May's Beautifly

May's Beautifly ハルカのアゲハント Haruka's Agehunt
May's Beautifly
Debuts in	All in a Day's Wurmple
Caught at	Route 104
Gender	Unknown
Ability	Unknown
Evolves in	A Corphish Out of Water
	Seeing is Believing
→ → This Pokémon spent 10 episodes as Wurmple and 4 episodes as Silcoon
Current location	With May
Voice actors
As Wurmple	Japanese VA Ryoko Shiraishi	English VA Tara Jayne
As Silcoon	Japanese VA Ryoko Shiraishi	English VA Rachael Lillis
As Beautifly	Japanese VA Ryoko Shiraishi	English VA Rachael Lillis (4Kids) Michele Knotz (PUSA)

May's Beautifly (Japanese: ハルカのアゲハント Haruka's Agehunt) was the second Pokémon acquired by May in her travels through Hoenn, and the first she caught in the wild. Its Japanese voice actress is 白石涼子 Ryoko Shiraishi and its English voice actresses are Rachael Lillis (4Kids dub) and Michele Knotz (PUSA dub).

History

As a Wurmple

While watching a Rustboro City Pokémon Contest in All Things Bright and Beautifly, May saw a Trainer's Beautifly perform and decided that she wanted one. Her wish came true in the following episode, and May caught a Wurmple in the episode All in a Day's Wurmple, as did Jessie. Several episodes later, in Which Wurmple's Which?, both Wurmple were temporarily switched, but were returned to their proper Trainers by the episode's end.

As a Silcoon

In the episode A Corphish Out of Water, May's Wurmple evolved into Silcoon while Jessie's evolved into Cascoon; Jessie believed hers was a Silcoon as well.

Four episodes later, in Seeing is Believing, Jessie's Cascoon evolved into Dustox, while May's Silcoon evolved into Beautifly.

In the episode That's Just Swellow, May used Beautifly as her Pokémon in a PokéRinger competition. James, using Dustox, defeated Beautifly in the competition, but Dustox eventually succumbed to a last-minute defeat when Ash's Taillow evolved into a Swellow.

Before heading off to the Battle Frontier, May left her Beautifly at her home in Petalburg City. It returned temporarily in The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing, and was seen again in A Full Course Tag Battle!. Beautifly was used in the Wallace Cup, defeating Zoey's Glameow.

Personality

As a Wurmple, it was very greedy. It would gorge itself on food and then fall asleep, unlike Jessie's more sedate and well-behaved Wurmple. When it evolved to both its latter stages, however, it became more calm and mellow.

Moves used

Using Silver Wind	Move	First used in
	Tackle	All in a Day's Wurmple
	String Shot	All in a Day's Wurmple
	Gust	Seeing Is Believing
	Silver Wind	Now That's Flower Power
	Morning Sun	Cruisin' for a Losin'
	Psychic	The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing!
	Aerial Ace	Strategy With a Smile!
Moves used recently are in bold and have been italicized unless all moves all fit this case.
An x shows that the move cannot be legitimately learned by this Pokémon in the games.

Trivia

• May's Beautifly follows a theme used by Misty's Corsola, that the Trainer wants a particular species of Pokémon long before actually capturing one.
• May's Beautifly seems to be a parallel to Dawn's Buneary:
  • Both were their Trainers' first capture.
  • Both were used in the battle round of their first Pokémon Contest.
  • Both were desired by their Trainer after first seeing another one.
  • Both were used in a different kind of Pokémon Contest (Beautifly in the PokéRinger competition and Buneary in the Hearthome Collection).
  • Both were used in the battle round of the Wallace Cup once.
• May's Beautifly also seems to parallel Ash's Butterfree, as a first capture and a Butterfly Pokémon. However, whether this is intentional is unknown.

Related articles

For more information on this Pokémon's species, see Wurmple, Silcoon, and Beautifly.