How to solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO 3-star raids

To solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO, Trainers can use high-level counters that dish out super-effective damage to it. In a three-star Raid Battle where a Butterfree is featured, you get 180 seconds to take it down. Thus, counters that cannot complete the battle on time are useless. If you secure a win, you can encounter a regular variant or a shiny one.

That said, encountering a Shiny Butterfree from raids is difficult, due to its low odds. Now, let’s take a look at how you can solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO.

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Best counters and strategy to solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO

A kaleidoscope of Butterfree in the anime (Image via The Pokemon Company)

As a Bug- and Flying-type Pokemon, Butterfree takes double super-effective damage from Rock-type attacks. Therefore, Rock-type counters are the best ones to take down Butterfree on your own. On top of that, it is also weak to Electric-, Fire-, Flying-, and Ice-type moves.

To make sure that you beat Butterfree in Pokemon GO, go for Level 40+ counters.

Level 40+ Rock-type counters:

• Mega Diancie: Rock Throw and Rock Slide

• Shadow Rhyperior: Smack Down and Rock Wrecker
• Shadow Tyranitar: Smack Down and Stone Edge
• Shadow Rampardos with Smack Down and Rock Slide

Level 40+ Electric-type counters:

• Shadow Magnezone: Volt Switch and Wild Charge

• Shadow Raikou: Thundershock and Wild Charge
• Zekrom: Charge Beam and Fusion Bolt
• Xurkitree: Thunder Shock and Discharge

Level 40+ Fire-type counters:

• Mega Y Charizard: Fire Spin and Blast Burn

• Shadow Chandelure: Fire Spin and Overheat
• Reshiram: Fire Fang and Fusion Flare
• Shadow Charizard: Fire Spin and Blast Burn

Mega Pokemon can increase the battle performance of your counters, helping you solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO.

Level 40+ Flying-type counters:

• Mega Rayquaza: Air Slash and Dragon Ascent

• Shadow Staraptor: Gust and Fly
• Mega Pidgeot: Gust and Brave Bird
• Yveltal: Gust and Oblivion

Level 40+ Ice-tye counters:

• Hisuian Avalugg: Powder Snow and Rock Slide

• Shadow Mamoswine: Powder Snow and Ancient Power
• Alolan Ninetales: Powder Snow and Blizzard
• Articuno: Frost Breath and Triple Axel

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There are pros and cons of attempting to solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO during certain weather conditions. In Rainy and Windy weather, the Butterfly Pokemon becomes powerful. Hence, Trainers possessing low-level counters with weak movesets can struggle a lot to bring it down.

For them, the best thing to do would be to use Level+40 Rock-type counters, since these parties can inflict super-effective damage. Numerically, they do 160% additional damage.

As a final important note, you should remember to carry Max Revive and Revive to heal your fainted counters. This way, you don’t have to exit the game and try to solo defeat Butterfree in Pokemon GO raids again.

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