#15: The Moth & Butterfly Effect

Started by Brendino May 31st, 2014 10:28 PM
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Which are your favorites?

Brendino

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Which are your favorite moth or butterfly Pokémon?

Again, this is another multiple choice poll, so pick as many as you'd like, and don't forget to tell us why!

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Seen July 21st, 2017
Posted June 14th, 2017
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11 Years
Beautifly, Volcarona and Vivillion. :)

Beautifly for the anime. I loved May's Beautifly, although she didn't really show any personality (as a Beautifly at least), she somehow was very entertaining and did very well in her contests. Not to mention, Beautifly has a cute design, too!

Volcarona is a Pokemon I used during my first playthrough on White. I enjoyed using him and he swept through most trainers easily. His type combination is interesting and also his origin.

Vivillion for her cute design. I just really like it haha

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Doesn't Masquerain count? :3:3 I know it's maybe something else, but it's my fav. Perhaps it's more mosquito than moth/butterfly. Okay.

Other than that, it's still Butterfree for me. The original and best. But Mothim and Masquerain are so freakin' cute somehow. I'd totally want them on a team.

And you can't dislike Volcarona. You can't not like Volcarona actually. It's too cool.
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Age 24
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I voted for Venomoth, Volcarona and Vivillon (funny how they all start with V).

Venomoth because in competitive battling, it can troll you with Wonder Skin and its status movepool, Volcarona because, well...it's a sun god. Quiver Dance and Fiery Dance make amazing signature moves, and its appearance brings fear to the mortals. Praise be to Amatera--Volcarona. I voted Vivillon because of the whole location form thing it brought with it. I absolutely love the thought Game Freak put into this feature, and they pulled it off amazingly well. All the different colours and patterns left me starstruck, as they looked phenomenal.

Mana

Age 31
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UK
Seen March 25th, 2023
Posted August 18th, 2021
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14.3 Years
Butterfree, Venomoth, Beautifly and Vivillon! I really like most of the butterflies, I just wish these ones were more useful in game :( lv 10 butterfree is awesome for about ten levels before it is overtaken.

Yato

Age 29
Female
Selphia
Seen December 19th, 2017
Posted February 5th, 2015
Volcarona, Vivillon, and Masquerain if it counts. (It's likely based on a damselfly, but part of its Japanese name comes from "moth", so.)

Volcarona I adore because of how powerful it is--when I first played BW I thought it was a legendary because of its location and how strong it was. It can be a pain to evolve Larvesta into it, and if you catch the level 35 one in BW2 it takes a while for it to learn a decent move, but once it has the proper moves (namely Quiver Dance), it's a pain to deal with unless you can set up Stealth Rock before it comes out. I also really love its design and cry; both are beautiful.

Vivillon I'm a fan of primarily because of its Pokedex number (666; yeah, I know I'm lame for that XD) and the fact that the pattern on its wings varies by real world region. Though the concept isn't original in Pokemon (as there was west Shellos/Gastrodon v. east Shellos/Gastrodon; given, how they appeared depended on what part of the Sinnoh region you were in, not where you set your location to on your 3DS), it's still something pretty cool and is fun for collecting. Plus, apparently it's really good in UU.

Masquerain I've adored for some time namely due to its design; however, I wish it kept Surskit's design and was a bit more useful.
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Texas
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9.5 Years
Beautifly and Venomoth take my vote, along with Masquerain if it counts. While I've always thought they were pretty, I never actually used any of the three bugs I listed in a game. However, when playing Flora Sky for the first time, I decided to catch a Silcoon and use a Beautifly on my team. Suprisingly, at level 54, he remains quite useful, and was a great help in taking out bulky water types during the elite four with Mega Drain. Only drawback of using any of these three is that in their respective games, their move sets are extremely limited. Bug Buzz was unfortunately released a generation too late :[

Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
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12.2 Years
I chose Vivillon, because it's actually really cute and an amazing Compound Eyes abuser with those 91% accurate Hurricanes. I also love its form difference concept in that it's based on what your 3DS' region settings were when you started the game. It's pretty much my fave Bug-type of all time.
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Tropics
Seen July 24th, 2014
Posted July 13th, 2014
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9.2 Years
Like butterflies, hate moths. Still I like Venomoth. It is useful as a pokemon since it is a poison pokemon with psychic moves - a useful blend against poison types. Butterfree has been my favorite from the start. Vivillion is the latest addition to this category (mainly because of its varying forms). So, I choose - Butterfree, Venomoth & Vivillion.
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Canada
Seen June 24th, 2021
Posted November 14th, 2019
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9.9 Years
I voted for Butterfree, as I'm not really familiar with the rest of the options (aside from Venomoth, but I'm not too big a fan, haha.)

