[Overview]
<p>While Quiver Dance gives Beautifly a chance to potentially sweep, its awful typing, which gives it a 4x weakness to the ubiquitous Stealth Rock, horrible bulk, (AC) and subpar sSpeed makes it difficult to use. Even with Quiver Dance, the butterfly has difficulty standing out from other Pokemon of the same type such as Butterfree, which has access to Sleep Powder and Tinted Lens. Beautifly has access to a situational ability in Swarm, which will boost the power of its Bug-type moves when she it (you've referred to Beautifly as 'it' so far) is at low health. However, (AC) even with Swarm ,(AC) but even while taking Swarm into consideration,(RC) Beautifly is still overshadowed by Butterfree, who outclasses it in many more ways than one.</p>
[SET]
name: Quiver Dance
move 1: Quiver Dance
move 2: Bug Buzz
move 3: Hidden Power Ground
move 4: Psychic
item: Life Orb / Focus Sash
ability: Swarm
nature: Timid
evs: 252 SpA / 4 SpD / 252 Spe
[SET COMMENTS]
<p>This set mainly functions as a late- (add hyphen)game sweeper, cleaning up weakened teams. Quiver Dance is a given, as Beautifly needs both the Speed boost and the Special Attack boost to clean up, and the Special Defense boost will only make it so that weak attacks, such as Alomomola's Scald, (AC) will do less damage. After one Quiver Dance with a Timid nature, Beautifly outspeeds Zebstrika, Serperior and Tauros. Bug Buzz is the mains STAB move of choice, with good neutral coverage and a chance to lower the opponent's Special Defense. Next, Hidden Power Ground hits the Steel-, Rock-, Poison- and Fire-types who which resist Bug Buzz hard. The last slot is given to Psychic, which is a reasonably powerful attack that hits levitating Poison-Types and Fighting-Ttypes hard for super effective damage.(remove space)</p>
[ADDITIONAL COMMENTS]
<p>As Beautifly is quad 4x weak to Stealth Rocks, a Rapid Sspinner is essential for her its survival. Good choices for partners are Torkoal and Wartortle, and they allow a free switch-in for Beautifly with Yawn. A slow U-Tturn, Volt Switch, or Baton Pass will also help bring Beautifly in unscathed. Ampharos, Eelektross, Probopass,(AC) and Musharna work well in this case. Beautifly hates very specially bulky Pokemon, such as Audino, Lickilicky, (AC) and Mandibuzz.(RP),(AC) so Choice Banded Sawk and Primeape are good choices, taking out Lickilicky out with Close Combat,(RC) and Mandibuzz with repeated Ice Punches. Misdreavus is handled by powerful Pursuit users such as Skuntank. Entry hazards on the opponent'(apostrophe)s side of the field are necessary to make up for Beautifly's lack of sheer power. For example, (at +1?) Lickilicky and Audino are both cleanly 2HKO'ed after Stealth Rock and a layer of Spikes and only then. Partners such as Scolipede and Golurk are good choices here. Beautifly needs a Life Orb to have a chance to 2HKO Lickilicky and Audino after Stealth Rock and a Quiver Dance. However, if you can keep Stealth Rock off the field, Focus Sash is an option to get guarantee a Quiver Dance boost.</p>
[Other Options]
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<p>Beautifly has few other options. Beautifly has sSupport options such as Whilrwind Whirlwing Whirlwind, Morning Sun, (AC) and Safeguard are available, but they are gimmicky and won't work. Hidden Power Flying can be used for STAB with it's good neutral coverage with Bug Buzz and hits Fighting-(hyphen)types harder than Psychic. Shadow Ball can hit Ghost-Ttypes, but won't do much to them anyway. Giga Drain can be used for slight healing recovery and coverage on Seismitoad and Golurk, but doesn't do much else. Substitute can help Beautifly set up and protect it from status, but will decrease Beautifly's life(remove space)span if using a Life Orb. Lastly, Safeguard protects it and your team from status, but is very gimmicky and there are better ways to prevent status conditions.</p>
[Checks and Counters]
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<p>Beautifly loses 50% of it'(remove apostrophe)s health on the switch in if Stealth Rock is up, which heavily impedes it'(remove apostrophe)s sweeping capabilities. Very Sspecially bulky Pokemon work wonders here, such as Ddefensive Altaria, (AC) which walls every set, even after it Beautifly sets up. Mandibuzz, Regice,(AC) and Lickilicky are slightly shakier checks, as after Stealth Rock damage and one layer of Spikes Damage damage, they can be 2HKO'ed, (RC) even with lLeftovers by Beautifly's Bug Buzz. However, they can scare it out with Thunder Wave and Body Slam, respectively, or in Mandibuzz's case, phaze it out with Whirlwind. Priority from the likes of Carracosta, Samurott, Skuntank will stop it Beautifly in it's tracks. Common Choice Scarfers Pokemon such as Braviary, Sawk, and Primeape can destroy Beautifly. Choice Scarf Charizard gets a special mention because it can resist two of the three moves Beautifly carries, and can retaliate with a STAB Fire Blast. All in all, Beautifly is not a difficult Pokemon to defeat, and most teams fair fare well enough against her it.</p>