#0173 · Star Shape Pokémon
Cleffa
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Rank #405 · 8 votes · median B
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Game data
Abilities
- Cute Charm
When the Pokémon is hit by a contact move, the attacker has a 30% chance of becoming infatuated if the attacker and the Pokémon are of opposite genders.
- Magic Guard
The Pokémon takes damage only from attacks.
- Friend GuardHidden
Reduces the damage allies take by 25%.
Increases the priority of the Pokémon’s status moves by 1 stage. However, the Pokémon’s status moves no longer work against Dark-type Pokémon.
Different passives in this line: Clefable: Neuroforce
Egg moves
- Calm MindPsychicStatus— · —
The user quietly focuses its mind and calms its spirit to boost its Sp. Atk and Sp. Def stats.
- Earth PowerGroundSpecial90 pow · 100%
The user makes the ground under the target erupt with power. This move has a 10% chance of lowering the target’s Sp. Def stat.
- Esper WingPsychicSpecial80 pow · 100%
The user slashes the target with aura-enriched wings, boosting its Speed stat. This move’s critical-hit ratio is also boosted by 1 stage.
- Lunar BlessingPsychicStatus— · —Rare egg move
The user receives a blessing from the crescent moon, restoring ¼ of the user and its ally Pokémon’s max HP while curing status conditions.
Base stats
Cleffa · BST 218
Clefable · BST 483
BST in this line: Cleffa 218 · Clefairy 323 · Clefable 483
Unlock costs
Candy needed for a cost-2 starter:
- Passive ability
- 40 🍬
- Cost reductions
- 25 / 60 🍬
- Same-species egg
- 30 🍬
- The price only drops once you have hatched enough Cleffa eggs: 27 🍬 after 20 hatches, 22 🍬 after 40 hatches, 15 🍬 after 80 hatches.
- Friendship needed per candy
- 50
Expensive starters ask for fewer candies, but earn them far more slowly: Cleffa needs 50 friendship per candy, while a cost-1 starter earns one every 25.