Mission #016: Bye-Bye, Butterfree
Start Location Fallshore City, Mission HQ 1F – Bug Catcher
Unlock Requirements
  • Become Pokémon Champion
Objectives Train a Butterfree to Level 70
Reward Pokémon: Shiny Gigantamax Butterfree

In the Fallshore Mission HQ, a Bug Catcher wants you to raise a Butterfree to Lv.70. If you do, and release it like he asks, then he’ll replace it with another Lv.70 Butterfree that is Shiny and has Gigantamax capabilities.

Starting the Mission

The Fallshore City Mission HQ / Pokémon Unbound
The Fallshore City Mission HQ

The Mission HQ is on the west side of Fallshore City just north of the Marketplace.

There’s a Bug Catcher in the first floor dining room with a mission for you – train a Butterfree until at least level 70, and then show it to him.

The Bug Catcher NPC / Pokémon Unbound
The Bug Catcher NPC

How to Complete

Hunting in Vivill Woods / Pokémon Unbound
Hunting in Vivill Woods

Fly to Vivill Town and go south into Vivill Woods. You’ll need to do some Pokémon catching if you don’t already have a Butterfree.

The easiest way to get a Butterfree is to catch a Metapod, which are available during the day in the long grass of Vivill Woods.

They’ll be at least level 40, which is still a long way from 70.

If you’ve got access to a turbo button and don’t mind walking around on fast for a while, using the Day-Care to raise the Metapod to Lv.69 is probably the simplest and quickest way.

The Pokémon Day-Care exterior / Pokémon Unbound
The Pokémon Day-Care exterior

Then with one level to go until Lv.70, go out and fight battles until the Metapod evolves.

When you go back to the Bug Catcher, he wants you to release the Butterfree into the wild. Say yes to his dialogue option and you’ll do it automatically.

The Bug Catcher will then give you his Butterfree in return – and not only is it Shiny, but it has a Gigantamax form as well.

The shiny Butterfree / Pokémon Unbound
The shiny Butterfree
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