This Beautifly is a bug/flying-type Pokémon that May caught as a Wurmple. She is the first Pokémon May ever caught in the wild, and her second Pokémon acquired overall.
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Advanced Generation series[]
May first met a Beautifly belonging to Janet, a Pokémon Coordinator who inspired May to participate in Pokémon Contests. Wanting to have a Beautifly of her own, she uses her Torchic to battle against a wild Wurmple and catches her first Pokémon. Jessie also catches a Wurmple at the time. Both Jessie and May nurtured their Wurmples and both claimed they could tell the difference, while visually they were the same, one big difference was that May's Wurmple was always hungry while Jessie's was not.
In A Corphish Out of Water, May's Wurmple evolved into a Silcoon while battling against Jessie's Wurmple which also evolved, however, it evolved into a Cascoon instead. Soon after, May's Silcoon evolved into a Beautifly while battling Jessie's Cascoon. Later, Jessie's Cascoon evolves into a Dustox.
Since then, May has used Beautifly in multiple contests as well as a PokéRinger competition, where she lost to Jessie's Dustox while being used by James. She was used in the Hoenn Grand Festival, in the Appeal Round, scoring pretty highly with just a single Silver Wind. After losing in the Grand Festival to Drew, she heads home, leaving her Beautifly and Skitty there, and heads to Kanto.
After losing in the Grand Festival to Solidad and became depressed about her loss, she temporarily recalls Beautifly to her party in the The Unbeatable Lightness of Seeing!, where she used her in a battle against Drew. After being paired with May's Combusken, they battled against Drew's Roselia and Butterfree. Despite both her Pokémon having a type advantage, as well as Beautifly's recently learned Psychic, May loses the battle, but regains her confidence.
Diamond and Pearl series[]
In the Wallace Cup in Sinnoh, she used Beautifly to battle Zoey's Glameow, where she gracefully won and allowed May to move up to the finals.
May's Beautifly is similar to Dawn's Buneary, as both were the first Pokémon they caught and the first Pokémon they used in a contest.
May's Beautifly shares similarities with Ash's Butterfree, both were the first Pokémon that were caught on their journey and were the first to be fully evolved.
While Ash's Butterfree evolved in just two episodes, May's Beautifly took 14 episodes to fully evolve.
This is the only Pokémon in May's party that isn't what players get to start out as in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.
As a Wurmple, Beautifly was the only Pokémon May caught via battling.
Beautifly was May's only known female Pokémon, due to gender differences.
Beautifly is one of May's officially trained Pokémon not to appear in the Journeys anime series.