20Battle Frontier
How to Get Beautifly in Emerald
Beautifly comes from a Silcoon at level 10, never from grass directly. Whether you caught the cocoon in the woods or got it from a Wurmple, the bright side of the fork ends here at the nectar-feeding butterfly.
Wild Beautifly may be holding when caught:
Silver Powder (5% chance) A hold item that raises the power of BUG-type moves.Catch Wurmple or Silcoon at any of these 4 spots to eventually evolve into Beautifly.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
Badge 1How to Obtain Beautifly in E
Wurmple is your first catch on the way to Beautifly. You'll find walking encounters from Lv. 2-6 across 5 total spots in the chain.
- Step 3Beautifly ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave a compatible parent at the Pokemon Day Care to receive a Wurmple egg.
How to Get Shiny Beautifly in Emerald
Beautifly starts as a Silcoon in Petalburg Woods, so hunt a shiny one there, or the Wurmple it evolves from, and level that sparkling cocoon to 10 to reach Beautifly. Compare Shiny Beautifly odds across every game
Shiny Beautifly Evolution
Multi-Path
Emerald Shiny Beautifly Calculator
2 MethodsBoth methods here share the same odds, about 1 in 8,192 on each try. Pick whichever fits how you play.
Full Odds: Walk through grass, surf, or fish. Every encounter is its own independent shiny roll.
Breeding: Hatch eggs of this line; each egg rolls at the base shiny rate (no Masuda before Gen IV).
How many you have done, or plan to do.
| Chance | Encounters | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 10%lucky few | 864-- | -- |
| 25%one in four | 2,357-- | -- |
| 50%coin flip | 5,678-- | -- |
| 90%very likely | 18,862-- | -- |
Time assumes -- at your pace and does not change your shiny odds.
How is this calculated?
Every encounter has the same shiny chance, the Shiny Odds Per Try shown above. Each one is a separate roll that does not care how many you have already done, so the more you hunt, the higher your overall chance of at least one shiny. The formula below turns your odds and your number of tries into that combined chance.
chance after N tries = 1 − (1 − p)^N, where p = 1 / odds per try
Example at 1 in 8,192 (classic full odds): about 864 encounters for a 10 percent chance, 5,678 for 50 percent, and 18,862 for 90 percent.
The table above flips that around: it shows how many encounters it takes to reach a 10, 25, 50, and 90 percent chance at your current odds. Turning on boosts like the Shiny Charm, sandwiches, or chains improves your odds, so the encounter numbers drop.
These are estimates, not promises. Most games have no pity counter, meaning no guaranteed shiny no matter how many you hunt, so even Very Likely is not guaranteed: some hunters find one early, others go well past that point.
Curious how fast a hunt could go? Work out your Emerald shiny odds for Beautifly.
Beautifly Weakness
Beautifly's Bug/Flying typing leaves it vulnerable to Rock, Fire, Electric, Ice, and Flying. Rock hits land at 4x, so they're the biggest threat. It shrugs off Ground-type attacks completely.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 4x (Critical) | Rock |
| 2x (Weak) | Fire, Electric, Ice, Flying |
| 0.5x (Resist) | Bug |
| 0.25x (Resist) | Grass, Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ground |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Beautifly Weak Against
VulnerableBest Pokemon Against Beautifly
 Aron SteelRock | C | |
 Geodude RockGround | C | |
 Torchic Fire | C | |
Obtain MethodRoute 101 Gift Available Moves Moves
Damage vs Beautifly View Torchic builds →Rock Tomb 4x70-84% Ember 2x49-58% Peck 2x26-32% | ||
 Taillow Normal | C | |
 Cyndaquil Fire | D | |
Obtain MethodLittleroot Town Gift | ||
 Wingull Water | C | |
Obtain MethodDewford Town Surfing | ||
 Zubat Poison | D | |
Beautifly Evolutions
Out of 2 evolutions from Wurmple, Beautifly comes from the level-up path. The method you use determines which form you end up with. Breed through Wurmple to get eggs. Evolving from Wurmple gave Beautifly the biggest boost in Sp.Atk (+70), bringing the total to 385 stats. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
Breed with Beautifly to get Wurmple eggs easily using 37 partners from the Bug egg group.
E Beautifly Best Moveset
100 base Sp. Atk is respectable, but Bug/Flying typing and paper-thin 50 HP/50 defenses mean Beautifly rarely survives long enough to use its moveset. AbilitySwarm boosts Bug moves at low health, though reaching low health usually means fainting.
Best Build
Beautifly best EVs are Sp. Atk and HP
Special Tank Moveset
- Psychic
- Stun Spore
- Hidden Power Ice
- Giga Drain
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without TMs, Beautifly's movepool is bare bones. With them, you get Grass and Normal coverage and more on top of Silver Wind and Aerial Ace for STAB. The natural kit handles basics, but TMs are doing the real work.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
All 20 TMs are obtainable before the Elite Four
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Reminder Moves
Base Stats
Its colorfully patterned wings are its most prominent feature. It flies through flower-covered fields collecting pollen. It attacks ferociously when angered.
Beautifly Emerald Guide
In Emerald, Beautifly has niche appeal at best. The E-Tier rating means you're fighting uphill by mid-game. There are better Bug/Flying Pokemon available.
In Emerald, use Beautifly as a balanced. Physical side carries the damage. Not the fastest,
For Emerald, run Modest on Beautifly. +Sp. Atk is what matters, and the -Attack cut doesn't hurt this set. Fits the balanced role.
For Emerald, build your team around Dustox, Butterfree, and Yanma. These have the highest co-usage rates with Beautifly in competitive formats. They cover each other's weaknesses.
Game Availability
Beautifly first appeared in Ruby & Sapphire and has been available in 14 games across 7 generations. Obtainable through wild encounters in most titles where it appears.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB
Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GS
Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RSDebut
Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG
FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP
Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS
HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW
Black & White - Gen 5B2W2
Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY
X & Y - Gen 6ORAS
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM
Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7Let's Go
Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh
Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV
Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW
Winds & Waves
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