While the Pokémon Metapod may not do much, we’re sure it’s someone’s favorite. It comes after the cute Caterpie, and is known as the Cocoon Pokémon due to it being the mid-stage of an insect evolutionary line, where, much like real life, the caterpillar turns into goo inside a pod before emerging as a beautiful butterfly. Or, Butterfree, we should say.
Introduced in Gen 1, Metapod has been a mainstay of most Pokémon games. Its evolution line is the first introduction of bug Pokémon in the Pokédex, and one of the most realistic, if you’re into that.
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