Butterfree cards
Every Butterfree card we could find. The priciest one we price is the Rebel Clash one at $1.28, and the cheapest is $0.53.
- The Butterfly Pokemon. Butterfree is #12 in the National Pokedex.
- First English card. Jungle, June 16, 1999.
- Types. Bug and Flying in the video games. A card only ever carries one type, so which one it is printed as depends on the card.
- Generation 1, Kanto. One of the 151 species that generation introduced.
- Size. 1.1m (3ft 7in) and 32.0kg (71lb).
- Capture rate 45 of 255. Higher is easier to catch. This one sits in the middle.
Artwork and Pokedex data from pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. Pokemon and Pokemon character names are trademarks of Nintendo, Creatures Inc. and GAME FREAK inc.
Priciest first
Every Butterfree we price
3 of the 38 printings we can name are in sets we hold prices for. Tap a card to see it full size.
Prices are pricecharting.com's price guide value for an ungraded copy, read August 31, 2026. A guide value is computed across the sales PriceCharting tracks, which is a wider set of venues than any one marketplace. 2 cards of the 5,396 priced here are not listed by PriceCharting and keep their TCGplayer market price via TCGdex instead. Where a card comes as a normal, holo and reverse holo at different prices, the figure is the priciest of them. Prices move daily, so treat these as a ballpark. Search every card.
Evolution
The Caterpie line
Caterpie, which becomes Metapod, which becomes Butterfree. Each one has its own page and its own cards. The evolution chart draws every line in the Pokedex.
Caterpie#10 • 32 cards
Metapod#11 • 29 cards- Butterfree#12 • 38 cards
Evolution line from the National Pokedex, pokeapi.co, read August 13, 2026. What each evolution actually takes differs between generations, so it is not stated here. Card counts are every printing we can name, in every language.
See these packs opened
We have filmed 22 rips of the 3 sets that print Butterfree
Garbage Rips 585 is a Pokemon card pack opening channel out of Rochester, New York. We film every pack we open, hit or no hit.
- FINAL Journey Together Bundle #2 Pack ⚡ | Last Pack Magic?! 😳
- Pokémon Rebel Clash Booster Pack #2 ⚡ | Any Better?
- Only Garbage Rips? 😬 | Pokémon 151 Booster Packs
- Journey Together Booster Bundle #2 ⚡ | Pack #5 We NEED A Hit 😬
- Opening My FIRST Rebel Clash Pack 😬
- Journey Together Booster Bundle #2 ⚡ | Pack #4 We NEED A Hit 😬
Everywhere else
Every other Butterfree printing we could name
35 more from sets we do not price, English and Japanese. 30 have a scan and are pictured below. The other 5 we can name but not show. No price on these: we only quote what we can source. Printings whose name we could not translate are left out rather than shown under a name we guessed at.
Named, with no scan to show
- Butterfree ポケモンカード★VS • 008 Common • Japanese
- Butterfree ポケモンジャングル • 007 Uncommon • Japanese
- Butterfree 基本拡張パック • 066 Rare • Japanese
- Butterfree 基本拡張パック • 098 Holo Rare • Japanese
- Butterfree 遺跡をこえて... • 009 Holo Rare • Japanese
Card list from the TCGdex card database, read September 1, 2026. A snapshot, not a live feed.
In the video games
What beats Butterfree
Damage taken by a Bug / Flying Pokemon, computed from the type chart. Everything not listed does normal damage.
- x4Rock, double weakness
- x2Fire, Electric, Ice and Flying
- ½xBug
- ¼xGrass and Fighting, double resistance
- 0xGround, no effect at all
This is the video game chart, not the card game. The Pokemon TCG has eleven types and no type chart at all: Weakness and Resistance are printed on each individual card, and two cards of the same Pokemon can print different ones. What the card actually says. Type relations from pokeapi.co, read August 17, 2026.