Competitive Information for Cleffa [Black/White]
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Movesets for Singles
What is a good competitive moveset for Cleffa? 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.
Cleffa is an outstanding Normal-typed Pokemon. Cleffa is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield. Cleffa can be quite a contender in the LC tier (Little Cup). Cleffa'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
- Psychic / Psyshock
- Shadow Ball
Special Sweeper Cleffa (Friend Guard)
Cleffa is a sensational Special Sweeper. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Cleffa is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield but Eviolite changes that. 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 Cleffa from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Cleffa's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Friend Guard, Cleffa'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).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psyshock is a special 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
♦ Shadow Ball is a special 80-base power Ghost-type move (20% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
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Movesets for Doubles
What is a good doubles moveset for Cleffa? 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
- Flamethrower
- Psychic / Psyshock
Doubles Special Sweeper Cleffa (Friend Guard)
Cleffa is pretty popular Special Sweeper. It was designed to take down the opponent's team with high-damaging special attacks. Cleffa is not a Pokemon anyone usually expects sees on the battlefield until Eviolite was equipped. 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 Cleffa from being one-shotted and allowing it to atleast use a crucial move when brought out. Life Orb boosts the power of Cleffa's damaging moves by 1.3x but it then loses 1/10 its max HP immediately after the attack. With Friend Guard, Cleffa'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).
♦ Flamethrower is a special 95-base power Fire-type move (10% chance to burn the target).
♦ Psychic is a special 90-base power Psychic-type move (10% chance to lower the target's special defense by 1 stage).
♦ Psyshock is a special 80-base power Psychic-type move (damages target based on defense, not special defense).
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Movepool
Wondering what moves can Cleffa 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.
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Combo List
These are a list of several common move combinations Cleffa 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 Cleffa
- Moves: Defense curl + Rollout
- Moves: Sunny day + Solar beam
- Moves: Swagger + Psych up
- Moves: Belly drum + Rest
- Moves: Endure + Endeavor
- Moves: Rest + Sleep talk
- Moves: Rest + Snore
- 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
- Moves with Priority: Endure, Protect, Magic Coat, Helping Hand
- Moves that inflict status: Thunder Wave, Toxic
Moves that boost Cleffa's stats
- Amnesia
- Belly Drum
- Defense Curl
- Work Up
- Note:This Pokemon can also learn Stored Power.
Most notable and possible best moves for Cleffa
- Light Screen
- Protect
- Reflect
- Rest
- Stored Power
- Toxic
Common Effort Values for Cleffa in Black and White
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