
Is Cleffa Good in FireRed & LeafGreen Playthrough?
Breed from Clefairy. Pure Normal in FRLG with AbilityCute Charm. The baby stage is weaker than Clefairy in every way. Evolves through friendship into the Clefairy you could have caught in Mt. Moon.
Brock's Pokemon outpace and outclass Cleffa here.
Cleffa trades roughly evenly with Misty's team.
Lt. Surge's typing presses Cleffa's defenses.
Erika's typing presses Cleffa's defenses.
Koga's typing presses Cleffa's defenses.
Cleffa trades roughly evenly with Sabrina's team.
Cleffa trades roughly evenly with Blaine's team.
Cleffa has the type edge here and should clean up Giovanni's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Lorelei's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Bruno's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Agatha's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Lance's team.
Clefable has the type edge here and should clean up Terry's team.
Catch Cleffa on Four Island (hatch from egg, Lv 5).
- After Brock
- TUTORNormalMega Kick12075%5
- After Erika
- TM22GrassSolar Beam120100%10
- TM35FireFlamethrower90100%15
- After Sabrina
- TUTORPsychicDream Eater100100%15
- TM29PsychicPsychic90100%10
- After Blaine
- TM38FireFire Blast11085%5
- After Giovanni
- TUTORNormalDouble-Edge120100%15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody Slam85100%15
- TM42NormalFacade70100%20
You can pick up the Moon Stone in Mt. Moon. 3 other locations are also available.
- After Erika
- TM15NormalHyper Beam15090%5
- TM22GrassSolar Beam120100%10
- TM35FireFlamethrower90100%15
- After Koga
- TM01FightingFocus Punch150100%20
- After Sabrina
- TUTORPsychicDream Eater100100%15
- TUTORElectricThunder Wave—90%20
- After Blaine
- TM38FireFire Blast11085%5
- After Giovanni
- TUTORNormalDouble-Edge120100%15
- Post-Game
- TUTORNormalBody Slam85100%15
- TM42NormalFacade70100%20
How to Get Cleffa in FireRed & LeafGreen
Breed a Clefairy or Clefable at the Four Island Day Care to produce Cleffa. Pair either with a compatible partner, usually a Ditto, and the egg hatches into this baby form.
Wild Cleffa may be holding when caught:
Catch Clefairy at any of these 2 spots to eventually evolve into Cleffa.
Encountered via tall grass encounters
How to Obtain Cleffa in FRLG
The path to Cleffa starts with Cleffa at Lv. 8-12 via walking and gift encounters. 1 catchable stage total, with locations listed for each one below.
Step 1Cleffa ✓BREEDINGAvailableLeave Clefairy with a compatible partner at the Four Island Pokemon Day Care to receive a Cleffa egg. Requires the Rainbow Pass to access Four Island.HOME TRANSFERNot TradeablePokemon HOME on Switch FireRed & LeafGreen is permanently deposit-only — once it launches, Cleffa can be sent from this game into HOME, but never transferred in.
Step 2Catch or Evolve into ClefairyMt. Moon - B2FLv.10-12CaveRate 6%Celadon City - Game CornerLv.8Gift from NPCFireRedLimitedPurchase: 500 coinsMt. Moon - 1FLv.8CaveRate 1%Celadon City - Game CornerLv.12Gift from NPCLeafGreenLimitedPurchase: 750 coinsor evolve from Cleffa (Step 1)
Step 3Evolve into Clefable
Cleffa Weakness
Fighting moves hit Cleffa for super-effective damage. The upside? Ghost-type moves can't touch it at all. Cleffa's special bulk (base 55 Sp.Def) helps absorb special-type weaknesses, though physical moves exploit the lower Defense.
| Damage | Types |
|---|---|
| 2x (Weak) | Fighting |
| 0x (Immune) | Ghost |
- Dark and Steel types added — Fairy does not exist yet
- Moves are Physical or Special based on type, not per move
What is Cleffa Weak Against
GoodBest Pokemon Against Cleffa
