Caterpie

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#010	Caterpie
Types Bug	Generation   I
Abilities Ability 1 Shield Dust Hidden Ability Run Away
Rarity Tier   Common	Catch rate   255/255 (33.33%)
Base stats HP 45 Atk 30 Def 35 Sp.Atk 20 Sp.Def 20 Spd 45 Base-stat total: 195
EV Yield HP 1 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Spd 0 EV-yield total: 1
Base Experience   53	Gender Ratio     50%     50%
Height   0.3m	Weight   2.9kg

Caterpie is a Bug-type Pokémon.

As a part of one of the lowest-evolvable level-designated evolutionary lines, Caterpie evolves into Metapod at level 7, which evolves into its final evolutionary stage in Butterfree at level 10.

Obtainability

Land

Location	Levels	Times			Held Item	Rarity Tier
Bug Catching Area	15-19	Morning				Common
Bug Catching Multiplayer Area	15-19	Morning				Common
Evergreen Island Village	26-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Flake Wood	26-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Frost Valley	26-31	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Ilex Forest	10-14	Morning	Day			Common
Nap Forest	42-45	Morning	Day			Common
Pattern Bush	10-15		Day			Common
Pinkan Island Woodlands East	40-45	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Polar City North Gate	25-30	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Route 2	5-7	Morning	Day			Common
Route 24	10-14	Morning				Common
Route 25	16-18		Day			Common
Route 30	4-6			Night		Common
Safari Area 1	34-38	Morning				Common
Viridian Forest	5-7	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Whitmore Residence Frontyard	24-28	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Whoville Shore	14-17	Morning	Day	Night		Common
Pink-colored areas denote that this spawn is membership-exclusive Emboldened levels indicate they are isolatable with the Repel trick

Headbutt Trees

Location	Levels	Rarity Tier
Pallet Town	2-6	Common
Route 1	2-6	Common
Route 3	5-12	Common
Route 7	16-22	Common
Route 11	18-22	Common
Route 15	30-34	Common
Safari Zone Exclusive	21-25	Common
Pink denotes a Membership requirement for the area or spawn.

Moves

Level-up

Level	Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
1	String Shot	Bug	Status	—	95	40
1	Tackle	Normal	Physical	50	100	35
9	Bug Bite	Bug	Physical	60	100	20
Emboldened moves denote this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. All moves subsumed on this list are relearnable via the Move Relearners if lost.

TMs and HMs

TM		Moves	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
	TM242	Electroweb	Electric	Special	55	95	15
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Refer to TMs and HMs for information on each move's obtainability.

Move Tutors

Move	Type	Category	Base Power	Accuracy	PP
Bug Bite	Bug	Physical	60	100	20
Electroweb	Electric	Special	55	95	15
Snore	Normal	Special	50	100	15
String Shot	Bug	Status	—	95	40
Emboldened moves denote that this Pokémon avails from a STAB bonus for it. Italicized moves are broken; see their individual pages for more information. Read to the move tutors article for tutorship information for all moves hereon.

Type Effectiveness

Under normal battle conditions, this Pokémon is:
2× Weak to	Fire Flying Rock
1× Neutral to	Bug Dark Dragon Electric Fairy Ghost Ice Normal Poison Psychic Steel Water
½× Resistant to	Fighting Grass Ground

Special Counterparts

Main article: Pokémon Counterparts

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  Shiny Caterpie
• 
  Pink Caterpie
• 
  Christmas Caterpie

External Links

• Caterpie's Bulbapedia
• Caterpie's Serebii