Competitive Information for Clefairy [Black/White]
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Clefairy? These builds have been optimized for Pokemon competing in Black/White Single Battles. The movesets and EVs have been specifically calibrated to deal the most amount of damage to the largest group of potentially common opponents and typing threats for the Black/White generation metagame.
Clefairy is a remarkable Normal-typed Pokemon. Clefairy is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Clefairy's only type-related weakness is Fighting.
Item: Eviolite / Life Orb
Ability: Friend Guard
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Hyper Voice / Round
- Flamethrower
- Ice Beam
- Thunderbolt
Special Sweeper Clefairy (Friend Guard)
Clefairy is a spectacular Special Sweeper. It is primarily designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Clefairy is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield until Eviolite was attached to it. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. Focus Sash helps protect Clefairy from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Clefairy's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Friend Guard, Clefairy's allies receive 3/4 damage from other pokemon's attacks.
♦ Round is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Flamethrower is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Ice Beam is a special 95-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Thunderbolt is a special 95-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Clefairy? These builds have been optimized for Black/White Double Battles. They have movesets and EVs specifically calibrated to generally work best versus multiple Pokemon at once as well as helping to support other team members and allys in the Black/White generation metagame.
Item: Eviolite / Life Orb
Ability: Friend Guard
Nature: Modest (+SpA, -Atk)
EVs: 4 Def / 252 SpA / 252 Spe
Moveset:
- Hyper Voice / Round
- Icy Wind / Ice Beam
- Flamethrower
- Thunderbolt
Doubles Special Sweeper Clefairy (Friend Guard)
Clefairy is a marvelous Special Sweeper. This moveset is designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Clefairy is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield without an Eviolite attached to it. If Eviolite is held by a Pokémon that is not fully evolved, it will raises the Defense and Special Defense of that Pokemon by 50%. Focus Sash helps protect Clefairy from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Clefairy's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Friend Guard, Clefairy's allies receive 3/4 damage from other pokemon's attacks.
♦ Round is a special STAB-boosted 60-base power Normal-type move (power doubles if others used round this turn).
♦ Icy Wind is a special 55-base power Ice-type move (100% chance to lower the foes speed by 1 stage).
♦ Ice Beam is a special 95-base power Ice-type move (10% chance to freeze the target).
♦ Flamethrower is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Thunderbolt is a special 95-base power Electric-type move (10% chance to paralyze the target).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Clefairy learn? Here is the list of moves this Pokemon can learn in this selected generation.
Sort and organize the learnset by move type, category, accuracy, and power. Bolded moves will gain the same-type attack bonus (STAB) if this Pokemon uses them.
Damage Modifiers:
Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Clefairy can perform in Black/White. Not every combo going to be game-changing, but some can be pretty fun to play with. Sometimes these can be easily overlooked or forgotten, hence why we find and list them here. Discover what items, abilities, and moves this Pokemon can use in combination with each other to gain a strategic advantage in competitive battles.
Competitive BW Move and Ability Combos for Clefairy
- Moves: Defense curl + Rollout
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Rain dance + Thunder
- Moves: Belly drum + Rest
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- Moves: Substitute + Drain punch
- Moves: Thunderbolt + Ice beam
- Moves: Stored power + Psych up
- Moves: Psyshock + Tickle
- Ability: Magic guard + Item: Life orb
- Move: Swagger + Item: Mirror Herb
- Move: Fling + Item: King's Rock
- Move: Facade + Item: Flame Orb
- Move: Facade + Item: Toxic Orb
- Move: Endeavor + Item: Focus Sash
- Item: Blunder Policy + Move: Dynamic Punch
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Follow Me, Magic Coat, Snatch, Helping Hand
- Moves that Break Screens: Brick Break
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Clefairy's stats
- Amnesia
- Belly Drum
- Calm Mind
- Charge Beam
- Cosmic Power
- Defense Curl
- Meteor Mash
- Work Up
- Note:This Pokemon can also learn Stored Power.
Most notable and possible best moves for Clefairy
- Ice Beam
- Knock Off
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Stealth Rock
- Stored Power
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Clefairy in Black and White
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