Mankey Fighting | C | |
Mankey Fighting | C | |
Cleffa Evolutions
Cleffa starts the chain as a baby form and evolves into Clefairy by leveling up. To get more eggs, breed the evolved versions. The evolved forms gain up to 265 total stats over Cleffa. View every chain in the Evolution Chart.
How to Evolve
Breeding
FRLG Cleffa Best Moveset
Normal in this format (no Fairy yet). Baby stage with AbilityCute Charm for contact attraction. Clefable is two evolutions from the real movepool.
Best Build
Cleffa best EVs are Sp. Atk and Sp. Def
Screens Setter Moveset
- Soft Boiled
- Wish
- Thunder Wave
- Light Screen
Recommended Teammates
Moves List
Without breeding, Cleffa misses out on Amnesia and Belly Drum. That's 8 egg moves adding depth that the base kit lacks. STAB comes from Double-Edge and Mega Kick, with coverage across 9 types rounding things out.
How to Read the Moves Table
Tabs
- Level-Up
- Learned by leveling up.
- TM
- Taught by a Technical Machine.
- Egg
- Inherited via breeding.
- Tutor
- NPC tutor (cost: items, BP, money).
- Reminder
- An NPC reteaches any move this Pokemon could have learned by leveling up.
- Transfer
- Carried over from an older game using Pokemon HOME.
- Event
- Given out through Mystery Gift events.
Visual Signals
CAT (Category)
How the move deals damage and which stats it uses.
A small dot on the icon's corner marks the move as contact. That triggers abilities like Static, Flame Body, Rough Skin, or Iron Barbs, plus items like Rocky Helmet and Sticky Barb.
Tier (S to D)
Each move's competitive rank in RankedBoost's system. TM, Egg, and Tutor sort by tier by default (best first). On Level-Up, click the Tier header to do the same.
PWR (Power)
Base damage. Numbers shown in a type color include STAB (base × 1.5). Hover any colored number to see the math.
— means no power (status moves) or variable power.
Sorting & Filter
Click any column header to sort. Level-Up opens with Lv 1 at the top. TM, Egg, and Tutor open with the highest-tier moves at the top.
Search filters by move name or type. The Filter button limits the list to STAB, Physical, Special, or Status moves.
Level-Up Moves
TM Moves
Egg Moves
Tutor Moves
Base Stats
When numerous meteors illuminate the night sky, sightings of CLEFFA strangely increase.
Because of its unusual, starlike silhouette, people believe that it came here on a meteor.
Cleffa FireRed & LeafGreen Guide
Cleffa hatches from a Pokemon Egg in Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen. Leave Clefairy at the Day-Care Center on Route 5 with a compatible partner Pokemon to receive an Egg that hatches into Cleffa.
Game Availability
Debuting in Gold & Silver, Cleffa appears in 19 games across 9 generations. A reliable presence in most mainline games, typically found through catching or hatching as a base form.
Click a game to view version-specific details
- Gen 1RB

Red & Blue - Gen 1Y
Yellow - Gen 2GSDebut

Gold & Silver - Gen 2C
Crystal - Gen 3RS

Ruby & Sapphire - Gen 3E
Emerald - Gen 3FRLG

FireRed & LeafGreen - Gen 4DP

Diamond & Pearl - Gen 4Pt
Platinum - Gen 4HGSS

HeartGold & SoulSilver - Gen 5BW

Black & White - Gen 5B2W2

Black 2 & White 2 - Gen 6XY

X & Y - Gen 6ORAS

Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire - Gen 7SM

Sun & Moon - Gen 7USUM

Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon - Gen 7LGPE

Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee - Gen 8SwSh

Sword & Shield - Gen 8BDSP

Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl - Gen 8PLA
Legends: Arceus - Gen 9SV

Scarlet & Violet - Gen 9LZA
Legends: Z-A - Gen 10WW

Winds & Waves