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clefable
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Clefable

Fairy Pokémon

Fairy

Its hearing is so acute it can hear a pin drop over half a mile away. It lives on quiet mountains.

Base Stats

HP 95
Attack 70
Defense 73
Sp. Atk 95
Sp. Def 90
Speed 60
Total 483

Type Effectiveness

Abilities

Held Items

Forms

Evolution Chain

Moves

Details

Category Fairy Pokémon
Height 1.3 m
Weight 40.0 kg
Base Exp 217
Growth Rate Fast
Capture Rate 25
Base Happiness 140
Gender 25% ♂ / 75% ♀
Habitat Mountain
Egg Groups Fairy

Sprites

clefable Front Front
clefable Back Back
clefable Front Shiny Front Shiny
clefable Back Shiny Back Shiny
clefable Official Art Official Art
clefable Official Art (Shiny) Official Art (Shiny)

Competitive

Calm Mind
Item
Leftovers / Life Orb / Rocky Helmet
Ability
Magic Guard
Nature
Bold
EVs
HP 252
Def 252
SpA 4
Utility
Item
Leftovers
Ability
Magic Guard / Unaware
Nature
Calm
EVs
HP 252
Def 172
SpD 84

Strategy Overview

The combination of Clefable's decent bulk, a good defensive typing in Fairy that leaves it only weak to Steel and Poison, its abilities, and its movepool makes it incredibly versatile and able to fulfill a lot of different roles on the team. Clefable is great at compressing many roles due to its vast movepool and good bulk backed by two great abilities. Its primary roles on the team can be to check Scizor, get entry hazards up, and be a wincon in a lot of match-ups. Its two primary abilities are Magic Guard and Unaware. Magic Guard is very nice for absorbing moves like Toxic, Will-O-Wisp, and Leech Seed, coming in on hazards without taking any damage, and even negating Life Orb recoil to let Clefable be used as an offensive tank. Unaware on the other hand lets it check setup sweepers such as Mega Gyarados and Mega Scizor and stop them from sweeping your team. Additionally, Clefable's wide movepool gives it many options. It has access to Stealth Rock, which not many other Fairy-type Pokemon do. It can be a cleric with access to Wish and Heal Bell, it has nice utility options in Encore, Knock Off, and Thunder Wave, it has very solid coverage in Thunderbolt, Ice Beam, Flamethrower, and Moonblast, and Calm Mind can turn it into a very dangerous setup sweeper that's not easy to deal with. It's one of the few Pokemon on Fairy that are able to survive an unboosted Bullet Punch from Mega Scizor and have access to Fire-type moves in Flamethrower and Fire Blast, and that makes it a very important asset to Fairy.

Most Used Moves

Moonblast
85.5%
Calm Mind
63.2%

Most Used Items

Leftovers
88.2%

Competitive data from Smogon University via data.pkmn.cc