Butterfree Raid Counters Guide

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Butterfree is a Tier 3 raid boss in Pokémon GO and adds to the Fashion Week 2023 as an excellent opportunity to catch a rare final stage shiny mon. In addition, it is a costumed version as a part of the event!

Obtainable CP Values

Butterfree is obtainable with the following CP values:

983- 1044 CP at Level 20, no weather boost
1229- 1305 CP at Level 25 with Rainy or Windy weather boost

It is a dual Bug and Flying type and Tier 3. As such, it can be beaten by using strong Rock Fire Flying Ice and Electric types. The weakness to Rock is 2x.

Butterfree Raid Counters

Since Shadow Pokémon are extremely expensive to power up and require specific events to remove Frustration with a Charge TM, they will NOT be listed as raid counters in this article. That being said, if you have the shadow form of a listed raid counter Pokémon powered up and TMed, use it.

The best counters for Butterfree are the following:

#	Pokemon	Fast Move	Charge Move	TTW	Faints
1.	Diancie (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	54.4s	1
2.	Rayquaza (Mega)	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	60.6s	1
3.	Aerodactyl (Mega)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	61.3s	1
4.	Tyranitar (Mega)	Smack Down* Rock	Stone Edge Rock	62.2s	1
5.	Rampardos	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	64.0s	2
6.	Rhyperior	Smack Down Rock	Rock Wrecker* Rock	68.4s	1
7.	Terrakion	Smack Down Rock	Rock Slide Rock	70.5s	1
8.	Tyrantrum	Rock Throw Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	70.1s	2
9.	Aggron (Mega)	Smack Down Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	78.2s	1
10.	Gigalith	Smack Down Rock	Meteor Beam* Rock	73.4s	1
11.	Charizard (Mega Y)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn* Fire	78.9s	1
12.	Aggron	Smack Down Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	81.0s	1
13.	Tyranitar	Smack Down* Rock	Stone Edge Rock	76.9s	2
14.	Blaziken (Mega)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn* Fire	78.0s	2
15.	Rayquaza	Air Slash Flying	Dragon Ascent Flying	80.0s	1
16.	Landorus (Incarnate)	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	81.3s	1
17.	Aurorus	Rock Throw Rock	Meteor Beam Rock	80.5s	2
18.	Aerodactyl	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	80.4s	2
19.	Archeops	Wing Attack Flying	Ancient Power Rock	80.4s	2
20.	Ampharos (Mega)	Volt Switch Electric	Power Gem Rock	84.7s	2
21.	Reshiram	Fire Fang Fire	Fusion Flare* Fire	88.9s	1
22.	Arcanine (Hisuian)	Fire Fang Fire	Rock Slide Rock	87.7s	1
23.	Lycanroc (Dusk)	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	83.9s	3
24.	Lycanroc	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	84.9s	3
25.	Omastar	Rock Throw* Rock	Rock Slide* Rock	86.9s	2
26.	Nihilego	Acid Poison	Rock Slide Rock	90.9s	1
27.	Darmanitan (Standard)	Fire Fang Fire	Rock Slide Rock	88.0s	2
28.	Darmanitan	Fire Fang Fire	Rock Slide Rock	88.0s	2
29.	Golem (Alola)	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	88.5s	2
30.	Golem	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	88.5s	2
31.	Lycanroc (Midnight)	Rock Throw Rock	Stone Edge Rock	87.2s	2
32.	Charizard (Mega X)	Fire Spin Fire	Blast Burn* Fire	92.1s	1
33.	Heatran	Fire Spin Fire	Stone Edge Rock	99.6s	1
34.	Diancie	Rock Throw Rock	Rock Slide Rock	92.8s	2
35.	Yveltal	Gust Flying	Oblivion Wing* Flying	89.2s	1