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I'm voting for Vivillon and Volcarona. Former's extremely beautiful, and has dozens of forms for your viewing pleasure, which, if you ask me, is very unique. I've collected all Vivillon so far, except for maybe only one or two. As for latter, well, it's great competitively. Once you've managed to set up Quiver Dance, it could take down your opponent's entire team single-handedly. =)

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Pennsylvania
Seen July 30th, 2021
Posted March 29th, 2021
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9.8 Years
Mine are Venomoth and Volcarona. I found the former cool especially once it got Quiver Dance and the physical/special split came before then, and the latter for hopefully obvious reasons. Even though I remember Koga's Venomoth in Yellow sometimes being a jerk...
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Age 30
Female
Northern Ireland
Seen September 4th, 2015
Posted September 4th, 2015
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13.9 Years
OMG DUSTOX SEROUSLY NEEDS MORE LOVE lol xD


Btw this is like my favourite poll ever haha, the moth-types are one of my favourite groups of Pokémon :)


My votes go to: Venomoth, Dustox, Mothim and Vivillon :)


The reasons being: I prefer moths to butterflies which should help explain the first three and Vivillon's the exception cause it has so many loveable qualities, like its design and multiple patterns :) The first time the Kalos Pokémon were revealed to me Vivillon stuck out in a good way and it became an instant favourite :)


All four Pokémon are hands down among my favourite pokémon from each respective region that they come from and I've used all of them on different teams. Venomoth is one of the best Pokémon I've ever used so when another Poison Moth showed up in Hoenn, I knew Dustox was gonna be a fave in much the same way :) With Mothim, orange is my favourite colour and to see its design for the first time just made me so happy - it became my partner Pokémon in my first run-through on Diamond :)
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Volcarona, Beautifly and Dustox, and most of that because I didn't like any others. Volcarona is probably the most useful one, because of Quiver Dance and an assortment of good moves. The typing which would have otherwise turned out to be horrible is a great asset to Volcarona, because it hits fast, and hard. The design... well, not so much.

Beautifly and Dustox are an honourary mention because of their parts in the anime, and because they both were evolving from the same Wurmple, as I always loved one-Pokémon-evolves-into-two-or-more types. The evolution method could have been better, though. Something predictable, at least.
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Brendino

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I gave everyone a chance to suck up to me by hoping you pick Butterfree, but nooooooo.... you guys went with the fire bug and the newbie instead. Hmmph.

Anyways, Butterfree's been one of, if not my favorite Pokemon for as long as I can remember. Part of that I'll credit to the anime, and the other part I'll credit to my Japanese Butterfree card, which is the only Japanese TCG card I've ever owned. Even later on, I found Butterfree quite useful in HeartGold, making it the main member of my party while taking advantage of Compound Eyes and a variety of status inflicting powders. I don't mind Dustox or Vivillon either, but neither of them got a vote from me in the poll.

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Seen October 31st, 2022
Posted October 23rd, 2022
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10.8 Years
Okay, so my first choice: Butterfree! definitely not sucking up to Brendino

Simply because it's the original butterfly and it's really cute, and it evolves from Venonat and it has a great ability in Compound Eyes, boosting his status inflicting moves from 75% acc. to near 100%, AND boosting the odds of finding wild Pokemon with items. As a matter of fact, my Marshmallo (damn you, gen 5 character limit) the female Butterfree, was my main player today as I hunted Solrock for Sun Stones in Glittering Cave. Did I mention that it's also really cute?

and just to show that I'm definitely not sucking up to Brendino I also chose Volcarona, because it's looks beautiful, though I think that I'd be terrified if I saw one IRL. But the fan art is really gorgeous, so I really can't pass on voting for it as well. Plus, it's great in battle, as others have mentioned, and it also has Flame Body + Fly, a killer combo as any breeder would know.

And yeah, I also voted for Vivi, because they did a pretty interesting thing with all the wing patterns. I like that effect with the scales scattering from its wings when you view it in your party, with the scales actually matching the color of the wings, I thought it was a nice touch. Also, I find it really funny that they made Pokemon #666 such a cute and fun critter.

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This poll is too hard. Someone please kill me I can't.

Beautifly is my top from the list for sure - that much I know as it's always been one of my favorite bugs. But Mothim, Volcarona, and Vivillon are almost as amazing and have grown on me relatively quickly, although it took a while to warm up to Volcarona. They're all really fun to use despite most of them (bar Volcarona) being fairly weak!

Venomoth and Dustox though.. are quite forgettable.