3rd Gen Why doesn't anyone use Butterfree in Leaf Green or Fire Red?

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    It's one of my most usefull pokemon. It can learn pretty good moves as well. Currently, my Butterfree knows:

    Aerial Ace
    Giga Drain
    Psychic and
    Sleep Powder

    It's one of my best pokemon I would say. You can put an enemy to sleep, which is good for catching pokemon or beating them. If your health is low, he has Giga Drain. Aerial Ace is a good flying attack that never misses. And he has Psychic, like the best Psychic move. He's pretty much the beast of my team.

    I also have Venusaur, Rhydon, Gyarados (Soon to be replaced with Omastar), Flareon, and Pidgeot as well, which I find to be a great team.
     
    Eh, at least Butterfree is better than Beedrill.
     
    Bugs type are pretty weak I think, so I don't use them, even if I appreciate Butterfree (notably in the yellow version where it's very useful against Brock) :)
     
    I only use it in the early stages to capture things like Abra. Sleep Powder + Compoundeyes is excellent for that, and Confusion does damage without having to worry about an accidential KO.

    But overall, its attacks just aren't strong enough to justify using it much past Vermilion City, so I usually stop using it around there.
     
    Are you kidding me? Anyone who's played the game knows you get in at the beginning of the game in viridian forest. But anyway, butterfree is extremely weak and fragile. It can be a status inducer, but there are better/faster/stronger/ pokemon for the job. Just because it was used by Ash, doesn't necessarily mean that it's good.
     
    athiestnoob said:
    Where do you find it? I have no idea where it is.
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    You have to evolve from Metapod in FRLG.

    As for the question, at the end of the day it's just not that great stat wise. Unless I was doing a challenge I'd probably never take it all the way to Elite 4. It's BST is mediocore as well.
     
    Most Nuzlockers end up with a Butterfree, and with Sleep Powder and Dream Eater it's a pretty powerful thing.
     
    A lot of you could learn something from the dragon master in the dragons den in HG/SS :P Next time i play through a kanto region game, im going to use butterfree all the way.
     
    It has lackluster stats. However, it does have a pretty good movepool and Compoundeyes + Poison/Sleep Powder/Stun Spore is very useful.
     
    Because it's a beginning of the game Pokemon. lol Butterfree isn't one of those OMG ALMIGHTY Pokemon that people wanna use. I, however, did do a run in FR long ago (before I started despising FRLG) and I had a Butterfree on my team that kicked ass. You can make anything work for in-game teams really. Some may take more effort than others, but it can be worthwhile. Unless it's Delibird. I don't think there's any helping him.
     
    IMO Butterfree wasn't good in 3rd gen because both of it's stab types were physical back then. I see butterfree more as a special attacker.
     
    I'm not sure why I didn't use Butterfree in the 3rd gen games. I guess I didn't really have any room for it on my team. I do use Butterfree on HeartGold though, and it's the second highest-leveled Pokemon in my party.
     
    My Pokedex Entry for Butterfree

    Butterfree. The butterfly pokemon. Used to catch Abra in the grass west of Nugget Bridge by using the common tactic of using Sleep Powder and Confusion to slowly lower health whilst avoiding teleportation.


    ^THAT is why nobody uses Butterfree.
     
    Many people consider Butterfree to be weak (which I agree). I've tried having it on my team for in game battles and she continously got knocked out within one move because the opponents that I went against loved using Fire, Flying or Rock type moves.


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